As the saying goes， "Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles".In modern society，travelling is a very common thing. Almost everyone can go on a trip at any time as long as they want to. In fact，centuries ago，some famous people already travelled around China and they got a lot from exploration （探险）.
Xu Xiake，a geographer and writer in Ming dynasty，spend more than thirty years on the road four hundred years ago.With his mother's encouragement，Xu Xiake travelled around China.He met with many difficulties on the road.But he never stopped travelling and writing.
Xu Xiake was on the road all his life，and his travel notes covered as much as his knowledge.His 600，000﹣ word travel notes finally came out in 1776，about 135 years after his death.China Tourism Day is set on May 19th，the date when he started The Travels of Xu Xiake.Some of Xu Xiake's Footprints around China
Macro Polo's Journey to the East
Marco Polo，a businessman born in 1254 in Italy，is known as a travel king in the west.In 1271，Marco Polo with his father and uncle set foot on the road to China.It took him four years.Along the way，he met bad weathers，a shortage of food and water and so on.
They reached Shangdu in Inner Mongolia in 1275.Kublai Khan gave them a warm welcome there and took them to Dadu.
Macro Polo's hard journey created one of the world's first best sellers The Travels of Macro Polo.Medieval （中世纪的） readers fell in love with Polo's wonderful descriptions of faraway lands and got to know China and Middle Asia.
（1）Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
（2）Chart I shows some of Xu Xiake's footprints around China.Which provinces did he visit？
（3）According to the passage，Macro Polo journeyed east along .And Dadu refers to （指） now.
（4）Why did medieval readers like The Travels of Macro Polo？
（5）Please complete the facts about Xu Xiake and Macro Polo in Chart III.
（6）What have you learned from Xu Xiake and Macro Polo？How will you put what you have learned to good use in life？
Everyone has his own birthday. People in different countries celebrate （庆祝）their birthdays in different ways. Here are four people from different countries. They will tell us how they celebrate their birthdays in their countries.
Sandy Morrison comes from Madrid(马德里). He says happily, "My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday, and I'm going to go out with some friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they are going to pull（拉，扯）on my ear, once for each year. It is an old custom（风俗）. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional(传统的)."
Mr. and Mrs. Sato are from Tokyo. Mr. Sato is going to be sixty tomorrow. In Japan, the sixtieth birthday is called Kanreki---it's the beginning of a new life. The colour red is for a new life, so they always give something red for a sixtieth birthday. Mrs Sato says, "What am I going to give my husband? I can't say. It's a surprise（惊喜）."
Li Xiaomei from Beijing feels very excited and tells us. "Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday. It's a special birthday. So we're going to have a family party. I'm probably going to get some money in 'lucky' envelopes（信封） from my relatives. My mother is going to cook noodles --- noodles are for a long life."
Phillip Evans, from Paris, smiles to us, "I'm going to be thirty next week, so I'm going to invite three very good friends out to dinner. In France, when you have birthday, you often invite people out. In some countries, I know it's the opposite---- people take you out."How many times do Sandy’s friends pull on his ear this year?
| A．Just once. | B．twenty-one times. |
| C．Ten times. | D．It’s a secret. |
Japanese people think the sixtieth birthday is _________.
| A．very old. | B．something red. |
| C．a surprise | D．the beginning of a new life. |
Which of the following is not true?
| A．Li Xiaomei gets some money on her birthday. |
| B．Mrs. Sato will give something red to her husband tomorrow. |
| C．People in Madrid celebrate their birthdays by pulling on the ear. |
| D．In France, when someone has birthday, his friends often ask him to have dinner. |
Forget about Super Junior. We now have TFBOYS. TFBOYS is a popular Chinese boy band made up of three members. They are Wang Junkai, 14, Wang Yuan, 13, and Yi Yangqianxi, 13. The boys are all junior middle school students. The band name TFBOYS means The Fighting Boys.
TFBOYS started in 2013, but has become popular in just one year. Fans love their sweet looks and cute voices. Their songs are full of positive energy. In their latest single Magic Castle(<魔法城堡>), they call on teenagers to not be afraid of dreaming big.
The three boys are all top students in school. Wang Junkai, the eldest, has recently taken the senior middle entrance exam(中考). We hope he’s done well.The band name TFBOYS stands for_________.
| A．The Fighting Boys | B．The Famous Boys |
| C．The Friendly Boys | D．The Fat Boys |
The band was founded in _________?
| A．2015 | B．2014 | C．2013 | D．2012 |
The band has become popular because_________?
| A．Fans love their sweet voices |
| B．Fans love their cute looks. |
| C．Their songs are full of positive energy. |
| D．All the above |
You can visit Ocean Museum _________.
| A．on Wednesday | B．on Monday |
| C．on Saturday | D．anytime |
You can get free examinations in Subei Hospital if you are______.
| A．73 | B．17 | C．67 | D．9 |
If Millie is free at 17:30 on Saturday, she can go to _________.
| A．Ocean Museum | B．Sunny English Club |
| C．Subei Hospital | D．Funny English Club |
Mr Read with his wife and his 8-year-old son go to the Ocean Museum, how much will they pay?
A. ￥75 B ￥50 C￥ 125 D ￥150
Mike’s father, Mr. Lee, is a farmer. He lives on the farm. He is happy to see his son move to a new flat in the city. One day, Mr. Lee comes to visit his son with a big orange pumpkin, about 10 kg. He grows it all by himself. “I’ll let my son share it with his neighbours (邻居). Everyone likes pumpkin. Then Mike and his neighbours will become good friends,” Mr. Lee thinks.
At noon, Mr. Lee gets to the community centre（社区）. The building is so tall. There are twenty floors. Mike lives on the sixteenth floor. But he is not at home.
Mr. Lee thinks, “I’ll give the pumpkin to Mike’s neighbours. They will be glad too see the gift.” And he does it. But to his surprise, the neighbour on the left says coldly, “Thank you, but I don’t like it at all.”The woman on the right says nothing and closes the door quickly.
The old man feels sad. At last, he goes to the market, sells it and goes back home. “Are they really neighbours? ” he says to himself. He doesn’t know why.Where does Mr. Lee live?
| A．On the farm. |
| B．In the city. |
| C．On the sixteenth floor of a flat. |
| D．On the right of a woman. |
Who grows the big pumpkin?
| A．Mike. | B．Mike’s neighbour. |
| C．Mike’s mother. | D．Mike’s father. |
What does Mr. Lee want Mike to do with the pumpkin?
| A．He wants Mike to share it with his neighbours. |
| B．He wants Mike to make a pumpkin lantern. |
| C．He wants Mike to cook it and eat it by himself. |
| D．He wants Mike to sell it at the market. |
Where does the pumpkin go at last?
| A．The woman on the right gets it. |
| B．Mr. Lee sells it at the market. |
| C．Mr. Lee takes it back home. |
| D．Mike gets it when he comes back. |
Which is RIGHT？
| A．Mike’s neighbours are polite to his father. |
| B．Mike’s neighbours don’t want the pumpkin because it is too small. |
| C．Mr. Lee thinks neighbours are always friendly and kind. |
| D．Mr. Lee will bring some pumpkins to Mike’s neighbours again. |
Food is colorful. Some food is green, some food is red, and some is black. Now more and more people like to have black food—black rice, black beans, black grapes. Why do they like black food?
· Black food can make grey hair into black hair.
· Black food is good for the heart.(心脏)
· Black food can help children become smart.
· Black food can also help women look young.
Black food is very good, but we need food with different colors. Doctors say that it isn’t good to be choosy about food. So we had better eat all kinds of food.Now more and more people like to have _______.
| A．red food | B．green food |
| C．black food | D．rice |
Black food is good for________ .
| A．eyes | B．ears | C．nose | D．heart |
A seven-year-old boy often has black food, so he can become ________.
| A．smart | B．young | C．old | D．tall |
_______ is good for our health.
| A．red food | B．green food |
| C．black food | D．Food with different colors |
The underlined word ‘choosy’ means “_______ ” in Chinese.
| A．优选的 | B．挑剔的 | C．浪费的 | D．无色的 |
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