A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized(听出)his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”
What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day; I can not see it.”
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply sign the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective (有效的)?
The boy in the passage can not .
A.see | B.walk | C.hear | D.speak |
How did the man help the boy?
A.He gave the boy a lot of money. |
B.He brought the boy back to his home. |
C.He wrote some new words on the sign. |
D.He sent the boy to a special school. |
The underlined words “held up” in the first paragraph mean .
A.阻碍 | B.举着 | C.承受 | D.坚持 |
What happened after the man changed the sign?
A.The boy still got a few coins in the hat. |
B.The boy got much more money. |
C.No one gave the boy coins any more. |
D.No one gave the boy coins any more. |
What can we learn from the story?
A.Time can we learn from the story? |
B.You should be brave even thought you’re blind. |
C.Treating a thing differently brings a different result. |
D.If we want to be rich, we should be honest.(结果) |
I think the most terrible thing in life for my little brother is getting up in the morning. He is almost sick when my mother calls, “Herbert! It’s seven o’clock! Get up!”
Herbert answers, “I’m coming!” and goes right back to sleep. I’m not at all like my brother. I don’t like to go to bed at night but I don’t mind getting up in the morning.
I usually wake up before my mother calls me. I jump out of bed and go into the bothroom to take a shower . I great dressed, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and get ready to go down stairs for breakfast as soon as my mother calls.
But not Herbert. He just sleeps. A military band (军乐队)in our bedroom could not wake him up . I call him and say, “Get up!” Mum will be up here to pull you out of bed if you don’t get up quickly.
But he just sleeps. After calling a few more times my mother has to come upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed. It’s that way every day with my little brother. Perhaps some day he’ll learn to get up on time, but I really don’t think so.
I’m not like my brother because I like to go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning.
I usually jump out of bed and go into the bothroom for a shower before my mother calls.
When mother calls, Herbert doesn’t answer and keeps in bed .
My mother often has to go upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed as he refuses to get up.
Sometimes we have to send for a military band to wake Herbert up.
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Is it a banana?
Can he play soccer ball?
What kind of fruit do you like?
Where are your books?
What time does he eat breakfast?
新年即将来临,王芳根据四位朋友的爱好,分别买了四样礼物。你想知道她送给谁吗?请阅读下面的文字和图片,将字母序号填入横线中。
56. Wei Hua:I like learning English,but it’s difficult.I don’t know many English words.But I think I can learn it well.
57. Tom:I like sports. Soccer is my favorite sport. But I don’t have
a soccer ball. My favorite sports star is David Beckham.
58. Sandra:I often play sports. I like playing volleyball and running.I am a running star.
59. Ben:I like music very much. I can sing and play the guitar. I often listen to English songs. Michael Jackson is my favorite singer.
A. B. C. D.
Wei Hua _______ Tom _______ Sandra _______ Ben ________
送礼物的同时,王芳想同时送上自己的贺卡.请在空格中填上合适的词。
Dear friend,
60 New Year!
Wang Fang
My name is Jim. My favorite day is October l8th, because it’s my birthday. I am very happy on that day. I eat eggs for breakfast. Then my friends come to my home and play with me. We sing and dance. Someone(某人) plays the piano and someone plays the guitar. Lunch is very nice. After lunch, my parents take me to see a movie. My favorite movies are comedies. After dinner, my parents, my sister and I watch TV. Then I go to bed at ten thirty. I don’t do my homework on that day. I am very tired but happy on my birthday.
请根据短文内容判断句子正(T)、误(F)。
( )Jim’s birthday is October 18th.
( )Jim likes comedies.
( ) Jim goes to bed at 10:13.
( ) Jim does his homework on his birthday.
( ) Jim’s sister goes to the movie.
Hello! I’m Jim. I have a friend, Dave. He is in Hong Kong(香港). He is in Class 3, Grade 7. Dave often goes to movies.His favorite actor is Jaycee Chan. He thinks he is a great actor. Dave likes his movie Invisible Target. Dave’s birthday is December 3rd.Jaycee Chan’s birthday is December 3rd,too.
Do you know Jaycee Chan? His Chinese name is Fang Zuming. He sings very well. His father is the great actor, Jackie Chan. I like Jackie Chan very much. His movies are very good. I like his new movie Rush Hour 3. Jackie Chan’s birthday is April 7th . My father’s birthday is also April 7th. But my father is not an actor. He is a clerk. He sells clothes at Mr.Cool’s Clothes Store.
选择正确答案。
( ) father is an actor.
A.Jim’s | B.Dave’s | C.Jaycee Chan’ s | D.Jackie Chan’s |
( )Dave thinks .
A.Jim is his brother. |
B.Jackie Chan’s movies are good. |
C.Jim’s father is a great clerk. |
D.Jaycee Chan is a great actor. |
( ) Jim’s father works .
A.in Hong Kong | B.at Mr.Cool’s Clothes Store |
C.in a middle school | D.in Class 3 |
( )Dave likes .
A.Mr.Bean | B.Black September |
C.Invisible Target | D.Rush Hour 3 |
( ) What does Dave often do?
A.He often goes to movies. |
B.He often goes to see Jaycee Chan. |
C.He often calls Jim. |
D.He often helps his father sell clothes. |
What might the future be like? Here are some predictions: things to come, things to go.
The Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday when everyone returns home, has caused headaches for millions of Chinese. More than 2 billion people travel at the same time, making getting travel tickets and the journey difficult. But in 28 years, Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. China plans to build more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a fast transportation network that will serve 90% of the population by 2020. And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find a job, so it will no longer be a problem.
Newspaper will come to an end in 2043. In the future, digital(数字的) newspapers will be sent to personal web tools through Internet. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.
Oil is running out faster than expected. But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel(燃料). Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy(能源).
Schools will go electronic(电子化). Computers will be important and popular among the students. Everything will be in the computer and students will not need to bring books to school. They will find information on the Internet. A computer will be the students’ library, schoolbag and connection to the outside world. There will be robot teachers, they will check homework on computers and communicate with the students’ parents through e-mail. And school buses will be like spaceships, comfortable and safe.
More than 2 billion people have a hard time returning home during .
A.Christmas Day | B.National Day |
C.the Spring Festival | D.the Mid-autumn Festival |
The newspapers will disappear .
A.in 28 years | B.by 2020 | C.by 2053 | D.in 33 years |
__________ is not mentioned in the passage as sources of energy.
A.Coal | B.Wind | C.Nuclear power | D.Water |
From the passage we can know in the future.
A.the Spring Festival travel may still be a problem |
B.90% of the population will live in the city |
C.robot teachers will check homework |
D.readers can discuss topics with each other through Internet |
What’s the main idea of the last paragraph? .
A.Schools will go electronic | B.Computers will be important |
C.There will be robot teachers | D.School buses will be like spaceships |
Prana was a beautiful dog, whose name means “breath of life”. Although he died several years ago, I can still remember the days we spent together and what he has taught me about love.
I have two apple trees in the garden. Prana loved apples. When he went outside, he’d catch an apple and take it into the house to eat later. The apples had been on the ground and were often dirty so I wasn’t always happy that Prana had brought them into the house.
It was an autumn day in America, but it was very cold. A big snow fell and we had not done anything for its coming. On that special day, Prana went outside and I watched him through the window. I noticed that he was madly digging(挖) holes and bringing the apples to the ground so they could be seen above the snow. I did not know why he was doing this. He seemed to want to do something special.
When I called him back, he had his usual one apple in his mouth. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The garden was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for his bird friends to eat. He knew that they wouldn’t have stored enough food for the coming winter!
Prana was .
A.the writer | B.a boy | C.a bird | D.a dog |
I wasn’t always happy because .
A.Prana loved apples |
B.Prana caught an apple and ate it |
C.the apples fell on the ground and were dirty |
D.Prana brought the dirty apples into the house |
On the snowy day, Prana .
A.ate up all the apples |
B.dug holes to put the apples in them |
C.brought the apples under the snow to the ground |
D.left the house and died |
The birds flew to the garden to .
A.look for Prana | B.eat the apples |
C.make new homes | D.store food for the winter |
The topic of the story is about .
A.apples | B.animals | C.love | D.life |
Many students have already had clear ideas about what jobs they would like to have in the future. We believe boys’ choices are different from girls’. To find out how different their choices are, we made a survey in Green High School. The following diagram shows the results of the survey.
About 45% of the girls would like to be ________ in the future.
A.bank clerks | B.reporters | C.scientists | D.teachers |
About ________ of the boys want to be teachers as well.
A.5% | B.15% | C.28% | D.38% |
Which job do the girls like least?
A.Bank clerks | B.Reporters | C.Managers | D.Scientists |
What does the diagram show us?
A.Boys’ abilities of jobs are the same as girls’. |
B.Boys’ abilities of jobs are different from girls’. |
C.Boys’ choices of jobs are the same as girls’. |
D.Boys’ choices of jobs are different from girls’. |
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.More girls would like to be reporters than boys. |
B.More boys would like to be bank clerks than girls. |
C.Boys would like to be reporters most. |
D.Girls would like to be managers most. |
On Thanksgiving Day, a teacher asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought that these children from poor families actually had little to be thankful for. And she found most of them drawing pictures of flowers or tables with food. The teacher was very surprised to see the picture Douglas handed in. It’s a hand, a simple hand.
But whose hand? The class were very interested in the strange picture. “I think it must be the hand of God that bring us food,” said one child, “A farmer,” said another, “Because he grows beautiful flowers.” Finally when the others were at work, the teacher went over Douglas’ desk and asked whose hand it was. “It’s your hand, Teacher,” she said quietly and shyly.
She remembered that she had often taken Douglas, a dirty lonely child, by the hand while having a class break. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this is everyone’s thanksgiving, not for the material things we get, but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.
When did the story happen?
A.On Christmas Day. | B.On Teachers’ Day. |
C.On Mother’s Day. | D.On Thanksgiving Day. |
Why did Douglas draw the picture?
A.He was good at drawing it. |
B.His teacher asked him to draw it. |
C.He wanted to show his thanks to the teacher. |
D.He hoped to get a prize in drawing. |
What do you learn about Douglas from the passage?
A.He was a lonely child. | B.He was very active in class. |
C.He always kept his hand clean. | D.He often answered questions loudly. |
According to the passage, which of the following is an opinion (意见;主张;看法), but not a fact?
A.The teacher went over Dauglas’ desk and talked to him. |
B.Different people show their thanksgiving in different ways. |
C.The teacher often took Douglas by the hand after class. |
D.Most of the students were drawing the pictures of flowers or tables with food. |
Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station. Each time when Spring Festival comes, buying tickets of train trip would be very hard. And things seem to be getting worse and worse, although we have greatly increased the mileage of railway network and speeded up trains. Why? It’s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family. Many people become angry with the Ministry (部)of Railways.
They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station(火车站)Instead, they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers (票贩) at much higher price.
The Ministry of Railways estimated(估计)that about 188 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak (高峰) period surrounding the 2009 Spring Festival holiday. The number of travelers will be 8% higher than that of 2008. This problem even drew the President Hu Jintao’s attention. He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun,Minister of the Ministry of Railways, asking him to take action to improve passenger convenience. Afterward, officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station.
Many people can’t buy the tickets from the railway station, and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers_________.
A.expensively | B.happily | C.dangerously | D.hardly |
How many people took the train trip during the peak period surrounding the 2008 Spring Festival holiday?
A.About 203 million. | B.About 188 million. |
C.About 180 million. | D.About 174 million. |
What does the passage mainly tell us?
A.People go home much more easily during the Spring Festival. |
B.It is very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival. |
C.President Hu Jintao cares about the railway building problem. |
D.The Ministry of Railways felt sorry about the problem. |
We can’t live without love and we know what love is, but we don’t say only humans know what love is. Yes, it’s impossible for animals to do some things because of their physical body. However, sometimes some of them might be able to show us the love that we have forgotten on our “busy road”, just like the following story.
A dog, was knocked down by a car and died in the middle of the road. Later, another dog ran beside the body of the dead dog and he tried to wake his friend up using his legs. When his effort to wake up his friend failed, he tried to push his friend to the roadside. But his friend was too heavy for him to push.
Though traffic was busy and dangerous, he wouldn’t want to go away from his friend, just standing beside his friend shouting and crying.
A lot of people saw this story and were very touched (感动的). Even a dog can show his loyalty (忠诚) and love to his friend, what can our humans do?
The dog died because _______________.
A.it was badly ill | B.it was knocked down by a car |
C.it was too old | D.it fought against other dogs |
The other dog saw it lying in the middle of the road and it wanted to ________first.
A.wake his friend up | B.push his friend to the roadside |
C.catch up with the car | D.stop the traffic |
We learn __________ from the passage.
A.the car driver is too cruel | B.animals can also show love |
C.the two dogs are brothers | D.friends are the best in the world |
One night a man came to our house and told me, “There is a family with eight children. They have nothing to eat for days.”
I took some food and went. When I finally came to the family, I saw the ugly face of those little children by hunger. There was no sorrow (悲伤) or sadness in their faces, just the deep pain of hunger.
I gave the rice to the mother. She divided(分) it into two, and went out, carry half the rice with her. When she came back, I asked her, “Where did you go?” She gave me this simple answer, “To my neighbours----they are also hungry.”
I was not surprised that she gave----because poor people are unselfish(无私的). But I was surprised that she knew they were hungry. As a rule, when we are in trouble, we think more about ourselves, and have no time for others.
The writer thought poor people were _________.
A.lucky | B.generous | C.ugly | D.sad |
The mother went out to _________.
A.give some rice to her neighbours | B.look for her children |
C.cook the rice | D.buy some rice |
Which is not true about the story?
A.The story happened at night. |
B.The family was kind and generous. |
C.The family had nothing to eat because they were lazy. |
D.As a rule, we have no time for others when we are in trouble. |
Have you ever seen snow? Many people in the world have not. Some countries never have snow; some have only a little on the tops of very high mountains. In the north of England, there is quite a lot of snow every winter, but in the south of England, there is usually little.
When a student from a warm country comes to England in autumn for the first time, he feels cold at first. There are often dark clouds, grey sky and cold rain in England in autumn, and most students from warm countries do not like this.
But snow is different. Though it is cold, it is also beautiful. Perhaps, after several dark mornings, the student wakes up one day, and there is a lot of light in his room. He thinks “Is it so late?” and jumps out of bed. But no, it is not very late. He looks out of the window and there is the snow on the ground and on the houses and everywhere. The light of his room comes from clean, beautiful snow.
In which part of England is there much snow in winter?
A.In the east. | B.In the north. |
C.In the west. | D.In the south. |
In the autumn of England, we can NOT often see __________.
A.grey sky | B.dark clouds |
C.strong winds | D.cold rain |
Why does the student ask himself “Is it so late?”
A.Because he has some work to do. |
B.Because it is bright in the room. |
C.Because it is really late. |
D.Because he usually gets up early. |
Which of the following statements is true?
A.Every country in the world has snow in winter. |
B.Foreign students like the weather in England. |
C.It is often very warm in the autumn of England. |
D.Many people in the world haven’t seen snow. |
I was born in the Tronto, Canada. Life looked bright and was filled with hope for my parents and me. My father and mother were married in 1980, and I was born next year.
As I grew into a man, I often looked to my father for advice and support. There were many things about his character that I admired, but like any young boy, I often thought that my father’s ideas were from the past and out of date.
I did well as a student and was the first person in my family to graduate from university. I went on to be a university professor and writer, and most people would say that I have had a very successful life. But I know much of my success is because of the lessons that he passed onto me.
On Father’s Day, I will look in the mirror and smile. My dad gave me many gifts, including my now bald head (秃顶), and the friendly smile that my friends say I have.
Thank you again, dad. I miss you. Happy Father’s Day.
This passage should be a(an) _____________.
A.note | B.letter | C.invitation | D.poster |
What does the underlined phrase “out of date” mean?
A.时尚 | B.迂腐 | C.固执 | D.过时 |
From the passage we can know ____________.
A.the writer is grateful to his father for what his father has done |
B.the writer misses his father very much |
C.the writer’s life is bright and full of hope |
D.the writer’s father is loving |