As Peter was flying towards the ship, he passed the crocodile ( 鳄 鱼 ). It had swallowed ( 吞 ) a clock that goes “tick, tick” inside it before. However, the clock wasn’t ticking then. Peter realized it must have stopped. He began ticking himself so that the other animals would think he was the crocodile and leave him alone. The crocodile, thinking that Peter had taken the clock, followed him. But when Peter reached the ship, Captain (船长) Hook believed the crocodile was coming to get him.

Peter climbed over the side of the ship and went inside a room. He barked like a dog, and all the pirates (海盗) were very afraid. Hook sent two pirates in to find out what the noise was, but they didn’t come back. Then he sent in the children. Inside, Peter set them free, and they prepared to fight.

Peter ran out to meet Hook. “It is I, Peter Pan!” he cried.

“Get him!” cried Hook.

The pirates ran at Peter, and the lost boys ran forward to fight them. The pirates were stronger, but they were so afraid of the ticking and the noise of the dog that they didn’t fight well. Finally only Hook was ready to fight. Peter came to fight him. For a long time, the two enemies stood face to face.

They began to fight. At last Peter hit Hook with his sword ( 剑 ). Hook began to bleed. Hook continued to fight, but he was not strong any more. He knew he was going to die. He ran to the side of the ship and jumped into the sea. He did not know the crocodile was waiting for him, as it no longer ticked. The crocodile swallowed him in one bite.

1.Why did Peter tick himself at the beginning of the story?

A.To follow the crocodile. B.To catch Captain Hook.

C.To get away from other animals. D.To make the pirates feel afraid.

2.What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 5 mean?

A.The children. B.The pirates.

C.Hook and the crocodile. D.Hook and the children.

3.Which is the right order of the following events?

a. Peter passed the crocodile.

b. Captain Hook jumped into the water.

c. The pirates and the lost boys fought against each other.

d. The crocodile had swallowed a clock that goes “tick, tick” inside it.

A.c-b-a-d B.d-a-c-b C.d-c-a-b D.c-b-d-a

4.What happened to Hook at the end of the story?

A.He ran away safely. B.The lost boys killed him.

C.Peter hit him with a sword. D.He was swallowed by the crocodile.

5.Who tells the story?

A.Captain hook. B.Peter.

C.The pirates and the crocodiles. D.Someone who is not in the story.

Zhang Dingyu, the director of Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, leads over 600 doctors and nurses fighting against the novel coronavirus pneumonia, which has caused hundreds of deaths in central Hubei Province. As Zhang led over 600 doctors and nurses fighting the disease, his strange way of walking shocked his colleagues. He finally admitted that he had fallen ill with ALS(渐冻症)since October 2018 after constant researches. ALS is a disease that gradually blocks the connection between brain and body. People with ALS become partially paralyzed(瘫痪的)leading to respiratory(呼吸系统的)failure. While working with handicapped(瘸的)legs, his wife was confirmed to get infected with the virus after working in another hospital. The bad news brought him to his knees, and he cried for the first time after the virus broke out. Zhang could only find time to visit his wife until three days after she was sent to hospital. Even then he could only stay there for 30 minutes. Fortunately, the good news came that his wife had recovered ten days after treatment.

Zhang, 57, has offered medical services along with Chinese medical teams to many areas. Three days after the earthquake hit central Sichuan Province in 2008, Zhang entered the city with his medical team members to offer help.

“Life is always short. I need to do more to finish the things that I might leave behind, then I would leave without too many regrets.” Zhang said. “We are at the center of a storm, so we need to give all we have to protect our city, and our Wuhan people.” Zhang said.

1.What is TRUE about Zhang Dingyu?

A.His colleagues knew his health condition in October 2018.

B.His wife worked in the same hospital as him.

C.He treated people injured in earthquakes in Sichuan.

D.He retired from the hospital before the outbreak of the virus.

2.What does Zhang Dingyu mean in the last paragraph?

A.He wants to realize his dream. B.He decides to fight the disease.

C.He regrets not being able to do more for his patients. D.He will soon leave the hospital.

3.This passage mainly talks about

A.Zhang Dingyu’s story of fighting against the novel coronavirus pneumonia.

B.Zhang Dingyu’s story with his wife.

C.How to prevent the novel coronavirus pneumonia.

D.Zhang Dingyu’s story with his colleagues.

Each year on Feb 21, UNESCO ( 联合国教科文组织) holds an International Mother Language Day (IMLD ). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages; many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.

What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost-not just sounds and marks but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Kill a language and all these are killed too.

Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize he terrible situation and try to stop it.

Google's 2018 Endangered (濒临灭绝的) Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload (上传) texts, audios and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.

The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes (部落) of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language , which died out in the 1960s.

These activities give life to those endangered languages. People who work to keep Languages

alive are not limited to the past. Many young people design apps and use social media to support their activities. They "spread the word " to save the world.

So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling of our mother language. This is why we should remember the wise words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language,that goes to his heart."

1.UNESCO holds IMLD every year in order to help people to _______________.

A. learn and use endangered languages

B. show their talents in learning languages

C. practice reading skills of mother languages

D. realize the situation of endangered languages

2.What did people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project?

A. Discuss how to make good use of Google.

B. Offer online courses on endangered languages.

C. Share materials about endangered languages online.

D. Translate endangered languages into mother languages.

3.What does the underlined word "revive" mean in Paragraph ( 段落) 4?

A. 创造 B. 学习 C. 复活 D. 清除

4.What can we infer ( 推断) from Paragraph 5?

A. It is more difficult to protect endangered languages.

B. The disappearance of languages has already stopped.

C. Young people don't care about endangered languages.

D. Young people have creative ways to protect languages.

5.The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to __________________.

A. tell the importance of one's mother language

B. show his contributions to language protection

C. tell the trouble in learning endangered languages

D. show the possibility of protecting mother languages

Yuan Longping delivering an English speech becomes a hot search online

Editor:Zhang Huanqin

Source:english. rednet. cn

Updated:2017-07-13 10:02:59

On July 11 at the 10th Symposium for Overseas High-level Talents and Overseas Academician Qingdao "Yanxi Lake Forum", 87-aged Yuan Longping from Hunan province, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Science, delivered an English speech on super hybrid rice(超级杂交水稻)fluently for 20 minutes.

Up to 12:00 am on July 12, his English speech video had been accumulatively(累计地)viewed for more than 100 million times and his delivering the English speech at such high age had received a hot search on Weibo for about 200,000 times.

Yuan Longping mentioned in the speech as below:

It is expected that 60%more rice should be produced in 2030 than that in 1995. Currently, 1 ha.(公顷)for rice production provides food for 27 people. By 2050, 1 ha, will have to support 43 people.

"Yuan has made huge contributions to the country's agricultural(农业的)development. He has fed generations of people. "one net user wrote. "It's a surprise that Yuan can speak English at his age. "another commented.

根据短文内容, 判断句子正误, 正确的涂A. 错误的涂B.

1.Yuan Longping delivered an English speech on July the 10th.

2.From the passage we know that Yuan Longping was 87 years old in 2017.

3.Lots of people watched Yuan Longping's English speech on the Internet.

4.Now 1 ha. for rice production provides food for 43 people.

5.We can read the passage on the website english.rednet. cn.

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