题目内容
Do you want to know something about children in Africa? What do they do for fun every day? Find out here:
Education
School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can’t afford school uniforms or exercise books even though they don’t have to pay for school.
For those lucky enough to go to school, they have a lot to learn. Some take two language classes: English or French, and their first languages. There is also math, science, history and geography. Chores take up much of children’s time after school. They have to get water and firewood for the family every day. Also there’s cleaning, washing and helping Mum with the meal.
Daily fun
It’s not all work and no play.Sports are very popular. Children can make goals with twigs（嫩枝）and their own footballs with plastic and bits of string(绳子).They play in the country and the streets of old towns.There’re many football teams for teenagers in Africa.
Internet
It’s really expensive to get on the Internet. To surf the net for 20 hours costs 600yuan.This is more than the average（平均的） monthly pay per person.
Egypt and South Africa are the top two users of the Internet in Africa. All of the capital cities there can get on the Internet.
Some schools offer computer lessons but few students can enjoy computer fun at home.【小题1】The underlined word “Chores” probably means______.
| A．网上冲浪 | B．家务杂活 |
| C．体育活动 | D．家庭作业 |
【小题2】Sports are very popular in Africa because children_______.| A．do not need money to play |
| B．can play all kinds of ball games |
| C．don’t like to go to school |
| D．don’t like to do their homework |
【小题3】 In Africa ,how many hours can you use all your pay to surf the Internet in a year .And you only have the average pay.| A．20 hours | B． more than 240 hours |
| C．about 240 hours | D．about 20 hours |
解析
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【小题1】Who might be interested in this website?
| A．Kids that are good at drawing. | B．Adults that want to go traveling |
| C．Volunteers that want to teach children | D．People that want to learn to dance. |
| A．save lots of money for a holiday. |
| B．try square dancing only once |
| C．stay healthy and make lots of friends |
| D．learn the English letters ABC more easily |
| A．an advertisement by an English club |
| B．an invitation by an English club |
| C．an application by a sports club |
| D．an advertisement by a dance club |
These days, more and more young people wish to be more beautiful, So they turn to plastic surgery (整形
手术) for help. They spend thousands of yuan on these painful surgeries to fix (修整) their nose, to fix their eyes or to be thinner.
In fact, most people are not happy about the way they look. Even the most beautiful actresses often wish they could fix something about their looks.So we should believe that we are as beautiful as others. A smile is beautiful on any face, being kind is much more beautiful than a pretty look.
So, let's feel happy that we all have beautiful and healthy bodies that do not need surgeries! Today, I wish you to make a small change: believe yourself! smile and be kind to others. If you do these, you will be happy, beautiful, and popular everywhere you go.
【小题1】_______ are more and more interested in plastic surgeries.
| A．Old people | B．Young people | C．Men | D．Women |
| A．kind | B．good | C．beautiful | D．clever |
| A．Believe yourself | B．Smile | C．Be kind | D．A,BandC |
| A．改变 | B．计划 | C．担心 | D．说明 |
| A．Young people spend a lot of money on plastic surgeries. |
| B．Actors never worry about their looks. |
| C．We only need to make an easy change to feel beautiful enough\ |
| D．Being kind is more important than a good look |
Art lovers around the world have thought about this question for so many years: what is the secret behind the Mona Lisa’s smile?
However, they can ask Mona Lisa herself in the interactive exhibition (交互式展览) in Beijing. This exhibition brings the 500-year-old painting to life.
Now Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting can move her head and wave (挥舞) her hand in 3D, and even answer questions. She can answer the questions about her life, her age and so on. But when she talks she doesn’t speak Italian but Chinese like: “Da jia hao, wo jiao Mengna Lisha. Hen gao xing jian dao ni men.”
The new, digital (数码的) picture of Mona Lisa is the center piece of the World Classic Interactive Arts Exhibition in Beijing. You can also see other world-famous paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Last Supper is another picture that they made alive with 3D. In this picture, Jesus (基督耶稣) can walk and talk with his believers (信徒).
It took the organizer Wang Hui and over 400 digital artists in South Korea two years to make the picture, at a cost of around 50 million yuan.
He says, “What’s special about it is that it’s the first time to use computer technology (技术) to make her speak and move.”
So what does the Mona Lisa say if you ask her why she is smiling?
【小题1】 From the passage we know that Mona Lisa is ________.
| A．a famous woman in China |
| B．Leonardo da Vinci’s wife |
| C．a famous painting of Wang Hui |
| D．an Italian woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting |
| A．why Mona Lisa smiled | B．who Mona Lisa lived with |
| C．how old Mona Lisa was | D．who Mona Lisa loved |
| A．She speaks French. | B．She speaks Italian. |
| C．She speaks Chinese. | D．She speaks Japanese. |
| A．Wang Hui and his team spent 2 years making the digital pictures. |
| B．The digital paintings cost Wang Hui 50,000 yuan. |
| C．Wang Hui made this painting with some Chinese artists. |
| D．About 400 artists wanted to buy the digital paintings. |
| A．Mona Lisa can also sing in Chinese |
| B．3D made Mona Lisa move and speak |
| C．3D made Leonardo da Vinci alive in the exhibition in Beijing. |
| D．in the picture Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci can walk in his room |
Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.
A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.
"I was eating with my wife and children," he said, "When we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened."
Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.
"There was no time to take anything," she said, "A few minutes later, the roof came down."
Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded area and the welfare department （福利机构） brought them food, clothes and shelter.
【小题1】How was one of Mr. Tan’s children after the storm?
| A．Lost. | B．Dangerous. |
| C．Frightened. | D．Not found. |
| A．her husband knew there would be a storm. |
| B．they were all outside the house when the storm became worse. |
| C．she felt the house was moving. |
| D．the welfare department helped her. |
A Terrible Storm. B. A Lucky Woman.
C. Good Soldiers. D. Clever People.
We go to school every day to become a better
person. So how can we become powerful and start
changes in our own life? Perhaps we can get tips from the US
First Lady Michelle Obama. During her 'visit to China, from March 20-26, Mrs. Obama shared her views on education and youth empowerment with students.
The first lady encouraged Chinese students to aim high and get a good education* In Chengdu No. 7 High School, she told students that having humble (贫寒的) roots doesn't matter as long as you have perseverance（毅力）
Mrs. Obama said her family was not rich. Like many Chinese students, her parents had big dreams for her. She felt the weight of her parents' sacrifices（牺牲） on her shoulders and worked hard to make them proud. Persevering was not easy, though. Sometimes she had to wake up at 4:30 am and study late into the night. "But whenever I got tired or discouraged(气馁 WJ)... I would remember something my mother. always told me. She said: 'A good education is something that no one cart take away from you.''
Mrs. Obama also encourages Chinese students to study abroad to broaden their horizons（开阔眼界） in her speech at Peking University. "As the Chinese saying goes: It is better to travel 10,000 miles than to read 10,000 books," she said. It's not enough to get good grades in school. It's also important to have real experience with languages, cultures and societies different from your own, she noted.
Studying overseas could also benefit future international relations. It could help young people from different countries work together to deal with shared problems such as climate change, Mrs. Obama said.
【小题1】From the first paragraph , what kind of views did Mrs. Obama share with the students ?
| A．education and development |
| B．empowerment and perseverance |
| C．education and youth empowerment |
| D．education and youth perseverance |
| A．be good at | B．be good with |
| C．be bad for | D．be good for |
| A．Michelle Obama lived a rich life when she was young . |
| B．Michelle Obama worked hard to make her parents proud.. |
| C．Michelle Obama sometimes had to wake up at 4:30 pm and study late into the night. |
| D．Michelle Obama would remember something her teachers always told her whenever she got tired or discouraged. |
| A．The first lady encourages Chinese students to aim high and get a good education. |
| B．The first lady thinks it terrible for students to have humble roots . |
| C．The first lady thinks that a good education is something that no one can take away from you. |
| D．Mrs. Obama encouraged Chinese students to study abroad to broaden their horizons. |
| A．We can get tips from the US First Lady Michelle Obama during her visit to Beijing No. 7 High School |
| B．It's wonderful enough for students to get good grades only in school. |
| C．It's not important to have real experience with languages, cultures and societies different from your own. |
| D．Studying overseas could help young people from different countries work together to deal with shared problems. |
We live in an amazing world, reading the following news and you will find it yourself.
News 1: Bao Xishun is the tallest man in the world. He is 2.36 metres tall. He Pingping is the shortest man in the world. He is only 0.73 metres tall. They are Chinese. On July 13th, Bao Xishun married (娶) a girl and He Pingping took part in their wedding ceremony (婚礼).
News 2: In the USA, a seventh-grader, Aidan Murray Medley went fishing in the sea one morning. The 12-year-old boy caught a 250-kilogram shark! It took Aidan 28 minutes to catch the shark. It was so hard that his body lost all feeling. Aidan now has the Florida(佛罗里达洲) record (记录). He beat (打破) a 232-kilogram catch from 1981.
News 3: A young sheep climbs a tree to feed on leaves in a park in the southern Swedish town of Lund. The sheep climbed to a height (高度) of seven metres and spent an hour and a half in the tree before returning to the ground.
【小题1】 Where do the tallest man and the shortest man in the world come from?
| A．China. | B．America. |
| C．Sweden. | D．Florida. |
| A．13. | B．12. | C．250. | D．7. |
| A．Nearly half an hour. | B．Over half an hour. |
| C．An hour and a half. | D．12 hours. |
| A．Bao Xishun married He Pingping. |
| B．The tallest man and the shortest man are not both from China. |
| C．The boy caught the biggest fish in the world. |
| D．The sheep climbed very high and spent a long time in the tree. |
| A．The Tallest Man’s Wedding Ceremony |
| B．The Amazing World |
| C．A Boy Caught the Biggest Fish |
| D．A Sheep Climbed a Tree |
Traveling by train is usually not easy in China. It can be hard to get a ticket. When you’re traveling to the railway station, you look at your watch, for you are afraid you will miss your train.
But there is good news for people traveling between Beijing and Shanghai. Construction (建设) on the express railway (高速铁路) between the two cities started just before the Spring Festival of 2008. When it is finished by 2013, taking a train will be as easy as taking a bus.
“There will be trains every several minutes. Buying a ticket, getting through the checkpoint (检查站) and taking your seat, will take just 10 minutes,” said an engineer.
There may be high-speed trains running at 350 kilometers an hour. The travel time between the two cities will decrease from 10 to about 5 hours. The trains will carry twice the present number of passengers.
The new line will be 1,318 kilometers long and go across specially built bridges. It will run along side the present line. There will be 21 stations in Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.
“The cost of traveling by the express railway may be around 800 yuan. That will be more expensive than an ordinary train, but cheaper than by air.” Said Zhang Xiaoling, a Jiangsu government official.
According to Zhang, the higher price is caused by the large cost of the railway project. At about 200 billion yuan, the project may be even more expensive than the Three Gorges Project (三峡工程).
【小题1】The express railway between Beijing and Shanghai will be finished _______.
| A．at the end of this year | B．before the Spring Festival of 2008 |
| C．by 2013 | D．in about 5 years |
| A．buy a ticket | B．get through the checkpoint |
| C．pack your things | D．make some friends |
| A．延长 | B．缩短 | C．提速 | D．限速 |
| A．Traveling by train is usually difficult in China because tickets are too expensive. |
| B．The high-speed trains will have 21 stations in Shanghai, Shandong, Hunan and Jiangsu. |
| C．Tickets for the high-speed trains will be cheaper than those for planes. |
| D．The cost of the express railway project is as high as that of the Three Gorges Project. |
| A．An enormous project. |
| B．Train tickets will get more expensive |
| C．Specially built bridges |
| D．Beijing—Shanghai express railway |