题目内容
Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country---candles, cakes and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:
Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up. | India Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this. |
Japan The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh for girls and fifth for boys. | Holland The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also puts flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful. |
A.flowers | B.presents |
C.a flag | D.a chair |
A.Japan | B.Denmark |
C.India | D.Holland |
A.give out chocolate to their classmates |
B.share chocolate with their best friends |
C.go to school in white clothes |
D.wear new clothes to mark the special time |
【小题1】C
【小题2】D
【小题3】A
解析试题分析:这篇短文主要介绍了世界各地的生日庆祝在某些方面非常相似——-蜡烛,蛋糕和生日祝福。但也有不同的庆祝生日的方式。作者介绍了四种特别的生日庆祝的方式。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据短文A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday.,故选C。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据短文The family also puts flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful.故选D
【小题3】细节理解题。根据However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class.故选A
考点:风俗习惯类短文阅读。
Listening test is one of the most important parts of the English exam. Here are some tips (建议) for you.
Before you start to listen, you need to relax. Don’t be stressed out. And try to read the questions. These questions usually help you understand the conversation or the passage.
Then listen carefully to the first sentence. It usually tells you the main idea of the passage. When you’re listening, try to do some thinking and take some notes (笔记), such as:
·What happened (发生)?
·When, where, and how?
·What does the speaker want to tell us?
In this way, you may understand the passage better.
Please remember not to think about one or two words for a long time. When you hear some words you don’t know, don’t spend too much time on them. Very often, you’ll find out what they mean later when you go on with the listening.
【小题1】This passage mainly talks about _________.
A.tips on listening | B.tips on speaking |
C.tips on reading | D.tips on writing |
A.excited | B.relaxed | C.stressed out | D.worried |
A.the answers to the questions |
B.where to write the answers |
C.the main idea of the passage |
D.how much time left (剩余) for the listening test |
A.remember every word |
B.take some notes |
C.understand all the words |
D.think about one or two words for a long time |
A.questions | B.first sentence | C.notes | D.A, B and C |
The number of rural(乡村的) left-behind children under 17 years old has increased to 61.02 million, according to a report. These children’s parents leave them with their grandparents or other family members in order to make money in cities.
Sichuan Province and Henan Province have the highest percentage of rural left-behind children. Together with Anhui Province, Guangdong Province and Hunan Province, these five provinces have 43.64% of the country’s rural left-behind children, the report says.
The report finds that left-behind children are mainly in the central and western provinces. But the developed eastern areas also face similar problems, the report says. Guangdong Province has the most left-behind children, with 4.34 million, followed by Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and Beijing.
“What I’m worried about most is the schooling of my child, as I have no time to help her with her homework.” Said An Baiyou, a truck driver from Shangdong Province, who has been leaving his 10-year-old daughter with his parents while driving trucks in other provinces. “However, to make money or to take care of the child, you can only choose one side.”
Wang Zhenyao, the president of Beijing Normal University Institue of Public Welfare, says that if the left-behind children problem can’t be solved, it will affect the nation’s future.
Compared with those who live with their parents, left-behind children need more care and protection. The country should think about ways to attract the rural workers in cities to return and work in their hometown to improve the development of these places.”
In addition, it is important to set up laws to protect the basic rights of young people, especially those with illnesses or only one parent.
These children are the future of the nation. People should offer them their love, care and protection.
【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE, according to the passage?
A.Wang Zhenyao has a 10-year-old daughter. |
B.An Baiyou chooses to make money in cities instead of taking care of his child in Shandong. |
C.Zhejiang Province has about 4.34 million left-behind children. |
D.The developed eastern areas don’t have the left-behind children problem. |
A.it is not easy to solve the left-behind children problem |
B.children with illnesses or only one parent are very poor |
C.it is important to solve the left-behind children problem |
D.rural workers like working in cities rather than their hometowns |
A.Serious facts about rural children |
B.A choice of children or money |
C.More care to rural left-behind children |
D.A report on parents’ worry about rural left-behind children |
Bicycles are very popular in China. In our country you can see bicycles almost everywhere. When you walk on the road, you will find a lot of people riding bicycles to schools, shops and anywhere else. Therefore(因此), China is known as “the kingdom of bicycles”. In China, many families have one or two bicycles.
Compared(与……比) with cars, bicycles have many advantages. First, they are much cheaper than cars. Most Chinese can’t afford cars, but they can afford bicycles. Second, bicycles are small enough to park anywhere, while cars need a larger piece of land to park. What’s more, with lower speed, bicycles are safer than cars.
However, bicycles also bring some problems. Some riders don’t obey the traffic rules and some riders don’t think about others’ safety. So they ride too fast. During rush hours, too many bicycles may cause traffic jams. We still have a long way to go to solve the problem.
【小题1】 Where can you see bicycles in China?
A.In the big city. | B.In the town. |
C.In the country. | D.Almost everywhere. |
A.China has a large number of bicycles |
B.China makes bicycles |
C.bicycles are a kingdom |
D.only China has bicycles |
A.Bicycles are much cheaper than cars. |
B.Bicycles are easy to park. |
C.Bicycles are more beautiful than cars. |
D.Bicycles are safer than cars. |
A.Bicycles are more and more expensive. |
B.Riding bicycles is more dangerous than driving cars. |
C.There are no places for so many bicycles. |
D.Too many bicycles may cause traffic jams. |
A.We should drive cars instead of riding bicycles. |
B.It’s too far to ride bicycles. |
C.Bicycles are safe enough. |
D.We still need to do much to solve the problem. |
People with disabilities make up a large part of the population. It is reported that over 35 million Americans have physical, mental, or other disabilities. About half of these disabilities are “developmental", that is to say, they happen before people’s twenty-second birthday, often from born conditions, and are hard enough to affect three or more areas of development, such as movement, communication, occupation, etc. Most other disabilities are considered “adventitious" (偶然的), i.e., accidental or caused by outside forces.
Before the 20th century, only a small percentage of people with disabilities survived for long. Medical treatment for these disabilities was unavailable. Improvements in medicine and social services have created a climate in which people with disabilities can expect to have such basic (基本的) needs as food, shelter, and medical treatment. Unluckily, these basics are often not available. Human rights such as the right to vote, marry, get an education, and achieve work have traditionally been not agreed on the basis of disability.
In recent ten years, the disability rights movement has been organized to fight against these disagreements of human rights. Congress(国会) replied by passing important laws recognizing(承认) people with disabilities as a protected group under human rights laws.
It is reported that more than half of qualified(有资格的) Americans with disabilities don’t have work, and a lot of those who do work are out of work. About two-thirds live at or below the official lowest level.
Obvious difficulties, especially in communication and public awareness(意识), prevent disabled people from taking part in society. For example, while no longer stopped by law from marrying, a person unable to communicate is excluded(排斥) from society and social activities which might lead to the development of long-term relationships.
Only when public attitudes(态度) advance as far as laws have, disabled people will be fully able to take their rightful place in society.
【小题1】. A “developmental" disability ______.
A.is caused by forces |
B.happens in youth and affects development |
C.develops very slowly over time |
D.is getting harder and harder |
A.they were not very well looked after |
B.disabilities destroyed body functions terribly |
C.they were too poor to get right treatment |
D.medical treatment were not available |
A.One | B.Two |
C.Three | D.Four |
A.The public tend to(倾向) look down on the disabled people. |
B.Many disabled people may remain single(保持单身) for their whole life. |
C.The disabled people feel inferior(不及) to those common people. |
D.Discriminatory(歧视性) laws prevent the disabled from mixing with others. |
A.The Causes for Disabilities |
B.Medical Treatments for Disabilities |
C.The physical difficulties of the Disabled |
D.Disadvantages of People with Disabilities |
Malls (购物中心) are popular places for Americans to go to. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called mall rats. Mall rats shop until they visit hundreds of stores.
People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations. Parking is usually free. And the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest places with waterfalls and large green trees.
The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 million square feet. It has 350 stores, eight nightclubs, and a large park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop there every week.
The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina Minnesota. People love doing all their shopping in one place. More malls are built around the country. Now malls are town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, and of course, they also eat in food courts (广场) that have food from all over the world. They see films at theaters. Some people even get their exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Others go to malls to meet friends.
In some malls, people can see a doctor and even go to the church. In other words, people can do almost everything in malls. Now people can live in their favorite shopping centers in fact.
【小题1】The passage gives ______ reasons why American people like malls.
A.2 | B.3 | C.4 | D.5 |
A.in one place | B.in a quiet place |
C.in a busy place | D.in different places |
A.People can see a doctor in some malls. |
B.Parking is free in all the malls. |
C.The malls are only in big cities. |
D.The largest mall is in Hong Kong. |
If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?
More and more young people volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money. Here are some of their stories.
【小题1】Young people in the USA volunteer to spend ____ helping others.
A.school holidays | B.weekdays |
C.every morning | D.school days |
A.To sleep under the stars. |
B.To spend the whole summer living in a tent. |
C.To help build new hiking paths in the mountains. |
D.To breath the fresh air in the mountain |
A.likes reading | B.is 18 years old |
C.isn’t very rich | D.has no houses |
A.Alice Hamilton | B.Jason Moore |
C.Trish Anderson | D.None |
A.Reading for Life. | B.The Forest Center |
C.Young Volunteers. | D.Special Houses |
If you take away many sentences from somebody's written work as your own without permission, it's called plagiarism,but if you take the knowledge from a piece of work by another and change the words, then it's not plagiarism. This is the difference between using the Internet and plagiarism. If you are given homework to work out math problems, then you should use your brain without a computer! If the teacher asks you to learn something about a famous literary person, you can use the computer. If you take down the main important information of the task, it’s OK. However, if you run to the computer to do your thinking for you all the time, you don’t exercise your brain and you will forget how to work out a problem. By using a computer, students may get a useful answer fast, to finish homework, but when they have to face an exam, they will not be ready for it.
Though teachers say finding or buying homework answers online is not many in schools, an interview with school students shows only 10% hopes to finish their holiday homework by themselves. They complain that the homework is too much for them to finish. Besides, many of students have to go to all kinds of training classes during the holiday. These take away much of their time for doing homework. So they want to find or even buy answers online or copy each other's homework. Students should learn that being a student is about getting skills, but not just getting quick, cheap "answers" for homework problems. I mean we should use the computer properly.
【小题1】If you want to look up some information about something or somebody, you____.
A.should work it out by yourself |
B.can turn to a computer for help |
C.must discuss it with your teacher |
D.will meet problems with plagiarism |
A.Answering questions in our own words. |
B.Buying homework answers on the Internet. |
C.Copying others’ written work without permission. |
D.Doing our homework with the help of a computer. |
A.The answers are cheap and quick. |
B.They can exercise their brains all the time. |
C.They have to go to all kinds of training classes during the holiday. |
D.They have too much homework to finish. |
A.Using it for math problems. |
B.Using it all the time for the homework. |
C.Using it to get some information on the answers. |
D.Using it when there's too much homework to finish. |
Students these days often have a lot of worries. Sometimes they have problems with their schoolwork, and sometimes with their friends. . Some people think the worst thing is to do nothing. Laura Mills, a teenager from Washington, agrees. “Problems and worries are normal in life,” says Laura. “But I think talking to someone helps a lot. If we don’t talk to someone, we’ll certainly feel worse.”
Laura once lost her purse, and worried for days. She was afraid to tell her parents about it. She even walked three miles to school each day because she didn’t have any money. She just kept thinking. “If I tell my parents, they’ll be angry!” But in the end, she talked to her parents and they were really understanding. Her dad said he sometimes made careless mistakes himself. They got her a new purse and asked her to be more careful. “I will always remember to share my problems in the future!” Laura says.
Robert Hunt advises students about common problems. He feels the same way as Laura. “It is best not to avoid our problems. We should always try to solve them.” He thinks that you can first find someone to talk to. This person doesn’t need to be an expert (专家) like himself. Students often forget that their parents have more experience than them, and are always there to help them.
In English, we say that sharing a problem is like cutting it in half. So you’re halfway to solving a problem if you talk to someone about it!
【小题1】Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph One?
A.What can they do about this? |
B.Where do the problems come from? |
C.When did they have these problems? |
D.Why do they have so many problems? |
A.answer a question | B.give an example |
C.introduce his friend | D.share his experience |
A.Laura’s teacher |
B.the writer of the passage |
C.a person with a problem |
D.an expert on students’ problems |