If a friend helps us, it’s a good idea to write him a thank-you note. But in fact, how many of us sit down to do this? “People don’ t seem to walk around giving thanks to people quite often,” Professor Kumar said. Why don’t people like to send thank-you notes? And how do people feel when they get one?

Kumar and his team asked some students to write a thank-you note to another person by email. Then, they asked both the writer and the receiver how sending or getting these notes made them feel. Here is the result.

They found that these writers didn’t like to write the notes because they felt like they had to think too much about them. They worried about what to say and how to say it. The receivers, however felt enjoyable when they got the notes. When you are a receiver, you really care about the warmth of the note, “Kumar says. “How friendly and warm was it?”

Also, the writers didn’t like to write the notes because they thought it might be awkward (尴尬的) for the receiver to get a thank-you note. But in fact, it’s not true. “They feel quite happy,” Kumar says. “They don’t really feel awkward at all.” If people knew that writing a thank-you note could be so important to others, they would do it more often, Kumar says.

In a word, simple and small changes in our everyday lives can make a big difference in how we treat (对待) other people and how we feel.

1.We know from the passage that if a friend helps us, it’s a good idea to ________.

A.just say thank you B.write him a thank-you note

C.sit down with him D.get a thank-you note from him

2.According to the passage, ________ can make a big difference in how we treat other people and how we feel.

A.the warmth of notes B.not writing and sending thank-you letters

C.the writers and receivers D.simple and small changes in our daily lives

3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A.Writing a thank-you note isn’t important to others at all.

B.People like to write thank-you notes when someone helps them.

C.Kumar says that people don’t feel awkward getting thank-you notes.

D.When getting thank- you notes, people don’t care about the warmth of them.

4.If you are to put the passage into parts, which of the following is the best?

(①=Para. (自然段)1；②=Para.2；③=Para. 3；④=Para. 4；⑤=Para. 5

A. B. C. D.

Tina woke up at midnight. She looked out of her window and saw a yellow light in the sky. It suddenly flew towards the ground. She heard a noise and saw a red light.

The next morning, Tina told it to her brother Tom. “I’m sure something landed in the forest near the mountains as I heard a loud noise last night,” she said. “Let’s find out after school.”

At 6 p.m. Tina and Tom reached the forest. They heard some voices speaking a strange language, so they hid behind some little trees and kept quiet then they saw an alien (外星人)! It was tall, with a round head and a shining grey-white colored body. It was standing next to a long spaceship. There was something wrong with the spaceship.

The children were scared. Suddenly, another alien appeared from the little trees in front of them. It found them and made a terrible noise! __________________________________________

The next morning Tina and Tom told their parents about the strange aliens they saw. “They were very ugly. They had some hair, but they didn’t have any feathers (羽毛),” said Tina.

“There was something written on the spaceship,” said Tom. “It looked like this. I wonder what it means.” He drew something on a piece of paper.

But dad said, “Since no one else saw these aliens, I refuse to believe you. Now go to school!”

The children opened their wings (翅膀) and flew to school together.

Dad looked at the piece of paper with the strange word on it. “It looks strange,” he said, as he looked at the word “EARTH”.

1.According to the passage, ________ first found that the aliens landed in the forest.

A.Tom B.Tina’s friend C.Tina D.Tina’s father

2.Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A.The children were afraid when they saw the aliens.

B.The aliens came from a place called earth.

C.Tina, Tom and their parents lived on the earth.

D.The children had wings and they could fly.

3.The missing language in Paragraph 4 might be “________”.

A.It got angry and killed the two children.

B.The children were scared and quickly ran away.

C.Suddenly their parents came and saved them.

D.They happily accepted the aliens’ invitation.

4.What’s the best title for this passage?

A.Don’t Lie to Your parents B.A Happy Family and aliens

C.Aliens Fight Humans D.Aliens Arrive

Don’t be too surprised if you see a car going down the road without a driver in Beijing these days. It might be one of Baidu’s self-driving cars. Last month, Baidu tested its self-driving cars on open roads in Beijing. Self-driving cars have been in progress since 2010, when Google said it was making such cars. From then on, companies like Tesla, Uber and Baidu tried to make and test their own self-driving cars.

Now, many people really want to buy a self-driving car if they have enough money. They think it will make their life easier. However, every coin has two sides.

Normally, when there is an obstacle (障碍物) in front of the self-diving car, the car will stop. But sometimes it also makes mistakes. In one test, when researchers sent a point of light in front of a moving self-driving car, the car stopped. And in another test, when researchers did it again, the car moved to another road. If scientists don’t solve the problem, some people may use the mistake to do bad things.

So self-driving at least now is still not safe enough. When we use our computers or smartphones, they sometimes don’t work well without any reason. If this happens to a self-driving car the results might be dangerous. So scientists are making improvements to work out the problem.

1.Is the self-driving car safe enough now?

______________________________________________________

2.When did Baidu test its self-driving cars on open road in Beijing?

______________________________________________________

3.In the tests, why did the self-driving car make mistakes when researchers sent a point of light?

______________________________________________________

4.Do you still want to learn how to drive if you have a self-driving car? Why or why not?

______________________________________________________

口语应用。

A: Dale, will you go to Sally’s birthday party next month?

B: 1. I have other plans.

A: Really? So, what will you do?

B: I will take a trip to Yunnan at the beginning of February.

A: I remember you have an uncle there. 2.

B: Not really. I am going to learn how to cook Yunnan rice noodles.

A: Sounds interesting. 3. Is there anything special in the rice noodles?

B: Well, there are a lot of ingredients such as meat, vegetables, eggs and chicken soup

A: Wow! It must be delicious with the chicken soup!

B: Yes, you’re right. 4. With much oil on the soup, it keeps rice noodles hot for a long time.

A: May I try your cooking after you come back?

B: 5.

A. Are you going to visit him?

B. Sure. I’d love to.

C. I’m afraid not.

D. No problem!

E. I never tried Yunnan rice noodles.

F. What are you going to buy for him?

G. The chicken soup plays an important part.

完成句子。根据所给提示，完成句子。每空一词，含缩略词。

1.Cover the rice with tomatoes and eggs. (变否定句)

________ ________ the rice with tomatoes and eggs.

2.I need three pieces of cheese to make soup. (对划线部分提问)

________ ________ cheese do you need to make soup?

3.Ben studied hard to get good grades in the final exam.(同义句转换)

Ben studied hard ________ ________ he could get good grades in the final exam.

4.我昨天收到了她的来信。(完成译句)

I ________ ________ her yesterday.

5.成百上千匹马在农场奔跑。(完成译句)

There are ________ ________ horses running on the farm.

根据下面短文内容，在短文的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。

We often believe our parents are always there for us, but this is not true for “left-behind” children. They can see their parents usually once a year. Parents have to ask the 1. to look after the young, leave them behind in the countryside, and go to big cities to work.

In China, there are about 21 million children from the countryside, and one third of them are left behind. At the end of each year, these parents will go 2. home to stay with their kids for a few days.

In fact, these children will have many 3. with schoolwork and health. For example, the old may not be able to help them with homework or look after them well .This will make these children lose parents’ love and keep themselves away 4. other people.

The government (政府) is now trying their best to take good care of the left-behind children, such as sending volunteers to the countryside. They will report to the government 5. they find something wrong with any left-behind child. However, the best way to solve the problems is to bring parents and children back together. The government tried to ask these parents to go back to hometowns to 6. for work and business. 7. way is to make it easier for the children to go to school in big cities. Then their parents can both work and see them every day.

Many governments showed great improvement in 8. the problems. Thanks to them, the number of left-behind children has decreased by (减少了) 22.7 percent according to the latest report.

同学们，今年的2月5日是春节，还有10天就要过新年了！你想不想和你的小伙伴一起过春节呢？假如你是李雷，你想邀请美国好友 Sarah和她的家人来你家过年。请你写一封邀请函邀请好友到来，并简要介绍春节。

写作要求：

1. 词数：80—120词，可适当发挥，开头已给出，不计入总词数；

2.文中不能出现自己的姓名和所在学校的名称。

参考要点：

1. 发出邀请（时间，地点）；

2. 简介春节（时间，传统……）；

3. 谈谈自家即将庆祝春节的特别活动。

参考词汇：除夕 Chinese New Year’s Eve 在大年初一on the first day of Chinese lunar calendar

Dear Sarah,

How are you these days? Do you have a good time this winter? _____________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Lei

— I’ll have a ______ holiday with my grandparents after the final exam.

— Have a good time.

A.two-week’s B.two weeks C.two-week

— ______ I hand in the composition today?

— No. You ______ hand it in before this Friday.

A.May; mustn’t B.Must; can C.Must; don’t have to

—We are all looking forward to Dr. Green’s talk.

—Dr. Green is busy these days. I’m not sure _______ he will be able to come here.

A.whether B.that C.when