Dear sir,

I am Urooj Ashrah, a student in your Grade 10 class. I'm not feeling well today and won't be making it to class. I have a fever, cough and sore throat. I'm hoping you'll let me take a sick day today, Oct 21. I really appreciate （感谢） it.

Sincerely

Urooi Ashrah

1.Who is Ashrah writing to?

A.His doctor. B.His teacher. C.His classmate. D.His boss.

2.What do we know about Ashraf?

A.He is in Grade 11. B.He has a headache. C.He has a cough. D.He hates going to class.

3.Ashraf wrote this in order to______.

A.tell his classmates he is sick B.ask for a sick day

C.say thank you to someone D.reply to someone's letter

Egypt is one of the oldest civillizations （文明） in the world. It has great culture and history. Let's take a look at some wonderful places in the country.

1.What do we know about the Arabian Desert?

A.It is the third-largest desert in the world.

B.It is located in Western Africa.

C.It takes up nearly one-quarter of Egypt's land.

D.It is famous for its larger number of camels.

2.Which of the following places is NOT in Egypt?

A.Luxor. B.The Valley of the Kings.

C.The Valley of the Queens. D.Kilimanjaro. .

3.What guards the Great Pyramid of Khufu?

A.The Luxor. B.The Nile river.

C.The Great Sphinx. D.The Arabian desert.

In a small village, there lived a man. He would do nothing all day but daydream. Whenever he was hungry,he would go out, beg for （乞讨） food, come back and hang around.

One sunny afternoon, he was very hungry. With great diffculty, he got up, took out a bowl and went out to beg. By begging the whole day, he finally got a pot full of milk. He hung this pot on the ceiling, lay down on his bed and started daydreaming again.“This pot of milk is going to make me rich,”he thought. “I can make butter from the milk. Then I will be able to make ghee（印度酥油） and go to the market and sell the ghee,” his dream went on.“With the money I get, I will buy a pair of goats. They will have kids after six months. Soon I would have a large number of goats.”

Then I will continue my business. I will buy some more cows and own a farmhouse. I will start a dairy （奶牛场）. Once I earn a handsome amount, I will employ people on my farm. I can also open a sweet shop in the middle of the village. I will make sweets out of the cow 's milk,” the man kept smiling to himself.

“How smart I am,”he thought. Lost in his thoughts, he kicked out his foot, broke the pot and drenched （弄湿）himself in milk. He saw the broken pot and cried. He lost whatever he had.

1.After the man came back with the pot of milk, he began to________.

A.daydream B.make butter C.drink it D.make ghee

2.Which of the following words can describe the man?

A.Lazy B.Smart C.Careless D.Cheerful

3.We can infer （推断） from the story that the man________.

A.became rich in the end B.remained a beggar

C.owned a big farm D.raised lots of goats

4.What does the story want to tell us?

A.Daydreaming can make you work harder

B.You should be always careful with things

C.People should give more to help beggars

D.It takes hard work to realize one's dream

“What's the name of our neighbor? I can't remember right now.”Have you ever heard your grandparents ask questions like this? Usually, we think older people's memories become bad because their brains get weak. But a team of scientists at the University of Tubingen in Germany has a different idea.

“The human brain works slower in old age,” said lead scientist Michael Ramscar, “but only because they have stored more information over time.”

The findings are based on a series of computer simulations（模拟） of learning and memory.

Scientist let the computers read a certain amount of words and learn new things each day. When the computer “reads”only so much, its performance on cognitive（ 认知） tests is similar of a young adult. But if the computer learned the experiences we might encounter（经历） over a lifetime, its perfection is similar to that of an older adult.

Often it was slower because increased“experience” had caused the computer 's database（数据库） to grow, giving it more data to process - which takes time. This is similar to old people.

Imagine a person knows two people's birthdays. Another person knows the birthdays of 2,000 people, but can only match the right person to the right birthday nine times out of 10. Can you say the first person has a better memory than the second person? The basic idea is that“The larger the library you have in your head, the longer it usually takes to find a particular word,” Benedict Carey, a science reporter for The New York Times, wrote in an article about the study.

1.The writer uses a question at the beginning to________.

A.encourage readers to think of their neighbors

B.make readers interested in the topic

C.prove that older people have bad memories

D.explain why older people like asking questions

2.How did the scientists do their research?

A.They interviewed old people

B.They asked both young and old people the same questions

C.They used computers to simulate human learning and memory

D.They followed the experiences of a group of old people

3.According to the research, why do old people forget other people's names easily?

A.Because they have a very poor memory

B.Because they are too old to remember things

C.Because their brains become weaker over time

D.Because there is too much information in their brains

4.What does the underlined word“similar”in the passage mean in Chinese?

A.协调的 B.相似的 C.奇怪的 D.迥异的

5.What would be the best title for the story?

A.Why do old people have poor memories?

B.Why do old people's brains sore more information?

C.What is the human brain's processing ability?

D.Is it better to be old or young?

Military training is not just a Chinese tradition. Students in other countries also have it. Let's take a look!

China| Military training in China usually teaches students things like standing at attention （站军姿）, goose-stepping （正步走） and folding a quilt （叠被子）. Some students say that it is not useful. But others feel it encourages them to be more independent （独立的） and responsible （有责任感的）.

The US | US schools don't force （强迫） students to take military training. If children are interested in the military, they can attend military camps. These activities help children work in a team and encourage them to work out problems on their own. For example, a group might have the task of climbing over （翻越） a high wall. If even one person cannot climb over the wall, the whole group needs to do it again. So everyone must help each other and finish the task together.

The UK| The UK pays attention to military training for students, especially college students. There are Officer Training Corps （军官训练员,OTC） in some universities. In the OTC, students can learn military skills like first aid （急救）, weapons （武器） training and radio communications （无线电通讯）. Students can make money by taking part in military exercises. They can earn up to £ 60 per day.

After a busy morning at work, lunchtime gives me a chance to do many things,such as exercising, reading or watching TV. One cultural difference I've noticed b 1.Britain and China is what we do during lunchtime.

Here in China, workers have I2. lunch breaks, which gives them enough time to take a short nap （午睡）. Therefore, Chinese people usually u 3. lunchtime to have a break. I often see office workers r 4. their heads on their desks. The room turns into a q 5. “bedroom”. Once, I even saw workers in a restaurant taking short naps as well. This is also very common for students in China. After lunch, they will go b 6. to their dormitories （宿舍） or classrooms to take a nap. Chinese people b 7. a short nap at noon can help them feel more energetic （精力充沛的） in the afternoon.

In Britain, this a 8. is quite uncommon. British students usually have a one-hour lunch break. I9. of napping, they fill that time by playing sports or talking with friends. Most British workers don't get the chance to nap. They generally have short lunch breaks --from 30 minutes to an hour. It is common for people to work t 10. lunch or just finish their lunch at their desk just because of the shortness of their lunch breaks. There is not enough time to have a nap. .

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Dear Andrew,

How are you these days? I hear you took a course in DIY and you are attending lessons now. I also want to learm DIY, but I don't have enough time to have DIY classes. I want to begin with some easy jobs. Can you tell me how to make a fruit salad or just a sandwich?

Write back soon.

Sandy

Dear Sandy,

I am happy to hear from you. A_________ is quick and easy to make.

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Yours,

Andrew

There is________ encyclopaedia on the desk. encyclopaedia is very thick.

A.a, The B.an, The C.the, A D.the, An

There are________ books on the desk, but there aren't________ words in the books.

A.some, some B.any any C.some, any D.any, some

This is a secret(秘密). ________ knows it.

A.Someone B.Anyone C.Everyone D.No one