Wang Feng is one of the 1.(many) popular rock stars in China. I love his music even though I speak very little Chinese. Of course, I look up the English translations of his songs on the website so I can u 2. their meanings. Wang Feng was born into a musical f3. on June 29, 1971 in Beijing. He started to play the violin at the a4. of five. In 1994, he found the band No.43 Baojia Street. 5.(lucky), the band finally broke up and Wang Feng started his solo career (独唱生涯). Wang Feng writes his o6. songs. He once 7.(write) a beautiful song for Beijing Olympics in 2008. In this song he described how happy the Chinese people 8.(feel) to host the Olympics. If you've never heard of Wang Feng before, I wish you could try to listen to his songs. I believe you will e9. them for years. For all those who are already the fans of Wang Feng, it will be great to hear from you as well. I'd like 10.(make) friends with all of you.

May 31, 2017

Jaden is a six-year-old boy. He experienced the unlucky things of life twice. First, he lost his dad when he was four and then his mom died unexpectedly in her sleep last month. Jaden's heart was broken. His parents' death hit him a lot.

But things always go towards a good side. A few weeks later, Jaden told his aunt that he was tired of seeing everyone sad all the time. He'd like to see more smiles around him. He hoped that the number of the smiles could reach 100.

Then he asked his aunt to buy him some little toys and take him to the center of the city. "I'm trying to make people smile," said Jaden. At first, he was not sure if the people passing by would like to receive his toys. In fact, he was always successful and got close to his dream step by step, because no one could refuse such a little boy's giving and expecting.

"I'm keeping a count of 100 smiles," said Jaden. When asked if he could make, he answered, "I think I can."

Reported by Barbara

1.Did Jaden lose parents?

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2.How many smiles did Jaden hope to get?

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3.What did Jaden do to cheer himself up in the center of the city?

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4.Jaden's way was good to deal with his problem, wasn't it?

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5.Who is the writer of the passage?

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There's an old saying that dogs are man's best friends, but in Beth Mancuso's house, (1)猫是孩子们最好的朋友。 After seeing the relationship between her three young sons and their two cats, (5) Ms. Mancuso made a decision to take pictures for them.

(2) Each of the boys enjoys drawing cats and making toys for cats. "Cats aren't always the easiest animals to love. Anyone can love dogs, but loving cats takes patience and kindness. It is my hope that my boys are learning both these things from our favorite cats," said Ms. Mancuso. "Cats are very gentle animals. They offer companionship (友谊) when the kids are playing, exploring (探索) the outdoors, or quietly reading a book.

It is clear to see the relationship between the young boys and their cat friends through the heart-warming images (形象). They are going to continue with the heart-warming project and she will take pictures to record the relationship.

1.Translate sentence (1) into English.

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2.Translate sentence (2) into Chinese.

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3.What do the underlined "both these things" refer to?

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4.Find the right word according to the English meaning and the first letter.

p___________: the ability that can keep doing the same work and don't get bored

5.Write the sentence that has the same meaning as sentence (5).

Ms. Mancuso made a decision to take pictures for them.

Ms. Mancuso _________ _________ _________ picture for them.

书面表达

上星期，学校就学生的作业量问题要求各班召开家长会进行讨论。以下是你班家长的观点：多数家长认为作业多有好处，而部分家长则认为作业过多对孩子的成长不利。请你根据下面方框中的提示，用英语作一简要介绍并表明你自己的观点。

注意：(1)可以适当增加细节，要求意思连贯，语句通顺；

(2)词数80左右；短文的开头已给出(不计入总词数)。

Last week our class had a parents' meeting. At the meeting, all the parents talked about whether doing a lot of homework was useful or not. Many parents thought that doing much homework was useful.

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When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn’t sit quietly. Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a special smell that neighboring plants can get. These chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be a warning. What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds（VOCs）.

Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being attacked. It’s a plant’s way of crying out. But is anyone listening? Obviously. Because we can watch the neighbors’ react.

Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away. But others do double duty. They pump out perfumes to attract different insects who are their natural enemies. Once the insects arrive, the tables are turned. The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch.

In study after study, it appears that these chemical conversations help the neighbors. The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors stay safer because they heard the warning and knew what to do.

Does this mean that plants talk to each other? Scientists don’t know. Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so, in fact, was talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors just happened to hear the cry by accident and so wrong information was exchanged.

Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate than the world we can see and hear, our senses are weak. There’s a whole lot going on.

1.What does a plant do when it is under attack?

A.It makes noises. B.It gets help from other plants.

C.It stands quietly. D.It sends out certain chemicals.

2.What does “the tables are turned” mean in Paragraph 3?

A.The attackers are attacked. B.The insects gather under the table.

C.The plants get ready to fight back. D.The perfumes attract natural enemies.

3.Scientists find from their studies that plants can__________.

A.talk to one another B.predict natural disasters

C.protect themselves against insects D.help their neighbors when necessary

4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.The world is changing faster than ever. B.People have stronger senses than before.

C.The world is more colorful than it seems. D.People in Darwin’s time were full of imagination.

Have you ever heard of “a ball of energy”? People often use it to describe very active children. But today we tell about an invention called the socket, that is a real soccer ball of energy. Julia Silverman explains that in fact the socket is a portable generator.

Julia Silverman and Jessica Matthews developed the socket as part of a group project for an engineering class at Harvard University. There are mechanisms in a socket. When you kick, hit or throw it, energy is then kept in it by these mechanisms instead of disappearing into the environment.

Then the user can put something directly into the ball, like a lamp, or a mobile phone charger so that they can get energy from it. For every fifteen minutes of the game play, the socket can provide enough electricity for an LED lamp for three hours, and the ball can store up to 24 hours’ electricity.

The International Energy Association reported last year that nearly one and a half billion people in the world had no electricity to use, and most of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and in India and other countries in Asia.

Julia Silverman and Jessica Matthews both had experiences in developing countries before they began the project. They knew that power shortages are a serious problem in really areas. There’s an energy crisis in the world. One out of every five people in the world don't have any electricity, there are a lot of health problems because what people use instead of any electricity are harmful choices like kerosene lamps, which produce a lot of smoke.

Julia Silverman says the socket ball is one small solution to a big problem. Jessica Matthews and Julia Silverman hope their socket ball will shine more light on the problem of power shortages. It offers people a chance to put their energy into the world’s most popular sport and get some energy in return.

1.From the passage, we know the socket is__________.

A.an active child B.an invention C.a lamp D.a mobile phone

2.The underlined word “crisis” in the passage means a time of__________.

A.difficulty B.safety C.success D.sadness

3.We can infer from the passage that__________.

A.active children care more about playing socket

B.people are expected to get some energy by playing socket

C.Julia Silverman has never been to developing countries before

D.kicking a socket can let the energy disappear into the environment

4.The best title for the passage should be__________.

A.A soccer ball that gives energy B.The way to help save electricity

C.The best way to solve energy problems D.An invention changing the world

You can buy a box of Crayola crayons in 152 colors today, but way back in 1903, they only came in eight colors. And that box of Crayola crayons was a huge improvement over the first crayons, which only came in black.

Wax crayons were mostly used for industrial purposes until cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith introduced their brightly colored crayons for kids. Edwin’s wife made up the name Crayola by putting “craie”（French for chalk）together with“ oleaginous”（which means oily）. In other words, oily chalk!

It’s hard to understand just how modern crayons are different from those in the past without look at the history of the crayon. In 1864 Edwin’s dad, Joseph Binney, started a chemical factory in New York City. It made a black pigment by burning oil. When the two cousins took over the factory in 1885, they started making a number of industrial art products for home and school use, but from 1900 to 1902, they started making pencils and dustless chalk for school blackboards in American classrooms. Soon after that, colored crayons were made. But the crayons they first made were not safe for kids, so they developed crayons that would be safe. The first box they sold-the one with eight colors--cost just five cents.

To celebrate the hundredth birthday of Crayola crayons in 2003, a special 100-color box was created, adding four new colors to the existing 96-color box. Over the years, as the company grown, it has introduced more than 400 different colors. Today there are over a hundred types of Crayola Crayons. They are available in boxes printed in 11 languages including Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Italian, German, French, Finnish, English, Dutch and Danish. Two billion Crayola Crayons are produced yearly. Also you can find crayons that smell good, crayons that wash out of clothes, and even egg-shaped crayons. Nowadays, plenty of other companies make colored crayons for children, too.

1.What color were the first crayons?

A.Black B.Red C.Yellow D.Green

2.The first eight-color Crayola crayons started to be sold in the year__________.

A.1864 B.1885 C.1903 D.2003

3.Which of the following statements are TRUE about Crayola crayons?

A.The name Crayola was a mixture of two English words.

B.The first Crayola crayons were not safe but very expensive.

C.The company invented four more colors for its 100th birthday.

D.Today Crayola crayon boxes are now also printed in Chinese language.

4.What’s the passage mainly about?

A.The changes of the colors of Crayola crayons.

B.The history of the invention of Crayola crayons.

C.The two cousins who made Crayola crayons.

D.The reason why Crayola crayons are still popular.

根据短文内容和所给中文提示，用单词的适当形式完成以下短文。

It is 1. （自然的 ）for parents to worry about their children when they are away on. 2. （出差）. They are afraid their children can’t take care of 3. （他们自己）. But in my 4. （观点）, I don’t think they need to do that, because we are not little children any more. And it is very 5. （方便的）to ask for help on We chat. I remember last time when my parents went 6. （国外）for a one-week meeting. My parents talked with me on We chat every night. With the help of them, I 7. （管理）my own life well and learned to do lots of house work. I finished my homework on time. I even cooked meals myself 8. （代替）of eating fast food. When I cooked for the first time, I was so worried that I kept asking my parents for help. I was happy the food was not 9. （烧糊）at last. The experience of staying home alone made me even more 10. （自信的）and independent.

This is Tammela School, a primary school in Finland. The students are having a math class with their robot teacher.

The “teacher” is1.small, blue machine about 25cm high, Reuters reported.

Whenever students have problems, it helps them very2.(patient) and never gets bored.

“The robot can make students3.(active) in class than usual. I see Eliasas one of the 4. (tool) to get different kinds of practice and activities into the classroom,” a teacher told Reuters.

So far the school5.(introduce) four robot teachers, one of whom is a language teacher that can speak 23 languages and dance to music." 6.is necessary to encourage kids to come up7.new ways to make use of technology in school life," the head of the school 8.(add) in the interview.

The robot teachers are used9.(help) improve learning. This doesn't mean that human teachers will lose their jobs. The robots can teach well,10.they are not able to keep class in order. The school still needs human teachers.

下面文章中有五处需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题。选项中有一项是多余项。

A. Places to Stay B. Places to Visit C. Weather

D. Shopping E. History F. Restaurants

Savannah City Guide

1.

If you want to spend the night in Savannah, you have lots of place to choose from. You can stay at a big hotel a small inn, or a comfortable motel. Savannah's hotels, motels and inns are famous for their friendly service. Call one of these places to make your reservation.

2.

Savannah is well known for its wonderful restaurants Many restaurant serve local, seafood or old-fashioned Southern food. The following are sonic of the best restaurants in the area.

3.

If you like to shop, Savannah is the place for you! You'll find all kind of stores in Savannah. You can go shopping in small stores or big shopping malls. Are you looking for a special treasure or a great deal? You'll find it in Savannah.

4.

There are so many things to do and see in Savannah. The sightseeing is great. You can visit beautiful historic homes and museums. You can take a boat tour or visit Civil War forts. With all of Savannah's history, art, and beautiful buildings, be sure to take the time to enjoy all that Savannah has to offer!

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Savannah has lots of sunshine throughout the year. Summer are hot and humid. Winters are generally mild. Temperatures usually range between 30 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 degree Centigrade) and 90 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Centigrade).