Unlike most other holidays, the history of April Fools’ Day. Sometimes called All Fools' Day, is not as the totally clear. The only point in time that can be agreed on as the beginning of this tradition was 1582,in France. Before that year, the New Year was celebrated for eight days,

beginning on March 25.The reform of the calendar celetxration reached the highest point on April l_With the riform of the calendar under Charles 1X,the

Gregorian calendar (公历, 阳历）was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved lo January 1.

However, because in those days communications were not as developed as they are today, many people did not receive the news for several years. Some people refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the New Year on April , These backward people were considered “foots” by other peopk. They were often sent on “fools” errands (徒劳无益的工作)or were made the taragets of jokes.

This developed, over time,into a tradition of playing a trick m someone on the first day of April. The tradition eventully spread to England and Scotland in the eightreenth century. It was later introduced to the American

colonies of both the Britain and Francc.April Fools’ Day thus developed into an international fun feast,so to speak,with different nationalities specializing in their own kind of humor at the expense of their friends and families.

1.Acconibg to the new calendar, which day was New Year's Day moved la in France ?

A. March 25. B. January 1.

C. April I. D. April3.

2.Which of the following first had the tradition of celebrating the April Fools’ Day?

A. Frmce B. England,

C. Scotland D. America.

3.What was people's attitude towards the new calendar?

A. They accepted it happily. B. They refused it immediately.

C. Some recognized it. D. Some laughed at it.

4.What does the passage want 10 tell us?

A. What the French did un April Fools' Day.

B. How April Fools’ Day come into being.

C. When was the new calendar introduced.

D. Why some people were fooled in France.

What if you arrived home to find it delicious hot meal waiting for you, prepared by your very own kitchen robot It might sound like science fiction. but professors at the university of Tokyo have taken the first steps toward making that scenario a reality. The team recently introduced a humanoid kichen robot that can pour and other drinks into cups and serve the m to guests.When teating is over, the robot can also wash the dishes and put them away.

In Califormia, another interesting kitchen robot has been developed, called Readybot. It can pick up objects and either srore them in cabinets (橱柜）or put them in the trash. It also carries a separate floor-cleaning robot that can operate by itself.Unlike the Japanse robot,Readybot just looks more like a large box with arms and wheels.

Readybot was created by engineers and designers who who etablished a called the Readybot Challlenge. They believe that in the future millions of robots will be needed in homes to perform ordinary household tasks. Readybot is just the step in their plan to create a robot that can do jobs not only in kitchens but in other rooms of homes and in offces as well.

Clearly there are tcchnogical difficulties to to solve before robots can cook a Complete dinner, and there arc diso many safety concerns (忧虑） .Not everyone (especially parents) would be comfortable with the idea of robots in their house, manipulating hot pans and sharp knives. The European Commission recently furtded(资助） a project to study these concerns. According to lead researcher Professor Chris Melhuish,“ Enabling robots to work safely with humans is a key need for the future developmem of

robots.”

1.Compared with Readybot, which of the following is true about the Japanese robot?

A. It is more popular.

B. It performs more jobs,

C. It moves inore quickly.

D. It looks more like a person.

2.What can Readybot be used to do?

A. drive you around

B. clean your kitchen

C. prepare food for you

D. work for office workers

3.what's the meaning of Ac underlined word “manipulating ” in the last paragrsph?

A. Inventing

B. Avoiding.

C. Controlling.

D. Making.

Some people surveyed tasted the sweet, salty and crunchy together with other tastes of food as they listen to different noises.It shows that louder noises reduced the reported sweetness or saltiness of food while incr eatasing the measure of crunchiness（松脆）.

It may go some way to explain Why airline food is widely complained about by both the workers and paddengers.Andy Woods,a researcher,said,“It's a general opinion that plane foods aren't fantastic,but I'm sure airlines do their best,so we wondered if there were other reasons,One thought was that perhaps the background noise may have an effect.NASA gives their space explorers very strong -tassting foods,because for some reason,they can't taste food that Strongly-^again, it may have something ti do with the background noise.”

In a studr ,48 people were fed sweet foods or salty ones, while listening tonoting or noise through earphone. Meanwhile they rated(划分等级) the foods. In noisier settings,foods were rated less or sweet than they were when it was silent,but were rated crunchier.“The evidence shows that if the background noise is loud,your food,

attention might be drawn to that, away from the food.” Dr. Woods said.

“We ae still at an early stage of progressing and this is a rather small study to really draw definitive(最完整可靠的）conclusions from,” Dr Woods said,“but they suggest that restaurants could well their choice of food for a given environment.”

Also in the group's findings there is the suggestion that the overall satisfaction with the food is also related to the degree to which people like what they are hearing .

1.How does the food taste when it is eaten m a noisy enviroment?

A. Less sallty but cronchier

B. Sweeter and saltier.

C. Sweeter but less crunchy.

D. Less sweet and crunchy.

2.Why does NASA give their space explorers very strong-tasting foods?

A. Foods become less tasty in space.

B. The explorers lose their sense of taste in space.

C. Loud noises in space may weaken The explorers' sense of taste.

D. the explorers need tastier foods to keep energetic in space.

3.what can we infer from what Dr. Woods said in the 4th paragraph?

A. The environment influences the food a restaurant sells,

B. The researchers have made an effective conclusion.

C. Music will weaken people's sense of taste while eating

D. Listening to nothing while eating is the test choice.

4.What would be the best title for the text ?

A. The best dinner environment

B. How to change p lane foods,

C. Listening to music while eating.

D. Backgrouned noise a fleets the taste of foods,

Thinking about a future career cm bung a lei of stress.1.This cuts up the question into workable issues that you and your child can enjoy dealing with throughout their childhood years.Here's how:

In your child’s lift, there are times when they are given the opportunity to see and/or diacuss a certain career Schools have Career Day. an aunt or uncle talks about what they do for a living or your child's youth group goes on a trip to a hospital und talks to the staff there.2.

When your Child shows interest in a certain career. you should do some research. Then, you can offer your child some information on that job and related jobs.3.It is a wondertul the online resoure.

Help your Child weigh the pros and cons for his or her different career interests. Encourage your child to narrow（缩小）the cboice down to five at the most.

4. This is a good time to begin ordering in college and technical school lists. Use the lists and any other information you have found as an ice breaker for more converasations with your child.

5. Make this a clear message.Teach your child that part of be ing independent is knowing when and who to lead on,trust and respect.

A.Do you fed you have open communication with your child?

B.The Occupational Oudook Handbook gives you what schooling is needed.

C. The final decision lies with your child, but you do have the right to have input.

D. Choosing the right career is one of die mm important decisions your child will make in life.

E. Figure out the path your child would have to take to obtain the schooling, for his career choices.

F. Each of these nines is an opportunity for you to ask your child what he thought of those jobs or that field of work.

G. Parents need to learn to help their child conquer this great question by dropping seeds of conversation as time goes by Bud watch them grow into ideas.

A Leap （跳跃）to Honor

Leapirg on a narrow balance beam( 平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Water. a 13-year-old gymnast is an expert at it.

To perfect her skills. Lola_____ for four hours a day, five days a week. At the slate championships in March，she finished seventh out of 16 girts. That's especially impressive. ___she is legaly blind, horn with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift (转移)canstantly. She offen sees double and can't___ how far away things are.

When she was little, her mom ___ even though she couldn’t____, she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the____right away and gymnastics became her favorite.

Though learning gymnastics has been more_____for her than for some of her tournaments( 锦际赛). she has never quit(放弃). She doesn’t let her____ stop her from doing anything that she warts to. She likes the determination (决心）it takes to do the sport. Her biggest __ is the balance beam. Because she has double vision , she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even clones her eyes. "You have to______your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go”, says Lola.

To be a top-level gymmast, one must be brave The beam is probably the most __ for anyone because it’s only four inches wide At the state competition, Lob didn 't____the beam, In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10 一 her highest scone yet.

Lola doesn’t waat to be ____, differently from the other girls un her team, At the competitions, the judges don’t know about her vision____. She doesn’t tell them, because she doesn't think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her _______altitude.

Loda never thinks about____. She is presently at level 7 while the highest is level 10 in gymnastics. Her____is to reach level 9.She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach 10____what she s learned to other kids when she grew up.

Lola is____of all her hard work and success. She says it has helped her overcome problems in her life

Outside gymnastics,too. Her __for others is “just be1ieve yourself ”.

1.A. runs B. leaches C. trains D. daneeft

2.A. since B. uritciab C. after D. ihDUgh

3.A. tell B. guess C. fancy D. pmlict

4.A. doubied B. remembered C. imagined D. noticed

5.A. deeply B. well C. ahead D. carefully

6.A. task B. sport C. event D. show

7.A. boring B. enjoyable C. difficult D. unsatisfying.

8.A. talent B. quality C. nature D. condition

9.A. doubt B. advantage C. challenge D. program

10.A. examine B. express C. open D. trust

11.A. fearful B. harmful C. unfair D. inconvenient

12.A. full down B. fall over C. fall off D. fall behind

13.A. greeted B. treated C. served D. paid

14.A. pains B. stresses C. injuries D. problems

15.A. positive B. friendly C. selfless D. devoted

16.A. defending B. quilting C. winning D. bargaining

17.A. standard B. ranga C. view D. goal

18.A. go through B. pass by C. hand down D. give out

19.A. proud B. tired C. ashamed D. confident

20.A. plan B. advice C. reward D. Responsibility

Panl Frederic Simon is u famous 1.(music), singer and songwriter. He was born on October 13, 1941 in the USA. It’s been more than half a century since he2. (write) his famous song The Sound of silence with his partner Art GarfunkeL They also adapted3.old English folk song Scarborough Fair,which is still popular all over the world now.

Recently Paul Simon released4.(the) latest album Stranger to Stranger and received excellent reviews. And Wristband，which is one of the songs from the album, is often played on college radio.

5., Simon is ready to hang up his guitar and stop 6.(make)music. “Show busing dewsn’t hold any interest for me,” said the 74-year-old man.

Simon is planning7.(begin) a month-long Lour of Europe on October 17, shortly after his 75th birthday. After that, he’s going to travel for a year, perhaps8.his wife, It’s an act of courage to let go, ” said Simon. “I am going to see9. will happen if I let go. Then I’m going to see who I am.”

If he does quit music. Simon will bring a great career to s close, which has spanned sixty years lie has won more than a dozen Grammys and produced a lot of10. (came)songs.Paul Fredric Simon has been named by Time Magazine one of the “100 Peaple Who Shaped the World”,

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10 处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加；在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改；在错的词下划一满线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：

1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Dear Sir，

Thank you for invite me to the summer English course in your school. As for your choice between the two courses, prefer the four-week course because of this will allow me more time to do sora traveling and make a few mw friends. Of all the subject I’m teaming at school, I like English best. I had been learning English for eleven years but my spoken English remains poorly, So I real hope to take this chance to improve it. If possible, I’d like to slay with a family for a couple of days in order that I can knew some customs in England- what I’m particularly interested in,I believe I will have wonderful time this summer.

YouR truly,

Grace

假设你叫李华，你的一个朋友John刚从美国归来，邀请你参加本周日在他家举办的朋友聚会，但你不能参加，请你根据以下要点给他写以封电子邮件：

1.表达想参加的意思；

2.忙于准备考试；

3.由于感冒，身体不适；

4.表示歉意并另约时间。

注意：可适当添加细节以使行文连贯；字数100字左右，开头和结尾已给，不计入总词数。

Dear John,

I’m extremely sorry to tell you that I am unable to go to your party this Sunday.

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Yours truly,

Li Hua

Both of us have cars. Whom would you rather ________, John or me?

A. have go B. have to go

C. to go D. going

---I usually go there by train.

---Why not ________ by ship for a change?

A. to try going B. trying to go

C. to try and go D. try going