How do students spend their spare time after finishing their homework? Watch TV, play computer games, or go outside to relax? Here’s a good example.
Tim and Kerry Meek are both teachers. They live in the UK with their two daughters: eleven-year-old Amy and nine-year-old Ella. Recently, the Meek family has become the focus of the whole country after they completed 100 different outdoor activities in one year.
The Meek couple didn’t want their children to spend all their free time in front of the TV and become “couch potatoes”. So about one year ago, the Meeks decided that watching TV and playing computer games were not permitted . Instead, they set 100 tasks for the two girls to do outside. Although Mr. and Mrs. Meek are not outdoor activity fans, they took part in all the activities to encourage their daughters. It turns out that the two sisters really had a good time joining activities.
Every holiday and weekend, whether it’s sunny, rainy or snowy, the Meeks’ would set off to try the activities on their list, including hiking, sailing, climbing , skiing, and so on. The two little girls not only had a wonderful time, but also learned a lot of skills from the activities. They were even able to stand up in front of their school to give a talk for charity. “Our friends spend a lot of their free time doing things which are harmful to their health. Luckily, we’ve had the chance to experience something different.” Amy and Ella also helped their parents to draw up a new list of challenges for the next 12 months.
【小题1】请用中文出现的词语将下列句子补充完整，使句子意思连贯。
As a student, you should do more outdoor exercises in order not to__________________.
【小题2】Why did the Meeks become the focus of the UK?
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【小题3】When did the Meeks go out to do the activities?
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【小题4】请将稳中划线句子翻译成汉语。
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【小题5】Please tell us what you have learned from this passage with two sentences in your own words.
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Maybe you're wondering how we spend our free time in the year 2059, so I, ll tell you what I did last weekend.

On Saturday morning, I stayed in bed until 11 o’clock, when my mother woke me up. “Wang Mang! Get out of bed, you lazy little pig!” she said. “You can’t lie in bed all day, and you’ve got homework to do, haven’t you?” Were mothers so annoying fifty years ago?

Anyway, I got out of bed and asked the robot to make me a quick brunch—hamburger and French fries. But the robot said, “Sorry, Mang. Your mother says I can only give you hamburgers 3 times a week, and you had 2 hamburgers yesterday. Fast food is not healthy. I suggest you have some of the dumplings I made yesterday. Or perhaps some fruit salad” You see, my mother has programmed the robot to stop it giving me the things 1 really want to eat. I feel like a prisoner (囚犯）！

After finishing my brunch, I got out my homework pad. The pad looks like a piece of paper, but it’s actually a computer. We don’t use paper much any more. Paper books are really expensive, so we usually buy cheap computer books.

I had to do my math homework on Saturday. We never need to use math in our daily lives—computers solve all the math problems for us. But our math teacher says that if people stop studying math, they’ll forget how to think and become like vegetables. Well, I want to be a vegetable. I hate math!

56. The underlined word “brunch” in the third paragraph means           .

A. breakfast and lunch    B. breakfast with milk

C. lunch with coffee      D. lunch and dinner

57. Wang Mang says he feels “like a prisoner” because          .

A. he is completely controlled by the robot           B. he has to get out of bed too early

C. he doesn’t know how to use the robot             D. he isn’t allowed to eat what he likes

58. One difference between the year 2059 and today is that          .

A. computer books are cheaper than paper books

B. children aren’t allowed to eat fast food

C. students have to do homework at the weekend

D. there is no paper in the year 2059

59. Wang Mang thinks that studying math is          .

A. interesting                 B. useless                      C. too hard                 D. too easy

60. Which can be the best title for the article?

A. A Day in the Future                                       B. A Modern Robot at Home

C. Paper Books V.S. Computers                          D. Math or Vegetables

Annie : Hi , Mary !    16    was your weekend ?

Marry : It    17   great. On Saturday morning , I went    18   .

Annie : Oh , that's a big supermarket . How was it ?

Marry : It's good. I bought(买) something  19 my cousin's son . He is only five years old .

Annie : Oh, really ?

Marry : Yeah, and I visited    20   on Sunday afternoon . The child is very cute .We have great    21    .What did you do during the weekend ,Annie ？

Annie :Our family  22  o the beach on Saturday morning . We went swimming and it was relaxing .

Marry : Mmm , that    23   interesting .

Annie :And24 Sunday evening we went to my grandpa's 25 birthday party .It was very great.

（  ）16.A. How        B. What             C. When       D. Where  

（  ）17.A. is           B. are               C. was        D. were 

（  ）18.A. to shop       B. shopping         C. shop        D. shoping 

（  ）19.A. to           B. with             C. for          D. /

（  ）20.A. he           B. her              C. his          D. him

（  ）21.A. time        B. fun               C. a fun         D. happy

（  ）22.A. go          B. goes              C. does        D. went

（  ）23.A. sound       B. sounds            C.  looks       D. goes

（  ）24. A. at          B. in                C. for          D. on

（  ）25. A. sixty       B. sixtyth             C. sixtieth     D. sixteenth