Last weekend,Lucy and I went to a park, where she discovered a track with large bumps( 凸块)and sharp turns. At the beginning, I thought Lucy was able to ride her bike along the track, but she quickly found that her bike was too low to the ground and kept getting stuck( 卡住) on top of the bump.

Lucy looked at me with fear because she was still a biking newbie. I tried to encourage her too, but really, I was thinking this is going to be a disaster . Not because I thought she would get hurt. More because I thought she wouldn’t be able to pick up enough speed to balance, then get really discouraged, and give up quickly. I imagined her throwing her bicycle to the ground and then crying all the way home.

However, I was only half right. Lucy did have a lot of trouble riding the bike. She couldn’t find her balance. She fell many times. At one point, she almost started crying because younger kids were getting angry that she was slowing everyone else down. But she did not give up. She kept picking herself up and trying again. She even took the bike off the track and into the main park to practice pushing off and picking up speed on a flat ground. When she felt more confident, she came back. Then she did it over and over again until she finally reached her goal of going around the whole track without falling once. Then she didn’t want to leave and everyone was cheering her on.

This was not a day that ended in a disaster. It was a day when Lucy learned that perseverance pays off.

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。

1.Why was Lucy taken to the park last weekend?

A.To play tricks on other kids. B.To discover balance.

C.To practice riding the bike along the road. D.To find her friends in the park.

2.What does the underlined sentence probably mean in Paragraph 2?

A.Lucy wouldn’t easily riding the bike and give up soon.

B.Lucy would scare to ride the bike and get discouraged.

C.Lucy would lose balance and slow the younger kids down.

D.Lucy would get hurt and cry all the way home.

3.What did Lucy take the bike into the main park for?

A.Feeling more confident and coming back. B.Achieving her goal of riding the bike at once.

C.Being encouraged on by everyone。 D.Getting practice in an simpler way.

4.Which one is the right order of the events?

①. Lucy fell and got up lots of times.

②. Lucy picked up speed on a flat ground.

③. Lucy found her bike was too low for the bumps.

④. Lucy rode her bike around the whole track without falling once.

A.③①②④. B.③②①④. C.①②③④. D.①③②④.

5.What can we most probably learn from Lucy?

A.Falling is not often in our life. B.Every one will be rewarded as long as keeping on.

C.Playing in the Park has fun. D.It is important to learn to ride a bike.

Bertie was sad for weeks, months after the lion died. There was nothing I could do to cheer him or even console (安慰) him. He would sit for hours in his room, or go off on long walks all on his own. He seemed so shut away inside himself, so distant. Try as I did, I could not reach him.

? Then one day I was in the kitchen here, when I saw him hurrying down the hill, waving his stick and shouting for me. “I’ve got it,” he cried, as he came in, “I’ve got it at last. ” He showed me the end of his stick. It was white. “See that, Millie?” “Chalk! It’s chalk underneath, isn’t it?”

“So?” I said.

“You know the famous White Horse on the hillside at Uffington, the one they carved out of the chalk a thousand years ago? That horse never died, did it? It’s still alive, isn’t it? Well, that’s what we’re going to do, so he will never be forgotten. We’ll carve The White Prince out on the hillside-he’ll be there forever, and he’ll be white forever too. ”

“It’ll take a bit of time, won’t it?” I said.

“We’ve got plenty, haven’t we?” he replied, with the same smile he had smiled at me when he was a ten-year-old boy asking me if he could come back and mend my kite for me.

? Every spare hour we had, we were up there scraping (刨土) away with spades (铲子), and we had buckets (桶) to carry away the earth. It was hard, back-breaking work, but it was a labour of love. We did it, Bertie and I, we did it together-paws, claws, tail, mane, until he was complete and perfect in every detail.

?It was just after we’d finished that the butterflies first came. We noticed that when the sun comes out after the rain in the summer, the butterflies-Adonis Blues, they are, I looked them up-come out to drink on the chalk face. Then The White Prince becomes a butterfly lion, and breathes again like a living creature.

? So now you know how Bertie’s white lion became The White Prince and how The White Prince became our butterfly lion.

(Adapted from The Butterfly Lion)

1.The sentence “It took the next twenty years to do it.” should be put at the beginning of one paragraph. Where should we put it?

A.? B.? C.? D.?

2.The underlined word “he” in Paragraph 4 refers to (指代) ________.

A.Bertie B.butterfly C.the White Horse D.the white lion

3.The correct time order of the events about the story is ________ .

a. The lion died and Bertie was sad.

b. Butterflies flew to the chalk face.

c. Bertie decided to carve the lion on the hillside.

d. Bertie and Millie spent all the spare time carving.

A.a-d-b-c B.a-c-d-b C.d-a-b-c D.c-b-a-d

4.Millie told the story to express ________.

A.how much Bertie loved the lion B.how Bertie cheered up

C.how much Bertie loved the horse D.how Bertie carved the lion

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。

Dear boys and girls, as we all know that all of you have got the chance to study online because of the serious situation around China. How exciting it is for many of you guys! 1., along with the excitement, you may meet some problems like spending too much time playing games while having online classes and so on. These problems might make 2. impossible for you to study well. So what can we do to improve our online studies? Here are some pieces of advice for you.

Ensure a good connection

To me, the biggest headache about studying online is the poor quality of my Internet connection. 3. one of my online classes, I couldn’t hear my English teacher’s voice and I had to reconnect. It wasted lots of time. Since then, I have checked my network before class every day and asked other family members not to use the 4. while I’m having a class. (Zhao Yuchen, 13, Beijing )

5. your time properly

Studying at home has made it hard for me to plan my time. I had a hard time planning my course timetable at first. Planning 6.of time and creating a study calendar is very important. You need to estimate (估计) how much time each task will 7., review your class content(内容), ask questions and take notes, and make a to-do list before doing your homework. These are all good ways to help us learn better online. (Lin Xiyu, 14, Shanghai)

No distractions(分心)

Online learning takes strong self-discipline (自律) and willpower. There are lots of distractions while studying at home. My mom likes to offer me snacks and drinks, which sometimes distracts me from listening during my classes. I have asked her to stop interrupting (干扰) me while I’m studying. A 8. room and clean desk can help us pay full attention to what we do. (Zhang Penghui, 15, Heilongjiang)

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