Choose the right answer according to the passage.

1.According to Passage A, which sentence is right?

A. Yuan Longping is "the Grandfather of Rice".

B. Yuan Longping was born in 1932.

C. Yuan Longping helped only one country grow more rice.

D. A new kind of rice of developed by Yuan Longping.

2.If you want to write a true event about the Olympics, you can read ______ for information.

A. Passage A. B. Passage B.

C. Passage C. D. Passage D.

3.The best title of Passage D is ______.

A. A Birthday Boy/Girl

B. A Birthday Party

C. A Secret

D. An Invitation

4.What is the second cheapest way to travel from New Yok to Los Angeles?

A. By coach. B. By plane

C. By train D. By car.

5.What is Maggy?

A. A student. B. A teacher.

C. A doctor. D. A policeman

American schools are quite different from those in China. In America, at the beginning of the term, students must select their subjects and teachers first

Selecting is very important for your grades in America. So at the first term, don’t select too many subjects,.or you’ll feel very nervous and it may influence your study. Then you have to ask for some teaching plans. There is some information about subjects, timetables, marks and textbooks. At the same time, you must choose the teachers. Different teachers have different teaching methods. If the teacher is called “killer” by the last grade, many students will give up choosing him. Because this kind of teacher will leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.

There is another thing after you select the subjects and the teacher. How to buy textbooks makes each student feel hard. The textbooks in America are very expensive. Each one is about $30-50. In order to save money, many students buy some used textbooks, and some students usually borrow textbooks from the school library.

In class, discussing is very important. The teacher encourages you to ask questions or show your own opinions. They don’t usually ask you to sit well. Instead they allow you to sit or stand everywhere you like.

Choose the right answer according to the passage.

1.What does underlined word "select" mean?

A. Choose. B. Like. C. Treat. D. Take.

2.According to the text, American students ______.

A. don't have to ask for teaching plans

B. don't have to choose teachers

C. would like to choose strict teachers

D. usually buy some used textbooks in order to save money

3.Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A. Students won't choose the teacher who leaves too much homework.

B. Students won't choose the teacher who leaves too many exams.

C. Students will choose the teacher who is called "killer".

D. Students won't choose the teacher who gives too low marks.

4.What is important in American class?

A. Reading. B. Writing. C. Discussing. D. Listening.

5.The passage is mainly about ______.

A. the differences between American and Chinese schools.

B. American schools.

C. the differences between American and Chinese students.

D. American school subjects.

Vocabulary

Complete the sentences with proper forms of the words given.

1.A big storm make it ______（possible） for us to go out.

2.James tried his ______（good）to solve problems in English.

3.So far, physics as well as other subjects ______（teach）in English.

4.We will go to senior high school in two ______（month）time.

5.Jay spends a lot of time ______（practise）singing.

6.I'm hungry. Give me something ______（eat）.

7.Betty ______（watch）television on every Friday evening.

8.--Who is that boy wearing a white hat?

--Ben, a friend of ______（I）.

9.How many ______（city）have you been to?

10.--Why are you ______（run）?

--Because I'm late for school.

Fill in each blank with a proper work with the help of the first letter.

Many wild animals, such as pandas, are in d 1. . Often there is not e 2. land or forests, so the animals do not have a safe place to live.

There are only about 1,600 pandas in the wild today. Pandas do not have many babies, and baby pandas often d 3. . The situation is getting more and more difficult. We need to p 4. them.

The government is s 5. up nature parks and the pandas live in peace there.

Apple's first watch can not only tell you the right time, the smart watch also has a set of technology that can collect a lot of health data（数据）. When you have been sitting for too long, it will "hit" you on the wrist（手腕）10 minutes before the top of the hour.

"A lot of doctors believe that sitting is the new illness." Apple's CEO Tim Cook said.

Many workers used the Apple Watch first. Then, Apple started selling the Apple Watch in April 2015. "We have a lot of meetings and a lot of workers," Cook said, "and ten minutes before the hour, the watch will hit you and everybody will start standing up."

"It took some time to get used to, but it's actually really excellent." he said.

Users have the chance to share their health data with doctors. And people believe it makes them healthier.

Answer the questions according to the passage.（必须使用完整语句作答）

1.Besides telling you the right time, what can the smart watch do?

2.What do a lot of doctors think about sitting?

3.When did Apple start selling the Apple Watch?

4.According to Cook, what will everybody do when the watch hits you?

5.Do users have the chance to share their health data with doctors?

假如你是初四（二）班班长王明，你收到了学生会发来的邀请卡，请你根据卡片的内容向班级同学说明该项活动的情况并鼓励大家踊跃参加。（字数要求：30-40词）

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友谊是幸福的源泉之一。请你写一篇短文，要点如下：

1.叙述一件你和好朋友之间发生的事情；

2.表明这件事情中你在他（她）身上学习到的品质。

注意：1.词数80词左右；

2.不得出现真实的人名，校名等相关信息。

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---Kate, are you only child in your family?

---Yes, but new baby is on the way.

A. a; the B. an; the C. the; a D. the; the

--Are you going out with Jade tonight?

--That's my . Mind your own!

A. offer B. business C. question D. chance

--- What a bad day!

--- Everyone has one of those days When goes right.

A. nothing B. anything

C. everything D. something