How does a young dog or cat get to know a new home? The animal uses its nose. Right away it smells its new places. Then it makes wider and wider circles, smelling all the time. Before long it can find its way home very well, even in the dark. It simply follows something it knows well.

Stories happen about animals who found their way across land they had never smelled before. Take the case of Smoky, a small white cat. Smoky had some funny red hair around its right ear. One day Smoky and his owner began a long journey. They were moving from Oklahoma to Tennessee. When they were just eighteen miles from their Oklahoma home, Smoky jumped out of the car. Then he found his way back to the old house. There he wandered around outside for many days. Finally he disappeared.

A year later Smoky meowed at the door of a house in Tennessee. A man opened the door. “Is that you, Smoky?” he said in surprise. At first he couldn’t believe it. Then he saw the red hair around its right ear. It was Smoky!

1.What is the first thing a pet does in a new place?

A. It travels a long way.

B. It smells the new place.

C. It finds its way in the dark

D. It follows something it knows.

2.Put these events in the right order that they happened.

①Smoky got to Tennessee.

②Smoky jumped out of the car.

③Smoky went to his old house.

A.③①② B.①③② C.②③① D.③②①

3.What does the underlined word "wandered" mean in the passage?

A. 游荡 B.思考 C. 搜寻 D. 围绕

4.What is the best title of the passage?

A. A Kind Owner B. A Humorours Cat

C. A Surprising Journey D. An Excellent Memory

Who is smarter, human being or artificial intelligence(AI, 人工智能)？The question swept the world a few months ago. In March 2016, AlphaGo, an AI program developed by Google, had the Go(围棋) match with Lee Sedol, a South Korean Go player. He is the world top player of this old Chinese game.

In October 2015, AlphaGo became the first computer program to beat a professional(职业的) human Go player. And this time, it beat Lee Sedol 4-1.

In fact, before the match, most people believed that Lee would certainly be the winner, because they didn’t think that AI was good enough to beat the human mind. However, the result was disappointing. As a machine, AlphaGo would never get tired, while Lee Sedol was only a human and humans must have some weaknesses.

AlphaGo’s wins over a human champion(冠军) show that computers can do more difficult tasks. Some people may worry whether computers are now smart enough to beat us at everything. But scientists say that is not the case. Real life problems can be more difficult than the Go game. Thomas Johnson, a scientist of AI said, “It’s not hard to get a computer program to remember and produce facts. What is hard is getting computers to use knowledge in everyday situation. ” We believe we can use the technology of AI to improve the world.

1.The match between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol is mentioned at the beginning of the article mainly to_____________.

A. get the reader to think about AI

B. draw the reader’s attention to AlphaGo

C. show how AI is usually tested

D. tell the reader AI has over the human brain

2. What was the result of the match?

A. Google program beat AlphaGo.

B. Lee Sedol won AlphaGo 4-1.

C．Lee Sedol was beaten.

D．Neither side won the match.

3.—Why did most people believe Lee would be the winner?

—Because .

A. computers had weaknesses and also got tired

B. AlphaGo only beat a human Go player once

C. the Go game was invented by Chinese people

D. computers were not so smart as a human

4.What does Thomas Johnson probably agree with？

A. AI does better than humans in every situation.

B. It’s hard for AI to beat the human at everything.

C. The development of AI could be harmful one day.

D. AI should be used to help us make difficult decisions.

Joe was an old man. The 75-year-old lived very happily in a village and had a beautiful family. Joe had four grandchildren, and they visited him during their holidays.

During one vacation, Joe was preparing his home for the kids: cleaning and buying their favorite foods. After he finished working, he realized he lost his favorite watch. The watch was a gift from his wife when their first child was born. Joe loved the watch very much, especially after his wife’s death. He was very upset about losing it.

Once his grandchildren came, they promised him they would find the watch.

One granddaughter asked: “Grandpa, do you remember when you saw the watch last before it went missing?”

“I guess when I was cleaning the barn(谷仓)！” Joe replied.

The children looked for more than two hours with Joe, but they could not find it. The kids were now also sad, but they tried to comfort(安慰) their grandfather.

One grandson went back to the barn to search again. Joe asked why he was going there a second time. But the little boy just asked the others not to follow him and to remain silent.

He was there for about fifteen minutes and then rushed to his grandfather. He found the watch and happily gave it to Joe.

Joe was surprised and asked how he was able to find it. The little boy replied: “I sat there without making a noise, and the barn was so silent. After a few minutes, I heard the ‘tick, tick’ sound and found the watch.”

Joe hugged and thanked the little boy.

1. From Paragraph 2, we learn that Joe .

A. knew his grandchildren very well

B. liked doing housework very much

C. got tired of his grandchildren’s visits

D. looked forward to his grandchildren’s visits

2. Why did Joe feel upset when he found the watch was lost?

A. Because it was very expensive.

B. Because it was full of memories with his wife.

C. Because it was a gift from his first child.

D. Because it had been with him since he was born.

3. How did one of the grandchildren find the watch?

A. He cleaned the barn carefully again.

B. He searched the barn carefully for two hours.

C. He made no noise and followed the ticking sound.

D. He asked other children for help.

4.What does the story mainly tell us ?

A. Helping those in need can make you feel good.

B. We must learn to be silent and wait in order to help others.

C. Believe in yourself and you can surely succeed in the end.

D. Silence sometimes is more powerful than using your voice.

阅读还原。

阅读短文，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。每个选项只能用一次。

Have you seen the cartoons of two penguins(企鹅) on the Internet? They sit on either side of a small boat. They are friends, but each does something selfish（自私的） which causes their friend “ship” to sink(沉没).

1. It shows how much people value friendship and sometimes worry they may lose their friends. 2. A friend is someone to talk to about your deepest feelings. And with a good friend you will never be alone.

3. The key to protecting your friend “ship” from sinking comes down to three simple things: sharing, caring and communicating. Good friends like to share everything with each other. They share their snacks, they share their knowledge about schoolwork, sometimes they even share their clothes! 4. They do whatever they can to make their friends happy. But the most important part of friendship is communicating.

5. It also means that you keep in touch with your friends even though they may be in different schools or live far away. Without communication it is sure to send your friend “ship” to sink into the sea.

阅读填词。

阅读短文，并选择方框中的词或短语用适当形式填空，每个词或短语最多选用一次，有一项是多余的。

Thanks to the development of technology in the past few years, people now can read news on the Internet quickly. 1. holding a newspaper to read, some people prefer to get worldwide news on mobile phones, computers and so on. So, does it mean it is the 2. of information technology and newspapers will be replaced(取代)in the future?

On the one hand, many people believe that newspapers will be replaced. Online news 3. in a minute but newspapers can’t. So, by taking advantage of technology, people can connect 4. with the world in minutes. What’s more, many people prefer to read electronic news 5. they think it is not only fast but also cost little. Besides, using paper means cutting trees. Reading online news can 6. protect trees and save paper.

On the other hand, some people believe that newspapers will still exist(存在) in the future. Firstly, not everyone likes to read online news since some of them think it is bad for 7. . Secondly, the development of high technology is not spread 8. the world. The online services will only be 9. in developed countries, but not in some other developing or poor countries. So, people there may still read newspapers.

In short, although it is 10. that electronic news has developed quickly in the past years, newspapers still play a certain role in our modern life.

词语运用。

根据句子意思和音标、首字母提示填词，每空一词。

1.— What smells terrible?

—Sorry, I’ll take away my [?u:z] and wash them at once.

2. —Excuse me, where are the books that you bought yesterday?

— Oh, they are not [＇au?z]. We bought them for the students as presents.

3. —I think Tom has changed a lot these days.

—Yes. He’s not a boy. He [?sel? ?bre?t?d] his eighteenth birthday a week ago.

4.—What did Martin do just now?

—He took a piece of paper from an inside pocket and h it to me. But I found nothing on the paper.

5. —I have a headache and I can't move my neck. What should I do, doctor?

— Oh, nothing s . I think you should lie down and rest for a few days.

6.In order to create social trust, the Chinese government recently gave people lots of a______ on how to deal with an elderly person who has fallen down.

完成句子。

根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

1.Harry ___________ school yesterday. (be)

昨天哈利上学迟到了。

2.Mr. Wang is ill in hospital and now his daughter ______________ him. (take)

王先生因病住院了，他的女儿正在照顾他。

3. Many waste things ______________ a paper-like material. (turn)

很多废弃物能变成像纸一样的材料。

4.I have to tell you the truth, the writer ______________ most of his money to charity already. (give)

我只好告诉你真相，那位作家已经把大部分钱捐给了慈善组织。

5. The scientist calls on the world ______________ weather change as well as the protection of endangered animals. (pay)

科学家呼吁全球多关注气候变化和濒危动物的保护。

短文写作。

假设你是李雷,昨天你参与了学校值日。请写一封信向校长汇报你值日时的所见所闻，并提出改进建议。要点如下：

要求：1、可以适当发挥，信中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；

2、语言通顺，意思连贯，条理清楚，书写规范；

3、词数：80词左右。书信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Headmaster,

I was on duty yesterday.

Sincerely,

Li Lei

—Could you take out the rubbish and do the dishes，Tony？

—Sure，Mom will be mad if she sees this _________，I think．

A．matter B．mess

C．trouble D．difficulty

—What do you think of _______ Chinese teacher，Jim？

—She’s an excellent teacher，I’ve improved a lot since she taught _______ Chinese．

A．our；us B．our；our

C．ours；us D．ours；our