Do you think that living a hungry life is last century’s story? Well, it may be this century’s headline.

The world has growing about a global food shortage. Right now, there are still 870 million hungry people in the world, according to a survey of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Children can’t this, either. Around fifteen million children die of hungry each year.

What’s causing food shortages? There are several .

There are now more droughts and floods. This is very to farmers and their ability to grow food.

Besides, with the growing , feeding everyone becomes more difficult. There are a little more than seven billion people in the world. By 2050, the world population will be more than nine billion.

Another reason is food waste. The average person throws away 50kg of food every year.

How can we help with food shortages? The easiest way is to on food waste.

Next time before throwing away the food on your plate, just think work has been done to make it. By buying less, we waste less. This takes the pressure off producing so much food. And it helps to solve the problem of food shortage.

You can also ask your schoolmates to join you.

In the early 2016, staff workers from the canteens of Xiamen No.1 High School put up short anti-waste slogans (标语) in dining rooms “Think Before You Waste”. Guess what happened? Students wasted fifteen percent food after that!

Let’s take action! We don’t need a huge activity to make a difference.

1.A. numbers B. thoughts C. worries

2.A. escape B. refuse C. have

3.A. results B. reasons C. clues

4.A. difficult B. harmful C. close

5.A. people B. population C. popularity

6.A. cut down B. cut off C. cut into

7.A. how many B. how much C. how

8.A. less B. fewer C. more

There was once a shepherd boy (牧童). He was famous for his wise answer to every question he was asked. The people in the country all knew his name.

On a sunny afternoon, when the king was talking with his people, he heard of the boy. He didn’t believe it, so he sent for the boy.

As the boy came, the king said to him, “I’ll ask you some questions. If you can answer them, you can live in this large palace with me.”

The boy asked, “What are the questions?”

The king said, “The first is: how many drops of water are there in the ocean?” The boy answered, “That’s easy. If you can have all the rivers on the earth dammed up (筑坝) until I have counted it, I’ll tell you how many drops there are in the ocean.” After hearing what the boy said, the king was satisfied.

Then the king continued, “The next question is: how many stars are there in the sky?” They boy said, “Give me a piece of white paper, please.” Then he made so many small points on it with a pen that it was impossible to count them. Then he said, “There are as many stars in the sky as there are points on the paper.”

The king was happy and said, “You’ve answered my questions wisely. Now move into my palace and live with me.”

1.The story happened on a .

A. sunny morning B. sunny afternoon C. windy afternoon

2.The king asked question(s).

A. one B. two C. three

3.The boy asked for to answer the last question.

4.We can learn that the boy was according to the story.

A. hard-working B. friendly C. clever

5. We can learn from the story that .

A. the boy gave the king the exact number to answer question one

B. the king was pleased with the boy’s answers

C. the boy made the king angry

1.There are subway lines in the picture.

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4

2.Gina is at Belmont. She wants to go to Baseball Field. She should changes lines at .

A. Grand B. Cliton C. Reno

3.Louis is going to Medical Centre from Damen. He should get off at the stop.

A. third B. fourth C. fifth

4.According to the picture, Stop is the nearest to Airport.

A. Damen B. Argyle C. Racine

5.To go to Airport from Youth Center, you should take subway lines in this order: .

A. Blue Line →Green Line → Red Line

B. Red Line → Green Line → Blue Line

C. Green Line → Blue Line → Red Line

Shakespeare is to literature in English, so is the poet Du Fu to the Chinese literary tradition. Du Fu, known as the Sage of Poetry, lived and wrote in the eighth century, and his work is still available to modern Chinese readers. Du Fu, in fact, is still widely quoted (引用) in China today, and he has had a great influence on Chinese poetry in the past 1,200 years. However, the poet’s complete works weren’t unavailable in English translation in the past.

Conant University Professor Stephen Owen, who spent eight years on The Poetry of Du Fu, a 3,000-page translation published by De Gruyter, has completed the first English translation of the complete works of Du Fu.

Because Du Fu, like Shakespeare, is known for great width — in subject, in the way he uses language to pass on different registers (不同场合用的语言和文体) (see “Out with the Sake, In With the Wine”) and layered (多层次的) meanings — he is one of the most challenging poets to translate. Chinese poetry, a literary tradition in which tenses are absent, pronouns rare, and the use of the singular and plural forms are hard to understand, is well known for seeming ambiguous (模糊不清的) at times. Within that tradition, the interpretation of Du Fu’s work is especially contested. Owen’s critical edition, in which his translations face the original texts, brings a scholarly aid for the first time to English-speaking readers ready to engage with China’s literary lion.

1.“Shakespeare is to literature in English, so is the poet Du Fu to the Chinese literary

tradition.” means “ ”.

A. Du Fu has the same important literary status as Shakespeare in their own countries

B. Du Fu is not as well-known as Shakespeare in China

C. Du Fu is much more famous than Shakespeare in England

2.The Poetry of Du Fu is translated into English by .

A. Shakespeare B. Du Fu C. Stephen Owen

3.The underlined sentence is closer to the original Chinese version “ ”.

A. 零落栖迟一杯酒，主人奉觞客长寿

B. 莫思身外无穷事，且尽生前有限杯

C. 花间一壶酒，独酌无相亲

4.Chinese poems are hard to translate because of the following factors EXCEPT .

A. the use of singular and plural forms

B. too many characters

C. tenses and pronouns

5.According to the passage, the following statement “ ” is TRUE.

A. The Poetry of Du Fu is the first English translation of the complete works of Du Fu.

B. There was no English translation of Du’s works in the past.

C. Du’s works are out of style in China today.

If you ever go to the US and eat at a restaurant, there’s a very important difference you should know about. US people have a custom to give money to waiters and waitresses as a tip for their work.

But why is this? Shouldn’t waiters get paid enough by their bosses? Well, many waiters and waitresses get paid below the US minimum wage (最低工资) and work for tips to make up for that. According to the American travel website TripAdvisor, some states pay their servers (服务员) only $2.13 (about 14 yuan) per hour.

While no one makes you tip, if you are at a sit-down restaurant, it is usually expected that you tip your waiter 15 to 20 percent of what your bill is.

It’s not just for waiters either. Hotel maids, hairdressers and taxi drivers also usually work for tips. But it is much more expected to tip waiters.

The US hasn’t always had this tipping culture. In fact, people were mostly against it until the Prohibition Era (禁酒令时代) in the 1920s. The government said no one could sell alcohol (酒). Then, restaurants had trouble making enough money. So they started to ask people to tip their waiters.

This tipping culture has lasted through the years, but most people don’t like it. Some think restaurant bosses use it as an excuse to not pay their workers well. There isn’t much action being taken to make a change yet. So for now, be sure to tip your waiter when in the US.

1.If a server works eight hours a day, he can get from his boss.

A. $2.13 B. $17.04 C. ￥14

2.Besides waiters and waitresses, also works for tips in the US.

A. customers B. taxi drivers C. restaurant bosses

3.When the restaurants couldn’t sell alcohol, .

A. they were bankrupt (破产的) and closed down

B. the bosses still made much money

C. they started to ask people to tip

4.We can learn from the passage that .

A. the waiters and waitresses aren’t well paid in the US

B. the custom of giving tips only appears in the US

C. all Americans are glad to tip their waiters

5.About American’s tipping culture, foreign visitors think .

A. they need to fight for their own rights

B. they should “do as the Romans do”

C. they can leave it alone

① Some days, don’t you think, “Wouldn’t it be nice if the laundry would just do itself?” Self-cleaning clothes may sound crazy. But Australian researchers have found a way to make something like this possible!

② A team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, found a way to put special nanostructuresinto clothing, which can then clean the clothes. When sunlight hits the nanostructures, they break down the dirt and stains (污渍) that don’t belong on your clothes.

③ The nanostructures don’t break down the actual clothing because cotton and the other clothing materials are too strong to be broken down. According to CNN, the researchers cover the clothing in a solution made of silver and copper (铜) nanostructures. All it takes is 40 minutes of sunlight and your clothes will look as good as new.

④ So if you spill on yourself during lunch, you can step outside for a walk, and it will be clean by the time you go inside. It not only makes your life easier, but it can also be good for the environment.

⑤ According to the US Department of Energy, the average load of laundry uses about 25 gallons (about 94 liters) of water. Water is a very important resource, so using less of it to wash clothes is better for the environment. But one of the scientists at RMIT University knows more needs to be done.

⑥ “There’s more work to do before we can start throwing out our washing machines,” said Dr Rajesh Ramanathan, “but this is a strong foundation (基础).”

⑦ So what’s the next step? Ramanathan wants to either start selling the solution by itself or convincing clothing makers to treat the clothing with the solution while clothes are being made.

1.According to the first three paragraphs, _____.

A. the nanostructures can break down dirt and stains on clothes

B. people can use the self-cleaning clothes on rainy days

C. the self-cleaning clothes easily wear out

2.The underlined word “solution” in Paragraph 3 means “ ” in Chinese.

A. 方案 B. 溶液 C. 水盆

3.Paragraphs ④ - ⑤ talk about .

A. what advantages the self-cleaning clothes have

B. what helps the self-cleaning clothes work

C. how the self-cleaning clothes work

4.From the passage, we learn that .

A. it’s time to throw out our washing machines

B. clothing makers like the solution

C. the solution is not on sale yet

5.The best title of this passage is .

A. Difficulties in clothes cleaning

B. Cleaning clothes gets easier

C. Steps to clean your clothes

根据对话情景,填入恰当的单词。

Kate: What does your father do, Jack?

Jack: My father is a teacher. How about your father, Kate?

Kate: My father is a doctor. He works in a 1. .

Jack: Then what are you going to be when you grow up?

Kate: I think I want to be a2. . I like to talk with people and write stories, and I do like

to interview famous singers and actors.

Jack: So maybe you can work for a3. or a TV station.

Kate: Either is OK, I think. Well, what about you, Jack?

Jack: I want to be a policeman. It’s an exciting 4. though sometimes it may be a little bit

dangerous.

Kate: Then you should 5. often because you must have a strong body.

Jack: Yes, madam.

根据情景提示，用恰当的短语或句子填空。

* 你把你的姐姐介绍给你同学Mario认识，会这么表达：

1. Mario, .

* 你想知道Henry每天早上几点上学，可以这样问他：

2.What time every morning, Henry？

* 同桌想知道你是否读过《金银岛》这本书，会这么问：

3. ?

* 班上的“学弱”向你咨询学习英语的有效方法，你会这么告诉他：

4.I study English .

* 英语老师想了解在刚刚过去的五一小长假你去了哪里，会这么问：

5. on May Day vacation?

段落编写

使用所给的词语，编写一个意义相对完整的语段。

提示词：favorite, educational, way, relax, prefer

要求： 1. 使用全部提示词，并在语段中用下划波浪线“ ”标出提示词；

2. 语段具有一个相对合理的主题意义；

3. 词数为 50词左右，最多不超过80词。

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短文写作

厦门市坑内社区居委会目前正在组织一系列志愿者活动，包括1. 帮扶该社区学困生；2. 探望“爱欣老人公寓”孤寡老人；3. 前往万石植物园（Wanshi Botanical Garden）进行保洁并制止游客不文明行为；4. 看望174医院病童等等。

请你根据个人情况，选择参加其中两项活动，谈谈你选择它们的原因以及你打算具体做些什么？短文的开头与结尾已给出。

要求：1. 词数80词左右，不包含所给开头和结尾；

2. 不得在文中出现真实校名或学生姓名。

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m a middle school student. I want to be a volunteer to help people.

Please call me at 0592-2666128. I’m looking forward to your reply.

Warm-hearted