A group of people asked this question to a group 4-to-8-year-old children. “What does love mean?” The answers were surprising. The children would answer like they did below.

“When my grandmother hurt her knees (膝盖), she couldn’t bent (弯腰) over and paint her toenails (脚指甲) any more. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands hurt too. That’s love.”

Rebecca–age 8

“Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don’t shout at them because you know it would hurt her feelings.”

Samantha–age 6

“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.”

Terri–age 4

“I let my big sister pick on (捉弄) me because my mum says she only picks on me because she loves me. So I pick on my baby sister because I love her.”

Bethany–age 4

“I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new clothes.”

Lauren–age 4

“Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.”

Elaine–age 5

“My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.”

Clear–age 5

“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.”

Jessica–age 8

1.The passage mainly tells us about ______.

A. what “life” means to children B. what “family” means to children

C. what “friends” means to children D. what “love” means to children

2.Who told us the love between mum and dad?

A. Clear. B. Elaine. C. Rebecca. D. Lauren.

3.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Rebecca’s grandmother ever couldn’t bend over.

B. Bethany is willing to be picked on by any other person.

C. If Samantha becomes angry, she will not shout at others.

D. Lauren prefers to wear her sister’s old clothes.

4.What does Jessica mean about love?

A. Too much love is no love. B. You should say love more often.

C. You mean what you think. D. Say love more often if you have it.

5.What is love according to Terri?

A. Love is the care between husband and wife.

B. Love is a rest when you are tired.

C. Love is what cheers you up when you are tired.

D. Love is a kiss from parents.

Donna Ashlock, a 14-year-old girl from California, was very sick. She had a bad heart. “Donna needs a new heart,” her doctor said, “she must have a new heart, or she will die soon.”

Felipe Carza, 15, was worried about Donna. Felipe was Donna’s friend. He liked Donna very much. He liked her freckles, and he liked her smile. Felipe didn’t want Donna to die.

Felipe talked to his mother about Donna. “I am going to die,” Felipe told his mother, “and I am going to give my heat to Donna.”

Felipe’s mother didn’t pay much attention to Felipe. “Felipe is just kidding,” she thought, “Felipe is not going to die. He’s strong and healthy.”

But Felipe was not healthy. He had terrible headaches sometimes. “my head hurts,” he often told his friends. Felipe never told his parents about his headaches.

One morning Felipe woke up with a sharp pain in his head. He was dizzy (眩晕的), and he couldn’t breathe. His parents rushed Felipe to the hospital. Doctors at the hospital had terrible news for them. “Felipe’ s brain is dead,” the doctors said, “we can’t save him.”

The parents were very sad. But they remembered Felipe’s words. “Felipe wanted to give his heart to Donna,” they told the doctors.

The doctors did several tests. Then they told the parents, “we can give Felipe’s heart to Donna.”

The doctors took out Felipe’s heart and rushed the heart to Donna. Other doctors took out Donna’s heart and put Felipe’s heart in her chest. In a short time the heart began to beat.

The operation was a success. Felipe’s heart was beating in Donna’s chest, but Donna didn’t know it. Her parents and doctors didn’t tell her. They waited until she was stronger; then they told her about Felipe. “I feel very sad,” Donna said, “but I am thankful to Felipe.”

Three months later the operation Donna went back to school. She has to have regular checkups, and she has to take medicine every day. But she is living a normal life.

Felipe’s brother John says, “Every time we see Donna, we think of Felipe. She has Felipe‘s heart in her. That gives us great peace.”

1.Felipe was worried about Donna because .

A. she had freckles

B. she was very sick

C. she would have a new heart

D. she had a sharp pain in her head

2.We learn from the passage that .

A. Felipe promised Donna to give her his heart

B. Donna needed a new heart instead of her own

C. the doctors asked Felipe’s parents to donate his heart

D. Felipe never told anyone about his terrible headaches

3.Donna knew nothing about Felipe’s heart until .

A. Felipe’s parents told her the bad news

B. the operation was going to start

C. she was well and strong enough

D. she went back to school

4.It is clear that .

A. Felipe’s brother often goes to see Donna in hospital

B. Donna can live a normal life without medicine

C. the doctors did several tests during the operation

D. the Carza have great peace because of Donna

5.Which of the following may probably be the best title for the passage?

A. The Gift B. The Operation

C. The Peace D. The Illness

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During the Warring States Period(475-22IBC), there was a man called Yue Yangzi. One day he saw a piece of gold on the road. He picked it up and ____ it home. But his wife was not ____ and said, “I hear that a great man doesn’t drink a thief’s water or accept alms(施舍物) .What do you think of the action of keeping others’ thing for yourself?” Yue Yangzi felt sorry ____ what he had done, so he put the gold back to the place where he found it.

The next year, Yue Yangzi decided to go to a faraway school to improve himself. A year later, he came back home _____. “Why have you returned?” asked his wife in surprise, “You’ve _____spent one year studying with scholars(学者们).” “I come back because I _____you very much.”

Without saying anything, his wife took a pair of scissors and went to the loom(织布机)at which she had worked. _____ the half done cloth, she said, “The cloth is woven from the best silk. Now _______ I cut it ,all my previous（先前的）work will be wasted. It’s the same as your ____.You can learn a lot only by working hard. Now, you’ve stopped half way. Isn’t it the same as cutting the cloth on the loom?”

Yue Yangzi was moved by ______she said. He again left home to visit scholars. Several years later he became a learned man.

1.A. bought B. took C. sent

2.A. happy B. surprised C. angry

3.A. for B. at C. as

4.A. successfully B. carefully C. suddenly

5.A. already B. only C. ever

6.A. worried B. missed C. believed

7.A. Thinking about B. Looking for C. Pointing at

8.A. if B. until C. unless

9.A. trip B. study C. business

10.A. how B. that C. what

If you are given only 1yuan, could you live in a city for one day? It seems this may be a little

difficult. But students from Xi'an did it.

On April 10, more than 60 students from a middle

school of Xi'an took port in the One Yuan Metropolis

Survival. Students not only have to live, but also have to

deal with a lot of hard tasks in this charitable(慈善的）

activity. It has happened in eight cities and is going to

four others, including Beijing, in May.

To make money, many students looked for part-time

jobs and experience how hard life was. Zhang Qiyue,14, asked more than 10 restaurants for a job

and finally got one chance. "We were upset when they said no. But gradually, we got used to it."

he said. After being a waiter for an hour, he got 25 yuan.

Some made use of their talents by singing and dancing in parks or shopping malls. Many

people who walked by took notice and helped them. Zhao Jiacheng,14, drew pictures and made

paper crafts (手工). "This showed it’s important to learn a special skill,” he said.

Living was hard, but finishing the tasks wasn't any easier. They went to different places to

finish tasks in a short time. The most amazing one was when they had to exchange things worth

thousands of yuan with only a piece of paper in half an hour. "We learned how to explain to others. From a balloon to a cake to a bottle of yogurt... after almost 20 tries, we succeed,” he said. They

will give all the money they made to poor schools in Tibet.

1.The students should in this activity.

A. be given enough money B. complete some easy tasks

C. live and finish difficult tasks D. give away their pocket money (零用钱）

2.To make money, students tried many things EXCEPT .

A. going to Beijing for work B. doing part-time jobs

C. giving talent shows D. drawing and making paper crafts

3.What did the students leant from (his activity?

a. Living was hard.

b. It was much easier to finish the tasks than living.

c. It was important to learn a special skill.

d. Success came from many tries.

A. abc B. abd C. bcd D. acd

4.What's the main purpose of this activity?

A. To let studens from different cities communicate with each other.

B. To teach students how to make money.

C. To develop students’ living skills and social responsibility.

D. To make students realize the importance of learning a special skill.

Beijing World Hotel

1.If you want to find a place to sing karaoke, you can go to .

A. Sports Club B. Lost Horizon C. Gourmet D. Brauhaus

2.According to the passage, Gourmet is a place where you can .

A. do many different sports B. visit during the daytime

C. buy something to eat D. buy anything you want

3.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. You can enjoy real German beers and meals in Brauhaus.

B. Sports Club opens from 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m..

C. Lost Horizon is on Ground Level of West Wing Building.

D. You can stay in Brauhaus from morning till night.

A photo of a boy who arrived at school with a

head full of icicles(冰柱）has drawn widespread

attention to children from poor rural families.

Wearing only a thin jacket, Wang Fuman,10,
 

had braved -9C weather to travel over an hour

from his village home to reach Zhuanshanbao

Primary School in Zhaotong, Yunnan province.

“After walking more than 4 kilometers through the freezing snow. he arrived with his hair and eyebrows completely frozen, causing laughter among his 16 classmates,” said Fu Heng, the

school’s principal, who uploaded(上传) Wang’s photos on Monday morning. Fu added that his

classrooms do not have heating because of a lack of money.

After hearing Wang's story, the Yunnan China Youth Development Foundation offered a public donation(捐赠) for children from poor families on Tuesday. It has promised to give each needy child 500 yuan ($75) to help them stay warm in winter. By 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the provincial foundation bad collected over 300,000 yuan in public donations according to their websites.

Wang, who has been nicknamed “Snowflake Boy”(冰花男孩）by netizen (网友),became

well-known online. By Wednesday morning, his picture had been 'liked" more than 260,000 times on Sina Weibo. “Many children in cities don't have the strong willpower of this boy. I hope all his efforts will be rewarded(回报),” a netizen wrote on Sina Weibo.

The name Fuman translates as “full of happiness”, but Wang does not come from a rich family. He lives in a mud hut(土坯房) with his grandmother and elder sister, and seldom sees his parents

because they are migrant workers in other cities.

“I love school. We can have bread and milk for lunch, and we learn lots of things in class,” Wang said. His village now has electricity and tap water, “and my family is getting help to build a

new house close to the school”, he said. “I think our life will get better.”

1.Why did Wang's classmates laugh when he came in?

A. Because they thought Wang was poor.

B. Because they wanted to laugh at him.

C. Because he appeared with a head full of icicles.

D. Because Wang was late for class again.

2.What did the netizens do according to the passage?

A. They took photos of Wang Fuman and uploaded them in time.

B. They expressed their support and admiration.

C. They promised to give each needy child 500 yuan.

D. They helped Wang return to school.

3.The underlined phrase “a lack of money” can be replaced “ ”

A. being short of money B. losing money

C. plenty of money D. saving money

4.What can we know from the passage?

A. the Yunnan China Youth Development Foundation offered a public donation for Wang Fuman on Tuesday.

B. Wang’s village doesn’t have electricity and tap water now.

C. Wang loves school just because he can have bread and milk for lunch.

D. The children got help quickly because of social love and convenient Internet.

Some scientists say that animals in the ocean are

increasingly threatened(威胁) by noise pollution caused by

human beings. The noise that influences sea animals comes

from a number of human activities. It is caused mainly by

industrial underwater explosions(爆炸) , ocean drilling, and

ship engines. Such noises are added to natural sounds.

These sounds include the breaking of ice fields, underwater

earthquakes, and sounds made by animals themselves.

Decibels (分贝) measured in water are different from those measured on land. A noise of one hundred and twenty decibels on land causes pain to human ears. In water, a decibel level of one hundred and ninety five would have the same effect（效果）.

Some scientists have proposed setting a noise limit （限度）of one hundred and twenty decibels in oceans. They have observed that noises at that level can frighten and confuse whales（鲸鱼）.

A team of American and Canadian scientists discovered that louder noises can seriously injure some animals. The research team found that powerful underwater explosions were causing whales in the area to lose their hearing. This seriously affected the whales' ability to exchange information and find their way. Some of the whales even died. The explosions had caused their ears to bleed.

Many researchers whose work depends on ocean sounds object to a limit of one hundred and twenty decibels. They say such a limit would mean an end to important industrial and scientific research. Scientists do not know how much and what kinds of noises are harmful to ocean animals. However, many scientists suspect that noise is a greater danger than they believed. It’s time for them to take action to help ocean animals.

1.Which of the following is not caused by human beings?

A. The noise of industrial underwater explosions.

B. The noise of ocean drilling.

C. The sound of underwater earthquakes

D. The noise of ship engines.

2.What does the second paragraph mainly tell us?

A. The same noise measures differently on land and in the ocean.

B. Different places may have different types of noises.

C. The noises can cause humans to lose hearing.

D. There are different kinds of natural sounds in the ocean.

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Powerful underwater explosions aren’t harmful to whales’ ears.

B. Many researchers are against the noise limit of 120 decibels.

C. Noises cannot cause whales’ death.

D. The noise limit of 120 decibels would hardly influence the industrial research.

4.According to the passage, we can infer that scientists will probably .

A. work hard to cut down natural sounds.

B. stop industrial and scientific research in oceans.

C. try their best to make no noise.

D. protect ocean animals from harmful noises.

第二节 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

These days people are crazy about Wu Dajing. 1. He broke his own

world record in men’s 500m short track speed skating(短道速滑)!

2.When he was young, he noticed two Chinese speed skaters on TV and then he decided to take up this sport. Wu smarted to learn to skate in 2004, and six years later he became a member of the national team.

On February 22, 2018. Wu won the men’s 500m short track speed skating with a time of 39.584 seconds and became the first Chinese man to win an Olympic short track gold. “3.

I’m happy to win China’s first gold here and I look forward to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics,” Wu said.4.

In fact, it is the first time Wu has shown his talent in skating.5. He has won many medals at many world championships (锦标赛). Wu believes that as long as he works hard, he will succeed.

A. Many people think he is really the “pride of China”

B. I did my best in the event.

C. He won second place in the same competition four years ago in Sochi

D. The young man won China’s first gold at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games.

E. Wu was born on July 24,1994 in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, China.

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。（请注明问题后的字数要求）

[1] I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra (额外的) help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools.

[2] My life improved greatly when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually became good at making things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence（自信）came along.

[3] I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. （68）I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it needed lots of practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.

[4] Later I decided to learn (69) ① to read and write. I practiced reading and(69)② , which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two years, I was literate(有文化的).

[5] Through the long process with art, (69) ③ , and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life: I am smart enough to dive into (潜入) an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

1.What made the writer’s school days difficult? (No more than 5 words)

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2.Why did art give the author confidence? (No more than 11 words)

_________________________________________________________

3.Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese.

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4.Fill in the blanks in the last two paragraphs with proper words.

①__________________ ②________________ ③_______________

5.What have you learned from the passage? (No more than 20 words)

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