Wangwang is brown and grey. He is naughty(淘气的). He sometimes steals(偷) food in the kitchen. Once, when there was nobody at home, Wangwang pulled (拉) a piece of meat off the table. But he was not careful enough . The plate also fell to the floor. When I got home, I saw the broken plate all over the floor, so I became very angry. Wangwang was so afraid that he went back to his bed in the garden at once.

Huahua is a white and yellow cat. She is not beautiful but she is very lovely. Every night at weekends, Huahua sleeps on my bed. When she sleeps, she always snores. It is very funny.

Huahua is also naughty. Whenever she does something bad and my grandma tries to catch her, she runs away quickly and hides quietly under the bed.

Wangwang and Huahua love to play games with me and I like them very much.

【1】How many pets does the writer have?

A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.

【2】What did Wangwang do when he pulled a piece of meat?

A. He pulled a plate to the floor. B. He ate a fish.

C. He pulled a piece of meat to my bed . D. He ate a big piece of meat.

【3】What colour is Huahua?

A. White and brown. B. Brown and grey. C. White and grey. D. White and yellow.

【4】What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word ―snore?

A. 呼吸 B. 打鼾 C. 跳跃 D. 摇头

【5】Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Huahua is a cat. B. Huahua is very naughty.

C. Wangwang sleeps on the writer’s bed every night. D. Wangwang and Huahua love to play games with the writer.

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Subject：Visit to China From：Jim

Dear Li Lin，

I feel very excited about my visit to the mainland and meeting you soon! But I’m still not sure about the following things.

1.When will you be free?

2.How can I get to your place?

3.What’s the weather like there?

4.What shall we do together?

Please let me know.

Yours，

Jim

Subject：Visit to China From： Li Lin

Dear Jim，

I am so excited that you’ll come to the mainland and stay with me for a week during the summer vacation.

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Looking forward to meeting you soon.

Yours，

Li Lin

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Have you ever taken a high-speed train—China Railway High-speed (CRH) Hexie Hao? It’s clean,【1】and fast, and it offers good service. At first, all trains were marked with “CRH”, and【2】that, it was changed to the Chinese characters “和谐号” on the centre of the head vehicles and the side of the walls of other vehicles.

Do you still have any idea about what the train【3】be like? Before, the trains ran at the speed of【4】50km/h.

It is quite slow. Besides, it was dirty because of the use of coal. However, the high-speed train was【5】China in 2004. China Railway High-speed (CRH) can run up to 380km/h. Now, people can travel from one place to another easily and quickly.

【题目】

【1】Which train(s) can people take at City Library?

A. Only Red Train. B. Yellow Train and Blue Train.

C. Only Blue Train D. Red train and Blue Train.

【2】Gary wants to go to the airport. He takes Yellow Train at High School. How many stations will the train stop at?

A. 4. B. 5. C. 3. D. 11.

【3】Lucy takes the train at Zoo. Which station is NOT on her way to Old Garden?

A. New Theatre. B. City Library.

C. Long Street. D. Green Park..

【4】Billy lives near City Library. He wants to go to High School. First, he takes Red Train. At which station should he change (换)the train?

A. New Theatre. B. Post Office.

C. Long Street. D. Green Park..

【5】If a man wants to go from New Theatre to Post Office, the trains he should take are:

A. Red Train Yellow Train Blue Train

B. Yellow Train Red Train

C. Red Train Blue Train Yellow Train

D. Blue Train Yellow Train

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa， Italy. He was the oldest of five children in a worker’s family. He enjoyed going to the sea when he was a young boy.

He heard that there was a lot of gold and other valuable things in East India. He wanted to find a short way to get to the Indies by ship. On August 3， 1492， he sailed toward the west from Palos， Spain with three ships. After many days， the sailors had covered a long distance on the sea and were ready to turn around for home when they saw land， an island Columbus named San Salvador. He thought he had found the Indies and called the people he saw there “Indians”. When they got to Cuba， he thought he was in Japan. The world was a lot larger than he thought.

In his life， he made four trips across the ocean. His 13-year-old son， Ferdinand， went with him during the last time. He returned to Spain in 1504. Columbus did not become rich as he had hoped. At the end of his life he only had a pension(退休金) the king and the queen had given him because he was the first to reach the New World. He died in 1506， still believing that he had found a new route to East India and that he had reached Asia.

Columbus didn’t get to school very much， but he learned to read and write Spanish during his travels. He also taught himself Latin because all the geography books were written in Latin. He is remembered by all not only for the New World he discovered， but also for the way he led for other explorers.

AN old man wanted to spade (铲) his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son was in prison (监狱). The old man wrote a letter to him:

Dear Son,

I won’t be able to plant my potato garden this year.

I’m just too old. If you were here, all my troubles would be over.

Love,

Dad

Shortly, the old man received this telegram (电报):

Dad, don’t dig up (挖) the garden! I buried (埋) the guns (枪) in it!

The next morning, some policemen showed up and dug up the entire garden. But they didn’t find any guns.

The old man wrote another note to tell his son what had happened. Soon he received a telegram:

Plant your potatoes, Dad. It’s the best I could do for you from here.

【1】Where was the old man’s son?

A. He was at home.

B. He worked in a prison.

C. He was in prison.

D. He worked in a police station.

【2】The old man couldn’t plant potatoes because__________.

A. he was lazy B. he was too old.

C. he didn’t have money. D. he was sick.

【3】The underlined word “Shortly” means _______________.

A. Soon B. Finally C. Later D. Slowly

【4】Which of the following is WRONG?

A. It was difficult for the old man to plant the potatoes.

B. The son buried the guns in the garden.

C. The son sent two telegrams to his father.

D. The policemen went to the old man’s house.

【5】From the passage, we know that____________.

A. The son was very clever.

B. The son killed someone.

C. The son didn’t love his father.

D. The police didn’t read the letter before they sent it to the old man.

【1】The longest event in August in Britain will last for ______.

A. 5 days B. 8 days C. 10 days D. 12 days

【2】If you are in the UK at the beginning of August, you can probably take part in ______.

A. Summer Bank Holiday

B. Great British Beer Festival

C. Edinburgh International Festival

D. Bristol International Balloon Festival

【3】What’s the Edinburgh International Festival about?

A. Food. B. Balloons. C. Art. D. Vacations.

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What exciting news! Shanghai Disneyland will open on June 16,2016. It will be the sixth Disney amusement park around the world because six is a 【1】l_________ number to Chinese people. As China’s first Disney theme park, it will provide 【2】t_________ with so much fun. It includes six theme parks, where the young and the old will find their dreams really come true. It begins 【3】s_________ tickets at 12:01 a.m on March 28. You can also book them 【4】e_________ online. As Walt Disney said Disneyland is 【5】c___________ as “the Happiest Place on Earth” and “a place for the young and young at heart”, so it will never be completed. It will continue to grow as fast as there is imagination left in the world.

An American education expert says many schools are spending too much time teaching the ―basics‖ – reading, math and writing. That might be different from what educators have been saying in America. But U.S. Education Secretary John King says children really need a well-rounded（全面的）education that includes music and the arts.

King spoke about his own education when explaining why schools need to teach more than math, reading and writing. His parents died when he was young. He said things in his house were frightening. It was his teacher in Grades Four, Five and Six – Mr. Osterweil – who helped him escape from his difficult life at home. Each day in Mr. Osterweil’s class, students would read a newspaper. The teacher took him and his classmates to the theater, the zoos and famous museums.

“Those were powerful, life-changing experiences,‖ King says. After he graduated from Harvard University, he took charge of New York State public schools from 2011-2015. ―I’m alive today, I’m doing the work that I do today because I had Mr. Osterweil during that period of my life,‖ King says. ―Students need to connect their studies to things that matter to them, such as music, if they want to become a thinker.‖

A 2013 report by UNESCO（联合国教科文组织）, says world needs people to be able to solve new and unusual problems now. It says arts can help students find those answers. In the report, UNESCO says teaching the arts in China, South Korea and Japan is different from that in many western countries. ―The educators in those three countries pay more attention on joyful experiences and children’s interests,‖ the report says. ―In the West, educators are more likely to connect the arts to reading, writing and math.”

Comparing countries is hard because they have different ways to define success. For example some people may think getting high marks in exams is success, while others may hold different views. A 2014 survey by the Program for International Student Assessment tried to compare how well countries teach children how to solve problems. It found Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and China with the highest scores. Singapore was the top one with a score of 562 out of 1,000. The average（平均的） score was 500. The United States had a score of 508, one point behind Germany.

So it may be worth rethinking what we should focus on in our class. The ―basics‖ is not the only part of education.

【1】 We can learn from the passage that __________.

A. King’s family life was warm and happy

B. King’s teacher focused on ―basics‖ more

C. educators in the West teach music for joy

D. arts can help students solvenew problems

【2】 The word “define” in Paragraph 6 probably means―_________”

A. get the pleasure of B. make full use of

C. give the meaning of D. take the place of

【3】 The writer probably agrees that______.

A. students need more than “basics”to learn

B. getting high marks in exams is success

C.education depends a lot on the hobbies

D. we need more time to learn “basics”