根据短文内容及首字母提示,填写所缺单词,并将答案填写在标号为 1-10 的相应位置。
People are different in the world. Some are open, while others are shy. Shy people feel comfortable when they are alone. In this way, they can s 1. some more time on their favorite activities. They often have some h 2. , such as reading books, writing poems. In the following lines, we will o 3. you a number of ways to meet new friends.
Go Online
it is easy and quick to get to know people and make new friends o 4. . With some online chatting tools such as QQ, MSN, WeChat and Line, you can meet different people and they s 5. the same interests with you even if you live in a far-away place of the world.
Join a Club
The club is a place where you will meet a lot of people. What’s more, it will be easier for you to s 6. a talk with them, as you may have the same interest. Make new friends in your c 7. and plan some activities together in it. You will be able to begin a long lasting friendship with them.
Be a Part of Sports Team
Sports make b 8. your mind(心灵) and body full of energy. You might be able to get on well with your team members. If you enjoy playing any sport, joining a local team is a great idea to make new friends e 9..
Volunteer
Working with people is a nice way to make new friends. You will meet people of all ages as volunteering interests people, young or o 10. . This will give you the chance to make friends with them.
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Have you ever wondered what an American high school is really like? This article will describe a typical (典型的) high school and its students.
A typical American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about 1,500 students. Every student is given a locker. When students first arrive at school, they go straight to their lockers to put away or get their textbooks and to hang up their outdoor clothes. As American textbooks are expensive, students would rather loan(租借) than buy them. Students must pay back if they lost any of them.
American students have different types of school transport. They usually take a yellow school bus or walk to school if they live close enough. Sometimes their parents drive them to school. When they turn 16 years of age, most take a free driving class at school for one term. If students earn passing grades in the class and also pass their state driver’s exam, they can begin driving themselves to school.
Each day, students take six or seven classes. They must take science, math, English and social studies. They can choose art, homemaking, fashion design and other classes. In some schools students are required to take one or more of the following special classes: health education, physical education or foreign language studies. Students move to different classrooms for each subject. This is because each teacher has their own classroom. There is a five-minute break between classes, to give the students the time to hurry to their next class.
The regular school day usually ends early in the afternoon. After school more than half of the students are involved in after-school activities. These activities include sports-especially football, basketball, baseball and soccer or clubs, such as yearbook, speech, school newspaper, photograph or student government.
Title: 1. in an American High School
Outline | Details |
Introduction | ◇It gives an overview of a typical American high school and its 2. . |
Lockers and textbooks | ◇Every student has a locker for textbooks and 3. clothes. ◇They prefer loaning textbooks to 4. them. |
5. transport | ◇Students usually go to school by bus or on foot. Sometimes their 6.send them to school by car. ◇They can 7. themselves to school when they are over 16 and have passed the required tests. |
Classes and classrooms | ◇Students have to take main classes, elective classes and sometimes one or more8. classes. ◇They go to 9. classrooms for each subject. |
After-school activities | ◇After school most of the students take 10. in their faviourite activities, including sports and clubs. |
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During the 2014 YOG, not only players but also volunteers impressed us a lot this summer. It is reported that more than 20,000 volunteers took part in the 2014 YOG in Nanjing and they have another name-Little Green Lemon. Green is the colour of growth and youth, while lemon has the same sound as Ning, another short name of Nanjing.
It’s a pity that not everyone could be a Little Green Lemon, but we can volunteer to help others in many different ways.
The traditional way is to donate free time to help people in need. Volunteers visit homes for the elderly and orphans (孤儿), or care for homeless people. We can also volunteer to plant trees, pick up rubbish and clean neighborhoods. In Shenzhen, some school students volunteer to teach sick children. Their classes include painting and learning numbers.
Unlike traditional volunteering, skill-based volunteering needs volunteers to learn about the job or have special lessons for it. They can use their skills to make a difference. For example, in China many children volunteer to become guides in museums. They receive history lessons so that they can tell old stories of the museums to visitors.
Although volunteering takes up our time and can be difficult sometimes, it shows our care for others and changes the way we look at ourselves. Sometimes it’ s easy to worry about grades or get angry because we don’ t have the most expensive sneakers (运动鞋). Volunteering gives us a chance to think about what we have, and the truly important things in our life. Maybe this is the reason why more and more people would like to be volunteers.
1.What might be the title of the passage?
A. Little Green Lemon
B. Volunteers in the YOG
C. Different Ways of Volunteering
D. Skill-based Volunteering
2.According to the passage, which of the following is not the traditional way of volunteering?
A. Visiting a home for the elderly.
B. Cleaning up the neighborhood.
C. Taking care of homeless people.
D. Being a guide in Nanjing Museum.
3.What do skill-based volunteers need to do?
A. They need to have history lessons and have some special skills.
B. They need to learn more about the job or have lessons for it.
C. They need to have a lot of money and they are willing to donate it.
D. They need to have skills to plant trees and clean up the museum.
4.Which of the following statements is wrong about volunteering according to the passage?
A. People can volunteer to help others in many different ways.
B. Volunteering gives us a chance to think about what we have.
C. We can volunteer to plant trees, pick up rubbish and clean neighborhoods.
D. People can use their skills to make volunteers different.
5.Why do people attend volunteering activities according to the passage?
A. Because they don’t have the most expensive sneakers.
B. Because they can learn the truly important things in lives.
C. Because they can donate plenty of money to help people in need.
D. Because they can have special lessons to learn more about the world.
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Seven years ago, Starbucks closed a shop in Beijing’s Forbidden City after a well-known TV host talked about if the US coffee fits into the old Chinese building.
Five years later, Starbucks seemed to regain its confidence(自信). It opened a shop beside Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou with more than 1,600 years of history. People started to talk about it online. They were not sure if the coffee business would do bad to this old temple(庙).
Some people still think that the Starbucks shop should not be opened near temples. They think it is not only a coffee shop, but a cultural invasion(文化侵略). Let us take a look at the practices in other countries. In the Forbidden City of South Korea, Gyongbokkung Palace(景福宫), there are no food or drink stores, except the food-selling machine at the gate. In Japan, the place of interest may be taken away from the list of country’s treasure if it brings in modern shops.
However, many old sights in China try to look for a balance(平衡) between traditions and business. As for Nanjing, the Starbucks shop near the Confucius Temple has been there for years. Visitors are used to enjoying the sights and the coffee at the same time. The shop here plans to meet the need of growing numbers of foreign and younger Chinese visitors. There may be more win-win deals in the future like this.
1. What is the reading passage mainly about?
A.How Starbucks has grown.
B.Starbucks and temples.
C.What Starbucks makes.
D.Traditions and business.
2. According to the passage, what happened in 2012?
A.A Starbucks shop closed in Beijing’s Forbidden City.
B.Starbucks opened a shop beside Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou.
C.Starbucks opened a shop beside the Confucius Temple in Nanjing.
D.A Starbucks shop closed in Gyongbokkung Palace.
3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Starbucks is sure to bring bad to old temples a lot and changes them.
B. People think Starbucks is only a coffee shop and it has nothing bad.
C. In South Korea, there are many coffee shops in Gyongbokkung Palace.
D. In Japan, places may be out of the list of country’s treasure for modern stores.
4. What do many old sights in China try to do?
A. They try to keep all the business shops away from the old sights.
B. They try to open business shops without doing bad to old sights.
C. They try to open more business shops to make more money.
D. They try to keep in the list of country’s treasure without opening shops.
5. What is the meaning of regain in paragraph 2 in the passage?
A. 恢复 B.得到
C. 反复磨练 D. 失去
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1. Amy and her twin brother both want to take part in the competition. How much should they pay in all?
A. None. B. 20 yuan.
C. 40 yuan. D. 60 yuan.
2. Which of the following planes can take part in the competition?
A. A 29-centimetre-long plane with wings and a body.
B. A plane which needs to be thrown before taking off.
C. A plane made all by parents.
D. A plane made of paper and cloth.
3. If you want to join in the competition, when should you hand in your application form and money?
A. 26 November. B. 25 November.
C. 20 November. D. 28 November.
4. Bill’s plane didn’t look interesting. But, it stayed in the air for longer time than the others. Which award did Bill win?
A. The most interesting design.
B. The best looking plane.
C. The plane flying the farthest.
D. The plane flying the longest time.
5.Where can you most possibly see the reading material?
A. In a dictionary. B. In a story book.
C. On a notice board. D. In a library.
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Nasreddin woke up in the middle of the night and saw something white in his garden. It seemed to be moving towards the house.
That is a thief(小偷)! He thought, and he took his gun and shot(开枪) at him. Then he went back to bed, because he was too frightened(害怕) to go out of the house in the dark.
The next morning Nasreddin went out and saw one of his white shirts hanging on the clothes-line in the garden, his wife had washed it the day before and hung it out to dry. Now it had a bullet- hole(子弹洞)right through middle of it.
My God, said Nasreddin, I was lucky last night. If I had been wearing that shirt, the bullet would have killed me! And he called his neighbours together and asked them to thank God for saving him.
1.At midnight, Nasreddin saw in his garden.
A. something strange B. a thief
C. something white D. a ghost
2.Nasreddin was so frightened that he .
A. cried out for help
B. dared(敢)not go out of the house.
C. dared not stay in his house
D. couldn’t say a word
3.The next morning Nasreddin found .
A. his wife in the garden
B. the clothes-line
C. the thief dead
D. a bullet-hole through the white shirt
4.Nasreddin was a man.
A. kind B. cheerful C. foolish D. clever
5. He called his neighbors together in order to .
A. make a speech B. tell the story
C. thank God D. thank you
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House For Sale
Red Rose Garden, Pudong
3-story home, 509 sqm total (总的) land area, 428.8 sqm built-in, 312.2 sqm garden. Asking
RMB 13 million (USD 1.57 million).
MP:13761973547 Tel: 021-58609228 Fax: 021-58609728
Job Wanted
Cherry, 24, a shining girl, good at oral English and Putonghua. Now I am working at an international trade (国际贸易) company in Guangzhou. I am kind-hearted, hard-working and healthy, and would like part-time weekend work offering Putonghua lessons to foreign friends. If you are interested, please email me at cherrylf@hotmail.com.
Beijing Snow World Ski Park
Price: 18 yuan (ticket), 50 yuan / hour on weekdays and 70 yuan / hour on weekends, 120 yuan/four hours on weekdays and 190 yuan/four hours on weekends.
Tel:010-69191617
1.If an Australian student wants to learn Chinese, he or she can ______.
A. call 021-58609228
B. fax 021-58609728
C. email cherrylf@hotmail.com
D. telephone 010-69191617
2.How many square meters is the garden of the house for sale?
A. 509 sqm. B. 428.8 sqm.
C. 312.2 sqm. D. 80.2 sqm
3. Where is Cherry working now?
A. Shanghai. B. Guangzhou. C. Beijing. D. Pudong
4.If he goes skiing on ______ in Beijing Snow World Ski Park, Nick has to pay more money than on Tuesday.
A. Sunday B. Friday C. Wednesday D. Monday
5.If you want to ski for four hours on weekdays, how much money will you pay at least?
A. 138 yuan. B. 200 yuan. C. 208 yuan. D. 280 yuan
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Do you know what color will be popular in the future?
Some people think blue will be popular because blue means peace and kindness. Everybody in the world hates war(战争). Blue will make people remember to keep the world peaceful.
Other people think green will be popular because they think green is the color of nature. Now the environmental problem is very serious. People in the world are thinking more about how to look after the environment. When people wear green clothes, they will keep the environment in their hearts and try to make the environment better.
Yellow will be another popular color.Why will it be popular? People are very busy these days because they have a lot to do.Yellow is a soft color and it can make people feel relaxed.
Most people think black will be the most popular color.It always looks cool, and men often show off their social positions(社会地位)by using this color.
阅读这篇短文,根据短文内容回答下列问题。
1.Do people think blue means war?
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2.Why do some people think green will be popular?
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3.What can yellow make people feel?
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4.Which color is chosen by most people?
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5.What does the passage mainly talk about?
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The sun is huge, hot and bright. It is important because nothing can live without it. The sun gives us light and heat(热量).
All living things need light and heat from the sun to live. Plants need light and heat to grow. They use the light from the sun to make food. We can not make our own food, but plants can. All the food we eat comes from plants in a food chain(链) and it starts with the sun. For example, animals need sun-light, too. Just like us, their food comes from a food chain. The food chain begins with the sun and the plants.
Sunlight means we can see during the day. If there was no sun, it would be dark all the time. Even when the sky is cloudy, the sunlight is very strong and it shines(照耀) through the clouds.
1.What are the two main things the sun gives us?
A. Light and heat B. Heat and eggs
C. Corn and light D. Wheat and bread
2.Why can we still see during the day when it is cloudy?
A. Because we can see all day and all night.
B. Because the sun can’t give us light all day long.
C. Because the sun light can shine through the clouds.
D. Because we can’t see at night.
3.All the food we eat comes from ________. And it starts with the ________.
A. plants; earth B. a food chain; sun
C. food; sun D. plants; star
4._______ can live without the sun.
A. Men B. Potatoes C. Wheat D. Nothing
5.What does the passage mainly(主要地) talk about?
A. Plants. B. A Food chain.
C. Living Things. D. The Sun.
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Long, long ago, there was a man. He lived in a village. One day, he went to a market and did some shopping. He suddenly found two boxes. Both the two boxes were very beautiful and the man loved them. So he bought the two boxes and took them home.
He looked at the boxes. He didn’t know how to use the boxes. He thought it over and decided to do something special. He decided to put all of his happiness in the yellow box and all of his sadness in the black box. He thought that it was funny to do that.
A few days later, the yellow box was very heavy, but the black box was still light.
He didn’t know why. He decided to open the two boxes and found out the truth. He opened the yellow box and found nothing. Then he opened the black box and saw a hole (洞)at the bottom(底).
1.Where did the man buy the two boxes?
A. In a market. B. In a small store.
C. In a big store. D. In a bookshop.
2.He put his happiness into________.
A. the red box B. the yellow box
C. the black box D. the white box
3.A few days later, the black box was_______.
A. big B. heavy C. light D. small
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The man lived in a big city.
B. The man didn’t find the truth.
C. The man threw the boxes away.
D. There was a hole in the bottom of the black box.
5.What’s the best title(题目)of the passage?
A. The Yellow Box. B. A Good Market.
C. A Silly Man. D. Two Boxes.
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