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What do you usually do in your free time? What are your favourite activities? Last week, I put these questions on my blog. Here are the answers of three students.
Hello! My name is Zhang Li. In China, we students have two days off in a week. After I finish my homework, I often go swimming. It is a good way to relax. That’s also my favourite activity because it can help me keep healthy.
Hi, I’m Eric Brown. In America, we have many free time for activities. For example, we go camping every Friday. We sing, dance and play games together. If we feel tired, we can rest in beautiful tents. All of us have great fun that day.
Hi, my name is Pin Anong. In Thailand, our summer vacation begins in Late February to early March. I hardly ever go out on my vacation. My parents are busy all the time. On my vacation, my favourite activity is reading at home.
1.Why does Zhang Li often go swimming?
① It’s relaxing. ②She wants to swim quickly.
③She likes it very much. ④It’s good for her health
A.①②③ B.②③④ C.①③④ D.①②④
2.How often does Eric Brown go camping?
A.Once a week. B.Twice a week. C.Once a month. D.Twice a month.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Zhang Li studies best. B.Playing games is Erics favourite.
C.These three students are close friends. D.Pin had to spend her vacation at home.
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“They have only one way to run away,” whispered Holmes. “That is back through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have done what I asked you, Jones.”
“Yes, I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door.”
“Then we have closed all the holes. And now we must be silent and wait.”
What a long time it seemed! We waited for an hour and a quarter, but it seemed to me much longer. I was tired, but I was afraid to move my body. I could hear the gentle breathing of my guys. I looked at the floor. Suddenly I saw a light.
At first it was only a small light on the stone floor. Then it became a yellow line, and then, without any sound, a hole opened and a hand appeared. For a minute or more the hand pointed up through the floor. Then it disappeared and all was dark again except the small light between the stones.
Then there was a loud sound and one of the big, white stones turned over and left a square hole. A clean-cut, boyish face looked out of the hole. He climbed out and was soon standing at the side of the hole. He then helped his guy, a small man with lots of very red hair.
“It’s all clear,” he whispered. “Have you got everything? My god! Run away, Archie, run away.”
Sherlock Holmes jumped out and caught the man with the boyish face. The other jumped down the hole.
—Taken from The Red-Headed League
1.How long did the writer and his guys wait?
A.65 minutes B.75 minutes C.85 minutes D.95minutes
2.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refers to(指代) .
A.the hole B.the light C.the stone D.the floor
3.According to the passage, we can infer(推断) .
A.Sherlock knew what would happen B.they kept walking around while waiting
C.the story happened in the morning D.the man with a boyish face ran away finally
4.Which of the following is the correct order of the story?
a. A clean-cut, boyish face looked out of the hole. b. We waited for an hour and a quarter.
c. Sherlock Holmes jumped out and caught the man. d. A hole opened and a hand appeared.
e. Johns had an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door.
A.bedac B.bceda C.ebadc D.ebdac
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Swimming across the English Channel—the 21-mile-long channel between southern England and northern France--- is not an easy thing. Besides the strong ocean currents(洋流)，swimmers also have to face temperatures that can change from 18°C to 6°C. However, don’t tell that to Sarah Thomas. The 37-year-old American woman recently became the first person ever to swim the English Channel four times without stop.
What makes Thomas even greater is that just a year ago, in 2018, she survived （幸存）serious illness. She said that fighting the strong currents was hard. “But even worse is dealing with the saltwater … it really hurts your throat(咽喉), your mouth and your tongue,” she said.
Thomas’s journey began just past midnight on Sunday, September 15, 2019. The swim was about 80 miles at the beginning. However, strong currents add the total distance by about 50 miles. When Thomas came out from the water at 6: 30 am local time on Tuesday, September 17, 2019, she was in the water for 54 hours and 13 minutes and swam a total of 133 miles!
There was a ship with GPS and computers to record wind, tides and currents with Thomas all the time. It guided her through the water. Her mother and husband were on the ship. During her swimming, Thomas took a rest every 30 to 60 minutes.
1.Sarah Thomas comes from .
A.England B.France C.America D.Japan
2.How far did Sarah Thomas swim across the channel this year?
A.About 50 miles. B.About 54 miles. C.About 80 miles D.About 130 miles.
3.According to the passage, we can use to describe Sarah Thomas.
A.brave B.helpful C.generous D.humorous
4.Where can we probably read this passage?
A.In a science book. B.In a diary. C.In a newspaper. D.In a novel.
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As a report from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization（联合国粮食和农业组织）says, 1.29 million square kilometres of forest, an area almost the same size of South Africa, have been lost from the Earth since 1990. Now the forest loses an area around the size of Panama every year. As the forest becomes smaller, many animals lose their home. Luckily, there are still some people doing their best to save forest. A Brazilian （巴西人） Sebastiao Salgado and his wife Lelia Salgado have spent about 20 years planting forest.
Sebastiao is one of the most famous Brazilian photographers. He traveled all over the world to take photos. When he finally came back home in Brazil in the 1990s, he was astonished - the forests were once full of wildlife. Now there are no trees here. So Sebastiao decided to do something about it. He believed that he could plant the forest together with his wife. And then his amazing dream began to come true. When they began to do that, all the birds and fish returned.
The couple brought the forest back by planting 4 million young trees. During the following 20 years. Sebastiao and his wife took care of the planted forest. 293 kinds of plants, 172 kinds of birds and other animals came back there. Sebastiao’s dream and hard work is a shining example of saving the nature. The couple show us how quickly the nature can recover(恢复) if we take action. As the saying goes, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is today.”
1.Every year our forest loses an area almost the size of .
A.Brazil B.Panama C.South Africa D.the United States
2.There was no wildlife in Sebastiao’s hometown in the 1990s because .
A.the weather was cold B.there was no water
C.people killed them all D.people cut down all the forests
3.What does the underlined word “astonished” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.interested. B.bored. C.surprised. D.excited.
4.What's the best title of the passage?
A.Never too late to start. B.Love me, love my dog.
C.You can’t have your cake and eat it. D.Think twice before you make a decision.
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