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Answer the questions. (根据以下内容回答问题)
John and his friends were very busy last weekend and they had a wonderful time together. On Friday night, they had a big party for their friend Emily. It was her 16th birthday, and they went to Covent Garden. All the cool restaurants were there. It was such a nice place to go on a Friday or Saturday night. There was a band that played a lot of music. They always played American countryside music, and many people enjoyed it very much.
The next day, John and his friends went to the Tate Britain Museum. There were lots of paintings of the British countryside in the museum. They saw a few of the paintings they discussed in class, and they all felt so excited.
They spent Sunday in Putney, where they saw Oxford Cambridge boat race. It has a history of 150 years. The students of Oxford and Cambridge train all the year for this race. It is only seventeen minutes long. There were 12,000 people by the river, and it was like a huge party!
1.Were John and his friends very busy last weekend?
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2.What did John and his friends do last Friday night?
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3.Where did John and his friends go last Saturday?
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4.Why did they feel so excited last Saturday?
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5.When did the Oxford Cambridge boat race first start?
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6.What do you think of the Oxford Cambridge boat race? Why do you think so?
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D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题): ( 12分)
One Saturday afternoon, Tom and his sister, Viv, were having tea in a café. Tom was telling Viv about his history project. “On Monday I am giving a speech in front of the class. It will be about famous inventions,” Tom told Viv. “Let’s go to the public library and find a book on inventions,” suggested Viv. “We’ll call the library first to see what time it closes.”
They walked over to an old telephone box and went inside. Just as Viv was about to ring ‘1888’, the number for Directory Enquiries（电话号查询台）, there was a loud crash outside the phone box. A woman had dropped her shopping bags.
Viv dialed the number. When she had finished, the telephone box started shaking, and a loud noise filled their ears. The shopping centre disappeared, and everything went dark. Suddenly there was a big bump. The telephone box stopped shaking and everything was quiet. Tom and Viv looked out of the window. They couldn’t believe their eyes! They were in the middle of a large field. Tom pushed the door and stepped outside.
“This is amazing!” he said. “I think we’ve travelled through time.” Suddenly some men on horses appeared. They were wearing strange clothes. They saw the children and started riding towards them, shouting.
“Let’s get out of here!” Tom shouted. They ran back inside and closed the door behind them.
“Those men look like people from the past,” Tom said. “You dialed the number ‘1888’ for Directory Enquiries. If we dial ‘2010’, perhaps we’ll return home.”
Tom dialed the number. He was nervous, however, and dialed ‘3010’ by mistake. The telephone box started shaking again, and the field disappeared. There was another large bump. Looking outside, the children saw strange buildings and cars. A face suddenly appeared outside the window. The person had three eyes! Viv shouted with fear.
“I don’t want to be in the future. I want to go home,” said Viv. Tom quickly dialed ‘2010’. Soon they were back in the shopping centre. Outside, a woman was picking up some shopping that she had dropped. Tom recognized the woman. “We’re back! Let’s help that woman with her shopping,” he said.
“Thank you. You’re very kind,” the woman replied to Tom’s offer of help.
She turned to look at the children. Tom and Viv jumped in horror. The woman had three eyes…
1.What speech would Tom give in front of the class?
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2.Did they know the telephone number of the public library?
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3.How did they travel through time to the past?
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4.Which number would enable them to go back home?
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5.How did Viv feel when she saw a face with three eyes in the year 3010?
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6.Where had the woman probably come from?
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Read the passage and answer the following questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)
A bear and a monkey were good friends. One day, they took a walk together. The monkey said to the bear, “Look, here are some banana trees on the other side of the river but I can’t swim. Would you like to take me there on your back?” “Good, my friend,” said the bear.
Soon they got to the bank. The monkey climbed up a tree and began to eat bananas. He threw the skin (皮) of the bananas to the ground. The bear could not climb up the tree. He walked about and then lay down to sleep. When the monkey found the bear asleep, he shouted, “Stop, stop! Someone is eating bananas!” The owner came and he saw the bear and the skin of the bananas. The bear was beaten (被打) and he felt sad. When the bear took the monkey back, he asked, “Monkey, why did you shout?” The monkey said, “Oh, I have this habit and have to shout.” The bear understood and said, “I have a habit, too. I like to dance in the river.” With these words, the bear threw the monkey into the water.
1.How many animals are mentioned (提到) in the passage?
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2.How did the monkey go to the other side of the river?
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3.Could the bear climb up the banana tree?
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4.How was the bear when he was beaten by the owner?
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5.Do you think the bear and the monkey were really good friends?
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Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）
The baby is taking photos with his parents, the Duke and Duchess (公爵和公爵夫人) of Cambridge. The pictures were taken by the duchess’ father, Michael Middleton, in the garden of their family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire. Taken earlier this month, they show the royal ,couple, Prince George and their black cocker spaniel (西班牙猎犬), Lupo. Tilly, a golden dog, belonging to the Middleton family, can be seen lying down behind them. The photographs of Prince George, who was born on 22 July, were published by Kensington Palace.
On Monday Prince William, giving his first interview since becoming a father, told CNN:
“He either reminds me of my brother or me when I was younger, I’m not sure, but he*s doing very well at the moment.”
BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell said the new family looks “unselfconscious (自然的), relaxed and happy - much like most couples might look with their first-born baby”. He added: “Of course they’re aware of what’s expected of them. There will be staff - a nanny (保姆) to help in
due course (适时地), but for the moment it’s all rather informal and many might think, refreshing.”
Famous photographer Terry O’Neill said he thought the pictures were “absolutely charming”.
“It reminded me when I first started photography for myself - I just went for the light, and it was really interesting lighting (打灯光). As a matter of fact when I heard about these pictures, I thought ‘Who have they got to do these pictures’ - and the thought crossed my mind they might have asked the Queen because she’s quite a good photographer.”
The cultural and education manager of Magnum Photos, Fiona Rogers, told Radio 4’s Today program the photograph of the couple and Prince George with the family’s dogs was “technically not the most accomplished (技艺高超的) photograph”.
“It’s a photograph that any one of us could have in our family albums,” she said.
1.Who is Tilly?
2.Where were the pictures taken?
3.When was Prince George born?
4.What did Terry O’Neill think of the pictures?
5.What did Fiona Rogers think of the picture?
6.What is this report mainly about?
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Answer the questions (根据以下内容回答问题)
A professor began his speech by holding up a glass with some water in it. Then he held it up for all to see, and asked the students, “ How much do you think this glass weighs?”
“50g!””100g!””125g!” the students answered .
“ I really can’t unless I weigh it,” the professor said, “but my next question is: “ what would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?”
“Nothing,”the students said .
“Okay. What would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?” the professor asked.
“ Your arm could go numb. You might have serious muscles stress, or paralysis.You would have to go the hospital for sure” another student said. All students laughed.
“ Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?” the professor asked.
“No,” the student said.
“Then why do we have different results?
The students were puzzled.
“ It does not matter on the weight itself. It depends on how long you hold it.” the professor said: “ it is exactly the same weigh, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes, what you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again.”
The problems in life are like this. If you just think about them for a few minutes, they might not seem so bad. Think about them for a longer time, and they begin to ache. Hold them even longer and they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything. It’s important to think about challenges in your life, but it’s even more important to“put them down” at the end of the day before you go to sleep.That way, maybe be you will ________________________ the next day.
1.What did the professor do to begin his speech?
2.Did the students know how much this glass weighted?
3.Why were the students puzzled by professor’s question?
Because ______________________________________.
4.How can professor reduce arm ache and the muscle stress?
By ____________________________________________
5.The professor made this speech to help students solve physical problems, didn’t he?
______, ________________.
6.What can be filled in the blank at the end of the speech?
Maybe you will _______________________________.
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Answer the questions（根据以下内容回答问题)
Mrs. Green is a teacher. Her house is far from her school, and she always walks there in the morning. All thestudents in the school are very young. It’s a very cold and windy morning in October. Mrs. Green walks to school as usual.The cold wind goes into her eyes, so big tears(眼泪) begin running out. She gets to school, opens the door and goes into the classroom. A little boy looks at her for a few seconds(秒) and says kindly,“Don’t cry,Miss. School isn’t very bad.”
1.What is Mrs.Green’s job?
She ________________________________________________.
2.Is Mrs. Green’s house near her school?
________, __________________________________________.
3.How does Mrs. Green go to school in the morning?
She ________________________________________________.
4.What’s the weather like on one morning of October?
It’s very __________ and ______________________________.
5.Why do big tears run out of Mrs.Green’s eyes?
Because____________________________________________.
6.Who tells Mrs. Green not to cry?
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Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题)
Kate had to make a decision(决定) because there were different parties on the same day. One was the birthday party of her friend. The other was a party to celebrate her grandparents’ 50thwedding anniversary（结婚纪念）. Her grandmother told her, “I will not be unhappy if you go to your friend’s party. You will probably have more fun there.”
But Kate decided that her family was more important. She could talk to her friends every day, but she did not see her relatives very often. In fact, she had never met some of them. For example, she had only seen photos of her mother’s brother Jack and his wife Alice. She even had not seen pictures of their children, her cousins Sam and Sally.
Kate had a wonderful time at the party. She and Sally got on well together. Sally was fifteen, two years older than Kate, but they had a lot in common（共同）. Sally told Kate that one of their ancestors（祖先）, their great-great-uncle, was a swimming champion（冠军）who had won an Olympic medal（奖牌）. At the end of the party they gave e-mail addresses to each other, so they could still chat（聊天）afterwards.
1.How many parties were there on the same day?
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2.Had Kate met her cousins before?
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3.Who was Kate’s aunt?
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4.Why did Kate and Sally get on well?
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5.Kate and Sally’s great uncle won an Olympic medal, didn’t he?
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6.If you are Kate, which party will you go? Why?
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Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）
Mr Harries taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of his class, he gave us a talk about an animal called "birdcat", which died out during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull（头骨）as he talked. We all took notes carefully and later we had a test.
When he returned my paper the next day, there was a big red "×" through each of my answers. I had failed! I had written exactly（确切地）what Mr Harries said. Then I learned that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened? Very simple, Mr Harries said he had made all that "birdcat" there had never been any such animal. So the information in our notes was incorrect. Did you think you would get good marks for incorrect answers?
We felt that wasn't fair. What kind of test was this? And what kind of teacher?
We should have found it out, Mr Harries said. After all, at the very moment he was passing around the "birdcat" skull, in fact a cat's. He had told us many unbelievable things about the animal, such as the size, the colour, the strength… but none of us had questioned.
Mr Harries said he hoped we could learn something from this lesson. Teachers and textbooks are not always correct. In fact no one is. He told us not to let our minds go to sleep, and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong.
Up to now I haven't made any great scientific discoveries, but Mr Harries's class gave my classmates and me something just as important: to look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong.
1.Who taught sixth-grade science?
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2.What did the writer and his classmates do during the first science lesson?
They carefully watched the skull and ________________ and then had a test.
3.Did they get good marks or fail the test?
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4.How did they feel about the test?
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5.Why did the writer fail in the science test?
Because the information in his notes ________________________________________.
6.How do you like the science teacher?
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Read the passage below and answer the following questions (根据文章内容回答下列问题)
What about my plans for the summer holiday? First, I will go to Shanghai with my sister. There are many interesting places in Shanghai, and we can also have delicious food there. After that, I’m going to spend some time reading books. I’m going to play table tennis with my friends, too.
—Peter
I made some plans for my summer holiday. First,I will help more at home. My parents are always busy, so I’m going to help them with the housework and let them have more time to relax. Second, I’m going to practice playing the piano every day. Third, I think the holiday is a good time for me to do some sports ,such as running and swimming. I am sure my summer holiday will be wonderful.
—Tom.
After about four months’ study, the summer holiday is coming. Here are my plans. First, I will leave enough time for my new lessons. I will also read some great books. Second,I’m going to Xi’an and stay there for two weeks. I think the trip will be wonderful. Then, I will come back and enjoy myself with my friends. We will go swimming, shopping, etc.
—Amy
1.Who does Peter plan to go to Shanghai with?
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2.How many plans did Tom make for his summer holiday?
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3.How long will Amy stay in Xi’an?
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4.Who will swim during the summer holiday?
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5.What does Amy think of her coming trip in Xi’an?
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6.What do you want to do during your holidays?
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Read the passage and answer the questions. （ 根据短文内容回答下列问题）
A story about a fox and a crow
One day a crow finds a piece of meat. She picks it up in her mouth and flies to a tall tree. She is just going to eat meat when a fox sees her. He comes and stands under the tree and says,“How pretty you are! You must be the prettiest bird in the world.”
The crow is very pleased with these words. Then the fox says again,“I can see your pretty face, but I have not heard your voice. Why don’t you sing a song?”
This makes the crow very happy. She opens her mouth and begins to sing.As she opens her mouth, she drops the meat. The fox picks up the meat at once and goes away with it.
The story teaches us a lesson. “Kind words are not always as kind as they seem.”
1.What does a crow find one day?
2.Who sees the crow when she is going to eat?
3.Where does the fox stand?
4.Does the crow feel happy or angry about what the fox says?
5.What happens（发生） when the crow opens her mouth and begins to sing?
6.Who gets the meat at last? What can we learn from the story?