I have a neighbor we call “Happy”. I have never seen her angry at anything and never heard her say a harsh word to anyone or about anyone.
Happy and her husband Ben, 70, have a huge garden. They spent many happy hours together working on it. Most of the neighbors watched interestingly as Ben doubled the size of their garden. As the cost of food climbed faster than Ben’s beans, we all wished we also had such a large garden. As the rest of us spent our dollars at the market, Happy could be seen picking beans in her back yard.
Last month, Happy and Ben invited most of the neighborhood over for an “all-day food festival”. We were told to bring gloves and arrive very early in the morning. We didn’t know what was about to take place.
By 9:00 am, there were nine of us in the garden picking tomatoes, beans, okra, and squash. By 10:00 am, there was lots of laughter. We shared a lot of stories. By five o’clock, everyone was a little drunk from the wine and beer. After dinner, we played games. As we were leaving, Happy and Ben handed each of us a shopping bag filled with the bounty of the day, already packaged and frozen. What a delightful gift!
Well, the point wasn’t so much about the food. The true gift was a day of friends enjoying one another’s company. None of it would have happened if it had been for Happy and Ben’s garden. Now they have a blog about gardening in case we decided to plant a garden. And I am so proud of my tomato plants!According to paragraph 2, people wished they also had a garden so that .
| A．they could spend happy times together with their family in it |
| B．they could grow vegetables and sell at the market |
| C．they could invite their neighbors and hold parties in it |
| D．they didn’t have to spend so much money on food |
Which of the following is the same as the underlined word “bounty”?
| A．Present. | B．Kindness. | C．Laughter. | D．Happiness. |
For what purpose did Happy and Ben invite the neighbors to their garden?
| A．To ask them to attend a birthday party |
| B．To help them get to know each other. |
| C．To let them enjoy what they grew in the garden. |
| D．To ask them to share some interesting stories. |
What did the writer most probably think of the time he spent in the garden?
| A．He thought it was too short but enjoyable. |
| B．He thought it was wonderful. |
| C．He thought it was not as good as he thought. |
| D．He thought it was too terrible. |
We can infer that .
| A．Happy and her husband Ben don’t like spending time with others |
| B．Happy and her husband Ben sometimes quarrel with each other |
| C．Happy and her husband Ben are a generous and warm-hearted couple |
| D．Happy and her husband Ben live on the food they grow in their garden |
Is the whale the world’s largest fish? No. It looks like a fish, but it is really a mammal. （哺乳动物）Then what’s the world’s largest fish? It’s the whale shark.
Although the whale shark is our biggest fish and lives in many oceans around the world, few people have ever heard of it. Scientists have not been studying whale sharks for very long. Much more needs to be learned about them.
A whale shark is sometimes called a “gentle giant”. It likes to be alone and doesn’t care a bit about divers or humans. The biggest whale shark weighed 24,250 pounds and was nearly 40 feet long. This makes it heavier and longer than a school bus.
Inside its huge mouth are great numbers of very small teeth. To count all of them, you’ll need to do some maths. The whale shark’s teeth are arranged in rows. There are between eleven and thirteen rows on each jaw (颚) and around three hundred teeth in each row.
However, the whale shark rarely uses its teeth. It does not chew or bite its food. Large amounts of water are pulled into its mouth and then pushed out through its gills (鳃).
For a few months every year, a group of whale sharks comes to Ningaloo Reef, off Western Australia. This gives scientists a wonderful chance to study the large fish. Whale sharks do live in other oceans of the world, but no one knows their population. It is possible that our biggest fish may need protecting. It is one of the reasons why scientists continue to learn all they can about these gentle giants.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案The underlined word “rarely” in the passage means “________”in Chinese.
A. 过多地 B.稀有地 C. 很少地Picture shows the head bone of the whale shark.
Which sentence can tell us that whale sharks are gentle?
A. They have large mouths.
B. They leave divers alone.
C. They live in many oceans.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Little is known about whale sharks because scientists have studied them for a long time
B. The fifth paragraph is mainly about how a whale shark eats.its food.
C. The writer helps us know what the whale shark’s mouth looks like by comparing sizes.The best title for the article should be ___________.
A. Gentle Giants
B. The Diary of a Sailor
C. The Largest Animal
On her second or third day behind the counter, Cynthia received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that as a single mother, money was very tight, and her first check would have to go for paying bills. Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check. When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that served as an office. Cynthia wondered if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before. She was concerned and confused.
Patricia handed her a box. “I overheard（无意中听到）you talking to your son yesterday,” she said, “and I know that it is hard to explain things to kids. This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how important he is, even though you have to pay bills before you can buy gloves. You know we can’t pay good people like you as much as we would like to, but we do care, and I want you to know you are important to us.”
The selflessness（无私）and love of this convenience store manager proves that people remember more how much an employer cares than how much the employer pays.
根据短文内容判断正、误。
(注意：考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”)Jessie needed a baseball glove for Little League.
Patricia, the store manager and her employer began to talk in the small room in the back of the store that served as an office.
Jessie was going to take part in Little League，but his father didn’t have enough money to buy things like a baseball glove.
When Cynthia was asked to go to the office, she was happy and moved.
From the story we know sometimes people cares one another more important than many things even wealth.
Word box ultimate 首要的 cuisine 菜肴 nirvana （印度教）生命之火的熄灭
Vancouver 温哥华The above reading is most probably ________.
A. a menu
B. a food report
C. an advertisementIt’s clear that the restaurant ________.
A. offers Chinese food
B. was set up 22 years ago
C. gets no awards at allAt 12:00 a.m., customers can ________.
A. find the restaurant closed
B. have a good meal in the restaurant
C. enjoy the awards in the restaurantThe reading doesn’t tell us ________.
A. the address of the restaurant
B. the price of food
C. the way to order foodWhich country does the restaurant belong to?
A. China. B. India. C. Canada
It was a rainy evening. A man didn’t take his umbrella, so he wanted to call his wife to tell her he would go home late. Then he called home, however, the maid(女仆) answered the phone instead of his wife.
He said, “Can I speak to my wife?”
The maid replied, “Sorry，she’s upstairs with her boyfriend.”
He was surprised and at once very angry. He shouted, “Hurry up, go to the hall closet and take out my shotgun.”
The maid asked in surprise, “What do you need me to do?”
The man shouted crazily, “Go upstairs and kill them both.”
The maid said, “But I have never killed a man before.” Being the loyal maid, she says, “OK!”
Five minutes later, the maid picked up the phone and said, “OK，I follow your order. They are both dead now. ___________________” The man said, “Throw them into the pool, and I will take care of them when I get home. ”
“But we don’t have a pool.” the maid said.
The man asked nervously, “Is this 555—4532?”
Immediately, the terrible yells came from the house.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案The underlined word “loyal” in the passage most probably means______.
A.false to one’s master
B. true to one’s master
C.dishonest to one’s masterThe maid killed them because__________________.
A.she was afraid of his host.
B.she obeyed the orders of his host very much.
C.she loved his host. _________________ would happen at the end of the story.
A.Both the man and the maid would be punished by the law.
B.The man and the maid would be happy for what they have done.
C.The maid would marry the man. Which of the following is NOT true according to the story?
A.The man felt afraid when he asked the maid her host’s telephone number.
B. It was the man’s house, so the man felt happy after his wife was dead.
C. There wasn’t a pool in the house. “___________________” is the missing sentence in the passage .
A.You can go home now.
B.What should I do with their bodies?
C.You must be happy, right ?
In our school, we have early morning and afternoon self-study for 40
minutes every day. Here’s our school’s self-study class schedule. Read it and find out we spend________hours on exams from Monday to Friday every week.
| Self-study Class |
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| Early morning |
Afternoon |
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| Read aloud |
Exam |
Sing a song |
Radio |
Exam |
Sing a song |
| 5 minutes |
? |
5 minutes |
5 minutes |
? |
5 minutes |
A. 20 B.100 C. about 1.5