Did you visit the Shanghai World Expo last summer? What impressed (给……留下印象) you? 21st Century Kids invites four kids to talk about their experiences. They are back from the Expo. What did they bring us? Let’s see what they have to say.
I went to the SAIC-GM Pavilion (上汽集团通用汽车馆). I found my dream car there. It is a green car. Its name is “Leaf”. Chinese engineers made the car. Its roof is in the shape of a leaf. The roof takes in CO2 and changes it into electricity for the car.
The Japan Pavilion is full of high technology. The “Wonder Camera” is cool. It can find a smiling face in a crowd. When you’re smiling, it takes a photo of you. I want to invent something like that in the future.
My favorite pavilion is the Germany Pavilion. I watched the Energy Source show. Visitors made a ball swing back and forth (来回摇摆) by using only their voices. It’s amazing! Although we had waited for quite a long time before we entered the hall, I think it is well worth seeing with your own eyes.
I like painting, so my parents took me to the France Pavilion to see the famous paintings. But the French cooks caught my eye. I saw them cook. My mom told me that they are some of the best cooks in the world. The dish they cooked looked like a painting. So, being a cook is my second dream job.The 21st Century Kids seems to be _____.
| A．a travel service | B．a newspaper |
| C．a group of tourists | D．four children |
What does the underlined word “electricity” mean in the passage?
| A．电 | B．汽油 | C．灯光 | D．指示 |
What activity did the writer experience in the France Pavilion?
| A．Using the “Wonder Camera” |
| B．Driving the green car “Leaf”. |
| C．To have delicious French dishes. |
| D．To see cooks painting. |
What made the ball in the Germany Pavilion swing?
| A．Visitors’ smiling faces | B．CO2 from cars |
| C．Some secret power | D．Noise made by visitors |
The trip to the Shanghai World Expo made the four kids _____.
| A．hardworking and polite | B．amazed and frightened |
| C．patient and cheerful | D．excited and curious |
Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by air. With a modern airliner （客机） you can travel in one day to places which it took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.
Traveling by train is slower than by air, but it has its advantages （便利）. You can see the country you are traveling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining cars. They make even the longest journey enjoyable.
Some people prefer to travel by sea when possible. There are large liners and river boats. You can visit many other countries and different places. Traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.
Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable（时间表）。 You can travel three or four hundredmiles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. You can stop wherever you wish wherethere is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why traveling by car is a popular pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or a plane when they are traveling on business.From the passage we know the fastest way traveling is.
| A．by car | B．by train | C．by air | D．by sea |
If we travel by car, we can.
| A．make the longest journey enjoyable |
| B．make our own timetable |
| C．travel to a very far place in several minutes |
| D．travel only fifty or one hundred miles a day |
The underlined word “They” in the passage refers to (指……而言)。
| A．modern trains in the country |
| B．the travelers on the modern trains |
| C．comfortable seats and dining cars |
| D．the slower ways of traveling |
I wonder if there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow in the sky. It is beautiful. There is a story, saying that whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold. Of course it is not true. Neither you could find gold, nor would you ever find its end. No matter how far you run, it always seems far away.
A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower. It is only the effect(结果) of light shining on raindrops. The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colours which we see.
It is called a rainbow perhaps because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow(弓).
That is why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky. We see rainbows only when there is rain in the air and the sun is shining brightly through the clouds. Every rainbow has many colours in the same order. The first or the top colours is always red, next comes orange, then green, and last of all, blue. A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.We can not feel _______with our hands.
| A．gold | B．a flower |
| C．a rainbow | D．a raindrop |
We can see a rainbow________.
| A．when it is raining heavily |
| B．when it is snowing |
| C．in a clear sky |
| D．When it becomes fine shortly after raining. |
Which of the follow is NOT right?
| A．A rainbow is always far away from us. |
| B．A rainbow is the effect of light shining on raindrops. |
| C．A rainbow is created by scientists. |
| D．A rainbow is one of the wonders of nature. |
The first color of a rainbow is always_______.
| A．yellow | B．red | C．green | D．blue |
Dear Kate,
I am in Beijing now, but you are in New York. China is a great country and Beijing is a big city in China. It’s very beautiful. I like it very much. There are twenty-four girls and nineteen boys in our class. One of the boys is from England. His name is Bob. He likes swimming. Sue and I come from America. Sue likes playing the piano, but I like playing volleyball. I have many Chinese friends here now. They teach me Chinese and I teach them English. Chinese is not easy, but I like it.
Please e-mail me soon.
Yours
Nick
| Name |
From |
Likes |
| Bob |
He is from |
He likes |
| She is from the USA. |
She likes playing the |
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| I |
I come from America. |
I like playing |
This term we have a new teacher of English. His name is Mr. Fantail. He comes from Australia, but now he lives in a tall building in Jianhu. He is not very tall. He has a round face and small blue eyes. He wears glasses and they make him look smart. He has dark brown hair.
Mr. Fantail works very hard. In class, he has many good ideas to make the class very interesting. We all like his class. After class, he always encourages us to speak more English. Sometimes, he plays games with us. He is very strong and he can play basketball and football very well. He is good at sport. Sometimes he plays table tennis with us, but he doesn’t play it very well.
Mr. Fantail loves living in China very much. He enjoys lots of things in China. He really loves eating Chinese food. He loves travelling in China too. He is going to visit Xi’an next month.What does Mr. Fantail do?
| A．A doctor | B．A teacher |
| C．A farmer | D．A worker |
We can not use _________ to describe（描述）Mr. Fantail.
| A．tall | B．strong |
| C．smart | D．hard-working |
How many ball games is Mr. Fantail good at?
| A．4 | B．3 | C．2 | D．1 |
The underlined（划线）word “encourage” means __________ in Chinese.
| A．阻止 | B．嘲笑 |
| C．逼迫 | D．鼓励 |
Which of the following is NOT true（正确）?
| A．Mr. Fantail is a very good English teacher. |
| B．Mr. Fantail enjoys playing computer games. |
| C．Mr. Fantail is a very good football player. |
| D．Mr. Fantail enjoys his life in China. |
A father and his little son are going home. The boy is five years old. He is interested in(对---感兴趣) all kinds of things and he is always asking questions.
“What’s the meaning(意思) of the word ‘drunk(醉酒)’?” asks the boy.
“Well, my son,” his father answers. “Look, there are two policemen. To a drunk man’s eyes, there are four.”
“But, Dad, there is only one policeman.”The father and his little son are __________.
| A．watching TV | B．having supper |
| C．going home | D．going to the market |
The boy is ________ old.
| A．three years | B．four years |
| C．six years | D．five years |
The boy is interested in all kinds of things ___________.
| A．and is always asking questions |
| B．and is always asking the same question |
| C．but he never asks any questions |
| D．but he doesn’t like asking questions |
In fact(实际上), how many policemen are standing there?
| A．Two. | B．One. |
| C．Three. | D．Four. |
From the passage(短文), we know ____________ drunk.
| A．the boy and his father are | B．the boy is |
| C．the boy’s father is | D．the policeman is |