There was once a hunter(猎人) who , on the seventh birthday of his son, decided to go hunting to get something nice for his son. But as he reached for the gun on the wall, it fell down, and the barrel (枪管) was bent like the letter “L”.
“Father, that’s a bad sign,” cried the boy. “Please don’t go hunting today.”
“You are silly!” said the father. “That’s a good sign. ‘L’ means ‘Luck’.”
The father went to a mountain lake. There were thirteen wild ducks on the lake! Twelve were playing in the water, and the thirteenth was sleeping beside a rock..
“Great!” the hunter aimed at one of the ducks.
“Bang!” went the shot. Ah, but as the gun barrel was crooked(弯曲), the bullet went zigzag, zigzag, hitting all the twelve ducks in the water and then hitting the thirteenth sleeping duck.
The ducks didn’t die at the moment, so the hunter tried to catch them. When he finally held the last duck by the neck, it suddenly hit the water for the last time with its wings. The something jumped out of the water and landed near the bank---a huge fish!Why did the hunter decide to go hunting?
_______________________________________________________According to the father, what did “L” mean?
_______________________________________________________What did the hunter get in the end?
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A. Tickets for London Eye Flight (30 mins,＄22) |
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| The London Eye－a famous symbol for this famous city. The world’s largest sightseeing wheel offers a way to see over 55 of London’s famous buildings! |
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| B. Tickets for Madame Tussauds (Flexible,＄25) |
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| In this waxwork(蜡像) museum, visitors will find Henry VIII and his six wives, the present Queen and many other famous people, including sports or pop stars. It is a must-see place in London. |
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C. London Duck Tours (80 mins, ＄30) |
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| Don’t miss the exciting adventure for visitors to London, taking in the sight by road and river! No one has ever seen anything like it before! It is more than a sightseeing tour－it’s an adventure. Don’t miss this one! |
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| D. The Traditional London Sightseeing Tour (24 hours pass, ＄40) |
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| See London’s important sights on an open-top double-decker bus and see every sight in London including the Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Piccadilly. Simply “Get on and Get off” at your choice of famous place. |
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What is the famous symbol of London?
| A．The London Eye. | B．The Waxwork Museum. |
| C．The Tower of London. | D．St. Paul’s Cathedral. |
If you want to see over 55 of London’s famous buildings, please pay for ______.
| A．＄22 | B．＄25 | C．＄30 | D．＄40 |
If you want to see many famous people, you can ______.
| A．take the London Eye |
| B．go to the Madame Tussauds |
| C．take the London Duck Tours |
| D．take the double-decker bus |
For young people who wants to try new things, they could visit London by ______.
| A．taking the boat |
| B．taking the double-decker bus |
| C．joining the Duck Tours |
| D．taking the taxi |
Simply “Get on and Get off” at your choice of famous place, please take ______.
| A．the Tower of London | B．open-top double-decker bus |
| C．Paul’s Cathedral | D．Piccadilly |
Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a bench(长凳) in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day, the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me. I want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.”
“ Sir,” said the poor man, “ I am a failure. I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I’ll sleep in that hotel.”
The rich man said, “Tonight your dream will come true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month.”
A few days after, the rich man went into the poor man’s room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel back to his bench.
When the rich man asked why, he said, “You see, when I’m sleeping on my bench, I dreamed I am there, in the big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But when I was there I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn’t get any sleep at all.”The poor man lived in ____ before he met the rich man.
| A．the hotel | B．his home |
| C．the park | D．the car |
Every morning, the poor man sat on the bench and____.
| A．waited for the rich man |
| B．looked at the rich man’s hotel |
| C．looked at the rich man’s car |
| D．enjoyed the clean car |
Every night the poor man dreamed of ______.
| A．sleeping in a hotel | B．becoming rich |
| C．owning that hotel | D．being the rich man’s friend |
The poor man moved out of the hotel because____.
| A．he didn’t want to live in such a fine room |
| B．he didn’t like the rich man |
| C．he couldn’t pay for the room |
| D．he couldn’t get any sleep at all there |
In the end, the poor man found it _________to sleep in the hotel.
| A．sorry | B．nice |
| C．wonderful | D．Terrible |
When the teacher asks a question in class,Wang Xiaobin never raises his hand and this situation is very common at middle schools.This 15-year-old boy always waits for other classmates or the teacher to give the answer.“What if my answer is wrong?”Wang asks.
Wang said only six or seven students in his class raise their hands when a question is asked.(18)“I think it’s a problem that may affect(影响)our studies,but I am afraid of making mistakes in front of my classmates.”he said.
When we asked the teacher, Hu Wei, why the students didn’t raise their hands,he said:”They lack(缺乏) of confidence,they are afraid of showing off,or they’re afraid of losing face by giving wrong answers.”
To encourage students to raise their hands in class,Hu suggests that teachers should repeat the question , then try to guide and encourage students to offer their answers.(19)Hu also advises students not to be shy,but brave enough to try.
Sun Pin,16 of Fujian,always raises her hand as soon as she comes up with the answer,even if she isn’t sure she has got it right.Sun can’t understand why some of her classmates keep silent in class.She enjoys raising her hand a lot.“It keeps me enthusiastic(热情的)and confident to express my idea. ” Sun said,“Raising my hand has really made me excellent.”
任务一：根据短文内容简要回答问题。Does Wang Xiaobin raise his hand when the teacher asks a question in class?
___________________________________________________________________Why don’t students raise their hands?(3 possible reasons)
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任务二：将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。________________________________________________________________
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任务三：给短文拟一个恰当的标题。________________________________________________________________
If you need to call your parents but your phone is not with you, can you remember their numbers?
To remember 11 numbers is not difficult. However, because of the smartphone, many of us are losing this ability, Record Japan reported.
What’s more, smartphones weaken our skills at giving directions as well as it’s common for most of them to check their phones.
According to a report by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, an American company, Chinese people spend on average 170 minutes on their smartphones daily.
For students, an addiction(沉溺) to smartphones does no good for studying. Research by Japan’s Education Ministry shows that children who spend more than four hours a day on their phones perform much worse in school tests than those who play with their phones for 30 minutes a day.
It’s true that the smartphone has made our lives easier. But many also think they spend too much time on it, and this is bad for their study or work. People are trying to change that.
A new app called Forest was introduced this month. It lets users plant a seed(种子) that grows into a tree over the next 30 minutes . During the half hour, users cannot use their phones, or the tree will die.
A restaurant in Los Angeles, US, gives people a 5 percent discount(折扣) if they don’t check their phones during a meal. Owner Mark Gold said that he hoped it could give people a way to enjoy their meal and actually talk with friends and family in person.
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| When we meet together, we will spend most of the time Chinese people spend on average The students who __ The app Forest aims to help people spend _ |
A teacher showed three toys to his students and asked them to find out the differences. All the three toys seemed to have the same shape, size and material. After looking at them carefully, the students discovered holes in the toys. The first toy had holes in the ears. The second toy had holes in its ear and mouth. The third toy had only one hole in one of its ears.
Then the teacher put a needle(针) in one ear hole of the first toy. The needle came out of the other ear. For the second toy, when the needle was put in its ear , it came out of its mouth. And for the third toy, when the needle was put in, it did not come out.
So the teacher explained to his students,“ The first toy represent those people who seem to be listening to you and caring for you. But they are just pretending to do so. After listening, as the needle comes out from the next ear, the things you said to them are gone. In fact, they don’t care for you at all.”
“The second toy represents those people who listen to you and care for you. But as in the toy, the needle comes out from mouth, these people will use what you tell them to fight against you. They tell others what you said and tell your secrets for their purposes.”
“As for the third toy, the needle does not come out. It represents those people who will keep the trust you put in them. They are the ones that you can believe.”All the toys that the teacher showed_______.
| A．were made from different materials |
| B．had different sizes |
| C．had different shapes |
| D．had different holes |
When a needle was put in one ear of the first toy, it _______.
| A．didn’t come out |
| B．came out from its mouth |
| C．came out of the other ear |
| D．came out from the same ear |
People who use the words you told them to hurt you are like_______.
| A．the first toy | B．the second toy |
| C．the third toy | D．the fourth toy |
The teacher’s purpose of showing the toys was_______.
| A．to do an experiment |
| B．to teach toys how to make a friend |
| C．to give a science class |
| D．to help students know different people |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．All the toys had two holes and had no differences. |
| B．All the toys were made by the teacher and the students. |
| C．The third toy represents the people who you can believe. |
| D．The first two toys represent the people who don’t really listen to you. |