Bananas don’t grow on trees. They grow on a stalk that looks just a little like a stalk of corn. The stalk is soft enough to be cut with a knife. 
It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. Some are as small as fingers. Others are as long as men’s arms. Some banana plants grow as tall as a house – even taller!
Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they are cooked as a kind of vegetable.
People in most countries never see a banana until it reaches the store. But if you visited a country where it’s hot and rains a lot all the year, you might see a banana plantation, a large farm where bananas grow.
The tasty fruit doesn’t come from a seed but from a root planted deep in the ground. First a stalk pushes up into the air. The leaves grow. In the beginning the banana plant grows very fast – sometimes as much as the length of your feet in one night. Soon, sweet-smelling flowers come out, and when their flowers drop off, bananas begin to grow.
As they get bigger, bananas start turning up. It looks as if they’re growing upside down! Bananas are ready to eat when they turn soft and yellow. Bananas are picked long before this – when they’re hard and green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they arrive at a store. On trucks and boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool enough so that they will get ripe while traveling. If bananas are picked when they are ripe (成熟的), they will spoil on the way.What’s the weather like in places where bananas grow?
| A．Dry and cold | B．Cold and wet | C．Wet and hot | D．Hot and dry |
The fruit of banana plants come from________.
| A．a stalk | B．a tree | C．a seed | D． a root |
Bananas are picked long before they are _____________.
| A．green | B．ripe | C．hard | D．red |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
| A．All bananas are eaten as fruit. |
| B．Some banana plants grow taller than a house. |
| C．Bananas get ripe on their way to the store. |
| D．It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. |
Early to bed, early to rise（起）, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
This is an old English saying. Have you heard it before? It means that we must go to bed early in the evening and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich (wealthy) and clever (wise).
Is this true? Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children need ten hours’ sleep every night. If you do not go to bed early, you cannot have enough sleep. Then you cannot think properly（适当地）and you cannot do your work properly. You will not be wise and you may not become wealthy!
Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We must sleep at night when it is dark. The dark helps us to sleep properly, When the daylight comes, we must get up. This is the time for exercise. Exercise means doing things with the body. Walking, running, jumping, swimming, and playing games are all exercise. If the body is not used, it becomes weak. Exercise keeps it strong. Exercise helps the blood(血液) to move around inside the body. This is very important. The brains(大脑)in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and take exercise, we can think better.
Our bodies also need air to breathe. Without air we die. We must have a lot of clean, fresh air to breathe if we want to be healthy．We will be healthy if we______．
| A．work at night | B．eat well |
| C．go to bed early and get up early | D．get up late |
Children need______．
| A．ten hours’ sleep | B．two hours’ exercise |
| C．three hours’ homework | D．four hours’ game |
The best time to sleep is_______．
| A．when it is dark | B．when you are tired |
| C．after supper | D．after watch TV |
Exercise makes the body________．
| A．weak | B．strong | C．clever | D．tired |
Exercise______．
| A．makes more blood |
| B．helps the blood move |
| C．makes food for the blood |
| D．makes us breathe better |
Mr. Smith was old ,so it was often difficult for him to remember things. However (然而) ,he still liked traveling very much, so he and his wife went to Spain（西班牙） every year. One summer when they were there ,they went to visit their friends, the Turners .They had two young daughters.
One afternoon Mr. Smith was talking to one of the girls in the garden after lunch. “You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year, weren’t you?” he said to her. “Yes, we were .” answered the girl. “We were very ill.” The old man said nothing for a moment ,because he was thinking .Then at last he said ,” Oh , yes, I remember now! one of you died. Which one of you was it, you or your sister?” The girl answered ,“It was me.” “Oh ? I’m very sorry to hear it”, said the old man.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子的正（T）误（F）。The old man had a good memory.
What the old man said was true.
The girl was very ill and died.
The girl didn’t die last year.
The girl and her sister were both very ill.”
Mr. Grey was the manager（经理）of a small office in London. He lived in the country, and came to work by train. He liked walking from the station to his office if it was not raining, because it gave him some exercises. One morning he was walking along the street when a stranger（陌生人） stopped him and said to him, “ You may not remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came to London without any money in my pocket（口袋）. I stopped you in this street and asked you to lend(借) me some money, and you lent me five pounds（英镑）, because you said that you were happy to take a chance（机会）to give a man a start on the road to success.” Mr. Grey thought for a few moments and then said, “ Yes, I remember you. Go on（继续with your story.” “ Well,” answered the stranger,” are you still willing to take a chance?”Mr. Grey walked to his office only when the weather was ________.
| A．well | B．fine | C．bad | D．raining |
Mr. Grey walked because _______.
| A．he was poor |
| B．it was not raining |
| C．it helped him in good health |
| D．he had a lot of homework |
Mr. Grey ______ the stranger some years ago.
| A．had stopped | B．had met |
| C．had said to | D．had helped |
The stranger _________ since then.
| A．had been successful | B．had still been poor |
| C．had been rich | D．had had much money |
Now the stranger wanted to _________________________ .
| A．ask for some money again |
| B．give Mr. Grey his money back |
| C．help Mr. Grey |
| D．lend Mr. Grey some money |
Mr. Green and his wife had a dog. When they went out, they always left the dog inside the house. One evening they wanted to go to the cinema, so they left the dog in the house and locked the door and their garden gate. They went off in their car.
When the film was finished, they went home. They opened the gate and put the car away. When they came to the front door, they found that the glass in the door was broken. The door was not locked and it was open. A robber(强盗)! They went in and quickly looked in all the rooms to see if the robber had taken their things. However, everything was in the right place and nothing at all was missing.
The dog was sleeping in the sitting-room. The wife was angry with the dog. “Why didn’t you guard(保卫)the house?” she said. The dog was pleased to see Mr. and Mrs. Green. It began to wag(摇)its tail and then it went to a comer of the room and picked up something in its mouth. It went to the wife and dropped the thing at her feet. When she went to pick it up, she was very surprised. Can you guess what the dog’s present was? It was a man’s finger!
The end of the story is this. Mr. Green telephoned the police and told them everything. Three days later the police caught the robber. They found him easily.That evening Mr. Green and his wife __________.
| A．took their dog to see a film |
| B．left the dog alone at home |
| C．went home before the film was finished |
| D．locked the door and could not open it |
The robber stole(偷)__________.
| A．everything from the house |
| B．something expensive from the house |
| C．nothing from the house |
| D．a car from the house |
.Why was the woman angry with the dog? _________
| A．Because she thought it had made the room dirty. |
| B．Because she thought it had broken the glass. |
| C．Because it wouldn’t go to the cinema with her. |
| D．Because she thought it hadn’t guarded the house. |
The robber was caught easily because __________.
| A．the police knew him |
| B．the police happened to meet him |
| C．Mr. Green know where he lived |
| D．he had one of his fingers |
Mr. Green and his wife would _________.
| A．like their dog more than before |
| B．drive the dog away from their home |
| C．let the dog bring home more presents |
| D．ask the police to take the dog away |
More and more parents leave their homes and come into the big cities to make money. But their children can’t go with them because their children have to go to school in their hometown. They are called home-left children留守儿童. The problems of home-left children become more and more serious. And it becomes a big burden of our society. The main problem is that some home-left children become very lonely when they don’t have their parents’ love. And they are too young to tell right or wrong in many things. So they are fooled very easily by others.
Xiao Mei , a 14-year-old girl, is a home-left child. Her parents are both in Shanghai. She is in her hometown with her grandpa. She likes playing games on the Internet. Her parents and grandpa only give her money and food. They hardly ever care for her studies. One day, she had no money to pay for the games in the Net bar网吧. So she stole some money from her neighbor. Just at that time, Xiao Fang, a 9-year-old girl saw it. Xiao Mei was afraid that Xiao Fang would tell others about it. She cut Xiao Fang’s throat with a knife, and then she went to school just like nothing happened. Luckily, Xiao Fang was saves by doctors. When she opened her eyes and wrote the fact to the policeman with a pencil, everybody was very surprised. This sad story reminds the parents to care for their children no matter how busy they are.
Are you one of the home-left children? What do you need from your parents? Food, money or love? I think most children need love mostly. Let’s care for the group together.
根据短文内容，从题中所给A、B、C、D四个选项中选出正确答案，并在答题卡上将选项涂黑。共5小题，每题2分，共10分 Why can’t the children go to the big cities with their parents?
| A．Because they have to go to school in their hometown. |
| B．Because their parent have no money. |
| C．Because they don’t like to go there. |
| D．Because they are not allowed. |
What’s the meaning of the underlined word”burden” in Chinese?
| A．负担 | B．象征 | C．任务 | D．地位 |
What does Xiao Mei only get from her parents?
| A．Clothes. | B．Love. |
| C．Money and food. | D．Computers. |
What does the story of Xiao Mei mainly tell us?
| A．We can’t play computer games. |
| B．Parents should care for their children. |
| C．We should get along well with neighbors. |
| D．Going to the big cities is not good. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Home-left children can tell right or wrong easily. |
| B．Home-left children never feel lonely. |
| C．Xiao Fang likes playing games. |
| D．Xiao Mei really needs love. |