Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink (貂) farmer, and her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw, was a school teacher. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, came out in 1950 while she was studying at the University of Western Ontario. During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk (职员).
Munro’s first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文学的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互关联的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was published. This book earned Munro a second Governor General’s Literary Award. From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia. In 1980, Munro held the position of writer in residence (住校) at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she published a short-story collection about once every four years.
On 10 October, 2013, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is known as a “master of the contemporary (当代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Where does Alice Munro come from?
A. the USA. B. Canada.
C. Australia. D. England.Which of the following shows the correct order of the events?
① Munro wrote the collection—Lives of Girls and Women.
② Munro won the Governor General’s Award for the first time.
③ Munro did part-time jobs as a waitress, a tobacco picker and a library clerk.
④ Munro came to China for a trip.
| A．③①②④ | B．②①③④ |
| C．④②③① | D．③②①④ |
The best title of the passage should be “_________”.
| A．The first woman Nobel Prize winner—Alice Munro |
| B．Alice Munro—Master of the contemporary short story |
| C．Munro’s collection of interlinked stories |
| D．How can one receive the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Paula |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| get up |
7:10 a.m. |
7:10 a.m. |
7:10 a.m. |
7:10 a.m. |
7:10 a.m. |
| morning |
school |
school |
school |
school |
school |
| lunch |
pizza |
rice |
rice |
rice |
rice |
| afternoon |
Yo-yo |
Table-tennis |
Table-tennis |
Table-tennis |
football |
| evening |
homework |
homework |
television |
homework |
clothes |
| go to sleep |
10:15p. m |
10:15p.m. |
10:15p.m. |
10:15p.m. |
10:15p.m |
On ____, Paula usually gets up at 7:10 a.m.
| A．Thursdays | B．Wednesdays | C．weekdays | D．weekends |
Pizza is a kind of ____.
| A．drink | B．fruit | C．toy | D．food |
Paula’s favorite sport is ____.
| A．volleyball | B．table tennis | C．yo-yo | D．football |
On Wednesdays evenings Paula usually ____.
| A．watches TV | B．does her homework | C．washes her clothes | D．goes to see her friends |
Which is wrong? ____.
| A．Paula goes to school form Monday to Friday. |
| B．Paula goes to bed after ten o’clock. |
| C．Paula has sports in the afternoon. |
| D．Paula usually has pizza for lunch. |
Many people in the world have not seen snow. Some countries never have snow; some have only a little on top of the high mountains. In the north of England, there is quite a lot of snow every winter, but in the south of England, there is usually little.
When a student from a warm country comes to England in autumn for the first time, he feels cold at first. There are often clouds, grey sky and cold rain in England in autumn, and most students from warm countries do not like this.
But snow is different. It is beautiful. Perhaps, after several mornings, the student wakes up one day, and there is a lot of light in his room. He thinks, “Is it so late?” and jumps out of bed. But no, it is not very late. He looks out of the window and there is snow on the ground and on the houses and everywhere.In the ________ of England there is little snow in winter.
| A．east | B．west | C．south | D．north |
In the autumn of England, we can often see ________.
| A．cold rain | B．grey sky | C．dark clouds | D．all of the above |
Snow is __________.
| A．beautiful | B．dark | C．warm | D．happy |
The sentence “Is it so late?” means ___________.
| A．it’s very late | B．he wants to go to school |
| C．he wants to catch a bus | D．he usually gets up early |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Everyone in the world has seen snow. |
| B．It often sunny in the south of England. |
| C．Foreign students like the weather in England. |
| D．The light of the room comes from clean, beautiful snow. |
Lucy: Excuse me, Li Fen. Where’s our school shop? Do you know?
Li Fen: Yes. It’s over there, behind the teachers’ room.
Lucy: I’d like something to drink. Please go with me. OK?
Li Fen: OK. Let’s go. (At the shop.)
Woman: Can I help you, girls?
Lucy: Yes. Er, what would you like, Li Fen?
Li Fen: I don’t know.
Lucy: Well, what about a bottle of orange?
Li Fen: No, thanks. I’d like a cup of tea. What about you?
Lucy: I’d like a glass of milk. Would you like something to eat?
Li Fen: A pear, please.
Lucy: But I’d like some apples. We would like a cup of tea, a glass of milk, a pear and two apples.
Woman: OK. Here you are.
Lucy: Thank you very much.
Woman: You’re welcome.
阅读对话回答下列问题：Where’s the school shop?
____________________.What would Lucy like to drink?
________________________. What would Li Fen like to drink?
_______________________. What would Lucy like to eat?
_______________________.What about Li Fen?
_______________________.
Look at this picture. The boy is my good friend. His name is Mike. He is thirteen. He isn’t tall. His hair is brown. This is Mike’s father. He is very tall. That is Mike’s mother. She is tall, too. Mike’s father and mother are teachers. Who is the girl? She is Mike’s sister. Her name is Mary. She is very nice. All of them are English.
根据短文内容用合适的单词填空：My good friend is an ___ boy.
How old is Mike? He is _____.
Mike’s father and ____ are teachers.
What colour is Mike’s hair? It’s _____.
Mary is Mike’s ____.
Sandy and Sue are going to school. They are walking along the street. “Look!” Sandy says. “There’s a man near that gate. He’s standing. Who is it?
“It’s Mr. Jones, the postman,” Sue says, “He’s standing in front of Mrs. Mopp’s house.”
“Mrs. Mopp’s house!” Sandy says. “Oh, dear!”
Mrs. Mopp is not a nice lady. She is very tall and very ugly（丑陋的）. And her house is not a nice house. It is very big and very dark. Her gate is closed and Mr. Jones can’t open it.
“Listen!” Sandy says. “Can you hear Mrs. Mopp’s dog?”
“Yes,” Sue answers. “He’s barking（叫）.”
Mrs. Mopp’s dog is very big. His name is Boxer. His face is ugly and his teeth are long and sharp（尖）. He is a nice dog, but he doesn’t like Mr. Jones, the postman.
根据短文内容和首字母提示完成各句所缺单词：Sandy and Sue are s______.
On the way to s____ Sandy and Sue see Mr. Jones, the postman.
Mrs. Mopp is not at h____ now.
Boxer is a d____ name.
Boxer d_____ like Mr. Jones at all.