Baseball is one of the favorite sports in the USA. Children play baseball in sports fields or parks. At summer picnic, there is often an informal baseball game. Boys and girls, young and old take turns to bat. There are nine players on each team.
The baseball season goes from April to September. During this time, baseball matches are showed on TV and members of the important baseball teams become America’s heroes (英雄). At the end of the season, the two top teams play against each other. Many baseball fans go together to watch the game. Millions of others listen to the radio or watch the television. People seem to talk only about the game. Even long after it is over, they still talk about the result and the players.
American football is perhaps the most popular sport in the USA. The football season begins when the baseball season ends. More people are interested in football than baseball. When there is an important game, thousands of people sit beside radios or in front of television sets to get the result.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。According to the passage, which is NOT true?
| A．Boys and girls like baseball games. |
| B．Baseball is played in the open air. |
| C．A baseball match has nine players. |
| D．Children sometimes play baseball in parks. |
American people play baseball in April, _______ and September.
| A．May, June, July, August |
| B．March, May, July, August |
| C．January, June, October, November |
| D．February, May, July, December |
What happens at the end of the baseball season?
| A．People talk only about football games. |
| B．Many baseball fans become members of top teams. |
| C．A lot of people join in the games. |
| D．Two top teams play a wonderful baseball game against each other. |
_______ follows the baseball season in the U. S. A.
A. The baseball season B. The football season
C. A baseball match D. A football match This passage mainly tells us something about _______.
A. the football season in the USA.
B. football is more interesting than baseball in the USA.
C. the difference between baseball and football
D. the baseball season in the USA.
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Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Mo, who was born in 1955 into a farmer’s family in Gaomi County in Shandong Province, is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his early years, life was not easy and he experienced hunger（饥饿）. These things have influenced Mo Yan’s later writings. |
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60-year-old Park Geun-hye(朴槿惠)was elected（选举）the new President of South Korea in December, 2012. She becomes the country’s first female head of state and her term will last five years from 2013. “I will become a president who puts people’s living before anything else,” she told the cheering People in central Seoul as she accepted her win. “I will keep my promises.” |
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Barack Obama ( born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961), who was elected the 44th President of the United States in 2008, has been elected again to a second term, fighting against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. His father was from Kenya. And his mother was born in Wichits, Kansas. |
When Mo Yan was young, his family might be .
| A．big | B．poor | C．rich | D．small |
When was Park Geun-hye born?____________
| A．In 1952. | B．In 1955. |
| C．In 1961. | D．In 1987. |
Where was Barack Obama born? ________________
| A．In Kansas. | B．In Kenya. |
| C．In Columbia. | D．In Hawaii. |
Which of the following is NOT true about the passages?___________
| A．The writer Mo Yan lived in a big city before he got the prize. |
| B．Park Geun-hye will lead South Korea till the year 2018. |
| C．Obama fought against his challenger Mitt Romney in the election. |
| D．Among the three persons, Park Geun-hye is the oldest. |
The three passages may be from .
| A．an email | B．a letter | C．news | D．an ad |
No matter in China or in Canada among my friends, they all talk about the hot TV program “Where are we going, Dad?” at present. They all like the family education between fathers and children. They like to talk about the funny kids best. Of all the kids, I like Shitou best.
Shitou is a boy from Beijing. He is brave and clever. He likes to make some New Year’s plans with his father’s help. He makes some New Year’s plans for himself.
He wants to start an exercise program, so he is going to take more exercise and eat less fast food. Making a soccer team is one of his dreams because he likes playing soccer with his friends. He also plans to improve his English. He is going to chat in English online with Kimi, the son of Lin Zhiying . Kimi is really good at it. Shitou also decides to take up a hobby. Can you guess what the hobby is ? It is to learn the shadow play (皮影戏) ! He is so interested in it that he thinks it’s really cool to play it. His father says that this plan may be too difficult to keep. However, Shitou promises(许诺) to make it come true.According to the writer’s friends, the TV program“ Where are we going, Dad? ”is about__________________.
| A．some friends from Canada |
| B．traveling around the countries |
| C．stories about Chinese and Canadians |
| D．family education between children and fathers |
When the writer’s friends talk about the program, __________ interest them the most.
| A．beautiful places | B．some funny stories |
| C．kids that are funny | D．interesting Chinese friends |
Shitou is a brave and clever boy who likes_______________________
| A．to make plans | B．to eat junk food |
| C．to play basketball | D．to play jokes on others |
The underlined word “it”here refers to_________________
| A．the TV program | B．English |
| C．soccer | D．the shadow play |
Which of the following is not true according to this passage?
| A．Shitou wants to do more sports later. |
| B．Shitou is going to build a soccer team. |
| C．Shitou thinks it’s difficult to learn English. |
| D．Shitou decides to achieve his dream of playing the shadow play. |
Are you bored with your daily life? Here are some things you should try before you are 18, because after that it’s too late.
Learn to swim
Seriously, this is so important that it can save your life. If you can’t swim well, you won’t be able to do water sports like waterskiing, surfing and diving. Even taking a boat trip will be dangerous for you. Make sure you do it.
Try at least one kind of team sports
Being a good team player is an important skill in life. You can’t just think of yourself, but have to work well with other people. Basketball, football and baseball are team sports that keep you fit and healthy. And they are also of great fun. Teams usually have a good social life too – you’ll go to lots of parties and make many friends.
Collect something
One of the best hobbies for under 18 is collecting things. You could collect kinds of stamps, or you could collect things that make you remember what you have done, like cinema tickets for films you have seen or emails from friends. The best way to collect is to have a special album to put your collection in and to write what each thing means to you. That way you won’t forget.
任务型阅读：根据短文内容，填写下列表格。 (每格一词)
| Three Things to Do Before You Are 18 |
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| What to do |
Reasons |
| learn to swim |
Swimming is so important that it can It may be |
| try at least one kind of team sports |
If you want to be a good team player, you must work well with Team sports can not only keep you healthy but also give you You can have a good social life and make many |
| collect something |
Collecting things can make you |
Today, an increasing number of people are always looking at their mobile phones with their heads down. These people are called the “Heads-down Tribe(低头族)”. Are you a heads-down tribe member? Heads-down tribe members now can be seen everywhere.
More and more traffic accidents are happening because more drivers use mobile phones when they are driving. In order to make drivers pay more attention to driving, some new traffic rules have been made. For example, people who use mobile phones while driving in Taiwan are fined(罚款). Car drivers and motorcyclists who break the traffic rule will be fined NT$3,000 and NT$1,000 respectively(分别地).
As we can see above, using mobile phones may cause accidents and even cost a lot of money. Also, more and more interesting and strange facts happen to the “Heads-down Tribe”. Let’s have a look at an interesting TV report. A man in America kept using his mobile phone on his way home. As a result, he knocked into a big lost bear. When he lifted his eyes from the phone，he was so afraid that he turned around and ran away quickly. Another fact is that we can often see people in the restaurant eating face to face but looking at their own mobile phones. It’s strange that they don’t talk to the ones who sit opposite to them during the meal. Some of them even have fun communicating with others on the phone.
Mobile phones are helpful and necessary tools for modern life. Are mobile phones good or bad? It depends on how people use them. Let’s be “healthy” users and try to be the “Heads-up Tribe”.A heads-down tribe member .
A. is good at using the Internet
B. is a dangerous driver
C. is always looking at his or her mobile phoneThe underlined word “motorcyclists” in the passage means in Chinese.
A. 摩托车手 B.手机使用者 C.低头族The American was when he knocked into the bear.
A. driving a car
B. going to work
C. using his mobile phoneAccording to the passage, the “Heads-down Tribe”_______ when they eat in a restaurant.
A. look at their own mobile phones
B. don’t talk to the people who sit opposite
C. Both A and BWhat’s the best title for the passage?
A. Drive your car carefully
B. Use mobile phones properly
C. Be a heads-down tribe member
Have you ever recycled? To recycle is to take rubbish and make it into something new. Recycling is good for our planet because it makes litter into something that we can use again. Recycling also helps to clean up the litter that makes our streets look dirty.
All kinds of things can be recycled. The most common materials(材料) like glass, plastic, paper, metals, cloth are all recyclable. Sometimes these products are broken down to make the same kinds of products. An example of this type of recycling is using paper to make more paper. Garbage can also be broken down to make completely new items(物品) as well!
Some items, like glass, can be recycled forever（永远）! We can use glass items, then break them down and use them again and again. Aluminum(铝)cans are one of the most successful recycled metals. They can be recycled again and again and nearly 60% of all cans have been recycled.
The average（平均） family of four can produce nearly 2,000 pounds of garbage each year. As time goes on, we have fewer places to put all of this garbage in. Recycling is one way to limit（限制）the amount of garbage we need to put into the land.
The next time you toss a can or bottle into the dustbin, look to see if there is a recycling triangle on the label. It is the international sign for recycling. It means that the item you are going to throw in the dustbin could be recycled .
To recycle is to ______.
A. Clean up the dirty things on the street
B.Find a land to put into the garbage
C. Make new things out of litterWhich of the following is NOT TRUE in this passage?
A. Plastic, metals, cloth and paper can be recycled
B. Rubbish can also be used to make completely new items.
C. All things can be recycled foreverWhat does the underlined word“toss” in the passage mean?
A. take away B. throw away C. give upWhich of the following can’t be recycled?
A. Paper B. Cloth C. BatteryThe purpose (目的)of the passage is mainly ______.
A.To introduce more recyclable materials
B.To suggest a new way to change and keep garbage
C.To tell people the importance of protecting the environment.