Think about a 11-year-old girl spending her days washing clothes, looking after her baby brother, and doing hard work on the farm.
Think about a little girl. She knows there is no food for dinner, and no water to drink. She has watched her father, brother and sister lose their lives because the family has no money to send for a doctor.
Hard to believe? For Maria Pastoral, these are the facts.
Maria would gladly go to school, but her mother, now alone, needs her badly at home. Maria had to leave school because her family was so poor.
For just 52 pennies(便士) a day, you can help out a child like Maria. Show her that someone will help her. Through Save the Children, you can help Maria’s mother get better crops from their farm, and make money so that Maria can buy clothes and things for school.
To help Maria most, your money is put with money from other donors(捐赠人),so hardworking people can help themselves to build schools and hospitals, bring in clean water and improve their farms. This is what Save the Children has done since 1932.
For you there are many returns. You can write letters to each other get photos or progress reports. You are helping to save other people. That’s how Save the Children works. Without you, it can’t work. Please take a moment to fill in the form below to help a child like Maria and her village.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。Maria had to leave school because .
| A．Her mother was ill |
| B．Her father didn’t want her to go to school |
| C．Her family was very poor |
| D．She didn’t like school at all |
What would Maria do with the money you send to her family?
| A．She would buy beautiful clothes.. |
| B．She would buy school things. |
| C．She would buy a big house. |
| D．She would buy some medicine. |
Save the Children is something similar to .
| A．IOC | B．Greener China |
| C．WHO | D．Project Hope |
How long has Save the Children been in operation?
| A．In 1932. | B．1932 years ago. |
| C．Since 1932. | D．For 1932 years. |
Which of the following returns can’t you get from Maria?
| A．You can get her letters very often. |
| B．She will give you a lot when she grows up. |
| C．You can often get some pictures from her. |
| D．You can often be told how she is getting along. |
Note-taking is a skill that can help you do well in all your schoolwork. It can make you confident when you are studying. But unluckily, most students don’t know how to take notes.
★Write down key facts. If your teacher writes notes on the blackboard, that’s great. You can copy them or write down the most important facts of all in class. Different teachers do things differently. For example, some teachers may focus* on lots of dates and facts* in class, but they only write the important ones on the blackboard. Other teachers may not write anything down, but they may say something important again and again.
★Ask. Don’t be afraid to ask your teacher to repeat what you miss. If your teacher speaks too fast and you can’t follow what he is saying, you can ask him after class.
★Compare. Comparing your notes with your classmates’ can be good for your learning. It can also help you and your classmates correct some mistakes.
★Organize. Note-taking also needs organization. Keep notes for each subject in one notebook, so that you can find everything easily when a test comes.
★Good note-taking takes time. If you decide to recopy your notes every evening, you’ll surely have less time to watch TV. But you’ll save time in the coming test.If you can’t follow your teachers in class, what should you do?
| A．Ask them after class. |
| B．Ask them before class. |
| C．Stop listening in class. |
| D．Complain to them about the class. |
Which way can help you correct mistakes in your notes?
| A．Organizing the notes. |
| B．Recopying your notes after class. |
| C．Asking your teachers for help. |
| D．Comparing your notes with others’ |
Which can be the BEST title for this passage?
| A．How to take notes |
| B．What to do in class |
| C．How to study for a test |
| D．What to do with problems |
Are you thinking about what to do in your free time? Come and join us — Youth Club! Join in lessons and activities. It’s fun! For more information, call 13812427108!
| Lessons |
Activities |
| Monday~ Friday 6:00 ~ 7:30pm Computer lessons for beginners |
Saturday and Sunday 8:00 ~ 9:00 pm Basketball and volleyball playgrounds open |
| Monday, Wednesday 7:30 ~ 9:30pm Dance lessons for dance – lovers You can learn and enjoy wonderful dances. |
Monday ~ Sunday Swimming pool open |
| Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 6:30 ~ 7:30 pm Cooking lessons Learn to cook delicious dishes from all over China |
The 2nd and last Saturday of every month 7:00 ~ 9:30 pm Concert time — Enjoy Swedish rock, American jazz and beautiful songs from different parts of the word! |
Rose is free after 7:20pm. Which lessons can she take?
| A．Computer lessons | B．Dance lessons |
| C．Cooking lessons | D．Both computer and cooking lessons |
If Dick wants to swim after playing basketball, when can he go to the club?
| A．Monday and Wednesday. | B．Monday and Sunday. |
| C．Saturday and Sunday. | D．Monday to Saturday. |
How often does the club have music concerts?
| A．Twice a month | B．Twice a week |
| C．Four times a month | D．Five times a week |
回答问题
CCTV reported that every year Chinese people throw away a lot of food which can feed 200 million people for a year.
Do we have too much food? Of course not. According to the UN World Food Programme, there were 900million hungry people all over the world in 2013. About six million children die of hunger every year.
So think about it. We should say no to people who waste food every day. An old saying goes, “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work.” It tells us everybody must save food.
Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Jiangsu, once lost her job because she took some leftover(剩余的) food home for her son. But many people were by her side and criticized (批评) the waste of food.
What should we do in our daily life to stop wasting food? We can do many things to prevent it from happening. Here are some tips:
Don't order too much food in a restaurant. Only order as much as you can eat. If you can’t eat all the food you order, take the rest of it home.
Don’t be too picky(挑剔的) about food. some food may not be tasty, but put body need it.
Don’t keep too much food at home, especially for fruit and vegetables.How many hungry people were there over the world in 2013?
____________________________________________________Why did Li Hong lose her job?
____________________________________________________What should you do if you can’t eat all the food you ask for?
_____________________________________________________ Can you keep too much food at home?
______________________________________________________What’s the main idea of the passage?
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Water is the most common substance(物质) found on the earth, but less than 1% of the earth’s water is suitable for drinking. More than 1,000,000,000 people around the world survive on just over 1 galon of water a day. Probebly more than 3,000,000,000 people may suffer from not having enough water by the year 2025. You are considered lucky if you live in a country where you can drink water out of your kitchen tap or bathroom tap. People in some countries have to pay for drinking water at home. So clean water is one of our most valuabe natural resources(资源).
In fact, peole waste(浪费) so much clean water today. In factories lots of water is wasted. At home many people are not taking showers but still baths, and many are brushing their teeth with the tap turned on. Children are no longer taught how to save water….
You can save clean water in many ways. For example, if you keep gold fish, the tank water excellent for graden plants. And when you wash a milk bottle, pour the water on your house plants. Putting a brick or a water into your toilet tank many help use less water, saving many gallons over a long time.
Using rainwater is another simple way to save clean water. You can use rainwater to wash your hands after gardening, flush the toilet, and wash your car, your pet, your driveway when they are dirty.
For the same reason, people in Malaysia are encourageed to use rainwater. If one has a house with a small garden, he would buy a huge plastic tank to keep rainwater for their daily life. We can learn from the passage ______.
| A．when man can’t live without water |
| B．where there is no water resource |
| C．why there is less water on the earth |
| D．how important it is to save water |
According to the passage, one of the ways to save water is _______.
| A．to stop keeping gold fish |
| B．to pay much for drinking water |
| C．to use it in a clever way |
| D．to educate those who waste water |
The underlined word “flush” in Paragraph 4 means “_______”.
| A．clean something with water |
| B．pour water over something |
| C．make somehting wet with water |
| D．get water out of someghing |
People are ecouraged to use rainwater _______.
| A．so that is can make our life easier |
| B．so that clean water can be kept for other uses |
| C．because is it free and easy to get |
| D．because there is no claen water left for them |
In Britain you’re allowed to drive a car when you’re seventeen. You have to get a special two-year driving license before you can start. When you’re leaning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren’t allowed to drive the car on the road alone. You don’t have to go to a driving school --- a friend can teach you. The person with you isn’t allowed to take money for the lesson unless he’s got a teacher’s license.
Before you’re allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don’t pass the test, you’re allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her fortieth test after 212 driving lessons! When you’ve passed your test, you don’t have to take it again, and you’re allowed to go on driving as long as you like. Britain’s oldest driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.
Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn’t have to take a test until 1935. On the early days of car driving, before 1878, cars weren’t allowed to go faster than four miles an hour and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.Which of the following is NOT necessary for a young man who wants to drive a car alone?
| A．He should reach the age of 17. |
| B．He should get a special two-year driving license. |
| C．He should learn to drive in a driving school. |
| D．He should pass a driving test to get a full license. |
A person can’t take money for driving lessons unless he __________.
| A．has learnt to drive in a driving school |
| B．has a full driving license |
| C．has a teacher’s license |
| D．is given a special two-year driving license |
In the driving test, one _______________________.
| A．can drive his own car but it must be fit for the road. |
| B．is usually asked to drive on roads for some time |
| C．has to be examined only in car driving skills |
| D．can drive around for more than an hour |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．There is no limit (限制)to the age of an old man who drives a car. |
| B．One can take a driving test again and again until he passes it. |
| C．There was a speed limit to cars before 1878. |
| D．A car driver didn’t have to get a license until 1935. |