If you could see a movie of your life before you lived it, would you want to live it? Probably not. The excitement of living is that you don’t know what’s coming.
Sure, it’s hard to see uncertainty(不确定) in such positive（积极的）light when you’re out of work, or when you feel like you’re failing. But uncertainty is really another word for chance.
When Allison graduated from Harvard, she had chances all over the place but had no idea what she wanted to do. She took a job in consulting（咨询）, but she knew she wouldn’t stay there. She took the GRE and scored so high that she was able to increase her income（收入）by teaching students. Still, she didn’t think she wanted to go to graduate school（研究院）. Allison knew she wasn’t doing what she wanted, but she didn’t know what she wanted.
She worried. All her friends were going to graduate school or starting their own businesses. She was lost and felt that she would never find anything out. After six years, Allison, by having a general（全面的）plan in mind, got married, moved to the Midwest and used her consulting experience to get a great job. Allison realized that she spent her years finding her way: time well spent.
The only way to lead an interesting life is to face uncertainty. Otherwise your life is not your own—it is a path someone else has chosen. Moments of uncertainty are when you create your life, when you become who you are. Uncertainty usually begins with a job hunt, but it doesn’t end there. Every new role we take on means another round of uncertainty. Instead of fearing it, you should find some ways to deal with uncertainty.From the first two paragraphs, we can learn that .
| A．being out of work is a sad thing |
| B．uncertainty is what makes life interesting |
| C．life in a film is more exciting than real life |
| D．chance never appears when we need it |
What troubles Allison after graduation?
| A．She couldn’t find a well-paid job. |
| B．She had no money to start a business. |
| C．She was not sure what to do. |
| D．She didn’t score high enough for graduate school. |
How did Allison feel about her six years’ working experience?
| A．Uncertain. | B．Amazed. |
| C．Sorry. | D．Satisfied. |
What may be discussed in the following paragraph?
| A．How to deal with uncertainty. |
| B．What role uncertainty plays in life. |
| C．Why people fear uncertainty. |
| D．Whom to go to when facing uncertainty. |
Almost every Chinese person can recite the two lines of the famous poem, “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work(谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦).” But sadly, many of us don’t actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don’t waste food.
A CCTV program, News One Plus One, reported that the food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.
Do we have too much food? Of course not. According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2010, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.
Chinese people are well known for being hospitable(好客的) and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table.
Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. Last November, Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Nanjing, got fired because she took some leftover food home for her son. Many people stood by her side and criticized(批评) the waste of food.
What should we do in our daily lives to waste less food? Here are some tips:
◆Do not order too much in a restaurant. Only order as much as you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.
◆Don’t be too picky(挑剔的) about food. Some food may not taste great, but your body needs it.
◆Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit. How many people were hungry in the world in 2010 according to the UN World Food Program?
| A．200 million. | B．Six million. |
| C．925 million. | D．625 million. |
The underlined word “leftover” means in Chinese.
| A．过期的 | B．剩余的 | C．腐烂的 | D．难吃的 |
According to the passage, we shouldn’t waste food because.
| A．food comes from very hard work |
| B．six million children die of hunger every day |
| C．there is enough food to feed all the people |
| D．Chinese are hospitable and generous |
Which of the following is a good way to save food?
| A．Ordering more than you need at a restaurant. |
| B．Taking home restaurant leftovers. |
| C．Not knowing what you already have at home when shopping. |
| D．Not eating the food you don’t like even if it’s healthy. |
What’s your favorite class? These days, many children don’t really like to attend PE class. But you should take part in your PE class. Why? (A) It’s not only good for your health, but also can improve your grades!
(B)______________ Swedish researchers, increasing levels of physical education (PE) improves children’s grades. The researchers in a university in Sweden studied more than 200 schoolchildren over nine years. (C) They followed the students since they were in third grade.
The researchers (D) looked into the influence of physical education on children. Some children received physical education five days a week. They also receive extra training in balance and coordination (和谐). (E)_________ the other hand, the other children received normal levels of physical education.
The study found that 96% of students in the first group achieved good grades. In the second group where the children received normal levels of PE, only 89% of students achieved such grades.
The study showed that the difference was especially clear among boys. The boys who received extra PE had much higher grades in many subjects than those who received the normal amount of PE. (F) The researchers said that physical education plays a very important role for growing children.
Many school pared down PE class and children have PE only once or twice a week. (G) What they wanted to do was to get the kids to learn well. They do need to read this passage and then change their (H)__________(decide).
任务一：把文中划线句子（A），（E）和（G）翻译成汉语。(A)_____________________
(F)_____________________
(G)_____________________
任务二：在（B）处填入适当短语。(B)__________________
任务三：写出（C）处划线单词指代的内容：(C)_______________________
任务四：写出（D）处划线短语的汉语意思：(D)______________________
任务五：在（E）处填入适当介词：(E)__________
任务六：用（H）处所给单词的适当形式填空：(H)________
任务七：回答下列问题。How long did the researchers in Sweden study the 200 schoolchildren?
If there’re 200 students who receive extra training, how many of them will achieve good grades?
Bicycle sharing systems are also known as yellow bicycle programs, white bicycle programs, public bikes, or free bikes. They are increasingly popular in Europe now. Paris has the world’s largest urban (城市的) cycle rental system.
This is a bike rental station in Paris. The worker is showing how to use a new self-service bike. They say that Paris will become “a green capital of bikes” and they plan to park 20,000 bicycles at 1,600 stations. Paris created this plan to improve the city traffic environment and reduce the waste gas displacement (废弃排气量).
At a rental station, you only have to put your credit card into the machine to rent a bike. It provides French, German, English and Chinese services. If you ride the bike for only 30 minutes to relax, you needn’t pay for it. A two-hour bike rent only costs you 4 euros.
These stations work for 24 hours every day, so a bike is rented for 10 to 14 times a day. In this way there are 200,000 people using bikes a day,
In the past few years, Paris has encouraged its people to ride bikes, but something unhappy has happened now and then. Some people break the traffic rules during rush hours. Some park their bikes everywhere. So how to park bikes is a problem that Paris will face. But this project is still a helpful way to improve its traffic environment. Don’t you think so?Bicycle rental system can help Paris become a ________.
| A．fashion capital | B．sleepy city |
| C．polite city | D．green capital of bikes |
Paris built many rental systems to_______.
| A．relax travelers | B．improve the environment |
| C．reduce traffic accidents | D．get money |
The machine at a bicycle rental system offers _______language services.
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
_______ people use bikes a day
| A．1,600 | B．20,000 | C．24,000 | D．200,000 |
From the passage we can infer that the author__________.
| A．thinks bicycle rental systems are great |
| B．doesn’t agree the idea of bicycle rental system |
| C．thinks Paris is a bicycle capital |
| D．thinks bikes are better than cars |
When you sit in the classroom, do you suddenly feel that summer flew by so quickly? I’m still thinking about taking walks in the park and meeting my friends at night. But I know that the school season is beginning. And homework, tests and routine (常规生活) all come with it.
When I stay in my room and write my homework, I often look out of the window and look back at this summer.
In the past two months of summer break, I spent many evenings in my backyard. I listened to my parents telling stories about their childhood. My brother caught fireflies (萤火虫). Once in a while, we made a barbecue and ate chicken and corn.
Now I’m back to school. It’s difficult to find time to do everything that I want to do, like dancing, reading, and sleeping. How I hope to have another break in my studies! I could read a fun book instead of the boring ones that we have to read for English class.
Still, I should not feel sad. Summer gave me time to relax, good memories, laughter, and the experience of new friendships. But without school, I would never appreciate the happy moments in summer and the responsibilities (责任) that I have now. What’s more, there are only 10 more months to go until summer comes again. And in the meantime, I can have lots of fun with my friends as we begin our high school experience together.The article is written _____.
| A．during the summer break |
| B．in an English class |
| C．in the classroom |
| D．at the beginning of a school season |
From Paragraph 3, we learn that _____.
| A．the writer’s family owns a big farm |
| B．the writer doesn’t like the life in big cities |
| C．the writer had a great time with his family |
| D．his family raises chickens in their backyard. |
What does the writer think of the reading for English class?
| A．fun | B．boring | C．relaxing | D．difficult |
The writer wrote the article to ______.
| A．tell people how he spent his summer break |
| B．show her sadness for the end of the summer break |
| C．show her resolutions for the new term |
| D．express that both summer break and school days should be treasured |
How long should the writer spend before the next summer break comes?
| A．About ten months | B．Only two months. |
| C．Several days. | D．We don’t know. |
In ancient Greece, Socrates was a great philosopher (哲学家), who was widely known for his wisdom (智慧).
One day the great philosopher met a man, who ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?”
“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied. “Before you tell me, I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Test of Three.”
“Test of Three?”
“That’s correct,” Socrates continued. “The first test is Truth. Are you sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No,” the man replied, “actually I just heard about it.”
“All right, so you don’t really know if it’s true or not,” said Socrates. “Now let’s try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?”
“No, on the contrary...”
“So,” Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about him even though you’re not sure it’s true?”
The man shrugged (耸肩), a little embarrassed.
“The third test – the filter (过滤) of Usefulness,” Socrates continued. “Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really...”
“Well,” Socrates said, “if what you want to tell me is neither true, nor good, nor even useful, why do you want to tell me at all?”
The man was ashamed (惭愧的) and said no more.When the man tried to tell Socrates something about his student, Socrates _____.
| A．listened to him carefully | B．told him to go away |
| C．asked him to pass a test | D．walked away quickly |
What is the Test of Three mainly about?
| A．Love, Truth and Honesty. |
| B．Truth, Goodness and Usefulness. |
| C．Wisdom, Love and Goodness. |
| D．Honesty, Wisdom and Truth. |
The third test is to check whether what the man wanted to say is _____.
| A．useful | B．true | C．good | D．funny |
What can we learn from the story?
| A．Don’t tell a lie to a philosopher. |
| B．Truth always hides behind small things. |
| C．No one wants to listen to bad news. |
| D．Think twice before you spread a piece of news. |
Which is Not True according to the passage?
| A．One day a man ran up to Socrates excitedly because he was one of his students. |
| B．Socrates asked the man to pass the Test of Three. |
| C．The man knew what he wanted to tell Socrates was not true. He just wanted to talk with him. |
| D．At last the man felt ashamed. |