Mr. Hunt came from a poor family. He had three brothers and two sisters. His father worked hard but wasn’t paid much. And his mother did all the housework at home. They were both able but they couldn’t get enough money for their family.
Mr. Hunt was in school for only three years and he had to stop to help his parents though he was good at his lessons. When he was sixteen, he came to the city and began to work in a small factory. He learned from an old worker and became a skilled worker. The old worker liked him and married his daughter to him. The young man did not have his own house and had to live with his parents-in-law. His mother-in-law always thought he was poor and often chattered. So the young man tried to save everything and hoped to have his own house.
It was one fine Sunday. The old woman wanted to have a picnic on the top of the hill. She told Mr. Hunt to drive her car. But sometimes she told him to turn left and sometimes to turn right. The young man had to listen to her. At a crossing the lights were red but she made him turn left. The policeman stopped them and told the young man to give his license to him.
“If I did wrong, sir,” said Mr. Hunt, “It was my mother-in-law’s fault(过错). She was driving the car though she sat behind me!” The Hunts were poor because ____.
| A．they were lazy |
| B．they were too weak to work |
| C．they couldn’t make enough money |
| D．they weren’t able enough |
Mr. Hunt left the school because ____.
| A．he didn’t like studying |
| B．his family was poor |
| C．he wasn’t clever |
| D．he hoped to stay at home |
____, so the old man married his daughter to him.
| A．Mr. Hunt became a skilled worker |
| B．Mr. Hunt was friendly to him |
| C．Mr. Hunt was paid much in the factory |
| D．Mr. Hunt worked for six years there |
The old woman was ____ to Mr. Hunt.
| A．good | B．bad | C．friendly | D．useless |
Which of the following is wrong?
| A．The old woman herself drove the car that day. |
| B．It was the old woman’s fault. |
| C．Mr. Hunt hated his mother-in-law. |
| D．The old woman told Mr. Hunt to run the red lights. |
下面是一些同学对课外活动的看法，请仔细阅读下列短文，按信息卡内容要求填入相关信息。
Mike Smith: We have many after-class activities in school—English corner, hand-writing lessons, playing basketball, playing chess, dancing and so on. Students in our school can choose any kind of activities they like.
Jane White: I’m a member of the music club in our school. I can learn different kind of music instruments. It’s fun.
Frank Green: I take park in drawing and English corner after class. I benefit a lot from the activities. I can not only improve my abilities of drawing and spoken English, but also make some new friends who have the same hobbies as me.
Amy young: Some teachers think after-class activities take up too much time. But as a student, I think it’s necessary for schools to give us the chance to improve our other abilities after class. We are under great pressure with too much homework and exams. We need time to relax.
Information card
| Kinds of after-class activities |
1, hand-writing lessons, playing basketball, 2, dancing, instrument playing and 3 |
| Advantages of after-class activities |
●a good chance to improve students’ other abilities ●a good chance to 4 ●to help students to 5 |
“No man is an island” is a well-known line from John Donne’s Devotion, written more than three hundred years ago. Even now people still agree with him. No one can live a completely isolated life. Without other people, life became empty and sad. We all need friends.
For some of us, though making friends is not difficult, feeling shy, we may not want to make the first move. It is also difficult at times to keep the friends we already have.
There are many books about friendship, but Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, written in 1936, is the most famous. This “how to” book about getting along with other people became a best-seller. It was later put into 28 languages.
Dale Carnegie’s advice seems to be simple, but can his advice help you? Do you need to change the way you act? Here is the list of advice from his book.
1. Be friendly and polite. Always greet with a smile. Begin with “excuse me” or “would you please”, when you want to ask somebody. Remember to say “thank you” and try to be as helpful as you can.
2. Go out of your way to be nice. Find some time to do special things for other people. Making some soup for a sick neighbor may seem like a little thing to you, but it will make your neighbor feel a lot better.
3. Remember names. They say that the sweetest music to a person’s ears is the sound of his or her own name.
4. Be open-minded. Try to understand other people’s ways and ideas and learn something from them.
5. Listen patiently. When someone is talking to you, look at him or her, listen carefully and say something when necessary.The underlined sentence “No one can live a completely isolated life” means “______” in this passage.
| A．No one can live a hard life |
| B．No one can live without difficulty |
| C．No one can live alone |
| D．No one can live on an island |
Some of us feel it not easy to make friends because ________.
| A．we are afraid to make bad friends |
| B．we are too shy to take the first action |
| C．we feel worried that we won’t be able to keep our friends |
| D．we feel sure that we already have enough friends |
We can learn from this passage that ________.
| A．John Donne learned something from Dale Carnegie |
| B．friends are always friends |
| C．few people bought Carnegie’s book |
| D．the writer of this passage agrees with John Donne and Dale Carnegie |
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Carnegie’s book?
| A．Say “excuse me” before you ask. |
| B．Don’t visit your neighbor too often. |
| C．Think more about others. |
| D．People enjoy hearing their own names. |
The best possible title for this passage should be “________”.
| A．How to Make Friends |
| B．A Famous Book |
| C．About Friendship |
| D．John Donne and Dale Carnegie |
A survey was made about what to do if there was a fire. These are some of the replies.
| First name: Emily State or province: Illinois Country: USA Stay low, close to the ground and make your way outside. Then call the local emergency(急救)number from your neighbor’s house. This is the most important thing to do. Then wait for the firefighters(消防队员). |
| First name: Vanessa State or province: Texas Country: USA If there was a fire and I was in the shower, the first thing I would do would be to make all my clothes really wet and put them on. Then I would break the window with something and get out. If I couldn’t do that, I would lie down and leave the water running. |
| First name: Kystina State or province: Illinois Country: USA I’ve never actually been in a fire, but I know what to do. Sometimes at school we have fire drills so that we know what to do if there is a real fire. |
| First name: Henry State or province: Alaska Country: USA I would do what they did in the Great Fire, even though it did not happen in the real life. It was a very exciting story. |
Emily thinks that _____ is the most important thing to do if there is a fire.
| A．staying low |
| B．calling the emergency number |
| C．waiting for the firefighters |
| D．making the clothes wet |
_______ come from the same state.
| A．Vanessa and Henry | B．Emily and Kystina |
| C．Emily and Henry | D．Kystina and Henry |
Kystina would know what to do because ______.
| A．she was once in a real fire |
| B．she has read a story about a fire |
| C．she knew the emergency number |
| D．she sometimes has fire drills at school |
The Great Fire was ______.
| A．not a real fire |
| B．the biggest fire in history |
| C．a story that made people happy |
| D．a story that really happened |
Which of the following things is NOT mentioned in the passage if there is a fire?
| A．Making the clothes wet. |
| B．Waiting for the firefighters. |
| C．Putting out the fire by yourself. |
| D．Breaking the window and getting out. |
Nowadays, too much carbon dioxide makes the earth warmer and warmer and causes terrible effect to human beings. To save our planet and ourselves, a new lifestyle called low-carbon life becomes popular. Low carbon means low energy and no waste. It is necessary for everybody to learn to live a low-carbon life.
To live a low-carbon life, we’d better save energy as much as possible. Turn off the lights and TV whenever they are not needed. If possible, use cold water to wash clothes or dishes. Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when the weather gets warm. Don’t do the cooking with electricity.
To live a low-carbon life, we should eat less meat. Everybody knows eating too much meat makes people fat and easy to have heart disease, but maybe you don’t know keeping animals for food produces even more carbon dioxide than all the cars in the world, and being a vegetarian (素食主义者) can help reduce one and a half tons of carbon dioxide a year. Maybe it is a little difficult, but it’s really necessary.
To live a low-carbon life, we are supposed to do less shopping. When we go shopping, we may drive a car or take other transportations (交通工具). On one hand, these machines pollute the air and waste energy. On the other hand, most of us always buy some useless things because of some advertisements. It not only waste money but also causes trouble to the earth, because making everything will produce carbon dioxide more or less.
There are many other ways to live a low-carbon life, such as recycling things, planting trees and reusing textbooks. If we can keep it a habit in our daily life, the earth will become a safer planet for us to live on.
任务一：根据短文内容，用简洁的句子或短语完成下列表格。
| Advice |
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life |
| Advice 1 |
﹡ 1. |
| Advice 2 |
﹡ 2. |
| Advice 3 |
﹡ Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when it’s warm. |
| Advice 4 |
﹡ 3. |
| Advice 5 |
﹡ 4. |
| Advice 6 |
﹡ Be supposed to do less shopping. |
| Advice 7 |
﹡ Recycle things, plant trees and reuse textbooks. |
任务二：除了文中提到的建议外，你一定还有许多自己的想法，请写一条与大家分享吧。
﹡ 5.
It is well known that everyone has his own dream as well as his own future. But do you know what future really is? I have to say that future is now. That is to say, we must treasure every minute now. If we want to have a bright future, we should know how important time is and use it well.
There is an old English saying, “Gain (得到) time, gain life.” Then what’s time? Time is something that we can’t see or touch, but we feel it passing by. Time is always with us. When we are at table, time passes; when we play, time goes by unnoticeable. We always say “Time is money”, but time is even more precious (珍贵的) than money, because when money is spent, we can make it back. But if time is gone away, it will never return. So, some of us even say time is priceless (无价的).
We should always remember: future is now. For us students, we should try our best to work hard in order to create a great future of our own. We should make the best use of every hour and be the master of today. We should do everything before us as well as possible. And never put off (推迟) what can be done today till tomorrow.
As we all know, “Time and tide wait for no man.” If you waste today, you will regret tomorrow. So from now on, work hard. Tomorrow will be better, and your future will be brighter. Remember: “No pains, no gains.” Today’s hard work is the cause of tomorrow’s harvest.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。If we want to have a bright future, we should .
A. know the value of time and make every minute useful
B. feel time passing by
C. understand that time is always with us and we can waste itThe word “unnoticeable” means in Chinese.
A. 随意的 B. 不引人注意的 C. 慢慢的Time is more valuable than money because .
A. past time will return no more
B. time can’t be seen or touched
C. time is always with usFrom the passage, we know .
A. when money is spent, we should make it back
B. we can put off what can be done today till tomorrow
C. today’s hard work leads to tomorrow’s harvestWhat is the best title for the passage?
A. A Bright Future B. Time and Monday C. Future and Today