CNameTimeSubjectFeeling(感觉)Bil-优题课

Many animals go on long and difficult journeys to find food or places for their young to start life. They often travel very far, sometimes even halfway around the world.
Some animals make one of these amazing journeys every year, while others make only one amazing journey in their lives. Some animals travel over land, some through water and others in the air.
Green turtles spend most of their lives in the sea, but they come to the shore to lay their eggs. Every two or three years, fully-grown female turtles swim a long way to the same beach where they were hatched (孵化) and lay their eggs there. Some turtles may travel over 1240 miles to reach the same beach. No one knows how these turtles are able to find the same beach again.
Monarch butterflies live in North America. At the end of summer, they fly south to Mexico. In spring, they fly back north. During this journey, the adults lay their eggs and then they die. When the young butterflies hatch, they continue the journey north. No one knows how the young butterflies know where to go.
The journeys for these animals are usually_____________.

A．long but easy	B．short but difficult
C．short and easy	D．long and difficult

Monarch butterflies lay eggs______________.

A．in North America

B．in Mexico

C．on the way from Mexico to North America

D．at the end of summer

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Some animals make the amazing journey once in a lifetime.

B．Some animals make the journey through water.

C．Female turtles lay eggs on the same beach where they were hatched.

D．Young monarch butterflies fly back to Mexico after they hatch.

The main idea of this passage is ______________.

A．about some animals’ looks

B．about some animals’ journeys to find food or lay eggs

C．why some animals lay eggs

D．when some animals find food

Mr. Jones opened a shop in Aston to sell writing-paper, pencils and things like that. During the first month, very few people visited his shop. He sold little, and he could see that he was going to lose money. One night, Mr. Jones sat by the fire and was worried after another very bad day. Suddenly he got an idea. He found a piece of wood and wrote to the following notice on it in big letters：
“WHAT DO YOU THINK I GIVE AWAY PENCILS PAPER AND INK”
He put up the notice in front of the shop window before he went to bed. He slept better than usual that night.
The following day, many people came to the shop. Mr. Jones said good morning to them all with a bright smile and asked the first woman what she wanted.
She chose some writing paper and a pencil. As soon as he put them on her hands, she turned to leave the shop.
“That will be thirty cents, please,” he said.
“Why?” she asked in surprise.
“That’s the price of the paper and the pencil.”
“But your notice says it’s free,” she replied.
“Oh no,” he said, “how can I make any money if everything is free?”
She took him outside and showed him the notice “It is wrong, too,” she said. “where is the question mark after the world ‘think’?”
“There isn’t a question mark,” he said.
“But there should be one.”
“I’m afraid you’ve made a mistake,” Mr. Jones said.“You have read my notice in the wrong way.”
“Not at all,” said the woman. “It is quite easy to read. It says： What do you think? I give away pencils and
paper and ink!”
“No,” Mr. Jones said. “You should read it like this . And the answer to the question is： Certainly not! So you really have to pay me thirty cents, you see.”
How did Mr. Jones most probably felt that night?

A．Confident.

B．Afraid.

C．Unhappy.

D．Worried.

Which of the following sentences is the most suitable for the blank in the last paragraph?

A．What do you think? I give away pencils, paper and ink!

B．What? Do you think I give away pencils, paper and ink?

C．What do you think I give away? Pencils, paper and ink.

D．Ink, paper and pencils away give. I think you do what?

What can we infer (推断) from the story?

A．Mr. Jones agreed to let the shoppers get things for free that day.

B．People in the town considered Mr. Jones a smart and honest man.

C．The woman paid the money unwillingly and left the shop angrily.

D．Mr. Jones’s trick proved to be a longtime success and he got rich.

You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABCs? Do you know there is such a thing as “a banana person”? How strange! ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside. So, when a person is a “banana”, he or she is white inside—thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside—looking like a Chinese.
Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are overseas (海外的) Chinese. These people may be citizens (公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.
But they are not Chinese citizens. They are people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang (杨振宁) . He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
“ABCs” in this passage means .

A．three English letters

B．a kind of banana

C．Chinese born in America

D．Americans born in China

Chinese in Western countries are called “banana persons” because .

A．their bodies are white inside but yellow outside

B．they think like Westerners but look like Chinese

C．they were born in China but go to study in America

D．they like to eat bananas

Which of the sentences is WRONG about ABCs?

A．ABCs may know little about China.

B．They are overseas Chinese.

C．They may speak little Chinese.

D．They are Chinese citizens.

任务型阅读
学校要举行一次劳动世纪实践活动，要求每组同学合作烹制一道菜。请阅读下列材料，根据五位同学的分工，为他们找到相应的任务。

Tasks
Planning
Shopping
Cooking
Cleaning
Reporting

A
Cutting up the chicken
Heating up the oil
Putting in the chicken
Adding some salt

B
2kg of chicken
0.5kg of carrots
1 bottle of cooking oil
1 bottle of cooking wine

C
Taking pictures
Doing interviews
Making a report

D
Starting a discussion
Making decisions
Telling group members what to do

E
Washing the dishes
Cleaning the table
Sweeping the floor
Taking away the trash

Scientists are trying to make the deserts （沙漠）into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming deserts all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the deserts. Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
Some places on the earth don’t get much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very helpful(有帮助的) to dry places. Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don’t let the wind blow the earth away. When a little bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become deserts much more easily.
Why can the land become deserts?

A．Some places don’t get much rain.

B．Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier.

C．People don’t keep the earth well.

D．Scientists haven’t learnt enough about the deserts.

Scientists want to to make the deserts into good land again.

A．carry water	B．grow food
C．do nothing	D．study a lot

Why are green plants and grass helpful?

A．They can hold the water.

B．They can stop the wind from blowing the earth away.

C．They can keep the earth wet.

D．All the above.

After reading this, we learn that .

A．it is good to get rid of (去除) the grass in the deserts

B．all places without much rain will become deserts

C．plants can keep (阻止) dry land from becoming deserts

D．it is better to grow crops（农作物）on dry land than to grow grass

Name	Time	Subject	Feeling(感觉)
Bill	Monday 8∶00-9∶00	Science	Difficult
Jennifer	Wednesday 10∶00-11∶00	Geography	Interesting
Scott	Thursday 13∶00-14∶00	English	Fun
Selina	Friday 14∶00-15∶00	History	Boring