Goodbooksarelikewisefriends.Th-优题课

It was the first day of class. Two of Tara’s new ESL (English as a Second Language) classmates wanted to know where she was from. They were both from Korea. Because Tara looked like Korean, one of the women asked Tara, in English, if she was from Korea. Tara replied, “No, I’m not.” Then the women took turns asking Tara if she was from Japan, or Thailand, or China. To each question, Tara answered them a simple “no”. Laughing, one woman said to the other, “She’s not from anywhere!” The two went to their desks, talking to each other in Korean.
The next day, the teacher divided the students into groups of four. The students in each group asked introductory questions of each other. A student in Tara’s group asked her, “Where are you from?” Tara answered that she was from Korea. The two women who had questioned Tara the day before were sitting only a few feet away. Both of them heard Tara’s answer.
“Aha!” they both exclaimed, “You are from Korea!” Tara smiled and said yes. Then she apologized (道歉) to both of them for lying the day before. She told them that she had not wanted to get into a Korean conversation with them. It had been her experience that many ESL students continued to speak their mother languages in ESL class, and Tara had not come to ESL class to practice her Korean. In her opinion, ESL students should try to speak English only.
“I agree.” said Rose.
“You’re 100 percent right.” agreed Jenny, “Rose and I must stop speaking Korean to each other. Right, Rose?” Rose nodded, and then said something in Korean. All three women laughed.
The next half a year, Tara became friendly with both women, although she never spoke a word of Korean to them during class or break.
Where does Tara come from?

A．China.

B．Thailand.

C．Japan.

D．Korea.

The underlined word “exclaimed” in Paragraph 3 means “_________”.

A．cried in fear	B．shouted in surprise
C．screamed with joy	D．announced with excitement

According to the passage, we can infer (推断) that _________.

A．Tara said she was from Korea because she knew the student in her group was also from Korea.

B．Tara said she was from Korea because she wanted to make friends with the student in her group.

C．Tara said she wasn’t from Korea because she didn’t like Rose and Jenny and wasn’t willing to speak Korean with them.

D．Tara said she wasn’t from Korea because she didn’t want Rose and Jenny to speak Korean with her during the class.

What can be the best title of this passage?

A．Let’s Speak English	B．An ESL Class
C．Don’t Tell Lies	D．Let’s Practice Korean

Recycling is a way to take trash and turn it into new products. There are a number of different recycling processes that allow materials to be used more than once.
All kinds of materials can be recycled. Some of the most common processes in use today involve（牵涉） recycling plastic, glass, metals , paper, electronics and so on. Items made of these materials include soda cans, plastic boxes, newspapers, old computers, and cardboard boxes.
There are many steps in recycling. It isn’t actually a simple process and is different for each type of material. For example, paper starts its recycling process by being mixed with water and other chemicals to break it down. This process finally turns the paper into a pulp(纸浆). Then remove the plastics and other useless materials from the pulp. After that, it gets cleaned. Now the pulp is ready to be made into new paper.
However, computers and batteries（电池） are usually recycled in order to remove harmful chemicals as well as to find again some valuable materials such as gold.
In general, we should follow different steps in the recycling process. These steps are:
•Collecting recyclable materials, like cans and plastic bottles.
•Processing(加工) the old materials and making new items.
•Buying items made from recycled materials.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
What is recycling?

A．It makes your heart and body strong.

B．It is to reuse anything that can be used again.

C．It means keeping the land , air and water clean.

D．buying items made from recycled materials

Paragraph 2 mainly tells us _____.

A．recycling is very easy

B．recycling process is different

C．what materials can be recycled

D．throwing cans and plastic bottles away

Which shows the recycling process of paper correctly?
a. cleaning it
b. removing useless materials
c. being mixed with water and other chemicals
d. turning the paper into a pulp

A．c-d-b-a	B．b-a-d-c
C．c-a -b-d	D．a-b-d-a

任务型阅读,Bill等五位同学即将升入高中，请你根据1~5五段材料中关于他们的兴趣爱好的描述，帮助他们选定各自感兴趣的高中选修课程。（有一项是多余的）
Bill would like to go to the USA one day. He likes Lincoln, Washington and other presidents. He wants to know more about this country.
Linda enjoys delicious food. She often helps her mother with meals. She’d like to learn how to make dishes.
Tony’s hobby is to take photos. He hoped to do it better.
Mei Langfang is Chris’s favorite star. He likes Chinese traditional music. He often watches plays at the theater or on CCTV-11.
Maria is good at drawing. She wants to learn how to make films like Mickey Mouse.

A．Beijing Opera

B．American History

C．English Film

D．Cooking

E. Photography

F. Cartoon Making

Our three-year-old daughter Becky wanted a dog. But we were too busy to buy one . One day, Becky ran in, shouting, “Mom! Come to see my dog!” Her face was red with excitement.
I followed her to the bush and found a wolf! He was hurt. Seeing me, he stood up suddenly! I could see his teeth! God! My mouth felt dry. “Don’t be afraid. That’s Mom. She loves you, too.” Becky said. Then he became friendly. It was unbelievable!
I rushed to find my husband and told him about the wolf. We should have killed the wolf, but Becky loved him. Besides, he was kind to Becky. So we called the vet* finally.
Becky named the wolf Ralph and she carried food to him every day. Later, Ralph got well. They played together in the daytime. At night, Ralph would return to the mountains. Sometimes he disappeared but came back several days later.
On Becky’s first day of school, we could see Ralph’s sadness. After Becky left school, Ralph lay by the side o f the road and waited. When Becky returned, he got happy again. This continued throughout Becky’s school years.
Twelve years passed.
One day we heard that a wolf was killed. The other wolf was hurt and ran away. We were worried about Ralph. That night, Ralph returned with a wound*. Becky held his head kindly and comforted him. We hoped he could come through. However, he died.
Becky cried. I noticed something strange in the bush—two little yellow eyes! Ralph’s child! Before he died, Ralph brought his child to us! He knew he would be safe here, as he had been. Ralph, Ralph, I was moved.
“Don’t be afraid, little…little Ralphie. That’s Mom. She loves you, too.”

Becky was ________ years old when she met Ralph.

A．three

B．nine

C．twelve

D．fifteen

What does the underlined sentence “my mouth felt dry” mean in this passage?

A．The writer felt happy.	B．The writer felt thirsty.
C．The writer felt nervous	D．The writer felt sad.

Ralph brought his child to Becky because______.

A．he thought Becky needed a new pet

B．he thought Becky would look after his child well.

C．his child was hurt and had to be cared at once.

D．he was hurt badly and had to run away at once.

What’s the best title for the passage?

A．The best pet for children

B．A close friendship

C．A kind girl called Becky

D．An interesting wolf

“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning to surf the Internet.”
“ I checked my e-mail almost forty times a day.”
“I seldom spend less than three hours each time on the net.”
“I spend more time in chat rooms than with my ‘real-life’ friends.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction* called Internet addiction. According to experts, Internet addicts* spend at least thirty hours online every week. They lose control of the time they spend on the Internet.
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried and looked for him everywhere but couldn’t find him. They called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the Internet---for seven days straight.
A study shows that about seven to ten percent of Internet users become addicted. The teenagers spend more time on the Internet than with friends and family. That’s why some experts worry most about young people.

Is “surfing the Internet” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have one of the following symptoms*.
★ You go out with your friends less and less.
★ You’ve decided to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
★ You do not go to important family events or you do not do school projects because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
What is the situation? Some experts suggest that people set strict limits on their time for internet use. You have to learn to control it, or the Internet would control you.
Internet addicts at least spend ________ hours online every week.

A．twenty

B．thirty

C．forty

D．fifty

Some experts worry most about young people because__________.

A．they spend too much time on the Internet.

B．they spend too much time with their friends

C．they get up too early to surf the Internet

D．they spend too much money shopping online.

Where may you find this passage?

A．In a guidebook	B．In a magazine
C．In a movie poster	D．In a storybook

Names of Books	Writers	Stories
This One Summer	Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamki, Canada	Every summer, Rose goes with her parents to a lake house. It’s their relaxing time. But this summer is different. Rose’s parents keep fighting. Rose meets a local teen. But later he is caught up in something bad. It’s really a summer of sorrow（悲伤）and growing up.
The Fourteenth Goldfish	Jennifer L. Holm, US	Ellie has never liked change. She misses everything in the past, especially her dearly dead goldfish. Then one day a strange boy who looks like Ellie’s grandfather shows up. He’s always obsessed（着迷的）with immortality（永生）. Has he finally found the secret to immortality with Ellie?
Absolutely Almost （完全几乎）	Lisa Graff, US	Albie has always been an “almost”. He’s almost good at everything. In fact, Albie has a long list of the things he’s not very good at. But when Albie meets Calista, she helps him work out all of the things he is not good at. What will happen to this “almost” boy?