The teacher stood before his class of 30 students and was going to hand out the final exam papers. “I know how hard you have all worked to get ready for this test.” he said. “And because I know you are all able to understand these questions. I am ready to offer a B to anyone who would prefer not to take the test.”
A number of students jumped up to thank the teacher and left the classroom. The teacher looked at the rest students and said. “Does anyone else want to get a B? This is your last chance.” Two more students decided to go. Seven students stayed. The teacher then handed out the papers. There were only three sentences on the paper: Congratulations! You have received an A in this class. Keep believing in yourself．
I never had a teacher who gave a test like that, but I think that it is a test that any teacher could and should give. Students who do not have confidence in what they have learned are B students at most. The same is true for students in real life. The A students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have learned from both successes and failures. They have learned life’s lessons whether from school education or from events in their lives, and have become better people. Scientists say that by the age of eight，80% of what we believe about ourselves has already been formed. You are a big kid now and you realize that you have some limits (局限).
However, there is nothing you can’t do or learn to be. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma (珠穆朗玛峰) said, “We do not conquer (征服) the mountain, but ourselves.”
根据短文内容, 选择最佳答案, 并在答题卡上按要求作答。How many students left the classroom after their teacher offered a B to them?
| A．30 | B．20 | C．23 | D．7 |
What was the teacher going to do after she came into the classroom?
| A．She was going to have a lesson. |
| B．She was going to tell a story. |
| C．She was going to play a game. |
| D．She was going to hand out the final exam papers. |
Why did the teacher give A to the students who stayed in the classroom at last?
A. Because the teacher loves them more.
B. Because they got higher marks.
C. Because they have confidence in themselves in what they have learned.
D. Because they stayed in the classroom to ask their teacher for an A.“We do not conquer the mountain, but ourselves.” What does it mean in the passage?
| A．We didn’t climb the mountain, so we didn’t succeed. |
| B．We climbed the mountain and we succeeded. |
| C．We can do everything if we climb up the mountain. |
| D．Everything is possible if we believe in ourselves. |
What’s the best title of the passage?
A. How to get A or B. B. How to be a good student.
C. To be confident. D. Conquer the mountain.
Problem:
I'm bored. We have a day off because of the heavy rain. If you didn't go to school today, what would you do? Why? Linda
Some advice:
If I were you, I would be at home doing something, such as making my bed or helping my mother do some chores. That way, my room would be clean and my parents would be happy. Tina
I would do what I love! Maybe I would help Mom do some cooking. I would learn how to make dumplings. Kathy
I don't have enough time in one day to do all the things I want to. People who get bored usually don't have a good imagination (想象力). There are lots of different books to read, websites to surf, people to visit and things to make. June
Well, if I were you, I would watch a good movie and then take a good nap (小睡). Your brain (脑子) and body will then be relaxed and ready for classes the next day. Lisa
根据材料内容，选择最佳选项。 What's Linda's problem?
| A．She doesn't have a job. |
| B．She feels bored. |
| C．She hates rainy days. |
| D．She feels awful at school. |
Who would watch a movie if she had a day off?
| A．June. | B．Kathy. |
| C．Lisa. | D．Tina. |
What would Kathy probably like to do on her day off?
| A．She would like to cook. |
| B．She would like to sleep. |
| C．She would like to read. |
| D．She would like to watch TV. |
June would do all of the following EXCEPT
| A．visit friends | B．surf the Internet |
| C．read books | D．lie in bed |
What do we know from the reading?
| A．Tina doesn't like to do any housework. |
| B．Kathy likes to do the same things as Tina. |
| C．Lisa thinks it would be helpful to Linda to get relaxed. |
| D．June used to be busy, but now she has enough time to relax. |
Moreno, Stanley, and 23 other students from Westfield State College were on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico. This was the last night in the hotel. It was 4 am, Moreno and Stanley came back from a party.
Just as Stanley went to sleep, he heard loud noise outside. From the balcony (阳台) of their fourth-floor room, Moreno and Stanley saw black smoke out of one window and heard people shouting.
Moreno ran out into the corridor and began knocking on doors and shouting, "Fire!" After that, he went upstairs in a hurry to tell other people. At the same time, Stanley was downstairs helping people get through the smoke-filled room. There he joined forces with Nalewanski, a 21-year-old boy who had a room on the second floor.
"Let's go," Nalewanski said. He and Stanley wet their shirts in the bathroom and put them around their mouths and noses so they could breathe. Then they ran up the stairs. On the fourth floor they found Moreno feeling terrible (Moreno had made it up to the eighth floor before turning back). But after making sure he could get back down on his own, they continued upstairs, knocking on the doors on every floor.
In the end, no one was seriously hurt. Moreno said, "There were hundreds of people in the hotel. It was our duty to help them." students from Westfield State College were on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico.
| A．Twenty-three | B．Twenty-four |
| C．Twenty-five | D．Twenty-six |
Which floor does Stanley live on?
| A．The second floor. | B．The fourth floor. |
| C．The seventh floor. | D．The eighth floor. |
Nalewanski and Stanley put their wet shirts around their mouths and noses in order to .
| A．make them cool |
| B．stop the smoke from going into lungs (肺) |
| C．let people find them |
| D．play a joke with other people |
What is the correct order?
a. Moreno told other people.
b. No one was seriously hurt.
c. Nalewanski joined them to save people.
d. Stanley and Moreno saw the smoke.
| A．d-b-c- a | B．d-a-c-b |
| C．a-d-c-b | D．c-d-b-a |
From the fourth paragraph, we can know
| A．the three boys are brave |
| B．Moreno died in the fire |
| C．the reason of the fire |
| D．Nalewanski called the police for help |
A small boy lived with his mother and grandmother in a big house. His father had died.
A bucket（桶）of water fell on the small boy’s left foot, and it began hurting a hot. His mother said, “I’m going to put something very hot on your foot tonight. That’s always very good. Tomorrow your foot won’t hurt any longer.”
In the evening, the small boy’s mother came to his bedroom. She had a hot poultice（膏药）in a bowl. The small boy looked at it and said, “I don’t want that. I had one a month ago. Poultices hurt.”
His mother sat down on his bed and said, “You’re going to have this poultice on.” She pulled his sheets（床单）and blankets（毯子）away, and put the poultice near his foot, but the boy pulled it away quickly, and poultice fell on the bed.
His mother was angry. She went down stairs and came back with his grandmother and a stick. She said to her son, “Your grandmother’s going to put the poultice on your foot, and I’m going to hold this stick. Now don’t be a stupid boy.”
She held the stick over the boy, and the grandmother took his foot and put the poultice near it. The boy said. “Stop, you…” but his mother brought the stick nearer, and he did not say anything else.
The grandmother brought the poultice near the foot again, and the boy stopped her again, but his mother was angry now and said, “I’m going to hit you.” The boy did not finish his words, and his grandmother put the poultice on his foot. He let it there for a few minutes and then took it off again.
The boy’s mother and grandmother put the sheets and blankets over him again and he said, “My left foot hurts, but you put the poultice on my right foot. I stopped you twice, but you didn’t listen to me.” The small boy’s foot hurt because ____.
| A．he fell off the bike |
| B．a bucket of water fell on his foot |
| C．he fell and hurt his foot |
| D．he was ill |
In the evening ___ first came to the small boy’s room.
| A．his mother | B．his father | C．his grandmother | D．his grandfather |
The small boy ____ his mother.
| A．agreed with | B．didn’t stop | C．thanked | D．didn’t agree with |
The small boy took the poultice off because ____.
| A．his foot didn’t hurt |
| B．he hated his mother and grandmother |
| C．his left foot hurt |
| D．his right foot hurt |
The best title for this passage is ____.
| A．Left or Right | B．A Small Boy | C．The Poultice | D．A Small Boy’s Mother |
Take a look at the label(标签) on almost any bottle of milk and you may see the word PASTEURIZED. What does that mean? Let’s find out by meeting Louis Pasteur.
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a little town in France. As he grew up, he loved to paint. He loved to look at the world around him. When he went to college in Paris, he showed interest in looking through a microscope. A microscope makes things look a lot bigger; it lets you see things you can’t see just with your eyes. Looking through a microscope, Pasteur found a living world in a drop of water. He saw and drew pictures of the small living things -- he called them “microbes” or “germs”-- that crowded in a drop of water.
One day a winemaker came into the lab, hoping that someone could help him with his problem. “Sometimes my wine tastes delicious, but sometimes terrible,” he said to Pasteur. “Can you help me find out why?”
Pasteur put some drops of the wine under the microscope. He noticed that the terrible wine had some unusual germs. If he killed these germs, maybe he could keep the wine from turning terrible. He tried with different ways to kill the germs. In the end he found heating (加热) the wine seemed to work best. The winemaker tried it, and every bottle of wine tasted good.
Pasteur’s idea worked for other people, too. When farmers heated milk, it didn’t turn bad so quickly. When breweries heated beer, it tasted better. People called it “pasteurization” ---heating a liquid to kill bad germs. Aren’t you glad that the milk you drink has been pasteurized? The Chinese meaning for the word “microbes” is____.
| A．病毒 | B．真菌 | C．支原体 | D．微生物 |
Which is the right order in Pasteur’s life story?
(1). He received college education in Paris.
(2) He helped to find some unusual germs in some drops of wine.
(3) A new way of killing bad germs--pasteurization was found out.
(4)He was born in 1822 in a little town in France.
(5) Microbes were found by Louis Pasteur with the help of a microscope.
| A．2; 1; 3; 5; 4 | B．4; 1; 5; 2; 3 | C．4; 1; 3; 5; 2 | D．3; 1; 2; 5; 4 |
What do you think Louis Pasteur was like from the passage?
| A．Clever, helpful and hard-working. |
| B．Quiet, helpful and kind-hearted. |
| C．Brave, careful and hard-working. |
| D．Clever, serious and kind-hearted. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Germs only live in something that is bad. |
| B．Louis found the way to kill the unusual germs in the wine by chance (偶然). |
| C．Everybody knows what the word PASTEURIZED means. |
| D．Pasteurization is used to kill bad germs in the milk we drink. |
What does the passage mainly tell us?
| A．What life Louis Pasteur lived. |
| B．How to make milk clean. |
| C．How pasteurization was invented. |
| D．What to do with wine. |
A Hard-working Student
This story is about a young student. She worked very hard at her lessons. She was too busy to have a rest. At last, she became ill, and couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when she went to bed, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep. But the more she tried, the more she stayed awake.
After a while she went to see a doctor, “I just can’t go to sleep at night. What should I do?” “I have a suggestion (建议),” said the doctor, “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you will be asleep. I’m sure of it.”
The next day the student returned to the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you today? Did you try my suggestion?” The student still looked tired. “Yes,” she said, “I tried counting one, two, three...up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some coffee so that (以便) I could go on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t fall asleep.”
根据短文内容,选择正确答案。 Why couldn’t the young student go to sleep?
| A．She was worried about her lessons. |
| B．She hadn’t finished her homework. |
| C．She had worked too hard and became ill. |
| D．There was a lot of noise. |
What did the doctor ask the young student to do while she was lying in bed?
| A．To take some medicine. |
| B．To count numbers while she was lying in bed. |
| C．To count numbers before she went to bed. |
| D．To read some books on the bed. |
The underlined word “awake” in paragraph 1 means “______”.
| A．asleep | B．not asleep | C．sleepy | D．sleeping |
What did she do after she felt sleepy?
| A．She fell asleep. |
| B．She stopping counting. |
| C．She got up and drank some tea. |
| D．She got up to have some coffee. |
The coffee made her ______, so she still couldn’t fall asleep.
| A．tired | B．sleepy | C．hungry | D．excited |