Sometimes, you feel down or unhappy and it is hard to come back to your high spirit. So if you're having a bad day and need a boost，then help is just a click away.
A website is trying to offer people positive(积极的)messages from strangers to cheer them up. It announces to be“the nicest place on the Internet"，where happy people can present their positive thoughts and feelings to those who are in low spirits.
The website, thenicestplaceontheinter.net, lets people post videos of themselves blowing kisses and leaving positive and encouraging messages to lift visitors' spirits.
The website was created by Jeff Lam and is considered to help many people out when they feel low. The well-known artist who lives in San Francisco said he came up with the idea when he and his friend Lauren were having one of those bad days.
"We tried to become cheerful，but none of the usual methods seemed to be working. Not music. Not food. What we hoped was something positive, honest and good.So with only a camera and work-free weekend, we created‘The Nicest Place On The Internet," he explained on his website.
One user of the site, Joseph Meehan, 27, from Birmingham, said,“it's a fun and
exciting website. I visit every once in a while when I'm missing my friends or family. I think it could really be a help to people that are feeling down or sad. It may even stop them from doing something stupid. You can also post your video to the website, and they add it to the series. It's very easy to share the love.”
Mr. Lam is now working on a new project that allows people to leave positive voicemails for strangers. The idea is that strangers send an audio(声音)diary by leaving a voicemail and then anyone can listen to it.The underlined word "boost" in paragraph 1 probably means
| A．鼓舞 | B．放松 | C．休闲 | D．提高 |
The website was created in order to_______
| A．provide a place for those who want to post their videos |
| B．discover something positive, honest and good |
| C．recommend positive voicemails on the website to people |
| D．offer something positive to cheer people up |
According to the text, which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Jeff Lam is working on a new project to collect more audio diaries. |
| B．Jeff Lam met a lot of difficulties during the time of creating the website. |
| C．Joseph Meehan has got help from the website and supports it. |
| D．Joseph Meehan has shared his own positive videos with strangers. |
D
How much sleep do we need? People are all different. Some people need only three or four hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep seven to eight hours a night.
Some people find it is hard to fall asleep. About one in three Americans have a problem with sleep. Many of these people can not fall asleep. The name of this problem is insomnia (失眠症). Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people have special (特殊的) ideas to make themselves sleep. Benjamin Franklin had four beds. He moved from bed to bed to fall asleep. Mark Twain lay (躺) on his side across the end of his bed.
根据短文内容，判断正 (T) 误 (F)。Different people need different amounts of sleep (睡眠时间).
Most Americans sleep more than 8 hours a night.
If a person has insomnia, he can never fall asleep.
About 1/3 of Americans have a problem with sleep.
Mark Twain had four beds to make himself sleep.
C
Mr. Clark hated to do housework. He wouldn’t stay at home at weekends. As his wife always told him to do some washing or cleaning, or he had to cook for his family. So he always made some exercise on Friday evenings.
Recently Mr. Clark was interested in playing cards. But he was afraid to let his wife know. So every Sunday afternoon he brought some fish home. It made his wife happy and she never asked where he spent his weekends.
One Saturday morning Mr. Clark left home at 7 o’clock. He took a bus and got off at a stop near a small town. His friends were waiting for him in a small hotel. They played cards there. Mr. Clark didn’t go home until 7 o’clock on Sunday evening. He went in the shop near the bus stop as usual. As soon as the shopkeeper saw him, the man said, “I’m sorry, Mr. Clark. I have no fish today. What about some chicken legs?”
“Don’t be silly!” said Mr. Clark. “I can’t tell my wife that I have fished some chicken legs, can I?”Mr Clark didn’t want to stay at home on weekends because_________.
A. he wouldn’t like to do any housework
B. he didn’t love his wife
C. he was very busyWhat was Mr. Clark interested in?
A. Fishing
B. Playing cards
C. ShoppingHow long was Mr. Clark away from his home?
A. About 24 hours.
B. About 36 hours.
C. About 48 hours.Mr Clark played cards with his friends_________.
A. at home B. in a shop C. in a hotelWhich of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Mr. Clark hardly stayed at home on weekends.
B. Mr. Clark played card only this weekend.
C. Mrs. Clark believed he fished on weekends.
B
We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it.
There is a story about an English sailor(水手) who went to countries in the east, the west and the south. Once he went to India and China. He bought some tea. One day he came home and brought the tea as a present for his mother. His mother told her friends about the present and asked them to a “tea party”. When her friends came to the “tea party”, the old woman offered them brown tea—leaves. The old woman’s friends began to eat them. Of course, everyone didn’t like the tea—leaves.
At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, “Mother,what have you done with the tea?”
“I boiled it, as you said.”
“And what did you do with the water?”
“I threw it away, of course.”anwered the old woman.
“Now you may throw away the leaves, too,”said her son.Most of the people in Europe______.
A. drank tea every day 300 years ago
B. liked to eat the tea—leaves C. knew nothing about teaOne day the English sailor brought some tea from_____.
A.countries in the west
B. India or China
C. countries in the southThe sailor’s mother asked her friends to her house, because_____.
A. she liked to show off(炫耀)
B. she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea
C.she wanted to sample(品尝)the tea together with her friendsAt the “tea party”,_______.
A. nobody knew what to do with the tea
B. the woman offered her friends some dried tea
C.the woman gave her friends each a glass of tea waterWhat mistake did the old woman make?
A. She boiled the tea.
B. She did as the sailor said.
C. She poured away the water.
A
James was a driver. He liked to grow flowers in his garden when he was five. One Sunday morning after breakfast he put on his clothes and began digging in his garden at eight. He dug and dug. After half an hour he suddenly found a coin near his foot. He was very glad.He put it in his right pocket. A few minutes later, he found another one.He put it in the same pocket,too. The same thing happened for the third, the fourth and the fifth time…He was very happy and told his wife about it. She was very happy,too. She said, “A thief took away many coins from a shop a few days ago. The police caught him but they didn’t find any coins.”Then James went on digging and found some more coins,but just when he began to dig,he felt something cold in his trousers. It ran down one of his legs. He put his hand down quickly—and the coin came into his hand. Now he knew there was a hole in his pocket.What’s James’ hobby?
A. Collecting coins.
B. Driving a car.
C. Growing flowers.When did James find a coin in his garden?
A. At 8:00.
B. At about 8:30.
C. At 9:30.He told his wife ______.
A. the police caught a thief
B. he found money in his garden.
C. he put the coin in his right pocket.There was a hole in _____.
A. his pockets
B. his left pocket
C. his right pocketHow many coins did James dig out from the garden?
A. Only one.
B. Five coins.
C. Many coins.
D
阅读表达请根据短文内容，回答下面问题，每空不超过5个词。
It was Mary’s birthday. She got a letter from her uncle who was a farmer.
“Dear Mary,” the letter said. “Happy Birthday. I am sending you some chickens as your birthday present. They will arrive tomorrow. I hope you like them. Best wishes, Uncle Toby.
Mary was very pleased. She liked eating eggs and she liked eating chicken. “I can keep the chickens for their eggs or eat them,” she thought. When the chickens arrived the next day, they were in the box. Mary was very excited. She took the box off the back of the truck and began to carry it into her garden. However, the box of chickens was heavy and she dropped it. The box fell to the ground and broke. The chickens all ran out. They ran everywhere－into neighbors' gardens, into the road, into shops, even into the next street. Mary spent hours trying to find them and take them back to her garden.
A few days later her uncle came to visit her. “Did the chickens arrive safely?" he asked Mary. “Yes, Uncle Toby,” Mary said. “But I had a lot of trouble with them. I dropped the box. It broke open and the chickens ran everywhere. I spent the whole morning looking for them." “Did you find them all?” her uncle asked. “I hope so,” Mary replied. “I caught eleven of them.” “That's very interesting,” her uncle said with a smile, “because I only sent you six.Why did Mary’s uncle sent her some chickens ?
________________________________________________How did the chickens get out of the box?
________________________________________________In order to find the chickens, How long did Mary spent ?.
________________________________________________How many chickens did her uncle sent her ?
________________________________________________Why did Mary’s uncle smile?
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