Last year, four children waited for their school bus every day for ten minutes, on the same dirty street corner. There were old bottles, parts of old bikes, and soda cans（苏打罐） everywhere around the bus stop. The trees were brown and had no leaves, and there wasn’t any flower at all. It was ugly.
One Friday, one of the children looked at the corner and decided to do about it. The next Monday, she brought a bag and some of the old bottles to recycle. On Tuesday, she spent another ten minutes picking up old bottles, while her best friend picked up soda cans and put them in a different for recycling. On Wednesday, all the children joined together. The corner became !
The corner looked better but it was ugly. So the next day the girl brought some flower seeds（种子）. She planted the seeds and watered them, and watered the , too. She only had ten minutes a day but that was enough.
A few months later, this corner had become a beautiful with pretty flowers and healthy trees. It only took ten minutes a day. Do you have ten minutes a day to help your city?
A．full B．empty C．cheap D．expensive
A．nothing B．anything C．something D．everything
A．gave B．offered C．bought D．collected
A．bag B．box C．room D．corner
A．ugly B．clean C．dirty D．green
A．so B．yet C．even D．still
A．trees B．plants C．flowers D．vegetables
A．city B．park C．garden D．street
A green life sometimes just needs a good idea like sharing cars共车. It’s a new way of thinking. You can use a car but you don’t need to own it. Now the idea of “car sharing” has becomein many countries.
As we know, most cars are parked in garages for much time. In fact, we drive our own cars as long as one or twoa day on average. When we don’t use them, we have to pay for parking andthings. That coats too much money. To save money, some people come up with the idea of “car sharing”. If we share a car, we’ll onlywhen we use it.
Now many people are starting to do car sharing. In Switzerland, almost 40.000 people have joined it. Japan is also trying to makepopular around the country. A popular B. interesting C. funny
A. hour B. hours C. minutes
A. other B. others C. another
A. spend B. costC. pay
A. time saving B. money saving C. car sharing
Once my father and I went to see a circus(马戏 ). A family was standing in front of us for tickets.
The family had eight children. Their clothes were not but they were clean. They were talking about the clowns(小丑) and elephants excitedly.
“I want tickets,eight for children and two for adults.”said the father to the ticket lady.
The ticket lady told him the . When he heard that, the man cloudn’t believe his . He asked again, “How much?”
The ticket lady spoke again. The father looked sad. Clearly, he didn’t have money.
My dad took a twenty—dollar bill and dropped it on the ground.Then he picked , and said to the man, “Sir, this fell out of your pocket.”
The man knew what was on. He looked into my dad’s eyes and took the . “Thank you,thank you ,sir. This a lot to me and my family. ”
We didn’t go to the cirus that night,but we didn’t feel sorry for it at all.A. waiting B. looking C. working
A. common B. cheap C. expensive
A. ticket B. ten C. two
A. ticket B. number C. price
A. eyes B. ears C. nose
A. enough B. any C. little
A. it up B. up it C. them up
A. walking B. goingC. looking
A. book B. pocket C. bill
A. hardly B. nearly C. really
Mrs Smith works in a museum in London. She’sin all kinds of old things and she has collected a lot of stamps. But she prefers the vases. So she often spends her holidays in China. She visited a lot of museums in Beijing, Xi’an and other . She goes to the markets and tries to buy some nice old vases.
Last month the woman travelled in Hangzhou. She went to a shop one afternoon and foumd a beautiful vase there. She looked at it for a long time and was sure it was about seven hundred years ago. She liked it very much and paid a lot of money for it. She was so happy that she couldn’t fall that night. On her way to England , she took good care of it.A. interests B. interesting C. interested
A. towns B. cities C. countries
A. American B. English C. German
A. kept B. made C. found
A. asleep B. sleep C. sleeping
Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself.”
When I was a young boy, I was ____ shy to talk to anyone. My classmates often ____me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later,___ happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to ____ it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak ____ all the teachers and students of my school!
“Come on,boy! Believe in yourself. You are sure to ___.”Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I _____ the topic “Believe in yourself!” I tried my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 100 _____. With my mother’s great love, I did ___ in the contest. I could hardly believe my _____ when the news came that I had won the first place.A. tooB. soC. quite
A. made faces atB. looked afterC. laughed at
A. somethingB. everythingC. anything
A. take part inB. joinC. get
A. to B. among C. before
A. winB. passC. beat
A. brought B. thoughtC. chose
A. wordsB. timesC. sentences
A. wellB. goodC. bad
A. resultB. eyesC. ears
In many people’s eyes, middle school students are happy and carefree（无忧无虑）. But is it the truth? And what students happy or unhappy?
To find out the answers, Li Jiahui, a student in Pinggu No. 3 Middle School, Beijing, spent six months students’ sense(感受) of happiness last year. The girl made a survey with questions such as “ Are you feeling happy?” and “What makes you unhappy?”
After studying the answers from 284 students, Li learned that___ 40 percent（百分之）of the students feel unhappy, and the from studies is the main reason for their unhappiness.
“More than 50 percent said they were under pressure and 70 percent get enough sleep,” Li said. “It shows that middle school students are not as happy people think. They worry a lot, and they can get angry easily.”
Li also said that over 90 percent say their happiness has to do with how much money they have. Instead, they care about their relationships（关系）with friends, teachers and parents. “Students always feel better when they get _ well with each other,” Li said.
After her survey, Li listed tips that may make students happier, such as: Treat(对待) yourself better, be kind and polite to your friends and relatives, and try new things.
A．helps B．wants C．makes D．keeps
A．to study B．studying C．study D．studied
A．15 years old B．15-years-old C．15-year-old D．15-year-olds
A．about B．than C．below D．inside
A．pressure B．difficulties C．knowledge D．interest
A．don’t B．hadn’t C．did D．didn’t
A．so B．and C．like D．as
A．something B．nothing C．anything D．nobody
A．along B．up C．off D．down
A．any B．a number of C．much D．a lot