As a volunteer teacher, I traveled a long way to a small village school in Longzhou, Guangxi. On my way there, I thought about the village, the school, and the children there. However, my heart sank when I arrived there. It wasn't what I expected. It didn't look like a school at all! The school had only three rooms, one for Grades 1, 2 and 3, and another one for Grades 4, 5 and 6. The third one was for me.
The children welcomed me warmly on my first day. They asked me a lot of questions, and I told them stories about myself and my life in Shanghai. The next day, I gave them a test to find out their level. Though the test was very easy, over half of the students failed it, yet they all wanted to learn new things. I knew they needed me.
I was busy preparing lessons, reading test papers every night. I enjoyed teaching these lovely and hardworking children, and I could see that they were making progress with my help. I have also learned a lot from them. I understand their lives better, and we are now good friends.
I have worked in Longzhou for a year so far. I’m very happy, and the experience has been very useful for me. I love the small village school and the children. In fact, I would like to continue working here.From the first paragraph, we know the school is very _________.
| A．beautiful | B．big | C．interesting | D．small |
In the passage, “my heart sank…” means that the writer ________
| A．felt excited | B．was happy | C．got angry | D．was sad |
The writer came from _________.
| A．Longzhou | B．Guangxi | C．Shanghai | D．Beijing |
What does the writer think of working in the school?
| A．Very awful | B．Very useful. |
| C．Very careful | D．Very boring. |
According to the passage, the writer _________.
| A．was pleased with the poor school when he got there |
| B．worked hard to teach the children |
| C．didn't want to work in the school |
| D．left the school in a short time |
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American country music is very old. It came from the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain. It’s a mixture (混合物) of music from all of these places.
In West America, cowboys (牛仔) had to take care of the cattle. They had to watch them all day and all night because the cattle sometimes ran away. A cowboy’s life was lonely and dangerous. When he was alone in the desert (荒野) with the cattle, he drank strong coffee to stay awake at night. He sang about the stars and the moon, about his family and his friends. The cattle listened to the cowboy and went to sleep. They didn’t run away if he sang beautiful songs.
In South America, many people came from Ireland and England. Other people came from France and Canada. They enjoyed their own kind of music. When they visited their friends and families on holidays like Christmas, they usually sang and played country music.
American country music describes (描写) life. It talks about love, jobs, home and money. People in many parts of the world like western country music because everyone knows something about these ideas.The passage is about ________.
| A．the cowboy’s life |
| B．the life in America |
| C．American country music |
| D．the people who lives in America, Canada, Ireland, and Britain |
The word “cattle” means “________” in the passage.
| A．牛 | B．小羊 | C．小马 | D．鹿 |
What was a cowboy’s life like?
A. Lonely. B. Very interesting
C. Dangerous. D. A and C.Why didn’t the cattle run away when a cowboy sang beautiful songs?
| A．Because the cattle knew he didn’t leave them. |
| B．Because the cattle enjoyed the music so much that they went to sleep. |
| C．Because he didn’t let them go. |
| D．Because he was very bad. |
What does American country music describe?
| A．Love. | B．Money. |
| C．Jobs. | D．Life. |
根据短文内容，简要回答下列问题。
China has the world’s largest population and there are also a lot of poor people. So the government uses a different way from the UN to tell how many of her people live in poverty(贫困). Chinese living on less than 637 yuan a year are in terrible poverty. Those who live on less than 882 yuan are in the low income (低收入) group.
In 1978, 250 million Chinese lived in extreme(极端) poverty. Today, 29 million, or 3 percent of the population, are still very poor. Most are farmers from Central (中部的) and Western China.
Since 1980, the government has spent more than 102 billion yuan building roads and giving clean water to poor people.
To make life better for them, the government also plans to put 12 billion yuan into helping the poor this year.
The government also plans to help farmers find jobs in cities by teaching them new skills (技能).
They hope that one day no one will have to worry about where to work or where the next meal will come from.Which country has the largest population in the world?
How many Chinese lived in extreme poverty in 1978?
How much has the government spent in building roads and giving clean water to poor people?
How does the government plan to help farmers find jobs in cities?
What’s the main idea of this passage?
根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）、误（F）。
Most animals are helped by people. They can’t live without us. But sometimes people have made the environment worse. For example, in some parts of the world the forests are being cut down.
The animals in the forests have become fewer and fewer. People hope to grow more food on the land, but the wind blows the earth away. Now forests become smaller and smaller, the soil becomes poorer and poorer. Now there are fewer animals and plants in the world. Insects (昆虫) are usually killed, but some plants need insects. Their seeds (种子) can’t spread without them. Birds eat insects, and without insects many kinds of birds will die.
There are hundreds and hundreds of plants and animals, and each plant is helped by another, so does each animal. If you hurt one, you will hurt another, then another. Scientists know this well. They don’t want people to break their environment.It isn’t good for our environment to cut down forests.
Animals in the world are becoming fewer and fewer.
Animals and plants helped by each other.
After the wind blows, the earth becomes richer and richer.
This article tells us it is important to make our environment worse and worse.
根据短文内容，选择正确的选项。
The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means(交流方式). Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in a place, men moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad to all living things in the world, but it is not only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills fish and pollutes drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution. They stop the people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from blowing dirty smoke into the air.
The pollution of SO2 is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is mostly caused by heavy traffic. It is certain that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must try to control the growth of population at the same time.Our world is becoming much smaller .
| A．because the earth is being polluted day and night |
| B．because science is developing |
| C．because of the rise in population |
| D．because the earth is blown away by the wind every year |
Thousands of years ago, life was it is today.
| A．much easier than | B．as easy as |
| C．as hard as | D．much harder than |
Pollution comes in many ways. We can even hear it. Here “it” means .
| A．water pollution | B．air pollution |
| C．noise pollution | D．rubbish |
What is the most dangerous problem of air pollution?
| A．CO2 | B．H2O | C．SO2 | D．CO |
Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because .
| A．it’s bad to all living things in the world |
| B．it makes much noise |
| C．it has made our rivers and lakes dirty |
| D．it makes us become angry more easily |
The London Eye
The London Eye was opened on New Year’s Eve in 1999 to celebrate the Millennium (千禧年). It is 135 meters high, and from the top you can see the whote London. On a clear day you can even see Windsor Castle, which is 40 kilometers away. The London Eye has 32 capsules (密封舱), each with room for 25 people. Each “trip” lasts 30 minutes. It moves quite slowly, at a speed of about 15 meters a minute, but it never stops. Passengers have to get on when it’s moving.
OPENING TIME: Daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in summer and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in winter.
TICKETS: Online or by phone. A limited number of tickets are available (可获得的) in the day.From the Ticket Office in County Hall (the building next to the Eye), but go early because you often have to wait in a queue.
HOW TO GET THERE: 5 minutes’ walk from Waterloo underground station.
Choose the best answers:The London Eye was built for celebrating __
| A．New Year’s Eve | B．1999 |
| C．foreign visitors | D．the Millennium |
On sunny day from the top of the London Eye you can see __--
| A．all of England |
| B．Windsor Castle |
| C．all the buildings which are 40 kilometers away |
| D．the building that is 135 meters high |
There are_____ passengers in the London Eye when it’s full.
| A．32 | B．800 | C．25 | D．72 |
The opening time of the London Eye in summer is _that in the winter.
| A．shorter than | B．the same as |
| C．as many as | D．longer than |
People_____ get tickets from the Ticket Office because tickets there are limited.
| A．can usually |
| B．can never |
| C．can’t always |
| D．walk from Waterloo underground station to |