A school bus is one that is used to take children to and from school.
In the USA, about 450,000 school buses take more than 25 million children to and from school. The yellow school bus is a US icon (象征). Yellow became the color of school buses in the USA in 1939. Dr. Frank got the good idea. He said it was easy for people to see yellow buses and the black letters on them in early morning or late afternoon. That would make children safer.
There are not many school buses in Britain, and they are not yellow. They have trackers (追踪器) on them, so kids are being tracked while they travel to and from school by bus. The trackers let parents know where the school bus is and whether their kids are on the bus.
Kindergarten (幼儿园) is a difficult time for some kids. It's the first time for them to go away from their parents. To make kids love their school, Japanese kindergartens and schools have colorful buses. The buses can easily make children want to take them--and then, go to school. Even some parents want to take them, too!
School buses are becoming more and more popular in China now. It saves a lot of time for students to take a school bus.
According to Dr. Frank, school buses are safer for the students.
| A．yellow | B．black | C．white | D．red |
According to the passage, in which country do the school buses have trackers?
| A．France | B．Britain | C．German | D．Japan |
Children in Japan may easily by taking the school bus.
| A．save time | B．be tracked |
| C．play games | D．love their school |
Chinese students will save a lot of time to to school.
| A．walk | B．ride a bike |
| C．take a school bus | D．run |
This passage is mainly about .
| A．school buses | B．school life |
| C．popular colors | D．children |
My 10-year-old Donna said, "Mom, I made a new friend at school today. Can she come over tomorrow?" Donna was a shy girl and I wanted her to make some friends to bring her out of her shell.
"Sure, honey, that sounds great." I said, thinking back to my own best friend, Lillian. We lived across the street from each other in Washington Heights, New York. We met at the age of 10, too. Like my daughter, I was shy, but Lillian drew me out. She was one of the friendliest people in school, with shiny black hair and a mile-wide smile.
In senior high school, Lillian went on a trip to Florida. This was the first time we had to be away from each other for a few days. "I'll be back soon." she told me. But three days later, Lillian's sister told me that she had fallen into a river and hadn't come out any more. Soon, my family moved to New Jersey. Whenever I thought of her, tears came into my eyes.
The next day Donna brought her new friend home. "Hi, Mrs. Loggia." the little girl said. Her hair was so shiny and black and she shot me a big smile. "My name is Laura."
My daughter's new friend was so much like Lillian. I was still puzzled (迷惑) when Laura's mom came to pick her up later that afternoon. I opened the door to let her in. "Judy!" she cried. "It's me, Lillian's sister, from Washington Heights." Yes, my daughter's friend looked familiar. She was Lillian's niece (侄女).The underlined words in the first paragraph "to bring her out of her shell" mean ______.
| A．to help her become less shy |
| B．to help her become smart |
| C．to help her live happily |
| D．to help her walk out of her house |
Laura looked familiar to the writer because she ________.
| A．was Lillian's niece |
| B．was as old as her daughter |
| C．was from Washington Heights |
| D．had shiny black hair and a big smile, too |
Why did the writer lose her best friend? Because ________.
| A．she moved to New Jersey |
| B．they were different from each other |
| C．her best friend travelled to Florida |
| D．her best friend lost her life on a trip |
"I knew we would be best friends forever." is a sentence from the passage and should be put at the end of _______.
| A．Paragraph 2 | B．Paragraph 3 |
| C．Paragraph 4 | D．Paragraph 5 |
We can infer (推断) from the passage that ________.
| A．Laura is outgoing |
| B．Laura helps Donna a lot |
| C．Laura and Donna are of the same age |
| D．Judy moved to New Jersey because of Lillian's death |
 |
A. Tickets for London Eye Flight (30 mins,＄22) |
||
| The London Eye－a famous symbol for this famous city. The world’s largest sightseeing wheel offers a way to see over 55 of London’s famous buildings! |
|||
| B. Tickets for Madame Tussauds (Flexible,＄25) |
 |
||
| In this waxwork(蜡像) museum, visitors will find Henry VIII and his six wives, the present Queen and many other famous people, including sports or pop stars. It is a must-see place in London. |
|||
 |
C. London Duck Tours (80 mins, ＄30) |
||
| Don’t miss the exciting adventure for visitors to London, taking in the sight by road and river! No one has ever seen anything like it before! It is more than a sightseeing tour－it’s an adventure. Don’t miss this one! |
|||
| D. The Traditional London Sightseeing Tour (24 hours pass, ＄40) |
 |
||
| See London’s important sights on an open-top double-decker bus and see every sight in London including the Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Piccadilly. Simply “Get on and Get off” at your choice of famous place. |
|||
What is the famous symbol of London?
| A．The London Eye. | B．The Waxwork Museum. |
| C．The Tower of London. | D．St. Paul’s Cathedral. |
If you want to see over 55 of London’s famous buildings, please pay for ______.
| A．＄22 | B．＄25 | C．＄30 | D．＄40 |
If you want to see many famous people, you can ______.
| A．take the London Eye |
| B．go to the Madame Tussauds |
| C．take the London Duck Tours |
| D．take the double-decker bus |
For young people who wants to try new things, they could visit London by ______.
| A．taking the boat |
| B．taking the double-decker bus |
| C．joining the Duck Tours |
| D．taking the taxi |
Simply “Get on and Get off” at your choice of famous place, please take ______.
| A．the Tower of London | B．open-top double-decker bus |
| C．Paul’s Cathedral | D．Piccadilly |
Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a bench(长凳) in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day, the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me. I want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.”
“ Sir,” said the poor man, “ I am a failure. I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I’ll sleep in that hotel.”
The rich man said, “Tonight your dream will come true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month.”
A few days after, the rich man went into the poor man’s room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel back to his bench.
When the rich man asked why, he said, “You see, when I’m sleeping on my bench, I dreamed I am there, in the big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But when I was there I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn’t get any sleep at all.”The poor man lived in ____ before he met the rich man.
| A．the hotel | B．his home |
| C．the park | D．the car |
Every morning, the poor man sat on the bench and____.
| A．waited for the rich man |
| B．looked at the rich man’s hotel |
| C．looked at the rich man’s car |
| D．enjoyed the clean car |
Every night the poor man dreamed of ______.
| A．sleeping in a hotel | B．becoming rich |
| C．owning that hotel | D．being the rich man’s friend |
The poor man moved out of the hotel because____.
| A．he didn’t want to live in such a fine room |
| B．he didn’t like the rich man |
| C．he couldn’t pay for the room |
| D．he couldn’t get any sleep at all there |
In the end, the poor man found it _________to sleep in the hotel.
| A．sorry | B．nice |
| C．wonderful | D．Terrible |
When the teacher asks a question in class,Wang Xiaobin never raises his hand and this situation is very common at middle schools.This 15-year-old boy always waits for other classmates or the teacher to give the answer.“What if my answer is wrong?”Wang asks.
Wang said only six or seven students in his class raise their hands when a question is asked.(18)“I think it’s a problem that may affect(影响)our studies,but I am afraid of making mistakes in front of my classmates.”he said.
When we asked the teacher, Hu Wei, why the students didn’t raise their hands,he said:”They lack(缺乏) of confidence,they are afraid of showing off,or they’re afraid of losing face by giving wrong answers.”
To encourage students to raise their hands in class,Hu suggests that teachers should repeat the question , then try to guide and encourage students to offer their answers.(19)Hu also advises students not to be shy,but brave enough to try.
Sun Pin,16 of Fujian,always raises her hand as soon as she comes up with the answer,even if she isn’t sure she has got it right.Sun can’t understand why some of her classmates keep silent in class.She enjoys raising her hand a lot.“It keeps me enthusiastic(热情的)and confident to express my idea. ” Sun said,“Raising my hand has really made me excellent.”
任务一：根据短文内容简要回答问题。Does Wang Xiaobin raise his hand when the teacher asks a question in class?
___________________________________________________________________Why don’t students raise their hands?(3 possible reasons)
___________________________________________________________________
任务二：将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
任务三：给短文拟一个恰当的标题。________________________________________________________________
If you need to call your parents but your phone is not with you, can you remember their numbers?
To remember 11 numbers is not difficult. However, because of the smartphone, many of us are losing this ability, Record Japan reported.
What’s more, smartphones weaken our skills at giving directions as well as it’s common for most of them to check their phones.
According to a report by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, an American company, Chinese people spend on average 170 minutes on their smartphones daily.
For students, an addiction(沉溺) to smartphones does no good for studying. Research by Japan’s Education Ministry shows that children who spend more than four hours a day on their phones perform much worse in school tests than those who play with their phones for 30 minutes a day.
It’s true that the smartphone has made our lives easier. But many also think they spend too much time on it, and this is bad for their study or work. People are trying to change that.
A new app called Forest was introduced this month. It lets users plant a seed(种子) that grows into a tree over the next 30 minutes . During the half hour, users cannot use their phones, or the tree will die.
A restaurant in Los Angeles, US, gives people a 5 percent discount(折扣) if they don’t check their phones during a meal. Owner Mark Gold said that he hoped it could give people a way to enjoy their meal and actually talk with friends and family in person.
| The _ |
| When we meet together, we will spend most of the time Chinese people spend on average The students who __ The app Forest aims to help people spend _ |