This was the first real task I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. As I searched the name, I found that there were two famous people having the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts(花生), while the other led some kind of army across America. I looked at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice: let the coin decide. I flipped(掷) a coin and ah! Tails (背面)! My report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.
Weeks later, I stood in front of the classroom and proudly read my homework. But things started to get strange. I looked around the room, only to find my classmates with big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes and my stone-faced teacher. I was completely lost. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?”
Oh well, I dropped the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American War of Independence.” The whole world became quiet! How could I know that my teacher meant that George Washington?
Of course, my subject result was awful. Sad but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to the headmaster Miss Lancelot, but she said firmly: No re-dos; no new score. I felt that it was not fair, and I believed I should get a second chance. So I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, I sat in the headmaster’s office again, but this time a completely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the terrible moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster told me I was good enough to skip(跳过) the 6th grade and started the 7th grade next term.________ helped me decide what my report would be about.
| A．The Internet | B．My classmates |
| C．My grandpa | D．A coin |
People in the class acted strangely because ________.
| A．I was too proud of my homework |
| B．I mistook what the homework was about |
| C．the whole world suddenly became quiet |
| D．the teacher’s face turned to a stone |
We can infer(推断) from the passage that ________.
| A．the headmaster didn’t like the writer at all |
| B．the writer’s classmates felt sad at his mistake |
| C．the writer knew little about American history |
| D．the writer’s grandpa was a very wise man |
 Spring is coming . The flowers will start blossoming (开花)and the trees will be filled with colors. It’s time of the year for people to plant trees. Planting trees is a good way to protect our environment. But most of us don’t have a place to plant trees. So what can we do for protecting the environment? We can make a difference from the others. For example, we can think about a way to make people cut down fewer trees. As we know, paper is made from trees. If we use less paper, we can save a lot of trees. Then we may have a problem that how to use less paper. Let me tell you my ideas. |
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| Reducing Our Paper Waste Every day we just use the paper and we don’t think about where the paper comes from.Let us think about wasting a piece of paper is like wasting a tree. We can start with reducing the amount of paper products that we use. This could be done by such a simple way as using e-mail instead of writing notes. |
Reusing We could reuse paper that is clean on one side for drafts, notes and even photocopies. As students, we could reuse paper by doing our research online or at libraries rather than buying lots of written paper. Sharing books or buying a used textbook for school is another way of reusing. |
Recycle We should consider recycling notebook paper, newspapers, magazines and colored paper. We can buy paper towels, tissues, and toilet paper that have been made from recycled paper. Don’t throw away the wasted newspapers or books which are not useful to you.  |
People can protect the environment by doing the following things except ______.
| A．planting trees | B．reusing paper |
| C．drinking less water | D．cutting down less trees |
We can reduce our paper waste by______.
| A．sending e-mail | B．writing letters | C．sending cards | D．using paper bag |
______isn’t a way for you to reuse paper.
| A．Doing research online | B．Buying lots of written paper |
| C．Sharing books | D．Buying a used textbook |
______can be recycled to make paper towels, tissues and toilet paper.
| A．Colored paper | B．Newspapers |
| C．Magazines | D．All of the above |
From the passage we know that.
| A．we can reuse paper for drafts, notes and even photocopies |
| B．the paper is made from clothes and trees |
| C．four ideas are mentioned here to save paper. |
| D．we should cut down more trees to make more paper |
Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived in a small town near London with their child. Sometimes Mr. Brown came back home from work very late, when his wife and the child were asleep, and then he opened the front door of this house with his key and came in very quiet.
But one night when he was coming home very late, he lost his key, so when he reached his house, he rang the bell. Nothing happened. He rang it again. Again nothing happened. Nobody moved inside the house. Mr. Brown knocked at the bedroom window, he spoke to his wife, he shouted, but she didn’t wake up. At last he stopped and thought for a moment. Then he began to speak like a small child.“Mother! ’’ he said.“I want to go to the toilet!’’ He spoke quite quietly, but at once Mrs. Brown woke up. Then he spoke to her, and she opened the door for him.
根据短文内容，判断下列各句正误。正确的在题前括号内写“T”，错误的写“F”。
Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana(加纳), this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table. In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else .But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder (粉末)of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子)because it is very hard. You must chew(咀嚼 )fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only. From the passage we know that in Ghana
| A．the rules for dinner time are not strict |
| B．dinner is always at six in the evening |
| C．a family offers food only at four in the afternoon |
| D．people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening |
If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host always takes you to____.
| A．the dining room first | B．the living room first |
| C．the kitchen first | D．the garden first |
People in Ghana usually eat ________.
| A．from one side of a dish to the other |
| B．from the other side of the dish |
| C．with their fingers |
| D．with their spoons |
In fact, most meals in Ghana _____________
| A．are cooked with the flowers of some plants |
| B．have fufu in them |
| C．are too hard to eat |
| D．are not very hard . |
When you eat fufu, you’d better
| A．cut it with a saw | B．use your right hand only |
| C．chew it well | D．all of the above. |
The picture shows 18-year –old Katy Ross in Nepal, a small country in north India. Katy left school 8 months ago and soon she will go to university .She loves traveling and decides to visit Asia before she goes to university. Katy is living with a family in the capital of Nepal. She has learnt a lot about the country since she arrived 4 months ago. The family has two children but many uncles and cousins live with them in their big house. They have taken Katy to many parties.
Katy teaches for four hours a day at a small school. All the classes are in English and the pupils have spoken English since the age of six. The older children speak English very well. Katy has taught writing, grammar and art, all in English. She enjoys art most. And she thinks the children like the lessons best , too.
Katy doesn’t have a lot of time to see Nepal, but soon she will stop teaching and travel around Nepal with a friend.“After that, ’’ Katy says,“we will visit more countries in Asia. We ’ re not sure which ones yet. ’’
| A．She is studying there. |
| B．She wants to take some pictures there. |
| C．She wants to learn more about the country. |
| D．She is an exchange student. |
| A．They are friendly. |
| B．There are three people in their house. |
| C．They are strange. |
| D．They have never taken Katy to the parties. |
| A．Eight months. | B．Six months. | C．Four months. | D．One month. |
| A．When they are 5 years old. |
| B．When they are 6 years old. |
| C．When they are 7 years old. |
| D．When they are 8 years old. |
| A．likes traveling very much |
| B．doesn ’ t want to live with a family |
| C．only teaches writing in English |
| D．will go back to school after she leaves Nepal. |
A teenage girl couldn’ t stand her family rules , so she left home.
She wanted to be a star and became famous. But she had a little education and years later, she had to ask for food on the street for a living. Now her father has died. Her mother is an old woman. But she is still her daughter. She has been to every corner of the city. Everywhere she goes, she a big photo of her daughter on the wall. At the lower part of the photo she writes,“I still love you… Come back home! ”
One day, the daughter saw one of the photos. She was so surprised that she couldn’t believe her .“Is that me?” She moved and read the words,“I still love you…” She cried. She couldn’t wait back home. When she got home, it was early morning. She pushed the door. The door opened itself. She rushed to the bedroom at once. Her mother was sleeping there. She her mother up,“It’s me! Your daughter is back home!” The mother and daughter looked at each other with excitement, full of happy tears. The daughter asked, “ is the door unlocked? A thief could get in.” The mother answered softly,“The door has never locked you left. We miss you all the time. We believe that you’ll come back some day.”
As everyone knows, parents love their children forever. Children should also understand their parents and share their happiness, sadness, even everything with their parents. _ this way, both parents and children can be happy.
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