Who do you think are the most important people in your life, your parents, your sisters or your brothers, or your friends? I think your answer must be “my friends”. Some teenagers often say their parents don’t understand them. In large families, brothers and sisters often argue with each other. So most of us think friends are the most important people in our lives.
It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. As for the reason, it may be because we can discuss some private things with friends. Of course we won’t tell these thi ngs to our family members.
However, parents often try to choose friends for us. They may even stop us from meeting some of our best friends. In fact, they do it just because they care for us too much. But they often neglect our real feeling. How can you solve this problem? I think the best way is to find a right time to talk with parents about our real feelings.
Many teenagers think___________ are the most important people in their lives.
| A．parents | B．friends |
| C．family members | D．brothers and sisters |
It’s important for teenagers to have good friends because .
| A．friends are better than family members |
| B．friends can help them with their lessons |
| C．they have the same interests |
| D．they can discuss some private things with friends |
The writer thinks the best way to solve the problem is .
| A．to make more friends |
| B．to avoid meeting friends |
| C．to tell parents our real feelings |
| D．to let parents choose friends for us |
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| The youngest international player The youngest international player was an 8-year-old table tennis player from Jamaica. Her name was Joy Forster. She wan the Jamaican table tennis champion in 1985 and she played in the Jamaican international team that year. |
| The most popular sport Yes, you guessed right! The most popular team game in the world is football. People play football in villages, streets and stadiums all over the world. The most famous football competition is the World Cup. It happens every four years. In the past, football was a game just for men, but now half the countries in the world have an international women’s team, too. The first Women’s World Cup was in 1991. |
Joy Forster was _______ table tennis player in the world.
| A．the youngest | B．the best | C．the most popular | D．the oldest |
She played _______.
| A．tennis | B．for her country | C．against Jamaica | D．football |
People play football in _______.
| A．villages | B．streets | C．stadiums | D．A, B and C |
The World Cup _______.
| A．is held every year | B．is well-known all over the world |
| C．is a game just for men now | D．is a game just for students |
There was no World Cup for women players_______ 1991.
| A．before | B．in | C．after | D．to |
Spending time in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good bookshop, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I 1hyou?” You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. You may try to find out 2wthe book you want is. If you fail(没有找到), the assistant will lead you there and 3the will go away. It seems that he is not 4iin selling any books at all. There is a story about a good bookshop. A medical student 5fa very useful book in the bookshop, but it was too 6efor him to buy. He couldn’t get it from the library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to 7ra little. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book from its 8uplace. He was leaving when he saw the assistant signing to 9h. He was surprised that the assistant 10pto the book in the corner. “I put it there so that people wouldn’t see it and buy it,” said the assistant. Then he left the student by himself to go on with his reading.
Although I’m not in my childhood, I still prefer reading fairy tales. They often make me think of some special experiences and feelings. This summer I’ve reviewed this kind of tales, The Little Prince. It was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy tale by the French author Antoine.
“I”, the narrator(讲述者) of the story, is a pilot. His plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. The little prince lives on a small planet, and he grows a flower called ROSE there. One day they have a quarrel(争吵), so the little prince runs away. On his all-alone journey, he meets different kinds of people. From these people he gets a conclusion(结论) that grown-ups are strange. And with the help of the man he meets, he descends in the Sahara.
This book moved me a lot. It is not only a fairy tale for children and teenagers, but also for grown-ups.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。The author loves fairy tales, because _____.
| A．they are very interesting |
| B．they are not about real life |
| C．they make him or her think of special feelings |
| D．they often have a happy ending |
The writer of The Little Prince is from _____.
| A．France | B．China |
| C．Canada | D．America |
The little prince runs away, because _______.
| A．he doesn’t love his hometown |
| B．he is a naughty boy and loves adventures |
| C．he has made mistakes |
| D．he has quarrelled with ROSE |
The underlined word “descend” means ______ in the passage.
| A．end | B．die |
| C．land | D．fly |
The best title for this article is “_____”.
| A．A fair tale |
| B．My favourite fairy tale—The Little Prince |
| C．How to choose the story |
| D．How I spent my childhood |
Hemingway was one of the famous writers. He was born in America in 1899. His father was a doctor and loved sports very much, and his mother taught music. Among the six children in the family, Hemingway was the second oldest.
Hemingway had written many books in his life. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most famous and also my favourite. It came out in 1952. The main character in the book is a fisherman. He is an old man and fishes alone. People think he is a man with bad luck, because he doesn’t get a fish in eighty-four days. Every evening, he comes home with his empty boat. But the old man believes himself. Then on the eighty-fifth day the man takes a big fish. Although he meets a lot of trouble, the old man never gives up(放弃).
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。 Hemingway’s father was a fan of _____.
| A．books | B．sports | C．music | D．art |
The Old Man and the Sea was published(出版) in _____.
| A．1852 | B．1899 | C．1952 | D．1989 |
The old man doesn’t get a fish until the _____ day.
| A．fifteenth | B．eightieth |
| C．eighty-fourth | D．eighty-fifth |
What does the old man do when he can’t get a fish?
| A．He has to look for food somewhere else. |
| B．He doesn’t give up fishing. |
| C．He doesn’t fish any more. |
| D．He has nothing to do. |
What can we learn from the old man?
| A．When we are in trouble, we should not give up. |
| B．When we want to fish, we can get a big fish. |
| C．We can do everything well because we are young. |
| D．We can live a better life if we like fishing. |
根据短文内容，完成下列任务
The picture that sits on my desk in my bedroom is my favourite. (A)When I have trouble studying, or I’m worried about an exam, I always take a look at it. It is a picture of my best friends taken three years ago when we were in middle school. It reminds(使……想起) me of the good time we’ve shared and the support(支持) their friendship still gives me today. Our lives have gone in different directions, (B)_______ our friendship we created has kept us close. Every week I get a message on my answering machine from one of them, or a letter in the mail with the latest news or vacation photos. I often get an email with a joke for the day or words of comfort about some problems in my life. My friends often show up for surprise birthday parties, and one of them (C)_______ travelled two hours from the other end of town just to watch my first English speech contest. Our friendship has carried me through a lot of difficult experiences, and has enriched the good ones.
任务一：简要回答下面的问题。 Where is the picture?
When was the picture taken?
任务二：将A处画线句子翻译成汉语。____________
任务三：在B处和C处填入一个适当的单词。B: __________
C: __________