It is a great thing to help others． First， you can learn new things． Second， it can also make you feel good．
How can you do it？ Helping through charities（慈善团体） is a good idea． Charities are organizations（组织） that help others． September 5 is the International Day of Charity．
You can help charities by giving your time， giving money or giving things that you own．
● Volunteering
Volunteering is to give time to help others without pay．Some ways of volunteering are：
☆visiting old people to talk to them or help them
☆ walking dogs at an animal shelter（收容所）
☆ cleaning up a park
☆ helping some children．You can teach the children without life skills how to take care of themselves．
● Fundraising
Fundraising is to collect or produce money to a charity to help others． Some ways of fundraising are：
☆ making cakes or biscuits to sell
☆ doing sponsored（有赞助的） activities． For example，families and friends give you money if you finish a long walk．
● Donating
Donating is to give your things to a charity to help ot hers．Some ways of donating
are：
☆ giving your old toys or clothes to a charity that helps sick children or poor people
☆giving your old books to a library．
So， what can you do to help others？
（1）Why is it a great thing to help others？ （at least one）
（2）Which day is the International Day of Charity？
（3）Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese ．
（4）Mary makes some money by drawing pictures． She gives the money to a charity． It is a way of ．（填写序号A或B或C）
A．volunteering
B． fuundraIsil
C． donating
（5）Give a proper title to the passage ．
Will it matter if you don’t have your breakfast? There were a test in the US. People of different ages, from 12 to 83, took the test. During the test, these people got all kinds of breakfasts and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Scientists wanted to see how well they worked after they ate different kinds of breakfasts.
The result shows that if a person eats a right breakfast , he or she will work better than if he or she has no breakfast. If a student has fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen more carefully in class.
The result is different from what some people think. It shows having no breakfast will not help them lose weight.(减肥) This is because they become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch. In fact, they will gain weight.（增重） But they will lose more weight if they reduce other meals. During the test, people got
| A．no breakfast at all |
| B．different breakfasts or sometimes none |
| C．very good breakfasts |
| D．little food for breakfast |
The result shows that
| A．breakfast has great effect on people’s work and studies |
| B．breakfast has no effect on people’s work |
| C．a person will work better if he only has fruit and milk |
| D．students should have little for breakfast |
From the passage, some people think if they don’t have breakfast, they will
| A．be healthier | B．work better | C．lose weight | D．gain weight |
The word reduce means
| A．增加 | B．减少 | C．放弃 | D．享用 |
Which of the following is not right?
| A．It’s bad for your health to have no breakfast |
| B．Too little for breakfast and too much for lunch may make you fatter |
| C．If you eat much for lunch and supper, you may gain weight |
| D．The more breakfast you have, the more quickly you will learn in class |
A young mother thought that it was very wrong to waste any food when there were so many hungry people in the world. One evening, she was giving her small daughter her tea before putting her to bed. First she gave her a piece of bread and butter, but the child said that she did not want it like that. She asked for some jam on her bread as well.
Her mother looked at her for a few seconds and then said, “When I was a small girl like you. I was always given either bread and butter, or bread and jam, but never bread with butter and jam.”
Lucy looked at her mother for a few moments with pity in her eyes and said to her kindly, “Aren’t you pleased to live a happy life this now?”Lucy’s mother thought it was wrong to waste food because .
| A．the food was delicious |
| B．it was hard to get food |
| C．there were so many hungry people in the world |
| D．the food was little to eat |
Lucy wanted to eat .
| A．tea and bread | B．the bread with butter |
| C．the bread with jam | D．the bread with butter and jam |
When she was young, Lucy’s mother could only eat .
| A．both bread with butter and bread with jam |
| B．either bread and butter or bread and jam |
| C．bread and butter |
| D．bread and jam |
Lucy felt about this at her mother’s words.
| A．very sad | B．sorry | C．pity | D．worried |
Lucy thought her mother should feel happy because .
| A．she had come to live today’s happy life |
| B．they needn’t eat bread with butter and jam |
| C．they could eat bread and butter |
| D．they couldn’t eat bread with butter and jam |
根据短文内容， 判断正（T）误（F）。
Miss Grey lived in a small house. She was old and did not like noise at all, so she was very pleased when her noisy neighbor moved out. A young man moved in and Miss Grey thought the man seemed to be quiet.
But at three o’clock the next morning, the noise of a dog woke up. She thought she had never heard a dog there before. It must be the young man’s dog. So she telephoned the young man and said something bad about the dog and then hung up the telephone before he could answer. Nothing more happened until three o’clock the next morning. Then a voice said, “You telephoned me twenty four hours ago. Now I’ve rung you up to say that I haven’t a dog.Miss Grey felt sorry when her noisy neighbor moved out.
Miss Grey’s new neighbor was as noisy as the old one.
Some noise woke her up in the early morning.
She thought the new neighbor had brought a dog with him.
The young man rang up Miss Grey in the early morning, because he wanted to punish（惩罚）her.
根据短文内容， 判断正（T）误（F）。
Robots seems very new to most people. But they have a long history. The first one was made by a Greek inventor, you may see robots are used in factories. They are used to do many dangerous, difficult or boring jobs.
Some people can’t look after themselves and robots are used to help them. For example, some people can’t see, many of these people use a dog to help them. In the future, robot dogs might take the place of these guide dogs.
Robots are also used in American hospital. At one hospital, a robot takes meals from the kitchen to sick people’s rooms. It never loses its way because it has a map of the hospital in its computer system.
In the future, robots will work in space. But robots will never take the place of human being. They can, however, help us in a lot of different ways.Robots have a long history.
The first robot was invented by a Greek.
Robots can only be seen in films.
Robots can help some people look after themselves.
Today’s robots have a few different uses.
阅读下面短文，完成所给任务。
Tom was three years old. He liked to watch TV with his parents after supper, ①his parents never let him stay long. Mother would say, “It’s eight o’clock now. ②汤姆，到了你睡觉的时间了。”
“But why don’t you go to bed, too?” Tom always asked.
“We are adults (大人),” mother would say, “And adults go to bed late.”
One evening Tom asked his mother for an apple.
“But it’s too late,” his mother didn’t want to give him anything to eat at bedtime. “The apples are already asleep.”
“But not all of them, Mom.” Tom said, “The baby apples are perhaps asleep, but their parents are surely awake.”
1.请在①处填上一个适当的连词。
2.请把②出的句子译文英语。
3.What did Tom ask his mother for?
4.请在文中找出和下面的句子意思相同的句子。
His mother wanted to give him nothing to eat at bedtime.
5.文中有一对反义词，其中一个是asleep，对应的是 。