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Years ago, I lived in a house in a large city. The house next door was only a few meters away from _1._. Through the window, I could often see a woman _2.I had never met doing some reading in the house every afternoon.
Several 3. went by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was not very clear through the dirty window. I wondered why the woman didn’t wash her window. It __4._ looked terrible.
One bright morning, I decided to clean my house, including __5._ the window inside. Late in the afternoon when I finished all the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. How _6.__! I found that the woman’s window was actually so clean that she could be _7._ clearly
sitting by the window.
That was quite an _8._ lesson for me. how often had I looked at others through my own shortcomings (缺点)。
Since then, I have _9._ used to asking myself whether I am looking through my own dirty window. Before I want to judge (判断) someone, I always think _10.__ than before and try to clean the dirty window so that I may see the world around me more clearly.
John Smith was an old porter. He worked at the station.Every day he was busy carrying heavy things for the people. He was careful with his work. He was kind to everyone. He was always ready to help others.
One morning he stood in the station. He was waiting for the train. Just then he saw a man running towards the trains with a big bag in his hand.
“No train is starting. Why is he in such a hurry?” the old man thought to himself. He went up to the man and asked, “May I help you?” As soon as the man saw the porter, he stopped running.
“Can I catch the 10:35 train to London?” the man asked. He looked worried. The old porter looked at him for a few seconds and said, “Well, sir. I’d like to help you, but I can’t answer your question because I don’t know how fast you can run.” Then he explained to the man, “The 10:35 train to London left five minutes ago. Can you run fast enough to catch it?”
1.What was John’s job?
2.Who did he see when John Smith was waiting for the train?
3.Where do you think the man with a big bag was going?
4.What time was it when the man got to the station?
5.The man didn’t catch the 10:35 train to London, did he?
根据对话内容，从方框中所给的七个选项中选出五个句子补全对话，使对话完整、通顺。并将所选标号在对话后面的横线上。
A. Do you hate the life here? B. My parents would like to go to college,too? C. Do you know my parents never went to college ? D. Tell me more about your plan,please. E. Nearly three years has passed since we came here. F. Are you used to the life here? G. It’s hard to know what will happen in the future |
A:How time flies ! 1._______________________
B: That’s right. By the way, what are you going to 
do after leaving school ?
A: I’m not sure. 2.______________________
B: I’m different. I expect to have a new start.
A: What do you mean ? 3.____________
B: Of course not. I mean I will have a better future.
A: Sounds great . 4._________________
B: I wish I could go to a great high school. Then I may go to a famous college.
A: However, your dream seems to have nothing special.
B: Yes, it does. 5.________________ So they hope I can achieve their dream.
A: Oh, I get it now. You must have more duties.
B: Yes. Everyone is supposed to do something meaningful in their lives.
根据短文内容，从短文后的A-E选择中，选出适当的选项补全短文，并将代表句子的字母填写在答题卡相应的题号位置上。
There are two days we shouldn't worry about in our life. One is yesterday, 1. . Yesterday is gone forever. 2. . So it is useless to worry about it.
We cannot control tomorrow. 3. , maybe something good or bad. No matter tomorrow is sunny or cloudy, the sun will rise as usual.
So we have only one day left. What is it? 4. . Today is the most important for everyone. It is the only day for us to fight for ourselves. We can control it. We can choose what to do and what not to do. We can choose how to do it. Treasure Today, 5. .
A. We cannot change what you said or what you did yesterday B. We don't know what will happen next day C. Yes, it is Today D. because it is our wealth财富 in our hand E. and the other one is tomorrow |
Look at the center circles of Diagram (图)A and Diagram B.
Which of the centre circles looks larger?
Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B. In fact , they are exactly the same size.
Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase花瓶? Or two faces？Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.
“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:
When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains大脑 and then our brains interpret（解读） the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it “Visual illusion（视觉错误）.
Movie makers often make use of illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make u
se of illusions.
1.The centre circle in Diagram A looks smaller than that in Diagram B.
That’s because .
A. something is wrong with our eyes
B. the two circles are not the same size
C. our brains interpret the information in a wrong way
D. the two pictures change quickly from one to the other
2.What’s the right order according to the passage?
a. We look at things with our eyes.
b. Our brains interpret the messages.
c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.
d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.
A. adbcB. cabdC. acdbD. bcad
3.Movie makers make use of visual illusions to .
A. help the actors look better
B. make the actors much braver
C. help the actors become stronger
D. make the actors seem different in size
4.In the picture on the right, it seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD. Which paragraph段 can explain what has happened to our eyes?
A. The second one. B. The third one.
C. The fifth one. D. The sixth one.
5.The text is probably taken from .
A. an advertisement B. a science book
C. a movie magazine D. a story book
Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. "I got a red flower today. Could you please sign签字 this note?" he said to Mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.
Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is "OK", but often he gets "You can do better than this." Mum knows what it means. She tells me "You can do better than thi
s" means "Extremely bad" in China.
In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is "Please be nicer tomorrow". Many parents are satisfied with对---满意 a B-grade for each subject.
But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spent more time on homework than I did when I was a 6th grader in the USA! Yet his parents and teachers didn't think he worked hard enough.
Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.
1.Why did Ted come home with .a letter last Friday ?
A. Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother
.
B. Because he did something wrong.
C. Because the teacher was happy with his progress.
D. Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.
2.If a student in the USA gets "OK" in his school work, it means .
A. he gets top scores
B. he gets medium scores
C. he gets extremely bad scores
D. he gets the worst scores
3.American parents will be when their children get a B-grade in their school.
A. excited B. sad C. angry D. happy
4.The underlined words "high expectations" in this passage means .
A. 很高的待遇 B. 很多的自由 C. 很高的期望 D. 很多的关爱
5.The writer mainly wants to tell us .
A. the differences between Chinese education and American education
B. Chinese students are better than American students
C. American parents are not strict enough with their children
D. what the best way to educate children is
