Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts(领养) all the children she can.
Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose parents passed away. Pinky’s parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working fulltime because she had a baby to feed. Today, she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage.
Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn’t give her a second look. She lives in a brown mud-washed(泥刷的) house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food.
If you ask her why she provides a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. “I know what it is to be poor and hungry.” As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favourite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless.
Pinky feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright. Her oldest baby, Sarita Rai, is now 20 years old. Then, there is 19-year-old Nimbhe who came to Pinky because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. Ten-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father’s death. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and grew vegetables for sale.
1.After Pinky adopted her child, she ________.
A. began to raise some chickens
B. didn’t go to school anymore
C. asked her parents foe help
D. left her mountain village
2.By adopting those poor and homeless children, Pinky wants to ________.
A. teach them to grow vegetables
B. offer them good jobs
C. make sure they live in hope
D. help them become rich
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Pinky likes collecting coins and posters.
B. Bhim and Kumar are from the same family.
C. People in Pinky’s village have no shoes to wear.
D. Sarita Rai works in a government office.
4. We can infer(推断) from the passage that Pinky is a ________ person.
A. kind B. strict C. bright D. careful
“Before I came here,” one child said, “I thought swimming was running through an open fire hydrant(消防龙头).”
“Here” is a summer camp that’s only an hour from New York City—but a world away. This camp is run by the Fresh Air Fund(基金会). Since 1877, the fund has helped poor children from New York City spend summers in the country. Each year, over one thousand children, age 6—18,take part in the program. Some stay at the camp; others live with host families. The fund pays all money.
The camp is for 8 to 15-year-olds. At camp, children can learn about the stars, see deer and cows and other animals, and go hiking, fishing, and of course swimming. The children learn responsibility(责任) by helping out with chores like making beds and waiting on tables. They also learn a lot from teachers, who are often college students from around the United States and from other countries.
Host families from thirteen states and Canada offer to have children spend the summer with them. Many of these families have their own children. The visiting children become part of the family. They go with the family on picnics, to the pool or beach, and on trips. The children are from 6 to 12 years old when they make their first visit, and most are invited back. Some of the children and families become friends for life.
1. We can see from the passage that the summer camp ________.
A. is in the city of New York
B. makes lots of money each year
C. doesn’t have any teachers
D. can help children learn a lot
2.The last paragraph(段落) mainly tells us ________.
A. where the host families are from
B. how children get on with host families
C. what children do with host families
D. why host families invite children back
3.The purpose of this passage is to _______.
A. introduce the summer camp to people
B. get people interested in the Fresh Air Fund
C. encourage people to visit poor children
D. find host families for the summer camp
完型填空
阅读下列短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
When I was eight years old, my family moved from Edinburgh to London because Father started a new job here. It was hundreds of miles away from my grandmother, so we sometimes spend spent hours ________to Edinburgh to visit her when we missed her terribly.
Granny never had much. She didn’t have things, or live in a nice house, but I could feel with my that she loved us deeply, especially when my world was turned upside down ________ my mother and father divorced(离婚) two years later.
I still remember those little things. Granny allowed me to sit on top of her ________ table, getting me to dip(蘸) my fingers in the sugar bowl or ________ from her coffee cup. Granny had a fancy bottle high on a shelf. One day after her death. I received a box. To my surprise, I found the ________ inside. She remembered once I had asked her for it.
Granny ________ her pennies in a glass jar. She could have used those pennies herself but she kept ________ for my brother Tommie and me. And I was always excited to ________the pennies between my brother and me. “ One of you, one of me.” I would repeat ________ the jar was empty. I don’t remember how much we got on our visits, but I know that’s ________she loved us and cared about us when we were far away from her. So if I am ________enough to find a penny lying on the ground one day, I am sure it is just the one from Granny in heaven.
Those childhood memories have never ________ me. Instead, they still give me warm feelings through the years. A granny’s ________ stays with a grandchild as long as he needs it. You know, love is just like that.
1.A. hiking B. running C. driving D. walking
2.A. normal B. expensive C. cheap D. old
3.A. life B. heart C. idea D. thought
4.A. because B. unless C. while D. before
5.A. bedroom B. garden C. bathroom D. kitchen
6.A. fill B. eat C. use D. drink
7.A. bottle B. box C. bowl D. cup
8.A. used B. found C. saved D. lost
9.A. them B. it C. her D. us
10.A. store B. offer C. divide D. provide
11.A. if B. as C. although D. until
12.A. what B. how C. when D. where
13.A. patient B. sad C. lucky D. bored
14.A. gone away fromB. come back to C. come up with D. got along with
15.A. interest B. love C. smile D. mind
书面表达
假设你是周杰伦的粉丝，请根据所给信息写一篇有关他的短文。内容提示如下：
1.我最喜欢的明星是周杰伦（Jay Chou）, 他三十几岁了，结婚一年多；
2.15岁试图写歌曲，梦想成为一名成功的歌星；
3.他认为古典音乐具有永恒价值，也擅长西方乐器。他将再次加盟“中国好声音”电视节目；
4.成就不局限于音乐界，他还曾在电影头文字D(Initial D)中担任主角。
我相信……
注意：短文必须包括所给要点，要求语句通顺，意思连贯；
1.第5点必须用二至三句话展开合理想象； 2.词数90个左右。
完成句子。 按所给的汉语，完成下列句子。
1.Amy晚上习惯于开着灯睡觉，因为她怕黑。
Amy ______________________________________ because she is afraid of darkness.
2.这位画家取得了巨大进步，得到了大家高度评价。
The artist _____________________________________ that people thought highly of him.
3.没有人能计算出人类何时移居月球。
No one can _____________________________________________________ the Mars.
4.我的哥哥很自豪他加入海军多年了。
My brother is proud that he______________________________________ for many years.
5.别灰心！我们会鼓励孩子们手工制作卡片。
Don’t lose heart! Children _________________________________________________by us.
6.他们宁愿放弃参加这次演出的选拔也不愿缺席这次考试。
They would rather ______________________________the show than be absent from this exam
任务型阅读 认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。
Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.
So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to leave his job and spend his life making toys from things that people no longer want or need!
Mr. Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. After his graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.
But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using common materials.
Mr. Gupta found the whole project so intereting that he decided to leave his high-paying job and pay his attention to designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but are also full of scientific principles(科学原理), so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.
When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr. Gupta created a Toys from Trash website and also recorded over 250 YouTube videos.
Today, over 50,000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations developed from cool science. Some young children have become so inspired (鼓舞)that they have even won international science competitions with the help of his creations.
Making educational toys from rubbish
Reasons ●Most people never thought about building educational toys.
●Usually people go to the nearest store to buy educational toys in 1.
●To some families, food is more 2. than educational toys.
●We should help children to get interested in science.
About Mr Gupta ●Finding a good job and spending five years designing cars after 3.
college
●Deciding to stop a good job and spending his life making special toys
●Volunteering to teach the children from 4. families
●Taking a year’s training course to learn to make science fun and exciting for poor children
●Focusing his attention on designing educational toys
About the website ●A Toys from Trash is a website with over 250 YouTube videos
●Many children visit the website and they are with the videos for the toy creations 5. on cool science
●With the help of his creations, children have even won international science competitions
