Dear Mr. Lim,
My name is Mary Taylor. I’m a 14-year-old girl. I want to be a pilot. I spend hours watching the planes take off from the airport. I love traveling to new places by plane and the idea of flying people around the world!
I’m not sure whether it’s the right job for me. I want to decide soon. I hope to start training early. I want to be young when I’m flying a Boeing 737 or even an A380.
I have so many questions about the job-do you get paid well? I want to make lots of money because I want to have a big family and a big house. Is it fun? Is it safer than being a doctor, a policewoman,etc.?Is it really hard? I’m a girl,so will I be discriminated against（被歧视）? If I decide to become a pilot, where and when should I start training?
My only brother also says if I want to be a pilot, I have to be really good at math, but I’m only OK at math.
Being a pilot looks like one of the coolest jobs in the world. Could you please write to me soon? Thanks so much, Mr. Lim!
Yours,
Mary Taylor
根据上面的材料内容,选择最佳答案。
1.What does Mary want to be in the future?
A.A policewoman. B.A pilot. C.A doctor.
2.Boeing 737 and A380 are __________.
A.Mary’s favorite radio stations B.two factories that make planes C.two kinds of planes
3.What can we know from Paragraph 3?
A.Mary wants to make a lot of money.
B.Mary decides to be a doctor.
C.Mary is discriminated against at school.
4.How many children are there in Mary’s family?
A.One. B.Two. C.Three.
5.Mary thinks being a pilot is __________.
A.cool B.dangerous C.relaxing
Amy is a student at a university in America. These days, she is studying in Spain. Here are some of her diaries about her life there.
Wednesday, May 4 Our class went to the Prado again. I love this museum一the buildings and the paintings are great. In fact, I wasn’t very interested in art until I came to this country. Now I think it’s important to see paintings in a museum一not just in books or on the Internet. In a museum, they come alive（看上去像真的）. After that, Alicia and I studied together for next week’s exam. |
Thursday, May 5 Today’s Spanish class was great fun. After two months of studying, my Spanish has improved a lot. I like my Spanish teacher very much. She is only 25 and already an excellent Spanish teacher. She is a beautiful girl with long straight hair. She is quite outgoing and likes telling jokes. Everyone in my class loves her! |
Friday, May 6 Our class went out to dinner again. I really like the way people live here. In the evening, they have dinner late, around 10 or sometimes 11. Family is very important, and many families here eat together in restaurants or walk on the streets. At first, I was surprised to see very young children out with their families at midnight（午夜）, but then it became ▲ . Things like this are making me think about the differences between cultures. My mother advised me to write an article about cultural（文化的）differences for a magazine. I thought that was a great idea! |
根据上面的材料内容,选择最佳答案。
1.Before Amy came to Spain, she was not very interested in __________.
A.art B.math C.history
2.From the passage, we know that Amy’s Spanish teacher __________.
A.has long curly hair B.likes telling jokes C.is strict with her students
3.What did Amy do on May 6?
A.She visited a museum. B.She worked in a Spanish restaurant.
C.She went out to dinner with her classmates.
4.The best word for “▲” is“_____________________”.
A.special B.normal C.easy
5.What did Amy’s mother advise her to do?
A.To study foreign food. B.To go traveling around Spain.
C.To write an article about cultural differences.
A thirsty bee went to a river to drink. As it was drinking, it was carried away by the running water. A kind bird saw the bee’s danger. It picked a leaf and threw it into the water in front of the bee. The bee was able to climb onto the leaf, and it was brought safely to the land. The bee thanked the bird for its kindness and then flew away. Not long after, the bird was sitting on the branch of a tree. It did not see that a man was aiming his gun at it. But the bee saw what the man was doing. So the bee flew into the man’s eye, and hurt him. The pain in his eye was so great that he was not able to shoot the bird, and the bird flew away.
In this way, the bee, whose life had been saved by the bird, was able to save the life of the bird.
根据上文内容,选择最佳答案。
1.The bee was very thirsty, so it __________.
A.went to a river to drink B.went to look for the bird C.went home to drink
2.Why did the bird throw a leaf into the water? Because __________.
A.the bird was angry with the bee B.the bird liked to play with water
C.the bee was carried away by the running water.
3.Not long after, the bird __________, when a man was aiming at it.
A.was playing on the land B.was singing in a tree C.was sitting on the branch of a tree
4.Who saved the bird’s life at last?
A.The bee. B.The man. C.A friend.
5.From this story, we have learned that __________.
A.both the bee and the bird are useful animal B.a friend in need is friend indeed
C.the bee is as clever as the bird
April 27 is a special day in Britain. It’s called “Take Our Daughters to Work Day”. It was _______ to Britain in 1994 from America. On that day thousands of girls take a day off school and go with one of their _______ to their work places. _______ doing this, it can teach girls more about the society where they live.
Now the girls can have a close look at _______ their parents are doing. This may help them to be calmer（更镇静）when they have to _______ a job. Mary experienced a day of work at her mother’s office. This helped her understand her mother’s work better. She said that this _______ her feel more confident（有信心的）about her future.
Schools and many companies（公司）support the activity, _______. Some schools _______ make the day a necessary part of school life.
Experts think that girls with more self- confidence（自信）are more likely to be _______ than common girls. If parents can set good examples both at work ________ at home for them, they will do better than others. “Take Our Daughters to Work Day” is surely a step in the right direction.
1.A.exchanged B.brought C.preferred
2.A.teachers B.friends C.parents
3.A.By B.On C.At
4.A.which B.what C.that
5.A.choose B.receive C.knock
6.A.got B.taught C.made
7.A.yet B.too C.also
8.A.even B.never C.ever
9.A.uncomfortable B.successful C.awful
10.A.if B.but C.and
一Do you know_____________________?
一Of course. John Atanasoff from America.
A.by whom was the first computer invented
B.who the first computer was invented by
C.when was the first computer invented
一Jack works very hard, but he makes little progress.
一 __________,he should improve his method of study.
A.After all B.In that case C.Once in a while
