What does your school look like? Square buildings and rooms, rows of desks, a teacher standing in the f1.? Most schools are like this. But new designs (设计) for campuses (校园) are here. Some schools may change their looks in the future.
Close to nature
Learning doesn’t j2. happen in the classroom, but anywhere in school. In future schools, students might study outside. The schools should look more like gardens t3. factories.
Beijing No 4 High School Fangshan Campus is a good e4. of a “garden school”. There are buildings of d5. heights (高度) in the school. There is green grass on the rooftops. It m6. the whole campus look like hills. Many gardens, big and small, are all over campus. The most special part is the schools rooftop f7.. It gives students a chance to learn farming techniques (技能).
Creative & sporty
Tiantai No. 2 Primary School in Hangzhou looks like an oval (椭圆). There is a running track (跑道) on its rooftop. You don’t need to worry about safety (安全性). There is a strong glass wall and high fences (栅栏) a8. the track.
“Childhood would be much less fun if children lose the chance to e9. running.” said Ruan Hao, designer of the school. The school’s track gives students a beautiful place to exercise in. It also shows them how to be creative.
Complete each sentence according 10 the Chinese given.
1.我喜欢看电视节目，尤其是有关野生动物和自然的纪录片。
I like watching different TV ________, ________ ________ about wildlife and nature.
2.走过银行，你会看见在拐角处的一家旅馆。然后向右转，继续走。你很快会看见一家食品杂货店，书报亭就在店的对面。
Go ________ the bank and you will see a hotel ________ ________ ________. Then turn right and walk on, you will soon find a ________ shop. The ________ is ________ the shop.
3.我和我父母对工作娱乐有不同的意见，他们总是说玩电脑游戏是浪费时间，但我不认为玩电脑游戏对我有害。
My parents and I have different ________ ________ work and play. They always say it’s ________ ________ ________ ________ to play computer games. But I don’t think it is bad for me.
Sentence transformation
1.I spent $15 on the book. (改写同义句)
It ________ me $15 ________ ________ the book.
2.The two brothers look like each other. (改同义句)
The two brothers look ________ ________ each other.
3.Sam plays football after school twice a week. (对划线部分提问)
________ ________ ________ a week does Sam play football after school?
4.Angela’s got a new computer and a new mobile phone. (改成否定句)
Angela ________ ________ a new computer ________ a new mobile phone.
More and more Chinese would like to travel to the USA and drive by themselves. They need to know something about driving in America, which will be helpful to them and bring a happy holiday to them. Here is some useful information.
Hand signals (信号)
Though indicators (指示灯) are used to show which direction you are going, knowing some hand signals are very important and they are always asked in a driving test. When you want to turn right, you can put your left hand out of the window and point upward. If you want to slow down or stop, you can just point downward.
School buses
Yellow school buses have flashing (闪烁) red lights and stop signs that reach out from the driver’s side. The drivers use these warning (警告) signals when letting pupils on and off No matter which side of the road you are traveling on, if you come upon (偶遇) a school bus with its lights flashing and a stop sign used, you must stop. It’s the law (法律). Keep stopped until the lights stop flashing or the stop sign is taken away.
Using the Horn (喇叭)
Using horns is not common in America. In fact, people seldom use them. You may use your horn to warn walkers or other drivers of possible danger. Do not use your horn to complain about (抱怨) other drivers’ mistakes or to try to get a slow driver to move faster.
1.What is the main idea of this article?
A.How to have a happy holiday in America.
B.Why hand signals are important in America.
C.How to drive safely in America.
D.When people can use the horn in America.
2.The underlined “they” in paragraph2 refers to (指的是) ________.
A.hand signals B.driving tests C.indicators D.drivers
3.Which of the following shows the structure (结构) of this article?
A.
B.
C.
D.
4.A driver must stop when ________ in America.
A.he sees another driver point downward with his hand
B.red lights flash on the school bus and the stop sign is shown on it
C.he comes upon a policeman in the street
D.other drivers use horns to warm him
5.From the article, we know that ________ in America.
A.you’d better not drive by yourself when you travel
B.you should not tell another driver his mistakes in driving by using horns
C.it is a policeman’s job to make a driver drive faster
D.a driver always needs to give way to a school bus when meeting it
Elephants are the largest land animals alive today. African elephants live in family groups called herds (群). All of the elephants in the herd take care of each other. The leader of the herd is an old mother elephant. She is the matriarch (族长). A herd may have as few as eight or as many as 100 elephants. The other elephants follow (跟随) the matriarch because she knows how to keep them safe from coming danger.
Elephants learn by watching and copying other elephants, and also learn from life. Baby elephants stay with their mothers until they are fully grown at about ten years old. Elephants are smart animals with long memories (记忆力). In the dry season, a matriarch can remember where water was found in the past. The herd will follow her there. She can also remember the safest place for baby elephants to cross a fast-moving river.
Other animals don’t usually attack (攻击) elephants. However, a lion might try to attack a sick elephant or a baby. If this happens, the adult (成年的) elephants circle around the baby elephants. The adults make louder sounds and hit the ground with their trunks (象鼻). The matriarch puts herself between the lion and the herd. She beats her ears out to make herself look even larger. Then she leads her herd and attacks the enemy in a big cloud of dust (灰尘).
1.What do you know about the elephant herd?
A.There are not any father elephants in a herd.
B.A herd may have eight to 100 elephants.
C.Only the matriarch of the herd looks after baby elephants.
D.All the elephants in the herd take turns (轮流) to look for water.
2.Long memories help elephants to ________.
A.choose their matriarch B.fight against their enemies
C.communicate (交流) with each other D.find water and cross the river
3.Why do the adult elephants circle around their babies?
A.To keep their babies safe. B.To welcome their friends.
C.To attack their enemies. D.To help their babies to learn.
One day, Miss Mary asked the class to think of a story with a moral (寓意).
Little Suzy put up her hand. “My dad owns a farm. Every Sunday, we put chicken eggs in our truck and drive into town to sell them at the market. Well, one Sunday we hit a big bump (凸块) and all the eggs flew out of our basket and onto the road.”
When the teacher asked for the moral of the story, Suzy replied, “________.”
Little Lucy went next. “My dad owns a farm, too. Every weekend, we take our chicken eggs and put them in our incubator (孵化器). But last weekend, only eight of our 12 eggs hatched (孵出小鸡).”
Again, the teacher asked for the moral. Lucy answered, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.”
Next up was little Johnny. “My uncle Ted was drunk one day and he told me a story. He fought in a war many years ago and his plane was shot down over an enemy area. He jumped out of the plane with only a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun and a sword (剑).
On the way down, he drank the bottle of whiskey. Then, he landed right in the middle of 100 enemy soldiers. He shot 70 of them with his machine gun, but then he ran out of bullets (子弹)! So he pulled out his sword and killed 20 more. Then the sword broke, so he killed the last ten with his bare hands.”
The teacher and other students looked shocked (震惊). Miss Mary asked what the moral of this story was.
“Well,” Johnny replied, don’t trust uncle Ted when he’s drunk.”
1.How many children told stories in Miss Mary’s class?
A.Two. B.Three. C.Four. D.Five
2.What was the moral of little Suzy’s story?
A.Better late than never.
B.The early bird catches the worm.
C.Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
D.Better half an egg than an empty shell.
3.What does the underlined word “bare” mean?
A.empty B.big C.only D.dirty
4.From the article (文章), we know that ________.
A.Uncle Ted was a war hero before
B.Lucy’s dad doesn’t know how to use the incubator
C.Suzy’s dad is a careless driver
D.Miss Mary thought the story about uncle Ted was true until the end of the story
