Who give us life, raise us and are our constant support and wellwishers？Our mothers. That’s why millions of people across the world take Mother’s Day as an opportunity to express thanks and send best wishes to their moms.
However, the celebration of Mother’s Day is not the recent thing that many believe it to be. It was the ancient Greeks who started the tradition by celebrating their annual spring festival in honor of Rhea, the mother of many gods and goddesses.
Later, in the 1600s, Mothering Sunday came to be celebrated in England. On the fourth Sunday of Lent (大斋期), children brought flowers and special fruitcakes to show their respect for their mothers. It may be the root of the modern Mother’s Day.
Thanks to the great efforts of Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis, Mother’s Day became an official festival in the US. It is celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Later, many countries began to celebrate this day as Mother’s Day.
Today, Mother’s Day is an international festival honoring mothers. It is celebrated all over the world in different ways. In Western countries，the most common way is to treat mothers with breakfast in bed .Kids often allow their mothers to sleep till late in the morning while they prepare her favorite breakfast with their fathers. Some also make handmade gifts or buy beautiful carnations (康乃馨). It is the day when you acknowledge your mothers contribution in your life and pay a tribute (礼品) to her, often with flowers and gifts. It complements Father’s Day, the celebration honoring fathers.
Today, Mother’s Day is a day celebrated on various days in many places around the world.
1.Why do people across the world celebrate Mother’s Day?
A. Because they want to express thanks and send best wishes to their mothers.
B. Because they want to express thanks and send best wishes to Rhea.
C. Because Mother’s Day is an official festival in the US.
D. Because Mother’s Day is an international festival.
2.The modern Mother’s Day came from________.
A. GreeceB. ChinaC. America D. England
3.From the passage we can learn that________.
A. Rhea is the mother of many gods and goddesses of England
B. many people wrongly believe Mother’s Day has a short history
C. in America Mother’s day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent
D. on Mother’s day fathers have to get up early to prepare breakfast
4.The passage mainly wants to tell us________.
A. how to celebrate Mother’s day
B. what to do on Mother’s day
C. the historical change of Mother’s day
D. the meaning of Mother’s day
Down-to-earth means being honest, open, and easy to deal with. It is a pleasure to find someone who is down-to-earth. A person who is down-to-earth is easy to talk to. He or she accepts others as equals. A down-to-earth person may be an important member of society, of course, but they do not let their importance go to their heads, and they do not consider themselves to be better than others who are less important. Someone who is filled with self-importance and pride, often without cause, is said to have his nose in the air. There is no way a person with his nose in the air can be down-to-earth.
Americans use another expression that is similar in some way to down-to-earth. The expression is both feet on the ground. Someone with both feet on the ground is a person with a good understanding of reality. He has what is called common sense. He may have dreams but he does not allow them to block his knowledge of what is real. The opposite kind of person is one who has his head in the clouds. A man with his head in the clouds is a dreamer whose mind is not in the world. Sometimes such a dreamer can be brought back to reality; and sharp words from the teacher, for example, can usually get a daydreaming student to put both feet back on the ground.
The person who is down-to-earth usually has both feet on the ground. But the opposite is not always true. Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down-to-earth. When we have both our feet firmly on the ground, we are realistic and we act honestly and openly toward others, and our lives are like the ground below us, solid and strong.
1.If a person has his nose in the air, he _______.
A. is confident
B. is easy to deal with
C. is down to the earth
D. is always self-important and pride.
2.What can a daydreamer probably be like?
A. A person full of dreams in life.
B. A person with his head in the clouds.
C. A person with both his feet on the ground
D. A person with a good understanding of reality.
3.The underlined sentence “But the opposite is not always true.” most probably means that ______.
A. the opposite direction is always wrong
B. the person who has his nose in the air is not true
C. a man with his head in the clouds is often not intelligent
D. a person who has both feet on the ground may not be down-to-earth
4.From the passage, we can infer the person who is _____ is the most popular kind of person.
A. down-to-earthB. standing on the ground
C. with his nose in the airD. with his head in the clouds
Grand Opening
Bentwood Truck Museum
Saturday, November 8, at 10:00 A. M.
After eighteen months of hard work by more than 100 volunteers, the Bentwood Truck Museum is ready to open. The old factory had been scheduled to be destroyed. When Roger Haygood heard about the plan to tear down the building, he bought it so that he could store his collection of old trucks there. Then he had the idea of turning the building into a truck museum.
During the past year and a half, the old building has been transformed into a treasure chest of memories. Instead of a dark and dull house, the building has become a cheery, bright home for all kinds of trucks from the past. The museum now houses 68 trucks, and we hope to have even more soon. There is a 1959 school bus, a 1942 bakery truck, and a 1937 fire engine. Our oldest vehicle is a 1919 milk truck. Our newest vehicle is a 1966 tow truck.
You can take a ride on a fire truck, a mail truck, or an ice-cream truck. Rides are $ 2.00, but you can get a ticket for a free ride at any grocery store in Bentwood.
Help us celebrate our grand opening by bringing your family and friends! There is something to interest everyone who attends. The Bentwood Truck Museum is a special piece of our history.
To get to Bentwood Truck Museum, take Route 29 (Kingston Highway) to Palmer Street. Go south on Palmer Street for one block and take a left onto Norman Drive. You will see the museum building and the amusement park on your left. Parking is available across the street, on your right.
1.Where is Bentwood Truck Museum?
A. On Norman Drive.B. On Palmer Street.
C. On Kingston Highway.D. On Route 29.
2.What is special about this museum?
A. It is built on the ruins of an old building.
B. It offers visitors free rides to the museum.
C. It exhibits trucks dating back to about 100 years ago.
D. It's transformed from an old factory by volunteers.
3.What's the purpose of writing this passage?
A. To introduce the old history of Bentwood Truck Museum.
B. To persuade readers to attend the opening of the museum.
C. To explain why Bentwood Truck Museum was set up.
D. To call on the visitors to take a ride in old trucks.
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy – five, he gave $ 60,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s ground.
As a result of his kindness, he became famous. Many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had daily injection in his neck.Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
1.Johnson became a rich man through _______.
A. doing business B. making whisky
C. cheating D. buying and selling land
2.The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson _______.
A. had many children in the schoolB. was a strange old man
C. was very fond of childrenD. was very kind
3.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out _______.
A. what kind of whisky he had
B. how to live longer
C. how to become wealthy
D. where to have an injection
4.When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that _______.
A. he needn’t an injection in the neck
B. there was something wrong with his neck
C. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening
D. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well
假设你是新华中学高三学生李华，进入高三后你的朋友William感到压力很大，学习效果甚微，请你给他写一封电子邮件，帮助他放松身心，提高学习效率。
内容要点：
1. 快乐学习，保持愉快的心情；
2. 积极参加体育活动，听听歌曲音乐；
3. 多与同学交流，互相鼓励。
注意：
1. 开头和结尾已经为你写好,词数100词左右。
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear William,
Recently, I have heard that you feel stressed as a student of Senior Three.
Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
My father was the biology professor. When I was young he was used to take me to the biology lab, there I saw pigs, cats and other animals. My father also influenced me through nature walks. He often took me on a walk in the backyard. We would catch frogs, snakes and firefly. He seemed know everything about wildlife. Eighteen years later, think about my father and his influence on my life, I feel very luckily. I am grateful that I got the chance to learn from her. He helps me develop my interest in all that was alive and sometimes dead around me.
