I Am A Pencil
Children’s book author Sam Swope took a job teaching writing to third-graders in the New York City. His students were immigrants (移民) or the children of immigrants from 21 countries, speaking 11 languages and having many different beliefs. But there were a few things they had in common: family troubles, money struggles and poetry.
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What It Takes To Help Me Out
An editor for US News & World Report, David L. Marcus takes us inside a boarding (寄宿) school for troubled teens. He shows the great stresses that are put on these teens and make them lose their confidence. This should cause us to think hard about troubled teens.
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The Most Scenic Drives in America
Published again and again and translated into several languages beginning in 1997, this travel book includes over 200 brand-new photographs of the wonderful places along 120 selected routes.
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Our Brother’s Keeper
Author Jedwin Smith tells what happened when he met several of his brother’s old friends. They make a journey to Vietnam, to visit the place where Jeff, his brother, died. Surprisingly, their Vietnamese guide was the former commander (海军中校) carrying out the attack that killed Jeff. A powerful story of brotherhood, bravery and understanding carried out.
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1.Which of the following books offers the biggest price cut?
A. I Am A Pencil
B. What It Takes To Help Me Out
C. The Most Scenic Drives in America
D. Our Brother’s Keeper
2.If you are interested in pictures, you would probably choose ________.
A. Our Brother’s Keeper
B. What It Takes To Help Me Out
C. The Most Scenic Drives in America
D. I Am A Pencil
3.From the book I Am A Pencil, we can learn that Sam Swope’s students _______.
A. are homeless children
B. have the same beliefs
C. like writing poetry
D. are in different grades
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. I Am A Pencil is written by Jedwin Smith.
B. What It Takes To Help Me Out is about troubled teens.
C. You have to pay $47.88 for The Most Scenic Drives in America.
D. Jedwin Smith was killed in Vietnam.
5.What type of writing is this passage?
A. An advertisement. B. A news report. C. An announcement. D. A tour guide.
Football is so popular in China. Almost everyone is interested in the sport — the young and the old, boys and girls, and now even robots.
Recently at Hangzhou Guangming Middle School, kids from several schools played football with their robots.
Robot football is very different from human football. Only two robots play in each match. The field is as big as a ping-pong table. One half is black and the other is white. Each robot tries to catch the “football” and score a goal. The robot with more goals wins.
Gao Linge, a boy from Hangzhou Guangming Middle School, helped make one of the robots for the match.
“My school bought the main board (主板),” said Gao, 14. “Then I decided what my robot looked like and made a computer program for it.”
Gao’s robot was eight centimeters tall and had two arms. It had four sensors (传感器) to “see” and “kick” the “football”.
Ying Xuehai, a 12-year-old student from Gao’s school, also made a robot. His robot played against Gao’s. The match decided who would go to the final game. Ying lost the game. So he gave many of his robot’s parts to Gao.
Even so, Gao’s robot didn’t win the final. It played well in the first five minutes. Then it slowed down. By the end of the match, it could hardly move. What was wrong? Gao and Ying found the problem — the robot ran out of batteries (电池)!
“We’ll solve the problem and beat the other schools next time!” said the two boys.
1.________ is popular in China.
A. Football B. Robot C. Sensor D. Game
2.How many robots are needed in a match?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
3.The third paragraph mainly talks about ________.
A. a wonderful robot football game B. how robots can score more goals
C. the rules of robot football games D. how robots can win the matches
4.Gao Linge lost the match for the reason that ________.
A. his robot ran out of power
B. he broke the rules of the game
C. he used Ying Xuehai’s robot’s parts
D. his robot happened to be out of order
5.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Gao Linge is as old as Ying Xuehai.
B. Ying Xuehai’s robot was 8 centimeters tall.
C. Gao’s and Ying’s robots were both bought.
D. The passage doesn’t tell us who won the final.
Senior citizens are permitted to travel cheaply on a bus if they have a special card. Women may get cards when they are sixty.
Mrs. Matthews lives in the country but she went into town once a week to buy food and other things for the house, and she usually went by bus. She always had to pay the full price for her ride.
Then she reached the age of sixty and got her senior citizen’s card, but when she used it for the first time on the bus, it made her feel very old.
The bus driver had often seen her traveling on the bus before, and he notices that she was feeling unhappy, so after she had paid her money, he winked（眨眼）at her and whispered, “Don’t forget to give your mother’s card back to her when you see her again.”
Mrs. Matthews was very happy when she heard this.
1.Senior citizens in the story refer to ________.
A. those who have special cards
B. old people with special cards
C. those who want to travel cheaply
D. people holding high positions
2.Women over sixty________.
A. have to pay their special card
B. don’t have to pay for taking buses
C. have to pay the full price for their ride
D. pay less for their ride if they have a special card
3.How often does Mrs. Matthews go to the town?
A. twice a week B. once a year C. every other week D. once a week
4.Mrs. Matthews felt unhappy on the bus because ________.
A. she still had to pay for the tide B. the card wasn’t hers
C. she felt she was now an old woman D. the driver whispered to her
5.The driver whispered to Mrs. Matthews because _________.
A. he hoped to make her feel younger
B. he knew her mother was still alive
C. she did not pay money for taking the bus
D. she shouldn’t have used her mother’s card
假如你叫李华，是校报的英语小记者。校报英语园地本期的话题是Festivals and Holidays。你打算以My Favorite Festival为题进行演讲，请根据写作提纲，介绍你最喜欢的传统节日——春节。
内容包括：1. 春节的重要性；2. 主要庆祝活动； 3. 你喜欢的原因。
注意：词数100左右。 参考词汇：对联couplet 灯笼 lantern 压岁钱lucky money
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。错误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； 只允许修改 10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Yesterday I stepped into a restaurant for lunch. As I was waiting my order to come, I noticed the old man in a wheelchair roll himself over to a table. No one besides me seemed to notice him. I got up and go over to his table and asked if that I could get him something to drink. He smiled and said, “Thank you.You are generously. I’d like any orange juice, please.”When I was getting ready to leave, I walked by the old man’s table to saying goodbye. He thanked me again and told me I had made his days, coming over and helping him out. I gave him a hug and told him he had made my day, either.
Have you ever gone1.(travel) abroad?2.(actual), it is interesting to visit another country,3.can broaden our mind and make us have an unforgettable experience, but sometimes there4.(be) some problems when we don’t know the language very well. It may be5.(difficulty) to talk with the people there. We may not know how to use the telephone in the country which we are6.(visit). We may not know how to buy the things we need. In a strange country we may not know where to eat7.what to order in a restaurant. It is not easy8.(decide) how much money to tip waiters or taxi drivers. When we are helpless, we may not know how to ask9.help. After a short time, however, we learn what to do and what to say. We learn to enjoy10.(live) in another country, and then we may be sorry to leave both the place and the people. It’s a pity, isn’t it?
