The class teacher thought that hobbies were important for children. So she encouraged all her students to have one, and sometimes she arranged hobby shows for their parents to see as a result.
One morning the teacher told the class to have a holiday and get their hobby things to school before 5p.m. A hobby show would be held the following afternoon.
So in the afternoon, the students with nothing to show did their lessons at school as usual, while the lucky ones had a holiday to go home for their hobby works.
When the afternoon lessons began, the teacher was surprised to see that Tommy was not there. “I don’t believe Tommy has a hobby,” she thought. However, at a quarter to five, Tommy arrived with a beautiful collection of butterflies in glass cases. The teacher liked the samples(标本) very much and put them on a desk in the classroom. But, to her surprise, Tommy picked them up again and began to leave.
“What are you doing, Tommy?” she asked. “Those things must stay here until tomorrow afternoon. That’s when the parents are coming to see them.”
“I know that,” answered Tommy, “and I will bring them back tomorrow, but my big brother doesn’t want them to be out of our house at night.”
“But, aren’t the butterflies yours?” asked the teacher.
“No,” answered Tommy. “They are my brother’s”
“But Tommy, you should show your own hobby here, not somebody else’s”
“I know that,” answered Tommy. What surprised her most was the answer, “My hobby is watching my brother collecting butterflies.”
小题1:What did the class teacher think of hobbies for children?| A．Unwelcome | B．Hopeless | C．Harmful | D．Important |
小题2:What time did Tommy get back to school that afternoon?
小题3:What would NOT happen the following afternoon?| A．The parents would enjoy the show in the classroom | | B．Tommy would bring the butterflies back | | C．The teacher would encourage her students for hobbies | | D．The butterflies would fly away |
小题4:Which was the teacher’s greatest surprise?| A．Tommy was not at school as usual | | B．Tommy picked the butterflies up again and began to leave | | C．Tommy said his hobby was watching his brother collecting butterflies | | D．Tommy came back to school before 5 that afternoon |
小题5:What’s the best title for this passage?| A．Important Hobbies | B．Tommy’s Hobby | | C．Different Hobbies | D．Collecting Butterflies |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:B |
主旨大意：这篇短文中的老师让学生们展示自己的爱好，托米也带来了自己的爱好。但是通过对话老师才知道，它的爱好不是自己动手做，而是看着别人做，令老师啼笑皆非。
小题1:根据第一段The class teacher thought that hobbies were important for children. 描述，可知选D。
小题2:根据However, at a quarter to five, Tommy arrived with a beautiful collection of butterflies in glass cases.描述，可知托米是在四点四十五分返回的学校。故选B。
小题3:根据The teacher liked the samples(标本) very much 描述，可知这是一些蝴蝶标本，说明蝴蝶已经死了，故不可能会再次飞走。选D。
小题4:根据What surprised her most was the answer, “My hobby is watching my brother collecting butterflies.”描述，可知选C。
小题5:这篇短文的老师让学生们来展示自己的爱好，主要就是围绕爱好这个内容来写的，故选B，托米的爱好。 |
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Dear Jenny,
How’s it going? Are you busy with your study these days?
I’ve been back at school 41 nearly four weeks. I’m very glad to tell you that great 42 have taken place in our school this term. First of all, we’re asked to “clear our plates” when having our meals and say 43 to wasting. Some of us used to order more than what we could eat. That was a big waste of food. Now we need to 44 the food we order. We should also stop wasting in some other ways. For example, we should turn off the lights when we 45 the classroom. And our school has opened up some fields for us to learn how to grow vegetables. Each class is given a small garden and our class has decided to grow some tomatoes and beans( 豆类) in our 46 time. I think that’ll be very interesting. Maybe I’ll be able to 47 you some beans we’ve grown by ourselves next time! What’s more, we have only two classes in the afternoon 48 we have more time for after-school activities. I’m one of the traffic safety volunteers in our school. After school, we take turns to go to the streets near our school and ask people to 49 the traffic rules.
I think we are having a different school life now!
Please write back soon and tell 50 more about your school.
Yours,
Wang Wei
| 小题2: | | A．changes | B．things | C．interests | D．lessons |
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| 小题4: | | A．clean | B．pay | C．cook | D．finish |
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| 小题5: | | A．leave | B．reach | C．open | D．build |
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| 小题8: | | A．because | B．when | C．before | D．so |
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| 小题9: | | A．follow | B．make | C．break | D．think |
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San Francisco has many museums. You can visit one and learn something new. We have art, science, history and other special museums. Some museums are open every day. Some are only open on certain days. Many museums are expensive, and others are free. But some of the expensive ones have free days . Many museums have websites. The websites usually have information about the things you can see in the museums.
On a museum’s website you can get information about ticket prices and free days. You can also know where the museum is and when it is open. Sometimes the information is on the first page, and it’s very easy for you to find. But sometimes you have to click（点击） on the words like Visit Information, or About to find the information. That will be hard work for you.
小题1:San Francisco has many museums for you visit and________. | A．learn something new | B．play computer games | | C．watch the movies | D．click on Information |
小题2:Some museums in San Francisco are open every day, but some are only open ________.| A．on weekdays | B．on weekends | | C．on certain days | D．on holidays |
小题3:Many museums have________ with information about the things you can see in them.| A．ticket prices | B．their websites | | C．open hours | D．free days |
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Kindergartens( 幼儿园 ) may teach you very important things you need to know. Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father’s life with the skills he learned.
The boy’s father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping. He couldn’t speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father’s phone to call his mother for help. The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were. Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: “F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.” But that wasn’t enough for his mother to find them. Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey’s Route22.The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.
“He just thought his dad needed help,” Dancy’s mother told the reporter. She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too. “ It is surprising for him to get off the highway ( 高速路 ) and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,” she said.
Shine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil. “ Dancy’s spelling skills helped him seize the moment,” he said. “And that’s the real value (价值 ) of education.”
小题1:When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were ________.| A．on the highway | B．at home | | C．in a shopping center | D．in a hospital |
小题2:Dancy called ________for help when his father couldn’t speak.| A．his mother | B．911 | C．Shine | D．the reporter |
小题3:The Chinese meaning of the word “seize” in this passage is probably“________”.小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．Dancy drove his father home. | | B．The reporter was really a hero. | | C．Shine sent Dancy’s father to hospital | | D．Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills. |
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Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving 31_________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was 32_________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned 33_________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, 34_________ there I sat, waiting for the light to 35_________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any 36_________.
I started wondering why I 37_________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was 38_________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no 39_________ in going through it.
Much later that 40_________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light 41_________ me. I think I stopped 42_________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’ s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow 43_________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do 44_________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so 45_________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.
| 小题1: | | A．fast | B．slowly | C．carefully | D．hard |
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| 小题2: | | A．late | B．alone | C．worried | D．afraid |
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| 小题3: | | A．green | B．yellow | C．red | D．dark |
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| 小题5: | | A．return | B．change | C．start | D．continue |
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| 小题6: | | A．attention | B．background | C．direction | D．information |
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| 小题7: | | A．refused | B．decided | C．prepared | D．forgot |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardly | B．luckily | C．usually | D．clearly |
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| 小题9: | | A．danger | B．excuse | C．space | D．energy |
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| 小题10: | | A．moment | B．night | C．afternoon | D．morning |
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| 小题11: | | A．depended on | B．looked forward to | C．stayed away from | D．came back to |
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| 小题12: | | A．though | B．unless | C．because | D．until |
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| 小题15: | | A．tired | B．ready | C．proud | D．sorry |
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In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous(冒险的)life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.
The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.
At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.
小题1:The last sentence of the first paragraph suggests that _________.| A．the word “stewardess” was made up by Ellen Church | | B．Ellen Church was the first woman who flew a plane | | C．Ellen Church was the first woman who worked on a plane | | D．Ellen Church was the first woman passenger on a plane |
小题2:From the second paragraph, we learn that ________.| A．Ellen did not behave in the same way as most as other girls | | B．Ellen’s family was not rich enough to support her education | | C．Ellen was fond of working as a nurse in the hospital | | D．Ellen has an unhappy childhood that changed her completely |
小题3:The main reason for Boeing Air Transport offering Ellen the job was ________.| A．her flying experience | B．her university education | | C．her nursing experience | D．her life attitudes |
小题4:According to the passage, in the 1940s a woman had to ________ if she wanted to be a stewardess.| A．be a nurse | B．be married | C．be a mother | D．be young |
小题5:The passage mainly talks about _______.| A．the background of early flying pilots | B．the experience of flying passengers | | C．the history of early flight attendants | D．the development of airplanes |
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