The Lunar Calendar（阴历）
Modern Chinese use the solar calendar（阳历）as English people do . But at the same time , they use their own lunar calendar . Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals : the rat , the ox , the tiger , the hare , the dragon , the snake , the horse , the goat , the monkey , the chicken , the dog and the pig . This list lasts for 12 years and then starts again .
Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon . And the full moon comes on the 15th day of the month . The New Year always starts between January 21 and February 20 . On the last day of the lunar year , there is a big family dinner . All members of the family except married daughters try to be present at this meal , even of they have to travel many miles to reach the home of their parents . Old quarrels are forgotten , and everybody is happy . After the dinner , the children keep awake to welcome the New Year .
The New Year celebrations last for 15 days , from the new moon to the full moon . On the first day , children and unmarried people go to visit their elders .
小题1:If next year is the year of the dragon , what was the name of last year ?| A．It was the year of tiger . | | B．It was the year of the hare . | | C．It was the year of snake . | | D．It was the year of the ox . |
小题2:Suppose that next Chinese New Year’s Day is on 15th February , when will people have their big family dinner ?| A．On February 15 | B．On February 16 | | C．On February 14 | D．On February 17 |
小题3:The family usually have their big family dinner at the home of ________ .| A．the married son | B．the married daughter | | C．the unmarried son | D．the parents |
小题4:People celebrate the New Year ________ .| A．for 15 days | | B．from the new moon to the full moon in the first month of the lunar year | | C．from January 21 to February 20 | | D．both A and B |
小题5:From this selection we know that each Chinese month is measured by _______ .| A．the sun’s revolutions（旋转） | | B．the moon’s revolutions | | C．the earth’s revolutions | | D．both the earth’s and moon’s revolutions |
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小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:B |
试题分析：这篇短文为我们介绍的是中国的农历纪年。按照中国的农历，每个农历新年都有一只动物的名字，一共是12个生肖。文章中还给我们讲了中国的人们是怎样庆祝农历新年的。
小题1:细节理解题。根据短文第一段中Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals : the rat , the ox , the tiger , the hare , the dragon , the snake , the horse , the goat , the monkey , the chicken , the dog and the pig .可知，阴历年都有一个动物的名字，他们按照顺序排列，一共是12个，然后再重新轮回。根据题目问到的，如果明年是龙年，那么也就是说今年是兔年，那么去年就是虎年。故选A。
小题2:细节理解题。根据短文第二段中On the last day of the lunar year , there is a big family dinner .可知，在阴历年的最后一天，会有一个大型的家宴。那么如果新年是2月15日，那么家宴的时间应该是它的前一天，即2月14日。故选C。
小题3:推理判断题。根据短文第二段中they have to travel many miles to reach the home of their parents可知，离家在外的孩子也要赶回到父母的家里，由此可知，家宴应该是在父母的家里举行的。故选D。
小题4:细节理解题。根据短文最后一段中The New Year celebrations last for 15 days , from the new moon to the full moon可知，中国的新年要庆祝15天，从初一到十五。故选A。
小题5:推理判断题。根据短文中Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon . And the full moon comes on the 15th day of the month .可知，在中国的农历中，一个月是在新月的那天开始的，满月就是一个月的第15天。由此可知中国的月份是按照月亮的旋转来计量的。故选B。 |
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Cycling—means riding a bike, is now popular among children from across the UK. Children like to go to school or go traveling for a short journey. It can help money in petrol(汽油) cost.
With petrol price rising(上涨), families in the UK are trying to ways to make the cost less in petrol. So the parents encourage(鼓励) their to ride bikes to school. They say a child keep cycling to school all the year round, a family can save about ￡300 in petrol cost.
Also, cycling to school is good for children’s . It can make them become healthier and their studies at school. “ cycling to school every day, we become fitter, smarter and better learners，”a student called Tommy said confidently.
“It’s great to see more people cycling, and I smile when I see a child on a bike. Many kids want to cycle, we should make it easy and safe for them to get around by bike and keep healthy，”another student, Mark said.
| 小题1: | | A．running | B．riding | C．driving | D．walking |
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| 小题2: | | A．save | B．raise | C．spend | D．make |
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| 小题3: | | A．think | B．care for | C．look after | D．look for |
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| 小题4: | | A．children | B．friends | C．families | D．neighbors |
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| 小题6: | | A．health | B．mind | C．mood | D．feeling |
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| 小题7: | | A．improve | B．change | C．affect | D．solve |
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| 小题9: | | A．only | B．never | C．seldom | D．always |
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Bananas don’t grow on trees. They grow on a stalk that looks just a little like a stalk of corn. The stalk is soft enough to be cut with a knife.
It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. Some are as small as fingers. Others are as long as men’s arms. Some banana plants grow as tall as a house – even taller!
Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they are cooked as a kind of vegetable.
People in most countries never see a banana until it reaches the store. But if you visited a country where it’s hot and rains a lot all the year, you might see a banana plantation, a large farm where bananas grow.
The tasty fruit doesn’t come from a seed but from a root planted deep in the ground. First a stalk pushes up into the air. The leaves grow. In the beginning the banana plant grows very fast – sometimes as much as the length of your feet in one night. Soon, sweet-smelling flowers come out, and when their flowers drop off, bananas begin to grow.
As they get bigger, bananas start turning up. It looks as if they’re growing upside down! Bananas are ready to eat when they turn soft and yellow. Bananas are picked long before this – when they’re hard and green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they arrive at a store. On trucks and boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool enough so that they will get ripe while traveling. If bananas are picked when they are ripe (成熟的), they will spoil on the way.
小题1:What’s the weather like in places where bananas grow?| A．Dry and cold | B．Cold and wet | C．Wet and hot | D．Hot and dry |
小题2:The fruit of banana plants come from________.| A．a stalk | B．a tree | C．a seed | D． a root |
小题3:Bananas are picked long before they are _____________.小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．All bananas are eaten as fruit. | | B．Some banana plants grow taller than a house. | | C．Bananas get ripe on their way to the store. | | D．It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. |
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The world would be a very different place if someone hadn’t invented the lift. There would be few, if any, high-rise buildings because people would refuse to climb many stairs. By the time workers reached their offices on the top floors of a tower building, it would be time to go home – if they were not too tired for the long walk down！
The first lift that we know about was used by the Greek scientist, Archimedes, in about 230 BC. It was a simple place that could be pulled up and down with a rope. A lift like this was used much later in the 12th century by priests who lived on top of a mountain at Metereo in Greece. Because they were afraid of killers, the priests had not built any stairs up the mountain. The only way up was by lift, which priests worked from the top of the mountain.
A few hundred years later, a Frenchman, Villayer, invented a ‘flying chair’ which used a rope and a place. A number of rich people had these ‘flying chairs’ built in their homes, including Queen Anne of England in Windsor Castle and Louis XVI of France at Versailles. Unluckily, Louis’ daughter was badly hurt when using one of the chairs, and Villayer ran away, afraid that he would be punished.
The main problem for lift engineers was that either humans or animals were needed to pull the ropes. This problem was not worked out until the discovery of steam power. But even steam powered lifts were not always safe because they also used ropes which sometimes broke. If the rope broke - which it sometimes did - the lift fell to the ground and people in it were killed or hurt. This problem worked out in 1854 when an American, Elisha Otis, invented something which stopped the lift from falling if the rope broke. At first Otis lifts were used only in factories, then in 1857 he built one in a large New York store. Now lifts use electric power and are completely safe. They also travel very quickly. Some lifts travel faster than 60 kilometers an hour.
小题1:The writer thinks that lifts are important today because __________.| A．people like playing on them | | B．they are the best way of using steam power | | C．we need them for tall buildings | | D．workers are lazy |
小题2:The 12th century priests had a simple lift instead of stairs because ___________.| A．they thought the stairs were broken | | B．they liked having stairs and a lift | | C．the lived at the bottom of a mountain | | D．they were afraid of killers |
小题3:Villayer thought he would be punished because ____________.| A．poor people could not afford his ‘flying chair | | B．someone was hurt in one of his ‘flying chairs’ | | C．his ‘flying chair’ did not work at all | | D．he ran away with Louis XVI’s daughter |
小题4:Steam power meant that ________ .| A．they did not need a living thing to pull the ropes | | B．Elisha Otis could invent a lift that would not fall | | C．the rope always broke | | D．they could use lifts in factories |
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Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed.
China has banned (禁止) free plastic bags at shops and supermarkets, and people have to pay for using plastic bags. The rule started on June 1. It came because our country tried to make litter less. Making super-thin (超薄) plastic bags has also been banned.
The Chinese once used about 3,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags a day, and they have caused pollution of the environment. The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution because they are easy to break and people throw them away here and there. So the Chinese people are encouraged to bring theft own bags for shopping.
What kind of shopping bag is the best to bring? Some students in Chongqing have a good idea. They make their own shopping bags. They use old clothes to make cloth bags, and send them to their parents as presents. They also ask theft parents and friends to use cloth bags instead of plastic ones. They think it is their duty to protect the environment.
根据短文内容，选择最佳选项。
小题1:People in China have to _____ now.| A．throw plastic bags here and there | | B．collect plastic bags in the street | | C．pay for using plastic bags at shops and supermarkets | | D．use free plastic bags at shops and supermarkets |
小题2:China made this rule because plastic bags were bad for the ______| A．environment | B．litter | C．shops | D．supermarkets |
小题3:The Chinese people are encouraged to bring _____ for shopping.| A．no bags | B．free plastic bags | C．their own bags | D．super-thin plastic bags |
小题4:Some students in Chongqing ______| A．ask their parents to make cloth bags | | B．make cloth bags themselves | | C．pick up plastic bags everywhere | | D．buy cloth bags for their parents |
小题5:What’s the main idea of this article?| A．Making super-thin plastic bags has been banned in China. | | B．The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution. | | C．Some students in Chongqing begin to make their own shopping bags. | | D．To protect the environment, free plastic bags have been banned in China. |
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Shyness（害羞） means feeling frightened when you’re around other people. Some children are shy. Some become very shy later because of their life experience. , everybody gets a little shy sometimes. It’s just how much they feel shy.
Most people have red faces and talk in sentences（句子） when they are shy. But some become shy that they won’t go to a restaurant because they are too nervous to and pay for their food. Some are afraid of meeting people, so they seldom go outside. This kind of shyness can be for a person.
If shyness doesn’t stop you from doing something you want to do, being shy isn’t a big . Some experts（专家） say shy people are good at working because they think more and less. But remember not to let good opportunities（机会） pass you by just because of it. If you have to sing a song at a birthday party or give some performances in front of others, just do it. There’s nothing to .
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| 小题2: | | A．For example | B．In fact | C．So far | D．First of all |
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| 小题3: | | A．broken | B．strange | C．different | D．boring |
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| 小题5: | | A．pack | B．order | C．cook | D．serve |
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| 小题6: | | A．new | B．foreign | C．old | D．friendly |
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| 小题7: | | A．good | B．helpful | C．bad | D．usual |
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| 小题8: | | A．question | B．example | C．excuse | D．problem |
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| 小题10: | | A．think about | B．pay attention to | C．worry about | D．be afraid of |
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