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1.
I got what I wanted. My son
gave me a book of poems (
诗
).
He wrote it himself. My daughter
bought
a scarf for me and wrote me a Mother’s Day poem.
My kids made me bread for breakfast.
My
husband took us to the movies.
I woke up with
the blues. I knew this day would be nothing
special for me, but I was wrong. My
husband gave me the day off! He did the
dishes, took care of the children, played and read
with
them, and took us all out for a
delicious dinner. They gave me 4 hours of computer
playtime. I felt
very loved on Mother's
Day.
Me, a mother, and my
one-year-
old son went to my mother’s
house on Mother’s Day. After a nice
lunch, we spent the day driving home.
When we got home, my husband made me dinner! He
set
up a pic
nic on the
living room floor. It was with candles and cold
wine and Mother’s Day cards
from both
him and our son, Jackson. It was a very nice
mother’s day for me!
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。
2
．
_________ wrote
the passage.
A
．
Reporters
B
．
Teachers
C
．
Mothers
D
．
Children
3
．
What does the
first mother want?
A
．
Poems.
B
．
A scarf.
C
．
Bread.
D
．
Her family’s
love.
4
．
The second
mother felt very loved because ________ .
A
．
her husband
took care of the children
B
．
she didn’t have
to do anything that day
C
．
she was able to
play computer games for four hours
D
．
all of the
above
5
．
The third
paragraph told us that the mother ________ .
A
．
had many
children
B
．
celebrated her
first Mother’s Day happily
C
．
went to visit
her mother herself
D
．
had to make
dinner for the family after she got home
6
．
What’s the best
title for the passage?
A
．
Mother’s Day
Gifts
B
．
Mother’s Day
Poems
C
．
Do Housework
for Mothers
D
．
Mother's Day
cards
I was ten, my sisters
and I were amazed at our neighbor’s Christmas
tree. We returned
home from their house
and decided that we must have one of our own. In
our house we never
had enough money for
a Christmas tree.
In fact, we
insisted(
坚持
) so much that my
father had no choice but to agree.
“Yes!” he finally
said.“This year we
will have a Christmas tree.” Our mouths dropped
open at the thought of
having our own
tree. Then Dad said,“I’ll do it
myself.”
We followed him
around the house as he gathered up the
materials
（材料）
he
would need, We
all sat close to him,
carefully watching everything he did. He passed
the thread
（线）
around the
first nail
（钉子）
on the corner of a box,
then back down to the second nail on the box, and
up
again to the nail, until right there
before our eyes a green Christmas tree began to
take shape. He
carefully did the same
with all of the 50 nails in the box and when he
had finished, he said,“Now
you can
decorate it.”
I don’t
remember where the
decorations came
from, but they were red and small and to us they
just looked so beautiful and perfect
for our tree. When we finished decorating it, we
proudly
invited all our friends over to
see our Christmas tree. We were so happy, not only
because it
looked so pretty, but
because my father had made it himself. It truly
was the most beautiful
Christmas tree
we had ever seen.
Years later, things
got better and Dad was able to buy a proper
Christmas tree which we would
happily
decorate. However, my sisters and I will never
forget the night when we got our first
Christmas tree.
6
．
What do we know
about the writer?
A
．
She had no
friends at school.
B
．
She never went
to her neighbor’s home.
C
．
She lived a
hard life when she was young.
D
．
She seldom saw
beautiful green trees.
7
．
How did the
writer and her sisters feel when their father
decided to make a Christmas tree?
A
．
Excited
B
．
Worried
C
．
Bored
D
．
Disappointed
8
．
The third
paragraph mainly describes__________.
A
．
how the
Christmas tree was decorated
B
．
how the
Christmas tree was bought
C
．
how the
Christmas tree was found
D
．
how
the Christmas tree was made
9
．
The Chinese
meaning of the underlined word”decoration”
is_______.
A
．装饰
.
B
．讨论
C
．决定
D
．捐赠
10
．
Which would be
the best title for the passage?
A
．
A brave act by
a happy family
B
．
A
father’
s love for his children
C
．
A picture of
large families
D
．
An act of
kindnes
Baby’s Doodles
(
乱涂
) to Mother’s
Paintings
It all started by
accident (
偶然
) when Eve
discovered her mother’s ink pen and loved using
it.
Eve’s mother, Ruth is so
artistic that she is able to change Eve’s random
(
随意的
) lines into shapes
which are easily recognized
(
辨认
). A random curve
(
曲线
) becomes an elephant’s
ear, and
crooked
(
弯曲的
) lines become the
branches of a tree. Nothing seems to escape her
eye
—
she
can see
and paint
the outline of a woman’s face
or the hooked nose of a bird where most people
would just see meaningless scratches
(
乱涂乱画
).
Since
then, the mother and daughter have worked together
on several quite attractive pieces.
The
process begins with Eve using a black
ink pen to make her “sketches”
(
草图
). Later, Ruth
takes over with her
water-
colours, quickly turning the
doodles into a “grown
-
up”
painting.
“All of the pieces
are completed within 30 to 60 minutes, the reason
for this is that I don’t want
to give
myself any room to over analyze
(
过度分析
) or second guess,”
Ruth wrote on her blog.
According to Ruth, children can help
bring out creativity in adults. “As we get older,
we tend to
(
趋向于
)
create a box that everything is supposed to fit
neatly into. As a child, there is no box. It
is just endless freedom to explore any
and every possibility of creativity and
adventure,” she said.
“I feel so
blessed that my daughter can remind me once again
what it is like to paint like a child.”
11
．
What does Eve
NOT draw using her moth
er’s ink
pen?
A
．
The Branches of
a tree.
B
．
Crooked
lines.
C
．
Meaningless
scratches.
D
．
Random lines.
12
．
What’s the
process of Eve’s sketches to her mother’s
painting?
①
Ruth
spends within 30-60 minutes turning doodles into a
painting.
②
Eve uses a black
ink pen to make her sketches.
③
Ruth takes over with her
water-colours.
A
．③②①
B
．①②③
C
．②③①
D
．②①③
13
．
How does Ruth
think of children and adults?
A
．
Children are
more creative than adults.
B
．
Adults are more
creative than children.
C
．
Children tend
to over analyze something.
D
．
Adults explore
any possibility of adventure.
ists have tried to come up
with biological explanations for the difference
between boys
and girls.
However, none were believable enough to
explain the general picture. As one scientist
points
out,“There are slight
genetic(
遗传的
) differences
between the sexes at birth which may affect the
subjects boys and girls choose. But the
difficulty is that by the time children reach
school age,
there are so many other
effects that it is almost impossible to tell
whether girls are worse at
science and
maths, or whether they’ve been brought up to think
of these subjects as boys
“
t
erritory
”.
Statis
tics(
统计数据
)show that in
mathematics, at least, girls are equal to boys. A
recent report
sug
gests that
girls only stop studying mathematics because of
social attitudes. One of the reports’
authors says,“While it is socially
unacceptable for people not to be able to read and
write, it is still
acceptable for women
to say that they are ‘hopeless’ a
t
maths. Our research shows that,
although girls get marks which are as
good as the boys, they have not been encouraged to
do so.”
The explanation for
the difference, which is very clear during the
teenage years, goes as far back
as
early childhood experiences. From their first days
in nursery school, girls are not encouraged
to work on their own or to complete
tasks, although boys are. For example, boys not
girls, are
often asked to “help” with
repair work. This encouragement leads to a way of
learning how
to
solve
problems later on in life.
Evidence(
证据
)shows that
exceptional(
例外的
)
mathematicians
and scientists did not
have teachers who supplied answers; they had to
find out for themselves.
A further
report on maths teaching shows that teachers seem
to give more attention to boys than
to
girls.
Most teachers who took part in
the study admitted that they expect their “male”
students to do
better at mathematics
and science subjects than their female students.
All of this tends to
encourage boys to
work harder in these subjects, gives them
confidence(
信心
) and makes
them
believe that they can succeed.
Interestingly, both boys and girls tend
to regard such “male” subjects like mathematics
and
science as difficult. Yet it has
been suggested that girls avoid mathematics
courses, not because
they are
difficult, but for social reasons.
Mathematics and science are mainly male
subjects, and therefore, as girls become
teenagers,
they are less likely to take
them up. Girls do not seem to want to be in open
competition with
boys. Neither do they
want to do better than boys because they are
afraid to appear less females
and so,
less attractive.
14
．
The underlined
word “territory” in the second paragraph most
probably means “_______”.
A
．
interest
C
．
district
B
．
area of land
D
．
special field
15
．
According to
scientific studies_______.
A
．
girls are
poorer at Maths because they are the weaker sex
B
．
girls can learn
Maths as well as boys if given enough
encouragement
C
．
Maths is not
fit for girls to learn
D
．
boys have a
special sense of Maths
16
．
Those who made
extraordinary contribution in mathematics and
science_______.
A
．
had the
abilities to solve problems by themselves
B
．
usually had
good teachers to help them
C
．
usually worked
harder than others
D
．
were encouraged
to repair things when young
17
．
Which of the
following is NOT true according to the text?
A
．
It seems
socially acceptable for a girl not to be able to
read and write.
B
．
It is a social
problem rather than a problem of brains that girls
are poor at maths.
C
．
Mathematics and
science are not easy subjects to either girls or
boys.
D
．
Girls do
not want to compete openly with boys.
stop more teenagers from becoming addicted
(
沉迷
) to the Internet, the
Ministry of
Education (MOE,
教育部
) sent a letter on April
20, 2018 to all parents in China. It calls on them
to pay more attention to their
children’s online activities. Nowadays more and
more teenagers
become addicted to the
Internet. A 17-year-old boy from Guangdong
Province nearly died after
playing
online games for 40 hours. It shows how bad things
can get when one becomes addicted
to
the Internet.
The MOE also sent a
notice to primary and middle schools, asking them
to manage students’
Internet use. From
now on, schools will pay more attention to their
students’ Internet use, as well
as
their use of mobile phones. Schools have been told
to teach students how to avoid violent
(
暴
力的
) online
content (
内容
). As long as
students show signs of being addicted to the
Internet,
they can get help from their
teachers to give up their addiction.
To
make better use of the Internet, experts suggest
that students should limit
(
限制
) their
screen
time to less than 1.5 hours a day. They can
develop healthy hobbies, like reading or
playing sports in their free time.
Many other countries are also taking
action. The Australian government has called for
schools to confiscate
(
没收
) mobile phones during
school hours. And in South Korea, there is a
law that children under the age of 16
are not allowed to play online games between
midnight
and 6 am.
18
．
Whom did the
MOE send the letter to?
A
．
Parents.
B
．
Students.
C
．
Schools.
D
．
The government.
19
．
How long
should a teenager use the Internet a day according
to the experts?
A
．
About three
hours.
B
．
Less
than two hours.
C
．
Less than one
and a half hours.
D
．
More than 1.5
hours.
20
．
What
suggestion did the experts give to the students?
A
．
To leave mobile
phones home before students go to school.
B
．
To hand in
mobile phones when students are at school.
C
．
To ask for help
from their teachers when students find it hard to
leave online games.
D
．
To develop
healthy hobbies such as doing sports or reading.
21
．
Which action
is South Korea taking against teenagers’ Internet
addiction?
A
．
Confiscating
students’ smart phones.
B
．
Not allowing
teenagers to play online games at night.
C
．
Making a law to
prevent children under 16 from playing online
games during certain time.
D
．
Calling on
parents to manage their children’s online
activities.
22
．
You can read
this article in ________.
A
．
a novel
B
．
a newspaper
C
．
a fashion
magazine
D
．
a
story book
6
.In today’s
world of
modern science and medicine, a
more traditional treatment is once again
becoming popular---animal friendship.
It is now well-known that people with
problems such as heart disease or cancer live
longer and
get better more quickly if
they have pets. Keeping pets reduces blood
pressure and makes people
less worried.
Animals are increasingly important in treating
older people who have memory loss
and
other brain problems. These people often feel
nervous and upset. Activities with animals
help them improve their physical
condition and also give them joy, amusement and
caring
friendship.
Here is a
case that shows the benefits of animals. John was
a six-year-old mute. He had no
physical
problems. He just refused to talk. His older
cousin, Ned, had a
parrot
（鹦鹉）
called Sally,
and John used to visit it. When he
arrived, Ned used to say, ”Hi, John!”We all know
parrots copy
what they heat. After a
few visits, Sally began saying “Hi, John!” when
John came into the room.
Then, one day,
John turned to the parrot and replied
“Hi, Sally!”Staying with the parrot
encouraged John to begin talking.
Another use of animal helpers is in
schools. In some cases, animals are use to help
children with
physical or personal
problems. In other cases, they are used to teach
children to get on well and
share with
others, and even to teach them about animals.
If you want to know more about animal
helper programs ,you can get in touch with
organizations