Do you enjoy reading? Here readers of your age from all over the United States recommend great books for you to read:

My favorite book is Don’t Die, My Love by Lurlene McDaniel. I love all her books, but this was the first one I read and I have to say, it is by far my favorite. It doesn’t end like other books, and I cried while reading.

I think Nancy Drew is great! Nancy is a detective who has many fantastic ideas! I love it because it’s a book from when my grandma was my age, and I can share the fun with her!

I highly recommend Skinny Bones by Barbara Park. It is funny, so please add it on your book list. You don’t want to miss out funny stories!

I would suggest      by Judy Blume. It is based on(基于)real things that happened to Judy Blume. It is about a girl, Alice, who meets some girls at a new state. They become friends, make a club and meet once a week. They stop after two weeks because they all like a boy in their class and put him as number one. I think every girl should read this because it is about our growing up.

I read a book called Neela: Victory Song and it was so good I read it twice! It takes place in India(印度)in 1936 and this 12-year-old girl named Neela tries to save her father! It has lots of history in it! I also learned a lot about different cultures(文化)! The author(作者)’s name is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

1.According to the reader, Skinny Bones can be described as a          story.

A. sad      B. history      C. funny    D. detective

2.We can learn different cultures from the book         .

A. Skinny Bones             B. Nancy Drew  

C. Don’t Die, My Love      D. Neela: Victory Song

3.In the book Nancy Drew, Nancy is         .

A. a writer                 B. a doctor

C. a detective              D. a student

4.In the passage, readers from all over the United States recommend          books to read.   

A. 3        B. 4            C. 5         D. 2

5.The best name of the 4th book is         .

A. My Secret`               B. Growing Trouble     

C. Three Friends            D. Alice Learns a Lesson

閱讀短文，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容回答問(wèn)題。

English writer teaches us a lot about life

    Charles Dickens is a great British writer in the 19th century. Most of his books are still popular even today.

    In 1812, Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England. Dickens didn't like playing with other boys when he was a little child, but he loved reading books. Childhood was not easy for Dickens. He began to work at a factory at the age of 12. Every day, he spent 10 hours washing bottles and cleaning shoes.

    When Dickens was 16, he became a reporter for a newspaper. During that time, Dickens wrote his first book, The Pickwick Papers. The book came out in 1836-37 and made Dickens rich and famous. His hard times were at an end.

    Most of Dickens' books are about the difficulties of living in Victorian England. The characters（人物）in his books are often children. They usually live a hard life in a boarding（寄宿）school, or have to work in a factory at a young age.

    However, Dickens' works are all about hope. He wrote sad and dark stories, but they are always filled with humor（幽默）. And most of his stories have happy endings, as with A Christmas Carol. It is about a selfish man. He finds love and friendship after looking back on his life one Christmas Eve.

1.Where was Dickens from?

2.Was life difficult for Dickens when he was a child?

3.What made Dickens rich and famous?

4.What do the children in his books usually do?

5.Why does the writer say "Dickens' works are all about hope."?

Though the ways of teaching have come a long way, the ways of communicating between teachers and students are almost the same. But now, a European country is trying to change that by building schools that have no classrooms, no subject lessons and best of all, no grades.

The idea behind the special school is that children are creative. And researchers also think that kids’ learning and ideas are as important as those of the CEO of Google, so why not give them a similar environment? Kids may be successful in such an environment.

To make kids more creative, the schools are built with special learning areas instead of traditional classrooms. And even the lessons are taught in a special way, with mobile phones and computers.

There is no “right” or “wrong” kind of education. The school believes that everything is a learning experience, whether it is about a serious science project or making a movie inside the school’s recording studio.

One of the special schools opened in August, 2011. It has five learning areas. The Cave is a secluded place where students fix their attention on individual (個(gè)人的) projects without being bothered (打擾). The Lab is a place where students can do all kinds of experiments and test their ideas. Kids can work in groups in the same projects in The Camp Fire. The Show Off is where kids can show their inventions. And if the kids need a rest, they can visit The Watering Hole, which has all kinds of fun activities.

Sounds great? And the coolest thing is that the school is free! I hope more schools like this will appear in the world!

1.What is the idea behind the special school?

A. The children are creative.

B. All the students need to be taught.

C. All the students must be successful.

D. All the students must have high grades.

2.From the passage we can infer (推斷) that ?????? in the special schools.

A. students are bored???????????????? B. students are tired

C. students learn freely?????????????? D. students learn from their teachers

3.“The Cave is a secluded place ….” The word “secluded” probably means “??? ” in Chinese.

A. 清靜的?????? ????????????? B. 固定的?????? ????????????? C. 吵鬧的?????? ????????????? D. 混合的

4.Paragraph 5 mainly tells us that ????? .??????????????

A. the school doesn’t have grades

B. the school has clever students

C. the school has five learning areas

D. the school doesn’t have classrooms

Do you enjoy reading? Here readers of your age from all over the United States recommend great books for you to read:
My favorite book is Don’t Die, My Love by Lurlene McDaniel. I love all her books, but this was the first one I read and I have to say, it is by far my favorite. It doesn’t end like other books, and I cried while reading.
I think Nancy Drew is great! Nancy is a detective who has many fantastic ideas! I love it because it’s a book from when my grandma was my age, and I can share the fun with her!
I highly recommend Skinny Bones by Barbara Park. It is funny, so please add it on your book list. You don’t want to miss out funny stories!
I would suggest      by Judy Blume. It is based on(基于)real things that happened to Judy Blume. It is about a girl, Alice, who meets some girls at a new state. They become friends, make a club and meet once a week. They stop after two weeks because they all like a boy in their class and put him as number one. I think every girl should read this because it is about our growing up.
I read a book called Neela: Victory Song and it was so good I read it twice! It takes place in India(印度)in 1936 and this 12-year-old girl named Neela tries to save her father! It has lots of history in it! I also learned a lot about different cultures(文化)! The author(作者)’s name is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
【小題1】According to the reader, Skinny Bones can be described as a          story.

(選擇符合的單詞或短語(yǔ)，并用其適當(dāng)形式填空)

popular, with, sore, sound, mile, hardly ever, by, stay, quiet, take

(1) 桰 have a _____ throat.

梇ou should see a doctor.

(2) My father often goes to school ___________ subway.

(3) 梂e are going camping tomorrow.

桾hat ____________ cool.

(4) The boy is sleeping. Please keep ___________.

(5) It is about 5 __________ from here to the hospital.

(6) I help my father _________ the sheep on the farm on weekends.

(7) I really enjoy _________ at the beach because it is so cool and relaxing!

(8) Tomorrow we ___________ an important lesson so we can’t go with you.

(9) Many people like him. And he is ________ than you.

(10) My sister is lazy and unhealthy because she _______ exercises.

Do you enjoy reading? Here readers of your age from all over the United States recommend（推薦）great books for you to read：

 My favorite book is Don't Die，My Love by Lurlene McDaniel．I love all her books，but this was the first one I read and I have to say，it is by far my favorite．It doesn't end like other books，and I cried while reading．

 I think Nancy Drew is great! Nancy is a detective（偵探）who has many fantastic ideas! I love it because it's a book from when my grandma was my age，and I can share the fun with her!

 I highly recommend Skinny Bones by Barbara Park．It is funny so please add it on your book list．You don’t want to miss out funny stories!

 I would suggest                   by Judy Blume．It is based on real things that happened to Judy Blume．It is about a girl，Alice，who meets some girls at a new state．They become friends，make a club and meet once a week．They stop after two weeks because they all like a boy in their class and put him as number one．I think every girl should read this because it is about our growing up．

 I read a book called Neela：Victory Song and it was so good I read it twice! It takes place in India in 1936 and this 12-year-old girl named Neela tries to save her father! It has lots of history in it! I also learned a lot about different cultures! The author's name is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni．

1．According to the reader，Skinny Bones can be described as a                    story．

A．sad                      B．history                 C．funny                    D．detective

2．From which book can we learn different cultures?

A．Skinny Bones．                                       B．Nancy Drew．

C．Don't Die，My Love．                               D．Neela：Victory Song．

3．Who is most probably an Indian author?

A．Judy Blume．                                         B．Barbara Park．

C．Chitra Bangerjee Divakaruni．               D．Lurlene McDaniel．

4．The best name of the 4th book is                 ．

A．My Secret                                               B．Growing Trouble

C．Three Friends                                            D．Alice Learns a Lesson

5．Which is TRUE about Nancy Drew?

A．It doesn't have a common ending like other books．

B．It's based on real things that happened to the author．

C．It's about a 12-year-old girl who tries to save her father．

D．Both the reader and the reader's grandma love this book．

The giraffe is the tallest modern land animal. It can be over 5. 5 meters tall. Its neck alone may be 1. 9 meters long. Yet the giraffe has only seven bones in its neck, the same number as in the humans’. Even a small bird has many more bones in its neck than a tall giraffe. Each bone in a giraffe’s neck is very long, while the bones in a human’s neck are short. That makes the difference. A female giraffe gives birth to one baby at a time. The baby, called a calf, is about 1. 9 meters tall at birth. By the age of eight it is full-grown. The giraffe eats mostly leaves. Because it has a long neck, it can reach the leaves high up on the trees.
【小題1】In this passage the underlined word “giraffe” means _______.

The river is very long and it is about       .

A. 20 metres wide   B. 15 metres long       C. 30 metres high   D. 50 metres tall

The river is very long and it is about       .

A. 20 metres wide   B. 15 metres long       C. 30 metres high   D. 50 metres tall

 閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C 和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。

Have you ever heard of Agatha Christie, an excellent writer? Agatha Christie is, without a doubt,   16   mystery writer in the world. Her books have been translated into more than 100 languages. All 77 novels and story collections she wrote are still on the market 25 years after her   17  .

    Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in a southwest England seaside town. She enjoyed a very comfortable childhood in a big house with   18   servants(仆人). Agatha was known   19   an imaginative child. With her sister and brother away at school, she often played alone. She passed the time by making up stories which she told to   20  .

Agatha Christie’s first novel was published in 1920. In it, she   21   one of her most popular characters, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. He went on to appear in 33 of her novels, and in several movies   22  . Although Poirot appears again and again in her novels, Christie certainly could not be considered as repeating her ideas. Her powers of invention and her ability to surprise continue to attract   23  readers around the world.

Christie also wrote several   24  . One of these, “The Mousetrap”, became the longest-running play in the history of theater. It is about a murder mystery that   25   in a country house. All these mysterious stories earned her the title “Queen of Crime”.

1.

A. more practical                  B. more famous         

 C. the most famous                 D. the most practical                          

2.

 A. loss           B. birth           C. death        D. arrival

3.

A. much         B. plenty of        C. lots          D. a lot

4.

A. as            B. like             C. by           D. for

5.

 A. her brother    B. her             C. herself        D. her sister

6.

 A. created       B. produced        C. built          D. continued

7.

A. also          B. besides          C. as well        D. either

8.

 A. million        B. millions         C. millions of     D. million of

9.

A. stories        B. plays            C. movies        D. comedies

10.

 A. takes place    B. takes in          C. takes off       D. takes down

從方框內(nèi)選擇符合的單詞或短語(yǔ)，并用其適當(dāng)形式填空。

The giraffe is the tallest modern land animal. It can be over 5. 5 meters tall. Its neck alone may be 1. 9 meters long. Yet the giraffe has only seven bones in its neck, the same number as in the humans’. Even a small bird has many more bones in its neck than a tall giraffe. Each bone in a giraffe’s neck is very long, while the bones in a human’s neck are short. That makes the difference. A female giraffe gives birth to one baby at a time. The baby, called a calf, is about 1. 9 meters tall at birth. By the age of eight it is full-grown. The giraffe eats mostly leaves. Because it has a long neck, it can reach the leaves high up on the trees.

1.In this passage the underlined word “giraffe” means _______.

A．鯨魚             B．長(zhǎng)頸鹿           C．大象             D．河馬

2.The bones in a bird’s neck are _______.

A．a(chǎn)s big as in a human’s neck               B．a(chǎn)s big as in a giraffe’s neck

C．many more than in a human’s neck         D．much smaller in a giraffe’s neck

3.Which of the following is TRUE?

A．A giraffe has only seven bones.

B．The giraffe is the largest animal on the land.

C．It takes eight years for a giraffe to grow up.

D．Most of the leaves on the trees are eaten up by giraffes.

4.When a giraffe is born, it is about _______.

A．5. 5 meters long                        B．5. 5 meters tall

C．1. 9 meters long                        D．1. 9 meters tall

5.We can guess when a giraffe sees a tiger _______.

A．it will run away as fast as possible

B．it will run to eat the tiger

C．it will make the tiger bring it something to eat

D．it will make one of the smallest animals bring the tiger something to eat

在下列橫線上填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑捳Z(yǔ)，使對(duì)話完整、正確。(5小題，共15分）

A: Hi, Peter! Do you know there is a show in Beijing National Art Gallery?

B: 1.???????????????????????????? But I don’t know what it is about.

A: It’s about Chinese history and culture.

B: 2.?????????????????????????? I become interested in it ,I think I can learn a lot there.

A: Would you like to go with me?

B: 3.????????????????????????? But I don’t have enough money to buy a ticket.

A: 4.????????????????????????? .I have two tickets, and I can give one to you.

B: Thank you. 5.???????????????????????????????????????????

A: You’re welcome. Let’s go.