―Michael was late for Mr Smith's chemistry class this morning.

― ? As far as I know, he never came late to class.

A. So what B. Why not C. Who cares D. How come

D 【解析】句意：——今天早上米切尔在史密斯先生的化学课上迟到了。——怎么回事？据我所知，他上课从不迟到。So what? 那又怎么样？Why not?为什么不呢？ Who cares?谁在乎？ How come？怎么回事？根据As far as I know, he never came late to class.可知他从未上课迟到的人，竟然迟到了，因此询问原因，故选D。

When I was ten, I was crazy about candy. Whenever in our small-town ______ with my mom, I would run my fingers through my favourite candy on the shelf.

Once I noticed a man pushing buttons on the ATM machine. He seemed to be hurriedly waiting for his cash to appear. He quickly got a pile of bills and headed out. Curiously I walked over and saw a beautiful $100 bill at the bottom of the machine. ______ I wanted to believe my magic made the cash appear. I knew the man must have left it behind.

I held the money in my hand, looking at the number "100" and feeling ______ than I ever had. I thought about putting the money into my pocket. No one would know, but it didn't feel ______. So I told my mom what had happened. "We will look for him." she said. We rushed out and found him stepping into his car! We went over and asked if he had left money at the cash machine.

"Let me _______," he said, pulling out his wallet and bill. "One hundred, two hundred, three...Oh!You're right," he said with surprise. "I'm ______ a $100 bill."

"Here you go," I said, smiling with pride, as if I was a detective who solved a mystery. "Thank you so much," he said. Before saying goodbye, he asked me for my name and address.

On my way home, my ______ was racing. 100 dollars. What could I have done with it? I bet I could have bought a puppy or every single candy bar or something else in town! But now ______ of that would happen. Yet I knew I had done the right thing.

A few weeks later, I got a box with a note. I opened it to find packages of candy.

"Dear Felice，thank you very much for returning my $100. Your are a great girl, and I appreciate(欣赏)your _______action. I hope you enjoy this candy. Best wishes, Tom." The candy tasted sweet. Although my act wouldn't always be ______ with candy, it would make a difference to someone. And that was the sweetest part of all.

1.A. school B. library C. store D. bank

2.A. Though B. Since C. Once D. Until

3.A. smarter B. stronger C. prettier D. richer

4.A. right B. good C. fair D. easy

5.A. try B. think C. check D. guess

6.A. finding B. searching C. missing D. changing

7.A. car B. memory C. time D. mind

8.A. both B. none C. some D. either

9.A. loyal B. amusing C. honest D. brave

10.A. marked B. provided C. shared D. rewarded

1.C 2.A 3.D 4.A 5.C 6.C 7.D 8.B 9.C 10.D 【解析】本文讲述了作者在自动取款机处看见一个男人落下了一张100美元的钞票，她在母亲的教导下归还给了那个男人。后来，那个男人给她一盒糖果作为回报。 1.C 考查名词及语境的理解。A. school 学校； B. library 图书馆； C. s...

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Spend over $100 and get a chance to win prizes, from Nobel membership, e-dictionaries to concert tickets!

1.You can get the biggest discount on .

A. adults' story books B. all magazines

C. children's picture books D. all textbooks

2.The main purpose of the advertisement is to .

A. find excellent writers B. attract more book buyers

C. celebrate Children's Day D. introduce new reading courses

1.C 2.B 【解析】本文介绍了诺贝尔书店在四月的促销活动，列出了打折的书类以及四月进行的一些活动。 1.C 推理判断题。根据Children's books：Textbook25% off，Picture book 30% off ，Story book20 % off和20% disount(折扣)on all adults' books!可知儿童的图画书打折30%，...

It was already 8:30 in the morning. Lin Tao, a 14-year-old schoolboy, still didn't show up at school. He was often late for school! The teacher called his father and got to know he played computer games online late the night before and couldn't get up that morning. In fact, he had played online games since the age of 11. He almost dropped out of school last year.

Lin Tao is not alone. Information from China Internet Center shows that the number of teenage Internet user in China had been about 170 million by the end of December, 2017. Many of them, like Lin Tao, spend too much time playing computer games online.

To deal with this problem, the Chinese government worked out a draft regulation(法规草案)in January this year. According to the regulation, players need to use their own ID cards to play online games. Game companies will control teenagers' online game time. They will not be able to play online games between 12:00 at night and 8:00 in the morning. If they are still playing during the time, the game companies will lock them out.

Many people think that the regulation can surely better protect Chinese young game players online, while others doubt whether it can successfully stop them from playing games too much. "More and more people come to know that playing online games too much not only brings teenagers healthy and study problems, but also makes them depressed(沮丧的)and lonely," Tong Xiaojun, director from a university, told CCTV. "We need support from the whole society to solve the problem."

1.Which of the following is TRUE about Lin Tao?

A. He had a fight with his father. B. He dropped out of school.

C. He often arrive later for school. D. He started playing games at 14.

2.Under the regulation, players need to if they want to play online games.

A. talk with their parent. B. pay for them

C. call the game companies D. use their own ID card

3.We can learn from the passage that .

A. not many young people have the same problem as Lin Tao in China

B. it is impossible to control teenagers' online game time

C. the game contpanies will offer teenagers prizes if they play well

D. everyone should play a part in controlling teenagers' online game time

1.C 2.D 3.D 【解析】本文介绍了针对青少年过度上网的问题，国家出台了有关的法律法规，并倡导大家一起支持来解决这个问题。 1.C 细节理解题。根据He was often late for school!可知林涛经常上学迟到，故选C。 2.D 细节理解题。根据According to the regulation, players need to ...

THREE CENTURIES OF HOAXES(骗局;恶作剧)!

A THINKING MACHINE

In 1769, long before computers were invented, a man from Hungary(匈牙利)built a wonderful machine that could play chess very well. It made people all over Europe happy and beat nearly everyone it played against .including famous people like French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, and scientist and inventor Yenjamin Franklin. For years, many people believed that it was truly a thinking machine. There were people who said it was a hoax, but could not prove it or explain how it worked. About 85 years later, the secret was finally found. There was a man hiding inside the machine all the time... who was very good at playing chess!

ZOO ESCAPE(逃脱)

On November 9, 1874, New York newspaper, The Herald, ran a terrible story on its front page. It said that all the animals in the Central Park Zoo had escaped and were running around the city. It said the police were working to save people, but 27 people had already been killed, and 200 people hurt. It warned everyone to stay at home to avoid the danger. Many people in New York were terrified, and did as the paper said. If only they had read the final words of the article, which said; "Not one word of it is true. Not a single act described has taken place." It was just a hoax. The story was made up by Thomas Connery, aneditor at The Herald, who wanted to draw attention to the poor condition of cages in the zoo.

ROSIE THE RUNNER

The first woman to cross the finishing line of the 1980 Boston Marathon(马拉松)was 23-year-old Rosie Ruiz. However, as she climbed the stairs to receive her prize, people started to become suspicious(怀疑的).She didn't seem to be tired at all. Furthermore, none of the other runners remembered seeing her, and her picture never appeared in photos or TV broadcasts of the race. Later, several people said that they had seen her join the race only at the end. It turned out she had run only half a mile(about 805 meters) and taken the train for the rest of the race! Her prize was taken away, of course.

1.Which of the following is mentioned in the passage?

A. The thinking machine used a computer to win games.

B. 200 people were killed by zoo animals in 1874.

C. Rosie Ruiz wasn't tired at the finishing line.

D. Rosie Ruiz didn't appear in TV broadcasts of the race.

2.What is true about all the hoaxes in the passage?

A. They made people scared. B. They fooled a lot of people.

C. They made people suspicious. D. They made people happy.

3.The title of the passage shows us that the writer thinks that hoaxes .

A. are not new B. are easily avoided

C. are always interesting D. are usually unbelievable

1.D 2.B 3.A 【解析】本文讲述的是发生在三个不同世纪中的三个骗局，分别是18世纪有人“发明”了一个下象棋的机器高手，后来证明是有人藏在机器中；19世纪美国纽约的一家报纸报道说，一家动物园里的所有动物都从园里逃了出来，在大街上踩死踩伤很多人，提醒市民注意安全。最后被告知这是一起恶作剧；第三则是20世纪马拉松国际长跑比赛的“冠军”获得者是弄虚作假得来的荣誉，最后被取消成绩。...

There is a popular belief that goldfish only have a three-second memory. But a 15-year-old schoolboy from Adelaide has just finished an experiment to tell us that it is not true. He shows everybody that the goldfish is smarter than we think.

"I don't believe that they had a three-second memory because animals need their memory, so they build up over time a knowledge of where the food is," said Rory Stokes, a student at the Australian Science and Mathematics School.

He did the experiment in a small tank(鱼缸)of goldfish. "I decided to get a bit of red Logo and just feed them next to that. Every day I'd put it in and spread food around it." He said.

"At first they were a bit scared of it, but by the end of the three weeks, they were actually almost coming before I put the food in."

After leaving the fish alone for a week, Rory placed the red Logo block in the tank again.

"They remembered perfectly well," he said.

"They actually had a time faster than the average(平均)of the three feeds before I left."

The goldfish showed that they not only could store information, but also had the ability to get it back at a later date.

Culum Brown. a researcher at Sydney′s Macquarie University, has studied fish behavior for more than ten years.

He says his studies of Australian native fish show fish are smart animals that know how to avoid enemies and catch food like any other animal.

"The thing that I really liked about Rory′s experiment is that he not only got that classical conditioning going but the fact that he could get thorn next just to that specific coloured marker. I thought it was really good." He said.

1.Rory put a red Logo in the tank to .

A. connect food with the colour B. make the tank nicer to look at

C. feed the fish at the same place D. give the fish something to play with

2.What's the right order of Rory's experiment?

a. find a tank of goldfish b. feed the fish next to the Logo

c. leave the goldfish alone for a week d. take out the Logo

e. put a red Logo into the tank f. put the Logo back into the tank

A. adbecf B. aebdcf C. dabefc D. adebcf

3.What do the last three paragraphs tell us?

A. Fish are the cleverest animal in Australia.

B. Rory's experiment failed to meet the scientific standard.

C. Many scientists had already done the experiment before.

D. Rory's research was highly praised by experienced experts(专家).

4.What can we learn from the story?

A. Fish can become smarter with the help of red colour.

B. Scientists should learn from middle school students.

C. What everybody believes is not neceaarily true.

D. Young people are generally smarter than old ones.

1.A 2.B 3.D 4.C 【解析】本文主要陈述了一个15岁的男孩做了个实验，来证明金鱼的记忆并不是只有3秒这个大众所相信的理论，告诉我们每个人都相信的事也不一定就是正确的。 1.A 细节理解题。根据I decided to get a bit of red Logo and just feed them next to that. Every day I’...

将下列句子译成英语，并将所译句子写在横线上。

1.我想知道这对年轻的夫妇结婚多久了。

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2.如果你在公共场所吸烟，将会被罚款。

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3.唐明很粗鲁，不能和其他同学和谐相处。

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4.三小时后这些游客们将直飞北京。

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5.请尽可能少发出噪音，以免吵醒孩子。

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1.I wonder how long the young couple have been married. 2.You will be fined if you smoke in public(places). 3.Tang Ming is so rude that he can’t get on/along (well)with other students. 4.The ...

阅读下面的短文用英语回答问题，并将答案写在横线上。

It was a summer afternoon in the countryside. Wan Bo, a university student, was painting while his classmate Tang Qi was making a wooden box by the river. A little riding on a rocking horse caught their eye by chance. It brought them back to their childhood, warm and happy.

"Why not try to make one by ourselves?" said Wan Bo. "You are good at making things and I am interested in painting."

"Actions speak louder than words," Tang Qi said. Then, the two young men began to collect some information about it. During those days, watching videos about caring(雕刻) and shaping wood into horse shapes on the Internet became an important part of their life.

Several months later, a wooden rocking horse appeared. They felt so excited that they put the picture of it on the Internet right away. To their surprise, it attracted lots of people's attention and some even hoped to order one.

The two young men thought it might be a good chance. They sent some forms to the customers to make a survey. According to the result, they made each customer a special rocking horse. These horses were quite different from those produced in other factories, and they soon became popular among the customers.

In the first year of their new hobby, Wan and Tang made thirteen rocking horses. Sometimes, they also repaired rocking horses for people. They made the old ones look new again. Wan and Tang helped those people bring back many happy memories.

Their hobby has now become a successful and busy business.

1.How many rocking horses did they make in the first year of their new hobby?

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2.What did the forms help Wan and Tang to know about'?

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3.Do you think it is a good idea to start a business with the hobby like the two young university students? Why or why not?

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1.They made thirteen rocking horses. 2.The forms helped them to know what rocking horses different customers wanted/needed. 3.Yes, Because I can make money and develop my hobby at the same time....

书面表达

保护环境是每一个人的责任。假设下面是你阅读了有关环保的书之后的变化，请根据表格内所给内容写一篇短文。

过去	现在
1.坐爸爸的车上学 2.东西旧了就扔 3.购物时要塑料袋	1.走路或骑单车上学 2.尽可能久地使用东西，并回收利用 3.购物时带自己的包
你认为作为中学生应该如何做才能保护好环境?(至少两点)

要求：1.短文必须包含所给信息，并适当发挥.要求语句通顺，意思连贯。

2.表格中最后一栏用2句话展开合理想象，做适当发挥。

3.词数在90个左右.文章的开头部分已给出，不计入总同数。

It is our duty to protect our environment. After reading a book about the environment, Ihave changed a lot.

It is our duty to protect our environment. After reading a book about the environment, I have changed a lot. In the past, I went to school in my father’s car because it was easy and fast. I always ...

A young painter completed a nice picture. To get people’s t1. about his skills, he put it at a crossing on a busy street. And below it a board read, ＂Gentlemen, I have painted this piece. S2. I’m new, I might make some mistakes in it. Please put a cross (叉号) wherever you see a mistake.＂

When he came back in the evening to c3. his picture, he was shocked to see that the whole picture was filled with crosses. And some people e4. wrote something on his picture. Sadly, he ran to his master and said, ＂I failed. And if this is what I have learned, I’m not w5. teaching. ＂

The master smiled and suggested, ＂I’ll let you know that you’re a great artist. Now go to paint the same picture again and give it to me. ＂

Then they went to the same street the next morning and put the new picture exactly at the same place. Now the master took out another board w6. said, ＂Gentlemen, I painted this piece. There might be some mistakes in it. I have put a box with colors and brushes just below. Please give me a h7.. If you see a mistake, pick up the brush and correct it.＂

Two days later, they came back to the place. The young painter was s8. to see that actually there was not a single correction done!

It’s easy to say but difficult to do. If you want to help people i9. their behavior, you’d better learn how to help people change their attitudes (态度) or skills. Also, always remember not to judge (评判) y10. by someone else’s words and feel bad.

1. thoughts 2. Since 3. collect 4. even 5. worth 6. which 7. hand 8. surprised 9. improve 10. yourself 【解析】 这篇文章讲了一个年轻的画家为了获得别人的评价就把画作放在闹市口任由人们在上面画叉，结果让他很失望，让他一度想要放弃，最...