Benedict Allen was born in England in 1960. His dad was a pilot, and Benedict dreamed of traveling around the world like his dad. His dream came true — Benedict became an explorer. But he doesn’t travel the world in a plane. He finds a place he wants to explore, and then he lives with the local (本地的) people. He learns important skills from them, and then uses those skills to explore the place he’s visiting. He doesn’t use modern things like cellphones (移动电话), and he likes to travel alone.

Benedict’s explorations are often dangerous, but he likes them. One of his favorite explorations was in 2001. He wanted to be the first person to travel alone across the ice from Siberia to Alaska. So he went to Siberia and lived with the Chukchi people. He learned how to live like the Chukchi people and drive a dog team. He traveled 622 miles with only a dog team. The weather was really bad. There was a lot of snow, wind and ice, so the journey was very difficult. Benedict almost lost the dog team, and he almost died, so he ended his journey early. It was scary, but he learned a lot.

根据材料内容简要回答下列问题。

1.What did Benedict dream of?

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2.Does Benedict use a cellphone when traveling?

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3.When did Benedict go to Siberia?

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4.What did Benedict learn from the Chukchi people?

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5.What made Benedict’s journey from Siberia to Alaska difficult and dangerous?

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Dear students,

After all your hard work on the homework on the history of this city, we have decided to visit the Maritime Museum. Here we are going to have a tour and learn about the sea and river in our city. We are going to meet a guide who will show us around the museum. Please make sure you read the information I have given you for homework, as our guide will ask you some questions. We will also get the chance (机会) to go inside a 200-year-old trading boat. This boat is very famous. After visiting the museum, we’ll enjoy a beautiful boat trip along the river near the museum.

The trip is from 10:00 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. on May 25th. And you can return home as soon as we get back to school. Here is the day’s timetable (时间表):

10:00 a.m.: Meet at the front of the school.

10:15 a.m.: Walk to the station to catch the train to the museum.

10:45 a.m.: Meet our guide — visit the museum and boat.

11:45 a.m.: Free time to see the rest (其余部分) of the museum.

12:30 p.m.: Lunch (one hour).

1:30 p.m.: Meet me at the front of the museum. (Don’t be late!)

1:45 p.m.: Boat trip on the river.

2:15 p.m.: Walk back to school.

Please make sure that you are at school on time. The school is paying for the trip. All you have to bring is your lunch, water, a camera, pencil or pen, good shoes and an umbrella in case it rains.

Any problems, for example: you get lost, are sick on the day of the trip or are going to be late for school, please call me at 07993 561992.

See you all then!

Yours,

Andrew

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

1.What do we know about the boat the students will visit?

A. It is a trading boat.

B. It has a history of 300 years.

C. It traveled to a lot of countries.

D. It was made by a very famous person.

2.How will the students go to the Maritime Museum?

A. On foot. B. By bus. C. By train. D. By boat.

3.What will the students most probably be doing at 11:00 a.m. on May 25th?

A. Having a boat trip on a river.

B. Waiting at the front of the school.

C. Visiting the Maritime Museum.

D. Discussing their homework.

4.What does Andrew probably do?

A. A guide. B. A teacher.

C. A reporter. D. A student.

5.Which of the following is TRUE about the trip on May 25th?

A. One student is too sick to go on the trip.

B. The trip will end at 2:00 p.m. on that day.

C. Students won’t need to bring their lunches and water.

D. Students can call 07993 561992 if they have any problems.

完成句子

根据括号内的要求完成下列各题，每空一词(含缩略形式)。

1.—Have you decided which car to buy? (补全肯定答语)

—Yes, ________ ________.

2.—Would you like some more cakes? (作否定回答)

—________, ________.

3.Ben has already painted the room. (改为一般疑问句)

________ Ben painted the room ________?

4.The students have cleaned the park. (改为否定句)

The students ________ ________ the park.

5.My sister has received many birthday gifts. (对划线部分提问)

________ has your sister ________?

书面表达

最近你们班要举办一次英语读书报告会的分享活动。请你根据以下提示，用英语写一篇短文为此做准备。

提示：1. What book have you read recently? 2. What’s it about? 3. What do you think of it?

要求：90词左右，可适当发挥。

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Many musicians meet and form (组成) a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high school students and practice their music in someone’s house. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can get some money for themselves or pay for their instruments (乐器).

However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and was formed in 1965. It began as a TV show. The TV show had planned to find four rock musicians who could act as well as sing. But they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.

Since some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to ask for help from other musicians. So at first, the band just pretended (假装) to sing. Anyway, their performances were excellent and they got lots of fans. Each week on TV, the Monkees would pretend to play and sing songs written by other musicians. After a year or so, they became more serious about their work. They started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced (制作) their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more influential and popular than the Beatles and sold even more records.

However, the band broke up around 1970, but happily they reunited (重聚) in the 1980s. They produced a new record in 1996 to celebrate their time as a band. It was very successful. Today the Monkees are still making music for their millions of fans.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

1.From the second paragraph, we can know that the Monkees _______.

A. was started by some students

B. began as a TV show

C. was started by fans of the Beatles

D. began as a radio program

2.At the beginning, the Monkees _______.

A. had five members

B. wrote songs for the Beatles

C. had other musicians sing for them

D. was not very interested in country music

3.What does the underlined word “influential” in Paragraph 3 mean in Chinese?

A. 有权势的 B. 有野心的

C. 有争议的 D. 有影响的

4.The Monkees has a history of about _______ years.

A. thirty B. forty

C. fifty D. sixty

5.The writer writes this passage mainly to _______.

A. show his love for the Monkees

B. introduce the history of the Monkees

C. ask more people to buy the Monkees’ records

D. tell how the Monkees is different from the Beatles

He remembers the passages _____ connecting the words _____ the pictures.

A. by，with B. by，in C. with，with

—Are your shirts made _____ cotton?

—Yes，they are made _____ the US.

A. from，in B. of，from C. of，in

—It will _____ them much time to rebuild the museum.

—But they will _____ much for it.

A. cost，spend B. take，pay C. spend，pay

—Excuse me，can you tell me the meaning of this word?

—Sorry，I don't know. You can _____ in my dictionary.

A. look it up B. look up it C. look it for

—Whose storybook is that?

—It must _____ Jack. I saw him reading it just now.

A. belong to B. belong C. be belonged to