It’s hard to imagine that Dayme Delgado ever struggled(挣扎) in school.

When the 18-year-old graduated from Mater Academy Charter High School in Miami, Florida, US, she already had a full scholarship（奖学金）from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She plans to study math and aerospace (航空航天) engineering.

But when Dayme first started school, she felt frustrated because she didn’t understand different subjects in English. As the daughter of two Cuban immigrants (移民), Dayme didn’t learn English until she got to kindergarten. The only thing that made sense (有意义，讲得通) to her was math.

＂Numbers are kind of their own language, so I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve got this,’＂ she said. From an early age, she worked harder on her math skills instead. She has taken every math class at Mater Academy and several at Miami Dade College.

Math came so naturally to Dayme that she usually didn’t have to take notes. She simply paid close attention and understood.

She has also encouraged other female(女性的) students to take math and science courses. She read research that shows girls are as interested in math and science as boys in primary school. But when they get to high school, few girls see themselves pursuing careers (追求职业) in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

＂The most important thing is to realize that math is just like anything else,＂ Dayme said. ＂It is not dependent on your gender(性别) or your ethnicity(种族). Forget about what others think and just go for it.＂

1.What was the biggest challenge for Dayme when she started school in the US?

A. She didn’t have money to pay for her studies.

B. She couldn’t understand courses in English.

C. She was not born in the United States.

D. She never went to kindergarten.

2.She made great efforts to learn from an early age.

A. English B. engineering C. math D. science

3.Dayme believes that .

A. English is not that important in school.

B. math and science are too difficult for girls.

C. her classmates should take some after-school courses.

D. girls should be more confident in learning math.

4.What does the underlined word ＂frustrated＂mean in Chinese?

A. 挫败的 B. 迷惑的 C. 有趣的 D. 荒谬的

5.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. Dayme is good at English all the time.

B. In primary school, many girls can study as well as boys.

C. Dayme graduated from Mater Academy Charter High School in Miami, Florida, US at the age of 19.

D. Dayme worked hard and took a lot of notes in math classes.

1. B 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. B 【解析】 这篇短文给我们讲述了一个学习数学和航空航天工程的女孩Dayme，她从小就对数学感兴趣，并且一直持续到了她上大学的时候。在文章中她还鼓励其他的女孩们学习数学。 1.细节理解题。根据短文中But when Dayme first started school, she felt frustrated ...

The Coolest Inventions

Great inventions often change the world. Why not try our coolest inventions?

Frying Pan $ 100	Cooking by yourself is a great idea! Try this smart pan even if you don’t know how to cook! In it there is an APP that can control the heat. You just need to follow the instructions and a delicious meal can be yours. Year of invention: 2015
Cooler $399	A cooler can keep your food and drinks fresh. But the US inventor Ryan wants more than that. His cooler can also be used as an MP3 player. It even provides power for your mobile phone. Year of invention: 2012
Coaching Basketball $200	The coaching basketball can develop your basketball skills. In the basketball there is a Bluetooth chip (It can send information to your mobile phone.) If you don’t play well, a ＂coach＂ will tell you how to improve. Year of invention: 2014
Super Wheel $799	Too tired to ride a bike in a large city? Cambridge University has developed the Super Wheel. It’s a real wheel to help riders to ride more easily. It also gives real-time information of the road conditions to your phone. Year of invention: 2014

1.How much is a Frying Pan?

A. $100. B. $200. C. $399. D. $799.

2.What can Ryan’s Cooler do?

A. It can help to heat the food and the drink. B. It can teach you how to play basketball.

C. It can cook your food without electricity. D. It can provide power for mobile phones.

3.When was the Coaching Basketball invented?

A. In 2011. B. In 2014. C. In 2015. D. In 2016.

4.What’s the speical of the Super Wheel?

A. It can be used as a mobile phone. B. It can show the cooking steps by riding.

C. It can improve your basketball skills quickly. D. It can give the information about the road conditions.

5.What does the undelined word ＂real-time＂ mean?

A. 真正的 B. 随机的 C. 实时的 D. 匆忙的

1. A 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. C 【解析】 本文叙述了四种伟大的发明，它们是煎锅、散热器、教练篮球及超级轮子。分别介绍了它们的价格、特点、作用及发明的时间等信息。 1.细节理解题。根据Frying Pan $ 100可知，煎锅100美元。故选A。 2.细节理解题。根据It even provides power for your mo...

When you watch TV programs about wild animals, it is surprising to see how an antelope can run away from a lion. In the wilderness, everyone has his own way to protect himself. Even plants have their own ways of fighting off enemies.

Over millions of years of evolution, plants have developed their own defence system(防御系统). Chemicals are wildly used for survival（生存）. By making their leaves, flowers, roots and fruits distasteful or poisonous(有毒的) to enemies, plants can fight back.

One such plant is the Golden Wattle tree. The British scientist David Cameron has found when an animal eats the tree’s leaves, the amount of poison increases in the other leaves. “It’s like the damaged leaves telephoning the others telling them to fight together against the enemy, ” he said.

The tree also sends defence messages to neighboring plants by giving out a special smell. Golden Wattle trees in the surrounding 45 meters will get the message and produce more poison within 10 minutes. Now, if an enemy eats too many of the trees’ leaves, it will die.

Every species of plant or tree is good at the production of a particular set of chemicals. A herbivore that can safely eat the leaves of one tree may be poisoned by its neighbor.

In this way, plants have developed not only individual defence system, but also shared it with others. This makes it impossible for a single animal to destroy even a small area of forest.

1.From the first 2 paragraphs,we can learn that________

A. plants can do nothing against their enemies.

B. Chemicals are quite useful for plants to survive.

C. An antelope can always run away from a strong lion.

D. Leaves,roots,flowers and fruits of plants are poisonous.

2.If animals eat one Golden Wattle tree’s leaves,the tree can________

A. kill the animals with special smell.

B. tell other trees to come to protect it.

C. warn other trees against the animals on the phone.

D. send defence messages to the neighboring plants.

3.The word “herbivore” in the 5th paragraph probably means animals which ____.

A. produce poison

B. live on small animals

C. like to eat rabbits

D. feed on plants or grass

4.The last paragraph of the passsage suggests that this kind of defence system is_____

A. bad for animals

B. good for forests

C. helpful to some animals

D. harmful to forests.

5.The passage is mainly about______

A. the example of protecting forests

B. the balance between animals and plants

C. the ways of plants fighting against enemies

D. the relationship between lions and antelopes

1. B 2. D 3. D 4. B 5. C 【解析】 短文大意:这篇短文主要以几种植物为例,讲述了植物的自保方式. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

One day Peng Xianzhe learned he would go to the Mashan School in Guizhou. The 16-year-old boy tried to imagine how serious the drought was for the students at that school. However, he realized it was more serious than he had imagined when he saw the sign ＂DON’T wash clothes with water, or you will be punished（惩罚）. ＂

Because of drought, the school has been short of water for a long time. Each student has only one bottle of water every day for washing and drinking. The drought has made the poor students much poorer.

Peng is a student from Beijing Chaoyang Foreign Language School. He took part in the school’s Rain & Bow Project from April 2 to 10.

The project idea came from Peng’s principal（负责人）. One day, she heard a sad story about Li Guoxian, a poor girl in the Mashan School, who stopped going to school because of drought. The principal started this project to help the school. In one day, 3, 000 students made over 10, 000 donations of water, books and clothes.

Peng and other four students went to the Mashan School and gave the donations with five teachers. They visited poor families, made surveys and had classes at the school.

Ding Zhentao, 16, was worried about the school’s poor learning environment. ＂The blackboards and playground are too shabby to use,＂Ding said. ＂Besides, there really aren’t enough teachers. A teacher has to teach both history and English, and even the cook is a class teacher. ＂

Although life isn’t easy, students at the school have a positive attitude(积极的态度）towards life and they are quite willing to learn. That’s what moved 16-year-old Chen Shi most.

＂They sang their songs together as usual before class every afternoon. After class, the students asked us to tell them things about Beijing and our studies,＂ Chen said. ＂You can see the passion（热情）in them. I believe it will make a difference. Their futures will be bright. ＂

1.Which school does Peng Xianzhe study?

A. Mashan School. B. Beijing Chaoyang Foreign Language School.

C. Project School. D. Training School.

2.The underlined word＂shabby＂means in Chinese.

A. 黑乎乎的 B. 光滑的 C. 破旧不堪的 D. 不平整

3.Who started the school’s Rain & Bow Project?

A. The principal of the foreign language school.

B. Peng Xianzhe, a 16-year-old boy.

C. Chen Shi, a student from Beijing.

D. Li Guoxian, a poor girl in Guizhou.

4.How many people went to the Mashan School and gave the donations?

A. Four. B. Five. C. Nine. D. Ten.

5.The passage mainly tells us about .

A. the poor learning environment of the Mashan School

B. the things that Beijing students did, saw and heard at the Mashan School

C. the Mashan School students’ positive attitude towards the drought

D. a story of a poor girl who stopped going to school because of drought

1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. B 【解析】 试题短文大意：本文主要是介绍北京朝阳外国语学校的学生在马山中学的所做、所看、所听。 1. 2.shabby to use以及前句the school’s poor learning environment可推知“shabby”的意思只可能是“破旧不堪的”，所以该选C。 3. 4....

First thing in the morning, I checked Face Book only to see how I’ve already fallen behind. A workmate has written a new book. Two of my heroes have completed a big project. One of my old college friends posted a video for an online program she’s talking. She looks successful, shiny and charming.1.

Am I really falling behind? Did these people post any of these things in order to make me feel bad? Of course not. But if I’m not careful it’s terribly easy to see social media(社会媒体) as a reminder（提醒） of all the things I’m not doing.

2.It’s a comparison problem. It’s all about how we think about it. I know it’s not just me. Our culture is full of comparisons, and it’s not hard to look around at what other people are doing with their short time, and ask”What about me?” Comparisons can make you not believe yourself. 3.

Don’t compare your insides with someone else’s outsides.4.

Don’t act like it was effortless or pure luck. It’s much easier to look at someone “up there”and be jealous of what they have than to be happy for them and make yours better. Have a clear understanding of yourself.

5.You’re neither better than nor worse than anyone in the world. Be yourself and do your best.

A. You have no idea what it took for other people to get where they are.

B. I feel bad because I’m still in bed, sleepy-eyed.

C. But this isn’t a social media problem.

D. Don’t compare your life with those of others.

E. So how to deal with this problem seems very necessary and important

1.B 2.C 3.E 4.D 5.A 【解析】这篇短文作者从自己的感受谈起，告诉我们不要和别人去比，他们能成功也必是付出了努力。你不比别人更好，也不比别人更差，做好自己，尽自己的最大努力就好。 1.根据文意可知，作者在浏览Facebook的时候看到很多人做了很有意义的事情，所以作者觉得自己落后了。再根据下文Did these people post any o...

根据情景提示，完成下列各题。

1.你想问康康一些问题，可以这样问：

________________________________________________Kangkang?

2.你想表达英语在全世界广泛使用，可以这样说：

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3.你想知道福建的人口是多少，可以这样问：

_______________________________________________________?

4.你想知道Jane在中国待了多久了，可以这样问：

___________________________________________________,Jane?

5.如果你想问学生能做些什么来保护环境，可以这样问：

________________________________________________________

1.May I ask you a few questions? 2.English is widely used throughout/all over/around the world. 3.What’s the population of Fujian? 4.How long have you been in China? 5.What should students...

根据每小题所提供的图画情景和提示词，写出一个与图画情景相符的句子。

1.ever,to

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2.when, invent

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3.if,not,rain

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4.bad,health

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5.go, Beijing,

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1.Have you ever been to the Great Wall? 2.When was the digital camera invented? 3.If it doesn’t rain,I will go fishing. 4.Air pollution is harmful to our health. 5.He often goes to Beijing...

根据图片提示，用英语写一篇80词左右的作文。

要求:1)结合图意,围绕出行方式、通讯工具及空气质量展开叙述,可适当发挥；

2)开头已给出，不计入总词数。文中不得出现真实的校名和人名。

Fifteen years ago Now

Great changes have taken place since I was born.

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Great changes have taken place since I was born. Fifteen years ago, most people rode bikes when travelling for a short distance. Because there weren’t many cars, the air was fresh. And people kept ...

What does the boy want to buy?

A. football B. basketball C. volleyball

B 【解析】略。

What is Li Gang’s favourite?

A. play the piano B. draw C. play basketball

B 【解析】略。