– People choose high-speed train or self-driving to travel on holidays.

– ________ fast the traditional travel ways change!

A. What B. How C. What a D. How a

– I’m not feeling well. Maybe I have a bad cold.
– ________. You’d better see a doctor right now.
 

A. That’s all right B. I’m afraid not

C. I’m sorry to hear that D. Sounds great

（A）从方框所给句子中选择恰当的句子完成下面对话。其中有两个多余选项。

A: Hello, Cindy! What’s your plan for this summer holiday?

B: I have no idea. 1.

A: I’ll take part in a social activity with my sister.

B: It sounds exciting. 2.

A: No. I have been a volunteer in a poor village. The children there don’t have money to buy books.

B: 3.

A: Yes. I bought them 60 books with my pocket money.

B: What else did you do there?

A: 4. And now we are good friends.

B: Wow! 5. I’d like to join you.

A: Great! I’m sure we’ll have a meaningful holiday.

（A）根据下面所给中文完成句子翻译。

1.李老师对她的学生很有耐心。

Miss Li ______________ with her students.

2.只要你努力，没什么好担心的。

There’s nothing to worry about ______________ you work hard.

3.我很高兴和你交朋友。

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4.不要到处扔垃圾。

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（B）阅读下面短文，将短文中画线部分的句子翻译成中文。

Five things to do before you are 18

Camp out in the garden

Go into your garden or your friend’s. Two or three friends, a small tent, sleeping bags, food and drink are necessary. When it gets dark, tell thrilling stories, play games and eat your sweets. You will need a torch or you won’t be able to see sweets, and it might get a bit too scary.

Learn to swim

Seriously, this is so important that it could save your life. ___If you can’t swim, you won’t be able to do water sports. Even taking a boat trip will be dangerous.

Collect things

One of the best hobbies for under-18 is collecting things. You could collect stamps, cinema tickets and so on. The best way to collect them is to have a special album to put your collection in and to write what each thing means to you.

Try at least one kind of team sport

Team sports help you work well with other people. Being a good team player is an important skill in life. And ___they can make you keep healthy and are also great fun.

Write your family tree

Get to know all the older people in your family and find out as much as you can about when they were young. Draw a family tree and make notes about.

1._________________

2._________________

Once there was a man traveling in a faraway village. As he was passing the elephants, he stopped at once. He found that these huge elephants were being held by only a small rope tied to their front legs. No chains, no cages. It was clear that the elephants could, at any time, break away from their ropes but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and didn’t try to get away. “Well,” the trainer said, “when they were very young and much smaller, we used the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it was enough to hold them. As they grow up, they still believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can hold them, so they never try to break free.”

How could it be? These animals could at any time break free from their ropes. But because they were always stuck right where they were, they believed they couldn’t.

Just like the elephants, how many of us go through life believing that we cannot do something, just because we failed in it once before?

▲ . We should never give up the struggle (斗争) in life.

1.The elephants were being held by ________.

A. a small rope B. a big chain C. a long line D. a piece of cloth

2.The man felt ________ after he heard what the trainer said.

A. excited B. surprised C. angry D. nervous

3.The elephants never tried to break free from the ropes because ________.

A. they liked their living places B. they were too old to do it

C. they thought they could not D. they got on well with the trainer

4.In the last paragraph which of the following can be put in ▲ ?

A. Failure is part of learning

B. We should be different from others

C. Helping animals is helping ourselves

D. Traveling always makes people relaxed

5.What is the best title for this passage?

A. A Pleasant Trip B. A Bad Trainer

C. Elephant Training D. The Elephant Rope

Nowadays, the food that you buy comes from many different countries. Have a look in your fridge and fruit bowl, and check the origins (来源) of the food. Perhaps there are apples from California or potatoes from Egypt. You will probably be surprised how far food travels to get to your plate. This journey, from “field to plate”, is called “food miles”. A food mile is the distance that food travels from the farmer’s field to the person who buys the food. Nowadays, food often travels thousands of miles to get to the consumer (消费者). Why is this, and what are the effects (影响) of these long distances?

Traditionally, farmers sold their food in the local market, so the food didn’t have to travel very far. The consumers also did not travel very far because they went to their local market to buy the food. Now, because of modern technology, food comes from all over the world. We do not have to wait for spring or summer to buy strawberries or tomatoes. They are available in winter if we want.

Some countries have to import (进口) most of their food. This is because they have difficult climates. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), for example, get 85% of its food from other countries.

I believe these miles are worrying for some reasons. First of all, because food travels such long distances, we need more planes, trucks and ships to move the food. This means we use more oil or petrol, so there is more pollution and more global (全球的) warming. Besides, food that travels a long way is not fresh and usually not very tasty. Tomatoes, for example, are picked early and stored for their long journeys. For this reason, they are usually tasteless when they get to the consumer. Local food has a better taste, and it also reduces (makes sth. less) the amount of global pollution. We need to buy more local food.

提示词：distance距离； climates气候； petrol汽油

1.What is called “food miles” according to this passage?

A. The origins of the food. B. The effects of long distances.

C. The journey from field to plate. D. The disadvantages of imported food.

2.The underlined word “available” in Paragraph 2 most probably means “________”.

A. easy to get B. not busy

C. willing to talk D. impossible to get

3.Some countries, like the United Arab Emirates, have to import most of their food because

of ________ .

A. long distances B. difficult climates

C. fresh and tasty food D. modern technology

4.The writer uses the LAST paragraph mostly to encourage readers to ________.

A. buy more local food B. increase international trade

C. travel long distances D. use imported food

5.This passage is mainly about ________.

A. how local food travels from field to plate

B. where different kinds of food come from

C. how some countries import their food

D. what “food miles” is and its effects

France is well known for its fine art, tasty food and romantic scenery. About 75 million visitors come here every year.

France is the largest country in Western Europe. It has a population of over 66 million. The country is home to many famous places of interest, like the River Seine as well as the Eiffel Tower.

Many visitors also come for the country’s art. Sculptor (雕刻家) Auguste Rodin and painter Claude Monet once created their great works here. If you visit France today, it is not a surprise to meet street artists in the city or come across a singer in the subway.

No visit to Paris is complete without a trip to Louvre, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. Inside, there are 35,000 works of art, such as the painting Mona Lisa by Da Vinci and the statue (雕塑) David by Michelangelo. It would take nine months to enjoy all the pieces.

Besides, French food is world famous. Bread is very important in France. The best known French bread is called a baguette. They are long, delicious and taste salty. Snails (蜗牛) are also a must-have here. French people eat 40,000 tons of snails every year!

But France is not always good. Paris, the city of light, may also show its dark side to visitors. Chinese visitors feel sorry about the crowded subway in Paris.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

1.What is France famous for?

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2.There are many famous places of interest in France, please give two examples.

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3.How long does it take to enjoy all the pieces in Louvre?

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4.How many snails do French people eat every year?

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5.Why do Chinese visitors feel sorry about the subway in Paris?

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Depending on yourself

Growing up is not always easy. When we face difficulties, a spirit of depending on yourself is more useful than crying for help. That’s what Hong Zhanhui’s story of growing from boy to man with family hardship tells us.

Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County (县), Henan Province. When he was only 11, his father became badly ill and one day he came back with an unwanted baby girl. A year later, Hong’s mother left home. She no longer wanted to live such a poor life and face her sick husband. So everything hard fell onto the young boy’s shoulders: to take care of his father and the sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.

Although his life was hard, Hong didn’t go away from his father and sister. He worked in part-time jobs to feed his family. He climbed tall trees to get birds’ eggs for his sister. He walked two hours at weekends to the market to buy different things to sell around his school. A few years later, he studied at a college. To take care of Chenchen, he worked hard to rent (租) a room near his college for her, and sent her to school.

After Hong’s story went public, he became a hero in people’s eyes. But Hong refused offers from others. He said he felt encouraged by kind offers, but he could depend on his own work.

Through his hard life, he has grown up from boy to man.

From: Shanghai Middle School English Online

根据短文内容完成表格。

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根据要求完成作文

父母是我们最亲的人，他们给予我们生命，含辛茹苦抚养我们长大。请你根据以下提示，以“Care for Our Parents”为题，写一篇短文。

提示: 1. 父母尽力给我们提供最好的生活和教育；

2. 希望父母锻炼身体，饮食健康；

3. 尊重父母，多沟通，帮助父母做家务；

4. 照顾好自己，不让父母担心。

要求: 1. 短文包括以上提示内容，联系实际，可适当发挥；

2. 条理清晰，行文连贯，段落分明，书写规范；

3. 文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；

4. 词数：60—80词。开头已给出, 不计入总词数。

参考词汇：offer…, respect (尊重), communicate with…

Care for Our Parents

Our dear parents, you love us more than anybody else in the world. __________________________________

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