Dear neighbours (邻居),

Next Saturday is the Volunteer (志愿者) Day of our community (社区). Here is the plan.

7:30 am: Meet at the Community Centre for breakfast.

8:00 am — 8:30 am: Decide which you’d like to work for. You can begin thinking about what you may want to do now.

Happy Homes: It gives home repairs (修理) to people in need.

Elder Care: It sends volunteers to old people’s home. Volunteers can play games with the old people there, or talk with them.

City Parks Association: It needs volunteers to help plant flowers and pick up rubbish in city parks. These are outdoor activities (活动), so remember to bring some drinking water!

Love and Learning: It helps children with learning disabilities (缺陷). Read books out loudly to groups of children and help them with their homework.

8:30 am — 9:00 am: Get on the bus for your chosen activity, and ride with the other volunteers to your activity site (地点).

9:00 am — 12:00: Work as a volunteer.

12:00 — 1:00 pm: Share lunch with your volunteer group.

1:00 pm — 3:30 pm: Go on with your volunteer work.

3:30 pm: Get on the bus that will take you back to the Community Centre. You can talk with other volunteers and share your experiences.

To know more information, please call 718-384-782. We are looking forward to your joining.

Central Community

1.What do volunteers for Happy Homes do?

A. They repair homes.

B. They clean up homes.

C. They visit old people’s homes.

D. They look after children at home alone.

2.If one chooses to work for City Parks Association, he needs to bring ______.

A.  B.

C.  D.

3.How will volunteers go to their activity sites?

A. By bike. B. By car.

C. By bus. D. By underground.

4.Volunteers will finish their work at ______.

A. 1:00 pm B. 1:30 pm

C. 3:00 pm D. 3:30 pm

5.The writer writes this passage to ______.

A. ask people to do Volunteer Day activities

B. show how important a volunteer is

C. describe a volunteering experience

D. tell people how to be a volunteer

Calvin Gillian didn’t believe that Norway was the place for an adventurous (惊险的) holiday. However, his brother and some friends told him to go there and he enjoyed it.

“I’m an extreme sports (极限运动) lover. I have traveled to many different countries, but I didn’t expect Norway to be a good place for an adventurous holiday. People usually visit Norway to go fishing and boating to enjoy a relaxing holiday, or to go climbing to enjoy the beauty of nature. But I didn’t go for them; I wanted adventure.

“Skiing (滑雪) is the most unforgettable thing I did in Norway. I went skiing in Svartisen. I had to wear special clothes, because skiing there could be very dangerous. Svartisen is a very special and beautiful place. The ice there is not the usual white but blue, like the sea.

“I also visited the Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo. It was fantastic to look from the top of the ski jump (滑雪跳台) and the ski museum was very interesting. I wanted to try a jump but unluckily, it didn’t open when I visited. Anyway, I was very tired and needed a break, so I went back to my hotel and got some sleep.

“Next year, I am going to take my sister to Norway, too. She is having her holiday with our parents in Australia now and she wants to have a different kind of adventure next year.”

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

1.What can we learn from Paragraph 2?

A. How beautiful Norway is.

B. Why Calvin likes extreme sports.

C. What visitors usually do in Norway.

D. What the first country Calvin visited was.

2.What did Calvin do in Norway?

A. He went climbing. B. He went boating.

C. He went fishing. D. He went skiing.

3.What does Calvin think of Svartisen?

A. Beautiful. B. Boring.

C. Cheap. D. Dangerous.

4.Calvin didn’t try a jump in Holmenkollen Ski Jump because ______.

A. he didn’t have enough time

B. it didn’t open that day

C. it was too expensive

D. he was too tired

5.Next year, Calvin plans to go to Norway again with his ______.

A. friends B. parents

C. sister D. brother

根据对话内容从方框中选择能填入空白处的最佳选项补全对话，其中有两项多余。

A: Hi, Li Bin.1.

B: Yes, of course. I’ve been to many countries.

A: 2.

B: Yes. In 2016, I went there with my parents.

A:3.

B: For a week.

A: Did you visit the White House?

B:4. And we visited many other places too, for example, the Empire State Building.

A: 5.

B: Well, I like it very much. It’s a beautiful country.

A: I hope to visit it one day.

A. Yes, we did.

B. When did you go there?

C. Have you been to America?

D. How long did you stay there?

E. What do you think of America?

F. Are you interested in travelling?

G. Where did you spend your holiday?

A. Yes, we did.

B. When did you go there?

C. Have you been to America?

D. How long did you stay there?

E. What do you think of America?

F. Are you interested in travelling?

G. Where did you spend your holiday?

阅读下面短文，在空白处按要求填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Once there was an old man. He told people that one of his young neighbours did something bad. So people started to talk behind1.(冠词) young man’s back. The young neighbour was angry,2.(连词) what the old man said was not true. So he took the old man to court (把……告上法庭).

In court, the old man 3.(tell) the judge (法官), “They were just simple (简单的) words. They didn’t hurt anyone.” The judge said to the old man, “Write all the 4.(thing) you said about him on the paper in front of you. Cut the paper into pieces and throw them away (扔掉) on5.(代词) way home. Tomorrow, come back to hear the sentence (判决).”

The next day, the old man6.(come) to the court again. The judge said, “7.(介词) receiving the sentence, you will have to go out and bring back all the8.(piece) of paper that you threw away yesterday.” The old man said, “How can I do that? I don’t know where to find them.”

The judge then said, “The same way, simple words may 9.(go) around and hurt a man. You can never take them back.” The old man got10.(know) his mistake and said sorry to his neighbour.

根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。

1.公司将派高先生去巴黎工作。

The company will ________ Mr Gao ________ work in Paris.

2.上周我在数学竞赛中获得了一等奖。

I won the ________ ________ in the maths competition last week.

3.孩子们将在上海度过一个梦寐以求的假期。

The children will spend a(n) ________ ________ in Shanghai.

4.迄今为止我已经给我的笔友写过五封电子邮件了。

________ ________ I have written 5 emails to my pen friend.

5.她发现找到那家饭店很难。

She found ________ very difficult ________ find that restaurant.

阅读下面短文，根据其内容完成后面各项任务。

Almost everyone has a piggy bank (储蓄罐), but do you know why people often make it in the shape (形状) of a pig?

Believe it or not, people made the piggy bank in the shape of a pig by mistake. In the Middle Ages, many containers (容器) at home were made of a kind of cheap clay (陶土) called pygg. 单词“pygg”听起来和“pig”一样。At that time, there weren’t banks like we have today, so people would save their money at home in some clay containers. Because the kind of clay was called pygg, people called the containers pygg banks. Over time this became piggy banks. After several hundred years, people forgot that the word “pygg” meant a kind of clay.

The English language also changed. People used the word “pig” more commonly. So when English workers were asked to make “piggy banks”, they thought they needed to make containers in the shape of pigs. Surprisingly (出人意料地), the pig-shaped containers were popular.

Today piggy banks are made of all kinds of things, and they also come in different shapes and animals. But people still call those cute containers for money “piggy banks”.

1.将文中划线的汉语句子译成英语。

________________________________________

2.回答问题：

Where would people save their money at home in the Middle Ages?

________________________________________

3.将文中划线的英语句子译成汉语。

________________________________________

4.回答问题：

What does the underlined word “they” in the third paragraph refer to?

________________________________________

5.回答问题：

Are piggy banks in different shapes and animals today?

________________________________________

书面表达

假如你是美国学生Tom，去年暑假，你的中国朋友李峰邀请你去了北京。请你根据下面的提示内容写一篇80词左右的短文，介绍你在北京期间的活动，内容可适当发挥。

提示内容：上午跟李峰学习汉语，下午游览北京，晚上品尝美食。

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I am not a brave girl, and even a little mouse scares me. But I’ve been crazy about bungee jumping. One day, I found a good place for this exciting sport in Thailand ______ surfing the Internet. I ______ my bag and flew there. However, I had no idea how to get to the address listed on the website. I called them and took a taxi, but ______ taxi driver didn’t know the way, either. He dropped me halfway.

Having bought some bread, I had to wait for the car that was supposed to pick me up. Just then a young man jumped out of a car and asked ______ I was Jenny. Then we drove to the bungee jumping place. I ______ by the sights along the road through the window of the car.

I quickly signed an agreement which said I ______ die, and put a harness(安全带). The guide led me through a gate, asked me to sit in a special seat and tied ______ legs and ankles well.

I was nervous but not scared. As soon as I stood up and felt my ankles tied together, I got scared, I walked ______ to the edge of the bridge and looked back. The workers looked at me and couldn’t help laughing. At last it was time to go. So I jumped as ______ forward as I could.

At that moment my memory seemed to stop. I felt myself going up, like riding a fast lift, and them another drop and… Finally, I stopped in the air. I spread my ______ wide, laughing loudly and proudly. The workers pulled me up, smiling at me.

1.A. by B. with C. in D. for

2.A. packs B. will pack C. is packing D. packed

3.A. a B. the C. an D. /

4.A. that B. how C. if D. when

5.A. amazes B. is amazed C. amazed D. was amazed

6.A. can B. might C. must D. should

7.A. myself B. mine C. me D. my

8.A. slow B. slowly C. quick D. quickly

9.A. far B. farther C. farthest D. the farthest

10.A. arm B. arms C. leg D. legs

Froggie was a frog who never remembered where he had been. His biggest dream was to find the best pond to ______ in freely without worrying about water snakes，which were his natural enemies. One day, Froggie hopped(跳) to a kitchen and jumped into a pot full of hot water. Froggie felt the burning heat ______ hurried out of the water as fast as his legs could carry him. “I almost ______ there!”Froggie thought.

A few days later，Froggie ______ back to the same kitchen，completely forgetting he had been there. He again hopped into the same pot. This time，the water inside was ______. He felt very comfortable. He ______ and thought，“There’s no water snake trying to eat me and I can have this place all to myself!”At that moment，Froggie knew it was his ______ pond. What he didn’t know was that the water was warming up over a low heat.

After thirty ______ of swimming，Froggie felt the water was warmer but he regarded this as a nice surprise. “This sure is the best place for swimming. I get to have a hot bath，too. ” ______ his comfortable bath，the water kept getting warmer and warmer. Froggie was so comfortable that he fell asleep. And he ______ woke up.

From Froggie’s story，we can learn that people are blind to problems that slowly get worse over time.

1.A. walk B. swim C. talk D. jump

2.A. and B. but C. or D. for

3.A. slept B. fell C. died D. lay

4.A. brought B. gave C. went D. turned

5.A. hot B. cool C. icy D. warm

6.A. 1ooked around B. 1ooked back C. looked down D. looked up

7.A. fish B. dream C. swim D. water

8.A. months B. days C. minutes D. years

9.A. During B. Before C. After D. With

10.A. soon B. often C. never D. later

In choosing a friend, one should be very careful. A good friend can help you study. You can have fun together and make each other happy. Sometimes you will meet fair weather friends. They will be with you as long as you have money or luck, but when you are down, they will run away. How do I know when I have found a good friend? I look for certain qualities of character, especially understanding, honesty and reliability (可靠).

Above all else, I look for understanding in a friend. A good friend tries to understand how another person is feeling. He is not quick to judge. Instead, he tries to learn from others. He puts himself in the other person's place, and he tries to think of ways to be helpful. He is also a good listener.

At the same time, however, a good friend is honest. He does not look for faults (过错) in others. He notices their good points. In short, a friend will try to understand me and accept me.

Another quality of a friend is reliability. I can always depend on a good friend. If he tells me he will meet me somewhere at a certain time, I can be sure that he will be there. If I need a favor, he will do his best to help me. If I am in trouble, he will not run away from me.

When I meet someone who is reliable, honest, and understanding, I know I've found a friend!

1.The writer thinks reliability is the most important quality in choosing a friend.

2.If you have fair weather friends, you will be refused when you get into trouble.

3.Good friends need to always point out each other’s mistakes.

4.Good friends try to understand others’ feelings and judge quickly.

5.This passage mainly discusses the qualities of a friend.