May is National Bike Month. a month-long event trying to get couch potatoes outside, cars off the roads and subway trains empty. It encourages everyone to get back onto their bicycles to enjoy riding a bike an often as they can during the month (and hopefully longer). May in the beginning summer and warm weather, so why not start right away and enjoy sunshine!
Ride Out to Protect the Environment
Bike month helps everyone make their efforts to improve the environment. If you’re biking to school, you are helping bring down the air pollution. It is the most common form of pollution and by getting your family to stop driving and start riding a bike, you can do your part in improving the air quality.
Count Down Those Calories
Cycling isn’t just good for the environment; it’s good for you too. Riding a bicycle burns calories and helps keep you healthy. It not only improves your physical health, but also your mental state of mind. It can really help you be a happier person.
Share the Sunny Summer
So get into that shed, and take out your old bike. Paint the bike blue. Put on a nice coat. Load up a number of songs. Invite a group of friends to get on the bikes and ride this May! Be a fun-in- the-sun child! Enjoy yourself!
1.The second paragraph mainly tells us that riding bicycles .
A. improves our physical health
B. does good to the environment
C. changes our mental slates of mind
D. helps us enjoy the sunny spring
2.You’re likely to read the article in the section of a magazine.
A.historyB. geography
C. sportsD. food
3.The writer writes the article to .
A. advise people to lose more weight
B. ask people to repair and paint the old bikes
C.prevent people from staying at home watching TV
D．make people realize the advantages of riding bicycles
Katherine Com male is an 11-year-old girl from Pennsylvania. At the age of five she began raising money to buy nets for children in Africa to help stop the spread of malaria(疟疾).
When she was five, Katherine learnt about malaria in Africa. She learnt that every 30 seconds a child died from this disease. She, also learnt that people wouldn’t get that disease if they had enough bed nets. “I was really sad to learn that a child died every half a minute because of malaria.” Says Katherine, “I wanted to send nets right away, so that’s what I did.”
Five-year-old Katherine made presentations at churches and schools. She told students and others how important bed nets were for Africans. After people heard the presentations, many of them donated money. Katherine sent the money to NBN. NBN is an organization that sends bed nets to Africa.
Besides, every holiday Katherine makes something called “ net gift certificate” with the help of her friends and brothers. On each l0-dollar certificate there is a message. It explains that a bed net would be sent to Africa. When more certificate orders come, Katherine gets help from students in her school.
Katherine has helped to raise $200,000 for NBN. “It makes me proud to help African children. I won’t stop working until everyone in Africa has a bed net.” says Katherine.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.When Katherine was six, she began helping children in Africa.
B.Katherine learnt that two children died from malaria one minute.
C.Katherine did a lot and helped to raise $ 20,000 for NBN.
D.Katherine’s parents helped her make “bed net gift certificate”.
2.In Paragraph 4, “It” refers to “ ”.
A. a 10-dollar note B. a gift certificate
C. an organization D. a message
3.From the passage we know Katherine did the following EXCEPT_______.
A.raising a great deal of money for NBN
B.giving presentations at churches and schools
C.explaining the importance of nets for Africans
D.orderingpeople to learn to use the nets well
4.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A.Katherine’s work is very helpful and meaningful
B.the spread of malaria in Africa will be more serious
C.every child in Africa gets a net with Katherine’s help
D.Katherine has received much money from NBN
The sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly before the deadly disaster of the typhoon. Bernadette Tenegra, a 44-year-old high school teacher, was in her which was on the bank of a river. The Tenegra family together in their shelter to keep away from the storm. They thought that the powerful storm would die out soon as it did .So they were just hanging on there.
But things didn’t happen they had thought, the water rose with a frightening speed and their house fell down, sweeping away the occupants (居住者)，including Tenegra’s husband and her other daughter. They were able to struggle to , but the 6-year-old Tenegra was against the strong wind and water, along with sharp deadly debris(残骸). Bernadette made her way to the child and was holding her and kept her to keep on.
“I crawled(爬) over to her, and I tried to pull her up. But she was too and wasn’t able to make it. It seemed she had already , ” Tenegra said, crying. “I screamed but it didn’t work."
The mother said that she would never forget the last words of her daughter before , “Ma, just let go, just let go. Save . I love you forever.
“Yolanda” , the super typhoon destroyed a great number of houses and buildings. The 6-year- old Tenegra her life. She has just seen a small part of this wonderful world that short lifetime, while the whole world witnessed all the beauty of her.
1.A. familyB. schoolC. buildingD. home
2.A. marchedB. stayedC.arrangedD. collected
3.A. in the pastB. in the dayC. in the endD. in the future
4.A. whileB. beforeC. as D. since
5.A. woodenB. goldenC. hiddenD. modem
6.A. strengthB. warmthC. safetyD. difficulty
7.A. fightingB. beatingC. touchingD. preventing
8.A. invitingB. orderingC. trainingD. telling
9.A. sleepyB. weakC. impatientD. careless
10.A. given hackB. given awayC. given upD. given off
11.A. excitedlyB. sadlyC. angrilyD. confidently
12.A. arrivalB. breakC. choiceD. death
13.A. myselfB. yourselfC. himselfD. herself
14.A. lostB. savedC. spentD. changed
15.A. aboveB. belowC. duringD. beyond
— I didn’ t expect to see you studying at the library so early in the morning.
— , huh?
A. Every dog has its day
B. Many hands make light work
C. The early bird catches the worm
D. Too many cooks spoil the broth
— Jack, could you tell me for travelling this summer?
—We plan to go and see the beautiful sea in Hainan.
A. where your family will go B. how will your family go
C. how your family will go D. where will your family go
— I missed the beginning of The Voice of China yesterday evening.
— ! But you can watch the re-play tonight.
A. Hurry upB. What a pity
C. Try your bestD. I don’ t think so
