A great way for teens to cool off during the summer is at water parks. If you live near a water park, you might think about getting a season pass. This way you can go as often as you like.
Check to see if there are any water parks around you. Many are indoor facilities. So even if it isn’t warm enough where you live to swim outdoors, you can enjoy swimming in a temperature controlled area.
The prices are usually good. For example, one ticket to Water World, a water park, is only $5.
Some teens like to get a part time job over the summer to make some pocket money. Older teens shouldn’t have much trouble finding jobs.
An idea is to get some teens together to form your own summer job business. You can walk dogs, bring in the newspapers, feed the cats, collect rubbish, water flowers, etc.
Being that it’s summer, many people go on vacation and could use someone to look after their houses while they’re away. You can also think about other jobs you can do for them.
Teens love freedom. Sure you would like to get to such places as the small, movie theaters, the zoo, the beach, picnic, bowling and local amusement park instead of staying home all summer. Then a summer bus pass will be helpful. Check to see if your area has one for you teens.
Such a pass costs only $10 for the whole summer. The price is reasonable(合乎情理的) and also your parents don’t have to always drive.
1.Who is the text written for?
A. Teachers B. Parents
C. Teens D. Travelers
2.What is NOT mentioned as a part tome job for teens?
A. Washing cars B. Feeding cats
C. Walking dogs D. Watering flowers
3.If Sally goes to Water World with two friends, they should pay________.
A. $5 B. $10 C. $15 D. $20
4.A summer bus pass is helpful for teens to ______.
A. find part time jobs B. go out for fun
C. go to summer classes D. do outdoor sports
5.What’s the text mainly about?
A. Part time jobs B. A summer pass
C. Water park swimming D. Things to do in summer
Would you like to experience what going to school was like in the late 1800s? to start with, imagine everyone in school only one classroom.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, most American students went to a one-room schoolhouse. A single teacher would typically(典型地) have students in the first through eighth grades, and she taught them all. The number of students varied from six to 40 or more. The youngest children sat in the front, while the oldest students sat in the back. The teacher usually taught reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and geography. Students memorized(记忆) and retold their lessons.
The classroom of a one-room schoolhouse probably looked much like your own. The teacher’s desk stood on a raised platform(讲台) at the front of the room, however, and there was a wood-burning stove since there was no other way of heating. The bathroom was outside in an outhouse.
In Honeoye Falls, New York, there is a one-room schoolhouse where kids today can experience what it was like to the students in the late 19th century. For a week during the summer, they wear 19th century clothes and learn the way children learned more than a hundred years ago.
What else has changed about school since the 19th century? For more information, please visit our website: www. Locallygacy.com.
1. What does the word “varied” in the Paragraph Two mean in Chinese?
A. 变化 B. 排列 C. 调整 D. 减少
2. Students in the late 19th century could learn_____?
A. reading, writing, sports, history, and science.
B. reading, art, arithmetic, history, and geography
C. reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and geography
D. reading, physics, chemistry, history, and geography
3.Which of the following best shows what a one-room schoolhouse was like in the late 19th century?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
4.Some kids go to Honeoye Falls to _____.
A. try the food in the late 19th century
B. learn the subjects over a century ago
C. memorized and retell their lessons they have learn
D. experience the way children learned over a century ago
5.Which of the following is TRUE about the students in a one-room schoolhouse？
A. They had only one teacher.
B. They had different classrooms.
C. They could choose the seats they liked.
D. They learned more subjects than we do now.
Once there was a man traveling in a faraway village. As he was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped. He found that these huge elephants were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains(锁链)， 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 are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that rage, it’s 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 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 at it once before?
___________________. We should never give up the struggle(挣扎) in life.
根据材料内容选择正确答案。
1. What did the writer see in the village?
A. Chains B. Elephants C. Cages D. Farmers
2.Why do the elephants never try up to break free from the ropes?
A. Because they think they can not.
B. Because they are too old to do it.
C. Because they like their living places.
D. Because they get on well with the trainer.
3.How did the man feel after he heard what the trainer said?
A. Moved B. Surprised
C. Angry D. Nervous
4.Which of the following is the missing part in the last paragraph?
A. Failing 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 test?
A. Pleasant trip B. A Cruel Trainer
C. Elephant Training D. The Elephant Rope
“It’s raining cats and dogs!”Grandpa shouted.
Little Richie came running to the window. He wanted to see the ____falling from the sky. He looked out of the window, but is was ____that there were no cats or dogs. He only saw small pools of water on the ground.
“Man, it’s really coming down out there!” Uncle Bob agreed____he looked out of the window, too. Richie scratched his head(挠头). What was coming down? First they talked about cats and dogs that ____ be seen. Now someone said it “it”. What was going on with these ____?
“Wow!” Aunt Susie shouted as she looked out of the window. “It’s raining really hard.”
Richie____his aunt. “It is raining hard,” he agreed, “but ____are the cats and dogs?”
Grandpa laughed. “Richie, that just____it’s raining really hard.”
“So why didn’t you just say that?” Richie ____. It was irritating (恼人的) when people like they were not speaking English at all.
“We did. You just didn’t understand these____.” Richie’s cousin said with a big smile.
“Well, now I do.” Richie said.
1.A. tigers and lions B. pigs and sheep C. cats and dogs D. chickens and ducks
2.A. important B. possible C. necessary D. strange
3.A. unless B. after C. till D. though
4.A. couldn’t B. shouldn’t C. needn’t D. mustn’t
5.A. days B. animals C. ideas D. people
6.A. shouted at B. looked at C. laughed at D. pointed at
7.A. what B. how C. where D. who
8.A. explains B. proves C. means D. shows
9.A. ordered B. thought C. repeated D. asked
10.A. saying B. questions C. objects D. stories
—Excuse, can you tell me ____?
—Sorry, I don’t. You can go to the information desk.
A. that there is a train B. when the train goes
C. which train can I take D. where does the train go.
He’s not a perfect child. He sometimes talks back ____ his parents talk with him.
A. if B. before C. when D. until
