Hi, Jake,
How's it going? Sorry I haven't been in touch for a while, but I couldn't use my computer for a few days. You'll never guess what happened to me!
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to take up yoga. Yoga is combination of physical and breathing exercises. _ 1. I've been feeling a bit stressed about my school work recently and I thought yoga might help.
My dad couldn't give me a lift to the first lesson, so I decided to go to the gym by bike. The lesson was great and I felt really relaxed afterwards. 2.The next day , I woke up with a bad cold. I couldn't stop coughing and sneezing. I couldn't go to school because I also had a high temperature. We were having a maths test that day so it was great that I could stay at home. I didn't really enjoy my day off though. I felt awful and stayed in bed. Mum brought me cups of hot tea for my sore throat(and you know how much I hate tea 3. I have to keep taking these for a while so I can get stronger.
That afternoon Robbie came to visit me .He said he’d got something to cheer me up and pretended it was the math test that I missed."Mr Banks says do it at home instead ,”he said , but I knew he was joking. 4. The next day, I was a bit pale and didn't have much energy, but I was feeling better. The day after that, I was able to go back to school.
Can you believe my luck? 5.
Anyway, you're OK. Write and let me know what you've been up to ! Bye for now ！
Kate
Paul Nicklen waited patiently on a sheet of ice in the Arctic. He was there to take pictures for National Geographic. Finally, he saw something big and white. It was a polar bear, swimming towards him in the icy water.
Paul lay down-on the ice to get a better photo, but the polar bear jumped out of the water and tried to attack him! Luckily for Paul, the ice cracked or broke and the bear fell back into the water The polar bear wasn’t so lucky. It couldn’t get a meal and had to swim farther away to find food.
To understand the polar bear’s problem, you need to know two things about the Arctic. First, the Arctic is mostly ocean. Second , ice cover a lot of the Arctic Ocean. In winter, the ice form a thick, white sheet, but in summer, the ice becomes thinner and break into pieces. Sea ice is the key to survival for Arctic animals. However, because of global warming, Arctic temperatures are rising and polar ice is melting.
Polar bears need ice to hunt seals, their favourite meal. They stand on the ice wait for the seal to come up for air. As Arctic ice melts, polar bears have to swim farther to find ice floes, or large pieces of floating ice. Sometimes, bears have to swim more than 200 km to find an ice floe. Some bears cannot swim that far and sadly they drown.
On his last trip, Paul Nicklen saw three dead bodies of polar bears. Before global warming threatened Arctic ice, a dead bear was a rare sight, Paul is sad to see the dead bodies, wildlife experts thinks global warming will have a terrible effect on polar bears. In the future, polar ice will continue to shrink and endanger the bear. Some scientists believe 65 percent of the world’s polar bears will disappear by 2050. in other word, polar bears are in great danger.
1. The main idea of the passage is that_________.
A. polar bears are amazing swimmers
B. Arctic temperatures are rising
C. global warming is endangering polar bears
2.The polar bear that tried to attack Paul was unlucky because
A. Paul swam away
B. it was on an ice floe
C. it couldn't eat Paul
3.According to the passage, polar bears hunt seals by______ .
A. waiting on the ice
B. waiting in the water
C. drowning the seals
4. From the passage, Paul Nicklen is maybe a_________.
A. scientist
B. photographer
C. Psychologist
5. We can infer that polar bears____________.
A. won't have any food in 2050
B. will all die before 2050
C. cannot find food easily
Imagine that your hairstyle is important for your future. For teenage boys in Papua New Guinea this is true! The Hulie people believe that beautiful hair shows a man is healthy and strong.. They respect men who wear wigs, so teenage Hulie boys have to grow great hair. With this hair, they make a wig that they can wear every day.
The Hulie live deep in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea. Before the 1930s, people from the outside world didn't even know about them. Today, there are about 70000 Hulie people, Most still follow their traditional way of life. The Hulie live in small villages, but families. do not live together. Women and small children live in one house and. men live together in another house. When boys are eight years old, they have to leave their mothers to live with their fathers.
Some Hulie children go to school to study reading and math. But after middle school. While teenage girls babysit their younger brothers and sisters, most teenage boys，to wig school. At wig school, they learn how to grow their hair and how to make wigs. The rules are pretty serious
1 .They cannot run, because their hair can be damaged.
2. They have to stay away from fire.
3. They have to put water on their hair 12 times a day to make it Grow faster.
When a Hulie teen wears his wig for the first time, he shows he is a man now, he can get married. To prepare, boys grow their hair for 18 months or longer. Then they cut it and use their own hair to make a mushroom-shaped wig. Later they grow their hair again for special wigs. These special wigs are for celebrations and festivals. Hulie men wear their mushroom-shaped wigs every day, but they like to be fashionable, too. To add style, they decorate their wigs with flowers and feathers.
1.The article is mainly about________
A. teenage Hulie girls
B. teenage Hulie boys
C. Hulie men and women
2. People didn't know the Hulie people until the 1930s because______
A.they lived in small villages
B. there are only 2700Huli people
C. they were hidden in the rain forest
3. The underlined phrase "people from the outside world" means______
A. people who don't live in the rain forest
B. people who follow their old traditions
C. people who do things outside of the forest
4.According to the article we can refer that Huli_________
A. teenage boys live with the mothers
B. teenage girls live with their fathers
C. husbands and wives do not live together
5.Hulie boys do not decorate their wigs with_______
A. flowers B. mushrooms C. feathers
In November 1979，pupils in England were able to watch a new TV program called Monkey. Most of them were this story for the first time. However, this story is not to Chinese children. The Monkey King or Sun Wukong is the main character in the traditional Chinese book Journey to the West.
The Monkey King is not just any normal monkey. In fact, he sometimes does not even look like a ! This is because he can make seventy-two to his shape and size, turning himself into different animals and objects. But he can hide his tail, he cannot turn himself into a person. To fight bad people, the Monkey King uses a magic stick. Sometimes he can make so small that he can keep it in his ear. At other times, he is able to make it big and long.
The Monkey King has the children of China for many years. And as soon as the TV program came out more than thirty years ago, Western children became in reading this story because the clever Monkey King keeps fighting to help the weak and never gives up.
1.A. writing B hearing C. telling
2.A. famous B popular C. new
3.A. monkey B man C. horse
4.A. friends B monkeys C. changes
5.A. unless B because C. however
6.A. himself B the stick C. the teacher
7.A. trained B excited C. taught
8.A. worried B relaxed C. interested
It must have been about two in the morning when I returned home. I tried to my wife by ringing the door-bell, but she was very deeply asleep. So I got a ladder from the shed in the garden, put it against the wall, and began climbing towards the bedroom .I was almost there when a sarcastic voice below said, "I don't think the windows need cleaning at this time of the night.” I and nearly fell off the ladder when I saw a policeman. "I enjoy at night,”I said, but I immediately felt sorry about in the way I did.
"So do I,” answered the policeman in the same tone. "Excuse my interrupting you. I hate to interrupt a man when he's busy working, but would you coming with me to the station?"
"Well, I'd prefer to stay here,”I said. "You see, I've forgotten_______.”
"Your what? ” he called.
"My key,” I shouted.
Fortunately, the shouting woke up my wife. She opened the window just as the policeman
had started to climb towards me.
1.A. wake up B. hurry up C. give up
2.A. door B. wall C. window
3.A. climbed up B. looked down C. ran away
4.A. climbing ladders B. cleaning windows C. opening doors
5.A. doing B. climbing C. answering
6.A. enjoy B. like C. mind
7.A. my key B. the ladder C. the door-bell
补全对话。从所给的选项中选择五个选项填空，使对话完整，并将答题卡上对应选项涂黑。
A: How was your day off, Lucy? Did you have a good time?
B : Oh，no! 1.
A: Really? What happened?
B: Well，we went camping and the weather was terrible.
2.
A: Oh，that s too bad.
B: Ugh! Because the weather was so bad, we went
for a drive. 3. It was really boring.
A: Sounds terrible, Larry.
B: How about your day off, Tony?
A: It was terrible ! I studied very hard for my math
test last week. 4. When I woke up, it was already 12 o'clock. I got up and went to my friend Dave's house, but he wasn't there. 5.
B: So what did you do then?
A: I helped my mom and dad clean the yard.
B: Sounds like a busy day off
