阅读理解。
Damini Bansal (14 years old)
Freedom is something different in everybody's way of thinking—a student would probably like to raise a revolt(造反) against all the obnoxious(易受伤害的) rules of his or her school and as a grown up one might want to have less responsibilities(责任).
Freedom according to me is the power in me to make some of my life's decisions on my own. And this Independence Day (独立日) will be a lot more different than our first one in 1947 when people actually came to know what it was like to be free, for them it was the dawn of a new day, it was a day when they could do what they felt was right.
We have come far from all of this. We now no longer see the Independence Day as a day of very great importance for the students of my class (and most of the children of my age), and the most important value is that it is a holiday.
Arihant Jain (12 years old)
We can do anything we want like not going to school.
Everything should be free. We should not pay money to buy anything.
Can go anywhere I want…to the playground when exams are on.
Chatting on phone as long as I want.
To eat dinner outside everyday.
In school being able to play sports and not study.
Flying Kites.
1.For a school student, freedom means .
A．bad etiquettes B．breaking the school rules
C．arguing with others D．refusing to do homework
2.As a student, Damini Bansal thinks .
A．the power that makes his own decisions
B．freedom should be free time that students like
C．freedom means to fight against too much homework
D．students should be against the unfair rules of their schools freedom
3.Damini Bansal and his classmates treat Independence Day as .
A．a normal holiday B．a day that they can enjoy freedom
C．a dawn of a new day D．a day of great importance for them
4.From what Arihant Jain says, we can infer that .
A．Arihant Jain wants to learn to cook at home
B．Arihant Jain is a girl who doesn't want to go to school
C．Arihant Jain doesn't want to go shopping at all
D．Arihant Jain wants to have a new phone very much
5.What's the best title for this passage?
A．Freedom Is Not Important to Me B．How Much Students Are Changing
C．What Freedom Means to Me D．My Own Decisions
阅读理解。
Honey bees are a kind of animal most of us learn about very early. In summer, many people step on honey bees and get stung(螫) while walking without wearing shoes.
Honey bees are normally about third fourths of an inch long. Most bees are workers, which are female, but some are male, called "drones(雄蜂)". Workers are a little smaller than drones.
Honey bees live in a nest, called a "hive". A hive can have up to 80,000 bees, mostly workers. It usually lies in a tree with a hole inside.
The hive is ruled(统治) over by a queen bee. She is the largest bee in the hive, and she is the only female to mate. Males usually just hang around; their only purpose is to mate with the queen. Then they die. The workers do all of the work inside and outside of the hive. Their jobs include: caring for baby bees, cleaning up the hive, making honey...
Honey bees are usually very friendly, and they mind their own business. They are too busy to worry about people or other animals. If a person is hardworking, we can say he is as busy as a bee. Are you a bee?
1.The writer wants to tell us in Paragraph 1.
A．many people like walking without wearing shoes
B．honey bees are dangerous animals
C．not to walk in the street without wearing shoes
D．honey bees may sting people in summer
2.What will happen if a male mates with the queen?
A．It will become a worker.
B．It will die soon.
C．It will hang around inside the hive.
D．It will have to leave the hive.
3.What kind of animal does the writer think of honey bees?
A．They are very busy and friendly to people.
B．They have short lives but work very hard.
C．They are sad to be ruled by a queen.
D．They are smart and helpful animals.
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．There is only a queen bee in a hive.
B．A queen bee is the largest bee in the hive.
C．Male bees work very hard for other bees.
D．Bees like to make nests in a tree with a hole inside.
补全短文。
Mr Smith is 84 years old now. He has seen many changes in his hometown.
He knows that things are ______ now. But he never ______ the old days. He likes to talk about them. He often talks about his favorite ______, the robins(知更鸟). "When I was a boy, there were not these houses here. There were wide fields and tall trees. Every ______ the robins would come. Thousands of them would ______ up to the north from the south. They ______ the winter in the ______. Some would build their nests(巢) in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees in order to ______ more houses and grow crops. The robins stopped coming. They couldn't build their nests near our houses ______ there were no trees."
"Now there are too many houses and too many roads. ______ there are no places for the robins. They won't come any more," Mr Smith says sadly.
完形填空。
A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apple trees he grew. One day, his friend gave him a young apple tree and asked him to _______ it home and plant it. The farmer was pleased with the gift, _______ when he got home he did not know where to plant it. He was afraid that if he planted the tree near the road, _______ would steal the fruit. If he planted the tree in one of his fields, his neighbors would come at night and steal some of the apples. If he planted the tree near his house, his children would take the fruit. _______ he planted the tree in his wood where no one could see it. But _______ enough sunlight and good soil, the tree soon died. Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a _______ place. "If I had planted the tree near the road, strangers would have stolen the fruit. If I had _______ the tree in one of my fields, my neighbors would have come at night and stolen some of the apples. If I had planted it near my house, my own children would have taken the fruit," the farmer said _______. "Yes," said the friend. "But _______ someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have robbed(剥夺) everyone of the fruit, but also you have _______ a good apple tree!"
1.A．sell B．take C．grow D．get
2.A．or B．and C．but D．so
3.A．strangers B．friends C．children D．neighbors
4.A．Certainly B．Luckily C．Recently D．Finally
5.A．without B．in C．with D．for
6.A．rich B．poor C．good D．beautiful
7.A．planted B．taken C．brought D．protected
8.A．badly B．angrily C．quickly D．happily
9.A．at last B．at least C．at once D．at times
10.A．destroyed B．saved C．polluted D．repaired
阅读与表达(问答式)。
Pranav Kalyan may seem like any other fourth grader at Willow Elementary School. He likes watching the TV show "Pokemon" and playing soccer with his friends.
But the Agoura Hills student also spends up to nine hours studying computer programming.
That drive helped the 9yearold to become the youngest Microsoft Certified(被证明的) Technology Specialist(专家).
"I read the books and I write the code on the computers and if I don't understand what they say in the books I search it up on Google." Pranav said.
The previous(以前的) record holder was a 12-year-old from Dubai.
"He looks like any other little kid, acts like any other little kid, but I bet if you asked him any calculus(运算) problem he would give you the answer quickly." said Pranav's fourth grade teacher Sharlene Church.
"Do you plan many activities for your son?" I asked Pranav Kalyan's father.
"We don't want to push him, actually we are getting more advice from the school teachers and the headmaster and everything; we want to make sure he doesn't lose his childhood, we want him to enjoy." his father Kalyan Mohan said.
When asked why he went through all the work to get certified, Pranav proves once again that he's wise beyond his years, "It's easier to get a job when I'm older."
1.What does Pranav Kalyan like doing?
2.What is Pranav Kalyan famous for?
3.Who helps Pranav Kalyan to understand the code on the computers?
4.What childhood does Pranav Kalyan's father hope his son to have?
5.Why does Pranav Kalyan think he is easy to get a job when he's older?
阅读理解。
Robots are supposed to run on batteries, right? Well not all of them.
Scientists in England have built a kind of small robots that get their energy from dead flies, bad apples, or sugar.
One robot, called Slugbot, was even designed to hunt(猎取) garden slugs for dinner!
What's up with all that food?
Well, scientists at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory want to invent robots that can operate for a long time in dark, dirty, or dangerous places.
Many of those spots, like the seafloor or Antarctica, don't have electrical sockets(插座).
So inventor Chris Melhuish came up with a better idea: Build robots that get their energy just like animals do by hunting and eating food from their environment.
One robot, called Ecobot Ⅱ, could run for 12 days on a diet of eight flies! Of course, it'd still get a lot more power from one AA battery, though.
Melhuish says his team is now working on a new and improved robot, called Ecobot III, which will have a better digestion system.
It seems that after an eight fly dinner, Ecobot II couldn't deal with the leftover(剩下的) "waste".
Maybe restrooms in the future will have signs for boys, girls, and robots.
1.An ordinary robot usually .
A．gets its energy from sugar
B．depends on batteries to work
C．can get food for itself
D．can work a few minutes without energy
2.From the passage, we can infer that a slug .
A．is a kind of insect B．is a kind of fish
C．can't see Slugbot D．can eat Slugbot
3.What kind of robots do inventor Chris Melhuish want?
A．Robots that can provide people with food.
B．Robots that can work in dangerous places.
C．Robots that can get energy for themselves.
D．Robots that can be very small.
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?
A．Robots need to work in places that have no sockets for power.
B．Melhuish is not very satisfied with Ecobot Ⅱ.
C．Maybe there will be three kinds of restrooms in the future.
D．Ecobot Ⅱ can turn its flies into energy completely.
5.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A．Robots are hard things to invent.
B．Scientists are working to improve robots.
C．Robots in the future need to eat food like human.
D．Scientists at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory are good at robots.
