Small cars are useful in cities with narrow __________.
A. streets B. cinemas C. squares D. shop
书面表达
本周一是端午节，你校外教Tony对中国文化很感兴趣，你陪他去槐荫公园观看了龙舟比赛。请根据以下提示写一篇日记。
写作要点：
1.现场情况。人多拥挤，16支龙舟队竞争激烈，人们欢呼，队员们闭队合作，最终“勇气队”获胜。
2.赛后活动：我给Tony介绍端午节，下午带他参加有关端午节的其它活动，如……
3.感想：Tony……，我……
写作要求：
1.短文内容必须包括所有要点、语句通顺，条理清晰；
2.省略号处须作适当发挥(1-2句即可)；
3.100词左右，短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。
June 18th
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival.
阅读短文，按要求完成所给任务。
“I first saw Beijing Opera in London in 1993, and it just shocked me. It was really amazing,” says Ghaffar Pounazar.
The 32-year-old British gave up his work in London and came to a Beijing Opera school. Since then, Ghaffar Pourazar has worked hard on this art.
On stage, the Beijing Opera actors not only act, they also sing and dance while performing some difficult movements(动作). ① When Pourazar first got to China. He couldn’t speak any Chinese, and he knew nothing about Beijing Opera. As the oldest student in the Beijing Opera school, he learned more slowly than his classmates, but he didn't give up. Now, he can perform Beijing Opera like a professional(专业人士).
But Beijing Opera is not as popular as it was before. The young Chinese now spend more time on the Internet. This makes Pourazar very sad. "I used to get really angry at what was happening to Beijing Opera and at the Chinese people. This is part of your culture. You created this amazing thing. but now you are forgetting it, throwing it away."
Pourazar has decided what to do. ② Now he is performing a Beijing Opera
that is about the Monkey King in two languages, Chinese and English. The Monkey King is a hero in a Chinese story. Chinese people love him very much. In the Beijing Opera, Pourazar acts the Monkey King.
1.任务一： 从下面四个选项中选出能填入文中①和②处的最佳选项。
A. Everything seemed difficult and far from what he had imagined.
B. He felt quite excited about Beijing Opera.
C. He wants to let more people know Beijing Opera.
D. He tries to make friends and get on well with his classmates.
2.任务二：Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese
3.任务三：Why did Pournzar give up his work and come to a Beijing Opera school
阅读短文，用方框中所给词填空，使短文通顺，连贯，方框中每词限用一次，有两个词多余。
entered; good; enough; looked; On; repair; success; cold
Once, two lazy birds lived in a nest together.1.a cold winter day, a strong wind was blowing. Suddenly, there appeared a hole in their nest, The cold wind blew in through the hole and got away the warm air from the nest. They started feeling2.. But each of them thought that the other bird would3.the hole. As a result, no one did it. Soon the snow started to fall and 4.the nest. The two lazy birds felt freezing. But no one was active5.to work. In the morning they were found dead in their nest.
Life is the same. Some people never get6.because their laziness blows out the chances. Being not lazy will enable you to live a happy and successful life. It's up to you.
On Monday, I stopped my car in front of my daughter Juliet's middle school. She jumped in
the front seat, feeling down. She asked me to help her study for her science test.
“Dad I need to memorize a unit about the Reproductive Cycle of Plants. And I can hardly make it.”
"You know memorizing seems like the best way to study, but in fact you can do better in tests if you work on trying to understand the material.”
Juliet was open to my advice. It was Monday afternoon and we had two nights to study before the test on Wednesday. I suggested a plan. "Tomorrow night, you are going to teach the material to me. Tonight, read the unit. Prepare to teach.”
Asking her to teach me was an unusual idea but I was determined to do it. Studies show teaching somebody else is a very useful way to lean, Even if you don't do the teaching. the act of preparing to teach leads to more learning than just trying your best to memorize the material.
On Tuesday afternoon, Juliet sat down with her Science book facing me said, “Okay Dad, let’s study.” I wanted her to teach me. But false starts happened. I couldn’t be too hard on her. So instead we starred with me asking her some simple questions. She knew some but not other. When she didn't know the answers. I encouraged her to check the book.
She started checking things that didn't make sense. And she was actively seeking to test her understanding. I was happy to see it. She wasn't memorizing, she was trying to make sense of things, which was exactly what I had hoped she would do.
1.Why did Juliet feel down?
A. Because she failed her science test.
B. Because she had trouble memorizing a unit.
C. Because she knew nothing about planting.
D. Because she couldn't follow her teacher.
2.In the writer’s opinion, which was the key to best learning?
A. Memorizing
B. Testing
C. Questioning.
D. Understanding
3.The underlined word "it" in paragraph 5 refers to “ “.
A. making her check the book
B. using simple questions to test her
C. encouraging her to read the unit
D. asking her to teach me the unit
4.When false starts happened, the writer was .
A. patient
B. worried
C. nervous
D. embarrassed
5.Which can be the best title for the passage?
A. A Creative Father
B. An Unexpected Test
C. Learning from Teaching
D. Preparing for Teaching
What can you make with pieces of paper? Look at Chen Yiyan's work! The 14-year-old boy in Hangzhou Foreign Language School has an amazing talent for paper-folding. He has folded a “fantasy world" with his hands.
Chen wasn't born with this talent. When he was a fourth-grader, he found his brother's paper-folding book. It got him interested in it. Following the 50 steps shown in the book, he made
his first work--a paper elephant within two hours. Since then, he has read many books about paper-folding and practised folding paper in his spare time. So far, his fantasy world has many members, such as monsters and robots. He made his favorite work last year. It was a paper dragon that had almost 2,000 steps.
Chen used to fold paper himself until he met Li Changnan, an eighth-grader in his school who also loved folding paper. They set up a paper-folding club last year. To their joy, their school sponsored it. With the encouragement and the money provided, they had a paper-folding class every Wednesday afternoon. The club soon attracted a lot of students. Now it has more than 20 members. They showed their works and taught other students how to fold paper. On February 14th this year, the club also held a speech for the kids in Wenzhou Children's Library.
It is really exciting to develop my hobby and share it with others at the same time, " said
Chen, "I hope more and more people get to know paper-folding and love the art
1.What made Chen Yiyan interested in paper-folding?
A. A paper-folding club
B. Meeting Li Changnan.
C. Wenzhou Children's Library
D. His brother's paper-folding book
2.Which work did Chen Yiyan like best?
A. A paper monster.
B. A paper elephant.
C. A paper dragon.
D. A paper robot.
3.What does the underlined word "sponsored” mean?
A. Supported.
B. Prevented.
C. Refused.
D. Introduced.
4.Which of the following activities did the chub hold?
①holding competitions
②showing their works
③giving a speech
④reading books in the library
⑤teaching how to fold paper
⑥having paper-folding classes
A. ①②⑤⑥
B. ①③④⑤
C. ②③⑤⑥
D. ②③④⑥
5.Why did Chen Yiyan put so much effort into paper-folding?
A. To develop paper-folding art.
B. To build his own fantasy world.
C. To admire more paper-folding lovers.
D. To make himself famous in the school.
