Are you good with money？I learnt to be careful with it during my childhood. My father would give me some pocket money and tell me it should last for a whole week. So，I learnt I had to save some if I didn’t want to run out of cash quickly. No surprise there：my dad was an accountant！
It's never too early to become money savvy（会理财）．That's what British personal finances expert Martin Lewis thinks. He was part of a successful campaign to include financial education on the school curriculum in England. It will be embedded(植入）in maths and citizenship education. This includes children from 5 to 16 years old.
Lewis says：“We desperately need to break the cycle of financial illiteracy(无知）in the UK—one of the causes of our current economic crisis and a huge contributor to continued mis-selling epidemics（违规销售）．”
Being careful with money pays off. Banks in Britain recently found themselves having to pay a large number of people who were persuaded to spend money and buy insurance policies they didn’t need. Many wasted their money on investments which were not for them. Few have the patience to read the small print.
The British say‘take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves’．It means you have to watch your daily expenses and not just the big purchases in your life such as houses.
Martin Lewis has made millions from his website which advises people to be thrifty(节俭）and refuses any suggestion that he is mean. The expert says in an interview with the English newspaper the Daily Express：“the better you are with your cash，the better your life can be. People think I am telling them to stop spending money but I am simply telling them to spend it wisely.”
1.From Paragraph 1 we can know that the author ___________.
A. was in deep debt
B. was good with money as a child
C. ran out of cash quickly
D. earned a lot of money
2.The financial education in England aims to ________.
A. educate children to become money savvy
B. avoid continued mis-selling epidemics
C. help children make money
D. deal with the current economic crisis
3.What’s the financial problem of some people in Britain？
A. They have no patience to spend money.
B. They watch their daily expenses.
C. They invest money blindly and unwisely.
D. They neglect big purchases.
Many kids don't drink enough water daily, according to a new study. The study's lead author, Erica Kenney, at first planned to look into the amount of sugary drinks kids were drinking in schools. However, during her research she found that many kids were simply not drinking enough water.
Kenney and her team examined data from a group of 4,000 children, aged 6 to19, between the years of 2009 and 2012. The data was taken from the National Health and Nutrition Survey, a study on the health of children in the United States conducted each year by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention..
While looking through the survey results, she noticed that more than half of the kids who took part in the study were dehydrated (脱水的). Of' that group, boys were 76% more likely than girls not to have enough water in their system. Nearly one quarter of the kids in the survey reported drinking no plain water at all.
“These findings highlight(突出) a possible health issue that wasn't given a lot of attention in the past," Kenney said in a statement. “Even though for most of these kids this is not an immediate and great health threat, this is an issue that could really be reducing quality of life and well-being for many children and youth."
The United States-National Agriculture Library says average kids need between 10 to 14 cups of water every day. This water can come from a mix of drinks and foods that contain high amounts of water, such as celery, melons or tomatoes. It is also recommended that fluids（液体）come from water instead of sugary drinks that are high in calories and can lead to weight problems.
1.What was Erica Kenney's purpose in doing the study?
A. To study if kids drink enough water daily :
B. To prove that sugary drinks are harmful to kids
C. To show what kind of sugary drinks kids love.
D. To find out how many sugary drinks kids drink at school.
2.According to the findings of Erica Kenney's study, we know that ________.
A. school kids cannot find drinkable water easily
B. boys are more likely to get dehydrated than girls
C. sugary drinks are very popular with school kids
D. most kids know the importance of drinking plain water .
3. From the last paragraph we learn that kids________.
A. should drink plain water to lose weight
B. can try to take in water from sugary drinks .
C. can eat celery, melons and tomatoes for water .
D. should drink no more than 10 cups of water every day
4.The text mainly tells us that many kids_____________
A. don ' t like drinking water
B. prefer sugary drinks to water
C. are at risk of health problems
D. don ' t drink enough water daily
Parents are children’s first teachers．But some parents never learned from good examples．In New York City, a nonprofit(不赚钱的) agency called Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents．
The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week．The class is called Mommy and Me．Teacher Delores Clemens is a mother of five children and a grandmother．She teaches basic skills, like how to give a baby a bath and how to dress a baby depending on the season．
She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby．The mother said that would only make the child needy and overly demanding．Delores Clemens says, “that's not true．You have to hold your baby! He is crying for a reason．If you never pick him up, he's going to keep crying．Pick your baby up．Cuddle your baby．Hug him! And she started to do that．They just want a little cuddling and a little love．And it works!”
Delores Clemens says her students also learn how to be good mothers by letting themselves be mothered．Around three hundred fifty teenage mothers graduate from Covenant House's Mommy and Me class every year．
In class, with her baby son is Natasha．She lived on the streets．She is glad not only for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House．As she told reporter Adam Phillips, she is also glad for the help they offer in seeking a more secure life．
The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen．That is higher than other developed countries, as well as some developing ones．By comparison, northern neighbor Canada has fourteen births and southern neighbor Mexico has eighty-two．
1.What is the text mainly about?
A. Parents who are a child’s first teachers．
B. A class where teens learn mothering and are mothered．
C. A nonprofit agency that offers a more secure life．
D. A kind teacher who help homeless young mothers．
2. Covenant Houses’ Mommy and Me class is intended to _____．
A. help homeless young mothers become good parents
B. provide homeless young mothers with a warm shelter
C. help mothers in New York be good parents
D. teach some parents how to love their children
3.What can we know about Delores Clemens from the text?
A. She has a mother of five and a grandmother．
B. She thinks a crying baby should be picked up and hugged．
C. She teaches advanced skills on how to be good mothers．
D. She is very glad for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House．
4.According to the World Health Organization, which country has the highest births for girls age fifteen to nineteen?
A. Canada B. the United States of America
C. Mexico D. Britain
One day I was walking home along the street with my iPad on，when suddenly my headphones(耳机）were knocked off my head and a man threw his arm around my neck，saying“Just be quiet．” I was being attacked，and this man's arm was gripping（紧夹）onto me！I started screaming and tried to pull him off me, but failed. He was forcing me to walk towards the back of an auto repair shop and he just kept saying“Be quiet.”
My mind froze with fear. Then I heard my great-grandmother’s voice in my head. She was saying“Come on now. I know you are stronger than that！” She was the rock in our family until she died four years ago.
I have never had any self-defense(自卫）training, but I went for it--I let out a loud scream as I kicked my leg back into his shin(胫骨）！He let go of me(放开我) and I ran off. When I looked back to see if he was running after me，I saw he was running in the opposite direction. Then I ran like crazy to a nearby store.
I asked the girl at the counter for the phone and called my mom. She picked me up five minutes later and I explained what happened through sobs(抽泣)．“I am calling the police!” She exclaimed. When we got home，two officers were waiting for us and I told them what had happened.
After my experience，I was afraid to do anything. Things slowly got better，but I still don’t like anyone going near my neck.
The fear isn’t totally gone-after all; the guy is still out there somewhere. But I had a new understanding of my own strength. I never expected to be able to fight off an attacker. I am stronger than I realized.
1.How did the author get rid of the man？
A. She used all her strength to pull him off her.
B. Her loud scream scared the attacker and people came to help.
C. Her great-grandmother’s words gave her the strength to defend herself.
D. Her great-grandmother came and helped.
2.After the author escaped from the man，_________.
A. she screamed to get more attention
B. she looked back to remember his appearance
C. she called the police
D. she called her mother
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage？
A. The attack made the author more confident in a way.
B. The author suddenly remembered some self-defense movements.
C. The author was so frightened that she did nothing to fight back.
D. The accident left no influence on the author now.
4.What might be the author’s purpose of writing this passage？
A. To warn teenagers of possible dangers on the way to school.
B. To show how brave she was while she was being attacked at that time.
C. To share her experience and tell us that we are perhaps not as weak as we thought we were.
D. To show the importance of self-defense training.
书面表达
你的英语老师 (Miss Liu) 就“怎样使英语学习成为一件快乐的事? ”这个问题向全班同学征求建议。昨天, 全班同学就此进行了讨论。假设你是李华, 请你根据下表所提示的信息, 给英语老师写一封信, 报告你们的讨论情况并提出你的建议。
讨论情况 | 1. 课内互动 (师生或生生互动) 2. 课外活动 (演讲或晚会等) 3. 运用英语 (口头或书面交流) …… |
你的建议 | (请根据自己的经历与感想, 提出两至三点建议) |
注意:
1. 对所给要点逐一陈述, 适当发挥, 不要简单翻译;
2. 词数100个左右。开头和结尾已经写好, 不计入总词数。
参考词汇: 互动的interactive
Dear Miss Liu,
Yesterday the whole class had a discussion on how to make learning English relaxing and fun.
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Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误, 每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号 (∧) , 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除: 把多余的词用斜线 ( \ )画掉。
修改: 在错的词下画一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处, 多者 (从第11处起) 不计分。
I, together with my two friends, were eating dinner at a Chinese restaurant, located in the center of New York. I noticed the young woman eating with two kids. We stop by and I asked the kids if he believed in Santa. The elder boy, whom was about seven years old, pointed his younger sister and said, “She does, but I don’t. ”I told them Santa was real and as we were paying for our dinner, I paid for theirs, either. I didn’t know that whether the woman was alone, but I grow up with my mother supporting us four kids alone. I still feel good thinking I may have helped on some small ways.
