【1】.Tony loves singing with friends on weekends because he is very busy on weekdays. But with the help of this app, he can do that even during the work break.

【2】.Though Mrs. Green is quite old, she keeps walking for at least one hour every day. She likes this app because it can tell her how many steps she walks anytime.

【3】.John is a hard-working student. He is good at listening and speaking, but he doesn’t do well in written tests, including reading and writing.

【4】.Jenny is very talented in art. She likes drawing very much. Recently she tries drawing on her iPad when she is free.

【5】.Miss Zhang works as a secretary in a big company. So this app is very helpful for her work such as taking notes during the meetings and sorting out different kinds of files in order.

A.Paper by 53 is an app. It is the easiest and most beautiful way to create pictures on your iPad. You can create anything from sketches and other drawings. There is a fresh canvas ready and waiting for your ideas, inspiration and art.

B.Maps of the world is a free app. It is perfect for those who are interested in history and geography. It offers many historical maps, such as old maps of the world and Europe. It allows users to see what has happened in history.

C.Do you like singing karaoke? Now you can do it at home! With the K, you can be a super star anytime, anywhere. When you are singing, it records your voice. You can sing songs together with your friends. Or you can compete with them.

D.In the world of note taking, Evernote is the king. It allows you to create electronic files with text, photos, audio and videos. You can put the files in order, tag them and search them easily.

E.Fun dubbing( 配 音 ) is an English learning app. It includes many short videos. You can dub the videos to learn English. It increases the joy in learning a language. At the same time, you can improve your listening and your spoken English.

F.MindSnacks is a free app. It is a great English helper. Experts from top universities in America designed the English lessons for users. It has a number of games to build vocabulary, and to improve reading, writing, listening and conversational skills.

G.How many steps did you walk today? Walkup does not just mark down the number of steps you walk. Marking your travel route and every step you walk will give you the power to move ahead.

Go and _________________the horseshoe and put it in your bag, my son. ” But Thomas said, “If I do so, it will waste my time.” His father said nothing but picked_________________ up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and _________________some strawberries with the money.

The father and the son went on walking. The sun was high up in the________________. They soon drank up all their water and there was not a house or even a tree for them to have a rest. Thomas felt______________ thirsty to walk on. At that time, his father gave him a strawberry and he________________ate it. After a while, his father gave him another strawberry and once again, his son got it quickly and put it in his mouth.

And so they ________________walking. The old farmer gave strawberries and the son ate them. When Thomas had eaten up all the strawberries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you picked up that_________________, you would have your own strawberries to eat. Always remember the ________________ : if you don’t worry about the little things, you will find it difficult to do the ________________things. ”

【1】A.give upB.put upC.pick upD.take up

【2】A.himB.itC.themD.her

【3】A.threwB.boughtC.soldD.found

【4】A.skyB.treeC.headD.ground

【5】A.ratherB.veryC.quiteD.too

【6】A.hardlyB.almostC.politelyD.quickly

【7】A.put onB.turned onC.went onD.worked on

【8】A.strawberriesB.waterC.horseshoeD.money

【9】A.timeB.effortC.subjectD.lesson

【10】A.greatB.simpleC.richD.tiny

I finally managed________________one and put it in a cage. At first, the bird was very frightened, so it fluttered( 撲騰) in _______________new home all the time. Several days________________, it was used to living in this new home.

The next day, the little bird’s mother flew to the cage with some food in her mouth. The baby bird looked very happy and ate everything________________the mother brought to it. I was so happy to see this, for the mother knew how to take care of her baby_______________than me.

But________________the next morning, I found it died. I was terribly surprised and cried at once. I didn’t know what happened.

Arthur Wayne, my father’s friend, was a famous ornithologist(鳥類學(xué)家). She visited my father at that time._________she knew the whole thing, she explained to me,”If a mother mockingbird finds her baby is kept in a cage, she will bring it poisonous berries (毒梅). She thinks it’s better for her baby to die than to lose freedom.”

Since then I________________any living animal in a cage. All living things have a right to live free.

【1】A.aB.anC.theD./

【2】A.couldB.needC.mustD.should

【3】A.getB.gettingC.to getD.gets

【4】A.it’sB.itsC.itD.its’

【5】A.lateB.latestC.latelyD.later

【6】A.thatB.whichC.whoD.whom

【7】A.goodB.wellC.betterD.best

【8】A.inB.forC.atD.on

【9】A.IfB.WhenC.BecauseD.Although

【10】A.haven’t caughtB.won’t catchC.don’t catchD.didn’t catch

We’ve heard about several "poor students" in the past year. Cui Qingtao, a student from Yunnan, working with his parents on a building site when he【1】an admission(錄取通知書) from Peking University. A girl【2】Wang Xinyi is another example. She is a student from Hebei. She was doing her part-time job in【3】different city when her family got her admission letter from Peking University.

Born in poor families, these students have a lot in common. For example, they are all strong and optimistic(（樂觀的）. Li Enhui said in an interview, "As long as we are alive, there are no problems that cannot be solved, and many people don't have my 【4】.And these experiences【5】 me grow and become better”. He refused to accept donation money and decided to make money by【6】.

This is also the common thing that "poor students" have.

Whatever kind of values you hold, such personalities( 品格) are 【7】 for growth. Life is full【8】ups and downs. Not everything goes well all the time.

Only being【9】 and optimistic, can one go through difficulties. We like such poor students because they are strong and optimistic.

For them, few can choose their lifestyle.【10】, all of them can choose their attitudes towards life. That’s why they are highly praised. Every one of us should learn from them.

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Dear Nick,

How's everything going?

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I expect to hear from you soon.

Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Hua

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According to BBC News, there are more than 22, 000 pieces of space junk floating around the earth. And these are just the things that we can see from the surface of the earth by telescopes (望遠(yuǎn)鏡). There are also millions of smaller pieces of junk that we can't see.

Objects, like bits of old space rockets or satellites, move around the planet at very high speeds, so fast that even a very small piece can break important satellites or become dangerous to astronauts. If the tiniest piece of junk crashed into a spaceship, it could damage the vehicle (交通工具).

To make things worse, when two objects in space crash, they break into many smaller pieces. For example, when a U. S. satellite hit an old Russian rocket in 2009, it broke into more than 2,000 pieces, increasing the amount of space junk.

To reduce additional space junk, countries have agreed that all new space tools can only stay in space for 25 years at most. Each tool must be built to fall safely into the earth's atmosphere after that time. In the upper parts of the atmosphere, it will burn up.

Many scientists are also suggesting different ways to clean up space junk. In England scientists are testing a metal net that can be fired into space junk. The net catches the junk and then pulls it into the earth's atmosphere to burn up. The Germans are building robots that can collect pieces of space junk and bring them back to Earth to be safely destroyed.

"The problem is becoming more challenging because we're sending more objects into space to help people use their mobile phones and computers," says Marco Castronuovo, an Italian space researcher.

"The time to act is now. The longer we leave the problem, the bigger it will become," he says.

【1】Junk has become a problem in ________ too.

【2】What would happen if the tiniest piece of junk crashed into a spaceship?

___________________________________________________

【3】Why have countries agreed that all new space tools can only stay in space for 25 years at most?

___________________________________________________

【4】找出并寫下第六段的主題句

___________________________________________________

【5】將文中畫線句子譯成漢語(yǔ)。

___________________________________________________

Objects under water will appear larger than they would on the surface, too. Be careful not to tell any stories about the big fish that got away. That fish might not be so big after all! It's just because sometimes things can seem to be as much as about 33 percent bigger in water!

What's more, in deeper water, colors just don't seem as bright. In fact, it looks as if some colors are missing. Remember the color of an object results from the wavelengths (波長(zhǎng)) of light that are reflected (反射) from its surface. And light is taken in as it moves down through the water.

Swimmers wear wet suits to keep warm underwater. Let's take a bright red, yellow, and blue wet suit as an example. These colors are hard to miss on the surface of water. Watch carefully the changes in color as you descend in the water. The red part now looks almost black because the red light wavelengths, the longest among these three colors, are missing. As you go down deeper, the same thing will happen to the yellow part and in the end to the blue part. Even at a place of about 6 to 9 meters underwater, you will look terrible, like a ghost! And you have to wait for your return to the surface to enjoy the bright colors again!

【1】You miss the object underwater when you want to touch it because________.

A.your eyesight is quite poor

B.you are not quick enough

C.it is not as close as it seems

D.it disappears very quickly

【2】The example of the wet suit is used to explain the change of________of an object underwater.

A.the colorB.the sizeC.the positionD.the weight

【3】The underlined word "descend" probably means________ in this passage.

A.go outB.go upC.go inD.go down

【4】Which of the following is true?

A.The wavelengths of red light are longer than those of blue light.

B.A four-meter-long fish looks three meters long underwater.

C.Much water will be taken in by the swimmer deep in the water.

D.You will see a ghost if you go as deep as 6 to 9 meters into the sea.

【5】The best title of this passage is________.

A.The Standard of Color UnderwaterB.The Direction of Light Underwater

C.The Brightness of Color UnderwaterD.The Behavior of Light Underwater

【1】John thinks that AI will be________.

A.excitingB.surprisingC.helpfulD.dangerous

【2】Who thinks AI will help us solve many problems?

A.John.B.Bill.C.Tina.D.Mary.

【3】Bill thinks humans may be replaced because________.

A.we can't improve our memoryB.AI robots will do human jobs

C.we can put a CPU in our brainsD.AI can help to improve our math

We first discovered the crows on Friday morning. It was early, and the sound the birds made traveled through our neighborhood. I thought they'd go away soon. But, no. They were getting louder and probably made my neighbors angry nearly as much as us with the noise. I felt a little disappointed.

Then, on Sunday afternoon, I looked out of the kitchen window to see our dog Quatchi watching something on the ground. I found a small coal-black bird in the grass. Its eyes were milky, and it stayed perfectly still as my dog inched towards it. Only when Quatchi touched his nose to its head did it walk away. I grabbed the dog and locked him inside and came back with my camera.

I never thought that the young would be hanging out on the ground, growing and gaining strength as its parents guarded it from above. The second I saw this little bird I forgave (原諒) the crows.

To be honest, I've never been much of a bird person. I also have a healthy respect for birds.

They're basically living dinosaurs (恐龍).

I wish they'd chosen another garden. There are only so many sunny days in Seattle, and I still can't do any gardening out there. But I'm also thankful that I got to see this little bit of nature. It's pretty amazing.

The experience has also strengthened my wish to create a beautiful garden that attracts lots of bees, butterflies, and yes, birds. They are welcome here.

【1】The arrival of the two crows________.

A.angered the writer's neighborsB.made the writer's dog mad

C.was harmful to the writer's gardenD.broke the order of the writer's life

【2】Why did the writer lock her dog up?

A.She wanted to take some photos.B.The parent crows were to attack the dog.

C.She wanted to protect the little bird.D.The dog kept making loud noises.

【3】The writer changed her thoughts to the crows when________.

A.she planted flowers in her gardenB.she locked her dog inside

C.she saw the little bird in her gardenD.she thought of living dinosaurs

【4】The passage is mainly to________.

A.share a personal experienceB.advise readers to protect birds

C.show an unpleasant situationD.ask advice on dealing with crows