Passage 3

① Rebecca is a wildlife camerawoman from the United Kingdom. She was filming a documentary(紀錄片)for the BBC in the Pacific Ocean (太平洋) when she saw something that made her cry: hundreds of dead birds. They died because they accidentally (偶然地) ate some of the plastic that is thrown into the sea each year. The beaches on the Pacific islands should have been some of the most beautiful places in the world. But they were covered with plastic toys, bottles, pens, cigarette lighters(打火機)—every plastic thing you can think of.

②Rebecca decided she had to do something In her hometown of Modbury in southwest England, she asked local shopkeepers if they could do something to help. She asked them to stop using plastic bags in their shops.

③Plastic bags are used everywhere in Britain. The numbers are amazing. Britain uses nearly 17 billion plastic bags each year. And the bags can take hundreds of years to break down(分解) because they are made of chemicals (化學(xué)物質(zhì)). Each year, the sea and the environment become more and more polluted.

④To Rebecca's surprise, the shopkeepers agreed and Modbury became the first plastic bag-free town in Britain. Instead, shops offer reusable cotton bags or biodegradable(可生物降解的)bags. Other towns followed Modbury's example and more towns around Britain and around the world are becoming plastic bag-free.

⑤Now the bag for life is part of the national culture, and the task of reducing the use of plastic bags has become law(法律): since October 2015, all shops in the UK must charge(承擔) five pence for each plastic bag used by each shopper, no matter how generous(大量的)their spending is! It's not enough, but it's a start.

1.While filming in the Pacific Ocean, Rebecca________.

A.enioyed the beautiful beaches B.saw hundreds of dead birds

C.watched wildlife through her camera D.collected lots of plastic waste

2.What Rebecca did in her hometown was the basic step to________.

A.reduce the usage of plastic B.offer help to shopkeepers

C.make full use of the plastic bags D.raise money for her filming

3.In Paragraph ③, the writer mainly wants to tell us________.

A.what the plastic is made of B.how serious the plastic pollution is

C.how badly the sea is polluted D.where the plastic bags are often used

4.What's the result of Rebecca's efforts in Britain?

A.Shoppers mustn't use plastic bags any more

B.All the towns have become plastic bag-free

C.The task of protecting wildlife has become law

D.The government has begun caring about the plastic use

5.What's the main idea of the passage?

A.The reason for the death of birds B.The pollution of plastic bags

C.Rebecca's ways to stop plastic waste D.Rebecca's documentary of wildlife.

Passage 4

“Life is speeding up(加速). Everyone is getting unwell. ”

This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown person who lived in ancient Rome wrote it.

We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can change our lives. 1.

For example, you're rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings. 2.Suddenly the computer goes bad and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How calm and happy do you feel?

Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling worried and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier?3.

One family in the UK went"back in time" to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10 and Thomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave(微波爐),computer or mobile phones.

The grandmother Lyn said, “4.” The boys said they fought less. Probably, they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their computer. Also Lyn changed from being a fashionable (時尚的), beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things.

A. Perhaps it's because they live simpler lives.

B. Living in a different time will be lots of fun for us.

C. A QQ message from your friend appears on the screen.

D. But have all these developments really improved our lives?

E. The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes.

F. We have achieved so much with the developments of technology.

根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容,從所給的七個選項中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項,使對話內(nèi)容完整。有兩項為多余選項。

A. Don’t worry.

B. Will you join us?

C. When shall we meet?

D. But his brother will join us.

E. Let's ask John to go with us.

F. How about at the school gate?

G. You'd better take some food with you.

A: Hi, Helen. Some of classmates are going to the park tomorrow. 1.

B: Yes, I’d love to. 2.

A: At 8: 30 in the morning.

B: And where?

A: 3.We'll take the bus to the park.

B: Good! Will John go with us?

A: No. he won't. 4.

B: I see. I hope it won’t rain tomorrow.

A:5.The weather report says it’ll be fine.

B: That's great See you tomorrow.

A: See you

閱讀下面短文,在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當?shù)脑~,使其內(nèi)容通順。每空格限填一詞。

Have you ever eaten at a restaurant that serves Western food? If so, do you remember what the menu looked like? Western restaurant menus are quite different from Chinese restaurant menus. But1. are they different?

Most Western restaurant menus do not have as many2.as Chinese ones do. In some expensive Western restaurants, the menus might not have any pictures at all.

But most Western menus show a list of ingredients (原料)for each dish. If you order a hamburger, the menu might tell you that the hamburger has cheese, mustard (芥末) and so on. The menu can also tell you how the food is 3.—for example, whether it is fried(油炸的) or steamed(蒸).

Western restaurants use many different methods to design their menus and make them attract more people. In fact, there is a whole industry called menu engineering, according to the BBC. Menu engineers are experts (專家) at designing menus. Their menus can increase sales and4. customers’ thoughts (想法).

A well-designed menu can encourage customers to eat certain dishes. It can5.make them believe that your restaurant's food is of higher quality (質(zhì)量), even if they haven't eaten the food yet.

For example, using descriptive (描述性的) words like "juicy"" cheesy" can help dishes sell better. Instead of just writing “steak(牛排)” in their menu, a restaurant might write “sizzling(滋滋作響的) steak”. This makes the steak seem more6..

As you can see, menus are not just simple lists of food.

Passage 5

Flynn Garry, a l5- year-old boy, is known as “the country's hottest chef(廚師)”

Garry started cooking four years ago. Before he tried cooking at home, he read some cookbooks and surfed the Internet. He thought he could do it. Garry said, "Every time I try it, I hope to get better and better, I just love cooking.”

Garry said he could cook, also partly thanks to his mum. His mum didn't really like cooking, and when she did cook, he didn’t like her food, so he decided to try something simple.

Within a year, he has produced most of the dishes in the cookbook and was ready for a bigger plan. “I wanted to create my own dishes and I started cooking for more people than just my family too. The young man had a strong passion(熱情) for cooking. He even turned his bedroom into a test kitchen. Every day he practised his cooking skills there after school. Soon he could really create more complicated(復(fù)雜的) dishes of his own. At that moment, the real" I want to be a chef" dream came into his mind.

Now Garry and his mother set up Eureka, a super club business that organizes monthly events inside his home. Garry, who has also cooked in top-class restaurants around the US, says he's not doing it for the money, but because he loves cooking. "At the point in your life where you stop caring if you're going to be famous or do well, your dream will come to you. I did something with my heart and people can see it. I hope to keep getting better and better. ”

1.How old was Garry when he began cooking?

____________________________________________________________________________________

2.What made Garry begin cooking?

____________________________________________________________________________________

3.What did Garry do for his “bigger plan”?

____________________________________________________________________________________

4.When did Garry really want to be a chef?

____________________________________________________________________________________

5.How did Garry's dream come to him?

____________________________________________________________________________________

6.What can we learn from Garry?

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句子翻譯。將下列句子補充完整。

1.暑假就要到了！你有什么計劃?

The summer holiday is coming!_______________________________________________________________

2.貝蒂(Betty)每天騎自行車上學(xué)。

___________________________________________________________________________________________

3.會議將于晚上七點舉行，大家都別遲到。

____________________________________________________________________and everyone won't be late.

4.我聽說你考慮過我們的建議。咱們談?wù)劙桑?/p>

___________________________________________________________________________Let's have a talk!

5.我弟弟太粗心了，以至于忘記了重要的事情。

____________________________________________________________________________________________

書面表達

在學(xué)習(xí)和生活中，我們會有許多的第一次。第一次獨自旅行，第一次克服困難，第一次贏得比賽……每個第一次都會帶給我們不同的收獲和感受。我校英文網(wǎng)站正在開展以“My first time to________”為主題的征文活動。請用英語寫一篇短文投稿,談?wù)勛屇阌洃洩q新的第一次。

內(nèi)容提示：(1) What happened?

(2)How did you feel?

要求：(1)中心突出，語義連貫，層次清晰，書寫規(guī)范；

(2)文中不得出現(xiàn)真實的姓名和校名；

(3)詞數(shù)80左右。

My first time to _____________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

—A:______?

—B:Yes. W-A-T-C-H.

A.How do you spell it B.Is this a watch  C.Can you spell it

We have some sweaters ______ sale. You can call us ______ 8888888.

A.in, at B.for, on C.on, at

He doesn’t have a ______, but he plays ______ well.

A.soccer ball, soccer ball B.soccer, soccer ball C.soccer ball, soccer