---Do you mind my sitting here? ---___________ .

A. No, of course not. B. Yes, please.

C. Yes, you can. D. No, why not?

A young shoemaker left his village. Along the way, he saw some ants who were very sad because a bear had destroyed their house. The shoemaker helped them rebuild it, and the ants offered to return the favor.

The shoemaker followed his way and found some bees with the same problem as the ants. The young man also helped them, and the bees promised to help him in the future.

Further along , the shoemaker learned that the king’s daughter was in the castle of a witch(女巫). The young man decided to save her, But the witch threw him a bag of sand mixed with small seeds and told him that if he wasn’t able to separate(分開) the two, she would cut off his head before the sun came out.

The young man thought about his death. But his friends the ants came and helped him pass the test. The witch was very surprised. Then she took him to a room where there were thirteen girls with their faces covered. The shoemaker had to discover which one was the princess.

The young man became discouraged but he saw a bee that landed on a girl’s body. She is the true princess. When the shoemaker uncovered her face, the witch was changed into a crow. The young people fell in love and lived with animals happily.

1.The ants were very sad because__________

A. they didn’t find food.

B. they had a fight with a bear.

C. they felt very thirsty.

D. they didn’t have a house to live in.

2.The witch asked the shoemaker to separate ______from the sand.

A. small seeds B. rice

C. little stones. D. grapes

3.If the shoemaker couldn’t separate the two before ______, the witch would kill him.

A. early morning B. noon

C. afternoon D. evening

4.What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “discouraged”?

A. 興奮的 B. 無聊的 C. 泄氣的 D. 傷心的

5.________helped the shoemaker find the true princess.

A. An ant B. A bee

C. A crow D. The witch

Do you enjoy visiting a museum? Did you ever make a plan before a visit? Every museum must have something that attracts you. And there are many possible ways to enjoy yourself in a museum.

If you follow these steps below, you'll know what is worth seeing and doing, so that you can make the most of your time at the museum.

Decide what museum you will visit. There are so many different kinds of museums and you first need to find one that you like. It's easy for you to choose one and start an enjoyable visit!

Do some research online. Every museum now has a website which allows you to look through the information about it. On the website, you may look for such things as:

•The exhibits(展品)–See what is on show at the museum at all times, and what special exhibitions are held for a short time.

•The history of the museum –There will often be very interesting stories about the exhibits and the benefactors(捐贈(zèng)者). That can make your visit more interesting.

•Activities –See whether there are talks, tours our special activities on the day when you visit. Many museums hold some activities that meet the interests of all age groups.

•Cost, food or shortage–It's important how much the visit will cost. You have to decide whether or not you can eat there. You might also need to find out transportation needs, as well as storage for coats, bags etc.

Learn at least one thing on your visit. It is always good to get something new from your visit.

Plan breaks into your visit. When you walk around, standing here and studying exhibits there, you may become very tired. So it is important to take breaks. A break is a good opportunity for you to think of what you have seen and what else you might want to do in museum.

Take a friend or two. Visiting museums is always a lot more fun when you are with someone else. You can talk over what you’re seeing. A friend also brings another way of thinking when you talk about the exhibit.

1.According to the passage, we should first ____.

A. do some research online

B. make a plan for lunch

C. decide on a museum to visit

D. choose a friend to go with

2.To make our visit more interesting, we can____.

A. organize activities like special shows and talks

B. read the stories about exhibits and benefactors

C. learn about the interests of all age groups

D. walk around the museum without breaks

3.According to the passage, when visitors decide to visit a museum, they don’t have to consider _______.

A. what exhibits are on show.

B. whether there are any activities

C. what the weather is like that day.

D. transportation needs and storage for coats, bags etc.

4.If we visit a museum with friends, we can____.

A. share the experience with them

B. come up with strange ideas

C. cut down the cost of the visit

D. discuss the next visit plan

5.What dose the massage mainly talk about？

A. What to do in a museum.

B. When to visit a museum.

C. Where to find a museum.

D. How to enjoy a museum.

What does success mean? Is it becoming famous, rich, coming up with an idea that changes people’s lives, or helping others and feeling happy?

People who have a billion dollars, for example, are they successful? Why don’t they stop trying to make money then? Why would they possibly need more than a billion dollars? They try to make more because there will never be enough . They will never be happy enough.

If all that you’re working for is money, you will do terrible things to get it. If all that you want is a successful business, you will cheat people to get it . If all that you want is fame(名聲)，you will give up your dignity to achieve it .

What’s the real success? For me, being rich or famous is not all to life. I might have a lot of readers now on Zen Habits, but I don’t feel that’s what makes me a success. I’ve been a success even when I had no readers, because I was doing what I loved. Even when no one else would have called me a successful man. I loved writing, and I was happy. Success isn’t about achieving something in the future, but about doing something right now that you love.

So, forget about success, and just find joy and love right now, in this moment. That is a success you can achieve, without any method. Just go out and do it.

1.Some people don’t stop making money because_____

A. they want to change their lives

B. making money can make them very happy

C. money will never be enough for them

D. they want to become the richest men in the world.

2.The underlined word “dignity” probably means________

A.尊嚴(yán) B.智慧 C. 成就 D. 和睦

3.The writer felt happy when he _______

A. had a lot of readers B. made lots of money

C. began to write D. gave up his job

4.Which of the following is RIGHT?

A. People who have a billion dollars must be very happy.

B. Readers can read the writer’s articles on Zen Habits.

C. Success is very important to the writer.

D. The writer thinks if people want to own success, they should try many ways.

5.This passage talks about ______

A. fame B. business C. happiness D. success

How can you buy a meal for lunch without any money in your pocket? Students in Class 9, Grade 8 at Mountain and Lake Middle School in Chengdu, Sichuan, have their ways. They give out flyers(傳單), draw portraits(人物素描) and work as waiters.

The class, working in eight groups, finished the activity, Experiencing Life for Seven Hours, on March 18. “I found students waste their food in the canteen,” the class teacher, Deng Guirong, told Teens. “So I held this activity to help them understand how hard it is to make money.”

Jiang Yao, 15, and his group members stood in the streets giving out flyers for about two hours and got the money for their lunch. Then they worked as waiters in a pizza restaurant—cleaning the floor and toilets and getting food for guests. “We were busy all along, so we were terribly exhausted after the day’s hard work,” said Jiang. “We each got a pizza as a prize, which tasted much better than one I ate with my parents before.”

When Xie Ni’s group didn’t make any money in three hours, the members became nervous about their lunch. The 14 years old girl came up with the idea of drawing portraits to sell, “I sold four portraits and one tourist even paid us 100 yuan for his portrait.” said Xie.

Xie realized that life is really hard. “We have to work hard to get the money to pay for even a simple meal.” Xie said, “We must value the happy life today.”

On top of making money, each group was asked to do at least five good deeds during the seven hours. Students helped the old cross the road, gave directions to tourists and turned in a lost bus card.

1.From the teacher’s words, we can see that the students ________

A. usually waste food on their daily life.

B. realize life is really not easy

C. Know it’s hard to make money

D. have their own ways to get food without money

2.The underlined word “exhausted” in Paragraph 3 means ________

A. happy B. crazy C. tired D. boring

3.In order to make money, the students have done all except_________.

A. help the old cross the road

B. give out flyers

C. draw portraits.

D. work as waiters

4.The purpose of this activity is to ________

A. let the students get food

B. help the students learn to value their today’s life

C. help people in need

D. give the students a chance to learn to work

5.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Life Is Really Hard

B. It’s Good To Be A Volunteer

C. How To Work For People

D. Experiencing Life For Seven Hours

短文還原

閱讀下面的短文，選擇框中的句子還原到文中的相應(yīng)序號(hào)處。

Everyone can make mistakes in the life. 1._____ If a student realizes it, it will help him make progress in his study.

Students may succeed or also fail during the study. Failure is also a part of our life and we have to learn how to deal with it.2.___, maybe because they are afraid of what others may think of them or because they were told they always had to be perfect(完美的).

What are parents supposed to do when their children make mistakes? 3.______ There is not a perfect person in the world. 4.______ Children don’t want perfect parents but they like honest ones. Honest parents can know how to explain what they don’t understand. In such ways parents can get their children to face failure peacefully.

And parents should make their children see the mistakes seriously and know why they are wrong.

Anyway, students must learn that making mistakes and having failure is normal to become a good person. 5._____

綜合填空

Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is a city of contrast(對(duì)比). The tall glass buildings look no different from those in any other modern 1.c______. But behind them is a place where life hasn’t 2.c_________ for over 100 years—the canals(運(yùn)河). These canals were3.b_______ in 1866 by the king of Thailand and they are home to many Thai people who still live and work there today. There are four floating(漂浮的) 4.m_______ around Bangkok, which are all on 5.b______. The oldest and most popular one is in the town of Damonen Saduak. This market opens every day from 6:30 am. It’s best to shop early and go 6.b_____ water taxi. After 9 am, the tourist buses arrive and it’s much too busy.

It’s a colourful, noisy, fascinating 7.p_______. Old ladies with huge hats sit in small boats, filled with fruits and vegetables, fresh coconut(椰子) juice and local food. Did you miss your breakfast? Then just call a seller for a bowl of8.h______ soup. He’ll get it from a cooker at the back of his boat!

But the boats don’t 9.j______ sell food. Would you like a traditional hat? A silk dress? A flowered shirt? Then just call and point.

10.A_______ the noise and excitement of the market, continue along the canal, soon you’ll see the wooden houses, orchards(果園), and floating flowers of the canal villages. It’s a lovely and peaceful way to finish your trip.

閱讀表達(dá)

It’s known that the marmots(土撥鼠) are very shy around humans, beating their tails and making loud noise with their teeth to tell other members of their colony to run away.

But when these marmots see Matteo Walch, they run to his side and show him nothing but affection(喜愛).

The eight-year-old Matteo Walch built up a great relationship with the creatures since first being taken to see them by his nature-loving family four years ago.

The family return to visit these marmots in Groslocker in the Austrian Alps(阿爾卑斯山) for two weeks every year.

Matteo loves those animals and they are not at all afraid of Matteo because he has a feeling towards them and they understand that.

Marmots stand at around 18cm tall and can reach up to 50cm in length. Strangely, the animals are heavier in autumn, when they can weigh up to 8kg, but 3kg in the spring months.

Michael, a teacher from Innsbruck, Austria, has taken lots of photos of Matteo and his marmot friends during the past four years.

He said,“I could spend several hours watching animals. It’s great that I have been able to document the marmot’s natural behavior around Matteo without making them afraid of me and my camera, I wanted to capture(用影片文字等記錄…的原樣) the animals exactly the way I see them ---the way they behave among each other.”

從照片上很清楚地看出，馬蒂奧和土撥鼠彼此相處得很好。

1.How many years has Matteo built up a great relationship with marmots?

2.How tall are marmots when they stand?

3.將短文中劃線的英文句子譯成漢語。

___________________________________________________________________

4.將短文中劃線的漢語句子翻譯成英文。

_________________________________________________________________

5.給文章擬一個(gè)恰當(dāng)?shù)挠⑽臉?biāo)題。

書面表達(dá)

假如你叫李濤，上周日你們班同學(xué)到一個(gè)孤兒院（an orphanage）組織了一次志愿活動(dòng)(a volunteer activity)，請(qǐng)寫一封郵件給你的朋友Nick，講述活動(dòng)情況及你對(duì)此次活動(dòng)的看法。應(yīng)包括以下內(nèi)容：

1. .時(shí)間，地點(diǎn)。

2. 活動(dòng)過程：送食物，書本；為孩子們唱歌，表演戲劇(perform a play)，講故事等。

3. 孩子們的反應(yīng)和你的感受。

注意：

1. 開頭部分已寫好， 你只需接著寫。開頭字?jǐn)?shù)不計(jì)入總字?jǐn)?shù)。

2. 所寫內(nèi)容必須包括規(guī)定的內(nèi)容，可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，使內(nèi)容連貫。

3. 詞數(shù)：100 個(gè)左右。

4.書寫認(rèn)真仔細(xì)。段落清晰。

Dear Nick,

How are you? I’m writing to tell you what we did last Sunday.

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-----Do you know _____ this teddy bear belongs to?

-----Let me see. Oh, it’s _____.

A. whose, mine B. whose, me

C. who, mine D. who, me