Do you think that living a hungry life is last century’s story? Well, it may be this century’s headline.

The world has growing about a global food shortage. Right now, there are still 870 million hungry people in the world, according to a survey of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Children can’t this, either. Around fifteen million children die of hungry each year.

What’s causing food shortages? There are several .

There are now more droughts and floods. This is very to farmers and their ability to grow food.

Besides, with the growing , feeding everyone becomes more difficult. There are a little more than seven billion people in the world. By 2050, the world population will be more than nine billion.

Another reason is food waste. The average person throws away 50kg of food every year.

How can we help with food shortages? The easiest way is to on food waste.

Next time before throwing away the food on your plate, just think work has been done to make it. By buying less, we waste less. This takes the pressure off producing so much food. And it helps to solve the problem of food shortage.

You can also ask your schoolmates to join you.

In the early 2016, staff workers from the canteens of Xiamen No.1 High School put up short anti-waste slogans (標語) in dining rooms “Think Before You Waste”. Guess what happened? Students wasted fifteen percent food after that!

Let’s take action! We don’t need a huge activity to make a difference.

1.A. numbers B. thoughts C. worries

2.A. escape B. refuse C. have

3.A. results B. reasons C. clues

4.A. difficult B. harmful C. close

5.A. people B. population C. popularity

6.A. cut down B. cut off C. cut into

7.A. how many B. how much C. how

8.A. less B. fewer C. more

There was once a shepherd boy (牧童). He was famous for his wise answer to every question he was asked. The people in the country all knew his name.

On a sunny afternoon, when the king was talking with his people, he heard of the boy. He didn’t believe it, so he sent for the boy.

As the boy came, the king said to him, “I’ll ask you some questions. If you can answer them, you can live in this large palace with me.”

The boy asked, “What are the questions?”

The king said, “The first is: how many drops of water are there in the ocean?” The boy answered, “That’s easy. If you can have all the rivers on the earth dammed up (筑壩) until I have counted it, I’ll tell you how many drops there are in the ocean.” After hearing what the boy said, the king was satisfied.

Then the king continued, “The next question is: how many stars are there in the sky?” They boy said, “Give me a piece of white paper, please.” Then he made so many small points on it with a pen that it was impossible to count them. Then he said, “There are as many stars in the sky as there are points on the paper.”

The king was happy and said, “You’ve answered my questions wisely. Now move into my palace and live with me.”

1.The story happened on a .

A. sunny morning B. sunny afternoon C. windy afternoon

2.The king asked question(s).

A. one B. two C. three

3.The boy asked for to answer the last question.

4.We can learn that the boy was according to the story.

A. hard-working B. friendly C. clever

5. We can learn from the story that .

A. the boy gave the king the exact number to answer question one

B. the king was pleased with the boy’s answers

C. the boy made the king angry

1.There are subway lines in the picture.

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4

2.Gina is at Belmont. She wants to go to Baseball Field. She should changes lines at .

A. Grand B. Cliton C. Reno

3.Louis is going to Medical Centre from Damen. He should get off at the stop.

A. third B. fourth C. fifth

4.According to the picture, Stop is the nearest to Airport.

A. Damen B. Argyle C. Racine

5.To go to Airport from Youth Center, you should take subway lines in this order: .

A. Blue Line →Green Line → Red Line

B. Red Line → Green Line → Blue Line

C. Green Line → Blue Line → Red Line

Shakespeare is to literature in English, so is the poet Du Fu to the Chinese literary tradition. Du Fu, known as the Sage of Poetry, lived and wrote in the eighth century, and his work is still available to modern Chinese readers. Du Fu, in fact, is still widely quoted (引用) in China today, and he has had a great influence on Chinese poetry in the past 1,200 years. However, the poet’s complete works weren’t unavailable in English translation in the past.

Conant University Professor Stephen Owen, who spent eight years on The Poetry of Du Fu, a 3,000-page translation published by De Gruyter, has completed the first English translation of the complete works of Du Fu.

Because Du Fu, like Shakespeare, is known for great width — in subject, in the way he uses language to pass on different registers (不同場合用的語言和文體) (see “Out with the Sake, In With the Wine”) and layered (多層次的) meanings — he is one of the most challenging poets to translate. Chinese poetry, a literary tradition in which tenses are absent, pronouns rare, and the use of the singular and plural forms are hard to understand, is well known for seeming ambiguous (模糊不清的) at times. Within that tradition, the interpretation of Du Fu’s work is especially contested. Owen’s critical edition, in which his translations face the original texts, brings a scholarly aid for the first time to English-speaking readers ready to engage with China’s literary lion.

1.“Shakespeare is to literature in English, so is the poet Du Fu to the Chinese literary

tradition.” means “ ”.

A. Du Fu has the same important literary status as Shakespeare in their own countries

B. Du Fu is not as well-known as Shakespeare in China

C. Du Fu is much more famous than Shakespeare in England

2.The Poetry of Du Fu is translated into English by .

A. Shakespeare B. Du Fu C. Stephen Owen

3.The underlined sentence is closer to the original Chinese version “ ”.

A. 零落棲遲一杯酒，主人奉觴客長壽

B. 莫思身外無窮事，且盡生前有限杯

C. 花間一壺酒，獨酌無相親

4.Chinese poems are hard to translate because of the following factors EXCEPT .

A. the use of singular and plural forms

B. too many characters

C. tenses and pronouns

5.According to the passage, the following statement “ ” is TRUE.

A. The Poetry of Du Fu is the first English translation of the complete works of Du Fu.

B. There was no English translation of Du’s works in the past.

C. Du’s works are out of style in China today.

If you ever go to the US and eat at a restaurant, there’s a very important difference you should know about. US people have a custom to give money to waiters and waitresses as a tip for their work.

But why is this? Shouldn’t waiters get paid enough by their bosses? Well, many waiters and waitresses get paid below the US minimum wage (最低工資) and work for tips to make up for that. According to the American travel website TripAdvisor, some states pay their servers (服務員) only $2.13 (about 14 yuan) per hour.

While no one makes you tip, if you are at a sit-down restaurant, it is usually expected that you tip your waiter 15 to 20 percent of what your bill is.

It’s not just for waiters either. Hotel maids, hairdressers and taxi drivers also usually work for tips. But it is much more expected to tip waiters.

The US hasn’t always had this tipping culture. In fact, people were mostly against it until the Prohibition Era (禁酒令時代) in the 1920s. The government said no one could sell alcohol (酒). Then, restaurants had trouble making enough money. So they started to ask people to tip their waiters.

This tipping culture has lasted through the years, but most people don’t like it. Some think restaurant bosses use it as an excuse to not pay their workers well. There isn’t much action being taken to make a change yet. So for now, be sure to tip your waiter when in the US.

1.If a server works eight hours a day, he can get from his boss.

A. $2.13 B. $17.04 C. ￥14

2.Besides waiters and waitresses, also works for tips in the US.

A. customers B. taxi drivers C. restaurant bosses

3.When the restaurants couldn’t sell alcohol, .

A. they were bankrupt (破產(chǎn)的) and closed down

B. the bosses still made much money

C. they started to ask people to tip

4.We can learn from the passage that .

A. the waiters and waitresses aren’t well paid in the US

B. the custom of giving tips only appears in the US

C. all Americans are glad to tip their waiters

5.About American’s tipping culture, foreign visitors think .

A. they need to fight for their own rights

B. they should “do as the Romans do”

C. they can leave it alone

① Some days, don’t you think, “Wouldn’t it be nice if the laundry would just do itself?” Self-cleaning clothes may sound crazy. But Australian researchers have found a way to make something like this possible!

② A team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, found a way to put special nanostructuresinto clothing, which can then clean the clothes. When sunlight hits the nanostructures, they break down the dirt and stains (污漬) that don’t belong on your clothes.

③ The nanostructures don’t break down the actual clothing because cotton and the other clothing materials are too strong to be broken down. According to CNN, the researchers cover the clothing in a solution made of silver and copper (銅) nanostructures. All it takes is 40 minutes of sunlight and your clothes will look as good as new.

④ So if you spill on yourself during lunch, you can step outside for a walk, and it will be clean by the time you go inside. It not only makes your life easier, but it can also be good for the environment.

⑤ According to the US Department of Energy, the average load of laundry uses about 25 gallons (about 94 liters) of water. Water is a very important resource, so using less of it to wash clothes is better for the environment. But one of the scientists at RMIT University knows more needs to be done.

⑥ “There’s more work to do before we can start throwing out our washing machines,” said Dr Rajesh Ramanathan, “but this is a strong foundation (基礎).”

⑦ So what’s the next step? Ramanathan wants to either start selling the solution by itself or convincing clothing makers to treat the clothing with the solution while clothes are being made.

1.According to the first three paragraphs, _____.

A. the nanostructures can break down dirt and stains on clothes

B. people can use the self-cleaning clothes on rainy days

C. the self-cleaning clothes easily wear out

2.The underlined word “solution” in Paragraph 3 means “ ” in Chinese.

A. 方案 B. 溶液 C. 水盆

3.Paragraphs ④ - ⑤ talk about .

A. what advantages the self-cleaning clothes have

B. what helps the self-cleaning clothes work

C. how the self-cleaning clothes work

4.From the passage, we learn that .

A. it’s time to throw out our washing machines

B. clothing makers like the solution

C. the solution is not on sale yet

5.The best title of this passage is .

A. Difficulties in clothes cleaning

B. Cleaning clothes gets easier

C. Steps to clean your clothes

根據(jù)對話情景,填入恰當?shù)膯卧~。

Kate: What does your father do, Jack?

Jack: My father is a teacher. How about your father, Kate?

Kate: My father is a doctor. He works in a 1. .

Jack: Then what are you going to be when you grow up?

Kate: I think I want to be a2. . I like to talk with people and write stories, and I do like

to interview famous singers and actors.

Jack: So maybe you can work for a3. or a TV station.

Kate: Either is OK, I think. Well, what about you, Jack?

Jack: I want to be a policeman. It’s an exciting 4. though sometimes it may be a little bit

dangerous.

Kate: Then you should 5. often because you must have a strong body.

Jack: Yes, madam.

根據(jù)情景提示，用恰當?shù)亩陶Z或句子填空。

* 你把你的姐姐介紹給你同學Mario認識，會這么表達：

1. Mario, .

* 你想知道Henry每天早上幾點上學，可以這樣問他：

2.What time every morning, Henry？

* 同桌想知道你是否讀過《金銀島》這本書，會這么問：

3. ?

* 班上的“學弱”向你咨詢學習英語的有效方法，你會這么告訴他：

4.I study English .

* 英語老師想了解在剛剛過去的五一小長假你去了哪里，會這么問：

5. on May Day vacation?

段落編寫

使用所給的詞語，編寫一個意義相對完整的語段。

提示詞：favorite, educational, way, relax, prefer

要求： 1. 使用全部提示詞，并在語段中用下劃波浪線“ ”標出提示詞；

2. 語段具有一個相對合理的主題意義；

3. 詞數(shù)為 50詞左右，最多不超過80詞。

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短文寫作

廈門市坑內(nèi)社區(qū)居委會目前正在組織一系列志愿者活動，包括1. 幫扶該社區(qū)學困生；2. 探望“愛欣老人公寓”孤寡老人；3. 前往萬石植物園（Wanshi Botanical Garden）進行保潔并制止游客不文明行為；4. 看望174醫(yī)院病童等等。

請你根據(jù)個人情況，選擇參加其中兩項活動，談談你選擇它們的原因以及你打算具體做些什么？短文的開頭與結(jié)尾已給出。

要求：1. 詞數(shù)80詞左右，不包含所給開頭和結(jié)尾；

2. 不得在文中出現(xiàn)真實校名或?qū)W生姓名。

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