The Netherlands(荷蘭) ranked first, followed by Denmark and Sweden. The rankings are based on English reading and listening test results of 950, 000 people from 72 countries and areas.

The English level in China is still low, ranking 39th. In China, people in Shanghai are the best English speakers. They speak better English than Italians and French. Hong Kong and Beijing follow Shanghai as China’s next best English-speaking cities.

Shanghai and Beijing rank high because they are international cities. However, across China, English level is different from east to west. China has 400 million English learners, reported China Daily. However, the teaching of English in some areas is not very good. According to the People’s Daily Online, there are seventy primary schools in Shetianqiao town in Hunan, but only one English teacher. Many students still learn English by rote memorizaton(死記硬背).

Sebastian Magnusson, an officer at the Swedish embassy(瑞典大使館) in Beijing, gave some advice. Swedish people speak English well and Magnusson himself is also fluent in Chinese. He said TV programs, movies and even computer games could be learning tools. “Do not limit(限制) it to textbooks. What matters most is to use what you’ve learned,” Magnusson said.

According to this passage, which country can speak English best not including

【1】【1】Which country speaks English best, except English-speaking countries?

A. China.??? B. Sweden.??? C. Denmark.??? D. Netherlands.

【2】【2】.What does the word “fluent” mean in the last paragraph?

A. 糟糕的??? B. 不熟練的.??? C. 流利的.??? D. 擔心的.

【3】【3】Which is not a good way to improve English in the passage?

A. By only learning textbooks well.

B. By watching English movies.

C. By watching English TV programs.

D. By using what you have learned.

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Do you often use the Internet? Do you often use Wechat? Chen Qingyue, a 13-year-old boy, is an ordinary student in the eighth grade in the United States. But he has made ___1___ a “star” on WeChat！He has a public WeChat account (ID：mgx0811) ___2___ his life in the US, from study to after-class activities. He has about 1,200 followers (粉絲). All his posts are original and he updates it almost every day.

Chen once studied in China and he ___3___ to the US last year. He studies at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, California. He started using WeChat last August. “My former Chinese classmate’s mother suggested I write ___4___ about my experiences in the US. Then I got the idea, ” he said. He wanted to show others how he lived and studied ___5___ the USA.

At the beginning, few people read his stories. He didn’t know why and felt a little worried.

But he didn’t give up. “Gradually, I realized that followers prefer things that are ___6___ ’ for them. Parents are ___7___ in how to apply for US schools,” he said. For example, his most popular article was how to deal with interviews when applying for a US private high school. It ___8___ by many people and many people responded it. He shared his several interview experiences and gave suggestions. The article had 2,200 views (閱讀量）and hundreds of reports.

Many readers encouraged and thanked him by sending messages and money. So far he___9___ about 1,500 yuan. “I will keep writing ____10____ I go to high school, ” he said.

【1】I have never heard the_______(名字) of the two singers.

【2】He often_______(借) books and magazines from the school library.

【3】Anyone who does something_______(反對) the law will be punished sooner or later.

【4】_______(最后), the government controlled the spread of the disease.

【5】There are only 28 or 29 days in_______(二月).

Mr. Smith had a very important meeting at the Houses of Commons and had to get there but no one could ___ him. He tried to walk there but found he was quite? ___________. Suddenly he met a stranger. The stranger ________ if he could help him.

Mr. Smith told him where he would go. The stranger told him he would take him there. Mr. Smith thanked him and started to walk there. They talked about the annoying foggy weather on their way.

The fog was getting thicker every minute but the stranger had no difficulty in _______the way. He went along one street, turn down another, crossed a square and then after about ________ walk, they arrived. Mr. Smith couldn’t understand _________ the stranger found his way. “It’s wonderful,” he said. “How do you find the way in the fog?”

“It’s no _________ at all to me.” said the stranger, “I am blind.”

【1】A. strong??? B. thick??? C. nice??? D. cold

【2】A. standing??? B. running??? C. traveling??? D. coming

【3】A. streets??? B. dark??? C. crowds??? D. fog

【4】A. get??? B. pick??? C. take??? D. call

【5】A. tired??? B. lost??? C. missed??? D. afraid

【6】A. said??? B. asked??? C. told??? D. knew

【7】A. seeing??? B. looking??? C. walking??? D. finding

【8】A. 20 minute??? B. 20 minutes??? C. 20 minutes’??? D. 20-minutes

【9】A. how??? B. what??? C. where??? D. when

【10】A. idea??? B. question??? C. way??? D. trouble

Tu was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China 【4】 December 30th, 1930. From 1951 to 1955, she attended Peking University Medical School. Later, Tu was trained for two and a half 【5】(year) in traditional Chinese medicine. Now she is the Chief Scientist in the Academy(研究院) of Chinese Medicine in Beijing.

Tu has some health problems as a result of working poor conditions for 【6】 long time. But she is still doing research. When Tu finally received Nobel Prize for her achievements, she said the success 【7】(belong) to her team, which did research in those poor conditions. And she thinks artemisinin is a gift from China and from 【8】(tradition) Chinese medicine to the world, to the millions and millions of people, 【9】(especial) poor children, all over the world who have malaria.

Tu Youyou is already 87 years old, 【10】 she says she won’t stop studying or working.

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According to a study by some organizations, more than half of the things in the world are made in China. And these things are all about people’s 【1】 life.

In order to truly understand 【2】 so many things are made in China, you have to understand the history. China is one of the 【3】 countries with rich civilization on the earth for thousands of years. Chinese people have made a lot of things very smartly. Usually it would take westerners and other 【4】 100 more years to find out how to make them. They have clever minds and work hard, so you can see that so many things 【5】 made in China.

If you study Goldman Sach’s report on the future, you will see that China will take charge of (控制) a quarter of the 【6】? GDP in the near future.? 【7】 some big companies are moving to other countries from China, China is making more products with fine quality(質量), as 【8】 as Japan, the USA and Europe. 【9】 20 years or so, people will not look for a Ferrari(法拉利), but a Chinese car that no one has heard of yet.

China isn’t just making products. It’s helping people in the world 【10】 better.

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Not only can adults influence the world, but also【1】 can do. A good example is an 18-year-old Canadian singer and song writer called Shawn Mendes.

Mendes is on Time magazine’s list of the most influential teens of this year. He 【2】 as a model who always shares positive ideas on social media (社交媒體). Now he is becoming more and more popular.

Indeed, Mendes uses social media in a 【3】 way than most of other users. In 2012, when he was still a high school student, he began to be interested in using the Internet. One day, he put a clip of himself singing Justin Bieber’s song As Long as You Love Me 【4】 the Internet. In only six seconds, he managed to show his sweet voice and 【5】 smile. To his surprise, by the next morning, he had 10，000 likes.

Since then, he【6】 a singer who has many fans. Last year, his 【7】 album Handwritten topped the Billboard 200 chart. He is the youngest artist since Bieber to do so.

Mendes tries to be himself all the time. “There are lots of people【8】 say ‘act this way’ and ‘talk this way’ on social media,【9】 what worked for me was just being myself, ” he told Seventeen, a US teenager magazine. He keeps 【10】 his music videos, good or bad, online.

“I’m not the best singer in the world. I’m just good at picking up what I want to sound like, ” he added.

—Sure. ___________ .

A. One tree doesn’t make a forest

B. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

C. It’s not work that kills, but worry

D. Two heads are better than one

【1】十年后我們的生活將是什么樣？

What will our life be ___________? ____________ 10 years?

【2】別忘了明天你一到那里就給我們打電話。

Don’t forget to call us as ________ as you _______? _________ tomorrow.

【3】面對困難時, 媽媽總是鼓勵我不要放棄。

_________ the face of difficulties, Mother always _____________ me _________ to give up.

【4】我叔叔離開家鄉(xiāng)已經(jīng)三年了。

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【1】I learn different kinds of s____________ in school, and my favorite is physics.

【2】There are twelve months in a year. March is the t____________ month.

【3】We’ll have a picnic tomorrow. But if it rains, we’ll go to a movie i_____________.

【4】Jack was so n_____________ about his exams that he didn’t sleep well last night.

【5】We all love our head teacher. She always r___________ us as her own children.