It is a cold and dry winter morning. When you wake up, you feel that your throat hurts. You begin to sneeze and later you may cough. You must have a cold! Wait a moment. Could it just be a common cold or the flu (流感) that’s been going around?
A cold gives you a runny nose and cough. But it’s usually easy to deal with. Some take medicine while others drink herbal tea or chicken soup. Usually you feel better after a week.
On the other hand, the flu can be much more dangerous. It usually gives you fever. Sometimes it can cause death. According to an American magazine, the worst flu killed about 50 million people from 1918 to 1919.
Don’t worry. If you get a flu vaccine (疫苗), it can stop you from getting the virus (病毒). Flu vaccines work by giving the body a small amount of flu viruses. This causes your body to develop antibodies (抗体). So next time you get the flu, the antibodies should help you.
The flu virus changes every few years. Therefore, there are so many types of flu, such as H1N1 and H5N1. The antibodies for one type of flu can’t help us against all types of flu. That’s why we need to get the vaccine every year.
However, good health habits may also help stop you developing a cold or flu. Washing your hands often helps stop you from getting viruses. It is also important to get regular exercise and eat healthy food. All these can help you strengthen your immune system (增强免疫系统).
小题1:If you have a common cold, usually you’ll feel better after ________.| A．a week | B．two weeks | | C．ten days | D．twenty days |
小题2:According to the passage, which is TRUE of the flu?| A．It first happened in 1919. | | B．It usually doesn’t give you fever. | | C．It is easy to deal with. | | D．It can kill people sometimes. |
小题3:If you get a flu vaccine, ________.| A．it can’t stop you from getting the flu virus | | B．it won’t cause your body to develop antibodies | | C．your body will develop antibodies | | D．your body will get a large amount of flu viruses |
小题4:We need to get a flu vaccine every year because ________.| A．we probably have a cold in winter | | B．the flu virus changes every few years | | C．the flu is very dangerous | | D．you don’t need to take any medicine after that |
小题5:The following ways can help stop the flu EXCEPT ________.| A．staying indoors | B．getting regular exercise | | C．eating healthy food | D．washing our hands often |
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小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:A |
试题分析：短文大意：这篇短文主要讲述了流感的危害以及预防流感的方法。
小题1:细节理解题。根据Usually you feel better after a week.描述可知通常一周后你就会好转，选A。
小题2:细节理解题。根据Sometimes it can cause death. 描述，可知流感有时能致死。选D。
小题3:细节理解题。If you get a flu vaccine (疫苗), ……This causes your body to develop antibodies (抗体).描述，可知你的身体会产生抗体，选C。
小题4:细节理解题。根据短文倒数第二段描述，可知流感病毒每几年就变异一次，选B。
小题5:细节理解题。根据短文最后一段描述，可知呆在家里有助于预防流感，选A。 |
核心考点
试题【It is a cold and dry winter morning. When you wake up, you feel that your throat】；主要考察你对
人生百味类等知识点的理解。
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Be yourself
We wish that we could be better at sports or more attractive. We wish we had nicer clothes or more money. Everyone likes to feel that lie or she is special.____ ____ , many of us grow up believing that we’re not special at all. We believe we are not good enough just as we are.
Most parents want us to be the best we can be. Very often, they________us to others. By doing this, they try to encourage us to do better. They mean well, but the message we often get is that we’re not good enough. We begin to believe that the only way we can be special is by being better than someone else, but we are often_______.There will always be someone out there who is better than we are at something. Plenty of people around may not be as smart as we are, but they are better at sports. Or they may not be as good-looking, but they have more money. It is ______ for us to be better than everyone else all the time.
We all want the things that we believe will make us better people. But very often we don’t realize that we already have________us the very things that we want. These things make us different from others. When we are growing up, ______sometimes forget to tell us that we are special, that we are good enough. Maybe no one told them when they were growing up. Anyway, it’s up to us to remind them from time to time that each of us, in our own way, is special. What we are is enough.
| 小题1: | | A．Again | B．Next | C．Besides | D．However |
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| 小题2: | | A．describe | B．compare | C．introduce | D．prefer |
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| 小题3: | | A．lonely | B．forgetful | C．disappointed | D．nervous |
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| 小题4: | | A．helpful | B．impossible | C．necessary | D．unfair |
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| 小题5: | | A．inside | B．among | C．around | D．for |
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| 小题6: | | A．friends | B．scientists | C．parents | D．doctors |
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Droughts (干旱)are common in Kenya . Before ,they came every 10 years ,but now they seem to be hitting us more often and for a longer time .
We gave the droughts names :“longoza”was the drought when many animals died ; there was the drought of the “planes” because food was dropped from the air by planes; and one particularly bad drought was called “ man who dies with his money in his fist (拳头)”，because ,even if there was money , there was simply no food to buy .
I was born in 1951 in Machakos. From what my mother tells me , when I was 7, there was a serious drought . I clearly remember the terrible weather and the hunger. I can’t tell you how many times I went to bed without eating . “ I slept like that ,” is how we described it . I can’t count the number of days when “ I slept like that,” or describe the feeling of going to sleep hungry ,knowing I’d wake up and there would still be no food for breakfast.
My father would leave early in the morning carrying a little basket to ask for food on credit (赊欠). Each night he would return home around 10:00p.m. My mother would try to encourage me by telling me to keep the water in our pot boiling so that when my father arrived we could quickly cook any food he brought in the already prepared water . I would keep the fire burning and the water boiling , along with the hopes that we would eat that night. But my father would arrive frustrated and empty -handed. And I would sleep like that.
小题1:The best title for the text is ________.| A．A Hungry Childhood Caused by Droughts | | B．Food and Hunger | | C．Protecting the Environment | | D．Droughts and Their Names |
小题2:What does the drought of the “ longoza”refer to (指代)?| A．Many animals needed food dropped by planes. | | B．People had to eat animals because of hunger. | | C．Many animals died because of the droughts. | | D．People died of hunger even if they had money. |
小题3:Why would the author keep the fire burning and the water boiling?| A．To wait for her father to come back to have supper. | | B．To cook the food that her father would bring back. | | C．To keep her house warm all night. | | D．To make her hungry mother happy. |
小题4:The sentence “I slept like that ” means “ ________.”| A．I was disappointed when my father came back empty-handed | | B．I felt sorry because my family got hungry again | | C．I went to sleep with no food for breakfast. | | D．I went to bed with nothing to eat |
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A game of “catch” is just two people throwing a ball back and forth (来回地). They might have baseball , or they might use their hands.In fact, playing catch is part of baseball to make you get used to using a ball and a glove. But any American kid will tell you it’s much more than that.
Playing catch is a time for kids to be with their . It’s a time when there’s nothing to worry about besides catching a ball. It’s a time when words move as smoothly as the ball itself back-and-forth, easy and relaxing. It’s an excuse to spend time .When you ask some adults(成年人) to the good memories of their dads, they nearly always say something about playing catch. Why? Probably because dads are usually very with their work. A catch game is a time that is only for one thing. This is a time when a kid has his or her dad’s attention. There is no work, no phone and no other people around to take your dad away you. For the time of playing a game of catch—your dad is all .
| 小题1: | | A．gloves | B．yards | C．skills | D．caps |
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| 小题2: | | A．team | B．practice | C．match | D．club |
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| 小题3: | | A．fathers | B．mothers | C．friends | D．classmates |
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| 小题4: | | A．alone | B．once again | C．as usual | D．together |
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| 小题5: | | A．talk about | B．looked for | C．point out | D．hear of |
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| 小题6: | | A．strict | B．busy | C．bored | D．careful |
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| 小题8: | | A．his | B．hers | C．yours | D．theirs |
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Once upon a time, a boy was walking through a wood and he thought he could hear a sad cry. Following the sound he came to a big, round, mysterious, grey fountain. The sad sound seemed to be coming from the fountain pool. The boy swept aside the pool’s dirty surface water and saw a group of grey fish swimming in a slow circle through the pond.
Amused by this, the boy tried to catch one of these incredible talking fish. But when he stuck his arm into the water it turned grey right up to the elbow. As this happened, a huge sadness entered into him, and he suddenly understood how sad the fish were feeling.
He quickly pulled his arm out of the water, and ran from that place. But the arm stayed grey, and the boy continued feeling sad. He tried so many times to cheer himself up, but nothing worked. That was, until he realized that if he were to make the Earth happy then that happiness would be, in turn, transmitted back to him, through the earth on his arm. X|k | B| 1 . c|O |m
From then on, he set about looking after countryside. He cared for the plants, and he did what he could to keep the water from being polluted. He encouraged others to do the same. He was so successful that his arm started to recover its normal color. When the grey had disappeared completely, he started feeling happy again, and he decided to go and visit the fountain. When he was still some way from the fountain he could hear the fish singing happily.
小题1: What happened to the boy when he stuck his arm into the water?| A．He caught some fish. | B．His arm was bitten by the fish. | | C．He felt great sadness. | D．Nothing special happened. |
小题2:The underlined word recover means “ ” in Chinese.小题3: Which of the following didn’t happen after the boy left the fountain?| A．He started to look after the countryside. | | B．He stopped the water from being polluted. | | C．He encouraged people to protect the earth. | | D．His arm kept grey and he never felt happy. |
小题4:What can we learn from the passage?| A．We should protect the earth. | B．We shouldn’t catch fish. | | C．Even the fountain may cry. | D．We should visit the fountain. |
小题5: What is the best title of the passage?| A．The Beautiful Countryside. | B．The Talking Fish. | | C．The Sad Cry. | D．The Grey Fountain. |
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From my father I have learned a lot. And I’m very thankful to him. I remember when I was a child my father always got up very early, quietly putting on his clothes and going off to work. To arrive in time to open his tiny store at 8:30, he needed to leave our apartment at 6:30. After all, he had to take a bus and then the subway. The last journey was a long walk through a neighborhood much of which was full of the smell of rubbish. I learned: it is very important to work. No excuse.
When I was 12, I would, on some Saturdays, go to my father’s store to help out. After helping set up the outside clothing display, for the rest of the day, I’d watch to make sure no one stole anything. When I noticed someone looking unusual or strange, I would look the person in the eye, smile and say, “May I help you?” Usually that worked, but sometimes, someone would run off with something. The first time, I ran after the thief but my father shouted, “Martin, stop! There is no need to do that.” It’s true that safety is more important than money.
After 10 years of hard work, he saved up enough money to buy his first car, a cheap one—he wouldn’t buy one until he could afford to pay for it without borrowing money. I learned: buy only what you can afford. Buying necessary food and clothing won’t make us go in debt(债务). The unnecessary things won’t give us happiness, which comes from achievement only.
小题1: What shop did the author’s father own?| A．A bookshop. | B．A coffee shop. | | C．A clothing shop. | D．A food shop. |
小题2: Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．The author ran after thieves many times. | | B．The author thanked his father a lot. | | C．The author’s father worked very hard. | | D．The author’s father made some money. |
小题3: All the following are talked about in the passage EXCEPT .| A．the importance of working | | B．the good ways to keep healthy | | C．that safety comes before money | | D．that it’s bad to spend more than you make |
小题4: According to the author, what usually makes people go in debt?| A．To rent a house for the family. | | B．To send their children to school. | | C．To enjoy something unnecessary. | | D．To buy enough food for the family. |
小题5: What is the passage mainly about?| A．How to live a happy life. | | B．What makes a person successful. | | C．The help the author got from his father. | | D．What the author learned from his father. |
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