When I was 14, I left school with learning disabilities and decided to surf the biggest waves in the world, first in California and then in Hawaii. One morning, I met an old man, a bum（流浪漢）, on the street comer. He asked me _______I was running away from home. I told him, “Not exactly, sir.”

After talking a while, he told me that he had something to show me and _______with me. We walked several blocks _______we came upon the downtown Public Library.

The bum asked me to sit down and wait a moment. Later he returned with some books, and then said, “I want to teach you two things. Number one is never to judge a book by its cover, for a cover _______you. I’ll bet you think I’m a bum, don’t you?”

I said, “I guess so, sir.”

“Well, young man, I've got a little surprise for you. I am one of the wealthiest men in the world. But a year ago, when my wife passed away, I_______there were certain things I had not yet experienced in life, one of which was what it would be like to_______ like a bum on the streets. For the past year I have been going from city to city doing just that.

Number two is to learn how to read, for there is only one thing that people can’t take away from you, and that is your _______.” At that moment, he gave me the books he’d pulled from the shelves. His parting request（請求）was for me to never forget what he taught me. I have_______ until today.

1.A. how B. Why C. if D. that

2.A. share B. deal C. talk D. eat

3.A. as B. then C. until D. after

4.A. likes B. fools C. interests D. surprises

5.A. believed B. knew C. thought D. realized

6.A. look B. live C. feel D. seem

7.A. wisdom B. freedom C. courage D. remember

8.A. forgotten B. kept C. understood D. remembered

Brendan’s best friend is Tip. They teach each other things and they look after each other. Tip has helped Brendan become more______and more caring. Brendan is a nine-year-old boy, and Tip is a ten-year-old dog. Brendan and Tip are an example of how owning a dog can have a good______on a child’s development.

Having a dog helps a child learn how to act responsibly. As a dog owner, the child must take care of the animal’s daily needs. The dog must be _____and exercised every day. A dog is completely ______ on its owner for all its needs, including the need for good health and a safe environment. Furthermore, the owner must take responsibility for the safety of the people it comes into contact with. If the child forgets any of these duties and responsibilities, or _____ a blind eye to any of the dog’s needs, the dog will suffer (遭罪). This teaches the child that his responsibility to the dog is more important than his desire (欲望) to play with his toys, talk on the phone, on watch TV. This is true not only for the care of a dog, but also for the care of oneself, another person, or one’s job.

Another lesson that a child can _____ from having a dog is empathy(同情), the ability to put oneself in another person’s, or in this case another creature’s______ and imagine that person’s or creature’s feelings or problems. A dog cannot express itself with speech, so its owner must learn how to interpret its behavior. The child must learn to understand what the dog’s behavior means. Is the dog frightened, hungry or sick? The child needs to understand what is going on in the dog’s mind. Understanding a situation from the dog’s point of view helps the child understand why the dog is behaving in a certain way and what the dog needs. The result of learning to read a dog’s behavior is that the child develops empathy. This ______ to the child becoming a more considerate and caring person.

1.A. responsible B. valuable C. reasonable D. lovable

2.A. effort B. effect C. difference D. experience

3.A. taught B. trained C. fed D. controlled

4.A. dependent B. confident C. different D. pleasant

5.A. look B. watch C. change D. turn

6.A. study B. learn C. give D. teach

7.A. condition B. relation C. situation D. location

8.A. comes B. points C. holds D. leads

Cooking and learning

In this E-book package, we have four e-books.

1.Fun with food will offer ______.

A. photo tests B. science experiments

C. food facts D. cooking instructions

2.The pages of ______ are easy to print off.

A. Fun with food B. Kids Cooking Lessons E-book

C. Food Facts E-book D. Kids Food Science Experiments

3.Mrs. Green wanted to learn some cooking together with her two daughters and she choose Kids Cooking Lessons E-book because_______.

A. There is a unit for each age group

B. there are a lot of photo tests in it

C. Kids can learn more about science

D. each part is very easy to print off

Build a smart future

The Internet is shaping our lives. We already have online shopping services and mobile payment. However, this is just a start. The world’s leading tech companies are planning to build smarter online communities. They discussed this at the World Internet Conference, which was held in Wuzhen.

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) was a hot topic at the conference (會議). If a machine can learn and solve problems as humans do, it can be called AI.

The company Alibaba uses AI technology in its unmanned supermarket in Wuzhen. There is no salesperson in the supermarkets, just a tablet (平板電腦) on a desk that says “ please smile”. If you smile, it gives you a special discount off your foods. The bigger you smile, the more discounts for your goods. Payment is done stigmatically through your Alipay account. When you first enter the supermarket, the supermarket’s AI recognizes your face and your account.

There is also AI that can read lips. Sougou brought its lip-reading system to

the conference. It recognizes your mouth’s movements and turns them into voice or text massagers. This could be very useful when you are trying to talk to someone on your phone in a noisy place. Police could also use the technology to help them find criminal suspects (犯罪嫌疑人) by lip－reading recordings from video camera.

Another type of AI focus on understanding human emotions. Microsoft chatbox

XiaoIce can not only provide useful information but also chat with people like a real friend. XiaoIce has Wehat account. After following the account, users can start talking with her. She knows when to comfort you or tell jokes. she keeps improving herself by talking with users.

These technologies are being put into wilder use. We may see a smarter world and better life in the near future.

1.What did the leading technology companies do at the World Internet Conference?

A. They discussed how to use AI in the supermarket.

B. They discussed how to put the now technology into use.

C. They discussed how to use AI to catch criminal suspects.

D. They discussed how to build smarter online communities.

2.What does “real lips” (in the fourth paragraph) mean?

A. It means to read silently, with moving the lips only.

B. It means to notice what is on the lips of the speakers.

C. It means to watch the movement of the lips and translate it into written words.

D. It means to watch the movement of lips and decide what the speaker says.

3.From this passage, we can know that ________.

A. these technologies are being used widely

B. these technologies are still being tested

C. these technologies are not developed yet

D. these technologies are not helpful at all

Movies for the Blind?

When you think of the cinema, the phrase "watching a movie" probably comes to mind, and, in fact, moviemakers work very hard to make their films interesting visually. But movies also contain stories, dialogues, music and sound effects --- things that people don't need to see in order to enjoy.

Movie reviewer Marty Klein has created a website to help visually impaired (受損的) people choose movies that they can follow without the help of an assistant to explain what is happening on the screen. Klein gives movies a rating from 1 to 10 based on several factors. A movie receives a high rating if there are only a few main characters whose voices are easy to recognize. Klein also likes an interesting story without too many changes in time and place. A large amount of dialogue between the characters is better than long silences or noisy action scenes.

Of course, visually impaired people can enjoy many films with the help from a friend who doesn’t mind explaining the parts of a movie that can only be seen. But that means that someone is talking during the movie, which could annoy some audience members. It also means that these people cannot go to the movies independently. To solve these problems, some movie theaters have begun to offer recorded audio descriptions of the movements, scenery, and special effects that other audience members can see on the screen. Visually impaired moviegoers receive a wireless headset to wear during the movie. This allows them to listen to the narration (敘述) while still hearing a movie's music and other sounds that surround them in the theater.

Another blind movie reviewer, Jay Forry, writes movie reviews that are published on his website. He also writes for newspapers and is a guest on radio shows. Forry gives movies one of five ratings, including, "So good, blind people will like it" and "I'm glad I couldn't see it." Forry became a writer after going blind at the age of 20 and he decided to go to college. His first articles appeared in the college newspaper, and Forry's writing skills and sense of humor are what keep people reading his reviews or listening to them on the radio. After "watching" The Sixth Sense, Forry commented that he thought the movie was excellent, but that he envied the boy who was the main character: "He had six senses, and I only have four."

1.Which movie might receive a good rating from Marty Klein?

A. A action film with many fight scenes.

B. A science fiction movie about time travel into the past and the future

C. A romantic comedy with four main characters and lots of conversations.

D. An adventure with many explosions and special effects.

2.According to the article, how are some movie theaters dealing with the problem of blind people going to movies?

A. They are asking the assistants not to annoy the other audience members.

B. They are providing headsets so blind people can hear a recorded narration.

C. They are providing trained employees to describe the movie to blind people.

D. They are asking blind people to enjoy the music and the other sounds in the theater.

3.What is the main idea of the article?

A. More and more blind people enjoy going to movies.

B. Marty Klein and Jay Forry write movie reviews for blind people.

C. Moviemakers are trying to make films more interesting for the blind.

D. Movie reviews and new technologies make it easier for the blind to enjoy the movies.

Do you think you’re smarter than your parents and grandparents? According to James Flynn，a professor at a New Zealand university，you are! Over the course of the last century，people who have taken IQ have gotten increasingly better scores —on average，three points better for every decade that has passed. This improvements is known as the "Flynn effect"，and scientists want to know what is behind it．

IQ tests and other similar tests are designed to measure general intelligence rather than knowledge．Flynn knew that intelligence partly comes from our parents and partly is the result of our environment and experience, but the improvement in test scores has been happening too quickly to be explained by heredity. or our surroundings. So What was happening in the 20th century that was helping people achieve higher scores on intelligence tests?

Scientists have proposed(提出)several explanations for the Flynn effect．Some suggest that the improved test scores simply reflect an increased exposure(暴露)to tests in general. Because we take so many tests, we learn test-taking techniques that help us perform better on any test. Others have pointed to better nutrition. (營養(yǎng)) Since it results in babies being born larger, healthier, and with more brain development than in the past．Another possible explanation is a change in educational styles，with teachers encouraging children to learn by discovering things for themselves rather than just memorizing information. This could prepare people to do the kinds of problem-solving that intelligence tests require.

Flynn has limited the possible explanations when he looked carefully at the test data and discovered that the improvement in scores was only on certain parts of the IQ test．Test-takers didn’t do better on the maths or vocabulary sections of the test；They did better on the sections requiring reasoning and problem solving. For example，one part of the test shows a set of abstract (抽象的) shapes and test-takers must find the patterns (模式) and connections between them and decide which shape should be added to the test.

According to Flynn，this visual intelligence improves as the amount of technology in our lives increases．Every time you play a computer game or figure out how to program a new cell phone, you are exercising exactly the kind of thinking and problem solving that helps you do well on one kind of intelligence test．So are you really smarter than your parents？In one very specific way，you may be．

1.The "Flynn effect" is ______.

A. used to measure intelligence

B. an increase in IQ test scores over time

C. the influence of technology on intelligence

D. connected our experience

2.The underlined word “heredity” means _______.

A. the technological improvement

B. the advanced educational methods

C. the help of our peer or schoolmates

D. intelligence passing down from our parents

3.According to the passage，which of the following statements is true?

A. Taking fewer tests can help us get higher scores.

B. Experience have more effects on our intelligence than surroundings.

C. Newer education encourages children to find things out by themselves.

D. People’s vocabulary ability and visual intelligence have improved.

4.What could be the best title for the passage?

A. What is Flynn effect?

B. How can we do better on IQ tests?

C. Are parents helping in our intelligence?

D. Are human beings getting smarter?

Every once in a while someone sends us a story that's so beautiful we are forever changed by it. This is one of those stories.

It started in Winchester, Massachusetts, 43 years ago, when Rick Hoyt was born. Somehow his umbilical cord became wrapped around his neck, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs (四肢) .

The doctors told Rick's parents that he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life. But Nick Hoyt, Rick's father, didn't believe it. He noticed the way Rick's eyes followed him around the room.

When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. "No way,'' Nick says he was told. "There's nothing going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed.

Turns out a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!''

And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that.''

Yeah, right. How was Nick, a self-described "porker'' who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Nick says. "I was sore for two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. "Dad,'' he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Nick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

"No way,'' Rick was told by a race official. The Hoyt's weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. So, for the first few years, Rick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway.

Later, they would find a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, "Hey, Rick, why not a triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon?

Still, Rick tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironman Competitions in Hawaii.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Nick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992 - only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time.

1.Where was Rick Hoyt born?

_____________________________________________________

2.Who said that Rick would be a vegetable for the rest of his life?

_____________________________________________________

3.How did Rick communicate with others?

______________________________________________________

4.What sentence changed Nick’s life?

______________________________________________________

5.What is Nick Hoyt like?

_____________________________________________________

假如你是李華，你和同學(xué)們在下周五晚上準(zhǔn)備舉行聚會歡迎新來的交換生Mike，你打算邀請你們學(xué)校的外教Join 參加。請你用英文寫一封郵件，告訴他聚會的時(shí)間和地點(diǎn)，活動內(nèi)容，以及需要準(zhǔn)備什么。

提示詞語：make a welcome speech, sing, game, dance, gift

提示問題：

when and where are you going to have a party?

What are you going to do at the party?

What do you advise Join to prepare for the party?

Dear Join,

How is it going?

I’m writing to invite you to our party to welcome our exchange student Mike.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I’m looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

假如你是李華，你們學(xué)校正就“友情伴我成長”這一句話題開展討論。請你用英語寫一篇短文給某英文網(wǎng)站投稿，談?wù)勀阕詈玫呐笥咽钦l，他／她是一個(gè)什么樣的人，以及你們經(jīng)常在一起做什么。

提示詞語：kind, helpful, study, play

提示問題：

Who is your best friend?

What is he／she like?

What do you usually do together?

At my school, we are talking about the importance of friendship. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Saturday Kid’s Club

Kids’ Club starts at 10:30am., with creative activities, followed by the film at 11:30am for 3-13 years old.

There will be no Kids’ Club on November 3 and November 10.

NOTE TO PARENTS: Parents can leave children over eight alone in the cinema, but

should know that the cinema doesn’t provide any official child care. We do, however, provide as safe environment as possible for younger children. People over 18 are not allowed to go to the cinema unless(除非) they go with a child. If you leave your children in the cinema, please be there on time to collect them at the end of the film.

1.The above is a/an _____.

A. poster from a club. B. advertisement for films

C. note to parents D. introduction of a cinema

2.Mrs. Black will take her 5-year old son to see a film in the club. She hopes the film will be over before 1 o’clock. On which day should they go to the club?

A. October 20 B. October 27 C. November 17 D. November 24

3.Who is allowed to go to the cinema in the club alone?

A. A 2-year-old baby. B. A 19-year-old student.

C. A 30- year-old parent. D. A 10- year-old pupil.

4.______on the first Saturday of November.

A. Kids’ Club will start at 10:30am. B. Kids can see TWO BROTHERS

C. There will be no Kids’ Club D. The kids will have creative activities

5.Which of the following films is the longest?

A. MEET THE ROBINSONS B. TWO BROTHERS

C. TREASURE PLANET D. MR.BEAN’S HOLIDAY