1、四、阅读表达 （一） Confidence is very important in daily life. It can help you to develop a healthy attitude. A study shows that the people who are more confident are much happier. They can have more chance to make themselves successful. But how to be more confident? Here are some suggestions： Speak loudly.
2、 When you are not confident , you cant do well what you want to do. You speak in a voice so low that other people can hardly hear you. Try to speak loudly enough so that people can hear you clearly. The high voice can help you become more confident . Play sports. Physical exercise makes you tired bu
3、t completely relaxed. A strong body helps you be full of confidence. Encourage yourself. Write down a list of things you did during the day to see how many things you have done well. Did you finish your homework？ Did you tell a joke that made everybody laugh? Give yourself praise for the good things
4、 youve done. Get rid of fear. Fear comes along with failure. But its easy to overcome if you know that failure is part of your life. Dont hide your head just because you said something stupid last time. Try to start again and believe you can do better. Pick up a hobby. If you like singing , sing as
5、much as you can. In some ways , a hobby can make you outstanding. And it will make you happy and confident . 1. How many suggestions can help you to be more confident? _ 2. 从文中找出与下面句子意思相近的句子 You speak in a voice too low for other people to hear you. _ 3. How can you encourage yourself ? _ 4. 将短文中 划线
6、 句子译成汉语。 _ 5. 请给短文拟一个适当的标题。 _ (一 )答案： 1. Five suggestions. / 5. 2. You speak in a voice so low that other people can hardly hear you. 3. Give yourself praise for the good things youve done. 4. 如果你明白失败是人生中的一部分，就容易克服。 5. How to be more confident？ / Suggestions to be more confident / Suggestions for co
7、nfidence (二 ) Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I dont agree with them. Waste can bring a lot of problems. It is report
8、ed that we will have no coal or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future? Think about it. (1) I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible. In our everyday life, we can do ma
9、ny things to prevent waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed.(2)Waste will be stopped one day if we try our bes
10、t. 13. 将文章中画线的句子翻译 成汉语。 （ 1） _ 2将文章中画线的句子翻译成汉语。 （ 2） _ 3. List the behavior of waste mentioned in the first paragraph. _ 4. List three ways in our everyday life to stop wasting. (1)_ (2)_ (3)_ 5. 给短文拟一个适当的标题。 _ (二 )答案： 1. （ 1）我认为我们应该对那些天天浪费东西的学生说“不”。 2. （ 2）如果我们都尽力的话，将来有一天浪费会被阻止。 3. Ask for more foo
11、d and forget to turn off the lights. 4. (1)Turn off the water taps when we finish washing. (2)Turn off the lights when we leave the classroom. (3)Try not to order more food than we need. 5. Stop wasting/No more wasting. （三） If you think youre too shy and want to be a little bit braver, try the follo
12、wing. You can make it. Tell people youre shy. Theres no need to hide it. When they get to know you are a shy kid, theyll understand you better. (1) This also helps you feel more at ease in talks. (2)_ When you smile, people think you are friendly and easy to talk to. Remember that other people have
13、such feelings too and most people will stay away from an angry-looking face . (3)_ If you find it hard to start talks, say something nice about people around you. Think about how great you feel when someone says something nice to you. Doesnt it make you want to keep talking to that person? Get your
14、attention elsewhere. Think about more ways to enjoy the party or the game. Dont waste time worrying about your looks or whether people like you or not. Take one small step at a time .Each time after you say “Hi” or smile at someone for the first time, say to yourself “You did it!” Or it could be som
15、ething bigger, like buying yourself an ice cream. Keep trying and youll never be shy when you talk to others one day. 根据文章 内容完成下列各题 1. The underlined words “make it” mean “_” in English. 2. 请为（ 2）（ 3）两处选择两个小标题 A. Try to smile more B. Do as other people like C. Learn to be a good talker D. Keep talki
16、ng 3. 把（ 1）处画线句子译成英语 _ 4 从文中找出与下列句子意思相同的句子 Most people dont want to talk to the person who looks angry _ 5. 根据短文内容回答问题： How to get rid of（摆脱） shyness?列出 3-4 条即可。 (1)_ (2)_ (3)_ (4)_ (三 )答案 : 1. 改变它 2（ 2)处标题是 A. Try to smile more (3)处标题是： C. Learn to be a good talker 3. 这也能帮你在谈话中感到更轻松些。 4 most people
17、 will stay away from an angry-looking face . 5. (1) Tell people youre shy (2) Try to smile more (3) Learn to be a good talker (4)Get your attention elsewhere （四） In todays world many people seem to be hungry for money. Money does have its most useful effect on the poor. But even if a person has alre
18、ady got plenty of money, . If money were everything, all millionaires(百万富翁 ) would have real love, true friendship, good health and a long life. However, this is not always correct. Since the beginning of time no three words have ever invited more pleasure than “I love you”. But can love be bought?
19、Im afraid not. Love means to give, not to take. To every person, health and a long life are probably the best things. Well, can health and a long life be bought with money? The answer is “No”. Of all the longest living people in the world, few of them are millionaires. True friendship cant be bought
20、, either. In a word, where money is dreamed too much, it can cause brothers to quarrel, marriage to end, lovers to hate, and strangers to fight. No matter how much money you have, it is still not enough to make a happy person if you have no one to laugh with, no one to cry for. 1从文中找出与下句意义相近的句子。 It
21、seems that a lot of people want money very much now. 2根据短文内容回答问题。 What are probably the most important things to everyone? 3根据短文内容，将第一段最后一句补充完整。 But even if a person has already got plenty of money, 4将文中画线句子翻译成汉语。 5根据短文内容，写出文章的 标题。（ 10 词以内） （四） 答案： 1. In todays world many people seem to be hungry fo
22、r money. 2. Health and a long life. （答案不唯一，只要意思一致，以句子形式表达也可） 3. But even if a person has already got plenty of money, he may not be happy/money doesnt mean happiness/happiness cant be bought by money. （答案不唯一，要求答案要保持与上下文的连续性，且与参考答案意思相近） 4. 在世界上最长寿的人中，没有几个是百万富翁。（答案不唯一，只要表达正确、通顺，与参考答案意思相近即可） 5. Money i
23、s not everything/Money and happiness/Happiness cant be bought/Money is important but not the most important（答案不唯一，依据与文章内容的相关程度酌情给分，关键词：money） （五） Japanese children are so happy because they have three festivals each year. Including Boys day, they have Girls day and the 7-5-3 Festival. May 5th is Jap
24、anese Childrens Day. But since the festival is mainly celebrated by boys, it is usually called Boys day. On Boys day, children dont have to go to school. Each family with a boy hangs up huge carp-shaped flags(鲤鱼旗 ). The flags are usually with three colors: black (standing for the father), red (stand
25、ing for the mother), and blue (standing for the son). （ 1) Japanese parents believe that the flags will bring their boys good luck and give them courage and power. Girls day is a girls festival on March 3rd. It is also called the Dolls Festival because on that day, families get a set of dolls at hom
26、e for their daughters. It is celebrated because the parents want their children to be strong and healthy. （ 2)The 7-5-3 Festival is for_ aged three, five and _. Japanese people think that these three ages are the luckiest ones in ones life. On that day, these children get special candies wrapped(包裹
27、) in beautiful bags. The candy is the symbol of a long and healthy life for these children. The 7-5-3 Festival falls in November. 1. 将（ 1)句译成中文： _ 2. 在（ 2)句的空白处分别填入一个适当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺： _ _ 3. 根据短文内容，回答问题 。 Why do people call Girls day the Dolls Festival? _ 4.在文中找出与下面句子意思相近的句子 ,写在横线上。 Sweets represent
28、kids living long and keeping fit. _ 5. 在文中找出最能表达该短文主题的句子，写在横线上。 _ 答案（五） 1. 日本的父母相信这些鲤鱼旗会给他们的孩子（男孩）带来好运，会给他们勇气和力量。 2. children; seven 3. Because on that day, families get a set of dolls at home for their daughters. 4. The candy is the symbol of a long and healthy life for these children. 5. Japanese
29、children have three festivals each year. （六） Antarctica (南极洲 ) is in the most southern part of the world. It is like nowhere else on earth. It is much larger than Europe, and nearly twice the size of Australia. The South Pole(南极 ) is at its (1)_.Antarctica is the coldest and windiest place in the wo
30、rld, even colder and windier than the North Pole.(2) In the summer, the sun shines for twenty-four hours a day, but in the winter its completely dark for about three months. Very few plants grow there, but there is some wildlife, including whales, seals, and penguins. When Captain James Cook travele
31、d around Antarctica in the 1770s by ship, he found no one living there. Today a few scientists work in Antarctica, but they only spend fairly short time there. Many scientists in Antarctica are studying the ozone layer (臭氧层 ) .The ozone layer is getting thinner and thinner worldwide. The biggest “ h
32、ole” is over Antarctica, and weather there is getting warmer. (3)Scientists think that this cold and lonely place can teach us a lot about the earth and how to keep it safe. 1. 在（ 1）的空白处添入一个适当的词语： _ 2. 将画线部分（ 2）译成汉语： _ _ 3. 将画线部分（ 3）译成汉语： _ _ 4.从文中找出 3 个描述 Antarctica 的形容词 _ 5.给文章拟一个恰当的标题 _ 答案（六） 1.
33、center 2. 夏天，阳光每天照耀 2424 小时，但是在冬季，那里则一片黑暗达 3 个月。 3. 科学家们认为这个寒冷而孤独的地方能教会我们许多关于地球及如何使它保持安全的知识。 4. large, cold, windy (只要写出符合文章大意的 3 个形容词就行 ) 5. Antarctica （七） “life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.” This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact ,an unknown person who li
34、ved in Rome in AD(公元 ) 53 wrote it. We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. (1)But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives ? Picture this, Youre rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ m
35、essage from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How happy do you feel ? Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they oft
36、en leave up feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier ? Perhaps because they live simplier lives. One family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like witho
37、ut all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin,10 and Thomans,7,spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones. The grandmother, lyn, said, “(2) The more things you have, the more difficult life
38、 becomes.” “The boys said they fought less. probably, they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother has changed from being a “trendy O, beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things. 1. 将文章中画线的句子（ 1）译成汉语。 _ 2. 将文章中画线的句子（ 2）译成汉语。
39、_ 3. 在文中找出与下面句子意思相近的句子 ,写在下面横线上。 Someone calls you _ 4. 根据短文内容，回答下面的问题 。 Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? _ 5. 从文中找出一个最能表达作者想法的句子。 _ 答案（七） 1. 但是是否所有这些发展都提高了我们的生活质量了吗？ 2. 你拥有的东西越多，你觉得生活越困难。
40、 3. Your mobile phone rings. 4. Because they live simplier lives./They are not feeling stressed and tired. 5. “life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.” （八） Ten-year-old Barack Obama was one of only three black students at his school in Hawaii (夏威夷 ), US. He felt very different from most oth
41、er students. White girls wanted to touch his hair. A white boy asked him whether his father ate people. “I lied to them that my father was a Kenyan (肯尼亚 ) prince. But I kept asking myself who I am,” said Obama. 37 years later, to everyones surprise, the boy became well-known. On November 4th, 2008,
42、Obama became the first black president in US history. Obama was born to an African father and a white American woman from a small town in the US in 1961. He grew up in Indonesia (印度尼西亚 ) and Hawaii. (1) This unusual background made him wonder who he was. He even wanted to forget this question. With help from his friends, Obama finally t
