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Go to your local public library, and you will find an unusual activity is appearing more and more: Practicing reading with trained dogs. How would you feel about taking time once a week to read aloud to a dog?

Each dog in a reading program experience a special training session. The trainers also receive training; they learn how to interact(互动)with the students and the dogs. Each program has high standards. There have been many studies of the interactions between humans and dogs that show dogs lower people’s blood pressure and heart rate. People become more relaxed and calm and will completely forget what they are scared of when they have a dog nearby.

Unlike at school, where students sit at desks or tables, students and dogs sit together on special reading mats. Some students lie next to the dogs. Each student reads to one dog, so there is a quiet din of voices in the room. The dog has been taught a command to pay attention to the reader. So when the trainer says something to the dog, it focuses on the studentat once. But sometimes, the students read the dogs to sleep!

The dog’s trainer is also present. He or she watches the dog carefully to make sure that the dog behaves. Sometimes, the trainer gives the dog a break when the dog becomes restless. While the trainer doesn’t help with the reading, the trainer talks to the student about the dog and explains how to take care of pets and how to be safe around animals.

Students who read to dogs show the benefits of this interaction. They are calmer and can avoid worrying about getting all the words correct. The dog just wants to hear the story. As students learn more about the dogs they read to, they also learn that they have gained a new friend.

Not only do students change their reading habits with the dogs during the program, but they also change their school habits. Their reading skills increase by twelve to twenty percent. They start raising their hands and answering questions more often. They pay more attention in class. Some students start arriving at school earlier and are absent less often.

Dogs are not just for playing fetch with anymore. Now they can help people become better readers. Next time you visit your local library, be on the lookout for four-legged creatures (生物) who want to hear a good story.

1. The underlined word “command” in Paragraph 3 probably means “_________”.

A. lesson B. order

C. language D. rule

2.From the passage, we can learn that this activity can __________.

A. help students be more helpful and clever

B. help increase reading speed by 8 percent

C. make the trained dogs fall asleepquickly

D. make students be more active in school

3. The writer wants to tell us that _________.

A. the students can benefit from reading with dogs

B. the dogscan betrained to understand the story

C. the students can be taught to train dogs well

D. the trainers help students to read correctly

4.What is probably the best title for this passage?

A. Why do we need dogs?

B. Where can we read books?

C. Who can help us read books?

D. How do we change the habits?

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Music for the Clouds

Once upon a time, there was a country. It didn’t rain for a long time. The people there started to go hungry because the crops died during the long drought(干旱).

A group of musicians were travelling the country, trying to make a living from their music shows. 1..Because there were so many problems in the land.

“We believe music can help solve all the problems,” said the musicians. But no one paid any attention. 2.. It was very strange, because the sky was cloudy.

“It has been cloudy like this for many months, but not a single drop of rain has fallen,” people there told them.

“3. ,” the musicians said, and they began practicing for the concert on the top of the mountain. Everyone who heard the music was surprised and went up the mountain. 4..There were tiny and interesting notes（音符） from their instruments. They rose and rose into the clouds. The music was so beautiful, happy and fun.

And the notes started playing with the clouds and the whole sky turned into an amazing amusement park. Before long, the large clouds were thundering with laughter.

The musicians continued playing, and a few minutes later the clouds started crying with laughter. 5., and they brought great happiness to all.

And in memory of that musical rain, everyone in the land learned how to play an instrument. They took turns to go up the mountain, and bring joy to the clouds with their beautiful songs.

A. o the musicians wanted to do something for help

B. When they got there, the musicians began to play

C. Don’t worry, we’ll bring rain to the country

D. But no one felt like listening to music

E. The country was full of tears of joy

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It’s about Time

Do you know what time it is? If you do, you probably are looking at a clock or Long ago, people didn’t have clocks or watches like you do. When the sun rose, they got up and when the sun went down, they went to bed. They told timeby the position of the sun in the sky.

People discovered that they could use a stick and the sun to tell time. This was called a shadow clock. They put a stick in the ground, pointing straight up. The direction of the stick’s shadow and how long or shortit was told them the time.

A better kind of shadow clock was called a sundial. Sundial had a pointer and a base. The pointer cast a shadow on marks around the base. People could tell time by reading the marks.

But shadow clocks were not good for telling time on cloudy days or at night.

One kind of clock that didn’t need the sun was a water clock. A water clock was container with a tiny hole in the bottom. Water would steadilydropout of the hole. Marks on the inside of the container showed the time. It took one hour for the water to go down one mark.

Another kind of clock that didn’t need the sun was a candle clock. You would know the time by how much of the candle had melted（熔化）. The candle had marks down its side to show the hours.

Sometimes people used candle clocks as alarm clocks. They put a nail（钉子）in the candle at the time they wanted to wake up, hanging a shoe on the nail. When the candle melted down, the nail fell outand the shoe hit the floor with a BANG! Now there are all kinds of timepieces, from tall grandfather clocks to watches we wear on our wrists（手腕）. Most clocks run on electricity from batteries.

There are many more types of clocks, too. Clocks hang in and on buildings. Clocks are everywhere!

1.Did people have clocks or watches like you do long ago?

2.What did sundial have?

3. How long did it take for the water to go down one mark in water clock?

4.How would you know the time when you use a candle clock?

5.What does the writer want to tell us?

文段表达，从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

题目①

假如你是李华，你和同学们准备为小明举办一个生日聚会，打算邀请你们的好朋友—美国交换生Peter参加。请你用英语写一封电子邮件，告诉他聚会的时间和地点，活动内容，以及需要准备什么。

提示词语：hold, activity, get together, sing, eat, game, gift, wish

提示问题：●When and where are you going to celebrate XiaoMing’s birthday?

●What are you going to do at the party?

●What do you advise Peter to prepare for Xiao Ming’s birthday?

Dear Peter,

How is it going?

I’m writing to invite you to Xiao Ming’s birthday party.

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I’m looking forward to yourearly reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

假如你是李华，你们学校正就“感恩父母，从我做起”这一话题开展大讨论。请你用英语写一篇短文给某英文网站投稿，谈谈为什么要感恩父母，你通常在业余时间帮父母做什么，以及你这样做的感受。

提示词语：think, bring up, work, make money, support, housework, cook, clean, wash, happy,

proud

提示问题：●Why is it important for you to thank parents?

●What do you usually do for them in your spare time?

●How do you feel?

At my school, we are talking about what we can do to thank parents.

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提示词语：hold, activity, get together, sing, eat, game, gift, wish

提示问题：●When and where are you going to celebrate XiaoMing’s birthday?

●What are you going to do at the party?

●What do you advise Peter to prepare for Xiao Ming’s birthday?

Before I watched ____________ science fiction The Martian directed by Ridley Scott, I had never seen __________ better film than that.

A. a, the B. a, a

C. the, the D. the, a

---Why did they help Mrs. Brown with her work? --- Because she was_______________.

A. an old friend of them B. a good friend of theirs

C. one of their friend D. the friend of them

Lucy had a traffic accident on her way home. Luckily, she ___________, just got scared.

A. didn’t hurt B. wasn’t hurt

C. was hurt D. Hurt

--- Did the speaker tell us several practical ways to develop our social skills during his speech?

--- ____________at all. He said ___________ about it.

A. No. nothing B. Not, none

C. Nothing, none D. None, nothing

Don’t wait for others to be polite. Show them __________ a friendly person you are.

A. what B. how

C. when D. Where