根据短文理解，选择正确答案。 One day a man found a cocoon(蚕) of a butterfly in the forest. He sat there for sev...

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根据短文理解，选择正确答案。

One day a man found a cocoon(蚕) of a butterfly in the forest. He sat there for several hours and watched the butterfly. Suddenly, a small opening appeared and the butterfly made its great effort(努力) to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further.（那个蛹好象忘记了它该怎样做, 也好象停止了挣扎）.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon so that the butterfly would come out easily. But to his surprise, the butterfly got a heavy body and very small wings when it came out of the cocoon.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that the body would grow smaller at any moment and the wings would become larger and be able to fly. But neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬) around with a heavy body and small wings. It was never able to fly.

The man was in his kindness, but he didn't understand the nature rules. Before the butterfly came out of the cocoon, fluid(液体) from its body must be forced into its wings, and then would be ready for flying. It must have a hard struggle(拼搏) to get through the small opening to get its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any difficulties, it would make us fail. We would not be as strong as we could have been, we could never fly.

（1）、What was the butterfly doing at the beginning of the story?

A、It was trying to make a cocoon for it self. B、It was crawling around quietly on the ground. C、It was flying among the trees in the forest. D、It was struggling to get out of its cocoon.

（2）、The man cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon in order to __________.

A、take the butterfly home B、help the butterfly come out easily C、kill the butterfly D、stop the butterfly growing bigger

（3）、What do you think of the man?

A、Patient but cruel B、Careful and wise C、Kind but unwise D、Brave and funny

（4）、What does the last paragraph (段落) tell us?

A、Struggles are sometimes necessary in our life. B、Nothing is difficult if we put our heart into it. C、Every good deed will come back with good result. D、The greatest happiness in the world is to help others.

（5）、What is the best title of the story?

A、The Love for the Cocoon. B、The Joy of Helping Each Other. C、The Lesson of the Cocoon. D、The Expectation (期待) for the Butterfly.

举一反三

There was once a young man called Paul in a village in the USA. Paul was very lazy because his father was a rich farmer and he didn't have to work. Mr Smith, a neighbour of his, was a blacksmith (铁匠). He used to work in his shop all day. Paul spent hours and hours watching how the blacksmith worked every day. “Young man, why don't you try your hand to make a shoe tack (铁钉), even it is only to pass the time?” said the blacksmith one day, “ Maybe it will be useful to you some day.” Finally, the lazy boy began to have a try. After practicing some times, he became skilled and could make very nice tacks.
Years later, Paul's father died and he lost all the things because of a war (战争). He had to move to another country and live by himself. It happened that there were many shoemakers paying high prices to buy tacks for the shoes, because in that part of the country there was a great need of tacks for soldiers' shoes. Paul went to talk with them. He told them that he would make the tacks if they could help him find a workshop in the village. The shoemakers agreed. Then Paul made a lot of money by making tacks. “How funny it is!” he said to himself, “Even by making shoe tacks, one can become rich.”

先通读下面的短文。掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
In order to quit smoking(戒烟)，Cheyenne Lu has been living in a glass box on a busy shopping street for three days．
    Lu has been smoking for the last 12 years,and she1 how difficult it is to quit．She tried many times before，but all failed(失败)．One main 2 was that she didn't tell her family and friends that she was trying to give up(放弃)．So this time she told them her decision．
    Lu has been eating and sleeping in a glass box3a computer and some DVDs helping her pass the time．She has been keeping all online diary(日记)to record4experiences in the glass box．
    Lu said she got a lot of encouragement from people passing by.5, some people tried to make it more difficult by stopping in front of her window and lighting a cigarette(点烟).One stranger6offered to give her$500 to smoke a cigarette with him."Surprisingly,it made me want to stop smoking even more．"said Lu.
   7Lu hasn't smoked for three days,she knows this is only the beginning of her smoke-free journey.But she has 8to look forward to.She is a 9fan,and she plans to use all the money she saves by not smoking to travel to London．She10to see her favourite football player Cesc Fabregas in real life.

阅读理解

Angelo Casimiro made something new at the age of fifteen.

Casimiro made a device(装置）. It can charge（给……充电）your cellphone as you walk! When you run, jump or walk, a pair of discs(唱片）inside the shoes can produce electricity. It can be used to charge your phone or any other devices with a USB port!

People have to move a lot if they use the device to charge. Those who like travelling in the wild will love it. It takes about eight hours' jogging to charge a lithium-ion（锂离子）battery and two hours' playing basketball will only give the cellphone about 10 minutes' charge.

A device called SolePower is a kind of insole（鞋垫）that can produce electricity. SolePower is like Casimiro's device, but it can fully charge a cellphone after over a four-kilometre walk. So there's a lot for Casimiro to do to make his invention（发明）better.

Anyway, Casimiro's device is quite good. After all, his invention started something new, right?

阅读理解

The 4K edition of The Legend of Sealed Book hit cinemas on 5th November 2021, It is a Chinese cartoon film from 38 years ago. The story comes from a Chinese old story. Yuangong, who comes from heaven, finds a book with amazing skills and lets the boy Dansheng practise them. Film workers borrowed cultural elements(元素) from opera and painting. The looks of many characters come from Peking Opera face makeup(装扮).Lovely Dansheng looks like wawasheng, roles for kids in Peking Opera. A fox wears huadan makeup to make her more attractive. Huadan is the young female role in Peking Opera. "Funny and beautiful"— these are what the artist worked hard for, according to the film's director Qian Yunda.

Another cartoon, Little Tadpole Looking for Mummy was drawn with ink and brush. The designers learned from the great artist Qi Baishi. The black tadpoles (蝌蚪), pink flowers, yellow chickens and red goldfish… all come to life! Cartoon artists painted in both realistic and poetic(富有诗意的) styles. They used simple and thin lines to paint character, but they used the ink wash painting style to paint mountains, trees and water.

These cartoons give us a taste of Chinese culture. They have a real Chinese style."Classical Chinese cartoons show us how colourful and rich our cultures are. I respect the artists who made them,"said an actor.

将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次

A. floors B. passage C. mind D. went wrong E. remembered

Nowadays too many people have to work at weekends. Some people don't {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Others think it's terrible.

One woman thinks that working at the weekends can be dangerous. She is Kelly Smith. Mrs. Smith works in an office in Brighton, England. One Saturday, May 24, she went to the office to do some work. After she got into the lift, it stopped between the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Mrs. Smith couldn't get out of the lift. She began to shout, but no one heard him. Then Mrs. Smith {#blank#}3{#/blank#} that it was holiday in England. No one was going to work until Tuesday. With nothing to eat or drink, Mrs. Smith was very hungry and had to sleep most of the time. Early on Tuesday morning, her workmates came to work and found the lift {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. When the lift was opened, Mrs. Smith came out cold, weak and tried. She had been in the lift for more than 60 hours.

Now Mrs. Smith says, "I only use lifts if they have telephones in them!"

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。

As a little girl when I heard my sister talk about her life-changing term abroad in Paris, it became my goal to visit it one day. When my daily life in New Jersey seemed boring, I often 1 about walking around the streets of Paris. Luckily, with our financial (财务的) situation2 , European travel became a reality.

Travelling to a European country with my3 was exciting, but it would not be complete without facing problems and figuring them out.

We had just started to get4 familiar (熟悉的) with the Paris subway system. Since using it was very difficult, we were walking slowly until we5 the subway was about to leave. As soon as I6 , the doors shut with my mom on the other side. I did not have my cell phone, neither of us could speak a word of7 , and we had no idea how to connect each other. My mom and I, who were both8 , began to knock heavily on the doors. Suddenly, a man with a very puzzled look on his face walked over to the doors and simply9 them. My mom stepped on and we hugged10 we just met each other for the first time in years. A huge sense of11 washed over us.

12 , my mom and I were able to find all those tourist places we wanted to go. We began to explore the neighborhood we were staying in, such as finding our favorite breakfast café13 walking to museums. The trip to Paris was not just14 because of the beautiful clothes or the sidewalk cafés, but it also taught me it is okay to run into15 when trying to explore an unfamiliar area, and if you keep working, you will improve.

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