Animals always bring great stories, so this year’s KidsPost Summer Book Club focuses on animal adventures(冒险). Each Wednesday beginning from June 26, we’ll go on a new animal adventure.

   June 26.

   Survivors: The Empty City By Erin Hunter(ages 8 to 12)

   After an earthquake destroys a city, the dogs must find ways to survive(幸存). Lucky, a dog who usually lives on his own, meets up with a group of dogs. They went Lucky to join them, but Lucky is not so sure.

   July 10

   Pegasus: The Flame of Olympus By Kate O’Hearn(ages 8 to 12)

   A big storm knocks out the lights in New York City, and Emily hears a crash(破裂)on the roof of her apartment building. What she finds there is a creature she has seen only in books: Pegasus, the winged horse. Pegasus is wounded and needs her help. As Emily and her friend Joel try to save the horse, they went into a new world.

   July 31

   The Tale of Despereaux By Kate DiCamillo (ages 8 to 12)

   Despereaux Tilling lives in the city with his mouse family, but he doesn’t fit in. He is sent to the dungeon(地牢)because of talking to a human. In the dungeon, he meets a rat named Roscuro and a servant girl named Miggery Sow. All the three want to bring light to their lives.

   August 7

   The Cats of Tanglewood Forest By Charles do Lint(ages 8 to 12)

   Tangiewood Forest is home to strange creatures, including wild cats. Lillian, a girl who lives at the forest, is playing in the woods when she stops to rest. A snake bites(咬)her, and the cats come to help her. When she wakes up, Lillian becomes a cat. She wants her old self back.

21. We can learn from the passage that Pegasus _________.

   A. is a horse that can read books             B. has survived a big earthquake

   C. has been sent to a new world             D. gets help from Emily and her friend

22. If a child is interested in mice, he should choose the book written by ________.

   A. Erin Hunter                    B. Kate O’ Hearn

   C. Charles do Lint                 D. Kate DiCamillo

23. What happens to Lillian while she is playing?

   A. She gets injured by accident        B. She feels afraid and falls asleep

   C. She saves the cats from a snake     D. She makes friends with a snake

24. The write writes this passage in order to ________.

   A. ask kids to join a club             B. provide some books for kids

   C. introduce some famous writers      D. teach kids to care about animals

我们的环境质量已经成为一个重要问题，造成这个问题的原因有很多，我们也采取了一些措施去解决这个问题，根据下列提示完成作文。

注意：1、短文必须包括所有要点；2、词数120左右；

3、短文开头已写好，不计入总词数。

Today the quality of our natural environment has become an important issue.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away. That’s the finding of a scientific study of Dutch men in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those who ate at least an ounce of salt water fish per day than those who never ate fish.

The Dutch research is one of three human studies that hold the belief that eating fish can provide health benefits, particularly to the heart. Heart disease is the number-one killer in the United States, with more than 550,000 deaths from heart attacks each year. But researchers have noticed that the rate of heart disease is lower in countries that eat more fish than Americans do. There are fewer heart disease deaths, for example, among the Eskimos of Greenland, who eat about 14 ounces of fish a day, and among the Japanese, who daily eat fish about more than 3 ounces.

For 20 years, the Dutch study followed 852 middle-aged men, 20 percent of whom ate no fish.

At the start of the study, the average fish consumption (消耗) was about two-thirds of an ounce each day with more men eating thin fish than fatty fish.

During the next two decades(十年), 78 of the men died from heart disease. The fewest deaths were among the group who regularly ate fish, even far lower than those of the Japanese or Eskimos. This relationship was true, not considering other factors(因素) such as age, high blood pressure, or blood cholesterol.

25. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

A. The Dutch research has proved that eating fish can help to prevent heart disease.

B. Heart doctors won’t call at your house so long as you keep eating fish each day.

C. Among all the diseases, heart disease is the most dangerous in America.

D. There is a low rate of heart disease in Japan and Greenland.

26. The text is mainly about ________.

A. the high rate of heart disease

B. the great changed in people’s diet

C. the fish consumption in some countries

D. the influence of fish eating on people’s health

27. How many lives could probably be saved each year in the United States by eating fish according to the Dutch study?

A. 152,000         B. 110,000        C. 275,000        D. 550,000

28. We can conclude that _______.

A. heart disease usually happens in America

B. no heart disease happens in Japan and Greenland

C. high blood pressure can make people die

D. eating fish regularly can make people live longer

Welcome to the Electronic Village to explore new ways of language teaching and learning.

21.Nearpod can be used to　　　.

A.offer grammar tests               B.teach listening on-line

C.help vocabulary learning           D.gain fluency in speaking

22.If you want to improve your speaking skills,you can go to　　　.

A.Room 501           B.Room 502     C.Room 601            D.Room 602

23.Which of the following can assess your grammar learning?

A.Nearpod.         B.Kahoot.       C.TEO.                D.Prezi.

24.A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by　　　.

A.9:00 am              B.10:30 am      C.2:00 pm                  D.3:30 pm

When 68-year-old retired engineer, Roger Wilday, 61            (walk) his dog Jade in a Birmingham city park, he never imagined his dog would lead him to a newborn baby girl 62     had been abandoned inside 63            blanket.

According to Mail Online, Wilday told 64        (report) “Jade has grown up with children around her, she loves babies and when she found the baby in the bushes she wouldn’t leave 65         he knew I had seen it.” Wilday was astonished by the 66           (discover), and said he believed the baby was just a few hours old since she was still warm. Wilday called immediately and within minutes, police and an ambulance arrived.

Police took the blanket and sent it to be processed for DNA. They hope the test result will help identify the baby’s parents. The infant, now 67      (know) as “Baby Jade”, was named 68            her four-legged hero rescuer. “She is a hero dog,” said Wilday. “There 69        (be) no one else in the park at the time and it was very cold. But for Jade, that baby might have been dead.”

The baby was found in good health and is expected 70        (make) a full recovery.

 The manager toghther with some workers _____ visiting a factory now.

A. is           B. are              C. were              D. has

短文中有10处错误，错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（/）划掉

修改：在错的词下划一横线。并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改后的词。

   2.只允许修改10处。多改（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Tom,

I am delighted that you have passed the exam successful. What you have gained are the result of your hard work. How time flies! It’s two years before you came to study Chinese in Beijing. In the passed two years, you have helped us a lot, without that we couldn’t have made great progress in English.
    Before you leave, many classmate and I intend to hold a farewell party for you, hope that you can remember the wonderful time we spent together. By the way, the party will be held on this Saturday evening in my house. We can take the No.1 bus at the hotel gate and get off bus at the Booking Building. I will be there meeting you.
We’re looking forward to your coming.
                                                                                Yours sincerely,
                                                                                    Li Hua

Hold Your Head Up High

Hold your head up high I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. from then on, my injured, sightless, cloudy gray eye lived on with me.
    Sometimes people asked me embarrassing（使人难堪的）questions. Whenever kids played games, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on（瞧不起）me.
Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that saying.
    As a child, I thought mum meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or bump into something because you are not looking." As a teenager, I usually looked down to hide my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, People liked me.
    In high school I even became the class president, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mum and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside instead of your appearance（外貌）.”
    My mum's love was the sunshine that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be confident（自信的） but also to have deep compassion（同情）for others.
“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I say it to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.
34. The word “carefree” in the first line probably means“ ______” in Chinese.

   A.无忧无虑的           B.无拘无束的      C.小心翼翼的        D.与众不同的
35.Why did the writer's mum say “Hold your head up high” to her?
   A. To tell her to be careful.                    B. To help her hide the shame.
   C. To stop her from getting hurt.                D. To make her more confident.
36. From the story, we can know that ______.
   A. the writer understood the saying very well as a child
   B. the writer felt like everyone else in high school.
   C. the writer is living with a warm and brave heart now
   D. the writer has deep compassion for others all her life
37.The passage is mainly about ______.
   A. what the writer experienced when she was 15
   B. what the writer did to show thanks for mum's gift
   C. how the writer changed herself with mum's love
   D. how the writer became confident with her great efforts

 “No Other Story,” by Dr. Cuthbert Soup. $16.99. Ages 8-12.

This is the third book in a series that tells the story of the Cheeseman family, which is dad Ethan Cheeseman and his three “smart, polite and attractive children.” (The reason why there is no mother is central to the story, which is about time travel, dinosaurs and delicious ice cream.) Even if you haven’t read the earlier books in the series, you’ll find this story exciting and mostly laugh-out-loud funny.

“The Santa Trap,” by Jonathan Emmett. $15.95. Age 5 and older.

We’re really hoping that none of you reading this is as bad a kid as Bradley Bartleby. Because even Santa (圣诞老人) finds it hard to put Bradley on a “nice” list. In fact, Santa won’t give Bradley anything but socks, and bad, bad Bradley is bored. So he sets out to trap Santa and steal all the toys that Santa is carrying for good girls and boys. This funny story will have you talking about the importance of “being good.”

“Let’s Make Some Great Fingerprint Art,” by Marion Deuchars. $14.95. Age 5 and older.

All you need to enjoy this book is your finger, and ink pad(印台) and your imagination. Do you know that two thumbprints(拇指的指纹) can create a heart or that those same two prints can create pigs, cats or bees? The book is filled with clever ideas, but we think the best part is that it will help you come up with more of your own.

“Twelve Kinds of Ice,” by Ellen Bryan Obed. $16.99. Age 8 and older.

This is a short (just 64 pages) and beautifully pictured book that tells the story of one winter’s worth of ice. It starts with the thin ice that forms on a bottle of water and continues with the ice that is perfect for a skating party. Even when winter draws to a close and the ice has turns into water, you know that some ice always remains: the ice of your memories. This book will have you hoping for a pair of skates under the tree and cold days this winter.

29. Bradley Bartleby __________.

A. helps Santa hand out gifts                 B. gets nothing from Santa

C. makes Santa angry                       D. steals Santa’s toys

30. The book “Twelve Kinds if Ice”________.

A. is a thick book                          B. has beautiful pictures

C. is the cheapest of the four                 D. is about the ice on a skating area

31. If 5-year-old Alice wants to create something herself, she may be interested in the book written by ________.

A. Ellen Bryan Obed                       B. Jonathan Emmett

C. Marion Deuchars                        D. Cuthbert Soup

32. In which part of a newspaper can we find the text?

A. Arts.         B. Travel.        C. Science.       D. Literature.

Quick tips for better time management

Are you a good time manager? If your answer is “no”, here are some tips on how to be a better time manager:

1. Create a daily plan. Plan your day before it starts. The plan gives you a good description of how the day will go on. That way, you will be ready to deal with most of the things you meet.   36 

2. Focus. Are you multi-tasking so much that you’re just not getting anything done?   37   Only focus on what you’re doing. You’ll be more efficient that way.

3. Stay away from your time wasters. What takes your time away from your work? QQ? Email checking?   38   One thing you can do is make it hard to check them — remove them from your browser quick links.

4.   39   Don’t take on more than you can deal with. For the distractions that come in when you’re doing other things, give a firm no. Or do it later.

5. Decide to be early. When you prepare to be on time, you’ll either be on time or late.   40   However, if you decide to be early, you’ll most likely to be on time. For appointments, try to be early. For your deadlines, meet them earlier than required.

A. Learn to say “No”.

B. Cut off when you need to.

C. Stop checking them so often.

D. Most of the time you’ll be late.

E. Great ways to know your time spent.

F. If so, focus on just one key task at one time.

G. Your job for the day is to follow the plan as best as possible.

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增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

       2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

One day, little Tony went to a shopping center with his parent. It was very crowded. Tony saw a toy on a shop window. He liked it so very much that he quickly walked into the shop. After looks at the toy for some time, he turned around and found where his parents were missing. Tony was scared and begin to cry. A woman saw him crying and telling him to wait outside a shop. Five minutes later, Tony saw parents. Mom said, “How nice to see you again! Dad and I were terrible worried.” Tony promised her that this would never happen again.

 I sleep late and skip breakfast during the vacation ______ is often the case with many students.

  A. that                  B. who                C. what             D. as

Imagine walking to your local park on a warm summer afternoon and sitting down under a tree with a good book and a freshly picked apple. That is exactly what the clever minds behind Seattle’s Beacon Food Forest Project are hoping to do for all its residents(居民)in the near future.

The project is just 2.5 miles from the center of Seattle, close to the city’s popular Jefferson Park. It was started in February, 2012 and is being developed on seven acres(英亩)of land. Using $100,000 from the US government, hundreds of volunteers are working hard, developing the first two acres of the food forest. So far, the park that will be open to the public later this summer is home to 35 trees. They are expected to start producing fruits next year. The volunteers have also completed a large amount of decoration work to make the park more attractive.

Besides delicious fruits like strawberries and apples, residents will also be able to pick vegetables and even tree nuts. When the park is completely developed, it will be home to as many as 200 types of useful plants. And it will also include 50 individual gardens and a special area for free and paid workshops on a lot of different topics. There will also be special areas for picnics and for kids to play in, after they have had a freshly picked piece of fruit of course!

When it is completed, according to Glen Herlihy, a local resident, the park will be nice, although a little denser(更茂密的)than a normal park. Besides bringing the residents together, Glen also hopes that this activity will help bring people closer to the origin(起源)of food and encourage them to become more active in improving the environment.

28. What’s the main idea of this passage?

   A. Fruit trees are planted in Jefferson Park

   B. A free food forest is being built in Seattle

  C. Jefferson Park is the most popular park in Seattle

   D. Volunteers are wanted to build a fruit park in Seattle

29. The underlined word “They” in Paragraph 2 refers to “_________”.

   A. the 35 trees             B. the public

   C. the projects             D. the volunteers

30. What’s Herlihy’s attitude towards the idea of building a food forest?

   A. Shocked            B. Doubtful          C. Disappointed        D. Supportive

    A mother and daughter have made their wedding days special—by having a joint ceremony(联合婚礼).

       Kim Milhano, 28, and Susan Scott-Williams, 51, got married together. The two are often mistaken for sisters. They combined their weddings at a hotel near their homes in Bristol. Mother-of-two Kim said, “Sharing my big day with another bride(新娘) could make it feel embarrassing(令人尴尬的). But it actually brought us double the joy.”

       After walking up two ways in a V-shape, the brides met their husbands for their ceremonies, which were followed by a huge party for 180 people. And because they had one large wedding instead of two, the family managed to save a quarter of the cost of the ￡8,000 event.

       Kim said, “When my husband Carlos rang me and said ‘I think you need to sit down’, I was worried that one of the kids was hurt. So it was a bit of a relief(放松) when he said he wanted to have a double wedding with my mum and her husband Barry. Up until then day-to-day life had taken over and we’d never had time or the money to plan a wedding.” “Mum and Barry were happy for us to do things completely in our way but I didn’t want to take over. So we planned everything together—it’s what our whole family is like. We spent months planning the big day together. Thankfully we never had different opinions!”

21. Why was the wedding special?

   A. The wedding was much more joyful than an ordinary one.

   B. The mother and her daughter shared the same wedding day.

   C. The ceremony was held at a hotel near the brides’ homes.

   D. The couples successfully saved the money for the ceremony.

22. By saying “I didn’t want to take over”, Kim hoped ________.

   A. she was worried about the wedding

   B. her mother had another wedding

   C. the two families lived together after the wedding

   D. she and her mother discussed the wedding together

23. The author’s attitude towards the joint wedding can be described as ________.

   A. uninterested      B. disappointed       C. hopeful      D. supportive 

If English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
   According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes（处理） information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles(肌肉).
  The study also found the effect is greater when the younger people learn a second language. A team led by Dr. Andrea Mechelli, from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals” who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners. Scans showed that grey matter density (密度) in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference.“Our findings suggest that the structure（结构）of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language,” said the scientists.
   It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn. Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills. “Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible (灵活的),” he said. “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”
  The findings had the same result in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of two and thirty-four. Reading, writing, and comprehension were all tested. The results showed that the younger they started to learn, the better. “Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world,” explained the scientists.
32.The main idea of this passage is ________.
      A. science on learning a second language           B. man’s ability of learning a second language

C. that language can help brain power                      D. language learning and maths study
33. The underlined word “bilingual” probably means _______.
       A. a researcher on language learning                          B. a second language learner
      C. a person who can speak two languages                 D. an active language learner
34. We may know from the scientific findings that ________.
      A. the earlier you start to learn a second language, the higher the grey matter density is 
      B. there is no difference between a later second language learner and one who doesn’t know a second

language
C. the experience of learning a second language has bad effect on people’s brain
D. the ability of learning a second language is changing all the time

35. In the last two paragraphs, the author wants to tell us that _________.
      A. learning a second language is the same as studying maths
      B. early learning of a second language helps you a great deal in studying other subjects
      C. Italian is the best choice for you as a second language
      D. you’d better choose the ages between 2 and 34 to learn a second language

Don’t be too strict with him. _______, he is only a child.

A. Above all       B. In all           C. After all           D. First of all

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       增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

       删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

       修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

       注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I have the best friend who I can share everything with. His name was Li Gang, and we’re in the same grades. Li Gang is a good student because he is very hardworking. He is good in all subjects, especially math. I’ve learned a lot of from him. Besides that, he’s honesty. I trust him complete and we share secrets all the time. He always remember my birthday and he is fun be with. He tells funny jokes but always makes me laugh. Finally, he is a very good listener. I hope we’ll stay friends forever.

 _______ plays an important part in winning the fight against the serious disease?

     A. Who do you think                               B. Whom do you think

   C. Do you think whom                                                              D. Do you think who

The World Health Organization says the widespread use of sugar in food products and drinks is a major concern in many areas. So WHO officials are calling on governments to require taxes on sugary drinks in an effort to limit their usage and popularity. The officials believe the taxes also would reduce the risk of health problems resulting from obesity.

Obesity is a condition in which the body stores large, unhealthy amounts of fat. Obese individuals are considered overweight. A new report says that in 2014 more than one-third of the adults in the world were overweight, and 500 million were considered obese. The United Nations agency estimates that in 2015, 42 million children under age 5 were either overweight or obese. It says that number represents an increase of about 11 million during the past 15 years. Almost half of these boys and girls live in Asia and one-fourth in Africa.

The U.N. agency blames unhealthy diets for a rise in diabetes cases. There are 422 million cases of the disease worldwide. WHO says 1.5 million people die from it every year. It says the use of sugar in food products, like sugary drinks, is a major reason for the increase in rates of obesity and diabetes.

Temo Waqanivalu is with the agency’s Department for the Prevention on Non-Communicable Diseases. He told VOA hat taxing sugary drinks would reduce consumption and save lives. Waganivalu noted that Mexico enacted a 10 percent tax on sugary drinks in 2014. He said by the end of the year, there was a 6 percent drop in the consumption of such drinks. Among poor people, the number of people who consumed sugary drinks dropped by 17 percent.

The WHO says people should limit the amount of sugar they consume. It says they should keep their sugar intake to below 10 percent of their total energy needs, and reduce it to less than 5 percent for improved health.

7. Why are taxes on sugary drinks required?

A. To limit their use and popularity.              

B. To readjust the economic structure.

C. To warn people to change their life style.       

D. To ensure the market’s diverse development.

8. What do the figures in the second paragraph suggest?

A. Adult obesity is ignored at present.               

B. Obesity is a severe worldwide problem.

C. Obesity can block economic development. 

D. Obesity is most serious in developed countries.

9. What does the underlined word “enacted” mean in the passage?

A. Abolish     B. Pass                 C. Promise         D. Reduce

10. What does the example of Mexico prove?

A. Tax policies are unfair to the poor.                   

B. Sugary drinks are a threat to health.

C. The poor consume more sugary drinks.           

D. Taxing sugary drinks makes a difference.

Wherever she goes, Molly leaves her mark. Without saying a word, she speaks to people with her kind eyes. Even when she walks away, she leaves an impression. Molly’s mark is a smile, stamped into the ground by the horseshoe at the bottom of her false leg.

A few year age, Molly was badly attacked by a dog. The dog bit all four or Molly’s legs and left large cuts in her face. Molly’s owner, Kate Harris, took her to an animal hospital. Doctors there were able to save Molly’s life, but soon one of her legs became very infected（感染）.

At first, doctors thought Molly would have to be put to sleep. But Molly changed their minds. The pony, doctors noticed, shifted her weight, and rested her good leg from time to time, Doctors knew that Molly had amazing intelligence, and that she wanted to live.

Several doctors operated on Molly, and removed her infected leg. A false leg was made for her. The leg was a hollow cast with a pole at the bottom for balance. Doctors gave Molly a special horseshoe at the bottom of the leg. This horseshoe she had had a stamp of a smile face in it!

After the operation, Molly walked around on all four legs, as if nothing had ever happened to her! Now, with every step she takes, she stamps a smile in the dirt. But she leaves her mark in other ways, too.

Kaye Harris took Molly to the false leg center. There were children who, like Molly, had artificial arms or legs. They were amazed to see a pony with a false leg. Molly made them smile and gave them hope. Soon, Molly began to visit schools, nursing homes, army bases and hospitals. A book was even written about Molly!

24. Molly is the name of a ___________.

A. dog

B. horse

C. parent

D. child

25. Which of the following is true according to the text?

A. Molly can speak to people in kind words.

B. Kay Harris took Molly to a children’s hospital after the attack.

C. In the beginning, doctors had planned to end Molly’s life.

D. Molly sometimes leaves smiling marks on people’s faces.

26. What is unique（独特的）about Molly?

A. Molly has a false leg with a horseshoe shaped like a smiling face.

B. Molly ran a race and won the first prize.

C. Molly often visits places such as schools and parks.

D. Molly has become a symbol of hope for people of all ages.

27. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. A Book on Molly

B. A False Leg

C. A successful Operation

D. Leaving her Mark