【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 . She wants to learn how to make movies like Mickey Mouse.11．閱讀短文，完成下列各題。 The bar chart shows the amount of money spent on two types of electronic items in country X. Study the information in the chart by choosing and reporting the main features.（1）The chart gives us information about the money spent on puters and smartphones in country X between the years________. （2）According to the chart, ________increased by $5 million each year. （3）Smartphone sales remained at $ 10 million until 2013 and then increased fast, reaching in ________2015. （4）People39。s total money spent on them was $40 million in 2011 and it rose to ________in 2015. （5）All in all, the sales of both of these items grew, but ________grew more quickly. 12．熱點(diǎn)題 任務(wù)型閱讀。 Car Free Day encourages drivers to give up their cars for a day to protect the environment. People from around the world get together in the streets to remind the world that we don39。t have to accept the society full of cars. It was first started by 34 cities in France and September 22 is Car Free Day. The first Car Free Day in China was in Chengdu in 2001. The slogan for the day is If we drive for one less day, we can have one more nice day. Organized activities are held in many cities on Car Free Day. In Brussels, Car Free Day shall be valid （有效的） for everybody except persons with a special permit（許可證）, but they have to slow down to the speed of 30 kilometers per hour. The public transportation is free on that day. In London, they have special green areas. Walking, biking and public transportation are encouraged. The streets are open only to walkers, bicycles and buses from 7: 00 a. m. to 7: 00 p. m. In Beijing, it asks drivers to leave their cars at home for one day each month and walk or ride a bike to work. More and more people are joining in the activity. In the first quarter of this year, Beijing only had 52 blue sky days, and you may see haze（霧霾） almost every day! We must do more for Car Free Day as a Beijing driver said, We may not change the weather, but we can choose not to drive. But we do not want just one day and then a return to normal life. We should go on with Car Free Day.（1）Where was Car Free Day started first？[within （不超過） two words] （2）How long should the car drivers not drive in the streets in London on Car Free Day？（within three words） （3）Who39。s allowed to drive on Car Free Day in Brussels？（within five words） （4）What does Car Free Day ask Beijingers not to do every month？（within nine words） （5）What39。s the purpose of Car Free Day？（within seven words） 13．夏明在學(xué)習(xí)上遇到一些問題，請(qǐng)根據(jù)描述并聯(lián)系上下文選出合適的句子補(bǔ)全信息幫助他。 Xia Ming was worried about his study, so he wrote a letter to a magazine.Dear editors, I39。m a slow student in my class. ________It39。s difficult to keep on working hard and it39。s really boring. I think I already spend much time studying every day. ________My father gives me some help sometimes. He tells me not to worry about it. But what do you think I should do?Xia Ming________Dear Xia Ming, ________. You should believe tomorrow is another day.Mr. UnsmartDear Xia Ming, Many famous people are not so good at the age like you. Edison, the famous scientist, had a bad headache for his studies when he was a 12yearold boy. But everyone knows that he did a lot for the people in the world. And Newton had the same story like him. You should take it easy, then try your best. ________ThumbelinaA. Two readers read the letter from the magazine and here are their answers.B. I39。m sure you can do better.C. Most of my classmates are much better than me.D. But I can39。t get good grades.E. When you are feeling bored, just smile and take a deep breath（深呼吸） 14．閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容完成后面各項(xiàng)任務(wù)。 One sunny afternoon, I went for a walk on the beach. There I saw a special crab （螃蟹）. It had two claws （螯）.一個(gè)螯比另一個(gè)人螯大得多、長的多。I had never seen such a crab before. So on my way home from the beach, I walked into the library. Luckily, I found a book named Come with me to the Edge of the Sea. It had many pictures of animals living near the sea. The pictures of male fiddler crabs （雄性招潮蟹） looked quite like the crab I found on the beach. I learned a lot about that kind of crab. Sometimes a fiddler crab puts the small claw across the big one. It looks like it is playing the fiddle （violin） when it does this, so some people call it the fiddler crab Sometimes it waves its big claw. It looks like it is saying hello. That39。s why other people call it the calling crab. Fiddler crabs39。 eyes are on long eye stalks （眼柄）. They can put up their eye stalks to look around~ It makes them look taller. These crabs are very small. There are lots of other, bigger beach animals that want to eat them. They dig holes in the sand （在沙子里挖洞）. The holes are their homes. They are safe inside them. Sometimes the sea water can bring food into their holes. （1）將文中劃線的漢語句子翻譯成英語。________ （2）回答問題：What does the underlined word “It” in the second paragraph refer to?________ （3）回答問題：What39。s another name for the fiddler crab?________ （4）回答問題：Where do fiddler crabs live?________ （5）將文中劃線的英語句子翻譯成漢語。________ 15．閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容完成后面各項(xiàng)任務(wù)。 Skyscrapers are very tall buildings in a city. Looking up at them might make you dizzy （眩暈的）. Looking down from them might make you dizzy too. A skyscraper is a wonder （奇觀）, whether you are looking up or down. How can the buildings be so tall? Something that happened during the 1880s made it possible. There were two important things at that time First, a man named William Jenney got the idea of using a steel frame to hold up the walls and floors （鋼架支撐墻壁和地面） of a building. Jenney39。s idea made it possible to build taller buildings, so he is called the Father of the American skyscraper. Second, the lifts improved They got much faster and safer. That helped people go up and down the tall buildings more easily. Back in the 1880s,