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l students, may like it better in free time.⑶________Though you could buy the world, you could not buy a happy family, good friends or knowledge (知識(shí)).⑷________For parents with children, an important problem is getting the children away from the television to do their homework.⑸________When you need help for your homework, go to the library. You may find magazines, newspapers and big dictionaries there. They can always help you.11.閱讀短文,回答下列問(wèn)題。 New York is a very large city with more than eight million people. How do so many people move on their way to work or school? In New York you can travel by subway, bus, taxi and private car. The subway runs on the railroad lines under the city. Travelling by subway is the fastest way to get around the city. The second way to travel around the city is by public bus. It is a slower way to travel. This is because the traffic is very heavy. You can also travel around the city by taxi. This is very expensive, but the taxi will take you to every place you want to go. If the traffic is heavy, the taxi will be slow too. During the mornings and afternoons, there is the rush hour. This is the time when the traffic is very heavy with people going to and from work. The last way to get around New York is using your private car. It is inconvenient(不方便的)because you will perhaps be driving during the rush hour. The best time to travel around the city is from 9 am to 4 pm, because it isn39。t the rush hour. (1)What39。s the population of New York?(不超過(guò)4個(gè)詞) (2)How many ways of travelling around the city are mentioned in the passage?(不超過(guò)2個(gè)詞) (3)Why is it inconvenient to use private cars?(不超過(guò)10個(gè)詞) 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(guò)) 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.閱讀下面短文,根據(jù)其內(nèi)容完成后面各項(xiàng)任務(wù)。 In the United States, teenagers (青少年) can only get a fulltime(全職的)job if they are 16 years old or older. But there are things that the younger teeagers make some money. Here are a few examples. Parents will young children sometimes want to go out for dinner or to the movies, but they don39。t want to leave their children at home alone. So they ask a teenager to stay in the house and look after their children when they are out. If the children go to bed early, the teenager can do some of his or her homework! Some people have a dog, but they don39。t have time to take it for a walk. Dogs need a lot of exercise! So some teenagers work as dog walkers. It39。s a good idea they can make money and stay outside in the fresh air. They get some exercise too! Teenagers can deliver (遞送) newspapers. They usually ride a bike and leave newspapers at each house. They need to have their own (自己的) bike. They have to get up early too, because people want to read their newspapers at breakfast. Teenagers can also work at home on their puters. Some panies pay teenagers to take online surveys (調(diào)查). They want to know what teenagers are interested in. It39。s a fun and easy way to make money. These are all popular ?中的一個(gè)來(lái)賺些錢(qián) Before they do their jobs, they usually tell someone about what they39。 re doing Being safe is the most important thing after all. (1)回答問(wèn)題:When can teenagers get a fulltime job in America?________ (2)回答問(wèn)題:What does the underlined word “it“ in the third paragraph refer to(指的是)?________ (3)將文中劃線的英語(yǔ)句子譯成漢語(yǔ)。________ (4)將文劃線的漢語(yǔ)句子譯成英語(yǔ)。________ (5)回答問(wèn)題:How many jobs does the writer talk about?________ 14.閱讀下面短文,根據(jù)其內(nèi)容完成后面各項(xiàng)任務(wù)。 Bethany Hamilton is a professional surfer (職業(yè)沖浪手) in America. Her parents are both surfing lovers. As a baby。 Bethany liked to play in the water. She started surfing at the age of five. By thirteen, she had been one of the best teenage (青少年) surfers in the world shark attack(鯊魚(yú)襲擊) happened. On the morning of 31st October 2003, Bethany and some friends decided to go suing. The sky was clear, and the weather was free. The 13yearold surfing star was lying on her surfboard (沖浪板) with her left arm in the clear, blue water Suddenly a fivemetre shark appeared and attacked her. Bethany saw the water around her turn red. She held on to her board and the shark swam away — but it took her left arm with it. Luckily, the shark attacked only once. It all happened so fast that she didn39。t even shout. Bethany thought, Get to the beach. Get to the