【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 am a father of two young daughters one is about four years old and the other is only about ，現(xiàn)在住在美國(guó)。 One day, my older daughter, Madison, told me she didn39。t want to be Chinese. Those days she was quite interested in the book characters （角色） Madeline and Eloise. She asked me all the time why she was Chinese and they weren39。t, and how she could have yellow or red hair like them. This made me look for books with Asian （亞洲的） characters for Madison to read. However, I only found a few, and they were heavily cultural （文化的） and Madison didn39。t connect herself with any of the characters in them. And she wash39。 t interested in them at all Then she told me again that she didn39。t want to be Chinese, and it made me sad. In most of the books for children in the US, the characters look like Americans. There are over 17 million Asians and Asians and Americans in this count, but few of them have Asian faces. I think it39。s important for Asian children to see themselves in books as interesting and clever kids. So I created （創(chuàng)作） a book for Madison. Pepper Zhang in the book is an Asian girl. Her imagination （想象） takes her on a trip to creativity and art I want my children to know that being Chinese or being Asian is a great thing too. （1）將文中劃線的漢語句子譯成英語。________ （2）從文中找出與下面所給句子意思相同的句子。Because of this，I looked for books with Asian characters to let Madison read.________ （3）回答問題：What made Jerry sad?________ （4）回答問題：What does the underlined word “themselves” in the fourth paragraph refer to（指的是）?________ （5）將文中劃線的英語句子譯成漢語。________ 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)來賺些錢 Before they do their jobs, they usually tell someone about what they39。 re doing Being safe is the most important thing after all. （1）回答問題：When can teenagers get a fulltime job in America?________ （2）回答問題：What does the underlined word “it“ in the third paragraph refer to（指的是）?________ （3）將文中劃線的英語句子譯成漢語。________ （4）將文劃線的漢語句子譯成英語。________ （5）回答問題：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)。 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, Jenney39。s first tall building was 10 stories （樓層） high. But today, some buildings have 100 stories or more. In 2004, Taipei 101, at 101 stories high, became the tallest building in the world. But soon the Burj Khalifa in Dubai overtook （超過） it in 2010. The 828metre building has 163 stories. 現(xiàn)在全世界有許多非常高的建筑物。For example，Shanghai Tower in China，One World Trade Centre in the US，Abraj AlBait Clock Tower in Saudi Arabia etc All of them are really wonderful，aren39。t they? （1）回答問題：What are skyscrapers?________ （2）回答問題：Who is the “Father of the American skyscraper”?________ （3）將文中劃線的英語句子譯成漢語。________ （4）回答閫題：What does the underlined word “it” in the third paragraph refer to（指的是）?________ （5）將文中劃線的漢語句子譯成英語。________ 15．閱讀下列短文，根據(jù)短文中的信息完成文后表格。（每空一詞） There are lots of strange things about animals in the world. Do you know the following things? You may think bears walk slowly. In fact, they can run very fast like horses. Cats won39。t die if they fall off very high places because they can turn themselves up the right way. Chocolate tastes nice but you cannot give it to little dogs because it may make the little dogs die. We may sleep for eight hours at a time but a snail（蝸牛） may sleep for three years. Our ears and nose bee bigger when we grow up but eyes keep the same after we are born.Some ________things about animalsBearsThey can run as ________as horses.________After falling off very high places, they won39。t die.DogsIf you give chocolate to little dogs, they will ________.SnailsThey can sleep as long as ________years.Our eyesThe size of our eyes doesn39。t bee bigger from birth.16．任務(wù)型閱讀，從所給的A、B、C、D、E選項(xiàng)中，選擇正確的小標(biāo)題。⑴I am 73 years old. I often watch TV in my free time. Of all the programs, I like the news best. Through the TV, I can learn what is happening in our country and in the world. At seven every evening, I always sit in front of the TV on time. ________⑵I am a grandma. I like Chin