①I_started_to_study_English_by_myself_when_I_was_about_fifteen. Michael Jackson has been my idol (偶像) since 1991, and I really wanted to understand him and his music.②我过去使用字典来学习他歌曲中的单词。Although itˈs not easy at first, I was very patient, and that helped me a lot in the process of learning English.

There was a lot of work to do to learn English,but I never felt tired. First, I learned about pronunciation, which was the hardest part for me. Because music was my only source (来源) of spoken English. Sometimes I had to use a pronunciation dictionary. Then I made lists of words in order to remember their spellings and their meanings. 我花费数小时学习英语语法。Whatˈs more, I read a lot. And I also tried to translate texts, dialogues and songs.

因为我的努力，我的英语进步了很多。In the end, I entered a college and had a great chance to further improve my English. Now I am an English teacher. And I am still making progress in English.

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Joe is an American teenager who loves to dance. He knows all popular dance steps（舞步）.(1) When the music starts, this thin but handsome nineteen-year-old boy dances to it at once.Nothing is special about this except for one little fact. Joe cannot hear a note of music that he dances to. Still, when music starts, something physical happens to him: he can feel a change of the air, it is the “something” that makes him such a good dancer . (2).他九月份将参加一个舞蹈比赛.

When Joe was a baby, he had a serious illness, which took his hearing. But his family believed that every child was special and always told Joe, “ You will do everything that other kids do. (3).Keep trying and nothing can stop you.” So when Joe was a child, he began to study the movements of dancers on TV. He started to dance like Michael Jackson. After a while, he didn’t need to look at the screen. From then on, he knew he had that “something”. (4).Joe is happy to have this chance to show his beautiful dance steps to people. After the competition, (5).他打算去上大学and major in dancing（主修舞蹈）because he wants to become a professional dancer. He hopes that can stop people from seeing him as the dancing boy who cannot hear. He only wants to be the same as a common boy who can dance.

 （1）.My mother told me a good friend is like a mirror.（2）我比大多数的孩子更安静、更认真。That's why I like reading books and I study harder in class. My best friend Yuan Li is quiet, too, so we enjoy study together.（3）.I am shy so it's not easy for me to make friends. But I think friends are like books—you don't need a lot of them as long as they are good.

   It's not necessary to be the same.（4）.我最好的朋友拉里与我不相同。He is taller and more outgoing than me. We both like sports, but he plays tennis better, so he always wins.（5）.However, Larry helps to bring out the best in me. So I'm getting better at tennis. Larry is much less hard-working, though. I always get better grades than he does, so maybe I should help him more.

Now in different places of the world,人们正在做不同的事。

Huang Bo got up at half past five, then had breakfast every morning, because his family moved to a new building. The new flat was much bigger than the old one. But itˈs about ten kilometres from his new house to the school.（A）对他来说太远而不能步行上学。He had to get up early to catch the first bus. The population of city is growing very fast. But there is not enough space for people to build new buildings in the city centre. Most of the new buildings have to be built in the places far away from the city centre. And people spend more money and more time on their way to work. Whatˈs more, the traffic will be heavier and the air will be dirty, because there are more and more buses and cars.

A UN report said that the world’s population had passed six billion by the end of the 20th century. This is just 16 years after it reached over seven billion. The UN estimated(估计) the world’s population will grow by more than one third by year 2050.（B）So the population problem may be one ofthe most serious problems of the world today.

   There is a red hen.   (1)  她住在一个小房子里. On the hill（小山）near the house there is an old fox. 72The old fox wants to catch the hen very much. But he can’t get her because she is very clever.

      One day,   (2)  母鸡不在家.The fox goes into her house. The hen goes back home and the fox catches hen and puts her in his bag. 74Then he runs back to his house. The hen has a good idea. 75She makes a hole in the bag and runs out. When the fox comes back for his supper. He finds an empty(空的）bag there.

阅读表达

阅读短文，完成下列任务。

任务一：根据短文，补全句子。(每空词数不限)

（1）Lily found _________________________ on the school playground.

任务二：写出画线句子的同义句。(每空一词)

（2）Is that dictionary ____________?

任务三：判断正（A）误（B）。

（3）Lily’s phone number is 672-0391.

     A. A          B. B

（4）Some books, a pencil and a dictionary are in the woman bag.

任务四：回答问题。

（5）What color is the woman bag?

（6）Where did John find the bag?

Eric: I can’t find my schoolbag. Do you see it, Alice?

Alice:（A）它是蓝色的吗?

Eric: No, it isn’t. It’s black.

Alice: What’s in it?

Eric: Some books, a dictionary, a notebook and a pencil box.

Alice: What color are they?

Eric: The dictionary is yellow, the notebook is green, and the pencil box is blue.

Alice: And what’s in the pencil box?

Eric: Two pens, a pencil and an eraser.

Alice: Aha, Tom and I found it this morning.（B）It is in the lost and found box now. You can ask Ms. Black for it.

Eric: Thank you.

阅读短文，完成下列任务。

任务一：回答问题。

（1）Who found Eric’s schoolbag?________________________________________________

（2）What’s in the pencil box?___________________________________________________

任务二：翻译句子。

（3）将A处翻译成英语。_____________________________________________________

（4）将B处翻译成汉语。_____________________________________________________

Hi, my name is Tom and there’s something I’d like to share with you ...

My 16-year-old son, Dylan, told everyone that one of the most amazing experiences of his life was the trip to South Africa last summer. Most people would think that he was on a vacation there. But Dylan spent almost the whole ten days of his trip building houses for people there. It was hard and dirty work. I never thought that he would enjoy it, but he loved every minute of it.

Encouraging (鼓励) teenagers to do volunteer work is one of the most important things you can do for them as a parent. And the amazing thing is, once they get a taste of it, teenagers will love to volunteer. And students who do volunteer work do better in school than those who don’t volunteer. In fact, volunteering provides many things for teenagers, including a wonderful experience and a good chance (机会) to meet new people. 

对于青少年而言，找一份志愿者工作并不难。They can find them in hospitals, libraries, children’s museums and so on.

第一节双向翻译阅读下面的短文，请根据上下文内容，将文中划线部分译成汉语或者英语。

Chinese writer Mo Yan is famous all over the world, but do you know Anna Gustafsson Chen, his Swedish translator(翻译家)?

Chen was born in 1965 in Sweden. ①她很小的时候就开始学习汉语。 Now she is quite good at Chinese. She has been translating (翻译) Chinese books into Swedish for more than 20 years. By the year of 2012, she had translated 20 Chinese novels (小说). She has finished translating Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out. She has also translated books from other famous Chinese writers, for example, Yu Hua’s To Live and Su Tong’s Wives and Concubines. Chen has won the Swedish Academy Translation Award for her work.

Chen first read Mo Yan’s novel Red Sorghum in the early 1990s. “I read Ge Haowen’s English translation in a bookstore. I found it interesting so later bought the Chinese version and tried to translate it. It took me a long time, because it was not my professional job. I had to translate it only in my free time,” Chen says.

Though Mo Yan wrote the first draft (初稿) of Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in only 43 days, Chen spent six years translating it.

Chen says her work has ③opened up a window to the world. She says, “④Learning Chinese has let me love more and more about China and Chinese culture.”

A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。