I can’t believe that 71.今天是初中的最后一天.I still remember the first day of Grade 7 like it was yesterday. 72.I used to be a really shy person, so on the first day of junior high, I was so scared and nervous. 73.我认为我将永远不会交到任何朋友. But now, I realize that I was just being silly. Since then, I have made so many good friends and 74.I have shared so many good memories with them. Even though I am sad that junior high is over, 75.I am looking forward to new experiences in senior high!

The Monkey King

The Monkey King was born from a stone. He wanted to live forever. He was really intelligent and knew what to do. 58他能够把他自己变成72种不同的东西, like a tree,a bird or an insect(昆虫). While he was changing himself, people just watched and couldn’t believe it. He used the clouds in the sky 59_______________ around! One time he flew 108,000 miles on a cloud.

The trouble was, the monkey thought he was the king. But he wasn’t . The Emperor was. So, the real king decided to give the monkey a title(官职)to keep him quiet. 60 But the monkey found out that everyone was laughing at him. He was extremely unhappy and decided to fight. At last, the Emperor asked Buddha(佛) for help.

The Buddha moved a great mountain to fall on top of him. As the mountain was falling on him, he nearly managed(设法) to get out of the way. He didn’t, but he didn’t die, either. The trouble was he couldn’t move. Five hundred years later ,a monk(和尚) helped the monkey get out from under the mountain. That’s when the real story began. You must remember it, don’t you ? It’s a treat story.

（1）What did the monkey want to do?

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（2）How long did the monkey stay under the mountain?

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（3）把汉语句子翻译成英语。

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（4）用travel的适当形式填空。

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（5）把划线英语句子翻译成汉语。

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One day as I was sitting in a coffee shop, I noticed a girl working on her laptop. Two people (A)passed byand accidentally knocked over her drink. To avoid the embarrassment (尴尬), the girl pretended (假装) that (B) ___ had happened and continued working on her computer.

This reminded me that both in China and Britain, when something strange happens around you or when you are in an embarrassing situation, (C) people tend (倾向于) to use this common way not to catch other people’s attention.

A lot of the time, Britons（英国人）use self-depreciating humor (自嘲式的幽默). This is a well-known British characteristic (特色). For example, imagine walking (D) ___ your friends and you fall over. Your friend may just say (E)“旅途愉快!”Or you may just laugh about how clumsy (笨拙的) you are. For many Britons, making fun of yourself is a way of showing your strength of character.

Also, British are considerate when it comes to embarrassing others. For example, students (F)usuallyhave a birthday party every year. So during the school day, a student will give out invitations to the class. If one person doesn’t get an invitation, but the rest of the class do, he or she will feel embarrassed. To avoid it, it’s common for students to even invite people who aren’t (G)theirfriends.

Do you know who invented tea? In fact, tea, the most popular drink in the world (after water), was invented by accident . According to an ancient Chinese legend , a Chinese ruler Shen Nong discovered tea when he was boiling drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby bush fell into the water and remained there for some time . The ruler noticed that the leaves in the water produced a pleasant smell. Later he decided to taste the brown water. It was quite delicious. And in this way ,（1）世界上最令人喜爱的饮料之一被发明了。

China is the home of tea, which has more than 4,000 years history.

Tea leaves are produced mainly in the south of the Yangtze River, because of the mild climate（温和的气候）and rich soil there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are famous kinds of tea.

Over the past centuries, Chinese people have developed their unique（独特的）tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making and so on.（2）Tea is so popular that is often expressed in dances, songs and poems.

根据短文内容用简要答语回答下面三个问题。

   Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.    

   Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.（81）The more people, the more pollution.

   Air pollution is still the most serious. It's bad for all living things in the world, but it is not the only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water.（82）噪音使我们更容易生气。

   Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. They stop factories pouring dirty water into rivers and putting dirty smoke into the air. Except this,, we can do many more things. For example, if there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution, too.

   The earth is our home. We must take care of it.

William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. He wrote thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today.

 He was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor (演员) when he finished school at the age of fourteen. 1582年，他和一个农场主的女儿结了婚. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter. Later they had twins. In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratfordupon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind. No one knows why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592. At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays. He earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from acting. With the money he bought a large house in his hometown. At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired (退休) and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died at the age of fifty-two. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. You still see his

plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world.

  Last year you may listen to EXO or One Direction, now you see TFboys everywhere. They came out lat year, but the number of their fans on Sina Weibo has reached over 12 million.

  TFboys has three members. Wang Junkai, 16, and Wang Yuan, 15, are from Chongqing, and Yi Yangqianxi, 15, is from Hunan. 71. 这三个男孩都擅长唱歌跳舞。

  They had several years of training before their first show. 72. During weekdays, the three boys went to school and studied for exams like other kids. But during weekends, they had to practice singing, dancing and acting. 73. It was not easy, but the three boys did a good job. What’s more, they are all top students at school.

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  Yi is also a top student. He has a busy life. Besides training, he also acts in movies and TV shows. But he is still able to win award in calligraphy competitions. How can he be good at so many things ?

  “ I’d practice dancing while others were playing, ” he said.

  Many people say that TFboys has become popular only because of their cute looks. 75. But it is their talent and hard work that make their dreams come true.

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Jim lives in a village. He often spends time walking by the river behind his old house. Sometimes he swims in the river. But now his father works in town, so he goes there with his family.

    Behind their new house is a park, but the park is very small. So Jim isn’t happy. “Is there a river near here?” He asks his mother on the first morning. His mother says, “No, there isn’t. But there’s a nice park near here, and there’s a pool in it. We can go to p lay there.” Jim’s very happy on the way to the park. When they get there, Jim wants to swim in the pool, but there’s a sign( 标志) before it. It says “Danger! Don’t swim in the pool.” Jim can’t find an interesting place to play. He wants to go back to the village.

Mrs smith has two daughters . let’s have a look at what chores they do at home .

“ ① Alice started doing chores when she was about eight years old . at that time , she did the dishes with ② me together ③ she has to sweep the floor . she is ten years old now. she is now doing the dishes herself and has to do the laundry ，too ”

“ Amy is four and she started doing chores this July . ④ she cleans the table after dinner , and she also learns to fold her own clothes .she likes to help me sweep . I asked her to help mop , but she fell down too many times . and ⑤ 有时候她也帮助她姐姐 . Her work is usually not perfect. ”

“Last week Alice got her pocket money , but lost it two days later . she didn’t do her chores the next two days.She will get the money back if she can keep doing her chores every day till the end of this month .”