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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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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   Gina Smith:

Yes, I have two soccer balls, three volleyballs, four basketballs and five baseballs and bats. I love sports, but I don't play them---I only watch them on TV!

   Wang Wei:

(1)我不喜欢足球。Soccer is difficult. I like ping-pong. It's easy for me. I have three ping-pong balls and two ping-pong bats. (2) After class, I play ping-pong with my classmates.

根据短文内容回答下面三个问题。

 （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。

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。

※ 8-year-old boy becomes a CEO.

Harli Jordean, an 8-year-old boy from Stoke Newington, London loves marbles (弹珠)very much. With his mother’s help, he set up his own website named marbleking.co.uk. He sells all kinds of marbles online and his online store is very popular. Harli’s dream is to become the owner of one of the biggest toy stores in the world.

※ Matt Cardle－from an unknown (不知名的) painter to a hot singer

Matt Cardle, a 27-year-old young man from a small town in England liked music very much, but he had to do different jobs to make a living. He worked as a postman, milkman and a painter. Life was not easy, but Matt _____________________________①(从没有放弃过他的梦想)— to be a singer. In 2010, he took part in a famous British singing talent show (歌唱真人秀) and won  first place.

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The Zapps are from Argentina. With the help of their old 1928 cars, they began their tour on January 23, 2000. In ten years, they traveled to over 40 countries with their four children. When people asked what made them travel the whole world, they answered, “It’s just one dream, a big one, from Argentina to the whole world.”

Truly, all of us have dreams. ③Each one of us can make our dreams come true if we start it now! 

回答问题：

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。

There was a tree in my garden. One day, two birds came to build a house there for their three newborn babies.

    One day, I heard the sound of the little birds. ① I ran to the garden and found two babies eating food on the ground. I thought they dropped off their house, so I decided to help them get back to their house. At that time, the father bird and the mother bird came back. They had some food for the third baby. They put the food on the ground, far away from the bird baby. To get the food, the baby had to fly to it.

    Then I heard the cry of the third baby. She was still in their house. She was afraid to get out of the house to get the food. But she was very hungry. To my surprise, the father bird and the mother bird just stood there and did nothing.

    After about ten minutes, the third baby didn’t have any other choice. She slowly want to the border(边缘) of the house and began to fly. She flew off from the house. Finally, the third baby landed on the ground and found the food.

    These birds taught me a lesson—There is lots of food. ②如果你想要你的食物，你将不得不学会飞翔。

任务一： 根据短文内容简要回答问题。