大连枫叶国际学校入学测试

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Part one:

Passage one: Words: 201 Readability:

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

This is an old English saying. It means that we must go to bed early in the evening and get up early in the morning.

Is this true Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. For example, children need ten hours’ sleep every night. If we do not go to bed early, we cannot have enough sleep. Then we cannot think or do our work well. We will not be wise or live a comfortable life.

Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We must sleep at night when itis dark. When daylight comes, we must get up. This is the time for exercise. Walking, running, jumping, swimming, playing games are all good forms of exercise. Exercise keeps the body strong.

Exercise helps blood to move around inside the body. This is very important. Blood takes food to all parts of our bodies. The brains in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and do exercises, we can think better!

A. Write T for true F for false beside the following statements. ’)

____ passage tells the readers why it is important to be healthy.

____ to bed and early to rise helps us think and work well.

____ keep healthy, everybody must sleep ten hours a day.

____ is the time for exercise.

____ moves to all parts of our bodies.

B. Answer the following questions incomplete sentences and in your own words.(2’)

1. Give some forms of exercise from the passage.

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2. You must have some habits which are good for your health. What are they

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3. Give a proper title to the passage. ’)

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Passage Two:Words: 231 Readability:

Seal

A man moved his boat across the lake. Over his head, a bird flew in the wind and the other rested in a tree. Both watched the man.

They knew the man was afraid of the sea. He wanted to swim but he was afraid of drowning. The two birds watched the man return to his home. They saw he didn’t have

any confidence in himself. His house was small because he was not sure he could build a larger one. He didn’t cook his food because he was afraid he would burn it. The man did not run fast because he was afraid of falling. One bird said, “How will he succeed” “He needs to find the talents that he had inside himself,” the other answered. “We must choose the correct time and chance carefully,” said the first one. One day, his daughter fell into the water. The man jumped into the sea without thinking. At that time, the two birds changed him into a seal. He saved his daughter. From that day on, the man could change himself into a seal whenever he wanted. He could swim and do things that no other person could do.

The two birds were happy. Just like the man, all of us have special ability. It’s just waiting to be changed from dreams into reality, if only we have the courage to try. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. (5’)

1. What was the man afraid of when he wanted to swim (1’)

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2. Give 2 examples to show the man has no confidence in himself. (1’)

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3. Why did the man jump into the sea one day (1’)

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4. How did the two birds help him Which kind of animal is a seal (1’)

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5. What does the story want to tell us (1’)

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Part two:

Passage one: Words: 242 Readability:

Fiery Visitors from Outer Space

1. On the next clear summer night, look up into the sky. If you are lucky, you may see a “shooting star”. They look just like stars falling down from the sky.

2. But shooting stars are not stars at all. The real name for a shooting star is “meteor”. There are millions of meteors out in space. They are pieces of rock and metal. When they are in space, meteors do not glow. In fact, we can’t see them at all.But when a meteor comes close to the earth, it starts to fall toward the earth. As it passes through the air, it gets very hot. It starts to glow, and finally it begins to burn. We see the burning meteor as a shooting star.

3. Sometimes meteors travel by themselves in space. But many meteors travel in groups called swarms. The swarms have orbits like planets have. They pass close to the earth every year. A famous swarm is the Perseid swarm. It passes close to the earth in summer, usually in August. Each year a few meteors from the Perseid swarm fall to the earth, so August is a good month to watch for shooting stars.