On this mini-coach tour, we will visit the popular sightseeing landmarks and their surrounding areas — Windsor Castle, Stonehenge & Salisbury Cathedral.

      More and more people are good at catching business chances to create wealth. Recently the Chinese Internet buzzwords (流行词) “thin blue mushroom” have become the name of a company in Shenzhen.

      How do the buzzwords come? In fact, they mean “sad and feeling like you want to cry” in English. When they were first spoken by a young man, they sounded similar to “lan shou xiang gu”. At that time, the young man just experienced a sad story of love and posted a video online. In the video, he said such words. Only a few days later, the words became popular among Internet users. Before that, some other buzzwords also became popular on the Internet.

      After Chinese swimmer Fu Yuan Hui got third prize in the Rio Olympics, she said that her success was because of “prehistoric powers (洪荒之力)”. As a result, her words became popular overnight. And just two days later, “Prehistoric Power” became a company's name in Shenzhen.

      Besides, Wang Jianlin, the richest man in China, ever discusses his “small” goal of earning 100,000,000 yuan on TV. His words became popular online quickly. After one week, a new company named “Earning 100,000,000 yuan” appeared in Shenzhen.

      So what will be the next company with a new buzzword?

      Life is full of miracles. They surround us every day. One of these miracles happened to me recently. I was filling my car's tank at a local gas station. It was only 10 A.M. but I already felt tired. It was a cloudy, gloomy and rainy day and I hadn't slept well the night before. After I paid for the gas I turned my car towards the main road. I looked right and left then my brain sent the signal for my foot to push on the gas pedal but nothing happened. Shocked, I shook my head to clear it and gazed down at my foot.

      Just as I did, though, a truck rushed past my car doing 60 mph. My weary eyes hadn't seen it when I had looked just 2 seconds earlier. If I had been pulling out when I should have been, my little green car would have been smashed and I would have most likely been killed. I sat there for a long time quietly thanking God for sparing my life before pulling out on the road and heading home. This time both my brain and foot worked perfectly.

      As I looked back on that moment later I still couldn't understand it. Did God prevent my brain's signal from reaching my foot? Did an angel hold my toes to keep them from pressing on the gas? One question kept coming back into my mind as well: why? Why did I get this miracle? Why did God spare my life this day? Finally, I felt the answer forming deep within my heart and mind. I heard the words coming from my soul saying: “You still have more to do. Your work is not done yet!”

      Richard Bach wrote: “Here is the test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: if you are alive it isn't.” Wake up each day then knowing that your mission isn't done yet. You have more love to share, more people to help, more kindness to give. You have one more day to be the miracle God meant for you to be.

      India's world-famous Taj Mahal (泰姬陵) is facing a new problem: Insect Poop.

      The Yamuna River flows around the Taj Mahal, and the river is heavily polluted. Large numbers of insects are breeding (繁殖) in the polluted waterway. Officials say the insects land on the Taj Mahal and leave poop on its white stone walls. The insects' waste is beginning to turn the walls green.

       Workers first discovered the problem last year. A fly known as the genus Geoldichironomus is the reason for all the waste on the wall. Workers try to remove that, but experts fear heavy cleaning could damage the artwork from the wall in the Taj Mahal.

      Environmentalist D.K. Joshi says the way to stop this new threat is to save the dying river. “Industrial waste, solid waste, all this pours into the river. Millions of dollars have been spent to clean the river, but nothing has happened,” he added. What's more, ashes (骨灰) from burnt human remains are part of the problem. For 200 years, people have set fire to dead bodies near the Taj Mahal. Ash from the funeral (葬礼的) ceremonies is the main source of food for the insects.

       Vikram also worries about the large amount of tourism. “So much is the amount of dirt that it creates; these are the problems of tourism. The tourists, they like to touch the surfaces. For that we are trying to provide some kind of separators”.

       We do believe cleaning the Yamuna River is possible with a short-term program. “Stop the waste from going into the river, improve its flow. It is not difficult,” Vikram said. He hopes this latest threat to the Taj Mahal from insects will get the attention of city officials. He hopes it will get them to clean the river.

    　　Most of us enjoy a can of Coca Cola from time to time. After all, who doesn't like soda (汽水) ? It's refreshing and delicious! There's a lot of information going around about whether or not soda can be part of a healthy diet.

       In fact, there are 10 teaspoons of sugar in a can of soda! The sugar makes soft drinks delicious, but of course not healthy. Too much sugar in a person's diet can lead to many health problems. One of the biggest problems about sugary soda is that drinking too much can lead to weight gain and even obesity (肥胖症).

         During hot summer days, everybody would like to drink something to avoid the strong sunlight and make them cool. Many people choose soda. But in fact, is can't solve the problem, because food additives (添加剂) in soda use the water in your body. So you may feel thirstier.

         Soda is especially not good for young people. There are many fat boys who enjoy drinking all kinds of soda very much. They need to leave these drinks right now.

       Your body needs water almost every day. And water has no calories or fat so it can't make you fat. Always take a bottle of water with you. Have a drink at any time you feel thirsty. Your body needs water to work properly.

       Try some fruit juice when you are thirsty. But you should be careful what juice and how much juice you're drinking. Remember not to put much sugar into your juice.

阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给出的四个选项A、B、C、D中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并转涂至答题卡。

      Once when I was six years old I saw a picture in a book,  1True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor（大蟒） in the act of   2  an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.      In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey （猎物）whole, without chewing it.    3   they are not able to move, and they sleep    4   the six months that they need for digestion.”

       After some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. It looked like this:  

                                                       Drawing Number One.

I showed my picture to the grown-ups, and asked them  5   the drawing frightened them.   6they answered: “Frighten? Why should any one be   7    by a hat?”

       My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I  8  another drawing: I drew the    9   of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it  10  . They always need to have things explained.

       My Drawing Number Two looked like this:  

                                                                                         Drawing Number Two

       Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of 11him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to12, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, 13 it was, he, or she, would always say: “That is a hat.”That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand    14   by themselves, and it is15  for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

      Three students are discussing about the books they are reading.

      Speaker1: Do you know See You at Harry's? In the book, twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible (不引人注目). It seems as if everyone in her family pays no attention to her. Fern has never       (feel) the love from her family and she feels lonely. This book brought        (tear) to my eyes. And the book also made me feel really        (thank) for the good things in my life.

      Speaker2: Have you ever read Walk Two Moons? This is       story of a thirteen-year-old girl. Her only wish is to be reunited (重聚) with her mother, because her mother leaves the family. So she starts her trip         (see) her again. On the trip, Sal comforts her grandparents by telling a story about her friend Phoebe,       mother leaves their family, too.

      Speaker3: Do you want to know something about Becoming Naomi Leon? Naomi lives       her grandmother and younger brother. Although the life is hard, they live        (peaceful). Until one day her mother comes back to her family, but Naomi doesn't quite trust her. So they run away to Oaxaca, Mexico to look for Naomi's         (miss) father. They must find him so that the family does not get        (separate). This journey is hard for little Naomi but she is able to discover herself.

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②不得出现真实姓名, 学校等。

③字数80。

Dear parents,

   I would like to invite you to our School day next week.

……Please reply in writing to this invitation my Friday, May 28^th.

Larry Smith

Headmaster