3．　　How many birthday parties have you been to? What's your favorite part of those parties? What I like most about birthday parties is the Piñata (皮纳塔) games. A Piñata is a container (容器) filled with small toys or sweets or both, and then people break it at the party. The idea of breaking a container filled with toys or sweets came to European countries in the 14th century. The Spanish brought this tradition to Mexico. Today the Piñata is still a part of Mexican culture, American culture, and cultures of other countries in Latin America.
　　To play the Piñata game, you can hang the Piñata in an open area and ask friends at the party to stand in a line three meters away. Traditionally, to play the Piñata game, you cover the eyes of the first child in line, gently spin (旋转) them around three times, and give them a long stick so they can hit the Piñata. If the children are under five years old, don't cover their eyes and just spin each child around and give them the chance to hit the Piñata. Give each child the chance to hit the Piñata at least twice. As each one in the line tries to hit the Piñata, it is important to make sure everyone is standing at least five meters away from the child with the stick. More importantly, when the Piñata is cracked, make sure the one with the stick has stopped swinging (挥舞) the stick so that everyone can go and get the toys and sweets.
　　Any plans for your next birthday?Think about having a Piñata. You'll have a great party with a Piñata.

4．　　Chinese cultures have passed on for thousands of years, and goldfish have been recorded for nearly two thousand years. A report from the Jin dynasty (朝代) described "red fish" swimming in the Red River. Goldfish were widely mentioned in Tang dynasty poems. They were collected in the pond (池塘) by rich people at that time.
　　During the Song dynasty, a ruler built a pond in Hangzhou to raise goldfish. It marked the time when people began to raise them. However, owning yellow goldfish was not allowed because the color yellow was thought to be a sign of the king. Common people were forced (强迫) to raise orange ones, which is probably why orange goldfish are more common today.
　　Until the invention of the goldfish bowl in the Ming dynasty, goldfish were always seen outdoors in ponds. The goldfish bowl allowed more people to keep goldfish and interested people in raising more beautiful kinds such as the "lion head" that could not live outdoors. Goldfish traveled to Japan in 1502, Europe in 1611, and the United States in the early 1,800s.
　　The Chinese have expressed good wishes through images (形象) of animals, plants and other objects. The Chinese language has many homophones, they sound the same but have different meanings. For example, the Chinese word for "fish" is a homophone of the word for "more", so fish express wishes for "owning more".
　　Goldfish competitions, which began in Beijing during the Ming dynasty, continue in China. Even in Hong Kong, there is a busy goldfish market to meet the modern requirement of the fish of wealth and good wishes.

5．阅读下面短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项．每个选项仅使用一次．
　　Everybody gets stressed from time to time. (1)      , like shouting at or hitting something, but they don't solve much. But other ways like talking to someone you trust, can lead you to solving your problem or at least feeling better. (2)      .
　　Step one:Get support. When you need help, reach out to the people who care about you. (3)      . And don't forget about your friends. They might have had similar problems, such as dealing with a test, or the death of a pet.
　　Step two:Don't freak out (崩溃)! Notice your feelings, and name them, for example, "I am so angry!" And say or think about why you feel that way. Find ways to calm down and get past the upset feelings. (4)      .
　　Step three:Try to solve the problem. After you're calm and you have support from adults and friends, it's time to get down to business. You need to understand what the problem is. Even if you can't solve it all, maybe you can begin by solving a piece of it.
　　Step four:Be positive (积极的). (5)      . It will go away, especially when you work out the problem.
　　These steps aren't magic, and you might have to do some steps more than once, but they do work. And if you can stay positive as you make your way through a hard time, you'll help yourself feel better even faster. Ah, it feels so good when the stress is gone.

6．阅读下面的短文, 根据短文内容回答问题．
　　Starting from the coming fall term, students in primary and middle schools will have at least one lesson every week to learn simple but necessary housework skills. Labor lessons mainly cover housework chores, productive labor and services. The lessons are good for students' character.
　　Primary school students in first and second grades need to do simple but necessary cleaning, wash vegetables and peel fruit, and learn to raise one or two kinds of plants or small animals. Third and fourth graders should clean their classrooms, wash their underwear(内衣), socks and shoes, and know how to make cold dishes. Fifth and sixth graders should know the skills of cooking two or three common dishes. For middle school students, they are encouraged to cook three or four dishes by themselves, learn how to make one or two kinds of traditional handicrafts (手工艺品), and experience one or two types of new technologies, modern service or volunteer work.
　　People welcome such lessons and say it's necessary to teach young students housework skills. Yang Jianping, a mother of a first grader in Beijing, says she supports teaching students such lessons, because they can help students learn some necessary labor skills. Her son's head teacher asks the students to clean the classrooms. She likes it very much.

7．阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项．
　　Henry is going through a very hard time. His wife is just dead. He feels that life is (1)       without her. For months, Henry sits in his house doing nothing.
　　Henry's (2)      , an old woman named Lisa, sees him from her yard one day. She has not seen him (3)       for days!She asks him to come closer to the fence (栅栏) next to her house.
　　"Hello, Henry!Just look at this fence. It is broken. You are strong. Can yon help me (4)       this fence?" Lisa asks.
　　Henry is angry. He is the one who needs help right now. He thinks the old lady is kind of (5)      . But he knows she is too old to do that herself. So he agrees.
　　Henry works on the fence for days. When he finishes, she thanks him. Henry smiles for the first time during (6)      .
　　"What a wonderful job! Could you please paint it for me?" Lisa says to him.
　　Henry cannot (7)       she is asking for more help. But because he respects (尊重) her, he doesn't refuse. He works hard in the hot sun. As their neighbors pass by, they all tell Henry it is a beautiful job. Henry feels very (8)      .
　　Henry no longer feels that life is boring. He (9)       understands Lisa was kind. She knows that staying busy can help him forget his sadness. He helped her, but she truly (10)       him.

8．阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.
　　Saturday morning was beautiful and sunny. It was summer and the world was happy. However, Tom, who sat in front of the fence, seemed (1)       (happy).
　　"It's Saturday but I have to paint this long and stupid fence. I will (2)       (laugh) at by others," he thought. He put his long brush in the white paint and started (3)       (paint). After a few minutes, he had (4)       good idea. He saw his friend Ben Rogers in the street. Ben had an apple in his hand, and came to look at the fence.
　　"You're working for your aunt," said Ben.
　　Tom said nothing. He continued painting.
　　"I'm going swimming (5)       you can't come with me. You have to work," said Ben.
　　"Do you call this work?" asked Tom.
　　"Of course it's work. You're painting a fence," said Ben.
　　"Maybe it's work but maybe it isn't. I like it!" said Tom, "I can swim every day, but I can't paint a fence every day."
　　Ben watched Tom. Tom painted (6)       (slow) and carefully. He often stopped and moved back from the fence. And then he looked at his work and (7)       (smile).
　　Ben suddenly became (8)       (interest) in the fence and said, "Let me paint a little, Tom."
　　Tom thought (9)       a while and said, "I'm sorry, Ben. Aunt Polly wants me to do it because I'm very good at painting. My brother Sid wanted to do it, but he's not good at painting."
　　"Oh, please, Tom! Please! Can I paint?I'm good at painting too. Here, you can have some of my apples."
　　"No, Ben, I can't……"
　　"Then take all of my apples!" Tom was happy but he did not smile. He gave Ben the brush and sat down (10)       (eat) the apple.

9．　　When Jiang Mengnan (江梦南) received the award (奖励) of Person Touching China for 2021, (1)she said that the persons who she wanted to thank most were her parents.阅读下面的短文, 将划线部分译成英文或中文．
　　Since she was 6 months old, she has been in a silent world, because she couldn't hear anything. (2)对于她来说，学说话是非常困难的。So when she was a child, her parents began teaching her to read lips (唇声). They also taught her vocalization (发声) by putting her hands on their throats. It was a slow, hard process, but her parents never gave up and Jiang learned to speak finally.
　　(3)Jiang Mengnan has already overcome a lot of difficulties to achieve her dream of studying. When she was old enough, Jiang studied in a standard primary school, not a special school. She said it was tough (棘手的) at first. During lessons, teachers would often write on the blackboard with their back to the students, so Jiang missed much of the content (内容). She had to copy down everything on the blackboard and study alone after class to keep up with her classmates. In 2011, she achieved a good score in Gaokao and studied in Jilin University. (4)In 2018，she entered Tsinghua University successfully because of her scores, talents and spirit. "I always thank my parents, teachers and friends for the respect (尊重) they give me. They never give me special attention for my imperfection, which means I have never seen to be different from anyone else, " she said.
　　In the future, she wants to continue scientific researches, (5)并且她想在科学研究上发挥重要的作用。

10．假如你是李明, 初中三年你与同学们彼此之间建立了深厚的友谊．你们即将毕业, 校园网英语论坛开辟了Thank-you letter专栏．请你给你最想感谢的一位同学写一封感谢信, 感谢他/她在学习和生活上对你的帮助和影响 (可适当结合实例), 并表达你对未来的期待和对他/她的美好祝福．
具体要求:
80词左右 (开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数);
可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯;
文中不得出现真实人名和校名．
My dear friend,
　　Our 3-year junior school life is coming to an end. I would like to ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Ming