---Can you come to have dinner with me this evening?

---I’m afraid not. I look after my grandmother. She is ill.

A. can B. have to C. may D. could

---I hear there’s a at the school gate. Do you know what it is about?

---Oh. It’s about the coming of some exchange students from the UK.

A. photo B. notice C. letter D. message

---Who can read the number 10,206 in English?

---Let me try. That’s .

A. one zero two zero and six B. ten thousand, two hundred, six

C. ten thousand and two hundred and six D. ten thousand, two hundred and six

--- Could I make a call with your phone? I left mine at home.

--- _____. Here you are.

A. Of course B. Never mind C. You’d better not D. I’m afraid not

It is Mary’s birthday today. She is very happy when she gets a_______from her uncle. “Dear Mary, Happy birthday. I _____ you some chickens.” he says in the letter. “They will arrive (到達(dá))_________. I hope you will like _______. Uncle Toby.”

Mary likes _______ eggs and chicken. “I can raise the chickens, ______ I can get many eggs.” She thinks. The chickens arrive the next day. They are in a box. Mary is very happy. She takes the box off the truck(卡車) and begins to carry them ______ her garden, but the box is_______big, she can’t carry it far. The box falls down on the ______and breaks. The chickens _______run out. They run here and there. Mary spends_____ hours trying to find them. A week later her uncle comes. He asks Mary, “Do you like the chickens?” “Yes, but I drop(掉)the box to the ground. It breaks open and the chickens run everywhere. It takes me three hours to______them.” Mary says.

“Do you_____ them all?” asks her uncle. “I hope _____,” Mary answers. “But I only get eleven of them.”

“That’s very _______. I only send you six”, her uncle says with a smile.

1.A. box B. chicken C. letter D. present

2.A. make B. send C. bring D. take

3.A. yesterday B. today C. tomorrow D. every day

4.A. them B. it C. her D. its

5.A. eating B. drinking C. keeping D. cooking

6.A. because B. but C. so D. if

7.A. into B. onto C. over D. above

8.A. enough B. too C. not D. much

9.A. floor B. truck C. feet D. ground

10.A. both B. some C. many D. all

11.A. one B. two C. three D. four

12.A. find B. see C. hear D. clean

13.A. look for B. look at C. cook D. find

14.A. one B. it C. do D. so

15.A. important B. interesting C. good D. bad

1: Forget your exam and tests! 5：The beach is my favourite spot.

2: The summer holidays have begun. 6：To sunbathe, cycle, dive and play.

3: Put away your books and notes. 7：If only the sun would never go down.

4: Let’s just relax and have fun. 8：And would keep me company night and day.

9： Last summer I flew to Japan and Korea. 13：Oh the holidays are just too short!

10：This year I am off to Singapore. 14：How can I finish all I plan to do?

11：And if my parents can afford it. 15：I wish they were ten times longer.

12：Perhaps to a few countries more. 16：Don’t you, my friends, think so too?

1.Read lines 1---4. The writer feels _____.

A. surprised B. excited C. afraid D. worried

2.Read lines 9---12. The writer will go to _____ this year.

A. Japan B. Singapore C. Korea D. the USA

3.Read lines 13---16. The writer _____ all his holiday activities.

A. doesn’t like B. will play ten times for

C. doesn’t have enough time for D. wants his friends to join in

Can you remember the day when you spoke your first words? If you can, you are unusual. During the first months of your life, you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grew older, your parents spent more time playing with you and talking to you. You watched and listened. You began to know that people make some sounds to go with some things.

Then you began to cry to make sounds you heard. And step by step (逐漸地) you were able to make the right sound for one thing.On that day you came to understand the secret of the language(語言). It is that a certain sound means a certain thing. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of things can they understand each other, so these people have a language.After you found the secret of language, you learnt words. Some of the words mean things, like books, chairs and shops. Some of the words mean actions, for example, go and swim. Soon you learnt to put words together to share your idea, like “I want to go out and play with my friends.”

This is language. By the way of language, people can communicate (交流), so we say languages mean sharing.

1. can remember the day when we spoke our first words.

A. Few of us B. Some of us C. Most of us D. All of us

2.When you were a little baby, you .

A. tried to remember all the sounds

B. spent your time playing with your parents

C. couldn’t hear any sounds around you

D. spent your time eating, sleeping and crying

3.The secret of language is that .

A. one sound might be as good as another

B. there is a special sound for each other

C. people can understand each other

D. a certain sound is for a certain thing

4.What does “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to(指代) ?

A. The language B. The sound C. The secret D. The certain thing

Stephen Hawking, the best known physicist(物理學(xué)家)of his time, passed away on March 14, 2018.

Hawking was born in Britain in 1942. In 1959, he entered Oxford University to study Math and Science. At the age of twenty, he became sick. He was so young, but the doctors said to his family, “He has only two more years to live.” As a matter of fact, what the doctors said was wrong.

Because of his bad health, he had to stayed at a wheelchair(輪椅). He couldn’t feed himself or got in or out of bed himself. Even worse, he lost his voice in 1985. He could only talk with the help of a computer. But he didn’t give in(屈服). He spent every new day in his life on his study. After Oxford, Hawking went to Cambridge University. Three years later, in 1965, he became a doctor of philosophy(哲學(xué)博士). It was difficult for Hawking to draw diagrams(圖表)or to write, he started to think in pictures. With this new way of thinking, he became one of the most famous scientists in the world. In 1981, he met the Pope(教皇)in Rome. They talked about his ideas. Then in 1988, he wrote his first important book, A Brief History of Time. It sold more than 5.5 million copies in 33 different languages.

Hawking was a great scientist. His work and story will live on for many years. We will remember him forever!

1.Stephen Hawking died at the age of .

A. 76 B. 78 C. 22 D. 43

2.Hawking could only after he became sick.

A. walk B. draw C. think D. speak

3.Hawking’s studies don’t relate(涉及) according to the passage.

A. science B. art C. math D. philosophy

4.The right order of Hawking’s life is .

a. He became very ill. b. He wrote his first important book.

c. He lost his voice. d. He became a doctor of philosophy.

A. c-a-b-d B. a-d-c-b C. c-b-a-d- D. a-c-b-d

A boy called Mario had many friends at school and he was happy about it.

　One day, his grandpa said to him, “Mario, I know that you don’t have as many friends as you think. Many of them are not true to you.” Mario thought maybe his grandpa was right. However, he wasn’t sure who were his true friends, so he asked his grandpa. The old man answered, “I have just exactly what you need. It’s in my room. Wait a minute.” The old man left, soon returning as if (好像) carrying something in his hand, but Mario could see nothing there.“Take it. It’s a very special chair. Because it’s invisible, it will be difficult for you to sit on it. However, if you sit on it, you can use the chair’s magic power(魔力) to tell who your true friends are.”

　 Mario took the strange invisible chair to school. At break time he asked everyone to stand around and he put himself in the middle, with his chair. “You will see something amazing,” said Mario. Then he tried sitting on the chair. However, he missed and fell to the ground. Everyone had a pretty good laugh. “Wait, wait,” said Mario, making another try. But again he missed the seat.Mario didn’t give up. He kept trying to sit on the magic chair. Finally, he did it. This time he felt himself in mid-air.

　 Then he experienced(經(jīng)歷) the magic that his grandpa talked about. Looking around, Mario saw George, Lucas and Diana holding him up, so he wouldn’t fall. But the other schoolmates had done nothing but made fun of him. Mario was quite thankful to his grandpa, who helped him test who his true friends were.

1.Mario’s grandpa gave him a special chair to ______.

A. sit on in the school B. play games with his schoolmates

C. be his birthday present D. test who are his true friends

2.What does the underlined word “invisible” mean in Chinese in the passage?

A. 看不見的 B. 有幫助的 C. 神奇的 D. 感激的

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. There was really an invisible magic chair.

B. Mario has as many friends as he thought.

C. Some of Mario’s friends were not true to him.

D. Three of his friends could see the magic chair.

4.Which would be the best title for this story?

A. A Magic Chair B. A kind Grandpa

C. Mario’s True Friends D. How to Test Friends

Your schooldays should be the best and happiest days of your life. How can you get the most from them, and be sure you don’t waste (浪費(fèi)) this great chance to learn?

Be active at school. Don’t say things are difficult. Take interest in school life and your school subjects. Join lots of activities. Put up your hands quickly in class. Go around the school with a big smile. Teachers cannot make everything enjoyable（令人愉快的）.

Keep fit. If you don’t eat a good breakfast, you will be thinking about food in class. If you go to bed late and don’t have enough sleep, you will feel tired in class. Play enough sports every day to keep your body strong.

Face the problem. Don’t say you will do things tomorrow. If you get behind the class, it is very difficult to get back in front. You cannot finish the race if you rest all the time. Everyone fails(失敗) some exams, loses some matches and has a bad day. Don’t forget to ask for help. You are young, and no one thinks you must do everything quite well!

Spend the weekends. Don’t waste time lying in bed on Saturday or Sunday morning. Go and play sports, get together with friends to relax in the park , learn to play the piano and so on. If you don’t want to go out, you can read a book, practice English or help Mum with housework.

Follow our advice, and have a happy school life!