"Hi,Tim. Do you have math class now?"

  "Hi,Dandan. Yes,I have m 1       class after art class."

  "Do you 1 2       your math class?"

"It's i 7       too,but very h 8       . I have homework every        day. I like my teacher. I e 9       his classes. I'm learning a lot. I hope I can get a g 10       mark in math this year!”

  "You're a smart student. You'll have no problem！"

  "Thanks,Tim！”

1. m        2. 1       3. r        4,u      5. c         

6. a        7. l       8. h       9. e      10.       

  One day, I wanted to go to a post office. I asked an old man about the way. ^u Excuse me. Is there a post office near here?" 1 asked. The old man turned back,looked at me and said something quickly. When he found I couldn't understand him,he took out a piece of paper and wrote down "Sorry,I dorft know. I'm new here.""Thank you all the same," I said to him and walked on. Another man was on the street. He was walking busily. A big broom (掃景) was in his hand. I went to him and asked, "Excuse me. Where is the nearest post office,please?" He didn't answer me carefully and clearly "I am foreigner (外國(guó)人) ，"1 said. This time,he showed me the way more slowly. But I couldn't understand him,either. My teacher never spoke English like that.

  I wonder,in English,each man speaks a different language. The English understand each other,but I don't understand them. Do they speak English?

(   ) 1. Where did the writer come from?

   A. Canada. B. Australia. C. China. D. We don't know.

(   ) 2. The writer asked        about the way to .

   A. two women.. . a bookshop   B. two men.. . a post office

   C. two women. . . a hospital   D. two men. . . a factory

(   ) 3. The second man might be         .

   A. a cleaner   B. a teacher   C. a doctor   D. a policeman

(   ) 4. When you ask the way,you must say "         ”first.

   A. Thank you   B. Excuse me   C. Hello   D. How are you

(   ) 5. The writer didn't understand the two Englishmen because         .

   A. he was a foreigner

   B. they didn't speak English

   C. he didn't learn English well

   D. they were new here.

  Today is Sunday. It's a beautiful,s 1       day!Mary and her classmates are going to the West Hill for a p 2      They're r 3       bikes. Right now,they're coming to a place at the f 4       of the hill. There are beautiful flowers and green t 5       there. Mary and her f 6       are preparing the picnic. Some are getting water. O 7       are cooking. Now,their lunch is r 8       ,They are singing,talking,e 9      ,and drinking. Everyone is h 10       a good time.

1. s       2. p       3. r       4. f       5. t         

6. f        7. Q       8. r         9. e      10. h         

  All around the world,people drink tea. But tea does not mean the same thing to everyone. In different countries people have very different ideas about drinking tea.

  In China,for example,tea is always served when people are getting together. The Chinese drink it any time of the day,at homes or in teahouses. They prefer their tea plain,with nothing else in it.

  Tea is also important in Japan. The Japanese have a special way of serving tea called a tea ceremony (儀式) .It is very old and full of meaning. Everything must be done in a special way in the ceremony. There is even a special room for it in the Japanese homes.

  Another teadrinking country is England. In England,the late afternoon is "teatime". Almost everyone has a cup of tea then. The English usually make tea in a teapot and drink it with milk and sugar. They also eat cakes,cookies (甜餅) and little sandwiches at teatime. This is so called "Afternoon Tea" in Britain.

  In the United States people drink tea mostly for breakfast or after meals. Americans usually use tea bags to make their tea. Tea bags are faster and easier than making tea in teapots. In summer,many Americans drink cold tea―"iced tea". Sometimes they drink iced tea from cans (罐) ，like soda(蘇打水) .

(   ) 11. The passage is about         .

   A. why tea is important

   B. the teatime in England

   C. different ways of drinking tea

   D. Chinese tea

(   ) 12. Tea is popular         .

   A. all around the world

   B. only in the United States

   C. only in Englishspeaking countries

   D. in Japan,China and other Asian countries

(   ) 13. The Chinese drink tea         ,

   A. for breakfast   B. when they get together   

    C. only in teahouses   D. in a special ceremony

(   ) 14. The English like to drink their tea         .

   A. in a special room

   B. with dinner

   C. while they eat cakes,cookies and little sandwiches

   D. when they are free

(   ) 15. The word "plain" in this passage means "         " in Chinese.

   A. 樸素的   B. 平坦的

   C. 不含其他東西的   D. 直率的

 Henry was an office worker in a big city. He worked very hard and enjoyed traveling in his holidays. He usually went to the seaside,but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper. " Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at West Hill Farm. Good food. Fresh air. Horse riding. Walking. Fishing. Cheap and interesting."

  "This sounds a good idea," he thought. "I'll spend a month at West Hill Farm. I think I can enjoy horse riding,walking and fishing. They'll make a change from sitting by the seaside and swimming."He wrote to the farmer. In the letter he said that he would like to spend all of July there. Then on the first of July,he left for West Hill Farm.

  But four days later,he returned home.

  "What was wrong with West Hill Farm?" his best friend,Ed, asked him. "Didn't you enjoy country life?"

  "Country life was very good," Henry said. "But there was another problem." "Oh. What?"

  "Well ," he said , " the first day I was there a sheep died,and we had roast mutton for dinner."

  "What's wrong with that?" Ed asked. "Fresh meat is the best."

  "I know,but on the second day a cow died,and we had roast beef for dinner."

  "Lucky you！"

  "You don't understand," Henry said. "On the third day a pig died and we had roast pork for dinner."

  "A different meat every day ," Ed said loudly , " and you are complaining！” "Let me finish," Henry said. "On the fourth day the farmer died,and I didn't dare (敢) stay for dinner！”

(   ) 11. How did Henry find out about the farm?

   A. He saw it in a newspaper advertisement.

   B. His best friend told him.

   C. He wrote to the farmer.

   D. Maybe he learned it from the radio.

(   ) 12. Henry came back home several days later because .

   A. he didn't like the country life at all

   B. the farmer wasn't friendly to him

   C. his holiday was over

   D. he thought he might have to eat the farmer

(   ) 13. "... and you are complaining！" ，the word "complain" means        .

   A. 夸獎(jiǎng)   B. 解釋   C. 抱怨   D. 故弄玄虛

(   ) 14. Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

   A. Ed could eat a different kind of meat every day.

   B. Henry thought he could enjoy a change.

   C. Henry couldn't think of anything else to do,so he went to the farm.

   D. The farmer died because of the bad meat he ate.

(   ) 15. Which is the best title for the passage?

   A. What a beautiful farm! B. Have a good time.

   C. A short holiday   D. Henry and the farmer.

  Now satellites are helping to forecast (預(yù)測(cè)) the weather. They are in space,and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere (大氣) ，because this is where the weather forms (形成) .They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists (氣象學(xué)家) can see the weather of any part of the world. From the pictures,the scientists can often say how the weather will change.

  So the weather satellites are a great help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented,the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon,perhaps,they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead (提前) .

(   ) 11. Satellites travel       .

   A. in space   B. in the atmosphere

   C. above the ground   D. above space

(   ) 12. Why do we use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere? Because      

   A. the weather satellites can do it easily

   B. clouds form there

   C. the weather forms there

   D. the pictures can forecast the weather

(   ) 13. Meteorologists forecast the weather         .

   A. when they have received satellite pictures

   B. after they have compared new satellite pictures with earlier ones

   C. before they received satellite pictures

   D. during they study satellite pictures

(   ) 14. Maybe we'll soon be able to forecast the weather for       .

   A. one day   B. two days

   C. five days   D. seven days or even longer

(   ) 15. The main (主要的) idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in         .

   A. taking pictures of the atmosphere

   B. receiving pictures of the atmosphere

   C. doing other work in many ways

   D. weather forecasting

 A good night's sleep is very important for us. But a new survey shows that over 7. 7% of students do not have enough sleeping time.

  Mary,a student in Beijing,is one of those teens. She gets up at six in the morning and gets to school before seven. She has seven classes a day. After school,she does homework,learns math,English,Chinese and.. . Then she goes to bed,but nearly at 24:00. "I only get about six hours of sleep every night. Many of us feel sleepy in class," she said. "And we don't have any time to exercise at all."Teens are too sleepy to be happy. Many people say if students have less homework,then they can get more sleep.

(   ) 1. There are two hundred students,and how many students may have sleeping problem?

   A. Ten. B. Fifteen. C. Twenty. D. Twentyfive.

(   ) 2. It is        for students to sleep for six hours every day.

   A. enough   B. good   C. bad   D. important

(   ) 3. Mary usually gets to school        seven o'clock from Monday to Friday.

   A. after   B. before   C. when   D. while

(   ) 4. If students don't get enough sleep,they may get        in class.

   A. relaxed   B. happy   C. sleepy   D. boring

(   ) 5. Why can't students get much sleep at night?

   A. They have too much homework to do in the evening.

   B. They get up late in the morning.

   C. They watch TV at night.

   D. They do too much housework.

  Thomas Edison lost the first job. For the next five years he went around the country from job to job. At last Edison went to New York. He had little money. He could not buy enough food to eat. He had no place to sleep.

  For many days Edison looked for work. He was hungry. At last he found work fixing machines. He could fix the old machines. He also made new ones. The head man liked Edison's new machines. He was going to give Edison$40,000 for them. Edison would now have money to do what he wanted.

  Thomas Edison was then 23. He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey. He had many people working for him. But he worked more than any of them. He rested very little. Soon he was making more than 40 new things at one time.

  In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone. But it could carry voices only a little way. Edison wanted to make a better telephone. He soon made one. It could carry voices a long way.

(   ) 6. After he lost his first job,Edison         .

   A. found no jobs in the next five years

   B. lived in New York for the next five years

   C. had a bad time in the next five years

   D. had no food and no sleep during the next five years

(   ) 7. In New York         .

   A. Edison was always hungry

   B. Edison began to have good luck after he found the work fixing machines

   C. Edison got$40,000 by fixing machines

   D. Edison made more money by fixing old machines

(   ) 8. The head man was interested in         .

   A. Thomas Edison himself   B. The old machines

   C. the new machines   D. Edison's telephone

(   ) 9. Edison made a telephone. It        .

   A. was the first one in the world

   B. carried voices much farther

   C. carried voices more clearly

   D. carried more voices

(   ) 10. What is the best title of the passage?

   A. The First Telephone.

   B. Thomas Edison's Shop.

   C. Thomas Edison's New Job.

   D. Thomas Edison一An Inventor (發(fā)明家) .