Maybe you are more interested in sports than in history. You probably think you will never be a top student.    31   , anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. If you can use your time well, you may  32 your study without much work. Here’s how:
  33  your time carefully. You should make a   34   of things that you have to do. First write down the time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide on a good time for studying. Of course, studying shouldn’t take all of your time. Don’t    35   to leave yourself enough time for hobbies.
Find a good place to study. Look around the house    36   a good study place. Keep this space. It may be a desk or just a corner of your room. N0     37   , radio, or television! When you sit down to work, think only about the     38   !
Make good use of your time  39  . Listen carefully to what the teacher says. Careful listening means   40   work after class. You also need to take notes, because it can make it easier for you to learn well.
These are only some of the ways to help you with your studying. I believe you’ll find more other ways besides these.

There are four girls. They go to school by car every day. Their parents drive them all to school.
One day, after the girls arrive at school, Angie says, “Let’s go to class an hour late. I don’t want to take the math test today.” The other three girls think it is a good idea, because they all don’t want to take the test. Angie says, “But our teacher will be angry if we come late. So we need a good excuse(借口).” “Oh, that’s easy,” says Susan. “ We just tell the teacher that my mother’s car has a flat tire(輪胎壞了). So we are late.” All the girls think it is a good excuse. When the girls arrive at the classroom an hour later, the math test is over. The teacher is very angry. “Why are you late?” asks the teacher. Susan says, “My mother’s car has a flat tire and we have to wait for her to repair it.” Then the teacher says, “Sit down, girls. Take out a piece of paper and a pen. Write down which tire is fault(出故障) on the paper.” The four girls look at each other and they don’t know what to write.[來源:學(xué)科網(wǎng)ZXXK]
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷下列句子正誤，正確寫T，錯誤寫F。
【小題1】The four girls go to school by bus.
【小題2】Only Angie doesn’t want to take the math test.
【小題3】One day, the four girls were late because their mother’s car had a flat tire.
【小題4】 When the four girls arrived at the classroom, the math test was over.
【小題5】.The math teacher is very clever.

One day, in an English class, the students are having their lessons. Their teacher, a young woman is very happy. She sings some nice songs with them and then she goes to the blackboard and writes “SMILES” on it. “This is the longest（最長）word in English,” she says to the class.
A girl stands up and says, “It has only six letters. How can it be the longest word in English?”The teacher smiles and says, “Oh, look! There is a mile（英里）between the first letter and the last one.”
【小題1】One day, the students are having _________.

閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的五個選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有一項為多余選項。（共8分，每小題2分）

What is a spelling bee?   1  , but it is so popular in the Unite States. It is a game for children to spell English words.
The National Spelling Bee is the largest education contest(比賽) . It first began in 1925 in Washington.D. C.   2 . It is open to students in eighth grade or lower and not reaching their 15th birthday.
The contest is quite simple. When it's your turn, the teacher says a word and you have to spell it.   3 , you stay in the game. If you spell it wrong, you're out. What's not so easy are the words the teachers ask you to spell.
Usually, children need to spend a lot of time learning vocabulary. They must remember thousands of English words and spell every word correctly in the contest. Only winners in regional (地區(qū)的) contest can enter the national contest. It’s many children’s dream to win the regional contest and go to Washington, D. C. The final winners will be called the Spelling Bee.   4 . Do you also think they are great?