My Good Friends

A good book is like a friend. I like reading books. My name is Jessica. I am twelve years old. I am a ______ of a middle school. I’d like to tell you why I like ______ books.

I think we can get some ______ from books. I know a book, and its ______ is The stories for the children. The book has many small ______ for children. They are ______ and they can tell you many things. It’s very good and I ______ it so much. I like science books, too. They are my science ______. I learn a lot from them.

When you go out by bus or by train, maybe the trip is very long and boring. It’s a good idea to take a story book with you. When you read it, you can have lots of fun. It can make your trip ______.

Reading books is great fun, and it makes us happy. ______ are my good friends.

1.A. teacher B. student C. worker

2.A. buying B. reading C. writing

3.A. money B. furniture C. information

4.A. picture B. name C. colour

5.A. stories B. libraries C. presents

6.A. difficult B. interesting C. beautiful

7.A. enjoy B. watch C. print

8.A. subjects B. computers C. teachers

9.A. busy B. long C. happy

10.A. Books B. Parents C. Animals

I received a letter recently from a grandmother who told me about her four-year-old granddaughter Skylar. Ever since Skylar learned of Disneyland from TV, she saved her pocket money in a piggy bank in hopes of visiting there someday. Her parents surprised her with a ______ when she was four, and didn’t use her savings（積蓄）at all!

When Skylar ______ from Disneyland, it was Christmastime. She decided to buy presents with her savings. But she also learned on TV about a local homeless shelter（無家可歸人的庇護(hù)所）called “The Road House”. She _____ her mother again and again what homeless meant and why those children needed toys and warm clothes. She couldn’t seem to get the homeless ______ her mind（頭腦）.

Her mother took her to the shop to buy presents. Instead of buying for ______ or her family, however, she decided to buy a girl’s ______ coat and a pair of socks for the shelter. She also wanted to buy a doll (a baby, as she called it), but when she found she didn’t have enough money, she put the doll back on the shelf.

When Skylar got home, she lined up all her babies and ______ one she thought another child would also love. The baby went into a ______ with the other things she bought that day.

She was so ______ waiting for Christmas! She was thinking about going to the shelter and ______ her carefully picked gifts to a homeless child.

On Christmas Eve, she and her family drove to the shelter where Skylar presented her Christmas box to a thankful child. She was so filled with happiness at truly helping someone else, that her family has decided to make the journey to the homeless shelter an annual tradition.

1.A. idea B. rest C. dinner D. trip

2.A. came in B. came on C. came back D. came up

3.A. asked B. showed C. told D. taught

4.A. on B. off C. up D. down

5.A. myself B. himself C. herself D. itself

6.A. big B. old C. warm D. soft

7.A. liked B. picked C. moved D. cheered

8.A. box B. room C. bed D. shop

9.A. tired B. surprised C. worried D. excited

10.A. bringing B. sending C. lending D. giving

Harry keeps a diary. He writes in it every day. Here is his diary for a week in May.

Monday 15th

It rained all day so we did not have PE class. We stayed in our classroom and read our books.

Tuesday 16th

I missed the school bus and was late for school. It wasn’t my fault（錯誤）. The bus was early.

Wednesday 17th

I had an English exam today. I got 96. I made only one mistake.

Thursday 18th

I went swimming with Ben. A swimming teacher taught us to dive.

Friday 19th

I was sick all day. I caught a cold at the swimming class. I stayed in bed and slept all day. I felt better in the evening. I’m glad it is Friday.

Saturday 20th

I am much better today, but Mum made me stay at home. I watched TV all day. It was boring.

Sunday 21st

I didn’t do anything interesting today.

1.When did Harry have an English exam?

A. On Monday. B. On Tuesday.

C. On Wednesday. D. On Thursday.

2.Why did Harry miss the school bus?

A. He didn’t get up early. B. The bus driver forgot to stop.

C. The bus was early. D. He got on the wrong bus.

The whole class went to the zoo for a field trip. The next day, the teacher asked the children to write a report（報告）about what they learned. Read the two reports below.

The first report is from Ryan.

I learned about the giant tortoise（龜）. It was so big that the guide let us sit on its back. Some tortoises live to be over 100 years old! That’s older than my grandpa!

The slowest-moving mammal is the three-toed sloth（樹懶）. It hangs from the trees and eats fruit. Some sloths sleep more than 20 hours a day. What a lazy animal!

I thought the albino alligator（鈍吻鱷）was really cool. It wasn’t green. It was completely white all over. It was born that way.

The second report is from Jessica.

The tallest animal on earth is the giraffe. It eats leaves from the tops of the trees. Giraffes come from Africa.

I learned about an albino alligator. It was white instead of green. The guide told us that it was born without the coloring of other alligators.

I saw an owl（貓頭鷹）sleeping in a tree. Owls sleep in the daytime and hunt at night. When they sleep, they don’t fall out of the tree because they have sharp claws（爪子）that lock onto the branch.

1.Which animals live on the trees?

A. Giraffes and three-toed sloths. B. Albino alligators and giant tortoises.

C. Owls and albino alligators. D. Owls and three-toed sloths.

2.According to the reports, which of the following statements is the truth?

A. Giraffes come from North America and China.

B. Owls sometimes fall out of the tree when they sleep.

C. Some three-toed sloths sleep more than 20 hours a day.

D. Only old albino alligators are completely white all over.

When you come to Britain for the first time, it’s important to know something about British shops. In some countries shops close for lunch but in Britain they usually open all day. They open at 9:00a.m. and they close at 5:30 or 6:00 p.m.

British shops and shopping habits are also different from those in other countries. For example, in Britain you can buy postage stamps only at a post office. You can buy cigarettes in many different places, but you’ve got to be at least 16 years old. You can buy film for your camera at the chemist’s. Most British families don’t buy their milk or newspapers from a shop; a milkman and a paperboy or a papergirl sends them to their houses.

In almost all towns there are restaurants, fish shops, a post office, clothes and shoe shops and food shops. Here are some of the best-known shops that you can find in High Street of a British town. Marks and Spencer is a large clothes and food supermarket. Lloyds, National Westminster and Midland are the names of British most famous banks. You can change your money there.

1.In Britain you can buy postage stamps _______________.

A. in a supermarket B. in a post office

C. in a bank D. in a chemist’s

2.Those who are under 16 years old in Britain are not allowed to _______________.

A. smoke B. drink

C. drive D. change money

3.What is Marks and Spencer?

A. It’s a name of a street.

B. It’s an interesting place in a British town.

C. It’s a name of a famous British bank.

D. It’s a large supermarket which sells food and clothes.

Two Unhappy Firsts

People enjoy talking about “firsts”. They like to remember their first love or their first car. But not all firsts are happy ones.

One of history’s bad but important firsts was the first car accident. The accident happened in New York City. The year was 1896. The month was May. A man from Massachusetts was visiting the city in his new car. At that time, bicycle riders were still trying to get used to the cars on the road.

In the accident, no one was sure who was at fault. The bike and the car collided. The man on the bike was injured. The driver of the car had to stay in jail（監(jiān)獄）and wait for the hospital report on the bicycle rider. Luckily, the rider was not killed.

Three years later, another first took place. The scene was again New York City. A man named Henry Bliss stepped off a streetcar. He was hit by a passing car. Once again, no one was sure how it happened or whose fault it was. The driver of the car was put in jail. Poor Mr. Bliss became the first person to die in a car accident.

1.In each accident the driver was _______________.

A. put in jail for a while. B. set free

C. laughed at D. drunken driving

2.The underlined word in the third paragraph means _______________.

A. stopped at the same time B. raced each other

C. traveled in the same direction D. hit each other

3.This passage is mainly about _______________.

A. accidents in New York City

B. two bicycle accidents

C. two of the first car accidents

D. traffic accidents in large cities

World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. The UNESCO set it up （設(shè)立） in 1995 to help people, especially teenagers, to enjoy reading. It is also the day to remember great writers, for example, William Shakespeare, born or dead on that day.

Many countries celebrate World Book Day. Take UK as an example. On that day, millions of schoolchildren can buy half-price books in any bookshop. It has been done every year since 1998. We also celebrate World Book Day in China. Wen Jiabao, Premier of China, is so interested in reading that he does reading every day though he is very busy. On World Book Day of 2009, he called on（號召）people to do more reading. He told us that we could change the world by changing ourselves through reading.

Reading can help people in many ways. Reading helps us know a lot and become smarter. It helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. It gives us information about other cultures and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that we don’t understand well. We would have to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the smarter we become. Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English. We all know that it is difficult to learn everything in the classroom, for example, the ways English people are speaking and writing today.

All in all, reading can help us know more about the world and perfect ourselves. So it is necessary for us to do some reading every day.

1.Why did the UNESCO set up World Book Day?

A. To let people learn English.

B. To help people enjoy reading.

C. To make teenagers become writers.

D. To help teenagers know Shakespeare.

2.According to the passage, reading can help people in many ways EXCEPT（不包括）__________.

A. learning a foreign language B. knowing more about culture

C. having more interesting hobbies D. understanding about the world

閱讀下列短文，根據(jù)文意，從短文后所給的A、B、C、D、E五個選項(xiàng)中選擇最佳答案，還原文章內(nèi)容。

Many people enjoy chewing gum（嚼口香糖）, but in 1992 Singapore decided to make it against the law. The government said that people were not careful about throwing away used gum. 1. and on the streets where it made a big mess. Chewing gum also got stuck in the doors of the subway or underground trains so that the doors didn’t close properly. 2.. Singapore said that people had to give up chewing gum or pay a lot of money to the government. During the ban（禁令）on the chewing gum, the streets and subways of Singapore were clean.

3.. Some dentists（牙醫(yī)）say that sugarless chewing gum can help people take care of their teeth. They have discovered that chewing gum can improve dental health. Now the government says that people will be able to buy special kinds of gum at pharmacies（藥店）for health reasons. Other kinds of gum are still not allowed.

A.Now the government of Singapore is changing the rules a little

B.Singapore is a clean country with strict rules

C.Instead, they dropped it on sideways

D.In Singapore, you can chew gum if you pay money to the government

E.This meant that the trains didn’t run on time

A.Now the government of Singapore is changing the rules a little

B.Singapore is a clean country with strict rules

C.Instead, they dropped it on sideways

D.In Singapore, you can chew gum if you pay money to the government

E.This meant that the trains didn’t run on time

九、閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答問題。

Many people have to work on the weekend. Some people do not mind. Other people think it is terrible.

One man thinks that working on the weekend can be dangerous. He is Graham Coates. Mr. Coates worked in an office in Brighton, England.

On Saturday, May 24, 1986, he went to the office to do some work. When he got in the elevator to go home, it stopped between floors. Mr. Coates could not get out of the elevator. He was trapped（給困住了）! He started to shout, but no one heard him. Then Mr. Coates remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one was going to come to work until Tuesday!

There was nothing for Mr. Coates to do. He had to wait until one of his coworkers came to work and found him. With nothing to eat or drink, Mr. Coates ended up sleeping for most of the time.

Early on Tuesday morning, the vice president of the company came into work and found the elevator was not working. When the elevator was opened, Mr. Coates came out cold, weak and tired. He had been in the elevator for sixty-two hours!

1.Where was Mr. Coates’s office?

2.Why could he not get out of ?

3.Did Mr. Coates have a nice weekend?

4.How many hours was he in the elevator?

5.What is the best title for the story of Mr. Coates?

根據(jù)中文意思完成下列句子。

1.您能告訴我去書店怎么走嗎？

______________________ the book store?

2.加油站緊挨著郵局。

The gas station ______________________ the post office.

3.我們期待著在巴黎再次見到你們！

We are ______________________ seeing you in Paris again!

4.Tony和大家相處得都很好。他總是樂于助人。

Tony ______________________ everyone. He’s always ______________________ help others.

5.勞駕！我能試穿這件襯衫嗎？

Excuse me! ______________________ the shirt?

6.你愿意放學(xué)后去看電影嗎？

______________________ go to the movies after school?

7.我每天花一個小時打網(wǎng)球。

I ______________________ playing tennis every day.

8.我們打算這個周末去鄉(xiāng)下散步。

_____________________ in the country this weekend.

9.學(xué)一門外語要花很長的時間。

Learning a foreign language will ______________________.

10.為何不休息一下？我們聽聽音樂吧。

_____________________? Let’s listen to some music.