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At the age of 40, Tom Bloch was the head of H&R Block, a huge company that 'helps people do with their tax(税) forms. He was very successful. Although Bloch was very rich, he wasn't very happy. He spent too much time at work and didn't have enough time to spend with his family. Suddenly he left H&R Block and became a teacher in a poor neighborhood. "I want to help people who didn't have the chances I had." Bloch explained.

Learning to teach the students was hard at first. But the results are great. He helps children and hears students say he's their favorite teacher. And Bloch is able to spend more time with his family.

1. When was Tom Bloch the head of a big company?

2. What does Mr. Bloch's company do?

3. Why did Mr. Bloch become a teacher in a poor neighborhood?

4. How was Mr. Bloch's teaching at first?

5. Is Mr. Bloch able to spend more time with his family now?

1．At the age of 40．

2．Help people do with their tax forms．

3．He wanted to help people who didn’t have出e chances he had．

4．Very hard．

5．Yes，he is．

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         A little girl called Fan Yi has caught many people’s attention recently. The little
  【小题1】   first English story, Swordbird, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for children’s fiction.
Fan Yi was born in Beijing in 1997. She     【小题2】   her second grade of primary school in Beijing. She     【小题3】  to the US with her parents at the age of 7. She has shown      【小题4】interests in birds since she was a little girl.
When Fan      【小题5】    studying American history at school, she read many articles(文章) about the September 11 Attacks (9.11事件). She wanted all people to       【小题6】    in peace with each other. Around that time, she had a(n)      【小题7】    one night. In the dream, some birds fought with each other. Fan got an idea      【小题8】    the dream and turned it into a story. In it, she showed her idea of peace in the world.
In the future, Fan will write more      【小题9】    for the Swordbird series. Will she become another J.K Rowling? We      【小题10】    have to wait and see.

Nadya Vessey, of Auckland, New Zealand, was born with an illness. So at the age of 16, of her legs below the knees were cut off. One day when a little boy was watching _ take off? her prosthetic假体的legs, he asked her???? she didn't have any legs.? Thinking quickly she asked him whether he had read The Little Mermaid美人鱼.He said“_???? .”So Nadya told him that she was a mermaid. The Little boy was?????? ? and said,"Wow! That's so cool!” And then he ran off to tell his Dad.

The????? ? of becoming a mermaid became clearer and clearer in Nadya's mind. After????? it over, she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington to ask if they could????? her. She never believed they actually would, so she was excited when she knew they_???? _. Weta workshop's manager, Richard Taylor, was very pleased to make it true, and wanted Nadya to be _???? .

It took Weta Workshop two years to make a special????? for Nadya. "A prosthetic is a prosthetic, and your body has to be comfortable????? it and you have to make it part of?????? ". After practicing in the????? , Nadya went to the open sea to try on her mermaid suit. It was??????? amazing and great to watch Nadya swim, and to see her dream come true.

Nadya Vessey herself has written the story of a real mermaid.

1.A. either??????? B. both???????? C. neither????????? D. none

2.A. me????????? B. you????????? C. him??????????? D. her

3.A. why???????? B. how????????? C. when?????????? D. where

4.A. No????????? B. Yes????????? C. Sorry?????????? D. Goodbye

5.A. sad????????? B. afraid??????? C. surprised??????? D. fortunate

6.A. news???????? B. idea???????? C. story?????????? D. history

7.A. going???????? B. taking??????? C. turning???????? D. thinking

8.A. save???????? B. pick????????? C. treat? ???????? D. help

9.A. agreed?????? B. checked?????? C. refused???????? D. received

10.A. ugly????????? B. beautiful????? C. friendly???????? D. relaxed

11.A. hat?????????? B. jacket??????? C. sweater???????? D. suit

12.A. with????????? B. about???????? C. from????????? D. of

13.A. myself??????? B. ourselves????? C. yourself??????? D. yourselves

14.A. dining hall???? B. waiting room? C. living room????? D. swimming pool

15.A. too?????????? B. really??????? C. well??????????? D. enough

For more than four hundred years, people all over the world have been reading ,watching and listening to the plays and poetry of the British writer William Shakespeare.

Most people think of Shakespeare as a writer. But he was also a theater producer, a part owner of an acting company and an actor. For most of his career, he was a producer and main writer for an acting company called the King’s Men. Shakespeare is best known for the thirty—nine plays that he wrote, although only thirty—eight exist today. His plays are usually divided into three groups: comedies, histories and tragedies. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet ,Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and so on.

Shakespeare was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of 14.He married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18.The couple had three children, two daughters and a son who died very young. In 1585,Shakespeare left his hometown. No one knows why he left or moved to London and joined a theater company which opened the Globe Theater in 1599.He made much money from it.He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays. He died in 1616. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. Now you can still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world.

1.What was Shakespeare?

A．A writer B．An actor

C．A theater producer D．A,B and C

2.Shakespeare made much money from_______.

A．writing B．acting

C．opening the Globe Theater D．selling his books

3.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “genius” in the passage?

A．房子 B．遗憾 C．悔恨 D．天赋

4.Which sentence is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Shakespeare died when he was 52 years old.

B．Shakespeare married in 1582,and he had two daughters and a son.

C．Shakespeare’s plays are usually divided into three groups: comedies, histories and science fictions.

D．No one knows why Shakespeare left his hometown at he age of 21.

Reporter: People say that you’re a very brave young man, Wang Tao. I heard you can do 1. things.

Wang Tao: Not really.

Reporter: Well, I heard you can speak English and you’re good at 2. .

Wang Tao: Yes. I can speak English because my mother is an English teacher, and I

3. learning to draw at the age of five.

Reporter: And what about sports?

Wang Tao: I can 4. but I can’t swim.

Reporter: I heard you’re good at music, too.

Wang Tao: Well, I can play the violin, 5. I can’t sing very well.

Reporter: Thank you for your time, goodbye!

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