One night I was sitting in my room half-listening as my 15-year-old brother Tommy fought with my 12-year-old brother Kevin. I didn’t pay attention when Kevin rushed up the stairs with the hurt on his face.

About 20 minutes later, as I was walking upstairs I heard Kevin crying inside the bathroom. I knocked on the door and asked, “Hey Kevin, do you want to talk?”

No answer.

I tried again, “Why don’t you come out of there?”

Again, no answer.

So, joking around, I grabbed a stack of （一摞）cards and a pencil and wrote, “If you don’t want to talk, we can write notes to each other.”

An hour later I was still sitting on the floor outside the bathroom with two stacks of cards in front of me. One was blank and one was cards from Kevin on which he had translated all his yucky feelings into words for me. As I read one of Kevin’s notes, tears came to my eyes. It said, “Nobody in this family cares about me. I’m not the youngest, and I’m not the oldest. Tommy thinks I’m silly and Dad wishes he had the other Kevin as a kid because he’s better at basketball. And you’re never around to even notice me.”

Tears came to my eyes as I wrote back to him. “You know Kevin, I really do love you and I’m sorry I don’t always show it. I am here for you and you are loved in this family.”

There was no answer for a while, but then I heard a tearing sound coming from inside the bathroom. Kevin, who had run out of cards wrote on a torn paper cup. “Thanks.”

I wrote back “For what?” it returned to me with “Loving me” on it.

Since then, I try my best to never only half-notice my family members any more. Kevin and I have a closer relationship now. And sometimes when one of us notices that the other is upset, we’ll smile and say “Write it on a paper cup.”

1.The underlined word “yucky” most probably means ____.

     A. upset     B. exciting     C. terrible     D. amazing

2.What could be the reason that Kevin’s Dad doesn’t like him?

A.Kevin is not as clever as his brother.

B.He is neither the youngest nor the oldest.

C.Kevin doesn’t like to make friends with others.

D.Kevin is not good at playing basketball.

3.What do we know about the writer?

A.She has two children in her family.

B.She didn’t pay enough attention to Kevin before.

C.She used to show her love to Kevin.

D.She has a closer relationship with Tommy after that.

4.What does the writer want to tell us?

A.Everyone should show how they love their family members.

B.It’s hard to get on well with family members.

C.It’s important to keep peace in the family.

D.We should try our best to stop our children from fighting.

Today is Tuesday. We are having a ___31___ class in the classroom. Ms Chen is telling us what water is like. After that, she asks us “___32_ water like?” No one speaks for __33__ minutes. Ms Chen asks again,“Why don’t you __34__ my question? Don’t I tell you what water is like?”
A boy names Zhang Hui puts up his ___35__ and says,“Ms Chen, you tell us that water has no color __36__ no smell. But ___37_ can we find that kind of water? The __38__ in the river behind my house is always black and it has bad smell. ”Most of us ___39__ with him.
“I am sorry, children,” says Ms Chen. “Our water is getting__40__. That’s a problem.”

In Canada and the United States, people enjoy entertaining (请客) at home. They often invite friends over for a meal, a party or just for coffee and conversation (谈话).
Here are the kinds of things people say when they invite someone to their homes:
“Would you like to come over for dinner this Saturday night?” “Hey, we’re having a party on Friday. Can you come?”
To reply (回答) to an invitation , either say ‘thank you’ and accept (接受), or say you’re sorry and give an excuse. “Thanks, I’d love to. What time would you like me to come?” or “Oh, sorry . I’ve tickets for a movie.”
Sometimes, however, people use expressions (习惯用语) that sound like invitations but which are not real invitations . For example; “Please come over for a drink sometime.” “Why not get together for a party sometime?” “Why don’t you come over and see us sometime soon?”
They are really just polite ways of ending a conversation. They are not real invitations because they don’t mention (提到) a certain time or date. They just show that the person is trying to be friendly. To reply to expressions like these, people just say “Sure, that would be great!” or “OK. Yes, thanks.”
So next time when you hear what sounds like an invitation, listen carefully. Is it a real invitation or is the person just being friendly?
Title: Real   【小题1】   or not

Lin Tao and Chen Hai are good friends. They are in the same class. They are in the same team. Lin Tao sits behind Chen Hai. Now it is four o'clock. School is over. They often go to play games after school. They can't look after their things very well. So their mothers don't give them watches. They don't have watches. They don't know the time. But they can ask a man under the big tree. His watch is very nice. They can also see the clock on the wall of the classroom. Now it's about five in the afternoon. It's time to go home. They must put on their clothes and go home.

1.Where do Lin Tao and Chen Hai sit in the classroom?

          A. They sit in the same row (??).         B. Chen Hai sits behind Lin Tao.

          C. They sit in the same class.            D. Lin Tao sits behind Chen Hai.

2.What do they do after school?

          A. They go home.                    B. They do their homework.

          C. They look after each other.           D. They play games.

3.Why don't they have watches?

          A. Because they don't need watches.

          B. Because they can't look after their things well.

          C. Because their watches are in their desks.

          D. Sorry, I don't know.

4.How can they know the time?

          A. They can see the teacher's watch

          B. They can ask the man under the big tree.

          C. They can go home and ask their mothers.

          D. They can see the sun

5.What time do they go home in the afternoon?

          A. At about 10 a. m.          B. At about 5 a. m.  

C. At about 5 p. m.           D. At about lo p. m.

用所给词的适当形式填空

1.It takes twenty minutes __________ (get) to the nearest town by car from here.

2.Why don’t you _________(play) foot ball with us?

3.There are lots of interesting things __________(see) in the Palace Museum.

4.He seldom____________(eat) rice dumplings.

5.----Where is Helen? ----She ______________(prepare) food for her friends.

6.There __________ (be) a football match the day after tomorrow.

7.Turn left at the __________ (nine) turning.

8.Who teaches ___________(we) English.

9.We look forward to ____________ (visit) your school in Shanghai.

10.The UK is a __________(west) country.

11.Would you like __________(help) us do some cleaning?

12.My brother sometimes _____________ (watch) a film with me at the cinema.

13.We _____________ (be) there at 9 a.m. tomorrow.

14.What about __________ (take) another route?

15.How ___________(wonder) these Chinese paintings are!