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补全对话：根据对话内容从方框中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

A: Do you like living in the city or the countryside?

B: __1_____

A: But I think the countryside is much better than the city for living.

B: ___2_____

A: Because there is terrible traffic and too much noise in the city.

B: ___3____ I think the city is a wonderful place to live in, because we can go to parties, concerts and operas every day if we like.__4____

A: Maybe you are right. ____5___

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You can easily find that your sister or brother is different from you. You live together in the same house and have the same parents, but you have different personalities(性格).

Why? One possible reason is the way your parents treat you.

Firstborn children receive all the attention from their parents. Generally speaking, a firstborn has twice as many photos as any other child has. Parents usually give firstborns more responsibilities (责任)and depend on them to take care of younger brothers and sisters. As a result, firstborns are often responsible, hard-working, and serious. They often want to do well at school and in work. More firstborns became American Presidents, for example George W.Bush, George Washington and Lyndon Baines Johnson, than second or last-borns.

When a second child arrives, parents are more relaxed. The second child has to compete (竞争)with the first-born for parents’ attention and love. These children often choose different sports and hobbies to develop different personalities. They are often outgoing, but can be jealous and get angry easily.

The youngest child is usually the happiest, and has fewer responsibilities and more freedom(自由的). These children do well at school and in work, but have to be creative（创造性的） to get their family’s attention. They are often friendly and cool. Many famous talk-show hosts were born last.

1.The underlined word “jealous” means_______ in Chinese

A. 友好的             B. 嫉妒的            C. 快乐的

2.The writer thinks that the second-born children are often ______.

A. outgoing but jealous

B. cool and friendly

C. hard-working and serious

3.. ______ is usually the happiest in the family according to the passage.

A. The eldest child

B. The second child

C. The youngest child

4. We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. the second child is very similar to the firstborn child

B. brothers and sisters usually have the same personalities

C. more firstborns became American presidents than second or last-borns

5. The passage is mainly about ______.

A. birth order and personalities

B. children and their parents

C. different children and different work

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Many people like animals and keep one or more as pets—dogs, cats and some kinds of birds. If you keep a dog or a cat as a pet, you must know how to look after it. A grown-up(成年) dog needs two meals a day, not more. And it can eat meat, fish, rice and some other things. Dogs like large bones(骨头), but don’t give them chicken bones. Remember to give them much clean water.      A dog should have a clean, dry box for sleeping. Washing it once a week is good for its health. If it is ill, take it to a doctor. A healthy dog will bring you more pleasure.

Be careful when you have chosen a cat. It has two meals a day with some meat or fish. Cats drink a little milk every day. Sometimes give them vegetables to eat. Don’t forget that they need clean water to drink.

Take good care of your pets. They will be your good friends. Maybe they can give you some help when you need.

1.Many people keep ____ as pets.

A. pandas                            B. elephants              C. chickens                          D. cats

2.What do dogs like eating?

A. All the bones.       B. Big bones.   C. Chicken bones.    D. Small bones.

3.A healthy dog can ____ you happy.

A. make                      B. give                         C. take                                 D. bring

4.Cats usually drink ____.

A. orange                            B. milk                         C. water                     D. milk and water

5.Will pets be people’s friends?

A. No, I don’t think so.                                          B. Yes, but only a little.

C. Yes, they will.                                                     D. No, they won’t.

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I’m a school girl. My brother and I are twins. We are both at school. We like school. My parents are both teachers. They work hard. My brother and I study at No. 1 Middle School. There are twenty-five boys and eighteen girls in our class.

We go to school from Monday to Friday. We have no classes on Saturdays and Sundays. We usually get up at six o’clock, and have breakfast at half past six. We come to school at seven o’clock. Classes begin at eight. We have four lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We have lunch a fifteen past twelve. At three fifty we have sports.

We study Chinese, math, English, geography, physics, history, politics and other lessons. We like Chinese. We like English, too. Some of us are good at it.

We go home at five o’clock. We have supper at six o’clock. We do our homework at seven every evening and go to bed at half past nine, but sometimes we go to sleep at about ten.

We work hard, we study for the people.

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1.My brother is ___ and I am ____.

A. a worker; a student   B. a student; a worker  C. a student; a teacher  D. a student; a student

2. We have ___ a fifteen past twelve.

A. breakfast    B. lunch  C. supper  D. dinner

3. We begin to do our homework from ____ to ___ every evening.

A. Monday; Friday    B. seven; nine  C. school; home  D. six; eight

4.. There are ___ boys and ___ girls in our class.

A. twenty-five; twenty  B. some; any  C. twenty-five; eighteen  D. many; much

5.Do they often have sports in the morning or in the afternoon?

A. Yes, they do  B. No, we don’t  C. In the morning  D. In the afternoon

Over the past ten years, great changes (1)_________ in our hometown. (2) ______, the houses in our hometown were very old, (3)_________ now most of the people have moved into tall buildings. The water in the river (4)_________ very dirty, but now the river is very clean, and we can swim in it. People here used to walk or ride bikes, but now they can take buses or drive their own cars (5)_________.