理解下列词组的含义，并造句。

　　“how”短语归纳。

　　how many修饰可数名词复数，表示“多少”，如：

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　　how much修饰不可数名词，表示“多少”，如：

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　　how far询问距离，表示“多远”，如：

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　　how often询问频率，表示“多久一次”，如：

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　　how soon多用于将来时，表示“多快”，如：

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　　how long用于询问时间的长度，表示“多久”，如：

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　　how old询问年龄，表示“多大”，如：

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Lion is a special animal to Chinese people. A couple of stone lions, a male (雄性) and a female (雌性), can often be seen in front of the gates of old buildings. The male lion is on the left with his right paw (手掌) on a ball, and the female on the right. And her left paw is touching a baby animal.
The lion is the king in the animal world because he is powerful. The ball shows the country or the family will be together forever, and the baby animal with the female shows that you will have many children.
The stone lions were also used to show the families were powerful. If you had no money or power, you couldn’t put the stone lions in front of your houses.
It was also popular to make bridges with stone lions. The best known of this is the Lugou Bridge (also as Marco Polo Bridge), built from 1189 to 1192. The stone lions on the bridge are most famous. Maybe there are 485 lions in all, maybe there are 498 or 501. A famous saying is that “the lions on the Lugou Bridge are uncountable(不可数的).”
【小题1】What is a special animal in Chinese people?

My cat’s name is Lucy. She is a very pretty cat. Her hair is black and yellow. She has four children. She is very happy with her young babies.
The four children are not all like Lucy very much. The biggest (最大的) child is quite black. It is black with white feet (脚) and white ears. Two children are like their mother. They are black. My daughter says, “Aren’t they pretty ? Can’ t I have the black and white one? Isn’t he a tomcat (雄猫)?”
I say, “I don’t know, but I know the yellow and black ones are female (雌性的) .” “Are they? How do you know?” “For (因为) they are yellow and black. Tomcats never (从不) have that colour. I’ ll tell you something about that. Listen---”
【小题1】Lucy is a _____ .

My cat’s name is Lucy. She is a very pretty cat. Her hair is black and yellow. She has four children. She is very happy with her young babies.

The four children are not all like Lucy very much. The biggest (最大的) child is quite black. It is black with white feet (脚) and white ears. Two children are like their mother. They are black. My daughter says, “Aren’t they pretty ? Can’ t I have the black and white one? Isn’t he a tomcat (雄猫)?”

I say, “I don’t know, but I know the yellow and black ones are female (雌性的) .” “Are they? How do you know?” “For (因为) they are yellow and black. Tomcats never (从不) have that colour. I’ ll tell you something about that. Listen---”

1.Lucy is a _____ .

2.The writer (作者) has _____ cats: _____ baby cats and _____ mother cat.

3.文中划线单词 “black and yellow” 的意思是：

4.The biggest baby is _____ with _____ feet and _____ ears.

5.The story tells us the female cat’ s hair is _____ .

Have you felt annoyed when a cell phone (手机)rings during the class? Something must be done to stop this. Now in New York City, USA, a rule is carried out（执行） in schools. Students can’t even bring cell phones to school. Is it a good thing or not?

Anxious（焦虑的） parents say that cell phones are an important tool in holding New York City’s families together.

“I worry about it,” said Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, a mother of a middle school kid. “It’s necessary in our everyday life. We have a washing machine, we have running water, and we have cell phones.”

 A number of Americans think cell phones connect them to children on buses, getting out from subways, walking through unknown places.

 “I have her call me when she gets out school,” said Lindsay Walt, a schoolgirl’s mother. “No one in New York is going to let their children go to school without a cell phone.

 What about the cell phone owners, the students? Most of the students said that cell phones were necessary and the cell phone was like an extra(额外的)hand or foot for them.

 “I feel so empty,” said May Chom, 14. “There is also no way to listen to music on the way to school without my phone. It will be a really, really boring trip.”

1.. Elizabeth Lorris Ritter is worried that ______________.

A. students are not allowed to bring cellphones

B. students spend too much time in listening to music on the cellphones

C. students bring cellphones to school and they often ring during the class

D. no rule is carried out to stop students from bringing cellphones to school

2.. ____________ American parents disagree with the rule that students can’t bring cellphones to school.

    A. Many       B. Some        C. Few     D. No

3. May Chom likes to ______________.

    A. go to school without a cellphone    

B. chat with her friends on the cellphone on the way to school

C. walk through unknown places with a cellphone

    D. bring a cellphone to school

4. This writer wants to tell us the __________ in carrying out the rule not

to use a cellphone in school.

   A. importance  B. problem     C. happiness      D. impossibility (不可能)