Have you seen the movie Changjiang 7（CJ7）?The story is about a boy called Dickey. He lives a poor life with his father. His father doesn’t have any money to buy toys for him. One day his father finds him a strange toy from a junkyard （垃圾堆）. Dickey names it Changjiang 7 （CJ7）. It is an alien dog. It can do many things that humans can not do. Dickey takes it to school to help him in many ways.

????????????? CJ7 is a popular movie. Xu Jiao，born on August 5，1997 in Ningbo，Zhejiang，plays Dickey. On April 21，the girl won Best New Performer （演员） at the Hong Kong Film Awards for her play in CJ7.Now Xu Jiao becomes a new film star. She is well-known especially among young kids. Many of them want to own such a helpful toy as CJ7.

????????????? Xu once said it was difficult to play a boy. “To get an idea of what a boy is like，” she said，“I watched boys and I also studied and played with them a lot.”

1.Xu Jiao’s birthday is on____________ .

A. April 5????????????? ????????????? B. August 5????????????? ? C. April 21????????????? ????????????? D. August 21

2.____________ finds a toy from the junkyard.

A. Dickey????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. Xu Jiao????????????? ? C. Dickey’s father????????????? D. Xu Jiao’s father

3.CJ7 is the name of____________ .

A. a toy????????????? ????????????? B. a cat????????????? ????????????? ? C. a place????????????? ????????????? D. an award

4.To play Dickey，Xu Jiao did all the following things EXCEPT ____________? boys.

A. beating????????????? ????????????? B. watching????????????? ????????????? ? C. playing with????????????? ????????????? D. studying with

5.What can we know about Xu Jiao from the passage?

A. She lives a poor life.????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. She plays a boy in the movie.

C. She was born in Hong Kong.????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. She said it was easy to act in CJ7.

Have you seen the movie Changjiang 7 （CJ7）? The story is a boy called Dickey．He lives a poor life with his father．His father doesn’t have any money to buy toys for him．One day his father finds him a strange toy from a junkyard （垃圾堆）．Dickey names it Changjiang 7 （CJ7）．It is an alien dog．It can do many things that humans can not do．Dickey takes it to school to help him in many ways．

    CJ7 is a popular movie of 2008． Xu Jiao, born on August 5, 1997 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, plays Dickey．On April 21, the girl won Best New Performer （演员） at the Hong Kong Film Awards for her play in CJ7．Now Xu Jiao becomes a new film star, she is well-known especially among young kids．Many of them want to own such a helpful toy as CJ7．

    Xu once said it was difficult to play a boy．“To get an idea of what a boy is like,” she said, “I watched boys and I also studied and played with them a lot．”

1． Xu Jiao’s birthday is ______．

A． April 5              B． August 5            C． April 31     D． August 21

2． ______ finds a toy from the junkyard．

     A． Dickey                                                  B． Xu Jiao

C． Dickey’s father                                     D． Xu Jiao’s father

3． CJ7 is the name of _______．

     A． a toy                 B． a cat                C． a place                    D． an award

4． To play Dickey, Xu Jiao did all the following things EXCEPT _____ boys．

     A． hearing               B． watching            C． playing with       D． studying with

5． What can we know about Xu Jiao from the passage?

     A． She lives a poor life．                        B． She plays a boy in the movie．

     C． She was born in Hong Kong．                 D． She said it was easy to act in CJ7．

Mr. White is seventy years old. He has been staying at home since he retired. Last year his wife 41 .He was very sad. He has four children, but they all have their own families. Now he lives in an old house  42. Sometimes he feels lonely. One day, one of his children bought a parrot for him. It could  43 and usually gave it nice  44. But one afternoon, a cat ate the parrot. He was very sad and  45 to buy another one. He also bought a strong and beautiful cage for it and began to  46 it to speak. Every morning, as soon as he got up, he said“Good morning”  47 the bird. The bird had a look at him but said  48 . He kept on teaching it but the parrot didn’t learn anything. He felt sorry for it and lost his patience(耐心).
One evening his  49  called and told him that his granddaughter was  50  in hospital. He went to see her  51 . When he got there, she was being operated(手术) on and he didn’t see her. The doctors asked him to go home. He was so worried about her that he couldn’t  52  the whole night. The next morning, when he was passing by the parrot, he  53  to say “Good morning” to the bird.
Suddenly(突然地) he  54  someone saying,“What happened to you this morning?” He looked  55 . There was nobody except himself in the room. It was the bird.

A rabbit is running into his hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they ran, too. They know there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home. It can’t tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
But animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for examples, when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs(发出呼噜呼噜的声音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have---- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for examples, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don’t know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we met a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.
【小题1】What’s the meaning of the underlined word?