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 _____ .

The Special Satellites

Man has invented four kinds of satellites. The first kind of satellite studies the__1__of the earth. They are used to make maps. They also help countries to see where they may__2___ oil or gold. The second kind of satellite is used to guide ships and planes. A ship or a plane can _3__a message to the satellite, and the satellite can find out __4___ the ship or the plane is.

The third kind studies the weather. These satellites_5__ the cloud and strong winds moving across the earth. They warn countries to make preparations when _6__ weather is coming.

___7__kind is used for communication. Telephone calls__8_countries can be sent by these satellites. Some can carry hundreds of calls at the same time. The call is sent to the satellites, then the __9__sends it to the station in the country and the country is being phoned. These satellites also carry pictures, they can receive and send __10__at a time, which we can watch on TV.

1.                A．physics         B．chemistry       C．biology   D．geography

2.                A．carry          B．find            C．keep D．choose

3.                A．write          B．take           C．send D．bring

4.                A．where         B．what           C．which    D．that

5.                A．have           B．watch          C．notice    D．see

6.                A．sunny          B．cool           C．bad  D．fine

7.                A．The last         B．Other          C．One D．Another

8.                A．among         B．along           C．between  D．of

9.                A．TV             B．telegraph       C．telephone D．satellite

10.               A．plays          B．programs       C．films  D．languages

Suzhou is a famous city in China. You can see beautiful mountains and trees in the city.

Travel time:

How to book (预订)：

☆ you must book by email. Tell us which hotel you are staying at and wait for our confirmation (确认) email.

☆ Our tour guide will call you the night before the tour and tell you when we will meet the next morning.

1. The writer must be a _______.

A. visitor     B. waiter    C. a tour guide     D. travel agent (代理人)

2.The tourist will visit ______ places in Suzhou.

A. six        B. five      C. four           D. three

3.What will they visit at 13:00?

A. The No.1 Silk Factory.       B. Hanshan Temple.   

C. The Tiger Hill.              D. The Humble Administrator’s Garden.

4. If you want to book, you must________.

A. go to their office            B. call the tour guide 

C. send them a letter           D. send them an email

5. The best title for this passage is “________”.

A. A Famous City, Suzhou      B. Suzhou Silk  

C. A one-day Suzhou Tour      D. Main sights in Suzhou

Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, They can help people to save much time to do much work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can’t do easily. Our country asked everyone except the old people, to learn to use computers before the twenty-first century.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. Yet, many of the children use computers to play games, to watch videos or to sing karaoke, instead of studying. So many teachers and parents complain that computers can’t help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.
In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers make millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.
Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by today’s students themselves!
【小题1】Our country asked everyone to learn to use computers except the ________ .