Mrs. Jones is waiting for an important telephone call, but she has no vegetables at home, so she leaves the baby and says to her five-year-old son, “I’m going to the shops, Jimmy, and I’ll be back in a few minutes.”

While she is out, the telephone rings, and Jimmy answers.

“Hello,” says a man. “Is your mother here?”

“No.” answers Jimmy.

“Well, when she comes back, tell her Mr. Baker telephones.”

“What?” says Jimmy.

“Mr. Baker, write it down B-A-K-E-R.”

“How do you make a B,” asks Jimmy.

“How do I make B? Listen, little boy, is there anyone else with you? Any brothers or sisters?”

“My brother Billy is here.”

“Good, I want to talk to him, please.”

“All right.” Jimmy takes the telephone to the baby’s bed and gives it to Billy. When their mother comes back, she asks, “Does anyone telephone?”

“Yes,” says Jimmy, “a man. But he only wants to talk to Billy.”

1. Mrs. Jones is waiting for _____.

2.Billy is _____.

3.There is no _____ in Mrs. Jones’s house.

4.When the telephone rings, Mrs. Jones is _____.

Ma Yan is not really a writer, but this 15-year-old girl has written a book that has moved many people around the world. Ma Yan’s diary tells us about Ma’s life. She lives in a poor village called Zhangjiashu in Tongxin, Ningxia, and she has no money to go to school. However, she is brave and wants to go to school very much.
Her mother gave her diary to a reporter, Pierre Haski when he went to Zhangjiashu in 2001. Now, Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and China.
Ma Yan is now a Junior Three student at Yuwang Middle School in Tongxin. Before this, she had to drop out of school twice. She had to stop going to school the first time, because her mum told her there was no money for her to go to school. She worked for 21 days and saved 13 yuan. With this money, she went back to school. The second time, her family told her she had to leave school while her two brothers could stay.
“I want to study,” Ma Yan wrote in her diary. “Why can boys study but girls can’t? It would be wonderful if I could stay at school forever.”
Ma Yan loves school so much because she wants to have a better life.
“My parents work hard in the fields but they are still poor. They have no knowledge(知识). Most girls in my village leave school early and get married young. I don’t want that kind of life,” Ma Yan said.
After her story became known, many students sent money to her. She hopes to go to Tsinghua University and become a reporter. “Then, I can find poor kids like me, and help them,” she said.
【小题1】Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and       .

根据句意、中文提示写出单词，完成句子。(15分)

1.Can you spend some time              (解释)the project to us in detail?

2.You can ask Tom for help when you have difficulty making a         (决定)．

3.If you want your dog to be happy．You should           (匀出)at least half an hour to play with it every day．

4.Can you see any            (蝴蝶)among the flowers?

5.Our teachers are very good．They always make their classes        (活泼的)and interesting．

6.Jack is very busy．Has he          (回答)to your last e-mail?

7.Our English teacher often            (划分)us into groups of four to organize class activities．

8.—Who __________(发现)America?  —Columbus．

9.What an          (patient)boy Eric is ! He only waited for ten minutes and he was very angry．

10.Millie is always             (satisfy) with a small success．

11.It’s not good for you to stay alone sadly．You need someone to share your____(happy)．

12. Kitty doesn’t know what to do next, so she has no        (choose)but to call her friend, Lily for help．

13.I don’t think their suggestions are            (value)to us．

14.Don’t keep your worries to         (you) , Jim and Tom．

15.The project was finished          (success) on time by them．

完形填空（本题有10 小题，每小题1分，共10分）

先通读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。

Sally is 96 years old. She has no sons or daughters. Her husband   1  fifteen years ago. But she didn’t move into a nursing home. She would like to 2   herself every day.

Every night she spends two hours   3   kids with their math for twenty years. All kids living on her street can get her help without payment（付费）. She was a famous  4  before she retired from a middle school.

She gets up early in the morning, then does sports, goes shopping or helps cleaners  5 the street. And she does these happily.

When the kids come for help, she is always  6  and tries her best to help them. People asked her   7__ . She said, “ I love it, it makes me happy to help them.”

She is always happy every day and always says hello to people around her   8  a smile. “I’ve decided to love everything around me. So I’m happy to do   9 . I’m thankful for those kids who come to me for help. Each kid is a  10  for me. I love each day to help them.” She said.

Really, a good decision decides what a person does in life.

1.                A．died           B．woke           C．slept D．went

2.                A．look like        B．look at          C．look after D．look for

3.                A．helping         B．working         C．studying  D．teaching

4.                A．cleaner         B．nurse          C．worker   D．teacher

5.                A．walk           B．run            C．sweep    D．talk

6.                A．awful          B．tired           C．happy    D．boring

7.                A．why           B．where          C．when D．how

8.                A．for            B．on             C．with D．in

9.                A．anything        B．nothing         C．something D．everything

10.               A．example        B．gift            C．teacher   D．helper

As a girl, I've spent a great deal of my time on earth concerned about my weight. So I do know something about exercise. Let me tell you about the calorie-burning activities I've tried or will try.

Salsa (萨尔萨舞)

I try to maintain my weight through dancing. Dancing improves my coordination and sense of rhythm in addition to burning calories. I'm personally interested in salsa, which I find sexy and expressive(有表现力的). But I have not yet to start classes, because classes are very expensive, and I cannot find a dance partner.

Ping-Pong

Ping-pong is the national sport of China, so how could I know nothing about it?

My father is a ping-pong fan, and a really good player. He's won several informal (非正式的) matches. My relationship with ping-pong has always been on-and-off. I'll get into it for a while, and then lose interest. The reason is because I can’t find a good partner. Some stronger can depress you, while someone weaker (or just as weak) can make the game boring.

Tae Kwon Do （跆拳道）

I've recently decided to try tae kwon do as my regular exercise activity. There’s a story behind this choice: A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a bus, concentrating on a book. Suddenly, the bus became very quiet except for the sound of a woman’s crying. I looked up to see what had happened and overheard whispers that she had just quarreled with a man, and the man slapped(拍打) her face. No one on the bus dared say anything because the man looked really strong. Even now I feel ashamed I was among the silent.

That’s why I've made up my mind to learn something that will help me protect others and myself.

1.We can guess that the girl is _____ according to the passage.

2.Why doesn’t the girl want to go to learn salsa?

3.She is interested in ping-pong because ________.

4.She has made up her mind to learn Tae Kwon Do mainly because______.

5.We can learn from the passage that________.