Boys and girls, let’s begin our English class now. This time I want to talk about my family. Then I want you to say something about my families.

There are seven people in my family. They are my parents, my two sisters, my brother, my wife (妻子)and I. In England, a family like this is a big one. My father has a factory（工厂）. It isn’t very big. It makes all kinds of boats. My brother is a doctor. He works in a hospital(医院). His wife works in a hospital, too. She is a nurse. My two sisters are students. One want to be a teacher. She studies hard and well. The other likes singing very much and can sing very well. So she wants to be a singer(歌手). I’m now in China teaching English and learning Chinese. My mother stays at home. Can you guess (猜测)what she does at home? Yes, she does housework. She is a housewife.

1.Where do I come from?

A. China B. America C. England D. Canada

2. Where am I now ?

A. In China B. In America C. In England D. In Canada

3.Who works in a school in my family?

A. One of my sisters B. I C. My father D. My brother

4. My brother and his wife work _________.

A. as teachers B. as nurses C. as doctors D. in a hospital

5.In Chinese “ housewife” means_________ .

A. 干家务活的人 B. 在家的妻子 C. 家庭主妇 D. 保姆

Happy Middle School is a bilingual (双语) school for children of 6-15. Now we want a cook, library assistant(助理), a PE teacher and a language(语言) teacher.

1.Which of the following can go to Happy Middle School?

A. A four-year-old child. B. A ten-year-old child.

C. A sixteen-year-old child. D. A five-year-old child.

2.Happy Middle School doesn't want .

A. a cook B. a nurse C. a library assistant D. a PE teacher

3.Which of the following may not speak English?

A. The cook. B. The library assistant.

C. The PE teacher. D. The language teacher.

4.The cook can cook .

A. Chinese food B. Western food

C. Chinese and Western food D. everything

5.Which of the following doesn't a PE teacher need?

A. He majors in PE. B. He must he healthy and strong.

C. It can speak Chinese and English. D. He can cook Western food.

Alice was twenty-three years old, and she was a nurse at a big hospital . She was very kind and all of her patients (病人) likes her very much .

One day she was out shopping. She saw an old woman. The woman was waiting to cross (穿越) a busy street . Alice wanted to cross the street, too. So she went over to help the woman cross the street. When Alice was near her, she suddenly laughed(笑) and said, “ Mrs Green ! You were my patient in the hospital last year.”

Mrs Green was very happy to see her.

“I will help you cross the street, Mrs Green,” Alice said.

“Oh, thank you very much , Alice , ” Mrs Green said and stepped (走) forward (向前). “No, no, Mrs Green,” Alice said quickly . “Wait! The light is still red.”

“Oh,” Mrs Green answered when she stepped back. “I can easily cross the street by myself (我自己) when the light is green .”

1.Was Alice old or young?

2.Did her patients like her?

3.Did Alice know Mrs Green?

4.When did Mrs Green want to cross the street?

5.When did Alice want her to cross?

Lisa never had the chance to know her father. He and her mother divorced when she was just a young child. Even though he didn’t move far, he never came to visit his children.
Lisa often wondered about her father. What did he looked like and what he was doing. All she knew was his name: Jeff White.
After Lisa grew up, she became a nurse at a hospital, where she would help provide medicine and comfort for patients in their final days. A few weeks ago, she receieved a new patient whose name was Jeff White.
When Jeff came into his room, Lisa asked him if he had any children. Jeff told her that he had two daughters, Lisa and Elly. Lisa couldn’t hold her tears back. She told him, “ I am Lisa, your daughter.”
Jeff embraced her, saying that he was not a good father. And the daghter held his hand and kissed him. Then Jeff began to sing This Magic Moment.
Jeff could have just weeks left to live, so Lisa wanted to make the most of the time she had with him. Lisa also brought her kids to the hospital to meet their grandfather. The kid made cards for him with the words, “ I love you.”
Forgiveness is also a kind of love.
【小题1】what happened to Lisa when she was young?

In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers(乘客). Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food or drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.
The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.
At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was a hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.
【小题1】The underlined word “adventurous” means _____________.