I live in a large house in Los Angeles. It has eight rooms. I like the balcony best. I love to sit there and look out at the beach and sea. It’s cool.

My friend Neil lives in England. His house is big, too. His favourite room is the kitchen. His family and he often sit there and enjoy a cup of tea.

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She is Liu Hui ,a middle school student in Anhui, one of the “ stay-at-home children” in her town. Liu Hui is 12 years old and lives (1) w _________ her sister. Her parents left home to make money in big cities when she was (2) o ________ four. Liu Hui has to take (3) c _________ of her younger sister. They have to stay at home alone (4) b ________ they have to go to school.
“I used to feel (5) s ________ without my parents at home,” she said, “but now I know (6) w _____ they do so. They have to go away to make money for (7) u _________ so that we can live a better life.”
Every day, Liu Hui gets up at 6:30 a.m. and cooks (8) b ______________. Then the two girls go to school. They have supper at 6:00 p.m. Then Liu Hui does housework and (9) h _____________ her sister with her homework. She usually goes to bed at 9:30 p.m.
Though busy, Liu Hui is still the (10) b ________ student in her class. She said, “My life is OK. But I still hope my parents will come back and live with us.”

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the nine o’clock Mystery Hour. Today we’ll show you two British stories. We hope you’ll enjoy them.

About 900 years ago two green children arrived in a small village in south England. Their eyes and skin were green and they spoke a strange language. They were very tired and weak, so the people of the village looked after them. The boy died a year later, but the girl grew strong and lived the rest of her life there. And her skin color turned back to normal day by day. Scientists say that sometimes of people don’t have enough food to eat for a long time, their skin goes very pale and can turn green.

Loch Ness is the largest lake in Scotland. It’s a very deep and cold lake. For hundreds of years, people have talked about a monster(怪物) called Nessie which lives in the lake. About seventy years ago, two people saw something moving in the lake. They said that the animal was playing and rolling around in the water. Since then many people say they have seen the monster. Their descriptions are always the same. It looks like a dinosaur, with a very long neck and a small head. It has a big bump(肿块)on its back. People have tried to photograph the animal, but the pictures have not been very clear. Scientists don’t know whether there is a monster or not. Some say it may be a whale or a very large fish. Some think it’s a snake. Others say there’s nothing at all— nothing but people’s imagination. Maybe we’ll never know what’s in Loch Ness.

1.What kind of story is talked about in this program?

A. Romantic stories.     B. Mysteries.      C. Horror stories.     D. Comedies.

2.Where did the stories happen?

A.           B.           C.           D.

3.Which sentence is TRUE about the two green children?

A. They both enjoyed a long and happy life.

B. The girl’s eyes and skin were green all her life.

C. At first they spoke the same language as people in the small village did.

D. Maybe they hadn’t eaten enough for long before they reached the village.

4.What does Nessie look like according to some witnesses? 

5.What can we learn from the second story?

A. Scientists are still not sure whether there is a monster or not in Loch Ness.

B. Loch Ness is very deep and warm lake in Scotland.

C. People have taken very clear pictures of Nessie.  

D. In fact Nessie is a whale or a snake.