Welcome to the City Zoo. There are many 1 in the zoo. Let’s see the koalas first. Koalas are 2 Australia. They are quiet, 3 and cute. Children like them very much. The kangaroos(袋鼠) are also from 4. They are quiet and interesting, 5 they are not friendly.
The giraffes come from Africa. They have 6 necks(脖子). They like to eat leaves. The lions are also from Africa. They are brave but a little 7. Many people don’t like 8. We also have pandas. They are from China. They are very cute and friendly, but they are very shy. So please be 9.
You 10 see many other animals in the zoo. Have fun and enjoy yourself here!

I like to get up late, so my ideal school starts at 9 a.m. It finished at 3 P.m., so we will have lots of time for after-school activities. There is a big dining hall.
We have an hour for lunch. We eat lunch and chat there. We can also listen to pop music in the hall. We eat fruit and vegetables every day.
We have Maths every day because I think Maths is very interesting to us. I love computers, so we have Computer Studies every day. We wear school uniforms, but we do not wear ties. The classes are quite small. There are 15 students in each class.
There is a park on one side of our school and a shopping mall on the other. We have a big library with lots of useful books. We also have a tennis court and a swimming pool.
There are lots of clubs and after-school activities. We only have half an hour of homework every day, and we do not do homework at weekends. Every month, we go on a school trip to a museum or a theater.
【小题1】How many hours for lessons are there in my school?

I have a lot of friends. My best friend is Mai. She is 16 years old. She is 2 years older than me. We live in the same town and we began to know each other when we were very young. Now we are classmates. Mai is tall and thin, with long black hair. She has an oval face (椭圆的脸) with big eyes, a high nose and a small mouth. Mai is helpful (乐于助人的). When her friends have difficulties, she always tries her best to help them. Mai is one of the best students in our class. I like studying with her. She always helps me with my studies. Although we have the same hobbies and interests, we also have some differences. I am sociable and enjoy telling jokes. Mai, however, is serious and quiet. We believe in each other, so we are good friends. I hope we can keep our friendship forever (永远).

1.The writer is __________ years old.

A. 12       B. 14       C. 16       D. 18 

2.The underlined word "sociable" means "_________"in Chinese.

A. 爱交际的      B. 喜怒无常的     C. 沉默的   D. 没有耐心的

3. The writer and Mai can be friends because they __________.

A. live in the same town           B. look like each other

C. have everything in common     D. believe in each other

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Mai is tall and heavy.

B. Mai is outgoing and likes talking.

C. Mai and the writer are in the same class.

D. The writer often helps Mai with her studies.

5.Wha t does the writer think of Mai?

She is a lazy girl.   B. She is a nice girl.   C. She is too serious.   D. She is kind of ugly.

Homesick is a compound(复合的) word made up of HOME and SICK. You know what each   46   means on its own, of course. But do you know the meaning    47   they are used together? The definition(定义) of homesick is SICK FOR HOME. It means you miss your home.
Now think for a minute   48 SEASICK. If you change the word HOME in the definition to the word SEA, would the definition   49 SEASICK? Does seasick mean SICK FOR SEA? It means something quite   50 . Seasick means SICK BY THE MOVEMENT ON THE SEA. When you are    51   ,the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick,    52   you want to be is at sea.
Have you ever   53   a person being heartsick? Heartsick doesn’t mean that something is wrong with a person’s heart. People are heartsick when they are    54  deep inside as if their hearts are broken.
And we also have other compound words, such as handshake and    55  . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know some thing like this in your English study.

请阅读下面短文，掌握其意思，然后从方框中所给方的词中选出最恰当的10个，用适当形式填空。（每小题1分，共10分）

In America, science is a very important class. In middle school we were __1._ how to solve problems by thinking like a ___2.__. We had to think of a question, guess an answer, and ___3.__ a way to test our guess. There were lots of experiments and other activities. I remember studying how science can explain things like light and electricity.

Our English class is very different from___4.__ in China, more like Chinese class I think! We read lots of books and talked about them, ___5._ we could understand what we read better. We learned how to know what information is important when we read and what ___6._ so important. In my class we all gave six ___7._ to the class during the year. We had to talk in front of the class for six __8.ten minutes!

We also have health classes. In this class, we learned about our bodies and how to take care of ___9.__ by doing things like eating healthy foods, and not doing ___10.__ things like smoking or drugs (毒品). We cooked a little bit, but I was not very good at it!