Hi, I’m Cindy. I have good friends. They ‘re Mary, John and Jack. I love them .Mary likes reading very much. You can see everywhere in her room.. And she likes to tell stories (讲故事)to us. John likes . He has two baseballs, five and three basketballs. He sports with me every day. That’s . Jack likes sports ,too, he doesn’t play them. He only watches them TV. I think watching TV is boring. I a computer. My friends and I like to play computer games , but can only play them on weekends(周末)。

1.A. Two B. three C. four D. five

2.A. books B. keys C. jackets D. pictures

3.A. computers B. dogs C. bags D. sports

4.A. rulers B. oranges C. volleyballs D. desks

5.A. plays B. asks C. sees D. calls

6.A. late B. difficult C. interesting D. tidy

7.A. and B. but C. now D. only

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

9.A. find B. like C. have D. get

10.A. they B. we C. you D. I

下面是5个中学生遇到的难题和某报专栏编辑给他们的建议。请将问题与建议配对。

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词的完全形式（每空限填一词）。

71.  We i________ Jim to join our volunteer club and he agreed.

72.  The month before October is S________.

73.  Though his pet dog has been d ________for two years, he still misses it.

74.  She doesn’t want to do anything e ________ sleep.

75.  If new students come to your class, you should get a________ with them.

76. She doesn’t want to see anyone now. She just wants to be left a_____.

77. C_________ others’homework isn’t a good habit for the students.

78. Lucy doesn’t like ice cream. Lily doesn’t like it, e_______.

79. Jim takes a_____ his father. They are both smart and a bit quiet.       

80. The world is becoming smaller because the Internet brings us n_______ .

根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。（每空一词）

Because of different reasons, I could neither go abroad nor attend a language course to improve my English. So, I finally (66)d    ___ to read books in English. I chose Irving’s novel A widow for One Year.

　　What was my experience (67)l    __? Very challenging（有挑战性的）! At the beginning, I tried to stop thinking in Chinese about (68)w    ___ I was reading. I just kept reading instead of looking up the new words in the dictionary. At first it seemed to be (69)i   __ to read and understand without using a dictionary, but then I began to get the meaning (70)s    __. Finally, I was so interested in the wonderful characters and the surprising plot of the novel (71)t   __ I completely forgot that I was reading the book in English.

 　　(72)R    __ this novel was very good for my English learning. I found that Irving’s way of writing was very clear and easy to read. This made me feel really satisfied and encouraged me to read (73)m    __ other books (not only by Irving). I discovered that when you read a book in English you will stop thinking in your mother tongue at some point. It’s just as if you were there, inside the story, among the characters who speak English in the book.

Reading Irving’s novel also enabled me to learn a large (74 )n    __ of new words and expressions used in different contexts. It is really a good (75)w______ to improve our English.