Miyoke, 13

Do you want to know where I come from? Oh, please guess(猜)！ I can speak good Japanese(日语), but I can’t speak English or Chinese at all. I like white a lot, so you can see me in a white shirt at school.

Grace, 12

Am I very cool? I have long hair with two big eyes. I have an e-friend from China, but she lives in London with me now. She studies English here. I often help her study English.

Maria, 12

I like little animals very much. Dogs are my favorite. So I have two dogs at home, but my mom doesn’t like them at all. I often give some eggs and cakes to them. They like me, too, and they can help me.

Tian Jun, 13

Chinese is my mother language(语言), but I study English at school. Now I can speak a little English. I often have some emails from my friend in the USA. He tells me how to study English in his e-mails. He says he likes Beijing. He wants to visit the Great Wall very much.

1.Miyoke is from      .

2.Grace has        .

A．long hair with two small eyes

B．an e-friend from London

C．a Chinese e-friend

D．short hair with two big eyes

3.     doesn’t like dogs at her home at all.

A．Miyoke’s mom

B．Maria’s mom

C．Maria’s e-friend

D．Tian Jun’s friend

4.Tian Jun can        now.

A．only speak Chinese

B．speak Japanese

C．speak Chinese and English

D．speak Chinese and Japanese

5.Which is RIGHT according to the passage?

A．Miyoke is often in a brown shirt at school.

B．Grace lives with her e-friend in Beijing now.

C．Tian Jun’s friend wants to visit Beijing a lot.

D．Maria doesn’t have a dog at her home.

Aren’t you glad that mothers and fathers give names to their children？Names are the quickest and easiest and the most friendly way to say who’s who．Another nice thing about names is that they do not change(变化)as people do．Yesterday Mary’s hair was long．Today her hair is short．But her name is still Mary．On his birthday Uncle Tom didn’t have moustache(胡子)．At Christmas time he did．But his name is still Tom．People are always changing a little or a lot，but people’s names are still the same．

  A name sometimes says something nice about someone．Girls’ names often come from words meaning“pretty(漂亮的)”，“happy”，“lovely”…Boys’ names are often borrowed from words which mean“strong”，“brave(勇敢的)”…

1．____________ usually give names to the children．

  A．Parents        B．Friends        C．Teachers         D．Family members

2．A man’s name  ____________．

  A．is always changing．                      B．changes as he does．

  C．is seldom(几乎不)changing               D．changes at any time

3．Some people sometimes have their ____________ when writing for newspaper．

  A．family names    B．given names    C．full names       D．pen names

4．If there is a word“brave”in a boy’s name．that means his parents wish him___________．

  A．to have a strong body          B．to be stronger，when he grows up

  C．to have a name for love           D．not to be afraid of anybody

5．In the last paragraph，the underlined word“borrow”means ___________．

  A．借用                 B．使用            C．拿走                  D．带来