Dogs like living with people. A dog can be a very good friend. He can do a lot of things for people.

Some dogs help people to look after sheep, other dogs help them to find lost (丢失的)children. And some of the dogs can help the blind(盲人)do things.

Many years ago there was a ver dog. His name was Seeing Eye dog. Now we can see this kind of dogs all over the world. They are working for the blind. The Seeing Eye dog is strong ,good and easy to train(训练).He helps the blind to walk from place.

Before a dog becomes a Seeing Eye dog, he must go to a training school for about three months. First the dog has to learn to sit or stay when he hears the trainer’s call. In his next lesson the dog learns to make his trainer across busy streets.

The dog has many things to learn. And in every lesson he must to do one thing again and again many times.

At the end of the training schooled must take tests. When he passes the tests, the Seeing Eye dog will do things by himself.

Now he can help blind people. The new master(主人)may be a man, a woman, or even a child. It takes the dog and his blind master about a month to learn to work and live together.

1.We can see the Seeing Eye dog           .

2.What can the Seeing Eye dog do?

3.How long will it take the dog and his blind master to learn to work and live together?

Hello Sandy,

We have just returned from our holiday. We went with our friends Edward Smith and his wife Tina to the Yorkshire Moors. This is a beautiful place. It is a natural park. There are lots of places to walk on the tops of the hills, miles of grassland with no people, just sheep and birds.

Edward, who had just come out of hospital, could not walk as far as he used to. However this meant that we walked in the mornings, and then stopped at a cafe for lunch each day, before returning to the place we live. Edward and I slept in front of the fire all afternoon, while the ladies went for another walk. Very pleasant!

I have taken lots of photos from the place we live, across the valley（峡谷）below us, of the morning sunrise, and the mist in the valley. Also, in England, the old steam powered trains（蒸汽火车）are very popular. I have taken many photos of the train and from it.

Yesterday we had the first snow of this winter. It is very early （we usually expect snow in January）. It rained all day, and then snowed in the evening. Today we have bright sunshine!

Both Jenny and I are well. I don’t know if I told you, in the last E-mail, that Jenny is now working in a hotel. Although she has to work hard, people there are nice and she is enjoying the work.

Please write to us to tell us your news.

Yours,

Victor

1. What kind of place is the Yorkshire Moors?

2. When did the ladies take a walk?

3. They had ______ snow this winter.

4. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 mean?

5. What do we know from this passage?

完形填空（本题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）
Once a man wanted to go 　 1 　 one side of a river to　 2 　 in a boat. He　 3 　 take　 4 　 him a sheep, a wolf and a basket of vegetables. But he could take only one of them　 5 　, because the boat was very　 6 　. “If I　 7 　 the wolf and the sheep together, the wolf may eat the sheep,” he said to　 8 　.“If I leave the sheep and the vegetables together, the sheep may eat the vegetables.” He thought and thought. At last, he had an idea. And he　 9 　 able to get to the other side of the river with the sheep, the wolf, and the vegetables. Do you know 　 10 　?

We call the Chinese New Year the Spring Festival（春节）. There is a name for each Chinese year. We may call it the year of the sheep , the year of the monkey or the year of the dog. And this year is the year of the horse.

Before New Year’s Day, people are busy shopping and cleaning their houses. On New Year’s Eve, there is a big family dinner. After dinner, all the family stay up late to welcome the New Year. On the first day of the New Year, people put on their new clothes and go to visit their friends and relatives（亲戚）. They say “good luck” and some other greetings to each other. People usually have a very good time during the festival.

1.How many Chinese festivals are talked about (谈论）in this passage ?

A. One.    B. Two.    C. Three.   D. Four.

2.We can find every Chinese year is given ___________ name.

A. an animal    B. a plant  C. a  family     D. a full

3.How do Chinese people usually spend New Year’s Eve ?

A.They put on new clothes and go to the park .

B.They visit their friends and relatives

C.They are busy shopping and cleaning their houses

D.They have a big dinner and stay up late to welcome the New Year.

4.On New Year’s Day, people say “___________” to each other when they meet

A. Merry Christmas                 B. Good luck

C. Happy New Year                 D. Both B and C

5.The best title for this passage (本文的最佳题目)is ____________

A. Good Time                      B. The Spring Festival  

C. Big Dinner                      D. The Year of the Horse

Hello, my dear friends, today here’s a funny cartoon for you! It is a Chinese cartoon. Its name is Happy Sheep and Big Big Wolf.

In this cartoon, there are some sheep and three wolves. Happy Sheep is the leading role. He likes playing football and running. He runs faster than the other sheep. Pretty Sheep likes making clothes and growing flowers. She is very beautiful. Lazy Sheep is clever. But he doesn’t like doing sports. He likes sleeping best. Force Sheep is stronger than the other sheep. Warm Sheep is the class monitor(班长)at school. Slow Sheep is 68 years old. He is old. He is the village head. Every sheep has a lovely pet. Big Big Wolf wants to eat sheep. Red Wolf is Big Big Wolf’s wife. She is very bad. Banana Wolf is nice. He is the friend of the sheep. He likes eating bananas very much.

1.________ doesn’t like sports.

A. Lazy Sheep B. Force Sheep C. Warm Sheep D. Happy Sheep

2.Pretty Sheep likes ________.

A. playing football B. sleeping C. making clothes D. eating bananas

3..________ is the sheep’s friend.

A. Big Big Wolf B. Banana Wolf C. Red Wolf D. Little Wolf

4. There are ________ sheep in the passage.

A. four B. five C. six D. seven

5.Which is NOT right?

A. Happy Sheep runs slower than the other sheep.

B. Slow Sheep is old.

C. Warm Sheep has a lovely pet.

D. Red Wolf is Big Big Wolf’s wife.