Boys and girls, let’s begin our English class now. This time I want to talk about my family. Then I want you to say something about your families.

There are seven people in my family. They are my parents, my two sisters, my brother, his wife (妻子)and I. In England, a family like this is a big one. My father has a factory（工厂）. It isn’t very big. It makes all kinds of boats. My brother is a doctor. He works in a hospital(医院). His wife works in a hospital, too. She is a nurse. My two sisters are students. One wants to be a teacher. She studies hard and well. The other likes singing very much and can sing very well. So she wants to be a singer(歌手). I’m now in China teaching English and learning Chinese. My mother stays at home. Can you guess (猜测)what she does at home? Yes, she does housework. She is a housewife.

1.Where do I come from?

2.Where am I now ?

3. Who works in a school in my family?

4.My brother and his wife work _________.

5. In Chinese “ housewife” means_________ .

短文填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）阅读短文，并用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词和情态动词等。

Be sure to see this exhibition at the Lido Gallery. Amy Kim is    61     (consider) to be one of the best - known Chinese photographers in the world today, and some of her most famous photos 62     (be) in this exhibition. She really    63    (have) something for everyone. There _64_     (be) many great photos of the countryside. The few city photographs don't    65 (suc­ceed). I    66    (see) the same things every day and they don't    67    (interest) me as much. But this show    68     (come) from a world - class photographer. Whatever you     69     (do),  70    (not miss) this exhibition.

1. _________ 2. _________3. _________4._________5. _________6. _________7. ________8.________9. _________10. _________

Yao Ming, the centre of the Chinese National Men’s basketball team, joins the Houston Rocket in the 2002 NBA. The 2.2 m, 120kg basketball star becomes the first one to come from a foreign (外国的) team. Yao Ming was born in Shanghai in September, 1980. His mother is a leader of the Chinese National Women’s Team. His father plays basketball, too. Yao Ming is welcome in China. He becomes a very important basketball player in China Basketball Association. It’s short for CBA.
During the 2000-2001 seasons, he gets 27.1 scores for the Shanghai Oriental(东方) Sharks in every match. Yao Ming joins the Houston Rockets in November, 2002. He says this is a new start in his basketball life. He world do his best to learn from the NBA and improve(提高) himself. Sport analyst(分析家) Bill Walton says, “Yao Ming is very strong. He has the capability(能力) of changing the future(未来) of basketball.”
【小题1】The Houston Rockets is the name of a _______ team.