Dear Wang Tian，

Thank you very much for your letter and the photos of Beijing．Beijing looks very beautiful! I'm fine．I have a good time．And I'm very busy with my lessons．I have six classes every day，four in the morning and two in the afternoon．I like English very much．I'm learning Chinese．Chinese is very difficult．I do my best to learn it，but I'm not very good．I like P．E．best because it's very interesting．I can play football and basketball．By the way，do you like English? Can you speak English well? What do you think of America? Welcome to New York（纽约）．I hope you can come to New York one day．

Love，Scott

根据短文内容，选出能正确回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

1．Who writes this letter?

A．Love                   B．Scott                    C．Wang Tian

2．The letter comes from __________．

A．China                  B．Beijing                 C．America

3．The writer（作者）likes __________ best．

A．PE．                   B．basketball             C．English

4．The writer thinks Chinese is __________．

A．difficult               B．fun                      C．interesting

5．The letter is mainly（主要地）about __________．

A．the writer's work in China                       

B．the writer's friend Wang Tian

C．the writer's school life

完形填空：从每小题A、B、C三个选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。

Life is not easy, so I'd like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself.”

When I was a young boy, I  1  very shy（害羞的）. My classmates often laughed(笑) at me. I was unhappy but could do  2 . Later, something happened and it changed my life. It was an English speech(演讲) competition. My English teacher asked me  3  part in it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak  4  all the teachers and students of my school!

“ 5 , boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to win. ” Then my teacher and I  6

about many different topics. Finally I chose the topic “Believe in yourself”. I did my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 100 times. With my teacher's great love, I did  7 in the competition. I won the first place. I could hardly(几乎不) believe my  8

when the news came. I  9  the cheers from the teachers and students.

Since then, everything has changed for me. When I do anything, I try to tell  10 to be sure and I will find myself.

1.A. will be                 B. was                  C. am

2.A. something               B. anything             C. nothing

3.A. take                    B. taking               C. to take

4.A. after                   B. before               C. with

5.A. Come on                 B. Go on                C. Turn on

6.A. told                   B. talked               C. said

7.A. good                    B. well                 C. interested

8.A. ears                    B. eyes                 C. story

9.A. listened                B. heard                C. sounded

10.A. I                      B. my                   C. myself

When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was cooking in the kitchen and my younger brother was playing near the window. I ran to my mother and said, “My brother has fallen from the open window!” She was very worried about my brother and then I said, “Don’t worry. I’m just joking.” And my mother shouted at me, “If you do it again, I’ll punish(惩罚) you.”
One day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on my friends. In the beginning, I went swimming alone, and I called to my friends, “ Help me!” All my friends came to help me, only to find out that I was joking. But the next time I wasn’t joking. I swam in deep water and I was so careless that I was almost drowned(淹死). I tried my best to call my friends for help, but this time nobody came to help me. In the end, they found I was telling the truth(真话). They came and saved my life. They took me to the emergency center. From then on, I haven’t joked on anyone. I think this is the best lesson in my life.
【小题1】What did the writer like to do when he was young ?
A. To fight with his friends.            B. To play with his mother.
C. To play jokes on others.
【小题2】How did the writer’s mother feel when she heard what he said about his brother ?
A. Interested.               B. Worried.    .           C. Excited.
【小题3】 When the writer shouted “Help me!” for the first time, his friends _______ .
A. came to help him           B. didn’t care about him    
C. stopped to look at him
【小题4】The underlined part “the emergency center” means “________” in Chinese.
A. 购物中心              B. 娱乐中心               C. 急救中心
【小题5】 Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? 
A. The writer’s mother was cooking when his mother fell from the open window.
B. The writer used to go swimming alone in the deep sea.
C. The writer hasn’t joked on others since he was saved by his friends.