Bill is a Canadian boy．He was born in Toronto ON August 6，1996．Now he lives with his parents in Guangzhou because his father teaches English in a University and his mother teaches French in the Friendship School where Bill studies．

Bill likes his school and has many friends．He thinks there are too many subjects at school．He is good at art，music，Chinese and P．E．He doesn't like math．He likes going to a restaurant to have dinner with his friends on Saturday．And he likes riding a bike around the city on Sunday．

Bill often has travels with his parents during the vacation，They go to London，New York，Paris，Sydney and Tokyo before they go back to their hometown．He can talk with people except in Japan．Bill says he likes studying and living in China．He'll work in China after he grows up．

1．Bill is from _________．

A．Japan                B．Canada             C．Singapore           D．Shanghai

2．Bill is _________ years old．

A．twelve              B．thirteen               C．eleven              D．fifteen

3．Bill's parents are _________．

A．workers           B．clerks                C．teachers            D．students

4．Bill dislikes _________．

A．riding a bike            B．music              C．math               D．Chinese food

5．Bill can speak _________．

A．Chinese，Japanese and English                B．English，Japanese and French

C．Chinese，English and French                 D．Japanese，Chinese and French

My school is not big but beautiful. There is a garden in the school. There are
many flowers in the garden.  The flowers are colorful-they are all kinds of colours. In the center（中心） of the garden, there is a pool. The fish are swimming in it. They look very happy and free.
There are two teaching buildings around the garden. There are 18 classrooms in it. And there are also many other rooms in it -- music room, reading room, language lab and library.  There are all kinds of books in the library, such as storybooks, cartoon books and magazines. You can read them after class.
The playground is behind the teaching building. We do morning exercises on the playground every day.  On the playground, you can play sports--running, playing basketball and playing badminton.
I like my school very much.
【小题1】 How is the school?

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand .Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.

There is another difficult point for us to understand. Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take a day off from our work to act as guides to our friends. It is opposite in America. Americans cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.

For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!

1. The underlined phrase "pick up" in Paragraph 1may mean "_________________".

   A. put down     B. give up       C. pay no attention to    D. continue

2. From the passage, we can know_________________.

 A. Americans are always generous with their time.

B. Americans don't feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon.

C. Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.

 D. Chinese friendships develop faster than American friendships.

3.This passage is most probably written for __________________.

A. American students                B. Chinese students

C. Chinese visitors to America         D. American visitors to China    

Mr. Lewis was a dance teacher. He was a nice man and always had a lot of students. One year he moved to a new town, and was soon teaching many students in the dance school there, but he decided to move again to a big city. He would have more work there.

When one of his students heard that he was going to leave, she said to him, “The new teacher won’t be as good as you are.” Mr. Lewis was happy when he heard this, but he said, “Oh no. I’m sure he’ll be as good as I am ---- or even better.”

The student said, “No. Including you, five teachers have come and gone while I’ve been here, and each new one was worse than the last.”

1. ______ came to learn dancing from Mr. Lewis.

A. A few students  B. Few students  C. Many students  D. No students

2. Mr. Lewis wanted to move a big city because _______

A.   he hated the small town

B.   he couldn’t make a living in the small town

C.   it would be easy for him to have more work in the city

D.  it made him spend more money in the town

3. The student thought that _______

A.   Mr. Lewis was a good teacher     B. Mr. Lewis was the best teacher

C. Mr. Lewis was worse than the last

D. Mr. Lewis would be worse than the last

4. Before Mr. Lewis ______ teachers came to the town to teach dancing

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

5. From the story we can conclude（推论） that the student wished _____

A. to have a better teacher            B. to have a worse teacher

C. to become a dance teacher          D. to see the sixth teacher