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 and I was playing with my younger brother Tony. Suddenly I ran to my mother and said: “Tony fell from the open window!” She was very worried and ran out of the kitchen. Then I said: “Don’t worry, I’m just joking.” My mother shouted at me, “If you do it again, I’ll hit you.”

Another day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on them. In the beginning I swam fast and I called out “Help!”. All my friends came to help me. However, they found that I was joking. But half an hour later I wasn’t joking. I was so fast, soon I got tired and couldn’t swim on in water. 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. They came and saved my life. They took me to the hospital. This is the best lesson in my life. From then on I haven’t joked on anyone.

1.When he was young, the writer liked to _______.

A. play with his brother                             B. help his mother cook

C. play jokes on people                                 D. go swimming with his friends

2.What happened when the writer was playing with his brother?    ______

A. He got tired.                                               B. He played a joke on his mother.

C. Tony fell from the open window.           D. His mother hit him.

3.In the beginning, all his friends came to help him because he ______.

A. swam fast                                                    B. called for help

C. would sink in water                                    D. couldn’t swim on in the water

4.When the writer called his friends for help for the second time, they ______.

A. took him to the hospital at once

B. came and saved him immediately

C. thought at first he was joking again

D. did nothing because the writer had lied to them

5.The story tells us that ________.

A. swimming is dangerous

B. the writer is a naughty boy

C. one can play jokes only on people he knows

D. if someone always tells lies, others won’t trust (信任) him

Hello! I’m Jim. I have a friend, Dave. He is in Hong Kong(香港). He is in Class 3, Grade 7. Dave often goes to movies.His favorite actor is Jaycee Chan. He thinks he is a great actor. Dave likes his movie Invisible Target. Dave’s birthday is December 3rd.Jaycee Chan’s birthday is December 3rd,too.

Do you know Jaycee Chan? His Chinese name is Fang Zuming. He sings very well. His father is the great actor, Jackie Chan. I like Jackie Chan very much. His movies are very good. I like his new movie Rush Hour 3. Jackie Chan’s birthday is April 7th . My father’s birthday is also April 7th. But my father is not an actor. He is a clerk. He sells clothes at Mr.Cool’s Clothes Store.

选择正确答案。

(  ) 1.         father is an actor.

A.Jim’s   B.Dave’s  C.Jaycee Chan’ s  D.Jackie Chan’s

(  ) 2.Dave thinks        .

A.Jim is his brother.

B.Jackie Chan’s movies are good.

C.Jim’s father is a great clerk.

D.Jaycee Chan is a great actor.

(  ) 3. Jim’s father works        .

A.in Hong Kong              B.at Mr.Cool’s Clothes Store

C.in a middle school        D.in Class 3

(  ) 4.Dave likes        .

A.Mr.Bean                  B.Black September   

C.Invisible Target          D.Rush Hour 3

(  ) 5. What does Dave often do?

A.He often goes to movies.

B.He often goes to see Jaycee Chan.

C.He often calls Jim.

D.He often helps his father sell clothes.

Willam Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth .He wrote thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today.
He was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmer’s daughter. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter .Later they had twins. In1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind .No one knows why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592.
At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays .He earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from acting. With the money he bought a large house in his hometown.
At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired (退休) and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died at the age of fifty-two. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world..
【小题1】Shakespeare wrote many famous plays except（除了） __________.