Meat and fish ________ my favourite food.

A．am              B．is                C．are              D．do

To Jim,
Hi, Jim. I’m a Chinese girl .My English name is Betty. I’m a student. I live in Nanjing with my parents. Nanjing is a big city in China. I like playing table tennis and running. I like listening to music, too . My favourite food is rice and fish. My dad is a doctor and my mum is a worker.
To Betty,
Hi, Betty. I’m a boy. My name is Jim Hand. I’m a student, too. I live in London with my parents and my sister. London is big , too. It’s in England. My sister likes reading books, but I like watching TV. She can type and write Chinese. I can draw and sing very well. My parents are both teachers.
【小题1】Betty is a(an)         .

Hemingway was one of the famous writers. He was born in America in 1899. His father was a doctor and loved sports very much, and his mother taught music. Among the six children in the family, Hemingway was the second oldest.

Hemingway had written many books in his life. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most famous and also my favourite. It came out in 1952. The main character in the book is a fisherman. He is an old man and fishes alone. People think he is a man with bad luck, because he doesn’t get a fish in eighty-four days. Every evening, he comes home with his empty boat. But the old man believes himself. Then on the eighty-fifth day the man takes a big fish. Although he meets a lot of trouble, the old man never gives up(放弃).

根据短文内容，选择正确答案。

1. Hemingway’s father was a fan of _____.

2.The Old Man and the Sea was published(出版) in _____.

3.The old man doesn’t get a fish until the _____ day.

4.What does the old man do when he can’t get a fish?

5. What can we learn from the old man?