—Do you like doing chores? —Yes. It is _____.

A. relaxing B. difficult C. boring D. delicious

—What are you doing there?—I am doing the _____. Look! How dirty my clothes are!

A. dishes B. reading C. laundry D. shopping

This is not my sweater. _____ is yellow.

A. My B. I C. Me D. Mine

单项选择

We went to Lily’s house, but she wasn’t _____.

A. to             B. in      C. at      D. on

Long ago, people did not need money. They lived on wild animals, fruits and other plants.

As time passed, people learned to raise animals and crops. Sometimes, families produced more than they needed, so they started to trade with other families. 3 Later, people began to use money as a means of exchange. However, it was not the kind of money we use today. They used shells, rice, salt, large stones, etc.

  During the 600s B.C, people began using coins as money. They soon found that coins were easier to carry than goods and lasted a long time. Later, countries began to make their won coins.

  The Chinese were the first to use paper money, probably as early as the 11^th century. The Italian traveler Marco Polo saw the Chinese using money when he visited China in the 1200s.  4 However, European countries did not start using paper money until 1600s.

  Today, we have many ways to pay for things. We do not use coins or paper money. Often, people prefer to pay for things by card. Paying with a card is easier and safer than carrying around a lot of “real” money.

阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

（一）根据短文内容简要回答问题。

1. Why did people start to trade?

2. When did people begin to use paper money?

（二）将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

3.                                                                           

4.                                                                            

（三）请给短文拟一个适当的标题。

5.                                                                            

    Sam woke up suddenly. Someone was moving around in the next room. “Maybe it’s grandma, getting a glass of water,” he told himself. But the next room was the living room. It wasn’t near the kitchen. Sam’s parents were away, and there was only grandma in the house with him. He looked at his watch-three thirty! Too early for grandma to get up!

He got out of bed and opened the door very quietly. The window was open-wide open. Standing near it was a man, looking in the desk drawers. Grandma kept her money and papers there!

He thought quickly. Yes, the radio! He turned in on and a man’s voice filled the room. Frightened, the thief dropped grandma’s papers. He jumped out onto the balcony(阳台). Then he jumped down two floors to the ground. He gave a shout. His leg was bent under his body.

Grandma was awake and she phoned the police at once. The thief couldn’t get up, because his leg was broken.

When the police came, they were very pleased. “well done, Sam,” said the police officer. “This is a well-known thief.” Then he said to Sam’s grandma, “You should keep your money in a bank!”

根据短文内容填空，每空一词。

There was grandma’s 1 and 2  in the desk. drawers. Sam turned on the 3 to frighten the thief. The thief 4 his leg when he jumped off the balcony. The police were pleased because the thief was a 5 one.

1.           2.           3.          4.            5.             

A:    Xiao Shenyang will present a comedy in mid-May. You’ll enjoy errenzhuan a local folk dance from Northeast China.

Time: 8 p.m. May 10     Tickets:280-800yuan

Venue: Shenzhen Sports Center   Booking:11185

­B:    Rubina Ali, the young actress who played Lakita in “Slumdog Millionaire”(贫民窟的百万富翁), is performing in a musical named” Sleeping Beauty”.

        Time:7:30 p.m. June 1        Tickets:280yuan

       Venue: Shenzhen Poly Theater  Booking:86371698

C:    Liu Qian, a well-known magician(魔术师)from Taiwan, is performing wonderful magic tricks.

            Time:3 p.m. June 20 

Tickets:500yuan(5% off it you buy online)

           Venue: Shenzhen Children’s Palace 

           Booking:89812344

D.     Britain’s singing sensation Susan Boyle is coming! You may enjoy her angelic voice in her concert.

Time: 8p.m. June 25    Tickets:380-700yuan

      Venue: Shenzhen Grand Theater   Booking:82337625

 (   ) 1. According to the advertisement, you can dial          to book a concert ticket.

        A. 82337625      B. 86371698      C. 89812344

  (   ) 2. If you want to go to a musical, you should go to               .

        A. Shenzhen Grand Theater   B. Shenzhen Sports Center   C. Shenzhen Poly Theater

  (   ) 3. Xiao Shenyang will present                 .

        A. a musical       B. a concert       C. a local folk dance

  (   ) 4. How much can you save if you buy two tickets to Liu Qian’s magic show online?

        A. 950 yuan       B. 10 yuan      C. 50 yuan

  (   ) 5. You can go to         in your summer holiday.

        A. Xiao Shenyang’s folk dance  B. Rubina Ali’s musical  C. Susan Boyle’s concert

Clouds are made of millions of very small drops of water. The drops move around all the time. When they hit each other, they join up. This is how they grow larger and heavier. When they are too heavy to stay in the air, they fall down as rain.

If it is very cold, the very small drops of water changes into ice. The piece of ice freeze together. When they get too heavy, they fall down as snow.

There are many different kinds of clouds. And they are different in shape. The thunderclouds are big and dark. Some clouds are like small white balls of cotton.

根据上文内容，判断正(T)误（F）

(   ) 1. Clouds in the sky never move around.

(   ) 2. When drops of water join up, they grow larger and heavier.

(   ) 3. When clouds of water fall down, we get snow.

(   ) 4. The thunderclouds are one kind of clouds.

(   ) 5. Clouds in the sky are different in shape, size and colour.

阅读理解

1. One hundred years ago my grandmother started school. She was seven, and she went to twenty schools until she reached Year Three at age of go to school any longer.

2. Grandmother usually walked to school, together with her brother and sister. Sometimes they walked about seven kilometers from home to school, and the same distance back home, in hot sun and in pouring rain. When they were at a school at Illford, there was a mountain between the school and their home in a railway workers’ camp, so to get to school they had to climb the mountain first!

3. The family was poor and the children usually did not were shoes to school for most of the year, except on the coldest days of the winter.

4. Grandmother’s schools didn’t always run for five days a week. She went to the half-time school. A teacher shared his time between a small school and another small school not more than a half day’s ride away.

5. The lunches my grandmother took to school were not much like your lunches. There  wasn’t any juice or chips. There weren’t even any sandwiches. They took whatever could be soared from home. Sometimes this was a leftover potato, a piece of homemade bread or a piece of cold mutton.

   Choose the best topic from A---F according to the passage.

补全对话（填词或句子）

A:  Hi, Yao Ming! I’m from lives of the Very Famous magazine.

    Thank you for talking to me today.

B:  Oh,   1            .It’s nice to meet you, Amy.

A:  Yao Ming, our readers want to know what famous people do for vacation. 2   you’re your next vacation?

    B:  Well, I’m going to Australia.

    A:  Oh,        3           there?

    B:  It’s sunny and warm!

    A:  Really?                4              there?

    B:  Oh, going to the beach, maybe playing Volleyball. But I don’t want to play basketball there.

    A:  Oh, anything else?

    B:  Oh, yes, going sightseeing. I love traveling.

    A:  And              5                ?

    B:  Oh, only for two weeks. You know I have to go back to play basketball in the NBA.

    A:  OK, I hope you’ll have a wonderful time in Australia.