It's Jim's birthday today. He is five years old. He gets many nice birthday presents from his family and one of them is a big drum (鼓).

" Who gives him the drum?" his father asks.

" His grandfather does." answers Jim's mother.

Jim likes his drum very much. He makes a noise(噪音) with it, but his mother doesn't say anything about it. His father is not at home. He is working in a school. So he doesn't hear(听见) the noise.

But one of the neighbours doesn't like the noise at all. So one morning she takes a knife and goes into Jim's room. Jim is making a noise with the drum. She says to him, "Hello,  Jim, Do you know there is something nice in your drum? Here is a knife. Open the drum and let's find it."

1. Jim's        gives Jim the drum.

        A. grandfather B.  father       C. mother     D. neighbour

2.Jim's father is        

        A. a worker      B. a  teacher          C. a cleaner   D. a shopkeeper

3.The neighbour hates                .

        A. Jim's presents  B. the drum      C. the knife   D. the noise

4.The neighbour tells Jim                .

        A. to put the drum away (收拾)       B. to look after the drum

        C. to open the drum with the knife     D. to make a noise with the drum

5.Which of the following is right?      

         A. Jim's grandfather makes the drum.

         B. Something is wrong with Jim's father's ears.

         C. There is a nice present in the drum.

         D. Jim's mother doesn't stop (阻止) the noise.

词汇运用（10分）从方框中选择适当选项，并用其正确形式填入短文后相应题号的横线上，使短文通顺、完整，选项中有两项多余

After a quick breakfast, I went into the lecture hall in a hurry. A famous teacher was 1.  to the students. He was holding up a $100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, "Who would like this $100 bill?" The students put up2.hands at once. Then he said,"I am going to give this $100 bill to one of you,but 3. , let me do this." He made the bili into a ball. Then he said, "Who 4. it now?" The hands went back into the air. "Well," he said,,What if I do this?" and he5.it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the 6.bill and said,"Who still wants it?" Hands went back again into the air.

"My friends," he said,"you have learned a valuable(有价值的) 7.today. No matter what I did to the $100 bill! Many8. in our life, we are dropped and stepped on. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what9.happened to you, you will never lose your value.You are 10.valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesn't come from what you do or whom you know, hut who you are."

Harry is eight years old. He goes to school near his home. He always goes there and comes home on foot. One day he came home from school late. His mother saw him and asked him, "Why were you late, Harry?"

"My teacher was very angry and asked you to go to her office tomorrow."

"To her office? Why?" his mother asked. "Because she asked a question in the class." said Harry. "Nobody could answer it, but I could. "

"You are so clever, my son. " his mother said with a smile." What is her question?".

Her question is "Who put the tomato on my chair and made my trousers dirty?" said Harry.

1.Harry was late because _______.

        A. he did his homework at school 

 B. he played football at school

        C. his teacher asked him to stay at school

D. his teacher asked him to give a talk at school     

2._______can answer the teacher's question in class.

     A. Nobody  B. Harry  C. Many students  D. Some students

3.There is a _______on the teacher's chair.

A. book      B. tomato       C. bag       D. pen 

4.The teacher asked Harry's mother to school because _______

        A. Harry is eight    

B. Harry goes to school an foot

        C. Harry's home is near   

D. Harry made her angry

5.The teacher's trousers were dirty because _______.

       A. she sat on the ground     

B. it was raining hard .

       C. she sat on the tomato     

D. she had it for a long time

阅读短文，从方框内选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺完整。每空限填一次，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。

     Mr. White works in a big office. He’s able to deal with all kinds of matters, so he’s always   1.   more than his workmates. Of course he’s often busy and has no time to do the housework. His wife   2.   him well and does all at home.

     Bad luck! Their daughter was hurt in a traffic accident last month and had to be in  3.  . Mrs. White was looking after her there and she couldn’t go home. As Mr. White   4.  did any cleaning, the rooms were all disorderly (凌乱的).

     Yesterday morning, before Mr. White got up, the telephone   5.  . He sat up to answer it. His friend told him to write an important telephone number down. But he could find   6. a pen nor a piece of paper. Then he found there   7.   much dust (灰尘) on the table and wrote the number on it. But soon he   8.  it and went to work.

Two hours later his wife came back and looked for a sweater for her daughter. Her husband came back while she was   9.   the table. He couldn’t see the number on the table and called out   10. , "Who let you clean the table?"

In less than two months, Junior 3 students around the country will take the senior high school entrance (入学) exam. They are studying hard for this big challenge. Do they have time to do something in memory of their middle school years? Many do.

Leng Jingze, 15, from Tianjin said that in her class students are already writing goodbye messages for each other. "Even the head teacher has a plan," said Leng. "She plans to put all our class photos and the Chinese compositions we have written onto a CD and give each student one," said Leng. "She will also write something for each student."

Wang Zeyu, 16, in Changchun, Jilin said his classmates are making "lucky stars" as graduation gifts. They are making the cheerful stars from colored paper. "Before making a lucky star, you write some words for the person on the paper," said Wang. "He or she can read the words later." Who does Wang want to make a lucky star for? He said he wanted to make one for his head teacher. "I'll write: Dear teacher, you always look so serious," said Wang. "But we know you have a warm heart. Smile more!"

In Xiao Xia's school in Beijing, each Junior 3 student will get a yearbook (毕业年鉴) , in which the graduating classes will put their photos and self-introductions. "Most classes have written an article as the self-introduction," said Xiao, 15. "We have written a poem in the ancient style!" The poem records the big events of the class's history and is in the shape of the number 9. "Nine is our class number," said Xiao, who felt very proud of the idea. "Our class may be not the one with the best school grade but it must be the most creative one," said Xiao. "I feel lucky to study in such a class!"

1.Leng Jingze's head teacher plans to ____________.

A. put all the class photos onto a CD

B. put the student's Chinese compositions onto a CD

C. give each student a CD

D. all above

2. Wang Zeyu wanted to make a "lucky star" for his teacher because ____________.

A. his head teacher wasn't serious enough

B. he doesn't like his head teacher

C. his head teacher sent him a gift

D. he wanted his head teacher to smile more

3.From the last paragraph, we know that ____________.

A. most classes in Xiao Xia's school have written a poem as the self-introduction

B. 9 is the lucky number for Xiao Xia's Class

C. Xiao Xia's class has very creative ideas

D. each graduating class will get a yearbook to put their photos and self-introductions

4.The passage is probably from ____________.

A. a newspaper     B. a novel         C. a letter      D. a diary