Listen! The birds are making beautiful _________ and how great they ________ !

A. sounds; sounds B. sound; sound

C. sounds; sound D. sound; sounds

– Do you go to school _________ your father’s car?

– No, I go to school _________ bus.

A. in; on B. by; by C. in; by D. by; on

– Thank you for your nice food! – _________________.

A. No thanks B. I’m glad you like it

C. Please eat more D. Really? I don’t think so

完形填空

Why do children go to school? You may _________ they go to learn languages, P.E., history, science and other _________ . But why do they learn these things?

We send our children to school to _________ for the time when they will grow up and will begin to work for _________ . Nearly everything they study at school is useful in their life. But is that the _________ reason why they go to school?

There is more in education(教育) than just learning facts. We go to school to learn _________ to learn. In this way, when we _________ school, we can still go on learning. If a man really knows how to learn, he will always be successful(成功的). When he has to do something _________ , he will teach himself how to do it in the best way. If the person doesn’t go to school, he may do it _________ . So, we go to school not to learn languages, maths, geography, etc., but to learn the _________to learn.

1.A. speak B. tell C. say D. talk

2.A. stories B. subjects C. sports D. news

3.A. get ready B. wait C. help D. give

4.A. their B. they C. us D. themselves

5.A. only B. really C. first D. one

6.A. what B. how C. why D. when

7.A. go to B. finishes C. leave D. come

8.A. interesting B. exciting C. old D. new

9.A. bad B. badly C. nice D. well

10.A. road B. reason C. way D. fact

Many people don’t think that the number 13 is a lucky number. Many hotels do not have a 13th floor. The floors go from 12 to 14, and there is no number 13. Some people will never sit at a table with 12 other people. They will tell someone to go or ask another person to sit with them.

No one really knows why people do not like the number 13. Perhaps one person is that when people began to count(数) they used the fingers and two hands. This made 12. They could not count more.

Some Christians(基督徒) say that 13 is not lucky because there were 13 people at a meal the day before Jesus(耶稣) was killed(被杀). In a story about the old Greek(希腊的) gods(神), 12 gods were asked to a meal but one more came. This made 13. It is why the god Balder, who was at the meal, was killed.

1.There is often no floor number 13 in ______.

A. restaurants B. countries C. hotels D. Greece

2.One way people can count is by using their _______.

A. fingers B. hotels C. tables D. gods

3.Some people will never sit at a table with twelve other people, or(否则) __________.

A. all of them will leave

B. they will wait for two other people to come

C. they will never come for dinner together

D. they will ask one of them to leave

4.The Christian story and the Greek story both talk about_______.

A. Jesus B. the number13 C. Balder D. Hotels

5.The story is about _________.

A. the death of Jesus

B. the person who killed Balder

C. the way people count with their fingers

D. why 13 is not a lucky number

A young man asked Albert Einstein, the great German scientist, “What the secret of success(成功) is.?” The scientist told him that the secret of success is hard work. A few days later the young man asked the same question again. Einstein was very annoyed. He did not say anything, but wrote a few words on a piece of paper. On it was written “A=X+Y+Z”.

“What does this mean?” asked the young man.

“A means success,” explained the old scientist, “X stands for hard work, Y for good method (方法) and Z means stop talking and get down to work.”

1.The young man _________.

A. wanted to meet Einstein

B. wanted to be a great scientist like Einstein

C. was eager (渴望) to know the secret of success

D. wanted to be a student of Einstein

2.In Einstein’s opinion, the secret of success was ________.

A. to work with great energy

B. to work hard

C. to learn from great scientists

D. to raise (提出) questions as many as you could

3.“Y” stands for _______.

A. hard work B. great energy

C. great success D. good method

4.The underlined word “annoyed” (in paragraph 1) means ________.

A. angry B. sad C. lovely D. glad

5.Einstein was a man who ______

A. liked to talk with young people

B. liked to help others

C. liked to make friends with young people

D. liked to work , but didn’t like to talk

“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has many different meanings.

“Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything.

When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, “It’s cool.” You may think, “He’s so cool,” when you see your favourite footballer.

We all maximize(扩大) the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new” or “surprising”. Here’s an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall(瀑布) they had visited. On one student’s paper was just one sentence, “It’s so cool.” Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.

But the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏)of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. Can you think of many other words that make your life as colourful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.

1.We know that the word “cool” has ________.

A. only one meaning B. no meanings

C. many different meanings D. the same meaning

2.In the passage, the underlined word “express” (in paragraph 1) means “________”.

A. see B. show C. know D. feel

3.If you are _______ something, you may say, “It’s cool.”

A. interested in B. angry with

C. afraid of D. unhappy with

4.The writer takes an example of the story to show he is ________ the way the word is used.

A. pleased with B. strange to

C. worried about D. careful with

5.In the passage, the writer suggests(暗示) that the word “cool”________.

A. can be used instead of many words

B. usually means something interesting

C. can make your life colourful

D. may not be as cool as it seems

单词拼写

1.There’s always a lot of _______________ (交通车辆) at this time of day.

2.The car is coming _______________ (径直) towards you. Be careful!

3.Wuxi is _________(著名的)for its beautiful views and it is a good place to live.

4.–What can you see_______________ (在…对面) the river? – A lot of sakura trees .

5.There are three_______________ (视频) shops in the street, you can go there to find your favourite.

词形变化

1.How cool the car is! It’s said that this car is one of the ____________ (postman).

2.– May I use your computer for a minute ? –_______ (I) doesn’t work.

3.Mum’s _________ (forty) birthday is coming. What will you get for her as a present?

4.It’s _______(danger) for a little child to play with water near the river.

5.Every year, a lot of ________(visit) come to Wuxi in spring.

句型转换

1.Go down the street and take the third turning on the left. (同义句转换)

Go ________ the street and ________ _______ _______ the third turning.

2.There is something wrong with my computer. (否定句 )

________ ________ ________with my computer.

3.Excuse me, can you tell me the way to the post office? (同义句转换)

Excuse me, can you tell me how _______ _______ _______ the post office?

4.Our school is more than 150 square kilometers in size. (同义句转换)

Our school has _________ ________ ________ _______ 150 square kilometers.