I found ____difficult to work with the strange person．

A. its B. this is C. it is D. it

---I've decided to give up my job, Mum.

--- You’d better think twice.

A. Sounds great! B. What a pity! C. Guess what? D. Are you serious?

——I think Millie is careful enough to be an accountant in the future.

——_______.She makes mistakes at times and she doesn't like working with numbers.

A. I agree with you. B. Exactly C. That’s not the case D. Not at all

Joe wanted a computer．He asked his___ for the money and they said he must get it himself．But how did he get it？He___ about this when he walked home．Not many people wanted to ask children to work for them．Maybe he could take away snow for the neighbors （邻居）．But this was not___．He had to wait a long time for that．He couldn't cut grass for their gardens___ he had no tools （工具） to do the work with．

Then he saw one of his classmates，Dick，delivering （送）___．I could do that，he thought．Maybe I could even get the computer___ away．I could pay___ it a little each week．He ran to___ up with Dick．Joe asked him a lot of questions．He learned that it was___to get twenty-five dollars each week．He learned that the job （工作） took___three hours each night．Dick___ him the phone number of the newspaper manager （经理）．

Joe almost flew home．After he had told his mother___he thought，she___．"I think it is a___ idea，"she said，"I'll call the newspaper…．"

"Wait，Mum，"Joe said，"I'll call．After that，I'm going to be a businessman now．"

Joe's mother smiled___．

1.A. teachers B. parents C. classmates D. friends

2.A. said B. told C. thought D. spoke

3.A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter

4.A. because B. when C. while D. after

5.A. newspaper B. bikes C. computers D. tools

6.A. now B. right C. just D. only

7.A. on B. to C. of D. for

8.A. take B. catch C. carry D. get

9.A. friendly B. kind C. possible D. wrong

10.A. at B. about C. before D. after

11.A. taught B. gave C. made D. asked

12.A. that B. when C. what D. where

13.A. smiled B. shouted C. cried D. worried

14.A. big B. large C. great D. bad

15.A. sadly B. happily C. politely D. angrily

Tom was a farmer．He worked on the farm all day，but sometimes he went to the town market to sell fruit and vegetables．One day，a terrible sound attracted his attention in the town market．He saw a young bull for sale．The bull was white and yellow．It was looking at Tom in fear．Tom walked up and touched its head gently．Just at that time they both seemed to have known each other for a long time．How amazing！Tom bought it at once and called it Amba．

From then on，Tom and Amba got on well with each other．But some friends told him that it was dangerous to have such a close relationship with an animal．

One afternoon，Tom was walking through the forest with Amba．Suddenly，Amba stopped walking and kept pushing Tom with its head．Tom was very surprised and looked around．There was a big snake in front of him．It was beautiful but poisonous．Quickly Amba stepped on the snake's tail with its foot and at the same time Tom picked up a stick and hit the snake's head heavily．Soon the snake．died．

Tom was very grateful for Amba's help．When people heard this，they were shocked at the bull's expression of love for Tom．But for Tom，Amba was not a bull but a member of his family．

1.Tom worked ______ ．

A. on the farm B. in the market C. in the forest D. in the town

2.Amba was ______ ．

A. a small and nice cow B. a big and beautiful snake

C. a white and yellow bull D. a black and white dog

3.From the passage，we know Tom and Amba ______ ．

A. hated each other B. got angry with each other

C. got on well with each other D. disliked each other

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true？ ______

A. Tom went to the town market to sell fruit and vegetables．

B. Tom's friends thought animals were safe．

C. Tom hit the snake's head heavily with a stick．

D. For Tom，Amba was a member of his family．

5.The passage mainly wants to tell us ______ ．

A. the love between humans and animals

B. the fight between a bull and a snake

C. how to keep an animal

D. how to train an animal．

Do you speak English？Yes？Well，do you speak e-mail English？Maybe not．E-mail English is a new kind of English that many people use to save time．A lot of e-mail English words come from a computer program called ICQ．It means/seek you．ICQ is an e-mail chatline that people use to send messages quickly．Ian Lancashire，a Canadian teacher，likes ICQ．"People can use ICQ to talk with each other with computers．"

A message in e-mail English mostly uses two kinds of new words．The first kind is made up of the first letters of other words．These are called acronyms （首字母组合词）．The second kind is homophones（同音异义词）．

Acronyms in an e-mail save space and time．It takes a long time to write by the way．BTW is much faster．F2F stands for face to face，CSL for can't stop laughing and DBEYR for don't believe everything you read！

Homophones often use letters and numbers that sound like words or parts of words．For example，8sounds like-ea^in great，so to save time，people write gr8．Another example is CU for see you，or sometimes CU18r（ see you later）．The number 2is used for to or too and the number 4is used instead of/or．*

E-mail English is fun．An e-mail message with lots of e-mail English starts to look like secret code．Your best friend will probably understand it，but your parents and teachers might not．Actually，many teachers don't like e-mail English．It's not just because they can't understand what it means．It's because students start to use e-mail English in their everyday writing．E-mail English is great for writing quickly．But most teachers say that e-mail English should only be used in e-mails to one's friends．

1.From the passage，we know e-mail English is ______ ．

A. a computer program

B. a new kind of English

C. for everyday writing

D. made up of two kinds of letters

2.The underlined phrase"secret code"probably means in the passage ______ ．

A. words that only some people can understand

B. words that everyone can understand

C. words that no one can understand

D. words that many people can understand

3.Many teachers don't like e-mail English because ______ ．

A. students use it in their everyday writing

B. it is difficult for students to understand

C. they can understand what it means

D. students start to write it quickly

4.According to e-mail English，the sentence"Hi，how RU？Let's meet 4dinner and then c a movie 2night．"means ______ ．

A. Hi，how right you？Let's meet four dinner and then see a movie two night

B. Hi，how are you？Let's meet at dinner and then see a movie at night

C. Hi，how are you？Let's meet for dinner and then see a movie tonight

D. Hi，how do you do？Let's meet for dinner and then see a movie at night

5.What's the passage about？ ______

A. Written English． B. E-mail English．

C. Everyday English． D. An e-mail message．

For most kids, homework is just part of their daily lives, but have you ever imagined that one day you won't need to do any homework at all? Such a thing has just happened in a school in the UK.

Nottingham East Academy, a school in the UK, has established a non-homework policy (政策) recently. The school plans to give an extra lesson and provide more activities for students to do at school. So the students no longer need to do homework after class. When the school announced this policy ， students ， parents and teachers were all shocked.

The school ， Nottingham East Academy ， is the country's largest school. It has a total of 3，570 students. Barry Day, the president of the school, thinks that homework is unnecessary and can easily cause argument both at home and at school. He once told the local newspaper ，" People give home?work for children to do simply because they think it should be given. Actually, homework doesn't help with education at all."

Letting kids leave their homework at school is becoming popular in the UK. Several other schools are welcoming the policy and are taking similar measures (措施).Tiffin Boy's school has started giving students less homework. Students now spend less time on homework. The time has dropped from two or three hours to just forty minutes a night. Nottingham East Academy is asking students to read for pleasure with their parents at home instead.

1.The underlined word" established" in the second paragraph probable means .

A. 制定 B. 抱怨 C. 发表 D. 取消

2.How much time does it take students to finish their homework at Tiffin Boy's school now?

A. None. B. Two hours.

C. Three hours. D. Forty minutes.

3.According to the passage, which statement is WRONG?

A. Nottingham East Academy is larger than any other school in the UK.

B. In the UK, no school has announced a non-homework policy so far.

C. Letting kids do their homework at school is popular in the UK.

D. Reading after school is good for students.

4.Barry Day thinks homework unnecessary because .

A. most people don't think homework should be given

B. he doesn't think homework is helpful to education

C. homework taken students too much time

D. some schools welcome the policy

5.The best title for the passage is .

A. Homework Is Necessary B. Reading after School

C. Non-Homework Policy D. Amazing Advertisement

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Have you ever heard of a girl of 15，who set up a company of her own？Wendy Wong is the girl．She started the business two years ago．She has already written several successful computer games．They are so popular that over half a million games are sold every year．Now all of her family work in her business，and she is still at school．

She gets up early in the morning，and then she talks with her family about the business over breakfast．Every day she goes to school in her own car with a driver，for she is not old enough．

She enjoys her school，but some of the work is too easy for her to feel interested．She usually gets ‘A' grades in all her subjects，so the other students often ask her for help．

She finished her homework in half an hour after her driver takes her home．After dinner，she goes to her office and goes on working on her computer，writing games until 2am．She does not usually need so much sleep as other children．

1.When did Wendy Wong start the business？

_______________________________________________

What has Wendy Wong already written successful？

2._____________________________________________

How does Wendy Wong go to school every day？

3._____________________________________________

Why can't Wendy drive to school by herself？

4._____________________________________________

How much time does she spend doing her homework？

5._____________________________________________ ．

根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

Do you know anything about animal signs and star signs?

In the Chinese lunar c1., there are 12 animal signs in a2.. Each of them represents a lunar year. They a 3.in a fixed o4.and the cycle repeats every 12 years. Some people believe that people born u 5.the same animal sign have similar personalities.

In W6.countries, a year is d 7.into a cycle of 12 star signs. Your star sign depends on your date of b8.

Do animal signs or star signs really tell anything about your personality? No, not really. We can read about them just for f9.. It is you who s10.your life and your future.