I read lots of _______ by Mo Yan last year.

A.works B.job C.work D.jobs

The little girl can speak English ________ Japanese.

A.as well B.as good C.as well as D.as good as

句型转换

1.I had a great time last Sunday. (改为一般疑问句)

________you ________a great time last Sunday?

2.They have a swimming lesson every Friday. (用last Friday改写句子)

They _________a swimming lesson last Friday.

3.She began to learn to play the piano. (改为否定句)

She ________ ________ to learn to play the piano.

4.They arrived here by_plane. (对画线部分提问)

_________ ________ they ________ here?

5.David started playing the piano when he was five. (改为同义句)

David started playing the piano_________the age _________five.

连词成句

1.this, had, time, a, morning, they, good (.)

______________________________________________________

2.listen, he, to, songs, began, English, to (.)

______________________________________________________

3.reading, this, worth, book, is (?)

______________________________________________________

4.get, the, at, boy, didn't, home, four (.)

______________________________________________________

5.last, what, they, did, Sunday, do (?)

______________________________________________________

O.Henry was a pen name used by an American _____ of short stories. His _____ name was William Sydney Porter. He was _____ in North Carolina in 1862. _____ he was a young boy, he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he tried to teach _____ everything he needed to know.

When he was about 20 years old, O．Henry went to Texas. There he tried different _____. He first worked on newspaper, and then had a job in a _____. When some money went missing from the bank, O．Henry was believed to have stolen(偷) it. Because of that, he was sent _____ prison(监狱). During the three years in prison, he learned to _____ short stories.

People liked his stories, because they were ______ to understand and they would finish with a sudden change in the end, to the readers' surprise.

1.A.clerk B.teacher C.writer D.doctor

2.A.pen B.old C.first D.real

3.A.bore B.born C.bored D.boring

4.A.To B.For C.When D.Because

5.A.myself B.himself C.yourself D.itself

6.A.food B.clothes C.work D.jobs

7.A.newspaper B.hospital C.school D.bank

8.A.of B.into C.with D.for

9.A.read B.listen C.buy D.write

10.A.hard B.difficult C.easy D.creative

Mark Twain, the famous American writer, was travelling in France. Once he was going by train to Dijon. That afternoon he was very tired and wanted to sleep, so he asked the conductor(列车员) to wake him up when they came to Dijon. But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. “I'll probably protest(表示不满) loudly when you try to wake me up,” he said to the conductor, “but do not take any notice, just put me off the train anyway.”

Then Mark Twain went to sleep. Later, when he woke up, it was night－time and the train was in Paris already. He realized at once that the conductor had forgotten to wake him up at Dijon. He was very angry. He ran up to the conductor and began to shout at him. “I have never been so angry in all my life,” Mark Twain said.

The conductor looked at him calmly(冷静地). “You are not half so angry as the American whom I put off at Dijon,” he said.

1.Mark Twain wanted to sleep because ________.

A.he was tired B.he was hungry

C.he was a lazy man D.he liked sleeping

2.He wanted to wake up ________.

A.in France B.in America

C.on the train D.in Dijon

3.Heavy sleeper means ________.

A.a person who was not easily to sleep B.a person who was not easily to wake up

C.a person who liked to protest D.a person who was calm

4.When he woke up, the train got to ________.

A.Dijon B.London

C.Paris D.New York

5.From the conductor's word at the end of the passage we know ________.

A.the conductor forgot Mark Twain's word

B.Mark Twain's word made the conductor angry

C.the train didn't stop at Dijon

D.the conductor made another American angry

Zhou Youguang, who created(创造) Chinese Pinyin, died on January 14th 2017, just one day after his 112nd birthday.

It took Mr. Zhou and his team three years to create Pinyin in the 1950s. It changed the way we learned Chinese. Before Pinyin was created, 85% of Chinese people could not read, but now almost all can. “Pinyin is a bridge between China and the other countries,” said Zhou.

When Zhou was young, he studied in Japan. Later, he worked in a bank in New York. At that time, he made friends with Albert Einstein. He returned to China in 1949 and taught economics(经济学) at a university in Shanghai. A few years later, he helped create Chinese Pinyin. He never stopped writing books, even when he was more than 100 years old. In his life, he published(出版) over 30 books.

1.Zhou Youguang and his team created Chinese Pinyin ________.

A.in the 1930s B.in the 1940s

C.in the 1950s D.in the 1960s

2.Zhou Youguang was famous as ________.

A.a Chinese writer B.the Father of Pinyin

C.a university teacher D.Albert Einstein's friend

3.According to the passage, Zhou Youguang once went to ________.

A.England and Russia B.India and England

C.Germany and Australia D.Japan and America

4.What can we infer(推断) from the last two sentences(句子)?

A.Zhou Youguang liked teaching. B.Zhou Youguang was strict with others.

C.Zhou Youguang worked very hard. D.Zhou Youguang was good at speaking English.

5.What can we learn about Zhou Youguang from the passage?

A.He died before his 112nd birthday. B.He didn't know Albert Einstein at all.

C.He once worked as a teacher at a university. D.He enjoyed writing plays and poems in his life.

Robert is good at playing _________piano and he is only _________11-year-old boy.

A.the ; the B./; the C.a ; / D.the ; an

Life is full of ups and downs, and without the downs, the ups will mean

A.something B.everything C.anything D.nothing