Mr. Black loved his daughter Helen very much. Every day he spent all of his free time  1 with her. One night, he had much work to do,   2  couldn't play with his daughter. In order to keep her   3 , he found a map of the world in a magazine and cut it into pieces. When he   4 , Helen came running to him and was ready to play. Mr. Black said he had  5  time to play with her now. He told the girl to put the pieces of paper back together to a map of the world, and then they could both play.

About half an hour later, Helen came to her father and said, "Okay, it's finished. Can we play now? "Mr. Black was surprised and said, "That's   6  .  Let's go and see." And sure enough, there was the picture of the world, all put together, every   7  in its place.

Mr. Black said, "That's surprising!   8  did you do that?" Helen said, "It was   9  . On the back of the page was a picture of a   10 . When I put the man together, the whole world fell into place. "

One day we invited some friends to dinner. When it was about six o’clock, my wife found that we had little bread. So she asked our five-year-old daughter, Kathy, to buy some.

‘Here’s a dollar,’ my wife said, ‘get two loaves of bread, if they have it. If they don’t have it, get anything. But hurry!’

Kathy hurried off, and we waited and waited. By a quarter past six, all the friends had arrived. But Kathy had not returned. Finally we saw her dancing around the corner with a bright new hula hoop（呼啦圈） whirling（旋转） round her middle.

“Kathy!” her mother cried. “Where did you get that hula hoop, and where is the bread?”

“Well, when I got to the shop, they had sold out all their bread,” answered Kathy. “And you said ‘If they don’t have that, get anything!’”

1.One day Kathy’s parents invited some friends to ________.

2.How much did Kathy’s mother give her?

3.Kathy ________  in a hurry.

4.What did Kathy buy at last?

5.Why did she do this?

You probably know you should say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ at restaurants. You probably know the rules of a library. You know you should respect and be nice to your classmates. But do you have music manners?

Keep it down! You have to notice the volume of your music. You should not play your music so loud that everyone around you can hear it. Some people might even get angry. Usually, when you play the music loud on an MP3 player, other people can’t hear the words of the song. They just hear a loud sound. Not one wants to listen to this. Very loud music can also be bad for your ears, so even if you are alone when listening to your MP3 player, you shouldn’t have it turned up too high.

Take them off! You need to know when to turn your MP3 player off and put it away. Libraries and schools don’t allow MP3 players. There are other places, like museums, that don’t have rules, but it would be rude to have your MP3 player on. Sometimes, it just doesn’t make sense to listen to your MP3 player at event. Why would you listen to music at a play, a movie or a sporting event? You would miss what is going on and others would wonder why you even came.

Take one out! Sometimes it’s okay just to take out one earphone and not the other. Imagine you are listening to your MP3 player when someone asks you the way. It would not be rude to take out one earphone, tell him the way, and put back the earphone and continue listening. You can also do this when you order food at a fast-food restaurant or when you answer the telephone and it’s not for you.

It’s your choice! There are times when you need to decide what is best. For example, some people can listen to music on their MP3 Players when read books, while others think it is disturbing. In cases like this, you need to do what seems right for you.

1.The underlined word ‘volume’ in paragraph two probably means _____.

2.We should turn down the music when we are alone because loud music _____.

3.We can take one earphone out when we _____.

4.It’s all right to use our MP3 player in _____.

5.What can be the best title of this passage?

Except for a few times, Americans are not big present-givers. There’s no exchange of presents among business people, and if one American tries to give another a present, it may look like that he wants to bribe (贿赂) him. Americans have learned that in some other countries people like to give presents to others, but among ourselves we don’t see the need for presents.

Even friends may never exchange presents. When I go to foreign countries, I try to bring back little things for close friends, but nobody would feel unhappy if I didn’t. I don’t often re­member a friend’s birthday, and few people outside of my family remember mine. If someone gave me presents too often, I’d get unpleasant. But a present from a foreigner — that kind from his or her homeland — won’t go wrong, except to government employees (政府职员) who can’t be given presents.

You usually open a present at once and in front of the person who gives it except Christmas and birthday presents. You should only say, ‘It’s so nice. Thanks…’when you get Christ­mas or birthday presents.

You may want to bring a bottle of wine (葡萄酒) or flowers to a dinner party, but you’re never asked to. Nobody will mind if you bring wine, but your friend may not use it that evening.

At Christmas we often give presents to our family and sometimes our friends. We also give presents to people who have been helpful during the year like doormen, babysitters, housecleaners , newspaper senders — anyone who has often helped us.

1.What do the underlined words ‘close friends’ mean in the passage?

2.What kind of presents don’t Americans usually open in front of the givers?

3.Why do Americans also give presents to housecleaners at Christmas?

4.Which of the following do you think is right?

5.What is the main idea of the passage?

Here’s the story about Ming’s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r    (1)  in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once been on l    (2) , but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact（实际上), he could swim before he could walk . When he wants to play with his f    (3) , he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v    (4)  him.

Ming’s father is a fisherman but he never u    (5)   a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants（鸬鹚）do the fishing for him. Rings （圈） have been put around the birds’ n    (6)  so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b    (7)  the fish to people. And then people reward （奖励） them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f    (8)  . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s    (9)  with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o    (10) .

1.中国的南方种植水稻。

Rice   1     2  in the south of China.

2.上周他们计划出国旅行。

They   3     4  travel abroad last week.

3.我祖父去世十年了,但我经常想念他。

My grandfather   5     6     7  for ten years, but I often miss him.

4.发展给他们带来了许多收益，但也造成了许多问题。

Development brought us many advantages, but   8     9     10 , too.

5.李晨将在这个电影里扮演一个警察。

Li Chen will   11     12     13     14  a policeman in the film.

6.刚才键盘和电脑恰当连接起来了吗？

  15  the keyboard   16     17  the computer properly just now?

7.春季是游览中国园林的最佳时节。

Spring is the best time for   18     19     20 .

你觉得你的校园生活安全吗？，请用英语写一篇题为 ‘How to keep safe in school’ 的短文。(80个词左右)   

内容要点如下：

1. 如果我们不够小心，我们的校园生活也会有危险。例如两个学生在走廊里追跑，一个同学不小心摔倒在地，弄伤了自己，不得不在医院呆上两周。（走廊 hallway）

2. 我认为学生在走廊里应该行走而不是奔跑，老师应该关注学生，并阻止他们奔跑。

3. 我也希望……(用1-2句话 写出你的观点)

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