A beautiful and very successful actress was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the country, but she didn't want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the center of the city, got some beautiful furniture and got a man to paint the rooms in new colors.

　　It was very difficult to get tickets for her show in the evening, because everybody wanted to see her. So she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the painter's bill. At the bottom of it were these words：“Four hours watching Miss Hall sing and dance：3 pounds,”with the note：“Before 5 pm. I get 10 shillings an hour and after 5 pm. 15 shillings.”

(1) We can learn from the passage that one pound is 15 shillings.

(2) The word“them”refers to the new musical show.

(3) From the passage we know that the man knew little about music and dance.

(4) At the end of the month, the actress got the painter's bill to ask for money of his painting work only.

(5) The actress bought a house in the center of the city because her home was far away.

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　　Yellow, orange, red and green- tree leaves make autumn a colourful time! Who paints all these colours? It is the leaves themselves. Inside a leaf, there are millions of little colour“bags”, they are green, yellow and orange. The green ones are called chlorophyll（叶绿素）.The yellow ones are called xanthophylls（叶黄素）. The orange ones are called carotene（胡萝卜素）.

　　In summer, the green chlorophyll is very, very busy. It makes food for the trees. It catches sunlight to change water and carbon dioxide（二氧化碳）into sugar. This sugar is the food for ther tree. It is so busy that it covers up all of the other colours in the leaf.

　　When the weather grows colder in autumn, there is less light and water for trees. The trees will have a rest to get ready for winter. They've made enough food in summer! The leaves no longer need water to make food. Without the water, the green chlorophyll starts to go away. The other colours in the leaf-the yellow xanthophylls and orange carotene come out. So the leaves don't really“turn”a certain colour. They just lose their green !

　　The leaves look red or purple because they have some sugar in them. They“steal”some food from the tree! The green leaves are from the evergreen trees （常绿树）. The evergreen trees stay green all year long. Their leaves don't lose water in winter.

(1) The tree leaves have the following colour“bags”, such as green, yellow and orange except red.

(2) In summer, the green chlorophyll works hard for the tree leaves.

(3) In autumn, the tree leaves turn yellow or orange because the green chlorophyll stops working and goes away.

(4) Tree leaves no longer make food in summer.

(5) We can infer（推断）from the article that trees can clean the air.

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　　In general（一般来说）people talk about two groups of colours：warm colours and cool colours. Scientists think that there are also two groups of people：people who prefer（更喜欢）warm colours and people who prefer cool colours.

　　The warm colours are red, orange and yellow. Where there are warm colours and a lot of light, people usually want to be active（积极的）. People think that red is exciting, sociable（善交际的）people, those who like to be with others like red. The cool colours are green, blue and purple. These colours unlike warm colours, are relaxing. Where there are cool colours, people are usually quiet. People who like to spend time alone often prefer blue.

　　Red may be exciting but one scientist says that time seems to pass more slowly in a room with warm colours than in a room with cool colours. He suggested（建议）that a warm colour such as red or orange, is a good colour for a living room or a restaurant. People who are relaxing or eating don't want time to pass quickly. Cool colours are better for offices as the people who work there want time to pass quickly. Scientists don't know why people think some colours are warm and other colours are cool. However, almost everyone agrees that warm colours remind（使想起）people of warm days and cool colours remind them of cool days. Because in the north the sun is low during winter, the sunlight appears quite blue. And the sun is higher during summer, the hot summer sunlight appears yellow.

(5) The best title is“Colours and People”.

　　 Factories often make the air in big cities very dirty. Millions of tons of waste and poisonous （有毒）gases（气）are sent into the air with smoke. Oil is burnt in cars, trucks and buses. They produce waste gases almost as harmful as the gases from factories. In big cities during cold winter months, many old people die from the polluted air. In places around big factories, the bad air kills trees and vegetables.

　　 Another kind of polltion is noise. Very loud noises can make people ill, hurt their ears, or even drive them mad（发疯的）. Houses near the airports sometimes have their windows broken by the noise of jet planes（喷气式飞机）passing overhead.

　　 Man is fighting a battle（战争）against pollution. The battle won't be won until everyone knows how serious the danger is, and does something to stop it.

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　　Last week the manager of an old shop received a letter. As he was very busy, the letter lay on his desk till teatime. Then he opened it and ￡ 10 fell out onto his desk. Together with it was a short letter. It read：

　　In 1935 I got engaged（订婚）, but unluckily I lost my job. At that time a lot of people were out of work. Six months later I got a job again, but of course I was very short of money.

　　I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring（结婚戒指）. The girl took out some rings for me to look at, but she was called away for a moment, and I put one of the rings in my pocket. When she came back, I said I did not know the size of my girl-friend's finger. So I left the shop without paying.

　　My wife died a short while ago and that I never paid for her ring has been on my conscience（良心）all these years. At that time the ring cost ￡ 2, so I think the ring may cost ￡ 10 now, and I am sending you the money.

A customer（顾客）

　　“Well, well, well.”said the manager,“Life is full of surprises.”

(2) There are ￡ 10 and a short letter in the envelope.

(3) The customer stole ￡ 10 in the shop before.

　　When you are invited to have dinner in a foreigner's home. Please remember the following：

　　Do not leave your seat without saying anything. If you need to leave the table to go to the washroom or something else, you should say“Excuse me for a moment, please.”

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(5) When you have to leave your seat, you need to say“Excuse me for a moment, please.”

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　　Sometimes, kids don't think their parents are fair（公平的）to them. When you want to dress in a modern way, your mum doesn't like you wearing a mini-skirt.

　　Closing the Gap（隔阂）by American author（作者）Jay McGraw gives advice on how to have a better relationship（关系）with your parents.

　　The book gives ways to help teens understand their parents. When you think“my parents don't want me to have any fun,”that usually means your parents want you to be safe. Both parents and children have needs. They need to feel they are important and loved.

　　You should tell your parents your needs, and find out what their needs are. Then, you can think of a way to make all of you happy. The book gives you some ideas：

(3) When you think“my parents don't want me to have any fun,”that usually means your parents want you to be safe.

　　Early on Monday morning, the vice president（副总经理）of the company came to work and found the elevator was not working. When the elevator was opened, Mr. Coates came out, cold, weak, and tired. He had been in the elevator for 62 hours!

　　Now Mr. Coates says,“I only use elevators if they have telephones in them.”

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　　Boys and girls who are eight or nine years old need ten hours of sleep every night. Our body needs lots of air when we sleep. If we do not get enough fresh air, we will feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our heads. Our lungs（肺）need to get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night, we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better than warm air. Boys and girls who want to be strong must get lots of fresh air.