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　　Learners of English often ask: What are the differences between British and American English? How important are these differences?

　　Certainly, there are some differences between British and American English. There are a few differences in grammar. For example, speakers of British English say “in hospital” and “Have you a pen?”, while Americans say “in the hospital” and “Do you have a pen?” Pronunciation is sometimes different. Americans usually sound the “r” in words like “bird” and “hurt”. Some speakers of British English do not sound the “r” in these words. There are differences between British and American English in spelling and vocabulary. For example, “colour” and “honor” are British, while “color” and “honor” are American.

　　These differences in grammar, pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary are not important, however. For the most part, British and American English are the same language.

1．Are there many differences in grammar between British and American English?

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A．There are few differences between them.

B．There are many differences between them.

C．There are some differences between them.

D．There are not any differences between them.

2．Americans don't say “Have you a pen?”, do they?

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3．Who say “in hospital”? Who say “in the hospital”?

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A．Americans say “in the hospital” while Englishmen say “in hospital”.

B．Americans say “in hospital” while Englishmen say “in the hospital”.

C．Both Americans and Englishmen say “in hospital”.

D．Neither Americans nor Englishmen say “in hospital”.

4．From the article(文章) we can know ________.

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A．American English is better than British English.

B．It's not so difficult for a British English speaker to understand American English.

C．The spelling of “color” is wrong while the spelling of “colour” is right.

D．We should say “in hospital” instead of “in the hospital”.

5．What's the main idea of the article?

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A．We should learn both American English and British English.

B．British and American English are two different languages.

C．American English is more useful than British English.

D．Speakers of British and American English speak the same language.

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Some boys and girls sit at a table. Jim asks for some bread. Lucy and Lily ask for some cakes. Ann wants to have a glass of milk. Mike asks for a bottle of orange juice. They all ask some rice and meat. At last they each ask a glass of water.

1．________ boys are at the table.

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2．________ girls sit at the table.

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3．They all ask some ________.

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4．They ask ________ kinds of things to drink.

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5．They ask ________ kinds of food to eat.

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　　Today is Sunday. My friends Lin Bin, Wang Xiaoming, Bei Feng and other two boys ask me to go swimming with them. Soon we get to the river. They are swimming in it. but I can't. So I'm sitting under a big tree and watching a little girl playing with a ball by the river. But the ball falls into(落入) the water and soon she falls into the water, too.

　　I'm standing up and calling for help, but my friends are far(远) from me and they can't hear. So I jump into the river. I don't know how to swim in it, but I take the girl out of the river. Her parents thank me very much. They say, “You are a good boy, a good Young Pioneer.”

　　When my friends know this, they all smile(微笑) and say, “You can swim now.”

1．How many friends go to swim with the good boy? ________.

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2．The good boy's home is ________ the river.

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3．The good boy is a ________.

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4．What is the good boy doing after(在……之后) the girl falls into the river? ________.

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A．He is swimming in the river

B．He is calling for help

C．He is running by the river

D．He is sitting under a big tree

5．The good boy is calling for help because(因为) ________.

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A．he can't swim

B．the girl is in danger(危险)

C．he falls into river, too

D．both A and B

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Mr Smith is our English teacher. We all like his lessons because they are very interesting. He is fan America. To our surprise(令我们吃惊的是), he likes making many things. He sometimes helps us make model planes or model cars. Today he gives us a smart robot. It can do many things for us. Look! It is cleaning our classroom now. It is very easy for it to do this job. Perhaps it can clean the windows for us. I think it is dangerous for people to do that. We often call our robot hardworking cleaner.

1．What does Mr Smith do?

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A．An English teacher

B．A science teacher

C．A cleaner

2．He gives us a ________.

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A．model ship　　B．robot　　C．model car

3．The robot can clean ________.

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A．everywhere　　B．the classroom　　C．the windows

4．It isn't ________ for the robot to clean the classroom.

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A．easy　　B．hardly　　C．difficult

5．What do we call the robot?

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A．A worker　　B．An assistant　　C．A cleaner

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　　Jack and I are good friends. Jack is an English boy, but I am a Chinese girl. He is thirteen years old and I'm twelve years old. We are in the same class－Class Two.

　　Jack has a nice frisbee. He can throw it very well. I have a beautiful kite. I can fly it, but I cannot throw a frisbee. I think it is too hard. Jack teaches me to throw it like that, and I teach him to fly the kite like this. Now we both can do them very well.

1．The writer is ________, but her friend is ________.

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2．How old is Jack's friend?

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3．Both of them are ________.

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4．Jack can ________ very well and he teaches his friend how to do it.

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5．Which of the following sentences is correct? ________.

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A．The writer can't throw a frisbee very well now

B．Jack can fly a kite very well now

C．Jack has a kite and his friend has a frisbee

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　　A poor man has an orange tree in his garden. There are many fine oranges on it. He finds one of the oranges much bigger than the others. It is as big as a ball. The poor man takes the orange to the king. The king is very happy. He gives him a lot of money. A rich man hears of this. He takes his gold cup to the king. He hopes to get much more money from the king. The king likes the cup very much. He says, “This cup is very nice. I'm going to show you something nicer. Please take this orange.”

　　The rich man is very angry and throws the orange away.

1．The poor man ________.

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2．The king ________ the orange.

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3．The rich man wants to get ________ from the king.

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4．The king gives the rich man ________.

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5．The rich man ________ the orange.

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　　It was Sunday and the weather was fine, so Mrs Black said, “Let's go for a picnic(野餐).” “Oh, yes!” said Mary and John, her two children. Mr Black said, “Yes, let's go to the woods(小树林) and have our picnic there.” “Good. Help me to get the things ready.” “All right,” said the children. John brought the basket for the food and the bottles for the water. Mary brought a blanket(毯子), while Mother made the sandwiches, and Father put water and oil into the car.

　　Soon everything was ready and they left the house. When they got there, Mary put the blanket on the ground, John took the food out of the car, Father made a fire and Mother made tea. “Isn't it beautiful here?” said Mother. “It's very quiet and green.” John had a kite and soon he was running with it. “Be careful!” shouted Mother, but it was too late. John fell(摔倒) over basket of food, and everything fell out. “Look!” cried Mary. “There are ants(蚂蚁) in the food. Yes, there were.” There were hundreds of them. The blanket was on an ants' nest(蚂蚁窝).

1．How many people were there in the story?

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2．When did the Blacks go for a picnic?

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3．What did they prepare(准备) for the picnic?

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A．Basket, water, oil, sandwiches and bottles.

B．Bottle, basket, oil, and blanket.

C．Basket, water, oil, blanket and sandwiches.

D．Sandwiches, blanket, water and basket.

4．Who made a fire?

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5．Did they have a good picnic?

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　　Mr Brown is one of my friends. He can run very fast(快) and likes to show people how fast he can run.

　　One day, a thief(小偷) got into his house, took some of his things and ran out of the house fast. Mr Brown found it and ran after him, and shouted(喊), “Hey(嘿)! Don't you know you can't get away from(逃脱) me?”

　　But the thief ran much faster. Mr Brown got angry(生气的、发怒的) and ran faster, too. He was soon a few kilometres away from his house, he was running hard when he met me. “Why are you running so fast?” I asked. “I want to catch a thief,” said Mr Brown. “But where is the thief?” I asked. “Kilometres and kilometres behind,” said Mr Brown proudly, “He thought he could run faster than me, but you see he is wrong.”

1．Did the thief steal(偷) anything from Brown's house?

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2．Who ran faster, Mr Brown or the thief?

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3．Did Mr Brown catch the thief?

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A．Yes, he did.

B．No, he didn't.

C．Yes, but he let him go away.

D．No, but his friend did.

4．What did Mr Brown do when he found the thief?

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A．He ran after. him.

B．He was angry with him.

C．He caught him.

D．He stayed far behind him.

5．What does the word “proudly” mean? It means “________”.

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　　I was born in a small river. when I was young, the river was my home. I did not know my parents, but I had hundreds of(数百个) brothers and sisters. I swam about(到处) and played with them.

　　At that time I did not look like my parents. I had no legs, but I had a short tail(尾巴), so I looked like a fish. Then my tail became(变) shorter and now I have four legs and a very short tail. I know I will have no tail at all soon. I shall be like my parents. Then I'm going to jump out of the water. I'm going to live on the land and in the water, too. I'm going to eat a lot of insects(昆虫)－bad insects. So I am a good friend for the farmers. Do you know what I am?

1．－What is it?

－________.

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2．When it was young, ________.

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3．When it was young, ________.

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4．Now it is like its parents, and it has ________.

A．four legs and no tail

B．two legs

C．four legs and a very short tail

D．no legs or tail

5．It will live ________.

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A．only on the land

B．only in the river

C．on the land and in the river

D．with the insects

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　　Mr White lived in a village but his office was in the town. Sometimes he went to work by bus and sometimes, when it rained, he drove there. He was friendly to others and they all liked him.

　　One day a new comer named Mr Black began to work in the office. Mr White was kind to him and told him what to do with the sticky(棘手的，困难的) business. The man thanked him very much.

　　Two or more months later Mr Black moved into a house, which was just next to Mr White. They were both happy and became good friends. One Saturday morning, Mr White was walking while his new friend was reading in the garden. He came up to him and they began to chat(聊天). He found Mr Black's book interesting and wanted to borrow it.

　　“You have enough time today, haven't you?” asked Mr Black.

　　“Yes,” answered Mr White.

　　“Well, then,” the man said, “I never lend anything to others. You can read it here.”

　　It made Mr White unhappy and he had to say goodbye to him. A few days later Mr Black came and said. “Excuse me, Mr White, could I borrow your lawn mower(剪草机), please?”

　　“Of course.” Said Mr White. “But you must use it in my garden.”

1．Mr White went to work by car if it was ________.

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2．Mr White was kind to Mr Black because ________.

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A．he wanted to borrow a book from him

B．they were good friends

C．he liked to help others

D．the man was going to move into a house next to his

3．Mr White and Mr Black became good friends because ________.

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A．they often helped each other

B．they knew each other very well

C．they worked in the same office

D．they lived next to each other

4．Mr Black wouldn't lend the book to Mr White because ________.

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A．it was very interesting

B．he didn't finish reading it

C．his friend had enough time to read it in his garden

D．he was too selfish(自私的) to do so

5．Which of the following is right?

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A．Mr White lent the lawn mower to Mr Black.

B．Mr White wouldn't lend the lawn mower to Mr Black.

C．Mr Black had to work for Mr White.

D．Mr White sold the lawn mower to Mr Black.