Today is October 15. It's Marie's b  1  . Her friends a  2   here. They are Linda, Tom, Peter, John
and Lucy. H  3   parents are here, too. There is (有) a big cake in the middle of the  t  4   . There are
fourteen candles (蜡烛) i  5   the cake. There is also salad, hamburgers, fish, eggs a  6   drinks on the
table. Marie is very h  7  . They sing (唱) the song Happy Birthday to Marie. Marie gets m  8   gifts (礼
物) f  9   her friends. She is v  10   happy.
1.________ 2.________ 3.________ 4.________ 5.________        
6.________ 7.________ 8.________ 9.________10.________

    How many c __1__ do you know? Please guess what colors they are. Trees are g __2__ . Some of
 the apples are r __3__ . The sky is b __4__ . Oranges are o __5__ .Some flowers are y__6__ ,some are
  p __7__ and some are w __8__ . A blackboard is b __9__. I don't like all these colors. I like light blue,
 but my father likes b __10__. He is often in a brown shirt.

    Lily is American. She is twelve. She is a middle school student. She is in No. 15 Middle School. She is
  in Class Four ,Grade One. Her teacher is Mrs Green. Her bedroom is very nice. In her bedroom you can
  see a bed ,a table ,a chair ,a clock ,a map ,a picture ,a cat and some flowers. The bed is white. The table
  and the chair are brown. The cat is black. It's under the table. The clock is blue. It's on the table. The
 door and the window are yellow. The map is on the wall. It is a map of China. The picture is her family
 picture. Both of them are on the Wall.  

1. Is Lily an English girl?
    _________________________
2. Is the clock on the wall?
    _________________________ 
3. What color is the cat under the table?
    _________________________
4. Where is the map of China?
    _________________________
5. Is the table yellow or brown?
    _________________________

     Come to Parkson store. Here is a supermarket (超市). Have a l   1   ! All the fruit and vegetables are
at a very good p   2   ! Do you like oranges? They are ￥ 3 a kilo(公斤) . Do you n   3    big and red
strawberries at ￥5 a kilo? And tomatoes are just ￥ 2 a kilo. Oh, come on with me. Here is the sports s   4   center. Do you have a football or a basketball? They are all only ￥ 50 each. And the sports shoes
in all colours are ￥ 65 a pair! It's so c   5   ! Do you believe it? Come on soon!

      Potato chips are Americans' favourite snack (零食).Where do potato chips come from? In
1853, a native American named George Crum made the first potato chips. Crum was a chef in an
expensive restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York.  One day,a customer did not like the French
fries. He said they were too thick. So Crum made more, this time, thinner. The customer still
didn't like them. Crum got unhappy. He decided to make the customer angry. So he cut the potatoes
very thin. The customer loved them.
     Other people wanted Crum's potato chips. Now, there was a new food on the menu-Saratoga
chips. Soon Crum opened his own restaurant and made his special chips.
It took a long time to make potato chips. People peeled the potatoes by hand. Then, in1920, the
automatic(自动的)potato peeler changed everything. Now it was faster and easier to
make potato chips. Now potato chips were not a specialty. They were a popular snack food, but
only in the north.
     A salesman named Herman Lay wanted to sell potato chips in the south. He sold potato chips
in bags.  His business grew.  Today, Americans eat a lot of potato chips every day.
(     )1. At first the French fries were very thin.
(     )2. To make the customer angry, George Crum made the first potato chips.
(     )3. Before 1920, it was not easy to make the potato chips.
(     )4. George Crum invented a kind of machine which could peel potatoes.
(     )5.lt was George Crum who brought the potato chips to the south.

Dear Mom,      
       I don't  think  you understand my life. You think I should be studying all the time. I know you want
me to find a good job when I grow up, but I would like to have a wonderful  time,  too.  You never think
about fun things for me to do like music, sports. Two days ago, when I was watching a football game on
TV, you asked me to stop and do my homework. After finishing my homework, still I couldn't read my
football magazines. You said I had to go to bed early. That was bad enough, but yesterday was the worst day. I bought some computer games, and put them in my bag so that you wouldn't see them. I told you I
had to do my homework first. I  knew it was wrong to lie to you, but Mom, I didn't quite like what you
did to me! I really love you, Mom, but I wish you could try not to be so hard on me.
                                                                                                                                                     Love ,
                                                                                                                                              Zhang Ning

1. Zhang Ning's mother wants him to_______ when he grows up.

A. be a good teacher      
B. find a good job
C. work in a big city      
D. have a good time

2. Zhang Ning' s mother asks him to              

A. study all the time    
B. do sports
C. watch TV                
D. tell a lie

3. Why did Zhang Ning put the computer games in the bag? Because _________.

A. he didn't like them
B. he played them many times
C. he wouldn't let his mother find them
D. he would play them at school

4. What do you think Zhang Ning should do?

A. He  should argue with his mom.
B. He  should have a fight with his mom.
C. He  shouldn't talk to his mom.
D. His letter could help his mother understand him  better.

5. What's the meaning of the underlined word "lie"?

A. 躺      
B. 离开
C. 撒谎    
D. 告诉