Jack: Two tickets（票）to London，please. What time is the next train（火车）leaving（离开）?
Man: At nineteen past eight.
Jack: Which platform?
Man: Platform Two. Kate: What time is the next train leaving?
Jack: At eight nineteen. It’s three to eight now. Let’s go and have a drink. There’s a bar next to the station（火车站）.
Kate: Now let’s go back to the station.
Man: Tickets，please.
Jack: Here they are. It’s the train to London at eight nineteen.
Man: The train has left（离开）.
Jack: What? But it’s only eight fifteen.
Man: I’m sorry，si r. Your watch is slow（慢）. I think.

1．Jack and Kate are going to ________.
2．Their train leaves at ________ ________.
3．Jack and Kate ________ ________ ________ in a bar.
4．What’s platform in Chinese? ________.
5．How many minutes（分钟）is the watch slow ________ ?

      Tom is a seaman. He is always drunk（喝醉）. One day Tom goes to a new city. He drinks very
much in a bar that night. When he goes out of the bar，he sees a man lying in the street. The man is quite 
drunk. When Tom comes nearer，the man points to the sky and asks. “Excuse me，is that the sun or the moon? ” Tom looks at the sky for a few minutes and answers，“I’m afraid I can’t help you. I’m a
stranger（陌生人）here myself.”

判断正误，正确T，错误F。
(     )1. Tom works on the ship. 
(     )2. Tom often drinks too much. 
(     )3. Tom doesn’t know if it is the sun or the moon because he is new there. 
(     )4. Tom tells the man not to drink any more. 
(     )5. Tom tells the man the way.

     These days, people show their thanks, or wishes and hopes, or invitations, or something else in different
kinds of cards, Here are some cards.

1. Who is the teacher?

A. Linda.
B. Mrs. Bell.
C. Mr. Liu.
D. Mike.

2. What does Tim want to say in his card?

A. Good luck.
B. Thank you.
C. Have a good trip.
D. Get well soon.

3. What is Tina going to do next Monday?

A. To take exams.
B. To have a birthday party.
C. To go on vacation.
D. To take care of the cat.

4. You are going to Linda's birthday party ______.

A. this Sunday
B. next Monday
C. on September 10th
D. on May 18th

     Near the North Pole (北极) there are only two seasons: winter and summer. In winter, nights are
long. For more than two months you can't see the sun,even at noon. In summer, days are long. For more
than two months the sun never sets and there is no night at all. The temperature (温度) is very low near
the North Pole. Even in summer the temperature is below 0℃. So people there wear warm clothes all
year round. They make their clothing from the skins of animals. From the skins they also make coats,
hats and even boots.
       In the cold climate, plants cannot grow. So the people have to build their houses with skins, earth,
stone or snow. When they go out to hunt something, they live in tents of skins. When they move, they
take their tents with them. Sometimes, they build houses of snow. Now don't think that these houses
must be cold. In fact, they are very warm and safe.
      The life near the North Pole is very interesting.

1. There are no ______ near the North Pole.

A. spring or summer        
B. summer or autumn
C. autumn or winter          
D. spring or autumn

2. Near the North Pole the winter nights can last ______.  

A. more than a month        
B. more than two months
C. more than half a year      
D. more than four months

3. The people near the North Pole wear warm clothes ______. 

A. only in winter            
B. only in summer
C. only at night              
D. all year round

4. Near the North Pole you can't see ______.

A. animals                  
B. stone houses
C. plants                    
D. tents of skins

5. Sometimes people there build houses of snow. It is ______.

A. warm and safe            
B. very cold inside
C. dangerous to live          
D. cold and dangerous

     In Siam (暹罗) a white elephant is a great animal. When the king (国王) of Siam doesn't like someone, he
gives him a white elephant. The white elephant doesn't work. It only eats good food. So the man spends all his
money for it. Today at a market, you can see people selling "white elephants". Don't want anything like a white
elephant. People don't like white elephants and want to sell them to others.

1. Where did the story happen (发生) at the beginning?

A. In the zoo.
B. In Siam.
C. At school.
D. At a market.

2. When the king is angry at someone, he gives him _____.

A. an animal
B. an old elephant
C. a white elephant
D. some money

3. People there want to sell white elephants because _____.

A. they can't look after them
B. they can give them some bread
C. they will give them nothing to eat
D. they will use all their money for them

4. "White elephants" means _____ now.

A. useless ( 无用的) things
B. a beautiful elephant
C. a good present (礼物)
D. King of Siam

5. Which is the best title (题目)?

A. King of Siam
B. White Elephants
C. Good Food
D. The Elephant on Sale

     My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first television when she was a
teenager. Of course it was black and white. She said she only watch it at night. She doesn't remember
over watching it in the morning or afternoon. When I was young we had only about 3 or 4 different
channels. My bothers, my sisters and I would sometimes fight about which channel to watch. But we
usually enjoyed the same shows.
    Nowadays we can get hundreds of channels on TV. I can't believe it! There are channels with old
movies, cooking, fishing and so on. It's amazing! There is a channel for everything. I wonder how
much my bothers, my sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child.
Of course we had only one television set.
      These days I notice families with 2 or 3 or more television sets in their homes. I guess it stops people
from arguing over which channel to choose from.

1. In those days, what kind of television sets did people only have?

A. Black and white ones.
B. Colors Ones.
C. All kinds of television sets.

2. My mother watched TV _____ when she was young.

A. in the morning
B. in the afternoon
C. at night

3. Nowadays, how many channels can we get on TV?

A. 3 or 4 different channels.
B. Only once channel.
C. Hundreds of channels.

4. When I was a teenager, my brothers, my sisters and I usually enjoyed _____.

A. four shows
B. the same shows
C. different show

5. Which of the following in NOT true?

A. My brother, my sisters and I would sometimes fight about which channel to watch when I was a child.
B. These days, there is only one channel with old movies, cooking and fishing.
C. People have many channels to choose from now.

      Kate Smith   1   a student. She   2   a brother and a   3      4  names are Jack Smith   5   Jenny           Smith.    6   all like sports. Kate   7   basketball. Jack likes soccer and Jenny likes baseball. Their mother  gives   8   lots of healthy   9   every day. She thinks (认为) they should(应该)   10  well, because(因为)    they do lots of sports every day.

       Near my home, there is a shop. It's not big. I can buy lots of things there. Sometimes(有时)
I buy school things, like exercise-books, erasers, rulers, pens and color pencils in it. They are
very cheap. My mother often buys food and drinks there. The apples are five yuan a kilo(千克). I think they are a little expensive (昂贵的).
       There are only four people in the shop. They are three young men and an old woman. They
are very friendly (友好的). The shop closes at 5:30 in the afternoon and you can't buy things
before 7:30 in the morning.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

1. Where is the shop?
______________________________________

2. Are the school things cheap in the shop?
______________________________________

3. How many people are there in the shop?
______________________________________

4. Are the people in the shop friendly?
______________________________________

5. How long is the shop open?
______________________________________