Thanks for your invitation. I'm sorry I can't visit you this week. I am    1   This evening I'm going to my cousin's house.
It's my cousin's birthday. Today I have a toothache, so I have to see the dentist tomorrow. On Friday,there will be a math
test, and I    2   On Friday evening, a new film will be on, and I'm    3   with my friends.

1. _____ 2. _____ 3._____

     Every year, the Wilsons go to the beach for a week vacation. There are
many interesting things to do at the beach.
     The children play games on the sand. Sometimes they build sandcastles.
There are saltwater (海水) swimming pools. The children can swim safely in
these pools and the water is always clean.
     There is an esplanade (游逛的广场). This is a long road by the beach,
They are many cafes and restaurants on the esplanade. There is also an
amusement (娱乐) park beside the beach. This is a place with many kinds of
rides.
     The Wilsons always stay at the same hotel. They usually have the same
rooms. These rooms are at the front of the hotel. There is a good views(风景) of the ocean (海洋) from their windows, The children are a little sad when
the vacation is over because they don't want to go home.

根据短文内容完成下列各小题.

1．How often do the Wilsons go to the beach for vacation every year?
________________________________________________________________________

2．Where can the children swim safely?
________________________________________________________________________

3．Can visitors drink or eat on the esplanade ?
________________________________________________________________________

4．Why do the Wilsons stay at the front of the hotel ?
________________________________________________________________________

5．How do the children feel when the vacation is over?
________________________________________________________________________

       Traveling to work by car gets more expensive today. People can do nothing about the world's price of
   petrol (汽油). They have to work hard so that they can pay for petrol. However, some people are trying
   to stop driving to work..
       People have found out that it is good to ride a bike to work. More and more people return to bikes.
       Children often go to school by bike. But now businessmen are going to work by bike too. "The bike is
   easy to use," says Molly, "and it is also very cheap. You can buy 300 bikes at the price of a small car. A
   bike doesn't use expensive petrol. A 10-year-old child can learn to use a bike. And most bikes can be
  used for a long time."
       Mr. Brown goes to his hospital by bike every day. He says, "A bike doesn't need a lot of money, and
  bike- riding is good for our health. Today most people get fat because they don't get enough exercise. So
   I tell people to buy bikes. What's more, in big cities it's usually quicker to travel by bike than by bus or
  by car. Drivers can't do anything but get angry when there is a traffic jam (交通堵塞)."

1. The first paragraph mainly tells us _____.

A. it's good to drive to work          
B. it's too expensive to drive to work.
C. some people stop to drive to work    
D. it's cheap to ride a bike to work

2. According to the passage _____ usually go out by bike.

A. patients        
B. workers      
C. businessman      
D. students

3. If a car is 90 thousand dollars, a bike may be _____ dollars.

A. 30              
B. 300          
C. 3,000          
D. 30,000

4. The underlined word "patient" means "_____" in Chinese.

A.  学生          
B. 医生        
C. 病人          
D. 司机

5. From the passage, we mainly know _____.

A. it's good to ride bikes              
B. there are too many cars
C. the traffic is heavy                
D. cars are expensive for us

     Mr. White asked a lot of questions about the buses. But Sam couldn't answer them. Here is a
timetable. Can you answer Mr. White's questions after you read it?
                                                             Timetable

1. There are _____ stops between the ferry (渡口) and the market.

A. four
B. five
C. six

2. The bus gets to the Old Street _____.

A. every half an hour
B. every twenty minutes
C. every ten minutes

3. Bus Four leaves the hotel at _____.

A. seven fifty-five
B. eight o'clock
C. five past eight

4. I work in the hospital. It takes me five minutes' walk from the stop to get there. I must get to the
    hospital at ten to eight. I'd better take _____.

A. Bus 1
B. Bus 2
C. Bus 3

5. Every Sunday I take the first bus to the park. There I can play some sports. After that, I must go to
    the market. I want to do some shopping there. The market opens from seven thirty to eight thirty, so
    I can only stay in the park for _____ at most (最多).

A. half an hour
B. an hour
C. an hour and a half

           Basketball players are usually very tall. Because they need to put the ball into the basket, But other sports players are sometimes short. Some of the best football stars are not very tall.
          Short people often have better balance (平衡) than tall people, so they don’t fall down often, In
some sports, the players must have good balance, for example, table tennis and running. You don’t need
long legs to run fast! Not all of the fast runners in the world are very tall. Some people are tall and some
are short. The tallest person in the world is 2.31 meters. She is an American. And the shortest person in
the world is only 57cm. Today, young people in many countries grow taller than their parents. This is
because they eat better food today. Good food can help children grow.

(     )1. All sports players are very tall.

(     )2. If you want to run fast, you must have long legs.

(     )3. Most basketball players are usually very tall because they need to run fast.

(     )4. The shortest person in the world is 57cm.

(     )5. Today, young people grow taller than their parents because they eat better food.