Saturday Kids’ Club Kids’ Club starts at 10:30 a.m., with creative activities, followed by the films at 11:30 a.m. For 3 ~ 16 years old. There will be no Kids’ Club on March 5 and March 26.                             NOTE TO PARENTS: Parents can leave children over eight alone in the cinema. If you leave your children in the cinema, please be there on time to collect them at the end of the film.

1. This is a (n) ________.

   A. poster from a club

   B. note to parents

   C. poster from a supermarket

2.Mr. White will take her 5-year-old son to see a film in the club. She hopes the film will be over before 1 p.m.. So they should go to the club on________.

   A. April 2

   B. April 9

   C. March 19

3.________ can go to the cinema in the club alone.

   A. A 2- year-old baby

   B. A 14- year-old student

   C. A 20- year-old parent

4. The film ________ is the longest.

   A. Two Brothers

   B. Mr. Bean’s Holiday

   C. Meet the Robinsons

5. Parents could collect their children in the cinema ________.

A.  at any time

B.  at the start of the film

C.  at the end of the film

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Three kids have been learning chemistry for only a few months. But they have already begun to challenge (挑战) a world famous scientist!

Li Weichi, Huang Runling, and Xiao Yan are from Zhongshan Huaqiao Middle School in Guangdong. They have just found a red cabbage that could be a new kind of acid-base indicator (酸碱指示剂). They want it to take the place of litmus (石蕊) paper.

"We've learnt to think of and ask questions about life by ourselves," said Li, "We work well with each other."

British scientist Robert Boyle discovered the use of litmus paper over 300 years ago. Now it is used widely in experiments all over the world.

But when the kids did some experiments in class last winter, they saw that the litmus paper didn’t turn very blue with base matter. It's hard to get a clear result.

Will there be a better indicator than litmus paper? The three kids decided to try and find out!

How? They went to collect over 40 plants in parks, gardens and markets. Then they ground (研磨) leaves, flowers and stems (茎) to get the pigments (色素) from them.

The kids mixed pigments with acid and base. They spent months watching carefully to see which paper showed the best color change. They decided it was the litmus paper!

"It's our first scientific journey, Huang said, "But it makes me want to try harder."

1.Whom did the three kids want to challenge?

A. Their chemistry teacher.

B. Their headmaster.

C. Robert Boyle

D. Thomas Edison

2.From the text, a red cabbage is a kind of ____.

A. plant　　B. animal　　C. paper　　D. liquid

3.What is widely used as the acid-base indicator now?

A. red cabbage              B. litmus paper

C. any plant                D. any flower 

4.The story mainly tells us ____.

A. how to make litmus paper

B. about the three kids' spirit

C. scientists were wrong

D. the kids are heroes

It was a cold day, but the students from Prosser Middle School in Chicago were sorting through the waste when they found that their school produces 1,500 pounds every day.
Prosser is just one school that throws out nearly 4,000 meal trays every day. Counting all of Chicago’s public schools, the number comes to nearly a quarter of a million a day. That’s more than 1 million a week and about 5 million a month.
“None of the trays are being recycled,” said a teacher. “ Everyone agrees that it’s very bad.”
Luckily, concerns about the environment and health have made some US cities take action. Dozens of schools have begun programs to reduce the use of food trays in school.
These schools have also banned (禁止)some fast food, including McDonald’s. Instead, they offer students recyclable trays. They encourage students to sort out lunchroom waste, then wash and recycle milk cartons and trays . So far, the program has helped schools to save a total of 820,000 trays each week.
Jay Stream Middle School in Illinois teaches its students how to collect trays. The school has cut its lunchroom waste by two thirds now that students recycle their used trays instead of breaking them.
Prosser Middle School also sees the benefits of the program. Students have organized about 20 clubs and volunteer activities to cut down on cafeteria garbage. They now recycle 80 percent of the school waste. “ I joined the club,” said Erika Santana, a 16-year-old junior in Prosser, “because I want to make Earth a better place.”

【小题1】Did Prosser Middle School create much garbage every day before the program ?
【小题2】How many meal trays do public schools in Chicago throw out a day?
【小题3】What does Jay Stream Middle School teach its students to do?
【小题4】Who joined the club?
【小题5】What’s the passage about ?

1.I have been collect ___________(邮票) .

2.We will give you free __________(话题)

3.On Nancy’s  n_______ (九岁) birthday, she got a nice model car.

4.His sister works as a  w________ (服务员) in the hotel near the factory.

5.The father got  a_______ (生气的)when he found that his son was late for school again.

6.Could you please not f_______ me around?

7.We all know Beijing is the c_________ of China

8.Next week , many __________(外国人) will come to visit our school.

9.If you finish these ___________（任务），we can go to a movie tonight.

10.Although rules of ____________(礼节) can often be different in different countries.

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To: Christin foo@hotmail.com

Date: 23^rd March

Subject: The Riding for the Disabled Association

Hi Christine,

Sorry I haven’t emailed lately —I’ve been very busy since becoming a volunteer for the Riding for the Disabled Association.

Every Saturday, I help to get the horses 1.___________ for the disabled(残疾) riders. Many more disabled people want to ride 2.___________ than you’d imagine. It’s a disadvantage that I don’t know how to ride —I’d love to got on long rides with the riders— but I’ll learn soon 3.___________. Right now, I’m just happy to be able to lead the horses around for the disabled riders.

I’m4.___________ helping to organize a sale, which will be 5.___________ next month. It’s a lot more work than helping the disabled. I need to collect second-hand things to sell at the sale. There are 6.___________ things available(获得的) than I thought, but I’m sure we’ll have enough7.__________ next month.

I hope the sale raises more money than last month’s walk. It was rainy, so too few people took part in the event. Last week, we held an auction(拍卖). The auction took much less 8.__________ to organize than the walk. 9.__________, for some reason, people offered too little money for the things, so we didn’t raise enough money.

I’m 10.___________ you some pictures in the letter, as well as a speech I gave last week.