There are four people in my family. My father is a policeman. His work is kind of dangerous. He’s very busy. He often has meals outside. Sometimes we can’t see him all day. But I love him very much. My mother is a bank clerk, but she wants to be a reporter. She says her job is a boring and being a reporter is interesting, because she can meet many interesting people. My brother is a waiter. He likes his work, because he thinks he can meet many new friends when he works.

I’m a middle school student. I study hard because I want to be a teacher. I think it’s not difficult for me.

1. My family has four people, my father, my mother, my sister and I.

2. My father works in another city, so we can’t see him all day, sometimes.

3. My mother likes to be a bank clerk.

4. My brother works in a restaurant. He likes to make new friends.

5.I want to be a teacher. It’s easy for me, I think.

Imagine there is a bank that puts $ 86, 400 in your account ( 账户 )each morning. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank writes off( 注销)the balance that you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Take out every cent,  of course \

Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning,  it puts in 86, 400 seconds. Every evening it writes off,  as it is lost. There is no balance or overdraft 透支) . If you fail to use the day's savings,  the lost is yours. There is no going back. There is no taking from " tomorrow". You must make good use of it so as to get more in health,  happiness and success!

The clock is running. Make the most of today. To realize the value of ONE YEAR,  ask a student who failed a grade; To realize the value of ONE MONTH,  ask a mother who gave birth to a premature( 早产 )baby; To realize the value of ONE WEEK,  ask the editor of a weekly newspaper; To realize the value of ONE HOUR,  ask the lovers who are waiting to meet; To realize the value of ONE MINUTE,  ask a person who missed the train; To realize the value of ONE SECOND,  ask a person who just avoided(避免)an accident.

Make good use of every moment that you have. Remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called "The Present".

1.The underlined word "balance" in paragraph 1 means_________.

A.平衡    B．贷款    C．余款D．提款

 2. What is special about the TIME bank we each have?

A. We can store time in it whenever we like.

B. Someone puts  $ 86, 400 in it every day.

C. The time in it will surely get lost if you don't use it.

D. Someone helps you spend your time every night.

3.What can be the best title of the passage?

A. The Bank of Money           B. The Bank of Time

C. The value of one hour       D. The clock is running

4. In this passage,  the writer tries to tell us_________.

A. what a bank is            B. how to save money

C. the difference of time units      D. to make good use of time

My name is Andrew．There are three people in my family—my father，my mother and I．
My father is a bank clerk．And he works in a bank．He thinks it’s a boring job．He wants to be a policeman．My mother is a teacher．She teaches Chinese．She thinks her job is very interesting．She works hard and often comes back home very late．In her free time，she likes writing stories for a magazine．I’m a student．I want to be a musician when I grow up.
【小题1】Where does Andrew’s father work?

Helen and Sally are cousins. Helen is a writer. She lives  41  to Sally, She is  42  writing every day. She doesn’t want to talk to others when she is  43  . Her friends know her well. If they want to see her, they often 44  her first. If Helen tells them she has  45  , they will come to her house.

Sally works in a  46  , She is a bank clerk. She has lots of friends and they often come to see her and talk with her.  47  Helen can’t write well when they are talking. She doesn’t know what to  48  to Sally. Now Helen is talking about it with her best friend Ruth. Ruth is  49  to help Helen. She says, “You can put a note on  50  door. It would say, ‘Nobody is at home. Please come another day.’”

补全对话：

A. But she wants to be a policewoman.

B. Where does she work?

C. What about your mother?

D.I see, most people always don’t like their own (自己的) jobs very much.

E. She thinks it’s interesting.

A: Anna, does your mother work?

B: Yes, she does.

A:___ 1.____.

B: In a bank.

A: What does she do?

B: She is a bank clerk.____ 2._____.

A: Why?

B:__ 3.____.

A: But it’s dangerous to be a policewoman.

B:I think so.___ 4.____.

A: My mother is a policewoman and she doesn't like it.

B:____ 5.____.