Hi, I’m Sam from New York. I have a brother called Tim. We are twins. We are both eleven this year. I am ten minutes older than him. In some ways, we look the same and in some ways, we look different. However, he is taller than me. I am shy, but he is outgoing. We both like playing sports and we often play football together after class. We are in the same school but we are not in the same class. I am in Class One and he is in Class Three.

   Last Monday, Tim was ill and couldn’t go to school. The next day, when I was in the hallway, his English teacher, Miss White saw me and asked, “Tim, are you feeling better now?” Haha…she made a mistake and she couldn’t tell Tim from me.

1.Same and Tim are ________ years old this year.

A. ten               B. eleven            C. twelve            D. Thirteen

2.Sam and Tim both like________.

A.playing games  B.going to the parties  C.playing sports  D.watching TV

3.Who is Miss White?

A. She is PE teacher.           B.She is Sam’s English teacher. 

C. She is Tim’s English teacher.  D. She is a Chinese teacher.

4.The underlined words (划线的)“made a mistake”mean“      ”in Chinese.

A.犯错      B.列举      C. 挑衅     D.领悟

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.Tim is ten minutes older than Sam.   B. Tim is more outgoing than Sam.

C. Sam and Tim are in the same class.    D. Sam is taller than Tim.

Football is, I believe, the most popular game in England: one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this, Rich and poor, young and old, one can see them all there, shouting for one side or the other.

To a forefinger, one of the most surprising things about football England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the player in most of the important of the teams. He has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches. He will tell you who he expects will win such a match, and his opinion(看法)is usually as good as that of men three or four times his age.

 Most schools in England take football seriously--- much more seriously than nearly all European schools. In England , education is not only a matter of filling a body’s mind with facts in the classroom, but also means the training of character(性格)。One of the best ways of training character is playing games especially team game, the boy or the girl has to learn to work games and matches for its pupils, Football is a good team game, and it is good both for the body and the mind. That is why it is every school’s game in England.

1 In the first sentence of the passage, “this” refers to the fact that____

A football is the most popular game in the England 

B one has to go to one of the important matches

C all kinds of people like playing football

D people shout for one kind or the other

2 To a foreigner, what is so surprising about football in the England?

A  Little boys know more about the results of football matches than old people

B The names of the important players are know to all

C Even the smallest boy has great knowledge of the mage

D Games and matches are a part of education

4 From football games, it is believed that children can ___

A train their character      B work for themselves

C plan games and matches   D learn their lessons

5 Which of the following statements is turn according to the passage?

A  All European schools take football seriously

B Football in England is more important than lessons

C Even the smallest boy in England can play football well

D Football games are planned in every school in England