A SCHOOL REPORT

Name: Edward Scott School: Kelvin Grove State High School Grade: 7                             Term ending: 6, May		An English boy
Subjects	Assessment(评价)
Mathematics	He is a little weak in this, but he has tried his best to catch up with others.
Science	He can work out many difficulties. Well done!
English	He is the best in the class. Keep it up.
French	His reading is very good, he can remember many words.
History	He is not so good at this, but has done better than before.
Geography	He is familiar (熟悉的) with the names of many places in the world.
Music	He doesn't like pop songs, though sings very well.
Remarks(评语): Edward has the ability to do a lot better. More work is needed next term.
Class teacher: Ivy Principal: M . L . Martin School reopens: 11, September

你是学校英文报的小记者李华，上周你们学校刚举办完“英语话剧节”。请你根据下面表格中的提示，报道艺术节的情况，并谈谈自己的看法和感想。

（可用词语：costume 演出服装）

注意： 1. 词数80左右

不得透露学校，姓名任何个人信息，否则不予评分。

English Opera Festival

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??????????????????????????????????????????????????? Reported by Li Hua

Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Zhenjiang Sunshine Secondary School．The table below is his mid-term self-assessment(自我评价)．He draws faces to show his progress：
excellent  OK weak
Read the table and find out how well Li Ping is doing.

Unit/ Item	Unit l Past and present		Unit 2 Travelling		Unit 3 Online travel
Vocabulary	opposites		Suffixes‘ful’ and‘less’		Words about computers
Grammar	Present perfect tense		Past continuous tense		Passive voice
Study skills/ Pronunciation	Using a dictionary		Linking words		Organizing information
Main task	A report		My best holiday		Favourite educational computer game

A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow(乌鸦) was jumping around. The crow watched them with disdain(鄙视).

“You have no flying skills at all!” he said to the swans. “All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air? No, that’s beyond you. Let’s have a flying competition. I’ll show you what real flying is!”

One of the swans, a strong young male, took up the challenge. The crow flew up and began to show his skills. He flew in circles, performed other flying tricks, and then came down and looked proudly at the swan.

Now it was the swan’s turn. He flew up, and began flying over the sea. The crow flew after him, making all kinds of comments(评价) about his flying. They flew on and on till they couldn’t see the land and there was nothing but water on all sides. The crow was making fewer and fewer comments. He was now so exhausted that he found it hard to stay in the air, and had to struggle to keep himself from falling into the water.

The swan pretended(假装) not to notice, and said, “Why do you keep touching the water, brother? Is that another trick?”

“No,” said the crow. He knew he had lost the competition. “I’m in trouble because of my pride! If you don’t help me, I’ll lose my life…”

The swan took pity on him, and took him on his shoulders and flew back to the beach.

1.What’s the correct order of the following events?

a. The crow showed off its flying skills.

b. The swan felt pity for the crow and saved it.

c. The crow laughed at the swan’s flying.

d. The crow followed the swan and got into trouble.

e. The crow challenged the swans and a strong young swan accepted it.

A. e, c, d, a, b             B. a, e, c, d, b              C. c, e, a, d, b           D. e, a, d, c, b

2.What does the underlined word “exhausted” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Tired.                     B. Angry.            C. Frightened.          D. Regretful.

3.Why did the crow keep touching the water?

A. It was showing another flying skill.

B. It was struggling to keep itself from falling into the water.

C. It was thirsty and wanted to drink some water.

D. It was enjoying itself by doing so.

4.What can we infer(推断) from the passage?

A. The crow didn’t know flying.

B. Flying skills were useless.

C. The swan saved the crow because they were good friends.

D. The swan was better at long-distance flying than the crow.

5.What does the story tell us?

A. No pains, no gains.                            B. The early bird catches the worm.

C. Pride goes before a fall.                  D. Practice makes perfect.