ExchangeStudents’ExperienceNam-优题课

As Sam slowly woke, he got a funny feeling in his stomach. He knew he would have to do something that he had been afraid to do for a long time.
The school bus came on time, and he sat with his friend, Billy. They chatted about baseball. It was a great way to get his mind off what he had to do later. As they got close to the school, he could feel his heart beating. His hands were starting to sweat. He hated this!
He entered Mrs. Owen’s class. She was smiling, and saying hello to all her students as she did every morning.
“Hi, Sam!” she said as he walked in.
“Hi,” he said and quickly sat in his seat. Then the class began to take their spelling test. He looked at the clock. The time was near. He hoped he was not first! Mrs. Owens said it was time to begin their special day.
“Sam, you’ll be first.” Mrs. Owens said to the class, “Sam has worked very hard on his report on Hawaii, and I know it is very interesting.”
Sam nervously greeted his class. Then, he thought about the fun things he had read about surfing, volcanoes, and pineapples in Hawaii, and he started to talk. He talked in front of the whole class, and it was fun. The class clapped as he finished and Mrs. Owens was smiling. It wasn’t terrible at all and he knew he would do better the next time.
How did Sam feel after he woke?

A．Excited.

B．Nervous.

C．Happy.

D．Hungry.

What did Sam have to do that day?

A．To have a baseball match.	B．To take a reading test.
C．To go to a new class.	D．To do something special.

What does the underlined word “sweat” probably mean?

A．触摸

B．鼓掌

C．出汗

D．指点

Which could be inferred (推断) from this passage?

A．Sam hated chatting about baseball.

B．Sam learned about Hawaii by travelling.

C．Mrs. Owens is unfriendly to her students.

D．The class enjoyed Sam’s talk very much.

Which is the best title for this passage?

A．A special day	B．An interesting lesson
C．A nice teacher	D．A professional report

阅读短文，然后在下面的表格中完成内容提要，每空不超过3个单词。（共4个小题，每小题2分）
New Energy in the Twenty-first Century
Energy from the wind
Wind is a kind of clean energy, and there is lots of it, But, if there’s no wind, there is no wind energy.
Energy from the water
When water moves from a high place to a lower place, it can make electricity(电）without pollution. However, people have to build dams(水坝) to use this energy, and building dams is very expensive.
Energy from the earth
There is heat in the rocks under the earth. Scientists use the heat to make geothermal(地热的)energy. This kind of energy is cheap, but itis only possible in afew places in the world.
Energy from the sun
Solar panels (太阳电池板) on the roofs of houses can turn energy from the sun into electricity. Solar power is clean and plentiful(丰富的).but when the weather is bad, It doesn’t work.
New Energy in Twenty-first Century

	Advantages	Disadvantages
Wind Energy	Clean .There is a lot.	It needs
Water Energy		It is expensive.
Geothermal Energy		only possible in afew places
Solar Energy	Clean and plentiful.	It depends too much on

Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood(洪水) ,and quite a few houses were washed away, but Elizabeth’s house was high enough to escape it.
Elizabeth helped one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a new house. Elizabeth’s friends could not understand her since she already had so many children to take care.
"Well," Elizabeth explained to her friends, at the end of World War II, there was a poor woman in a town in England .Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now .The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, “We won’t be able to have much for Christmas. I’m going to get just one present for us all .Now I’ll go and get it. She came back with a little girl who had no parents .Here’s our present, she said to her own children. The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grow up as their sister. I was that Christmas present."

How many children did Elizabeth have?,
What did Elizabeth do after the flood?
The Christmas present was Elizabeth herself, wasn’t it?
What do you learn from the story?

Survey about What Students Do in the Summer Vacation

The students	The things they do in the summer vacation	Feelings
80%	Study in some training schools	Bored
50%	Got together with classmates	Happy
40%	Play computer games	Excited
20%	Do chores at home	Tired

Most students____-in the summer vacation
A. learn some subjects B play computer games C do chores at home
According to the survey, what the students like to do best is____.
A. Study in the training school
B. get together with their classmates
C. do chores at home

阅读下列图表，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出最佳选项。（共4个小题，每小题2分）
阅读下面的内容

Office Clerk Wanted
1.Good looking
2.Agad between 22 and 26
3.Good at English and Putonghua
4.Good at computer programme
Apply to:Xunda company Ltd.Xinangtan
Tel:0731-55235916

Xunda company Ltd.wants______.
A an office clerk
B a computer programme
C. a beautiful girl.
If you want the job. you must be_____.
A. able to speak two foreign languages
B. good at repairing computers
C young and beautiful

Name: Susan Lane	Exchange Country: Iceland
I think it was a turning point in my life. I began to understand more about my own culture by experiencing a different culture in this country.

Name: Sara Small	Exchange Country: Germany
I enjoyed this trip. I found German people were not as serious as I thought before. Although I made a lot of German friends, I still missed my family and friends in Australia.

Name: David Links	Exchange Country: Australia
I wanted to try something that was very different from Australia in culture. In Australia everything was different, but I soon got used to it.

Name: Tom Jennings	Exchange Country: France
There were some challenges (挑战), but I liked them, experiencing a different culture. You just have to face each situation as it comes.