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Once upon a time there was a monster. He was very ugly）（丑陋的）, and had no friends. No one wanted to talk to him. Even other monsters thought he was ugly.
He lived alone and was very unhappy because he was so lonely.
“I wish I had a friend.” he said to himself every day. “One friend would be enough. Someone to talk to.”
“Dear Editor.” he wrote. “ I am an ugly monster. How can I find a friend?”
“Dear Monster.” the Editor replied. “ Advertise（登广告）for a friend in this magazine.”
The monster wrote an advertisement（广告）.
“Monster wants a friend, male or female. I have two heads, four arms, six legs and three tails. I have one blue eye, one green eye and one brown eye. Smoke comes out of my noses. But I am really a kind monster and will be a good friend to someone. If you would like to meet me, please stand outside Blake’s Store at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 22nd. Write to me at Box 45. Everybody’s Magazine.”
A few days later he went to the magazine.
“Do you have any letters for Box 45?” he asked.
The Editor looked in Box45.
“Yes, there is one.” she said, and gave it to him.
The monster opened the letter, and read, “Dear Monster, I think a person’s character（品行）is more important than his appearance. I will wait outside Blake’s Store on Friday. Please carry a flower so that I will recognize you. Yours sincerely, Miss Alice Thwaite.”Why was the monster unhappy?
| A．He had no friends. | B．He was ugly. |
| C．He had two heads. | D．He had three tails. |
What did the monster advertise for?
| A．A magazine | B．A friend | C．An editor | D．A male monster |
How did the monster describe himself in the advertisement?
| A．Bad | B．Lonely | C．Kind | D．Different |
What was wrong about Miss Thwaite’s letter?
| A．She was interested in people’s appearances. | B．She wanted to meet the monster. |
| C．She needed a flower to recognize him by | D．It was the only reply |
Paul loves his wife and children very much, and they love him, too. However, it isn’t easy to live with Paul. He gets angry easily, and he doesn’t have many friends. Paul’s wife, Linda, is very different. She’s always smiling and kidding. She likes to tell jokes and make people laugh. She’s never quiet for long and hardly gets angry. She has a lot of friends. Paul and Linda often fight（争辩）about their children. Linda thinks Paul is too strict with them. he shouts at them a lot. He forgets that they’re only children. Paul thinks Linda is too easy（随和的）with the children, and she always lets them do whatever they want to do, but that’s not right, Linda, however, corrects（纠正）the children when it’s necessary, and they listen to her. She doesn’t shout at them, but they obey（服从）her. She’s very kind and patient.
| A．always invites many friends home |
| B．talks too much |
| C．is outgoing and athletic |
| D．gets angry easily |
| A．more | B．much | C．fewer | D．many |
| A．don’t love their father |
| B．are strict with their father |
| C．do whatever their father asks them to do |
| D．like their mother’s ways of treating（对待）them |
| A．Linda and Paul don’t love each other |
| B．Paul doesn’t think it is right to let the children do whatever they want to do |
| C．Linda always shouts at her children |
| D．Linda and Paul often fight mostly because he has no friends |
My sister and I are very different. When people meet us both, they are always surprised to learn that we are sisters. This is because we don’t look like each other we have different personalities, and our lifestyles are different.
Do you resemble your brother or sister? My sister and I don’t resemble each other at all. I am tall, but she is very short. I have short dark brown hair and green eyes. She has long blonde hair and blue eyes. I am strong, but she is not. I have big hands and feet, her hands and feet are very small. When we were kids, she was thin, but I was heavy. Now we are both heavy.
We also have opposite personalities. She is always stressed out. I am calmer and more outgoing. She is very worried about what other people think and say about her, but I really don’t care. When she has a problem, she just worries about it. But when I have a problem, I try to fix（解决）it. She easily gets angry, especially（尤其是）with our mother. But I am more patient（耐心的）.
Our lifestyles are very different. I love old things and hardly ever go shopping. But she goes shopping twice or more a week. I have cats. She has a dog. I read. She watches TV.When people meet the writer and her sister, they are always surprised to learn
The writer and her sister are different in ways.
The writer’s sister hashair.
The writer’s sister is very worried about about her.
Do the write and her sister have the same personalities?
Find the topic sentence of the passage and copy it down. （找出文章的主题句并抄写下来）
Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. （将划线的句子翻译成中文）
The underlined word “heavy” in the passage means in English.
I think it’s fun to have twin friends.
I have two friends. They are twin brothers. Their names are Jimmy and Simmy. They look the same and a lot of people can’t tell（分辨）them. They both have brown hair and blue eyes, and they always wear jeans and T – shirts.
They like wearing the same clothes, and they like doing the same things, too. For example, they both like pop music, playing basketball and computer games. They play basketball every Saturday. They hope to play computer games every night, but their mother says they can’t because they have a lot of homework to do.
They are twins, but they aren’t the same in every way. For example, Jimmy works hard at school, but Simmy doesn’t. Jimmy is much calmer than Simmy, but Simmy is more athletic than Jimmy.
| A．Jimmy and Simmy | B．Jimmy and Tommy |
| C．Tommy and Jim | D．Jim and Tom |
| A．listening to the same music, studying hard. |
| B．wearing the same clothes, doing the same things |
| C．wearing different clothes, doing the same things |
| D．wearing the same clothes, doing different things |
| A．Because they don’t have a computer in their home |
| B．Because they don’t like playing computer games |
| C．Because they have to do their homework |
| D．Because they want to play basketball |
| A．more athletic, calmer |
| B．calmer, more popular |
| C．calmer, athletic |
| D．calmer, more athletic |
Three students are giving their opinions about what a good friend should be like.
| Cindy |
I think a good friend should be honest（诚实的）.That’s more important than any other thing. And it is where a real friendship starts. If a friend isn’t honest, he may lose his friends’ trust. |
| Jerry |
I think a good friend has to be generous（慷慨的）. Here being generous doesn’t mean he has to give his friends his lunch money or his clothes. It means he should share his ideas and feelings with his friends. In fact, his friends can know him better in this way. |
| Mary |
In my opinion, a good friend should understand his friends. When there’s something wrong between him and his friends, he must put himself in his friends’ place and think more for his friends. |
| A．To be honest is the most important. |
| B．To be honest is as important as other things |
| C．To be honest is not very important. |
| D．Honest people get more things than others. |
| A．夸奖 | B．批评 | C．理解 | D．信任 |
| A．give him lunch money |
| B．know him very well |
| C．tell him their ideas and feelings |
| D．give him some clothes |
| A．often visit each other |
| B．often go to different places |
| C．understand each other |
| D．help each other |
| A．The three people are talking about what they think a good friend should be like. |
| B．Cindy thinks to be honest is the base(基础) of a good friendship. |
| C．Mary would like to make friends with people who think more for others. |
| D．Being generous means being very clever. |
Mr and Mrs Green live in a big city (城市), and one summer they go to the country (农村) for their holiday. They enjoy it very much, because it is a quiet (安静的), clean place.
One day，they are going for a walk in the morning and they meet an old man. He lives on a farm (农场) and he is sitting in the warm sun in front of his house. Mr Green asks him, “Do you like to live in this place?”
The old man says, “Yes，I do.” Mr Green asks again, “What are the good things about it?” The old man answers, “Well，the people here know each other. They often come and visit me，and I often go and visit them. And there are also lots of children here.”
Mr Green says, “That’s very interesting. But what are the bad things?”
The old man thinks and thinks and then says, “Well, the same things, really!” Mr and Mrs Green the country very much, because it is a quiet, clean place.
| A．like | B．dislike |
| C．leave | D．ask about |
One day when they are walking in the country, they meet.
| A．an old woman | B．a young man |
| C．a young woman | D．an old man |
The old man.
| A．doesn’t like the country |
| B．likes the country |
| C．doesn’t like Mr and Mrs Green |
| D．likes Mr and Mrs Green |
The people in that place are very.
| A．old | B．quiet |
| C．nice | D．clever |
The old man thinksbefore he answers the last question.
| A．quickly (迅速地) | B．quietly |
| C．badly | D．hard |