Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage. (12分)
People of all ages, especially young children, follow comic strips in newspapers, magazines and the movies. Who is your favourite superhero --- Spideman? Wonder Woman? These heroes have been around for a long time. Comics came out even earlier. In ancient times, people made funny drawings of animals _____ paper.
Comic strips first came out during the 1800s and remain much the same style today. These comics are drawn in connected boxes. The boxes usually show a dramatic _________. Some comic strips are printed in newspapers, which often continue from day to day. Some people even read the comics before they read the front page.
The comic books first _____ during the 1930s. It seemed that everyone wanted to read comic books. They loved reading about the adventures of The Man of Steel and Batman. During the 1940s, the nation was at war and some comic book characters, such as Captain America, reflected （反映）the times. Others, such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, made people laugh during this _______ time in history.
After the war, people became __________ interested in old comic book characters, so new superheroes had to be made. The new superheroes, such as Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Spideman, talked and acted more like real people. As time went on, comic books had to _________ TV because TV has offered a lot of fun to people.
Comic strips are usually good for a laugh or at least a smile. But they have held a place in history. They take people away from their daily lives into another world. In this world, the hero always wins, and failure only comes to the bad guys.
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Lucy: Excuse me, Li Fen. Where’s our school shop? Do you know?
Li Fen: Yes. It’s over there, behind the teachers’ room.
Lucy: I’d like something to drink. Please go with me. OK?
Li Fen: OK. Let’s go. (At the shop.)
Woman: Can I help you, girls?
Lucy: Yes. Er, what would you like, Li Fen?
Li Fen: I don’t know.
Lucy: Well, what about a bottle of orange?
Li Fen: No, thanks. I’d like a cup of tea. What about you?
Lucy: I’d like a glass of milk. Would you like something to eat?
Li Fen: A pear, please.
Lucy: But I’d like some apples. We would like a cup of tea, a glass of milk, a pear and two apples.
Woman: OK. Here you are.
Lucy: Thank you very much.
Woman: You’re welcome.
阅读对话回答下列问题：Where’s the school shop?
____________________.What would Lucy like to drink?
________________________. What would Li Fen like to drink?
_______________________. What would Lucy like to eat?
_______________________.What about Li Fen?
_______________________.
Look at this picture. The boy is my good friend. His name is Mike. He is thirteen. He isn’t tall. His hair is brown. This is Mike’s father. He is very tall. That is Mike’s mother. She is tall, too. Mike’s father and mother are teachers. Who is the girl? She is Mike’s sister. Her name is Mary. She is very nice. All of them are English.
根据短文内容用合适的单词填空：My good friend is an ___ boy.
How old is Mike? He is _____.
Mike’s father and ____ are teachers.
What colour is Mike’s hair? It’s _____.
Mary is Mike’s ____.
Sandy and Sue are going to school. They are walking along the street. “Look!” Sandy says. “There’s a man near that gate. He’s standing. Who is it?
“It’s Mr. Jones, the postman,” Sue says, “He’s standing in front of Mrs. Mopp’s house.”
“Mrs. Mopp’s house!” Sandy says. “Oh, dear!”
Mrs. Mopp is not a nice lady. She is very tall and very ugly（丑陋的）. And her house is not a nice house. It is very big and very dark. Her gate is closed and Mr. Jones can’t open it.
“Listen!” Sandy says. “Can you hear Mrs. Mopp’s dog?”
“Yes,” Sue answers. “He’s barking（叫）.”
Mrs. Mopp’s dog is very big. His name is Boxer. His face is ugly and his teeth are long and sharp（尖）. He is a nice dog, but he doesn’t like Mr. Jones, the postman.
根据短文内容和首字母提示完成各句所缺单词：Sandy and Sue are s______.
On the way to s____ Sandy and Sue see Mr. Jones, the postman.
Mrs. Mopp is not at h____ now.
Boxer is a d____ name.
Boxer d_____ like Mr. Jones at all.
I’m a school girl. My brother and I are twins. We are both at school. We like school. My parents are both teachers. They work hard. My brother and I study at No. 1 Middle School. There are twenty-five boys and eighteen girls in our class.
We go to school from Monday to Friday. We have no classes on Saturdays and Sundays. We usually get up at six o’clock, and have breakfast at half past six. We come to school at seven o’clock. Classes begin at eight. We have four lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We have lunch a fifteen past twelve. At three fifty we have sports.
We study Chinese, math, English, geography, physics, history, politics and other lessons. We like Chinese. We like English, too. Some of us are good at it.
We go home at five o’clock. We have supper at six o’clock. We do our homework at seven every evening and go to bed at half past nine, but sometimes we go to sleep at about ten.
We work hard, we study for the people.
阅读短文选择正确答案填空My brother is ___ and I am ____.
| A．a worker; a student | B．a student; a worker | C．a student; a teacher | D．a student; a student |
We have ___ a fifteen past twelve.
| A．breakfast | B．lunch | C．supper | D．dinner |
We begin to do our homework from ____ to ___ every evening.
| A．Monday; Friday | B．seven; nine | C．school; home | D．six; eight |
. There are ___ boys and ___ girls in our class.
| A．twenty-five; twenty | B．some; any | C．twenty-five; eighteen | D．many; much |
Do they often have sports in the morning or in the afternoon?
| A．Yes, they do | B．No, we don’t | C．In the morning | D．In the afternoon |
It’s time to go home now. I am on a bus on a rainy day, and a woman with a dog gets on the bus. It is a big dog and its feet are not clean.
I don’t want the dog to sit near me. But the woman says to the conductor（售票员）. “Oh, I pay for my dog. Can he sit here like the other people?”
The conductor looks at the dog and says, “Yes, madam, but he must not put his feet on the chair.”
阅读短文选择正确答案填空I am going home ___ now.
| A．by bike | B．by bus | C．by car | D．by trolley |
What do I see? ____.
| A．A bus | B．A girl | C．A dog | D．A woman with a big dog. |
I don’t want the dog to sit near me because ____.
| A．the dog is big | B．the dog is not clean | C．the dog has no ticket | D．the dog isn’t mine |
Why do the woman and the dog get on the bus?
| A．It is a rainy day. | B．No one is on the bus. |
| C．The dog can sit | D．The woman is a conductor. |
The meaning of the conductor’s word is ____.
| A．the dog’s feet are like the other people |
| B．the dog must be like a man |
| C．the dog must not sit on the chair |
| D．the dog can sit here |