Dear Addie,
Greetings from New Jersey, how is New Zealand? I’m very excited to have you as my pen pal. I guess it’s my turn to tell you about myself.
First off, I live with my parents, two sisters, and our pet dog Brighty. Our town is called Whippangong. It is only about a half-hour away from New York City. My oldest sister, Ingrid, just turned 17, that means she now has a drive’s license. She drives us to the mall. Do you have a mall near you in Te Awamutu? My other sister is 11 and her name is Lucy. I guess I would say that she is my best friend. We still fight, though. She rides horses and takes lessons every Saturday morning. I have to go with her sometimes, and that is truly the most boring thing in the world. Do you like horses?
I take tap dancing classes. I like to practice in the food store. The sound of my feet stepping on the hard floors echoes(发出回声). I play scores in the fall; I’m on the swim team during the summer. I like swim, but I am really looking forward to diving this year. Next year I will start music lessons in school. I think I am going to play the piano.
Our house has eight rooms and a small backyard where every year we try to grow vegetables. We mostly get zucchini because the rabbits eat everything else. I guess rabbits don’t like zucchini. I have a bike and mum allows me to ride up and down our street, but nowhere else. I hope that I will get to ride it to school someday. Right now I ride the crowed and yucky bus.
Well, that is enough about me for now. I look forward to hearing from you again soon. I hope your surfing lessons went well. And I hope your mum does let you learn to play the drums.
Write soon
Love,
Jessica In this letter, Jessica doesn’t talk about .
| A．her family numbers | B．her spare time |
| C．her house | D．her ambition |
what does the underlined word “fall” mean here? .
| A．跌倒 | B．降落 | C．秋天 | D．瀑布 |
JessicA、thinks riding horses is very .
A. different B. fool
C.exciting D.frightening Zucchini is likely to be a kind of .
| A．animals | B．vegetable |
| C．flower | D．fruit |
Which of the following is TURE? .
A. Jessica likes Lucy very much but they don’t always get along.
B. People below 18 can’t get driving licenses in New Jersey
C. Jessica usually goes to school by bike, but sometimes by bus.
D. Ingrid gets to take riding lessons and JessicA、wishes she could, too. What might be Addie’s problem?
| A．She can’t take surfing lessons. |
| B．She wants to play the drums. |
| C．There are no malls near her house. |
| D．She has no family. |
We are learning English, but how can we learn English well ? A student can know a lot about English, but maybe he can’t speak English.
If you want to know how to swim, you must get into the river. And if you want to be a football player, you must play football. So, you see, you can learn by using it. You must listen to your teacher in class. You must speak English to your classmates every day and also you must write something in English. Then one day you may find your English very good . You know a lot about English, but maybe _______.
| A．you can speak it | B．you can study it |
| C．you can’t speak it | D．you can’t study it |
You must get into the water _____.
| A．to learn how to swim | B．to skate | C．to jump | D．to play |
If you want to study English well, you must often _______ .
A. speak English to your classmates B. write something in English
C. listen to your teacher in class D. A, B and C. Which of the best title(标题) for this passage ?
| A．How to study swim | B．To be a good player |
| C．How to study English well | D．To learn English well is important（重要） |
| Name |
Personal information |
Norman Bethune |
1. Born in 1890 in Canda 2. A doctor 3. Died in 1939 in China 4. Came to China in 1938 |
| Celine Dion |
Born in Montreal, Canda In 1997, sang My Heart Will Go On for the film Titanic A singing star |
| Bill Gates |
Born in 1847, Kentucky, the USA Wrote Business @ the speed of Thought Owns Microsoft Company |
| Mark Twain |
Born in 1835 in the USA A writer Died in1900 Wrote Tom Sawyer |
Dr. Bethune worked in China for ___________.
| A．2 years | B．4 years | C．6 years | D．8 years |
My Heart Will Go On is the name of a ________.
| A．book | B．song | C．story | D．film |
Who is a writer? __________
| A．Norman Bethune | B．Celine Dion |
| C．Bill Gates | D．Mark Twain |
Mrs. Green has much work to do at home ,so she doesn’t like sports. Her mother is coming this afternoon and she goes to meet her. Near the school she looks at her watch. She has some time. So she goes into the school. Her son isn’t in the classroom. She asks a boy and knows they’re behind the school. She sees some boys playing there. Her son is there, too. She watches them playing and soon is angry. She takes her son to the wall.
“Go home with me, Richard,” says she. “Don’t play with them. I can buy a nice ball for you. Then you don’t need to scramble for（抢夺） the ball.”
1. Mrs. Green doesn’t like sports, because____________.
A. she is at home B. she doesn’t know about balls
C. she has much work to do D. she thinks she is well
2. Mrs. Green goes to ____________.
A. see her son B. watch her son play
C. meet Richard’s grandma D. meet her grandma
3. Richard is a ____________.
A. schoolboyB. schoolgirl
C. teacher D. driver
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasant voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he doesn’t sit still before his class; he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings.
There are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s.
The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand(预先).What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage. A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience take an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand anything, they say so. The teacher can’t learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who are fine actors in class but are unable to take part in a stage-play because they can’t keep strictly to what another has written. What does the underlined word “gifts” mean?
| A．presents | B．knowledge |
| C．skills | D．advantages |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
| A．A good teacher should speak clearly. |
| B．A good teacher should sit still before his class and speak with his body language. |
| C．A good actor should speak as others have asked him to do. |
| D．A good actor should repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part. |
The skills of a good teacher are .
| A．draw his students’ attention. | B．change his voice when needed. |
| C．act out what he is teaching | D．all the above |
From the passage, we know .
| A．a good teacher should be a good actor | B．a good teacher may be unable to act well on the stage |
| C．a good actor should be a good teacher | D．a good actor may act well in class |
The title of the passage is .
| A．How to be a good teacher | B．How to be a good actor |
| C．A good teacher’s knowledge | D．A good actor’s behaviour |
Hundreds of years ago, life was harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no medicine, either.
Life today brings new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and we become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution to all living things in the world.
Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is very thick. People cannot see the sky clearly.
Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution. Factories now must clean their water before they throw it away. And they mustn’t let dirty smoke go into the air.
There are many things we can do to fight against pollution. We should put waste things in dustbins and do not throw them on the ground. We should go to work by bike or on foot instead of taking a car or a bus. If there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution.
Rules are not enough. We should do our best to fight against pollution.
( )86. Which of the following is NOT true about life in the past?
A. There were no modern machines. B. There was no modern medicine.
C. There was much air pollution. D. There were not many people.What should people do to fight against pollution?
| A．Always drive a car to work. | B．Throw waste things anywhere they like. |
| C．Put waste things in dustbins. | D．Always take a bus to go to school. |
The most serious pollution is .
| A．water pollution | B．air pollution |
| C．noise pollution | D．light pollution |
What should factories do to fight against pollution?
| A．Let dirty smoke go into the air. |
| B．Throw dirty water away without cleaning it. |
| C．Close the factories. |
| D．Let dirty water go after cleaning it. |
From the passage, we know that .
| A．a few years ago, there was no pollution at all. |
| B．people today don’t have to talk to each other loudly |
| C．we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes. |
| D．Everybody should try his or her best to fight against pollution |