My name is Guo Kai. I’m eleven years old. I am a middle school student in Shanghai. I have two good friends, Bob and Frank. They are from America. Bob is twelve and Frank is thirteen.
We all like sports. Bob likes volleyball and he is on the school volleyball team (队). He has ten volleyballs. Frank likes tennis. He is in the tennis club. He goes to the club on Wednesdays and Saturdays. He has twenty tennis balls and five tennis rackets (拍子). Basketball is my favorite sport. I am on the school basketball team. I play basketball for an hour every day. I have six basketballs.
We three also like playing soccer. We always play soccer on weekends. David Beckham is our favorite soccer player and we often watch soccer games on TV.
根据材料内容判断正(A)误(B)。Bob and Frank are Guo Kai’s friends.
Bob is thirteen years old.
Frank is in the tennis club.
Guo Kai has six volleyballs.
The three boys often watch basketball games on TV.
Cross Income(总收入)=$26000; Income Tax(收入税)= $6000
Net Income (纯收入) =$20000.
(Net Income =" Gross" Income — Income Tax)
The circle shows how Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their two children spend their family income. Mr. Brown is the only wage earner (靠工资为生的人). Mrs. Brown is a housewife. The children are too young to do any part-time work.How many people earn money for the family? ___________
| A．One | B．Two | C．Three | D．Four |
How much of the net income is spent on housing? ______________
| A．$2000 | B．$3000 | C．$4000 | D．$5000 |
$3000 is Tespent on _____________.
| A．telephone Power Rates | B．Food |
| C．Motor Vehicle（交通 ） | D．Clothing and Incidentals |
If the Brown family decided to sell their car, how much extra money wouldn’t they have to spend?_____________
| A．$28000 | B．$2000 | C．$26000 | D．$4000 |
For most people, the word “fashion” means “clothes”. But people may ask the question, “What clothes are in fashion?” And they use the adjective “fashionable” in the same way:
“She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable color.”
But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.
Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspaper, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours. New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion. From this passage we know that “fashion” means ______.
| A．clothes | B．many things |
| C．most of the popular things | D．everything |
Today fashions change very quickly because _______.
| A．people read newspaper every day |
| B．radios send information from one country to another |
| C．new things that people like are often shown on TV |
| D．people quickly learn what is happening in the world |
“There is money in fashion” means ______.
| A．clothes are expensive | B．money comes from fashion |
| C．people like new things | D．fashions make big money |
The best title for the passage is ______.
| A．Fashions | B．Fashion mean clothes |
| C．Fashion means money | D．A fashionable |
Julie is an active girl. She likes singing very much and she wants to be a singer.
Barry likes going to the movies with his parents on weekends. The Pacific Cineplex（太平洋电影院线）is showing Pirates of the Caribbean IV（《加勒比海盗4》）.
Joe lives in China and he would like to visit other countries next month.
Annie can’t swim at all. She wants to learn to swim to stay healthy.
Emma has many books and she usually reads books after class.
Tanzania （坦桑尼亚）has a lot of animals, like lions, elephants, giraffes, hippos（河马）and so on. Every year, many people in the world travel to this country in Africa to watch the animals. But do you know how they travel?
By boat-We can often see many people in a boat, enjoying the beautiful things along a river or a lake, and they can also enjoy the hippos and other animals.
By hot-air balloon（热气球）–In the early morning, when the sun （太阳）is starting to rise, a large hot-air balloon is also starting its tour. Taking a hot-air balloon is very exciting to most of the tourists. You can watch all the animals there. Elephants are drinking water, giraffes are eating leaves and so on. After some time, the balloon can land（着陆）in a place where the waiters would give people a delicious breakfast. But you need to know that taking a hot-air balloon is very expensive. A person should pay 400 dollars for an hour’s trip.In Tanzania. People travel by to watch the animals.
| A．most; boat | B．most; bus | C．some; boat | D．some; boat |
People can fromwindows.
| A．watch dangerous animals; big | B．play with the animals; big |
| C．watch dangerous animals; small | D．play with the animals; small |
people usually start to tour by hot-air balloon.
| A．in the morning | B．in the afternoon |
| C．in summer | D．in winter |
How much should a person pay for two hour’s trip?
| A．200 dollars | B．400 dollars | C．600 dollars | D．800 dollars |
From this article, we can know.
| A．Tanzania is in North America |
| B．there are four ways for us to breakfast if you travel by bus. |
| C．you can enjoy a delicious breakfast if you travel by bus. |
| D．traveling by hot-air balloon is very expensive. |
| ＃117: Some people like to have friends who are different from them. Others like to have friends who are similar to them. What kind of friends do you want for yourself? |
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| Kate Join Date: March, 2010 Location: the United Kingdom |
I like to have friends who are like me. Both my best friend Vades and I like traveling. We went to Italy last month and stayed there for a week. Next month we want to go to France. However, Vades is more athletic than me. |
| Ditlady Join Date: April, 2010 Location: Canada |
I like to have friends who are like me. It can be very helpful. I’m a little quiet and my good friend Libby is quiet, too. Sometimes I don’t know what to do with my problems and she can tell me what I should do, because she knows about me better than people who are different from me. |
| Harbinger Join Date: May, 2010 |
Hi, everyone! I had a cold last week and just got here. In my opinion, it is important to have different kinds of friends. That makes your life more interesting. |
Where is Kate going next month?
A. To the USA. B. To the UK. C. To Italy. D. To France. What’s Libby like?
| A．She’s as beautiful as Ditlady. | B．She’s more outgoing than Ditlady. |
| C．She’s as quiet as Ditlady. | D．She’s more athletic than Ditlady. |
What was the matter with Harbinger last week?
| A．He had a cold. | B．He had a headache. |
| C．He had a fever. | D．He had a toothache. |
What kind of friends does Harbinger like to have?
| A．Those who are different from him. | B．Those who are the same as him. |
| C．He doesn’t like to make friends. | D．He likes to have different kinds of friends. |
What does the underlined word “similar” mean?
| A．一致的 | B．相似的 | C．友好的 | D．简单的 |