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Imagine a world where air pollution is no longer a problem. Clean air is all around us. People don’t have to worry about polluting the air every time they drive their cars. They no longer need to face the problem of not having enough fuel（燃料）either.
Although scientists have been trying for many years to develop a new kind of car that does not need gasoline (汽油), they have been unsuccessful. Recently, however, car engineers have succeeded in creating a new kind of car that runs on gasoline and electricity（电）. This is the famous “hybrid car”. This car gets its name from the fact that it has a gasoline engine (引擎) and an electric motor inside. Hybrid cars do not pollute the environment as much as the cars that are commonly used today. They also cost drivers less money because they need less fuel than ordinary cars.
Hybrid cars are becoming widely popular in the United States. They are soon expected to become widely used around the world. If scientists and engineers continue to work on car development, perhaps the world with clean air that we imagined earlier just might become real in the future.
The underlined word “they” in Paragraph (段落) 2 means ______.

A．cars	B．drivers
C．engines	D．scientists

Hybrid cars ______.

A．increase air pollution	B．run only on electricity
C．have no engines inside	D．need less fuel than ordinary cars

The passage tells us that with the development of cars, we may ______.

A．like electric cars	B．drive cars easily
C．live in the world with clean air	D．understand how hybrid cars work

The best title for the passage would be ______.

A．The Car of the Future	B．The Meaning of Hybrid
C．The Use of Hybrid Cars	D．The Invention of the Car

Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. “She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”
Not very easy, was it? What you’ve just read is called a tongue twister (绕口令). It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly. Try the next example.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people’s ability to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult, these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.
So if you wish to pronounce words more smoothly（顺利地，流利地）, you’d better try picking out some tongue twisters and practising them.
Tongue twisters are helpful in improving ______ skills.

A．listening	B．writing
C．pronunciation	D．communication

The first tongue twister is hard because ______.

A．it is very boring to read

B．it teaches us a lot of knowledge

C．we don’t know who “she” is

D．the sounds of “s” and “sh” are similar

The passage is probably taken from ______ in a school newspaper.

A．Story Time	B．Study Garden
C．Latest News	D．Lost and Found

Lily is from New York , the U.S.A. She is twelve. She is in Shanghai NO.3 Junior High School. She is in Class Eight, Grade One. Her phone number is 66786019. Dongdong is from Kunming. His English name is Tom. He is eleven .He is in Class Seven,Grade One. His telephone number is 24524233. They are not in the same class. They are good friends
阅读短文,选择正确的答案.
Lily is from_____.
A． English B. China C. the U.S.A
Dongdong is in Class______.
A． Six B. Seven C. Eight
Lily and Dongdong are good___________ .
A． students B.friends C. teachers
Where is Tom from ? He is from______________
A． The U.S.A B. Japan C. China
How old is Lily ? She is ________________
A． ten B. eleven C. twelve

Hello, I’m Lucy. I am from the USA. But now I’m in China. My teacher is Miss Chen. She is from Tianjin. She is Chinese. I have a sister. Her name is Lily. She is in China , too.We are in the same school.
阅读短文,判断句子正(用 “T” )误(用 “F” )
Lily and Lucy are from Canada.
They are in China now.
Miss Liu is their teacher.
Miss Chen is from Dalian.
Lily and I are students.

My name is Maria. I want to have a pen pal.
I’m a middle school student. Every evening, I’m very busy with my study. I do my homework for about two hours every day. Sometimes I listen to music. I hardly ever watch TV. English is my favorite subject and I read English for about an hour every day. I have a lot of good habits. I exercise every day. I eat a lot of vegetables. I eat fruit and drink milk every day. I never drink coffee or eat junk food. I always sleep eight hours every night. I’m very healthy. My healthy lifestyle helps me to study well and get good grades. Do you want to be my pen pal? Please tell me something about you.
Information Card

1.	What Maria wants to have
2.	The thing Maria is busy with very evening
3.	How often Maria listens to music
4.	Maria’s favorite subject
5.	How many hours Maria sleeps every night