American boys and girls love to watch TV. Some children spend six hours a day in school and four to six hours a day in front of the TV set. Some even watch TV for eight hours or more on Saturdays.
TVs are like books or films. A child can learn bad things and good things from them. Some programmers help children to understand the news, others show people and places from other countries or other time in history. With TV a child does not have to go to the zoo to see animals or to the ocean to see a ship. Boys and girls can see a play, a concert or a game at home.
TV brings many places and events into our homes. Some programmers show crime and other things that are bad for children, so parents sometimes help them to find other interesting things to do.Some children spend eight hours or more ____.
| A．studying | B．playing games |
| C．watching TV | D．helping their parents |
On TV children can see ____.
| A．games | B．big animals |
| C．oceans | D．almost everything |
Children usually spend ____ a day in school.
| A．six hours | B．more than eight hours |
| C．only a few hours | D．four hours |
“TV brings places and events into our homes” means “____”.
| A．TV makes things happen in homes |
| B．We can know places and events without going to see them |
| C．We can see houses and building on TV |
| D．We can find them easily |
Parents sometimes help their children find other things to do when there is ____ for children.
| A．a bad program | B．an animal |
| C．a game | D．a play |
Japan is made up of a chain of islands that lie off the coast of Asia. People came to live in Japan from the nearby countries of China and Korea. From these older countries, the Japanese borrowed ideas, inventions and habits.
For many years, the Japanese built houses like those in China. They dressed themselves like a Chinese. From China came their way of writing and their habit of drinking tea.
In more recent times, the Japanese have borrowed things from our country, the United States. They have a government like ours. They do much work in science, as we do. Baseball is a favorite sport in Japan, just as it is here.
Things change when they come to Japan. The Japanese improve on almost everything they borrow. The art of garden making came from Korea and China, but the Japanese gardens are special. Each garden has a waterfall, a pond, and small bridges. There are few flowers in Japanese gardens. But the gardens are green during all the year round because they have many evergreens. Japanese gardens have a different kind of beauty. The first paragraph of the passage tells us that ________ centuries ago.
| A．the Japanese borrowed ideas only from China and Korea |
| B．people came to live in Japan from neighbouring Asian countries |
| C．Japan is much older than Korea |
| D．many Japanese came from the United States |
In the third paragraph of the passage the italic (斜体)words “just as it is here” mean”________”
| A．just as it is in the United States |
| B．just as it is in China |
| C．just as it is in Japan |
| D．just as it is in Asia |
Why did the Japanese change the things they had borrowed?
| A．They wanted very much to be different from others. |
| B．They didn’t like them the way they were. |
| C．They wanted visitors to like the change. |
| D．They tried to make them better. |
From the passage we can see that ________.
| A．Japanese gardens are different from those in other countries but not very beautiful |
| B．Japanese gardens are full of life during all the seasons |
| C．Japanese gardens are not very big |
| D．There are many flowers in Japanese gardens |
Choose a statement from the following sentences that is NOT true.
| A．The government of Japan is like that of the United States. |
| B．People in the United States like playing baseball. |
| C．The Japanese invented the habit of drinking tea. |
| D．Japan is made up of many islands. |
阅读与表达（共5小题，每小题2分）
Wang Xiaojun is 12 years old. He lives in the country in Hubei Province. Today is his birthday. His parents prepare a nice dinner for him, but the boy says, “I won’t have the dinner because after the dinner, today is over, and parents are leaving for Shenzhen tomorrow. I don’t want to let them go.”
It is the first birthday that Wang Xiaojun is spending with his parents stayed in Shenzhen and worked to make money. They haven’t seen their son for three years. Tomorrow they have to leave home to go to Shenzhen.
Wang is not the only stay-at-home child. In the country of China, there are more than 20 million children staying at home without their parents. Stay-at-home children face a lot of problems. Many of them stay with their grandparents. They get less care from parents. They often feel lonely. Some of them don’t study well because their parents can’t help them with their study.
The Chinese government now cares about the children very much and is trying to solve their problems.Is it Wang Xiaojun’s first birthday?
There are many stay-at-home children in the country of China, aren’t there?
Why don’t some of the stay-at-home students study well?
How long haven’t Wang Xiaojun seen his parents?
In China,how many children staying at home without their parents?
图表选择。（共5小题，每小题2分）The telephone message is written by_______.
| TELEPHONE MESSAGE FROM: JaneTo: Lucy DATE: April 16 TIME: 5:30 MESSAGE: Please meet at 3:40 pm. Tomorrow. Lily |
A. JaneB. LucyC. Lily“ The Zoo” is _______.
| Do you want to hear “The Zoo”? “The Zoo”, a popular rock group from Australia, will Give their first concert this Saturday night. |
A. a US concertB. a musical group C. give their last concertIf you only have thirteen dollars, you can buy ___with all the money.
| Clothes |
Price |
| a T-shirt |
$ 30 |
| a sweater |
$ 10 |
| a pair of socks |
$ 7 |
| a hat |
$ 6 |
| a pair of pants |
$ 12 |
A. a T-shirt and a hat B. a pair of pants and a sweater
C. a pair of socks and a hatYou can visit Ocean Museum _____.
| Ocean Museum 9:00--- 17:00 From Thursday to Sunday. Ticket: 50yuan Tel: 5439871 Show you a full picture of sea lives! |
A. on Saturday B. on Wednesday C. on MondayHow many trains are there from Boston to New York in the morning?
| (Leave) Boston |
(Arrive) New York |
| 5:10 AM |
10:00 AM |
| 7:00 AM |
12:45 AM |
| 9:10 AM |
2:45 PM |
| 3:40 PM |
8:15 PM |
A. ThreeB. FourC. Five
判断（共5小题，每小题2分）（T="True," F=False）
Mother’s Day is a holiday for mothers. And on this day, mothers don’t work. It is on the second Sunday in May. It is celebrated in the United States, England, Sweden, India, Mexico and some other countries. Little by little, it becomes widely celebrated. On the day, many people send presents of love to their mothers. Those whose mothers are still living often wear a pink or red rose or carnation(康乃馨). While those whose mothers are dead wear a white one.
The idea of a day for mothers was first given by Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia. The celebration of the first American Mother’s Day was held in Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. Soon the holiday became popular around the country and the world.Mothers don’t go to work on Mother’s Day.
The first Mother’s Day was celebrated only in the USA.
Mother’s Day is on May the second.
On Mother’s Day many mothers send presents to their children.
Those whose mothers are dead wear a white rose or carnation.
阅读理解（共5小题，每小题2分）
Tom saw an advertisement（广告）in a newspaper for a beautiful bicycle. It cost 55 pounds so he went to the shop and asked to see one of the wonderful bicycles. The owner of the shop was happy to show one to Tom. Tom examined it carefully and then turned to the owner and said, ‘There isn’t a lamp(灯)on this bicycle, but there was one on the bicycle in your advertisement.” “Yes, sir” answered the man, “but the lamp isn’t included(包括)in the price of the bicycle.” “Not included in the price of the bicycle?” Tom said angrily, “But that’s not honest. If the lamp is in the advertisement, it should be included in the price.” “Well, sir” answered the shop owner coldly. “There is also a girl on the bicycle in the advertisement, but we can not give you a girl with the bicycle, either.”In the advertisement, there was a and aon the bicycle.
A. lamp, girl B. newspaper, shop owner C. lamp, manAfter he read the advertisement. Tom decided to .
A.see and buy the lamp B. ask the owner C. see and buy the bikeTomafter he looked at the bike carefully
A. returned the bike to the shop owner
B. didn’t find a lamp on the bicycle
C. showed the bike to the shop ownerTom thought it wasfor the shop owner to sell the bike without a lamp while there was one in the advertisement.
A. wrongB. honestC. necessaryThe text gives us a lesson that .
A. we must read a newspaper carefully
B. bicycle must be examined carefully before they are bought
C. sometimes we can’t completely(完全地)believe an advertisement