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  Agatha Christie was born on September 15th, 1890.She didn't go to school because her mother wanted to teach her at home.She studied the piano and singing in Paris.

  She got married(结婚)in 1914 to a pilot(飞行员)and they had one daughter.During the First World War(战争), when she was working as a nurse, she began to write detective novels(侦探小说), In the hospital, she learned a lot about drugs(药品), and she used these in her novels.

  She wrote her first novel in 1920.The hero(主人公)was a detective, Hercules Poirot.The book soon became a best seller(畅销书)and made her famous.

  In 1928, Agatha Christie was lost.The police found her two weeks later.She didn't know anything.This was the front page news in all the newspapers in Britain, and even today nobody knows what happened to her during those two weeks.

  In 1929, Agatha Christie went on holiday to the Middle East.She came home to England in 1930.

  After that, she travelled with her husband to the Middle East many times, and a lot of her later stories took place there, for example, Murder on the Nile.She also wrote the detective Miss Marple, and began to write plays.One of them, The Mousetrap, opened at a theatre in the Weat End of London in 1952, and is still on today.

  During her life she wrote nearly eighty detective stories.She also wrote other novels under the pen name of Mary Westmacott.She died in January 1976 at the age of eighty-six.

  Agatha Christie's detective novels are famous for their surprising endings(结局).

(1)

Christie began to write detective novels ________.

[  ]

A.

in 1914

B.

during World War I

C.

at home

D.

since she married

(2)

The detective in Christie's first novel is ________.

[  ]

A.

Poirot

B.

her mother

C.

Marple

D.

an archaeologist

(3)

Why was Christie lost for two weeks in 1928?

[  ]

A.

Because she was ill.

B.

Because she got married.

C.

Because she wanted to write novels herself.

D.

Nobody knows.

(4)

Why did her detective novels interest(使……感兴趣)so many readers? Because ________.

[  ]

A.

they have a sad ending

B.

they have an unusual ending

C.

there is always a murder in her novels

D.

Christie was very famous

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Sandy is talking to Amy about her day in Weat Hill. Complete their conversation with the words from the box and the opposites of the words in brackets.

chessboard dentist lonely married medicine miss

Sandy:
I want to write about West Hill for my history project. Yesterday, I went to West Hill and interviewed an old man there.
Amy:
Is he living in West Hill?
Sandy:
Yes, he is. He's Mr.Hu. I met him in the park. He was playing chess with a group of old men there. They never looked away from the (l) ________ when they were playing.
Amy:
Is Mr.Hu (2) ________?
Sandy:
Yes, but his wife died many years ago. He's very (3) ________ flow because his on1y son has moved to Toronto. He was a (4) ________ in the past but now he sells (5) ________ in tl1e street.
Amy:
Why didn’t he go with his son?
Sandy:
He (6) ________ (likes) the weather in Toronto. He said it's too (7) ________ (hot) for him and it snows in winter.
Amy:
I agree. And life is (8) ________ (same) there, too.
Sandy:
Many old people have similar problems. Their children move away but they stay in the old area.
Amy:
Some stay there because their children don’t want to live with them. These (9) _________ (old) people are quite irresponsible. I won’t do that to my parents.
Sandy:
I won’t, either. It's very (10) ________ (kind).
Amy:
But sometimes young people want to live with their parents. It's just that their parents are (11) ________ (sad) when they're by themselves. They don’t want to leave their old houses.
Sandy:
Yes, you're right. My grandma doesn’t want to live with us because it's (12) ________ (possible) for her to see her (13) ________(new) friends often. She'll (14) ________ them if she stays with us.

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  Your maths teacher may wear old-fashioned clothes and always pronounce your name wrongly.Your English teacher may love to start classes with tests.Perhaps it is hard f  1   you to accept these.But they eat pizza, go to movies and enjoy sports at weekends, just like you.

  So how can you g  2   along with your teachers? Here are some tips.

  F  3  ,do the following things:Don't be late for school.H  4   in your homework on time.Be polite to your teachers.

  Second, show an interest in the subject.Even if you are not g  5   at your maths or English, you should do your b  6   to learn it and show your teacher that you are a hardworking student.

  You can also come to your teacher during his/her spare time.Use this time to get some help or talk about your progress in class.You may be surprised to learn that your teacher is more relaxed in his/her free time t  7   in his/her working hours.

  A good relationship with your teachers will help you now and in the f  8  .There may be some t  9   you will always remember because they change you and your life.After f  10   school, you may even go back to visit them.And they are always proud of that.

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根据所给图示完成对话,每空一词。

A:  1     2  , could you tell me the   3   to the post office?

B:Sure.Go   4   the road and   5   the   6   turning   7     8     9  , then walk   10   on until the   11   of the street.You'll find it on your   12  .It's   13     14   the fruit shop.

A:  15     16   is it from here?

B:It's about fifteen   17   walk.

A:Can I   18   a bus?

B:Yes.

A:  19     20   shall I take?

B:The No.1 bus.

A:Thank you very much.

B:You're   21  

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填入适当的单词补全对话

LI MU:What   1  .you   2     3     4   next weekend?

JI WEI:I have no idea.What   5   you?

LI MU:I don't know.Do you want to do anything together?

JI WEI:Sure.What do you want to do?

LI MU:How about going fishing   6   Saturday?

JI WEI:OK.Where are we going to meet?

LI MU:Let's   7   at my house.My uncle has a boat.He can take us to fish on the lake.

JI WEI:What time are we going to leave?

LI MU:Let's   8   early in the morning.Fishing is good at that time.

JI WEI:Great!This is going to be fun.  9     10   on Saturday.

LI MU:See you then.

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