One of the most popular items in the school newspaper is the advice column (专栏). Here are some of the questions asked and their answers.

Q: I’m always late for school. I try not to be late, but I can’t help it. Please advise me about what to do. Tommy.

A: You are probably late for school because you don’t really like school. My advice to you is to enjoy school more, and then you won’t be late so often.

Q: I find it difficult to make friends. What do you think I should do? Sara.

A: I can’t advise you until I know more about you. Your problem may be that you are shy. On the other hand, it may be the opposite. You may be bold(大胆的). Write and tell me more about yourself.

Q: I’m always at the bottom (末尾)of the class. What do you advise me to do? Molly.

A: I advise you to try to improve your grades in one subject at first. Next, try to improve your grades in another subject. If you do this, by the end of the year you should be quite a long way up from the bottom in all your subjects.

1.What is the main idea (主要意思) of this passage?

2.What is Tommy’s problem?

3.What does the adviser (建议者) want Sara to do?

4.What does Molly want to do?

5.By the end of the year, where should Molly be in all her subjects if she does as the adviser says?

用恰当的词语填空，完成对话，每空一词。（每小题1分，共5分）

W: What’s      1.    with you, Mr. Yang?

M: It’s difficult for me to breathe.

W: How long have you been     2.  this?

M: Since last Monday.

W: Have you     3.    a doctor?

M: No, I haven’t. The bad air makes my chest hurt.The factories make too much noise and I can’t sleep well.

W: That’s too bad.

M: I’m always in a bad mood because I can’t stand the environment here.     4. , I hope the government will solve the problems soon.

W: Oh, yes. I think I should write to the newspaper about these problems. But now you’d      5.    go to the hospital.

—Do you love reading Guo Jingming’s novels?

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A．didn't read????????????? ????????????? B．haven't read????????????? ????????????? C．hadn't read????????????? D．don't read

I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯管) near the river. I couldn’t hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.
One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap (皮带) and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.
Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no sound. I blew and blew but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn’t playing music yet.
Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I’m in the TV studio with my saxophone strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I’m always thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I’m a happy man.
【小题1】On the bus, the writer couldn’t ________.