用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。

1.How much ___ (be) the pants?

2.We want two good          (music) for our rock band.

3. December is the _________ (twelve) month of the year.

4. Nancy wants ________ (see) the movie on weekends.

5. Let’s ________ (learn) about Chinese history.

6. Can you help kids with ________ (swim)?

7.I like        (play) with my dog.

8. Please tell ______ (I) about your morning.

9. Nick ______ (watch) TV on Sunday.

10.What a funny time ______ (eat) breakfast!

1. I often r______ my bike to school. What about you?

2. Nick missed the school bus this morning. L______, his friend’s dad took him to school.

3.. Did Li Ping jump f______ than any other boy in the sports meeting?

4. Singing English songs makes me more i______ in learning English.

5. The girl was hurt by a traffic a______ on the way to school this morning.

6. I had a w______ time on Saturday night, we sang and danced all night.

7. Please t______ the soup and see if it has enough salt.

8.Teaching is sometimes t______, but interesting.

9. Although they are twins, there are some d______ between them.

10. ---I can’t see the words on the blackboard c______ now.

---Let’s turn on the light.

 Do you carry too much on the way to school or home? Don’t worry．Try e-readers(电子阅读器)and say goodbye to your heavy schoolbag．

       An e-reader has the memory space to hold hundreds of books．So people want to(A)扔掉沉书包 and read with small, light e-readers．For example，Cushing Academy，a high school in Massachusetts，USA，replaced(替换)most of the 20，000 books in (B) its library last summer．Teachers and students will use e-readers instead．

      Most e-readers are thin and weigh less than 500g．They can download(下载)an e-book in 60 seconds．“It's (C) so easy．You can have a lot of books right at your fingers!” said Meghan Chensusky．16．

         Chinese schoolchildren are also trying e-readers．At the Shanghai World Expo(世博会)，an e-schoolbag is now on show．It is a special e-reader．Students can use it to download textbooks from the school servers(服务器)．(D)It can also send and receive homework．Some Schools in Beijing and Shanghai have tried this e-schoolbag for a few years．“It’s excellent．I (E)don't have to carry a heavy schoolbag anymore，”said Xiao Qi，15，Beijing．

         New e-readers are not just for reading．They have Wi-Fi and multimedia(无线电视和多媒体)．Parents worry that these may hurt their children's study habits． “I think Wi-Fi is not necessary for kids，”said Zeng Wenwen，43， Beijing．

1.将文中划线部分(A)译成英语:________________

2.文中划线部分(B)指代的是:________________

3.写出文中划线部分(C)和(E)的同义词或近义词：________ ________

4.将文中划线部分(D)改写为：Homework can also_______ _______and received through it．

5.从文中找出两个修饰或描写e-reader的形容词：________ ________

Nick is a student. He has four friends. They are Ben, Eric, Peter and Andy. But they are all very different. Nick is confident and kind. He is also a good listener. All of his friends like to talk to him about their problems. This is his best quality. Ben is the quietest friend of them. He is not energetic and active like Eric, or outgoing like Peter. But he is so patient and fair. When they have an argument, Ben is always there to listen to everyone and make sure that everybody stays friends. Andy is very clever and hard-working. He does the best in exams at school. It is really kind of Andy to help Peter with his homework when he is having trouble. They get along well with each other like brothers.
【小题1】What do you think of Ben?