Li Jun China I dislike rain. It seems that even though you have an umbrella, you can’t protect yourself from the rain. Whenever it rains, I’ll get wet so I have to go back home to change my clothes. It is just uncomfortable.

Kate Ukraine I love spring. In spring, it starts to get warm. I enjoy going outside without a coat. And it never gets too hot in spring. I dislike the hot summer because we can’t find a place to get away from the hot sun at all.

Lucy America I like rainy days. When it is raining, I can read my favorite book in a warm bed. I also like listening to the sound of rain. It makes me relaxed.

Simon Russia My favorite season is summer. There are two reasons why I like it. First, I was born in summer, Second, it’s hot in summer, and I like to swim in the sea and sunbathe on the beach.

1.___________ doesn’t like the rainy weather.

A．Kate

B．Lucy

C．Li Jun

D．Simon

2.The child from __________enjoys the rain sound and __________ likes hot days best.

A．Ukraine, Li Jun

B．China, Lucy

C．America, Simon

D．Russia, Kate

3. The  underlined word “sunbathe” means “_________” in Chinese.

A．游泳

B．晒太阳

C．打排球

D．洗淋浴

4.Which of the following is WRONG?

A．Li Jun thinks hot days make him uncomfortable.

B．Kate enjoys going outside without a coat in warm weather.

C．Lucy likes reading in a warm bed on a rainy day.

D．Simon likes to swim in the sea and sunbathe on the beach on hot days.

5.The form wants to tell us ______________.

A．children all over the world like rainy days

B．different children like different kinds of weather

C．different children have different ways to study

D．what children usually do in different kinds of weather

 

Dear Peter,
My name is Frank. I am from America. Here is a picture of my friends. We are in the same grade. Look at the picture, in the middle, you can see my friend Jimmy. He likes all the sports. He likes to eat apples and French fries. You can see Helen in the picture, too. Helen likes math. Her favorite food is meat. But Sandra doesn’t like math. Look, Sandra is here in the picture. She can speak French. She likes ping-pong. Behind her, there is a girl. She is Sally. She is a black girl. She likes to swim. And she likes to eat ice cream. Maria and Rick are behind Jimmy. Maria likes computer very much. She plays computer games very well. Rick is fun. He can play soccer ball. He likes strawberries best. I like math, too. I like to eat bananas. All of us think Beijing Opera is fun. So we go to see it. But we can’t understand the words. So we don’t want to see it again. But my father likes it very much. He often watches it. He can understand it. One interesting thing:two of my English friends can understand it, too. They are Maya and Kelsey. They are not in the picture. They often go to see Beijing Opera like my father.
Can you send me a picture of your friends. 
Yours,
Frank
【小题1】 Frank has__________ friends in the picture.

A．seven

B．six

C．five

D．eight

【小题2】This e-mail(电子邮件) is for_________.

A．Sally

B．Sandra

C．Frank

D．Peter

【小题3】 _____like sports.

A．Jimmy, Sandra and Sally	B．Maria, Rick and Jimmy
C．Sally, Rick, Jimmy and Sandra	D．Helen, Frank and Rick

【小题4】 “understand” means(意思是)_________ in Chinese.

A．喜欢

B．理解

C．听说

D．观看

【小题5】Why don’t Frank and his friends in the picture want to see Beijing Opera again?

A．Because Beijing Opera is boring	B．Because Beijing Opera is bad
C．Because Beijing Opera is fun	D．Because they can’t understand it.

One day, a boy found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small ___16___in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make ___17___body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped.

So the boy ___18___to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be ___19___. He took a pair of scissors(剪刀) and cut the hole ___20___. The butterfly came out of the cocoon, but it ___21___a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin ___22___. The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.

The boy acted with___23___but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawl out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of ___24___out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be ___25___to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.

___26___struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be ___27___ we could have been and we would never fly.

    In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even ___28___ growth, without it, there’s no way of life. We can’t avoid ___29___ or problems. So, next time you are ___30___ a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little–then fly!

1.A. hole      B. worm      C. tail        D. snake

2.A. it        B. it’s        C. itself       D. its

3.A. decided   B. asked      C. showed     D. ordered

4.A. afraid    B. interested   C. surprised    D. grateful

5.A. slimmer  B. bigger      C. shorter      D. smaller

6.A. touched   B. sounded    C. looked     D. smelt

7.A. wings    B. feet        C. eyes       D. head

8.A. success   B. excitement  C. kindness    D. humour

9.A. get      B. getting      C. to get      D. got

10.A. ready    B. quiet        C. glad       D. used

11.A. Somewhere  B. Something  C. Some time  D. Sometimes

12.A. as helpful as  B. as weak as  C. as strong as  D. as creative as

13.A. repeats    B. recommends   C. requires   D. represents

14.A. happiness  B. difficulties    C. pleasure   D. hope

15.A. served with  B. growing into  C. bringing in  D. faced with

 

Do you know the girl in a hat with flowers on it? Her name is Yinzi. She is a nice Japanese girl, my new friend. She is in our class, studying Chinese.

I like Yinzi. I don’t know Japanese, and Yinzi doesn’t know Chinese. We know some English. We are the same age. In the same class we have the same interests (兴趣). We like to sing Chinese, Japanese and English songs. I help her to ride a bike and fly a kite. She helps me to swim and jump. We like playing football, but we can’t play in the school because the playground is small. Yinzi and the other girls in our class will go to the swimming pool on Monday, and I want to go with them.

1.Yinzi likes to _________.

A．wear a hat with flowers on it	B．play on the playground
C．speak Chinese	D．pick flowers in the garden

2.Yinzi _________. 

A．is from England	B．comes from China
C．is from Japan	D．comes from America

3.The Japanese girl knows _________.

A．some Chinese

B．some English

C．little Japanese

D．A and B

4.Yinzi is good at _________.

A．swimming and jumping	B．riding a bike
C．flying a kite	D．Chinese

5.Yinzi and the other girls want _________ on Monday.

A．to play yo-yos

B．to swim

C．to play football

D．to fly kites

 

If you have failed in the past to try to make big changes in life，try again now，one tiny step at a time．

Every year it’s the same．As December comes to an end，you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life. But as you start to write down your hopes for the new year，you think about the last year．You excitedly write down all the changes you are going to make，but by the end of January those ideas get lost in your busy life．

Here’s a suggestion：Forget the too big，hard-to-achieve goals(目标) and just think about the small ones．“We often think that we have to do everything in big steps, even though it’s so hard for us to reach it．” said Robert Maurer，who recently wrote the book One Small Step Can Change Your Life．“What we try to do is to begin with such a small step that we can’t find any excuse not to do it．”

“Kaizen”，a Japanese word，is used to mean to change behavior and attitudes（态度）．During World War Il，American factory managers were able to increase productivity by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes．After the war，the idea was brought to a rebuilding Japan．It made Japan develop fast. The Japanese called it “kaizen”, which means “improvement”．

Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it. “Kaizen” could possibly help people succeed in doing everything

1.Robert Maurer wrote a book to tell us           .

A．we should do everything in big steps

B．how to change one’s life with one small step

C．we should try a lot of sudden changes

D．how to find a small step without any excuse

2.The writer of the passage suggests we should           .

A．make changes at the end of the year

B．do few experiments with “kaizen”

C．do things with hard-to-achieve goals

D．take a tiny step to achieve big goals

3.Which of the following is TRUE from the passage?

A．Robert Maurer studied “kaizen” and found it helpful.

B．You can achieve your goals if you are not too busy.

C．You can’t find any excuse not to reach a big goal.

D．“Kaizen” was brought to Japan during World WarⅡ.