Wade is my good friend. We study at the same school. At weekends he usually turns on his computer. He sends and gets e-mails to and from his friends back in France. He also gets on the Internet to learn about what is going on in the world. His parents sometimes take him to some places of interest in China. Sometimes I ask him to come over to my home for a weekend. My parents say that they can’t understand what we talk about because there are two languages in our talks—Chinese and English. My mother sometimes says to him,“Can you talk to my son in Chinese only,Wade?” He always smiles and answers, “Not today. I’m going to speak good Chinese very soon.” He is not good at Chinese and I am weak at English. But we like these talks because we can learn when we are talking.
【小题1】Who writes the passage?

Wade is my good friend. We study at the same school. At weekends he usually turns on his computer. He sends and gets e-mails to and from his friends back in France. He also gets on the Internet to learn about what is going on in the world. His parents sometimes take him to some places of interest in China. Sometimes I ask him to come over to my home for a weekend. My parents say that they can’t understand what we talk about because there are two languages in our talks—Chinese and English. My mother sometimes says to him,“Can you talk to my son in Chinese only,Wade?” He always smiles and answers, “Not today. I’m going to speak good Chinese very soon.” He is not good at Chinese and I am weak at English. But we like these talks because we can learn when we are talking.

1.Who writes the passage?

A．A friend of Wade’s                     B．A Chinese teacher

C．Wade’s parents                       D．An English student.

2.From the passage we know that Wade comes from ________.

A．Australia                              B．France

C．the UK                                D．the USA

3.At weekends Wade sometimes ________.

A．takes his parents to visit cities              B．practice speaking Chinese

C．goes to see his friends                    D．reads the world news.

4.We can know from the passage that__________

A．the writer can speak English very well

B．the writer can get e-mails from Wade

C．Wade is only beginning to learn Chinese

D．Wade finds it easy to talk in Chinese

5.The text is mainly about _________

A．Wade’s Chinese friends                 B．Wade’s school life in China

C．Wade’s after-school time                D．Wade’s weekend in China.

Mary is __41__  English girl, but she is in France (法国) now. She is six __42__ old. Her mother says to her. “You are six,   43  you will be school here. You will like the school because (因为) it’s a __44__ school.” “Is it an English school?” Mary asks. “Yes, it  45  .” Mother answers.

Mary goes to school. The teachers __46__ very friendly and speak good __47__. And there   48  two other English girls in the class, __49__. She begins to like the school.

Her mother takes her  50  school __51__ the morning and brings her home in the afternoon.

One day ,when her mother is at school, Mary runs out  52   the classroom and says, “We have a __53__ girl in our class today. She is six, too. She is very nice, __54__ she isn’t English. She is a German (德国人).” “Doesn’t she speak English?” Mary’s mother asks. “No, but she always laughs __55__ English.” She says happily.

Today Chinese people can enjoy longer and more holidays, such as the two“Gold Week Holidays” — the Spring Festival, National Day and Mid-autumn Festival and so on. They have more time to travel. Rising incomes(收入)also make it possible for ordinary(普通的) Chinese people to travel abroad .

Zhang Haitao, a middle school student in Shanghai will go to Japan with his par­ents during the Spring Festival. “Overseas(海外) touring has always been a dream of mine ,”Zhang Haitao said. “ How will you go to Japan, by air or by ship?” I asked him. “By ship. Traveling by ship is more enjoyable than a rushed trip by air.”“But a plane is much faster than a ship. ”“Yes. but you can't see much during the flight while a sea trip will make you happier, because you can see waves, islands and even big fish.”

"Will you travel at your own expense(费用) ?"

"Certainly. Though my father's job is to recycle rubbish, I'm very proud of him. He has saved lots of money in the last three years. What's more, he has made a contribution（贡献）to protecting our environment.”

1.Now it is possible for the Chinese people to travel abroad（国外）because of  _______

2.Zhang Haitao will go to Japan __________.

3.Zhang Haitao is__________.

4.Zhao Haitao is proud of his father because his father ________.