5. When she was only five or six.

4. Yes, they are.

3. No, it wasn’t.

2. Because she had very little money.

1. 1. When she left school.

3. Where are the four people mentioned in the passage from?

Liu Wei is from ________. Matt is from _______. Brad is from _______. And Lucy is from _________.

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Mike: Hello, Mary! May I have a talk with you? Mary: Sure. Mike: What’s your father’s job? Mary: He’s a doctor. Mike: Where does he work? Mary: He works in a hospital. Mike: Can you tell me something about your father’s hospital? Mary: I don’t know much about his work. I just know he is very busy every day. He works five days a week, from Monday to Friday. Sometimes he works on Saturday or Sundays. He gets up early in the morning. He cooks breakfast for my family. After breakfast he goes to work at 7:10. He has lunch at his workplace. He comes back home at about 6:30. My mother cooks dinner. After dinner my father does the washing. Then he goes out for a walk. Before he goes to bed, he often reads some newspaper or watches TV. He goes to sleep very late. Mike: Thank you, Mary. I’d like to write something about your father, and I want to put it in our school newspaper. Do you think it’s OK? Mary: I think so. Fill in each blank with one word according to the passage: 1. Mary’s father is a ________. 2. Mary says her father works in a ________. 3. We know Mary’s father is very _____ because he works five days a week and does some housework every day. 4. Mary’s father has lunch at his ________. 5. Mary’s father often reads some newspapers or ______ TV before he goes to bed.

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Fill in the blanks with the first given letters:

In the United States, children start school when they are five years old. In some states they must stay in school u___1____ they are sixteen. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they l___2___ secondary schools. There are two kinds of schools in the United States: public schools and private schools. Most children go to public schools. Their parents do not have to p___3__ for their education. Those schools get money from the g____4___. If a child goes to a private school, his parents have to get enough money for his schooling. Some parents still prefer private schools, though they are much more e___5______. Today about a half of the high school students go on to universities after they f___6___ the secondary school. A student at a state university does not have to pay very much if his parents l___7___ in that state.

But many students look for p____8____ jobs while they are studying at universities. In this way they f___9___ good working habits and live by their o___10__ hands.

Key:

2. What problem does Lucy have?

She can't _________ and doesn't like the __________.

1.How are Matt and Brad different in character(性格)?

Matt is ______, but Brad is _________.

5. Why was the writer puzzled?

3 International Classmates,

Hi there. I'm Liu Wei. I'm a Chinese teacher at an international school in Beijing. We have kids from all over the world here. In some ways our school is a little different from other schools in China. For example, the pupils don't wear uniforms. Let me tell you about my favorite junior high school students.

Matt comes from New York. He loves rap music. When he walk between classes he always wears headphones. His c1assmates are afraid of him because he's big for his age and he's really noisy! In his free time he watches action films and practices Kung Fu. Today he's entering a' Kung Fu competition. Good luck, Matt!

Brad is one of Matt's classmates. He is a very quiet boy. He was born in Sydney, but his parents are from Poland. He likes speaking Polish and English when he's at home. Brad gets very angry when people can't understand him! Brad's favorite sport is swimming. He wakes up early and trains every day before school.

Lucy is another of my favorite students. She's a tall, beautiful girl from London. She's a good student and she's always studying. Sometimes she can't sleep because she thinks too much about her lessons! Lucy loves Beijing, but she doesn't 1ike the summer. She says it's too hot! She wants to study medicine when she leaves school. I hope she's successful!

4. When the foreigner used the idiom "You don't say!", what did he mean?