I often hear some students say English is difficult, and it gives them a headache. So they can't learn it well. But English is very easy for me. I'm good at it. I'm very glad to tell you something about how I study English.

First, I think an interest in English is very important. When I was in Grade One, we had a new subject-English. It was fresh for me. I was interested in it, so I worked hard at it. Soon we had an English exam and I got a very good mark. How happy I was! After that, I learned English harder and harder. Our English teacher often teaches us English songs, the songs sound nice. I often think how interesting English is!

Second, I think English is a foreign language. I should learn it well in the following ways: Listen to the teacher carefully, speak bravely, read aloud and have a good vocabulary. Then practice again and again, never be tired. And I also have a good habit: Asking whenever(不论何时)I have a question, I must make it clear by asking our English teacher. How happy I am when I understand!

Besides this, I often read English stories, jokes and easy novels. From these I know English is not only interesting, but also useful. They help me understand a lot of things. So to do more reading is an important way to learn English well.

And I also do some exercises from our class magazines, and I often write English diaries. English has become a close friend of mine.

Now I have learned English for more than two years. I always keep the first position in our school. From these words, I hope every student can learn English well.

1.Why do some students often “have a headache”?

A. Because they are easy to catch cold.

B. Because it's often very cold

C. Because they think English is easy.

D. Because they don't think English is easy.

2.The writer tells us that we should be ________ in English if we want to learn it well.

A. interest　　 B. interested 　　C. interesting 　　D. strict

3.The sentence “I got a very good mark” means ______.

A.I got a good way. 　　　　　　B.I had a good idea.

C.I did badly in the exam. 　　   D.I did well in the exam.

4.The writer thinks English is interesting because________.

A. English is full of stories.　

B. English is full of jokes.

C. his teacher often teaches them nice English songs.

D. of nothing

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely(模糊地) 　1　 the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see things again, 　2　 a disaster can do strange things to people. It happened to me the other day that I might not have come to love 　3　 as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not sure that I would believe in it so 　4　. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I 　5　 mean that the loss of 　6　 made me enjoy more of 　7　 I have now.
Life asks us to keep making 　8　 to reality. If a person is able to get ready for anything changeable his world will 　9　 more meaningful. I became blind, but I was 　10　. My parents and my teachers saw 　11　 in me－a potential(潜力) to live, you might call it－which I didn’t see, and they make me fight it out with blindness.
The hardest 　12　 I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was what I had to do at least. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would become a chair rocker for the 　13　 of my life. When I say I believe in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase 　14　. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: A belief that I could deal with anything alone; that somewhere in the 　15　 there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
1. A. imagine       B. find             C. remember     D. guess
2. A. but           B. though               C. so           D. because
3. A. myself       B. life             C. eyes         D. blindness
4. A. that         B. therefore            C. happily      D. deeply
5. A. seldom        B. just             C. hardly           D. always
6. A. them      B. it                   C. blindness        D. light
7. A. that         B. what             C. which            D. where
8. A. moments      B. encouragements       C. improvements D. changes
9. A. become        B. change               C. look         D. end
10. A. brave        B. lucky                C. sad          D. wise
11. A. something    B. everything           C. nothing      D. anything
12. A. problem      B. experience           C. difficulty       D. lesson
13. A. rest     B. whole                C. need         D. last
14. A. lonely       B. alone                C. self         D. person
15. A. company  B. group                C. society  (社会)   D. family

We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe (欧洲) did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it.

　There is a story about an English sailor (水手) who went to countries in the east, the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a "tea party". When her friends came to the "tea party", the old woman gave them brown tea-leaves. The old woman's friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves.

　At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, "Mother，what did you do with the tea?"

　"I boiled it，as you said."

　"And what did you do with the water?"

　"I threw it away(扔掉)，of course." answered the old woman.

　"Now you may throw away the leaves，too，" said her son.

1.Most of the people in Europe ___300 years ago.

2.One day the English sailor brought his mother some tea from ___.

3.The sailor's mother asked her friends to her house, because ___.

A. the sailor told her to.       

B she liked to show off (炫耀)

C. she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea

D. she wanted to taste the tea together with her friends

4.At the "tea party",___.

5.What mistake（错误） did the old woman make? She ___.

【小题1】After 8 hours’ hard work, all the workers were hungry and _________（口渴）.
【小题2】Don’t forget to take your __________ (雨伞) with you. It’s going to rain this afternoon.
【小题3】—How much is the shirt on you?
—Oh, it’s two ____________（百）Yuan.
【小题4】It took me about twenty _________ (分钟) to get there.
【小题5】English is a useful__________（外国的）language in our country.
【小题6】John is a__________(天赋的) actor.
【小题7】Good study _________ (习惯 ) are very important to us.
【小题8】 – Who__________(写) this piece of music? –Mozart did.
【小题9】There are many ___________（不同）between the twins.
【小题10】I live in a town__________(叫做)Alice Springs.

 Many people learn English from English movies. However, some people watch hundreds of     , they still have problems understanding what the actors say! The main reason for this is that they     watch it with the purpose(目的) of learning English.

           you want to learn English from English movies, you should follow the following steps(步骤)，or you may waste your time and learn      .

    Step 1:Watch a movie with Chinese subtitles(字幕) for the     time. Your eyes and ears should work all the time. And try to       the main idea of the movie.

Step 2: Watch it again, still with subtitles. But now try your best to look at    less often, and      as much as possible. Look at the subtitles       only when you really don’t understand.

Step 3: Watch it without subtitles. It sounds      , but after enough      during the first two steps, you’ll find it easier to watch movies in       .

But don’t go to the last step too quickly         it could make you feel bad. However, if you go to watch it when you’re ready, you may         that watching a movie in English is a piece of cake for      .

1.A. games        B. shows          C. plays              D. movies

2.A. should        B. might          C. don’t              D. could

3.A. If            B. After                              C. Before                         D. So

4.A. anything       B. nothing         C. everything          D. something

5.A. same         B. first            C. next              D. last

6.A. lose           B. forget          C. leave              D. get

7.A. them          B. it              C. the movie          D. your watch

8.A. listen          B. look           C. touch              D. plan

9.A. quietly         B. beautifully      C. quickly            D. seriously

10.A. easy          B. difficult        C. famous            D. unlucky

11.A. information    B. practice        C. discussion          D. culture

12.A. Chinese       B. Russian        C. America           D. English

13.A. because       B. although       C. after               D. so

14.A. look for       B. find           C. hope               D. choose

15.A. me           B. them          C. you                D. us