Dear Tom,

How are you? I'm at a new school this term. And I'm writing to tell you about my school. My new school is big and nice. There are one thousand and four hundred students and one hundred and forty teachers at my school. I like the teachers. They are very kind to me. My classmates are very friendly too. They teach me Chinese and I teach them English. There are trees, flowers and green grass at my school. They are very beautiful. Behind my school there is a small river. The water in it is quite clean. We can swim in it. We have no classes at weekends. Sometimes I play football or basketball with my classmates. Sometimes I stay at home and watch TV. Sometimes I go shopping with my father and mother. We all like China.

Please write to me soon!

Yours,

Jack

1.Jack is at a/an        school.

A. English              B. Chinese             C. small         D. Japanese

2.There are        students and        teachers at Jack's school.

A. 1,400; 104        B. 1,040; 104          C. 1,400; 140        D. 1,040; 140

3.Jack's teachers       .

A. teach him English very well                B. only teach him Chinese and English

C. don't like him at all             D. are quite good to him

4.Jack       his new classmates.

A. doesn't get on well with (相处得好)    B. doesn't like

C. makes good friends with                 D. can learn English from

5.Which of the following is true?

A. Jack goes to school every day.                

B. Jack doesn't have classes every day.

C. Jack has classes only from Monday to Friday.  

D. Jack has no classes only on Sundays.

There are three people in my family, my parents and I. My name is Liu Ming. I’m a middle school 1  . I am thirteen years old. I’m  2   China, so I can speak  3  . I can speak a little English, too. My father is a teacher in a  4  . He can speak Chinese, English  5  Japanese. He teaches Japanese. He likes  6  . He can swim and play table tennis. My  7  is a secretary.  8 works in a factory. She  9  only speak Chinese. She likes music and she can sing and play the   10 .

1._________ is a member of the horse family.

 A. The cow   B. The zebra    C. The kangaroo    D. The polar bear

2.The kangaroo can’t walk with its legs, but can________.

 A. fly         B. swim         C. jump          D. run

3.If you walk in the street, you can meet a cow in________.

A. China      B. Australia      C. Africa         D. India

4.The polar bear lives on _______.

  A. sea animals   B. grass       C. beef         D. gum trees

5.“In return” in the sentence “It gives so much but asks nothing in return” means ______in Chinese.

A. 归还         B. 回报      C. 轮流         D. 要求    

Swimming and English Learning

Can you swim? Do you like swimming? Yes? Well, how can you learn to swim? I think the best way is to go into the water and learn. I’m afraid you’ll never learn to swim just by reading books about swimming or looking at others swimming. It’s the same with the English study. We must practice, practice and practice.

Listening and speaking are very important for beginners. The children in English-speaking countries first listen to others. Then they try to imitate and speak. We can listen to English programs on radio. You may just understand a few words. It doesn’t matter. Just be relaxed, try to catch every word.

Somebody may be a good listener. But he dare not speak. He’s afraid of making mistakes. You know we sometimes make mistakes when we speak Chinese. Don’t be afraid. We must be brave. If you really want to learn English well, you must try to speak with everyone so long as he knows English. Whether you know him or not is not important when there’s nobody to talk with, you can talk to yourself in English. It’s interesting and also a good way to practice your spoken English. Remember, the more you speak, the fewer mistakes you’ll make.

Reading and writing are more important for senior school students. First we must choose the books we’re interested in. A lot of reading will improve your language sense. This is the most important.

Keep writing English diaries. We can also write English articles. You may even post them to English magazines. Don’t be afraid of failure. Failure is the mother of success.

Easier said than done. Well, let’s do more practice from now on. I’m sure you’ll learn English well in this way.

1.You can learn to swim by_______.

2.We should learn English by _______.

3. What will you do with mistakes when you speak?

4. What’s more important for senior school students?

5. We can listen to English ______, according to the passage.

词语填空 （共10小题，计10分）
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。
that  happy  healthy  fun  exercise  fly  hard  swim  listen  many
The summer vacation is over. It’s true that time always   【小题1】 fast. During the vacation, the weather was hot and I could not do much work, but I lived   【小题2】.
As the afternoon was hot. I did my work in the morning. I used to get up at 6:30 and take a walk in the garden for half an hour. After breakfast, I began reading English and Chinese and did some   【小题3】 in math,  【小题4】 took me three hours or   【小题5】 . I worked quite   【小题6】 and made good progress.
I spent the afternoon outside. I went to swim and it was  【小题7】. I would not go home until it was about five or six o’clock. Sometimes a friend of mine would come to see me and we would spend some hours  【小题8】to music.
In this way I spent my vacation slowly. And I not only studied well but also became a good  【小题9】 . now I am in good【小题10】and high spirits