My class will put on a short play in English at the end of the year. Yesterday our English teacher gave us copies of the play.

“Choose a character in the play whom you’d like to be, ”she told us. “This afternoon learn a few lines of this part for homework. Then tomorrow you can say those lines in front of the class. Ill decide who play each part.”

I wanted to have one of the bigger parts in the play, so I choose the part of the king. He has a lot of lines to say. I learned them by heart.

This morning in our English lesson we had to say our lines. I acted the part of the king. When I said my lines, I put a lot of expression into my acting. I thought I acted really well.

Everyone in the class read a part and then the teacher who would play each part.

Many of the students in my class couldn’t act at all. They couldn’t even read without making lots of mistakes. I was sure that I would get a big part in the play.

However, the teacher gave me the part of a soldier. He has only one line. It is, “Yes, sir!”

I was very disappointed. At the end of the lesson I went up to her and asked her why I had such a small part.

“You put too much expression in your acting,” she said. “Good acting is not big acting. It is acting the audience can believe in.”

I think I know what she means.

1. What did the boy want to do in the play?

A. To get a  morning eating part 

B. To organize the play

C. To get a large acting part. D. To work the lights.

2.How did the boy feel when the teacher told the class they would put on a play?

A. Bored.           B. Sad.             C. Excited.         D. Unhappy.

3.Why didn’t the teacher give him the part of the kings?

A. He did not act correctly.        B. He did not know the lines.

C. He was not handsome.         D. He was too short.

4. What does the underlined word “expression” in the passage mean?

A. 表情       B.建议        C. 模仿         D. 服饰

Mr Smith is an English teacher. He comes from America. He has a daughter. Her name is Amy, and she is a good engineer（工程师）in New York. Mr Smith likes traveling very much, and he can speak Spanish very well.  

Now Mr Smith is in China, so he wants to learn some Chinese. He works very hard at his Chinese, and he goes to Chinese classes in an evening school. He has a lot of friends in China and they often help him. He likes to talk with them. He tells his daughter that he can speak good Chinese, and he doesn’t have any trouble (困难) with his Chinese at all, but the Chinese have a lot.

1. Mr Smith works in ____________.

A. a hospital   B. a police station         C. a school         D. a restaurant

2. What’s Mr Smith’s daughter?    

A. A teacher.   B. A doctor.        C. An engineer.    D. A student.

3. Mr Smith learns Chinese ____________.

A. very well                                 B. with his daughter  

C. every morning                        D. very hard

4. Where does Mr Smith learn Chinese? 

A. In an evening school.                  B. At home. 

C. In his friend’s home.                    D. In a park.

5. We know that Mr Smith is good at ____________.

A. Chinese           B. Spanish          C. Japanese      D. French

The Smiths are very busy. Mr. Smith is 60 and he has a lot of jobs. He is a postman, a car driver, a school-bus driver, a boatman, a salesman(售货员), a cook and a milkman. Also he and Margaret have a shop and a small hotel. Margaret is Mrs. Smith.

   Mr. Smith lives and works on a small island(岛) in Canada. Only 120 people live on the island. But every summer about 150 people from other places come here on Mr. Smith’s boat every day. So Mr. Smith gets up at six and makes breakfast for the people in the hotel. At eight, he drives the island’s children to school.

   At nine, he gives letters to all the houses on the island. He also gives milk to them. 然后他在商店里帮忙。He says, “Margaret likes to be busy, too. We are busy and we don’t like watching TV in the shop. I cook dinner and Margaret helps. At ten, we have some milk and then we go to bed. Some people may think our _______ is very boring, but we like it.”

 1.There are only ______ people living on the island.

 2.将文中汉语译成英语。 Then he _______________________.

 3.文中空白处填入一个恰当的单词  _________

 4.Mr. Smith has ______ jobs.

 5.The Smiths are from ________.

Tom是一名中学生，他很喜欢他的学校生活和家庭。但他有许多烦恼，在学校没有朋友，在家里不想和父母交流，感到孤独。请你为Tom提一些建议，内容应包括以下要点，可适当发挥，词数不少于70字。

1、多参加活动或者同学聚会。多和他人交流

2、更加友好些，多和同班同学交朋友。

3、和父母相处融洽，周末帮助父母做家务

My  Advice

Tom is a middle school student.  He likes his school life and his family very much.  But sometimes he has a lot of problems:．．．．．．．I think he should

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Sam goes home from school. He’s hungry(饿的).And he has a lot of homework. He wants to see Mike and   26   football, too. He doesn’t have   27   time.

“Hello，Sam，”says Mrs Green.“    28   is school today? ”

“Fine. But I have a lot of homework，and I’m hungry. ”

“There are some apples on the table.”

“No，I don’t want any  29  . Is there   30   cake? ”

“Yes. But please    31  eat too much.”

Sam eats some cakes. Then he sits(坐)   32   at the table. He opens his book and begins to write. Mrs Green   33   to the shop.

Mrs Green comes back   34   the shop. Sam is   35  . Mrs Green says，“My son，you’re a good boy.”

1.A. have     B. play     C. buy     D. make

2. A. a lot     B. very     C. many    D. much

3. A. How     B. What    C. Where   D. Which

4. A. bananas  B. pears    C. apples    D. cake

5. A. an      B. many    C. some     D. any

6. A. doesn’t  B. don’t     C. isn’ t     D. aren’t

7.  A. on      B. in       C. up       D. down

8.  A. buys     B. makes    C. goes       D. asks

9. A. from    B. to       C. for      D. in

10. A. eating  B. drinking  C. studying  D. playing