Dear Dave,
I’m not happy. There are too many rules in my house. It isn’t fair. I have to get up at five o’clock every morning. I can’t arrive late for school. I have to be there at eight o’clock. I have to come back home after school because I have to do my homework. In the evening I can’t watch TV because I have to help my mother make dinner and wash the dishes. I have to go to bed before ten o’clock. On weekends, I have to stay at home on Saturday morning. I have to clean my room and wash my clothes by eleven o’clock. On Saturday afternoon, I have to go to the children’s palace to learn the piano. Do you have lots of rules? Are they fair?                                                                   
Your friend,
Alice
【小题1】Who is the letter from?
A. Dave.                  B. Alice.           C. Alice’s mother.
【小题2】What time does Alice have to get up?
A. Five o’clock.         B. Eight o’clock.    C. Ten o’clock.
【小题3】What does Alice have to do on Saturday morning?
A. Wash the dishes.      B. Wash her clothes.    C. Learn the piano.
【小题4】Why does she go to the children’s palace?
A. To play football.      B. To learn math.       C. To learn piano.
【小题5】Why does Alice have to come back home after school？
A Because she has to do her homework.
B Because she has to go to the children’s palace to learn the piano.
C Because she has to help her mother make dinner.

Lang Lang, the young Chinese pianist, was born in Shenyang in 1982. He began to play the piano when he was 3. At the age of 5, he won first place in a piano competition in Shenyang. People thought he was a genius(天才). From then on, playing the piano became the dream of Lang and his parents.
When Lang was 9 years old, he and his father went to Beijing to study piano. His father even left his work. Although he endured(忍受) great pressure(压力), Lang never gave up his dream of becoming a concert pianist. When he was 17, Lang became famous after he played in a great concert in Chicago, US.
Now 28-year-old Lang is famous all over the world for his great performances. He played at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He was also one of Times magazine’s 100 Most Influential(有影响力的) People in the World in 2009. He is one of the world’s great musicians.
【小题1】What does Lang Lang do?

Dear Dave,

I’m not happy. There are too many rules in my house. It isn’t fair. I have to get up at five o’clock every morning. I can’t arrive late for school. I have to be there at eight o’clock. I have to come back home after school because I have to do my homework. In the evening I can’t watch TV because I have to help my mother make dinner and wash the dishes. I have to go to bed before ten o’clock. On weekends, I have to stay at home on Saturday morning. I have to clean my room and wash my clothes by eleven o’clock. On Saturday afternoon, I have to go to the children’s palace to learn the piano. Do you have lots of rules? Are they fair?                                                                   

Your friend,

Alice

1.Who is the letter from?

A. Dave.                  B. Alice.           C. Alice’s mother.

2.What time does Alice have to get up?

A. Five o’clock.         B. Eight o’clock.    C. Ten o’clock.

3.What does Alice have to do on Saturday morning?

A. Wash the dishes.      B. Wash her clothes.    C. Learn the piano.

4.Why does she go to the children’s palace?

A. To play football.      B. To learn math.       C. To learn piano.

5.Why does Alice have to come back home after school？

A Because she has to do her homework.

B Because she has to go to the children’s palace to learn the piano.

C Because she has to help her mother make dinner.

　　No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhaps he grunted(发出呼噜) like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him——water splashing(场所飞溅), bees humming(嗡嗡作响声), a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.

　　People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. Only a few thousand words are used in everyday life.

　　The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy language. Your dictionary is your most useful book.

1．What do we mean by language?

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A．Sounds made by man.

B．All the words made by man.

C．Different kinds of sound.

D．The way man learns.

2．From the passage we know that long long ago ________.

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A．no one learned how to make sounds or words

B．animals taught to learn the language

C．man learned the language by lifting heavy things, falling to the ground, and so on

D．man followed a lot of things in nature to make sounds and words

3．What is the number of language spoken in the world today?

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4．In which sentence can the word “contain (s)” be put so that it is a right one?

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A．I ________ several dictionary.

B．Sea water ________ salt.

C．A dog ________ four legs.

D．Mr Smith ________ glasses on his nose.

5．Which of the following is the best if we want to make our vocabulary larger?

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A．To use the words in every day life.

B．To read more books.

C．To read easy books.

D．To look up new words in the dictionary.