任务型阅读。根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

Dear Zhang Qian,

Thanks for your letter. You want to know about my favorite sport and instrument(乐器). Now let me tell you. I like playing volleyball, basketball, and ping-pang. But swimming is my favorite sport. I am good at playing the violin and the guitar, too. My favorite instrument is the violin. I often play the violin on weekends. What about you? What’s your favorite sport? Do you like to play the violin or the guitar? Please write to me soon.     

Yours,

Li Ping

1.What’s Li Ping’s favorite sport?

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2.Is Li Ping good at playing the guitar?

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3.What does Li Ping often do on weekends?

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Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Nanjing Sunshine Secondary School. The table below is his mid-term self-assessment(自我评价).He draws faces to show his progress：

【小题1】Li Ping thinks he did best in ______ in Unit 1.

The Spring   1  is the Chinese New Year .It usually comes in February . everyone in Chinese likes it very much .When it comes ,Li Lei helps his parents clean the house and do some other housework . on that day , everyone  2  dumplings and some other delicious food . Li Lei likes New Years cakes vevy much. But Lingling says jiaozi is nicer than New year’s cakes. Chinese people eat jiaozi and cakes in the house .How happy they are!
【小题1】1 处的单词是：              
【小题2】2处的单词是：                    
【小题3】画线部分翻译成为汉语：
【小题4】When does the Chinese New Year come ?
                                                    
【小题5】What does Li Lei do when New Year comes ?
                                                       

Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Zhenjiang Sunshine Secondary School．The table below is his mid-term self-assessment(自我评价)．He draws faces to show his progress：
excellent  OK weak
Read the table and find out how well Li Ping is doing.

Unit/ Item	Unit l Past and present		Unit 2 Travelling		Unit 3 Online travel
Vocabulary	opposites		Suffixes‘ful’ and‘less’		Words about computers
Grammar	Present perfect tense		Past continuous tense		Passive voice
Study skills/ Pronunciation	Using a dictionary		Linking words		Organizing information
Main task	A report		My best holiday		Favourite educational computer game

The Spring   1  is the Chinese New Year .It usually comes in February . everyone in Chinese likes it very much .When it comes ,Li Lei helps his parents clean the house and do some other housework . on that day , everyone  2  dumplings and some other delicious food . Li Lei likes New Years cakes vevy much. But Lingling says jiaozi is nicer than New year’s cakes. Chinese people eat jiaozi and cakes in the house .How happy they are!

1.1 处的单词是：              

2.2处的单词是：                    

3.画线部分翻译成为汉语：

4.When does the Chinese New Year come ?

5.What does Li Lei do when New Year comes ?