??People often use sign （手势）language. It's very important. It's easy to understand. When you wave（向……挥手）to a friend in the street, you are using sign language. When the teacher asks you some questions in class, you put up your hand, you are saying, " I think I can answer the question." When policemen want to stop cars and buses in the street, they're using sign language. Sign language is very helpful. Even when you are swimming with your friends, you can talk with them under water.

根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案。

　　1. It's very important for us to ________.

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　　 A. use language???????B. use sign language

　　 C. use foreign language???D. use hand language

　　2. When you see your friend in the street, you wave to him,means:

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　　 A. you speak to him.?????B. you put up your hand.

　　 C. you say hello to him.???D. you say goodbye to him.

　　3. If you can answer teacher's questions, you ______.

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　　 A. put up your hand???? B. stand up and answer

　　 C. ask your teachers????D. use sign language

　　4. Policemen use sign language to ______ in the street.

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　　 A. ask the drivers?????B. let people go

　　 C. stop cars and buses???D. answer some questions

　　5. Sign language is very ________.

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　　 A. lovely and important???? B. funny and helpful

　　 C. helpful and interesting???D. important and helpful

Reading comprehension(阅读理解)

　　People often say, “Children can't do maths problems. It's because parents can't do their children's homework.” Here's an example to show what I mean.

　　The other day my daughter brought home her maths homework. “I have to subtract(减) 179 from 202,” she said.

　　“It's quite easy,” I said, “You put the 202 over the 179.”

　　“But we need a 10 here. Where is the 10?”

　　“I don't know where the 10 is. Let's just subtract 179 from 202. Nine from two is three. You carry one and add(加) it to seven. Eight from zero is two. The answer is 23.”

　　“We can't do it that way. We have to use the 10.”

　　“Well, I'm going to call your teacher to see how she subtracts 179 from 202.”

　　Over the telephone, I said that I was having a bit of trouble with the homework she had given to my daughter. The teacher said, “In the right-hand column(栏) we have units of one. The two in that column counts for two ones. The zero in the center counts for zero tens. Then two in the left-hand column counts for hundreds. Are you clear?” But I didn't think it was clear.

　　I hung up and found my way to the medicine box. My head was now hurting. I started putting pills of medicine into my mouth. “How many did you take?” my wife asked. “I took one and then I took another… I knew one and one was two, but don't ask me what it is now.”

Questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题，不超过五个单词)

1．What did the daughter want her father to do the other day?

She wanted her father to help her ________ ________ ________ ________.

2．Was the father able to do the maths problem?

________, ________ ________.

3．Why couldn't the daughter understand her father?

Because the father's way to do the maths problem ________ ________ ________ the teacher's way.

4．What did the father do then?

________ ________ ________ ________ ________.

5．How did the father feel at last?

________ ________ ________.

6．Can you guess what things would be like in the family after that?

The father would never ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ again.

　　Many English ___3___ come from Latin（拉丁语）, the old language of Rome（罗马）,and also ___4___ Greek. From Latin we got words such as“wine”,“use”and“day”. From Greek we have words like“photograph”,“Bible”（圣经）and“ink”. There are ___5___ many words from ___6___ Greek and Latin together“television”,for example. Here“tele”is Greak for“far”and“vision”comes from Latin and means“seeing”.

　　 Many common ___7___ words come from very strange places.“Tea”is from China and“banana”from West Africa.“Potato”came ___8___ the English language from Haiti（海地）, and“tomato”first came from Mexico.

　　In modern Britain there are four separate languages: English, Welsh（威尔士语）, Scotish Gaelic（苏格兰盖尔语）and Irish Gaelic（爱尔兰盖尔语）. And the English language ___9___ is very different from one place to another. There are also many ___10___ in spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation ___11___ American and British English.

People often use horses for ________.

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