Miyoke, 13

Do you want to know where I come from? Oh, please guess(猜)！ I can speak good Japanese(日语), but I can’t speak English or Chinese at all. I like white a lot, so you can see me in a white shirt at school.

Grace, 12

Am I very cool? I have long hair with two big eyes. I have an e-friend from China, but she lives in London with me now. She studies English here. I often help her study English.

Maria, 12

I like little animals very much. Dogs are my favorite. So I have two dogs at home, but my mom doesn’t like them at all. I often give some eggs and cakes to them. They like me, too, and they can help me.

Tian Jun, 13

Chinese is my mother language(语言), but I study English at school. Now I can speak a little English. I often have some emails from my friend in the USA. He tells me how to study English in his e-mails. He says he likes Beijing. He wants to visit the Great Wall very much.

1.Miyoke is from      .

2.Grace has        .

A．long hair with two small eyes

B．an e-friend from London

C．a Chinese e-friend

D．short hair with two big eyes

3.     doesn’t like dogs at her home at all.

A．Miyoke’s mom

B．Maria’s mom

C．Maria’s e-friend

D．Tian Jun’s friend

4.Tian Jun can        now.

A．only speak Chinese

B．speak Japanese

C．speak Chinese and English

D．speak Chinese and Japanese

5.Which is RIGHT according to the passage?

A．Miyoke is often in a brown shirt at school.

B．Grace lives with her e-friend in Beijing now.

C．Tian Jun’s friend wants to visit Beijing a lot.

D．Maria doesn’t have a dog at her home.

In English the weather is changable. It is a ___1____ subject of conversation. “ Isn’t it a nice day?” “Do you think it will rain?” “I think it’s going to snow. ” People often ___2____ a conversation ___3_____ these words(话).

Many people think they can tell what the weather is going to be like, but they hardly (几乎不) ever agree with each other.

____4___ may say,“Do  you see ____5____ in the east ? It’s going to rain tomorrow . ” Another man will say,“No . It’s going to be fine . ” People often ____6___ the weather they want. When a farmer needs water , he looks for something to tell him. “ It’s going to rain. ” He won’t believe (相信) anything else. When friends have a picnic (举行野餐) , they hope the weather is going to be fine and they can ____7___ under the blue sky . Almost (几乎) everyone ____8____ what the weather (气象预报员) will say. But he doesn’t always __9___ us what we want , and sometimes he makes mistakes (犯错误) . Still he usually  _10_ closer to being correct (正确)  than anyone else.

1.                A．important       B．common        C．interesting D．difficult

2.                A．set off          B．start           C．began    D．stops

3.                A．off            B．by             C．with D．for

4.                A．One people     B．A man          C．Other men    D．Another man

5.                A．it is cloudy      B．cloudy is it       C．cloudy it is D．is it cloudy

6.                A．look for        B．look up         C．look at    D．ask for

7.                A．sits            B．sitting          C．sit   D．to sit

8.                A．hears          B．listens          C．hears from    D．listens to

9.                A．ask            B．tell            C．speak    D．say

10.               A．come          B．comes         C．is coming  D．to come

－Can you _______ English?      

－Yes, only _________

Do you know the girl in a hat with flowers on it? Her name is Yinzi. She is a nice Japanese girl, my new friend. She is in our class, studying Chinese.

I like Yinzi. I don’t know Japanese, and Yinzi doesn’t know Chinese. We know some English. We are the same age. In the same class we have the same interests (兴趣). We like to sing Chinese, Japanese and English songs. I help her to ride a bike and fly a kite. She helps me to swim and jump. We like playing football, but we can’t play in the school because the playground is small. Yinzi and the other girls in our class will go to the swimming pool on Monday, and I want to go with them.

1.Yinzi likes to _________.

2.Yinzi _________. 

3.The Japanese girl knows _________.

4.Yinzi is good at _________.

5.Yinzi and the other girls want _________ on Monday.

词汇运用
【小题1】On my ______(二十) birthday , I got a lot of presents from my friends.
【小题2】Our English teacher can speak more than one foreign _______(语言)
【小题3】Nie Haisheng and Fei Junlong are the ________(英雄) of our country.
【小题4】Sandy’s drawing is the best in the drawing ________(竞赛).
【小题5】Cows’         (胃) are far bigger than sheep’s.
【小题6】He shows more __________ (interesting) in English than before.
【小题7】____________ (luck), our team tried our best but could never win the first prize.
【小题8】She is the _______________ (thin) girl in our class, she should take more exercise.
【小题9】Simon and Linda looked at each other. They kept their secret to            (they).
【小题10】What is the ______ ( long ) of the summer holidays in America ?