Is there something strange high up in the world’s tallest mountains? If so, is it a big bear? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man?

No one knows this mystery（谜）has puzzled the world for years.

In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints（脚印）in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk without shoes in the snow!

In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. When he watched, it ran very quickly.

Fifteen years later, newspaper had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “Snowman” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.

From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly that the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey? Could it be an ape man? The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Somebody we may find out just what it is that makes the large footprints.

1.The passage is about _________.

2. Why were people interested in the footprints?

3. A mountain climber took the pictures of large footprints in_______.

4. Why did the mystery grow when a mountain climber brought back pictures of large footprints?

5. Since a mountain climber first found the large footprints in the snow, the mystery of the Snowman has puzzled the world for over _______years.

Hi, I’m Liu Ying. This is my school. It’s big and beautiful. There are twenty classes. There are nine hundred students in my school. There are four beautiful gardens in it. There is a building in my school. On the first floor, there are two offices and a hall. There are six classrooms on the first floor, too. On the second floor, there are fourteen classrooms. There are two toilets on the second floor. There is a big library and some reading rooms in my school, too.

1.How many classes are there in the school?

2.Is there a building in the school?

3. Are there any classrooms on the first floor?

4.How many gardens are there in it?

5.There are _________ students in the school.

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I’m a school girl. My brother and I are twins. We are both at school. We like school. My parents are both teachers. They work hard. My brother and I study at No. 1 Middle School. There are twenty-five boys and eighteen girls in our class.

We go to school from Monday to Friday. We have no classes on Saturdays and Sundays. We usually get up at six o’clock, and have breakfast at half past six. We come to school at seven o’clock. Classes begin at eight. We have four lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We have lunch a fifteen past twelve. At three fifty we have sports.

We study Chinese, math, English, geography, physics, history, politics and other lessons. We like Chinese. We like English, too. Some of us are good at it.

We go home at five o’clock. We have supper at six o’clock. We do our homework at seven every evening and go to bed at half past nine, but sometimes we go to sleep at about ten.

We work hard, we study for the people.

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1.My brother is ___ and I am ____.

A. a worker; a student   B. a student; a worker  C. a student; a teacher  D. a student; a student

2. We have ___ a fifteen past twelve.

A. breakfast    B. lunch  C. supper  D. dinner

3. We begin to do our homework from ____ to ___ every evening.

A. Monday; Friday    B. seven; nine  C. school; home  D. six; eight

4.. There are ___ boys and ___ girls in our class.

A. twenty-five; twenty  B. some; any  C. twenty-five; eighteen  D. many; much

5.Do they often have sports in the morning or in the afternoon?

A. Yes, they do  B. No, we don’t  C. In the morning  D. In the afternoon