Dear Tom,

How are you? I’m in a new school this term. And I’m writing to you in my school now. My new school is big and nice. There are one thousand and four hundred students and one hundred and forty teachers in my school. I like the teachers. They are very kind to me. My classmates are very friendly, too. They teach me Chinese and I teach them English.

There are trees, flowers and green grass(青草) in my school. They are very beautiful. Behind my school there is a small river. The water in it is quite clean. We can swim in it.

We have no classes on Saturdays or Sundays. Sometimes I go to play football or basketball with my classmates. Sometimes I stay at home and watch TV. Sometimes I go to shops with my father and mother. We all like China.

Please write to me soon!

Yours,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Jack

( 　) 1. Jack is in a________ school.

　　 A. English　　　 B. Chinese　　　 C. small　　　　　 D. Japanese

( 　) 2. There are _________ students and _________ teachers in Jack’s school.

A.1,400;104　　 B.1,040;104　　　 C.1,400;140　　　 D. 1,040;140

( 　) 3. Jack’s teachers _________.

A. teach him English very well　　 B. only teach him Chinese and English

C. don’t like him at all　　　　　　 D. are quite good to him

( 　) 4. Jack_________ his new classmates.

　 　A. don’t get on well with　　　　　 B. don’t like

C. makes good friends with　　　　 D. is going to learn English from

( 　) 5. Which is right?

A. Jack goes to school every day.

B. Jack doesn’t have classes every day.

C. Jack has no classes only on Saturdays.

D. Jack has no classes only on Sundays.

Henry’s family has a picnic on the weekend.They ask their friends,Nancy and her husband(丈夫),to go with them.On Sunday morning,Henry’s wife(妻子),Kate,gets up early to get ready for(为…作准备)some food for the picnic.At nine o’clock in the morning,Nancy calls and tells Henry she would like to bring something to the picnic.Kate calls her back and asks her to bring a big bottle of orange juice.The two families go to a park near Nancy’s house.There are tables and chairs under the trees near the river(河).They can see the blue sky and green water there.Everyone likes the picnic and they have a nice Sunday afternoon in the park.
【小题1】There are(有) ___________people in the passage.

Henry’s family has a picnic on the weekend.They ask their friends,Nancy and her husband(丈夫),to go with them.On Sunday morning,Henry’s wife(妻子),Kate,gets up early to get ready for(为…作准备)some food for the picnic.At nine o’clock in the morning,Nancy calls and tells Henry she would like to bring something to the picnic.Kate calls her back and asks her to bring a big bottle of orange juice.The two families go to a park near Nancy’s house.There are tables and chairs under the trees near the river(河).They can see the blue sky and green water there.Everyone likes the picnic and they have a nice Sunday afternoon in the park.

1.There are(有) ___________people in the passage.

A．three            B．four              C．five              D．six

2._______ brings a big bottle of orange juice to the picnic.

A．Nancy            B．Henry            C．Nancy and Kate     D．Kate’s husband

3.______ are near the river.

A．Some flowers      B．Some beds         C．Some children      D．Some trees

4.They have the picnic______.

A．before 12 o’clock                      B．on the Sunday morning

C．on a rainy(有雨的) day                   D．on the Sunday afternoon

5.Which of these is right?

A．The park is near Henry and Kate’s house.

B．At 9 o’clock in the morning,Nancy calls Kate.

C．They don’t like the picnic.

D．From the passage,we can’t know Nancy’s husband’s name.

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is the color of most growing plants, too.
Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants that are not ripe.
For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in war (战争). By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today--a person who is new in a job.
About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities in the east. The greenhorn didn’t have the skills that he would need to live in the hard, rough country.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds.
A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
The Green Revolution (革命) is the name which was given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural (农业的) scientists who had green thumbs.
【小题1】According to the passage, a greenhorn means________ now.