Mary didn’t understand such sentences as“She is blue today”，“You are yellow”，“He has a green thumb”，“He has told a white lie”and so on．And she went to the teacher Mrs James for help．

Mary：Mrs James，there is a colour in each of the sentences．What do they mean?

Mrs James：In everyday English，Mary，blue sometimes means sad，yellow afraid．A person with a green thumb grows plants well and a white lie is not a bad one．

Mary：I'm afraid I don’t understand them a11．Would you give me an example for“a white lie”?

Mrs James：Certainly．Now I just give you some cakes．In fact you don’t like it，but you don’t want to let me know it．Instead you say，“No，thanks．I’m not hungry．”That’s a white lie．

Mary：It sounds very interesting．Thanks very much．

Mrs James：You are welcome．Colours are meaningful．I think you will meet more sentences like these in the future．Please come to me if you have any questions．

1.Blue sometimes means sad in________English．

      A．good         B．spoken       C．usual         D．poor

2.I don’t have a green thumb，so all my plants________．

     A．die off       B．grow well    C．look nice      D．are good

3.David is yellow and he is________to climb the tall tree!

     A．happy        B．clever       C．brave         D．afraid

4.He didn’t like me to know________of the accident．He told me a white lie at last．

     A．the reason     B．the true story    C．the meaning    D．the answer

5.He is ________today．He is told that his father is seriously ill．

     A．blue         B．yellow         C．green          D．white

根据对话内容，在空格中填写一句话，使对话完整、正确（共10分）

A: Hey, Lingling, 1.                                 ?    

B: I was born in a small village in Shanxi Province.

A: 2.                                      ？                         

B: Its name was Xucun. What about you, Tony?

A: I was born in Cambridge. It’s a small city in England.

B: 3.                             ？ 

A: Yes, I do. My first school’s name was Darwin Primary School.

B: 4.                             ？

A: My first teacher was Mrs. Lane.

B: 5.                             ?

A: She was very strict but very nice. She often taught us well and made her lessons very interesting and lively.

B: Thank you very much.

A: You’re welcome.

根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确。
【小题1】When we __________(到达) to the theatre last night, the performances had already started.
【小题2】 --- Susan, is this Millie’s sweater?
--- Oh, no. ______________(她的) is blue but this one is red.
【小题3】 Go ______________(穿过) the bridge, and you can see the shopping mall on Fourth Street.
【小题4】__________ (百) of workers in Libya(利比亚) returned to China successfully in March, 2011.
【小题5】 Mother is busy __________(准备) for the coming big dinner in the kitchen.
B）根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。
【小题6】In late autumn almost all the _________(leaf) turn yellow.
【小题7】Sandy got a couple of presents at her _______(twenty) birthday party.
【小题8】Mrs Smith often_____________(search) for some information about children education on the Internet.
【小题9】As we all know, the weather in South-west China is ____________ (dry) than any other time in history.        
【小题10】It gives us much____________(please) to welcome our new teacher.
【小题11】While the Disney characters were marching on Main Street, the visitors couldn’t stop ____________ (scream) last Saturday.

请仔细阅读小题及下面六个网站介绍(A、B、C、D、E和F)，选出符合Thomas、Melanie、Arthur、Darrel、David五人各自需求的最佳选项，其中有一选项为多余。

1. Thomas is a student from Japan, studying in Eastland High School. He has some problems with some English words and expressions. So he turns to some proper website for help.

2. Melanie is a high school student and wants to learn some hot technology news by reading some books in this field during the coming summer vacation. She wants to know where to get such books.

3. Arthur is a young school teacher and wants to take a long journey to Germany with his family by air. He hopes to get low-priced airline tickets and deeply discounted hotel rooms. In order to do this, he draws his attention to the websites.

4. Darrel’s father is a successful businessman. He is excited about his father’s job and decides to follow him. So he’d like to make good use of time in the summer holiday to learn some practical business English. How can he find a place where his dream can come true?

5. David is a student of English coming from Africa and used to have many difficulties in his English study. He decided that he would get some free English learning materials to read and with the help of his friends, he wanted to find a website for his purpose.

A    This site is to help ESL/EFL learners develop speaking skills. At this site you can listen to native speakers talk about all kinds of topics; learn useful idioms; learn common words and expressions; test your vocabulary skills in everyday English and so on.

B    This is a professional website for the tourism. It provides the national hotel free booking services and business services. It provides the latest news and information about business travel information.

C    Our website offers you special place to study English. The classes are small—never more than 6 students. The friendly, highly qualified teachers are always ready to help. We have programs such as Day and Evening Classes, and Business English Training for the workplace.

D    This website provides hundreds of pages of free English learning materials organized at different levels from low beginners to high beginners, low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced. No matter which English level you are at, you’ll find something for you here.

E    Our website always gets deep discounts on airline tickets, hotel rooms saving up to 70%, cheap vacation package at special rates and so on. We decide these special discounts from our travel partners, then pass these saving on to you. See what you could be saving with us! Live large, travel cheap.

F    Whether you are looking for a mystery, romance, Developers’ Tools, or Hot Technologies, our site always has a full list for you. Kick Book Sets: For Kids and Teens, For Men, For Teachers and so on. You will get what you need with great content. Welcome to our website!

News
Place: playground(操场)
Time: 5:00pm this Thursday
Program(节目): a friendly soccer game between Class 3 and Class 4
Lost
Hello, everyone! Do you see a cat in the park? Its name is Molly. It is a black cat. If you see Molly, please call Mary at 820-9291.
Wanted
Do you play the guitar well? We need a guitar teacher to teach kids between the ages of seven and ten. The work time is from Tuesday to Saturday, 300 yuan for each day. Welcome to join us.
【小题1】What color is Molly?