My grandfather is eighty years old now. He always complains about how fast things have changed, and he often says that life used to be better.
Families aren’t families they used to be. A lot of families have broken up. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage, they no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home and take care of their children, but now not any more. Everyone is busy working. Mother used to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now the family don’t eat home-cooked food any more.
And the cars! No one walks any more. More and more people drive. Students used to walk 5 miles to school every day, even in winter. But nowadays students don’t. And in school, children don’t have to think any more.. In math class, for example, they used to add, subtract, multiply and divide(加减乘除)in their heads. Instead, they use calculators.
And people today have TV and computers, and they don’t talk to each other any more. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too busy to think.
Life used to be simple, but it isn’t any more.
【小题1】What does my grandfather think of the life now?

阅读下面阅读材料，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选择一个最佳答案。
Henry: I find the Internet is very good for shopping. I use more and more for buying books and CDs, and I even bought some clothes over the Internet. The other thing I can do is to book(预订) travels over the Internet. I booked a cheap flight once. It was very easy, and it was really good.
David: I use the Internet for games. I play chess with people all around the world. Last night I had a game with someone from Japan. I also download (下载)games from the Internet, so I can have any game I want.
Peter: I use the Internet for anything I need to help me with my schoolwork. I use the online dictionaries, encyclopedias(百科全书) and magazines. It’s great because I can download pictures or articles and use them to help my homework. It’s very easy to use and it’s free, so I like it.
Tony: Well, the main thing I use the Internet for is to e-mail. I usually write to my customers(顾客) by e-mail, and my customers answer me by e-mail, too. We probably send and receive four or five hundred e-mails a month. But of course, I also use e-mails to keep in touch(保持联系) with friends and family. My daughter is in Australia and we send e-mails to each other every day.
【小题1】________　prefers to use the Internet to buy things.

My name’s Tony and I’m English. These are my parents.My mother is an English teacher in a university in Beijing. This is my father. He’s a hotel manager. My name’s Li Daming. I’m Chinese. These are my parents. My mother is a doctor at the hospital. My father is a factory manager.
【小题1】Tony is _________. 
A. English      B. England     C. China  
【小题2】Tony’s mother is _________.
A. an English teacher         B. a hotel manager 
C. a doctor 
【小题3】 –Is Tony’s father a hotel manager? 
- __________ 
A. Yes, he is.      B. No, he isn’t         C. /
【小题4】In English―--工厂经理is __________ 
A. hotel manager      B. factory manager        C. manager 
【小题5】What’s Daming’s mother? 
A.  a doctor       B. a teacher        C.a work 

There are three people in my family.They are my mother,my father and me.My father is a teacher.He teaches(教)English.My mother is a teacher, too.She teaches Chinese.I am a student.I'm in Class Two.I like my father and my mother and my parents likes me very much. (非常）
【小题1】.How many people are there in my family?
A.Two     B.Three        C .Four
【小题2】What is my father? 
A.Chinese      B.English      C.teacher 
【小题3】In Chinese,"people"is________. 
A.人       B学生       C.中国人
【小题4】What does my mother teach（教）？
A.Chinese       B.English      C.teacher 
【小题5】Does my mother like me?
A..Yes,she does.    B.No,She doesn't    C.Yes,she doesn’t.

Two little children come to a big city. Their names are Mike and Bob. They live with their father and mother. Their family is very rich. They have a driver and lots of servants. Mike and Bob are going to a new school. Their father says to them, “Mike and Bob, don’t say we are rich at school.”
So they go to school. Their teacher says, “Hi, boys and girls. Today we write a composition about your family. “ So all the children write something about their families. This is Mike’s composition.
“My name is Mike. My family is poor. My father and my mother are poor. Our driver is very poor and all the servants are very poor. “
阅读短文， 选择最佳答案。
【小题1】There are _________ people in Mike’s family.

There is a little dog in my home. I like it very much. Its name is Feifei. It’s as white as snow. It’s very cute. It likes meat very much. It comes from Beijing, so some people call it Beijing Dog. I often play with it. Every day, when I get home, it always waits for me at the door. I think it is saying, “Welcome back home!” In the evening I do my homework at my desk and it sits next to my feet and looks at me.
阅读短文，判断正（T）误（F）。
【小题1】The dog is white like snow.
【小题2】Feifei likes meat a lot.
【小题3】I think Feifei is very cute and dangerous.
【小题4】Feifei doesn’t wait for me at the door when I got home.
【小题5】I do homework in the evening and Feifei sits next to my feet and looks at me.

My sister and I are very different. When people meet us both, they are always surprised to learn that we are sisters. This is because we don’t look like each other, and we have different personalities(性格).
Are you similar to your brother or sister? My sister and I aren’t  similar to each other at all. I am tall, but she is very short. I have short dark brown hair and green eyes. She has long blond hair and blue eyes. I am strong, but she is not. I have big hands and feet; her feet and hands are very small. When we are kids, she was thin, but I was heavy. Now we’re both heavy.
We also have opposite personalities. She is always shy. I am more outgoing. She is very worried about what other people think and say about her, but I really don’t care. When she has a problem, she just worries about it, but when I have a problem, I try to fix it. She easily gets angry, especially with our mother. But I am more patient. 
【小题1】When people meet the writer and her sister, they are always surprised to learn          
【小题2】The writer and her sister are different in                     ways.
【小题3】The writer’s sister has                      hair.
【小题4】The writer’s sister is very worried about            about her.
【小题5】Do the write and her sister have the same personalities?              
【小题6】Find the topic sentence of the passage and copy it down. （找出文章的主题句并抄写下来）
【小题7】Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. （将划线的句子翻译成中文）
【小题8】The underlined word “heavy” in the passage means “                ”in English.

I am a school boy. My name is Li Ming. I am fourteen . I’m in Class Two, Grade One. I have a brother. My brother’s name is Li Tao. He’s seventeen . He’s in Class One, Grade Three.
My brother and I are at school. We like our school. My parents are teachers. They work hard. My brother and I study at No. 8 Middle School . There are sixteen girls and twenty--two boys in my class.
We go to school from Monday to Friday. We have no classes on weekends. I usually get up at six
o’clock . I have breakfast at 6:00. I come to school at seven o’clock. Classes start at eight. We have lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon . I have lunch at 11:40 . At three thirty ,we have sports.
We study Chinese, English, math , history, biology, music and art. We like Chinese and English because they are very interesting.
I go home at five o’clock . I eat dinner at six. I do my homework at seven every evening. I do it for two hours . I go to bed at nine thirty.
【小题1】My brother is        and I am        .

Cara and Ben are twins（双胞胎）. They are ten. This is their room. It’s a nice room. Two beds are in the room. The yellow bed is Cara’s and that green one is Ben’s. The twins have one desk and two chairs . Cara’s
English book is on his bed. Ben’s CD is on his chair. Their clock and pencil boxes are on the desk . Their schoolbags are on the chairs.
【小题1】 Cara and Ben are ______.