小博士：仔细观察下面这段对话，你会发现下面的句子中出现了已经学过的现在进行时，我们已经学过现在进行时是用于表示正在发生或进行的事情。可是用这个观点来解释下面这段对话却有些不通，这是怎么回事？请同学们仔细思考后来回答问题。

A：Hi, Tom, what day is it today?

B/C/D：Today is Thursday.

A：Can you come over to my house on Saturday?

B：OK, I'd love to.

C：I'm sorry, I can't. I'm having a piano lesson.

D：I'm sorry, too. I'm looking after my grandparents.

问：此处的现在进行时是用来表示此刻正在发生的事情吗？如果不是，那么此处的进行时是用来表示什么时候发生的事情呢？

答：________________

A teacher let her class play a game. The teacher told each child to bring a bag with some potatoes. Each potato would be given a name of a person that the child hated, so the number of potatoes in his/her bag would depend on the number of people the child hated. Some children had two potatoes, some had three and others had up to five potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry the bag wherever they went for a week. After a week, the teacher asked, ”How did you feel?” The children started complaining about the unpleasant smell coming from the rotten potatoes when they had to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes everywhere they went.
Then the teacher said,” This is the same when you carry your hate for somebody inside your heart. The smell of hate will pollute your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot bear the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you imagine what it is like to have the smell of hate in your heart for your lifetime?”
【小题1】 Tom had two potatoes in his bag .It means he had ______ persons he didn’t like.

A．two

B．four

C．three

D．five

【小题2】 In the game, the students should _________.

A．keep the bag of potatoes in the classroom

B．carry the bag of potatoes everywhere they go

C．leave the bag of potatoes at home

D．count the bag of potatoes every day

【小题3】The underlined word “rotten” most probably means ___________ in Chinese.

A．美味的

B．新鲜的

C．甜的

D．腐烂的

【小题4】 According to the last paragraph, we can learn that ________.

A．potatoes are very important to the students

B．hating others can make the life unhappy

C．the smell of hate is good for our health

D．the students like to carry the bag of the potatoes

【小题5】 Which is the best title of this passage?

A．An interesting game

B．Carry the smelly potatoes

C．The rotten potatoes

D．To excuse others is to excuse yourself

Nat lived in a small town in England. He always stayed in England for his vacation, but last year he thought, “I’m never outside this country. All my friends go to Spain , and they like it very much. So this year I’m going there, too.”
First he went to Madrid (马德里) and stayed in a small hotel for a few days. On the first morning he went out for a walk. In England people drive on the left, but in Spain they drive on the right. Nat forgot about this and when he was crossing a busy street, a bike knocked (撞) him down.
Nat lay (躺) on the ground for a few seconds and then he sat up and said,
“Where am I ?”
An old man was selling maps at the side of the street, and he at once came
to Nat and said, “Map of the city, sir ?”
【小题1】Nat always spent his vacation______ .

A．in Madrid

B．in Spain

C．outside his country

D．in England

【小题2】One year, Nat went to _______ .

A．England

B．London

C．Spain

D．America

【小题3】The exact (准确) Chinese word for “busy” in this story may be “______”.

A．忙碌的

B．紧张的

C．热闹的

D．热烈的

【小题4】“Map of the city, sir ?” means “______”.

A．Do you have a map of the city

B．Show me a map of the city, please

C．Do you want to buy a map of the city, sir ?

D．Do you want to have a look at the map of the city

【小题5】The end (结尾) of the story is ______ .

A．sad

B．happy

C．interesting

D．boring

There was once a young man called Paul in a village in the USA. Paul was very lazy because his father was a rich farmer and he didn’t have to work. Mr Smith, a neighbour of his, was a blacksmith (铁匠). He used to work in his shop all day. Paul spent hours and hours watching how the blacksmith worked every day. “Young man, why don’t you try your hand to make a shoe tack (铁钉), even it is only to pass the time?” said the blacksmith one day, “ Maybe it will be useful to you some day.” Finally, the lazy boy began to have a try. After practicing some times, he became skilled and could make very nice tacks.
Years later, Paul’s father died and he lost all the things because of a war (战争). He had to move to another country and live by himself. It happened that there were many shoemakers paying high prices to buy tacks for the shoes, because in that part of the country there was a great need of tacks for soldiers’ shoes. Paul went to talk with them. He told them that he would make the tacks if they could help him find a workshop in the village. The shoemakers agreed. Then Paul made a lot of money by making tacks. “How funny it is!” he said to himself, “Even by making shoe tacks, one can become rich.”
【小题1】Why didn’t Paul have to work?
A. Because he couldn’t do anything.
B. Because he was too lazy.
C. Because his father was very rich.
D. B and C.
【小题2】What’s the Chinese meaning of skilled?

A．熟练的.

B．适应的.

C．自信的.

D．巧妙的.

【小题3】What did Paul do after his father died because of the war?

A．He travelled to another country.

B．He moved to another country.

C．He learned to make shoes.

D．He started a workshop.

【小题4】How many kinds of people appeared in the story except Paul ?

A．Five.

B．Four.

C．Three.

D．Two.

【小题5】What can we learn form the story?

A．Making tacks is important.

B．Wars can make people hard-working.

C．Nothing is difficult to learn.

D．Everything you learned may be useful.

JOLIN Tsai (蔡依林), a famous singer, has become an English teacher! But she is not staying in a classroom to give you talks in English. Instead, she has published (出版) a new book, "Jolin’s English Diary Book". It came out in Taiwan in March. Jolin is helping you learn English in a light hearted way and give you useful words for life outside your textbooks.
　　"I hope it’s a happy English book," she said, "When you learn English in a fun way, you will keep on doing it." This certainly doesn’t mean just reciting (背诵) words. Jolin has a lot of clever ways of learning. She likes to listen to English songs or find friends to talk to in English. She has been good at English since Grade 3 in primary school (小学). Because of this, she hosted (主持) news programme on the radio herself.
　　Jolin knows it’s important to put English to good use. So, in her English diaries, she wrote something about her everyday life, like study, fashion (时尚), travel and family. After each diary, she gives you lots of notea.You can use them often, too! Jolin also asks you to keep diaries like hers.
【小题1】 When did Jolin Tsai publish "Jolin’s English Diary Book" ?

A．In May

B．hi April

C．In March

D．In June

【小题2】 She has been good at English ___.

A．since she became a famous singer	B．since she was in Grade 3
C．since she was in college (大学)	D．since she was 3 years old

【小题3】 Jolin thinks that ___ is important for us to learn English.

A．just reciting words	B．hosting a programme on the radio
C．studying in the classroom	D．putting English to good use

【小题4】 What’s the meaning of "light-hearted" in the passage?

A．轻松愉快的

B．漫不经心的

C．迷迷糊糊的

D．乐于助人的

【小题5】From the passage we know that ____.

A．she is not only a famous singer but also an English teacher in a primary school

B．you don’t have to keep English diaries

C．she teaches us how to be a famous singer in "Jolin’s English Diary Book"

D．Jolin Tsai shows us how to learn English in a fun way