We go to school from Monday to Friday．We are very busy．On Monday I have a music class．I like singing．It starts at nine-thirty in the morning．On Tuesday we have a swimming class．It starts at 2 pm．In the afternoon it is very hot （热的）．It is good for us to swim．On Wednesday Tina and Tony have a painting class．It starts at 3 pm．On Thursday Sam and Jane have a dancing class．They like dancing．On Friday Tom and Kate have a science class．On Saturday we are free．We like Saturday! We can have a happy weekend．We often have party on weekends．

1．The music class starts at ___________

    A．15:00                    B．9:30                     C．9:00

2．__________ have painting class．

    A．Tina and Tony       B, Sam and Tony          C．Jane and Sam

3．Sam and Jane like

    A．swimming          B．painting              C．dancing

4．The science class is on ___________

    A．Wednesday           B．Thursday             C．Friday

5．What is the word "free" in Chinese'?

A．繁忙的                B．空闲的                  C．无聊的

My granddaughter, 10, was very happy the day before yesterday because her mother and the mother of one of her classmates took them to a park and a Pizza Hut （比萨饼屋）to celebrate Children’s Day. For a whole day, the two girls played heartily – no homework, no extra-curricular（课外） skills training. The happy life lasted only for one day. Yesterday, everything returned to normal: doing homework till late at night and going over lessons learned at last weekend’s English and “ Olympic mathematics” （数学奥赛）　courses.

Every time I went to my daughter’s house in the evening, I saw my granddaughter sitting by the small desk in her room doing math exercises or writing a compositions given by her teacher. On the white wall behind the desk are some words she wrote. One sentence reads: “ Why is the exercise endless?”

Poor girl!

Although teachers have stopped giving after-school homework to primary school children, parents have been forcing their kids to take part in different kinds of extra-curricular training courses-learning English, painting, music instrument （乐器）, weiqi, “ Olympic mathematics” and so on, every Saturday and Sunday.

Are these extra-curricular courses really necessary in children’s education? The answer is certainly “ No”. Take the so-called “ Olympic mathematics” for example. These courses are very difficult for the children to understand. Often, they are difficult even for adults （成年人）.

（   ）1. The writer’s granddaughter celebrated her Children’s Day by _____.

           A．playing all day              B．doing nothing

           C．having a party              D．going over lessons

（   ）2. Usually at weekends the girl will _______.

A．stay at home               B．play with their classmates

C．do whatever she likes        D．go to different kinds of training courses

（   ）3. The writer thinks that her granddaughter ______.

A．lives a happy life            B．goes to bed early at weekend

C．has too much homework      D．likes to do more exercises

（   ）4. Which is true according to （根据）the passage?

A．The “Olympic Mathematics” is too difficult for kids.

B．The grandfather thinks playing is more important than learning.

C．Teachers often give students useless homework.

D．The parents don’t want their kids to do lots of homework.

（   ）5. From the last paragraph（段落）we know that the writer thinks _____.

A．only school courses are useful to kids

B．some extra-curricular courses kids learn after school are not necessary

C．some extra-curricular courses are even more difficult for adults

D．kids shouldn’t learn difficult courses

单词拼写与运用

1．—Could I b________ your bicycle?

   —Certainly．It's over there．

2．English is his f________ subject．He is good at it．

3．I can't make much progress（进步） w______ your help．

4．I like comedies very much．I often go to the c________ with my family on weekends．

5．The Olympics will tells experience the true  meaning of motto（理念）“Faster， Higher and Stronger” and the main subject during the Olympics，“ One world，One D ______________ ”

6．Tsinghua is one of the most famous u _______（大学）in China．I'm going to study in it when I finish my high school．

7．It's __________ （必要，需要） to practice English every day．

8．Follow the ______ （说明）of the medicine，you can be better soon．

9．—Who got the gold medal in single-man table tennis _______ （比赛）?

   —Wang Hao did．

10．—Can you take care of ________（你自己）while I'm not at home?

    —Of course，we can．

11．Yellow River is one of the longest ______（river） in China．

12．Thanks a lot for your _______（invite） to your birthday party．

13．—Do the students have a class ___（meet）once a week．

    —No，they have it twice a month．

14．China has built a new Green Great Wall across the _______ （north）part of our country．

15．A lot of foreign ____（tour）come to Oufu to go sightseeing every year．