Trudy’s class has a newspaper. The students write stories, articles and poems for it. Then one of them types their work into a computer and prints it out. The teacher puts up everything on the wall so that it looks like a large, open newspaper.

One day Trudy said to the teacher, “Most newspapers have advertisements. Can we have advertisements in ours?”

The teacher thought this was a very good idea. She made Trudy the advertising manager and Trudy asked the other students to advertise in the newspaper. Here are some of the advertisements she received.

1. What is Tom willing to do?

A. Other people’s homework.                        B. Gardening or housework.

C. Sell six Persian kittens.                              D. Fix broken PCs.

2. What does Alan want to buy?

  A. A lovely Persian kitten.                              B. A ticket to the Raiders’ concert.

  C. A PC in good condition.                                   D. A silver ring.

3. Why will Sheila pay well for a Raiders’ concert ticket?

  A. Because she is thinking about going to the concert.

  B. Because she is desperate to go to the concert.       

  C. Because she likes going to the concert.

  D. Because her friends are going to the concert.

4. Who will Patricia see to get her lost ring?

  A. Miriam.                   B. Tom.                 C. Sheila.                 D. Agnes.

5. The main idea of this passage is

  A. The students in Trudy’s class wrote advertisements for their newspaper.

  B. Trudy’s class has a newspaper.

  C. Trudy wrote some advertisements for the class newspaper.

  D. The teacher wrote some advertisements for the class newspaper.

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Alice is my pen friend. She is a 16-year-old girl from the UK, but now she lives in China. She is a middle school student in Nanjing. She likes going to school, but there are some things she doesn’t like, such as PE. She enjoys playing sports. She thinks sports are interesting and exciting. But she doesn’t like doing physical exercises in PE classes. She feels that they are boring! Her favourite subject is Science. It seems that the amazing and useful Science attracts her. She thinks she is on the way to be a scientist. She wishes to invent things to make the world more and more beautiful.
In her free time, she often goes to the beach. She loves just sitting around and talking to friends there. She’s getting better at understanding boys, but she hates listening to hours of talk about football. “It’s not interesting at all!” she once said to me.
That is my penfriend Alice.
Information about Alice

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Alice is my pen friend. She is a 16-year-old girl from the UK, but now she lives in China. She is a middle school student in Nanjing. She likes going to school, but there are some things she doesn’t like, such as PE. She enjoys playing sports. She thinks sports are interesting and exciting. But she doesn’t like doing physical exercises in PE classes. She feels that they are boring! Her favourite subject is Science. It seems that the amazing and useful Science attracts her. She thinks she is on the way to be a scientist. She wishes to invent things to make the world more and more beautiful.

In her free time, she often goes to the beach. She loves just sitting around and talking to friends there. She’s getting better at understanding boys, but she hates listening to hours of talk about football. “It’s not interesting at all!” she once said to me.

That is my penfriend Alice.

Information about Alice

Basic information   Name: Alice              Age: sixteen1.       old.

Birth place: in the UK      Living now: in China

             What                            Why /For what

Likes         Playing sports.                     Interesting and 2.

            Going to the 3.                     Sitting around

and 4.      to friends.

            Favourite subject: Science            5.         and useful.

Dislikes       Having 6.       classes.                Physical exercises are 7.

            8.      talks about football.              Not interesting at all.

Wishes       To be a scientist.                   Be 9.       by Science.

            To invent things.                    Make the world 10.       beautiful.

Alice is my pen friend. She is a 16-year-old girl from the UK, but now she lives in China. She is a middle school student in Nanjing. She likes going to school, but there are some things she doesn’t like, such as PE. She enjoys playing sports. She thinks sports are interesting and exciting. But she doesn’t like doing physical exercises in PE classes. She feels that they are boring! Her favourite subject is Science. It seems that the amazing and useful Science attracts her. She thinks she is on the way to be a scientist. She wishes to invent things to make the world more and more beautiful.

In her free time, she often goes to the beach. She loves just sitting around and talking to friends there. She’s getting better at understanding boys, but she hates listening to hours of talk about football. “It’s not interesting at all!” she once said to me.

That is my penfriend Alice.

Information about Alice