从方框中选择正确的句子补全对话。

A: What’s wrong with you, Helen?

B:    1.     I have a cold.

A: Bad luck!   2. 

B: Oh, but I’m busy now and I must

finish these exercises in the class.

A:  3.    He will ask you to

have a rest at home.

B:    4.    I don’t want to ask for leave.

A:   5.   You’d better lie down and have a good rest now.

B: OK. I’ll ask for leave at once. Thank you very much.

从方框中选择正确的句子补全对话。

A: What’s wrong with you, Helen?

B:    1.     I have a cold.

A: Bad luck!   2. 

B: Oh, but I’m busy now and I must

finish these exercises in the class.

A:  3.    He will ask you to

have a rest at home.

B:    4.    I don’t want to ask for leave.

A:   5.   You’d better lie down and have a good rest now.

B: OK. I’ll ask for leave at once. Thank you very much.

Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. “She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”

Not very easy, was it? What you’ve just read is called a tongue twister (绕口令). It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce(发音，读) in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly. Try the next example.

“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Pete Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”

Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people’s ability  to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult, these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.

So if you wish to pronounce words more smoothly, you’d better try picking out some tongue twisters and practicing them.

1.Tongue twisters are helpful in improving ___________ skills.

A. listening        B. writing      C. pronunciation     D. communication

2.The first tongue twister is hard because ___________.

A. it is very boring to read            B. it teaches us a lot of knowledge

C. we don’t know who “she” is        D. the sounds of “s” and “sh” are similar

3.The passage is probably taken from _________ in a school newspaper.

A. Story Time          B. Study Garden

C. Latest News          D. Lost and Found

A）根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空。

1. If Simon_________________ (have) time next weekend, he will go to the zoo.

2.How_________________ (care) you are! You’ve knocked the cup off the table again!

3. Yesterday was the _________________  (hot) day of the year.

4. It seemed that the victim had many_________________  (enemy).

5.I’m patient. I don’t mind _________________  (wait) for people.

B）根据句子意思及汉语提示，写出所缺的单词。

6.Susan plays the piano very _________________ (好).

7. Have you ever_________________ (骑) a horse?

8.I’m sure your cousins can do these exercises _________________ (自己)

9.I love children, _________________ (尤其，特别)when they smile.

10.My brother sleeps with the window open _________________(除非)it’s really cold.

— Our teacher told us that these exercises were __________.

— Really?