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Dave got up at 6:30 this morning. After brushing his teeth, he ate a ____of noodles and some porridge for breakfast. Then he ____ goodbye to his parents and left home. He walked to the school bus stop. He ____ his friend Bobby at the bus stop. They talked about the baseball ____ they waited for the bus. The bus came ten minutes later. They got on the bus. Dave and Bobby ____ next to each other on the bus, and they went on talking about ____. Twenty minutes later, they got to school . The bus driver said, “Have a good ____ in school.”They thanked the driver and went off the bus.

When they got to the ____ , it was time for class.Dave sat on his seat and began to take out his school things from his backpack. But his____ wasn’t in his backpack. He looked for it. But he couldn’t _____ it. At last he remembered he hadn’t put it in his backpack last night.

1. A. bag B. bowl C. box D. glass

2. A. spoke B. said C. told D. talked

3. A. met B. called C. visited D. looked

4. A. after B. because C.before D.when

5. A. walked B. ran C. sat D. lived

6. A. weather B. study C.sports D. animals

7. A. time B.vacation C.trip D. festival 8. A. hall B.library C. classroom D. home

9. A. watch B.pen C. camera D.key 10 A. spell B.watch C. write D. find

Peter was a good boy in the past. He studied hard at school. But ____his parents divorced(离婚), many people thought he wasn’t a good boy any more. Peter began to arrive ___ for school. His teacher told him to get to school on time,but he ____ did as the teacher said. Sometimes when he got to school, the first ____ was over. In class, he didn’t ____ the teacher, he slept. He didn’t like talking to others any more. He often ____ with other boys after school. Once he had to be in hospital for a week, but he didn’t stop. His ____ couldn’t stand him. They told Peter he must leave school if he broke(违反) the school _____ again.

On weekends Peter stayed at home and _____all day computer games. When he feft hungry, he only ate some snacks(零食). Nobody _____ for him.He lived with his father. But his father wasn’t often at home. Who can help Peter?

1. A.before B.after C.if D.when

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3. A.really B.often C.never D.always

4. A.day B.class C.show D.time

5. A.agree with B.wait for C.look for D.listen to

6. A.played B.talked C.fought D.ate

7. A.teachers B.parents C.friends D.classmates 8. A.exams B.rules C.life D.culture

9. A.wanted B.spent C.hoped D.worked 10. A.reported B.cleaned C.washed D.cooked

Lily is a girl from England. She is of mediun _____ and has long curly hair. She ____ all the subjects well. She always can ____ the rules at school, because she thinks they are good for her. She likes ____ days and she often enjoys the sun by herself. Her favorite ____ is mutton and carrot dumplings. She wants to be a ____, because she likes to help doctors work. She is ___ to her classmates. So she has lots of ____ at school. And she also has lots of pen pals. They are ____different countries. They don’t have to _____letters to each other. They often talk through QQ on the Internet.

1. A. high B. short C. bulid D. thin

2. A. studies B. watches C. listens D. likes

3. A. make B.remember C. mind D. dislike

4. A.sunny B.rainy C. cloudy D.windy

5. A. movie B. sport C.music D. food

6. A.doctor B. nurse C.teacher D. clerk

7. A. funny B. healthy C. friendly D. unfriendly 8. A.friends B. classes C. hobbies D.teachers

9. A. from B. to C. with D. of 10. A. read B. lose C. find D. write

Helen Cooper is my English teacher. She’s _____ the United States. This year she’s forty years old. Her ____ is on June first .Oh,it’s ____. On that day we often ____ a birthday party for her in our classroom. Mrs Cooper’s daughter also comes to the party.

Mrs Cooper’s daugher Amy is a _____. Now she ____ in a hospital in Beijing. She works very hard. And she’s ____ to people. So her patients all like her. Amy likes ____. She likes pandas best. In her bedroom you can see ____panda toys. On weekends, she often goes to the ___ with her mother. And she always goes to see the pandas first.

1. A. for B. on C. of D. from

2. A. class B. work C.birthday D. play

3.A.Teachers’ Day B.Women’s Day C. Children’s Day D. New Year’s Day

4. A.join B. have C.want D. play

5. A. doctor B.teacher C. reporter D.policewoman

6. A.jobs B. works C.job D. work

7. A. kinds B. kind C. kinds of D. kind of

8. A. basketball B. chess C.movies D. animals 9. A. many kinds of B. kind of C. a little D. a lot

10. A.zoo B. supermarket C. library D. restaurant

Today is our first day in Central Middle School. It is a large 1 beautiful school. Mr. Johnson is 2 . But Ms Laurent is very 3 . We have too 4 school 5 . We 6 wear bracelets(手镯), sunglasses 7 earrings. But I can’t live 8 my charm(护身符) bracelet. We have to wear school 9 on school days. But I can’t 10 the color of our uniform. We have to 11 English and Chinese every morning. But I don’t have time to 12 my violin. We have to 13 homework. We have to 14 hard. We have no time to 15 basketball.

1.A. or B. and C. With

2.A. friend B. fun C. friendly

3.A. serious B. well C. Good

4.A. many B. much C. little

5.A. things B. rulers C. rules

6.A. have B. can’t C. don’t

7.A. and B. with C. Or 8.A. without B. with C. no

9.A. hat B. uniform C .bag 10.A. like B. stand C. see

11. A. look B. see C. read 12. A. practice B. read C. clean

13. A. much B. many C. do 14. A. talk B. play C. study

15. A. practise B. like C. play

Everyone ____39____ that smoking is not good for health, but still more and more people begin to smoke. Every year about millions of smokers die from __40__ . Most of the smokers are men. But more and more __41__ also begin to smoke. The number of smokers is becoming larger and larger each year. Every year the government has to spend lots of money __42____ the people with illness caused by smoking, __43__ it also has to pay lots of money for the great loss(损失) in the ___44__ caused by smoking. So the government wants people to give up(放弃) smoking, ____45_____ the tobacco (烟叶) companies want more young people, even students in middle schools, to ___46__ because they want to make more money _____47_____ tobacco sales.

Why do many smokers find _____48_____ hard to give up smoking? The ___ 49__ with tobacco is that it has a drug called nicotine inside. The drug gets them into the habit(习惯) of smoking and

makes them find it __ 50__ to stop.

39. A. knows B. sees C. wants D. likes

40. A. drinking B. eating C. smoking D. laughing

41. A. men B. women C. children D. people

42. A. finding B. following C. looking for D. looking after 43. A. but B. so C. and D. or 44. A. fire B. water C. building D. sickness 45. A. but B. and C. so D. or

46. A. stop smoking B. start smoking C. go on smoking D. make more tobacco

47. A. to B. from C. of D. in 48. A. this B. that C. / D. it

49. A. question B. result C. answer D. problem 50. A. difficult B. easy C. fun D. interesting

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Jenny is a thirteen- year- old girl. Her parents are both doctors. They are very busy. They have no time to spend weekends with Jenny, so Jenny spends lots of time on the Internet, chatting with others on QQ. Of course, she doesn’t use her real name on QQ.

Last year Jenny made a special friend on QQ. His name is Mike. He lives in New York. Mike likes to tell jokes and stories. So they always spent hours talking happily on QQ. Two month later, Mike sent Jenny a photo of himself. Oh, he is about fourteen years old. He has long curly hair. Jenny likes him very much.

Last month Jenny’s father went to New York to have a meeting.So Jenny went there with him. She wanted to visit Mike. When she saw him,she found her special friend was only a ten-year-old boy.Mike is his real name.But the boy in the photo isn’t him. It is his cousin Jack.

1.What does Jenny’s mother do?

2.Where does Mike live?

3.What did Jenny’s father do last month?

4.Who has long curly hair?

5.How old is Mike?

My mother is Mrs Green. She’s a bank clerk. Every day she works with people and money. She is very busy. She never has lunch at home with us. She usually has lunch with her friends at Alan’s Restaurant. My mother’s favorite food is hamburgers.

My father Mr Green is an English teacher. He works at my school. His English is very good. My father can also speak Japanese. Oh, my father has a pen pal in England. His name is Paul Jones. He’s a twenty-year-old man. He likes playing beach volleyball. Paul has a little sister named Lisa. She’s only ten years old. She’s very smart. Every summer Lisa and her brother come to China on vacation.

1. A. chichen B. hamburgers C. tomatoes D. pears

2.A. teacher B. doctor C.bank clerk D. waiter

3. A. sister B. brother C. pen pal D. daugheter

4. A. Lisa B. Mrs Green C.Mr Green D. Paul

5.A. English girl B. Japanese girl C.English teacher D. volleyball player

Most children like playing computer games. They don’t enjoy doing the housework. But in Australia, Mike and Jack’s mother, Mrs Miller, has a good way to get her two sons to do the housework.

Here is an example.

“Mom, do you list next week’s housework? Let Jack and me choose the cards. I can’t wait. It’s fun.”Then the two children see their mother put all the cards on their big table. On the cards, there are some words like “clean the house, help Mom cook dinner, wash vegetables, walk the dog, make the bed” and many others. Jack and Mike each

choose one card every day. Then they put them on the wall and do the housework on time.

To let the children do the housework,Mrs Miller thought hard and came up with this idea. Of course Mrs Miller does the housework on weekends and Jack and Mike have two free days. On the two days, Jack usually plays soccer with his classmates. Mike usually goes to the beach with his friends.

1.Where does Mrs Miller live?

2.How many children does Mrs Miller have?

3.Who does the housework on weekends?

4.How many cards do Jim and Mike choose a week?

5.What does Jack usually do on weekends?

My cousin Bill likes going to the beach on Sunday. Last Sunday it was sunny, he went there with his brother. They got there at9:00. There were lots of people there on vacation. Bill and his brother sat down and began to relax.

Soon Bill found there were lots of empty water bottles on the beach. He also saw some paper bags on the beach. That made Bill sad. He and his brother began to work to clean the beach. They worked hard. About two hours later, the beach was clean again. At last they put up a sign, saying, “No Littering” on the beach. They wanted people to keep the beach clean. After that, they were very hungry. So they went to a restaurant nearby to have lunch. They had two large bowls of beef noodles there, and then went home.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/7d17961865.html,st Sunday the weather was____ . A . rainy B. cloudy C. sunny D.cold

2.Bill saw many ___ on the beach. A. money B. bottles C.books D.signs

3.Bill and his brother spent about ___ cleaning the beach. A. one hour B. two hours C. three hours D. four hours

4.The underlined phrase “put up” means____ in Chinese. A. 推荐 B.提供 C. 提出 D.贴出

5.Which of the following in TRUE? A. Bill is very lazy B. Bill stayed on the beach all day C. The

restautant is near the beach D. Bill’s brother had a small bowl of noodles for lunch

When people hold the Olympic Games, they always make an emblem (会徽). The emblem of the Athens Olympic Games this year is a white circle of olive branches in the sky.

Now Athens is developing a spirit of peace(和平). An officer said, “while in Athens, the world should be at peace. We hope the peace is not just for a short time. We would like the message from the Athens Games to help countries come together and solve their problems.”

Four years later, the Olympic Games will be held in China. And China has already made a seal as the emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The emblem has a single Chinese character on a red seal and means “Chinese seal-dancing Beijing.” Below it, there are the words “Beijing 2008”.The character in the emblem is “Jing”. It means “capital” of China an d it is also like a runner or a dancer. The running figure(人形) of the emblem shows the spirit of the Olympics- faster, higher and stronger.

58.What do people always make when they hold the Olympic Games?

A. A picture.

B. An emblem.

C. A flag.

D.A map.

59. What message does the Athens Olympic Games want to give? A. War.B. Luck. C. Danger.D. Peace.

60. How many years have passed when Athens again holds the Olympic Games?

A. 100.

B. 104.

C.108.

D. 112.

61. The spirit of the Olympic Games is ______. A. history and friend ship B. faster, higher and stronger C. running and dancing D. peace, friendship and development

Writing(写作)：

一、

本次班会的主题是－－我难忘的周末（假期）。请你写出一次难忘的周末或假期。文章内容要包括：周末（假期）活动；难忘的原因；感受。（可以选用下面的提示）

二、每个学校都有规章制度,下面是你们学校的一些规章制度,请你向新同学Tom介绍.

1.上课不能迟到.

2. 课堂要保持安静.

3. 不许在教室里吃东西.

4.不许在课堂上听音乐,玩游戏.

5.不要损坏花草树木.

6.不许抽烟、打架

7.不能乱扔垃圾，在楼道里乱跑

8. 禁止上网吧，注意个人安全。

三、介绍你的旅游经历。假如你去过北京，北京有许多名胜古迹，如长城、天安门、故宫等等。

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Sleep There are times when people are so tired that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see there is a lot of sleeping on the bus or train on the __1__home from work in the evenings. A man will be __2__the newspaper, and seconds later it __3__ as if he is trying to __4__it. Or he will fall asleep on the shoulder of the stranger __5__ next to him. __6__ place where unplanned short sleep __7__ is in the lecture hall where a student will start snoring so__8__ that the professor has to ask another student to __9__ the sleeper awake. A more embarrassing situation occurs when a student start falling into sleep and the __10__ of the head pushes the arm off the __11__, and the movement carries the __12__ of the body along. The student wakes up on the floor with no__13__ of getting there. The worst time to fall asleep is when __14__. Police reports are full of __15__that occur when people fall into sleep and go __16__ the road. If the drivers are __17__,they are not seriously hurt. One woman’s car, __18__,went into the river. She woke up in four feet of __19__ and thought it was raining. When people are really __20__,nothing will stop them falling asleep – no matter where they are. 1. A. way B. track C. path D. road 2. A. buying B. folding C. delivering D. reading 3. A. acts B. shows C. appears D. sounds 4. A. open B. eat C. find D. finish 5. A. lying B. waiting C. talking D. sitting 6. A. Next B. Every C. Another D. One 7. A. goes on B. ends up C. lasts D. returns 8. A. bravely B. happily C. loudly D. carelessly 9. A. leave B. shake C. keep D. watch 10. A. size B. shape C. weight D. strength 11. A. cushion B. desk C. shoulder D. book 12. A. action B. position C. rest D. side 13. A. memory B. reason C. question D. purpose 14. A. thinking B. working C. walking D. driving 15. A. changes B. events C. ideas D. accidents 16. A. up B. off C. along D. down 17. A. lucky B. awake C. calm D. strong 18. in time B. at first C. as usual D. for example 19. A. dust B. water C. grass D. bush 20. A. tired B. drunk C. lonely D. lazy In return Once a gentleman was traveling in a train. He felt __1__ and got down at a station in search of water. No sooner had he reached the water tap than the __2__ whistled and started. He ran back but __3__ the train. It was getting __4__ and he decided to spend the night at the station. The next morning he inquired about the next train. He__5__ to know that the next train was on the other day. So he decided to find a place for a day’s __6__, he went to the nearby lodges to ask for a room but found __7__. It was getting darker and he could not find a room. At last he __8__ a small hut. He asked the owner of the hut__9__ he could stay in his house for a day. The owner readily __10__. That day the owner served him food and gave him a room to stay in. But he did not ask nor expected anything __11__. At night when it did __12__ seven in the clock, the gentleman heard a __13__ at the door. The villager opened the door. The gentleman saw that a man dressed in gaudy and rich clothes entered the hut and __14__ the owner to pay his debts. The gentleman came to know that the villager was in need of __15__. The next morning he left a pocket in the drawer of the room and __16__. When the villager knew about the pocket, he saw that there was a __17__ written to him, and it read “Y ou __18__ me but

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20 Peter’s job was to examine cars when they crossed the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling anything into the country. Every evening he would see a factory worker coming __1__ the hill towards the frontier, __2__ a bike with a pile of goods of old straw on it. When the bike __3__ the frontier, Peter would stop the man and __4__ him take the straw off and untie it. Then he would examine the straw very __5__ to see __6__ he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man’s pocket s __7__ he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always __8__ to find gold or other valuable things __9__ in the straw, he never found __10__. He was sure the man was __11__ something, but he was not __12__ to think out what it could be. Then one evening, after he had looked __13__ the straw and emptied the worker’s pockets __14__ usual, he __15__ to him, “Listen, I know you are smuggling things __16__ this frontier. Won’t you tell me what it is? I’m an old man, and today’s my last day on the __17__. Tomorrow I’m going to __18__. I promise I shall not tell __19__ if you tell me what you’ve been smuggling.” The worker did not say anything for __20__. Then he smiled, turned to Pe ter and said quietly, “Bikes.” 1. A. towards B. down C. to D. up 2. A. filling B. pulling C. pushing D. carrying 3. A. arrived B. appeared C. came D. reached 4. A. ask B. order C. make D. call 5. A. carefully B. quickly C. silently D. horribly 6. A. that B. where C. how D. whether 7. A. before B. after C. first D. so 8. A. lucky B. hoping C. thinking D. wondering 9. A. had been B. hidden C. hiding D. have been 10. A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything 11. A. taking B. smuggling C. stealing D. pushing 12. A. possible B. strong C. able D. clever 13. A. through B. thoroughly C. upon D. up 14. A. like B. more C. then D. as 15. A. told B. cried C. ordered D. said 16. A. cross B. past C. across D. into

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