Rules in the library
Hello, boys and girls. Welcome to the school library. But you must follow some rules. First, you can’t be noisy in the library. You have to be ①________ here. Second, don’t listen ②________ music here, so you can’t bring your music players to the library. ③________, you can’t bring any food or eat anything in it. Fourth, don’t take photos in the library.
You can borrow (借) two books every time and keep them for two weeks. You must give them back on time. If you lose the books you borrowed, you have to pay for them.
1. How many rules are there in the school library according to Paragraph 1?2. Can we eat in the school library?
3. Translate (翻译) the underlined sentence into Chinese.
4. 用适当的词填入空白处。(No more than 1 word. )
①
5. List (列举) one rule in your life.
2 . Hello, everyone! I’m Frank. I’m a middle school student in No. 2 Middle School. Do you want to know my school life? Let me tell you.
I go to school from Monday to Friday. We have four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. We do many things after class. On Monday afternoon we have sports. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, some of us have art class. My favorite subject is art. On Wednesday and Friday afternoons, we talk to each other(互相) in English at the English Corner(英语角). On Saturdays and Sundays, I don’t go to school! 4. 我经常和朋友打篮球。
This is my school life! What about your school life?
1. When does Frank go to school?2. What do some of the students do on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons?
3. What’s Frank’s favorite subject?
4. 请把画线句子翻译成英语。
5. What is the main idea(大意) for Paragraph 2?
3 . The most popular drinks in Britain are tea and coffee. Traditional English food is meat, potatoes and vegetables, but now there’s a lot of international food from all over the world in the supermarkets and markets.
There are normally(通常地) two dishes in a meal: a meat dish and a dessert. People usually eat a light lunch and a big meal in the evening. The most traditional（传统的）dish is roast beef with roast potatoes (cooked in the oven) and vegetables. One of the most traditional desserts is called trifle. Beer is very popular. People often go to pubs for a drink and to talk. Pubs are typical(典型的) British bars.
1. What’s the most popular drink in Britain?2. What’s the traditional English food?
3. How many dishes are there normally in a meal?
4. When do people have a big meal in the UK?
5. Is beer popular in Britain?
Lantern Festival
This time, we’re going to talk about another traditional Chinese festival that comes right after the Chinese New Year’s Day. It is the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month. It is the end of the Chinese New Year, always 15 days after the Chinese New Year’s Day. On the Lantern Festival, there are lantern shows and lion dances in many places of the country, as well as in the China Towns in America. One kind of the food for the festival is tangyuan. It is another kind of dumpling made of sweet rice rolled into balls and stuffed with sweet or salty fillings. The Lantern Festival is also the beginning of the daily routines of the year. It is a festival for family and friends, just like the Chinese New Year.
1. When is the Lantern Festival?2. What can you find on the Lantern Festival?
3. What do people eat specially on that day?
4. It is a festival for family and friends, isn’t it?
5. Where do people in America celebrate this festival?
6. What would you love to do on that day?
5 . The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, has a history of more than 2,000 years. It is usually in June in the Gregorian calendar.
There are many legends（传说）about the evolution（演变）of the festival. The most popular is about Qu Yuan (340—270 BC). Qu Yuan was the minister of the State of Chu and one of China’s earliest poets. Qu Yuan cared much for his country and people. In 278 B.C., he heard that Qin had finally captured（攻占）Chu’s capital, so he jumped into the Miluo River. That day was the 5th of the 5th month in the Chinese lunar calendar. After his death, the people of Chu came to the bank of the river to pay their respects（敬重）to him. The fishermen sailed their boats up and down the river to look for his body. People threw rice dumplings into the water to keep fish away from his body. People followed the customs such as having a dragon boat race, eating rice dumplings on that day. From 2008 on, the festival becomes a national holiday in China.
1. When did people start to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?2. Qu Yuan was one of China’s earliest poets, wasn’t he?
3. How did Qu Yuan die?
4. What did people do after Qu Yuan died?
5. Why did people throw rice dumplings into the water?
They wanted to
6. In which year does the Dragon Boat Festival become the first national holiday in China?
6 . Picnics bring us great times with family and friends. Of course, they are also the good chance to enjoy delicious foods. Not all foods are good for picnics. Ice cream and cakes are tasty. But they may mess up your basket and attract flies. There is a rule for buying picnic food—make sure it is easy to carry, keep and eat. Here are some great ideas for picnic food from around the world. They may help you decide which food to take on a picnic.
US
Cold fried chicken is a popular picnic food. Fried chicken is easy to carry around. It is just as delicious whether it is cold or hot. You can buy some from a fast food restaurant.
UK
Scotch eggs (苏格兰鸡蛋) are a traditional picnic food for British people. People can make them at home. People usually keep it in the fridge before picnics and enjoy it cold.
France
France is famous for its cheese. Therefore, cheese is important on picnic menus. As the weather is very hot, people usually choose hard cheese. It keeps well. All fruits go very well with cheese, especially apples, watermelon and grapes.
1. What is the rule for choosing picnic food?2. Why is ice cream not good for picnics?
3. Where can people buy fried chicken from?
4. What is a traditional picnic food for British people?
5. Will French people choose some bananas to go with cheese?
6. What food will you take for picnic? Why?
This is a house for the US presidents（总统）to live and work in. It’s open to the public（公众）in the morning from Tuesday to Saturday.
The Statue of Liberty自由女神像
It’s 91 meters tall. It’s as tall as a 35-storey(层) building. You can take a lift to the lookout tower（瞭望台）. It can hold 40 people. There are 25 windows for visitors to enjoy the view.
The Empire State Building（帝国大厦）
It is the tallest building in New York. It has 102 storeys. You can get a view of the whole city if the weather is good.
1. What is the White House for?
2. When is it open to the pubic?
3. How tall is the Statue of Liberty?
4. How many people can the lookout tower hold?
5. The Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York, isn’t it?
6. Where can we get a view of the whole city if the weather is good?
8 . Jack loves travelling by train. Travelling by train is very comfortable. Most of the trains are air-conditioned, warm in winter and cool in summer. Jack usually chooses a non-smoking section, taking a seat by the window so he can enjoy the outside views. If it is a night train, the experience can be more exciting. He just sleeps the whole night and the next day he will be in a new city. By the way, he never has to worry about his meals. The train provides food 24 hours a day.
Travelling by train has another advantage（优点）: you may meet some old friends or you can listen to people talking about something of your interest. Last week when he was on a train, for example, he ran into a primary school classmate. They didn’t hope that they could bump into（偶遇）each other that way. They talked about many things: The games they played, the jokes they made on their classmates and the funny things they had done.
1. What does Jack love travelling by?He loves
2. Why does Jack love travelling by train?
Because travelling by train
3. What section does he usually choose?
He usually chooses
4. Does the train provides food 24 hours a day?
5. Who did Jack bump into last week?
6. What did Jack think of the trip on the train?
Some people like playing games themselves, but some enjoy watching others play. They buy tickets or turn on their TV sets to watch the games. They usually have “their teams” or “their players”. When “their teams” can’t win the game they are even sadder than the players themselves. Sports change with seasons. People play different games in different seasons. Most people’s favourite sport in summer is swimming and skating is usually a winter sport.
Sometimes people play games inside the room, and sometimes they play outside. We can find sports here and there. Some sports are very interesting and many people like them. Football, for example, is very popular in the world. Men and women, old and young all like it. People from different countries can’t understand each other at the beginning, but after a game they often become good friends.
1. How do people watch the games?2. How do they feel when “their teams” or “their players” lose the game?
3. Do people play the same games in different seasons?
4. What is most people’s favourite sport in summer?
5. Can people from different countries understand each other after a game?
6. What do you think of sports?
More than 200,000 members of Beijing’s driving associations (协会) are being asked to leave their cars at home at least one day a month in the hope of improving air quality in the capital. Their aim is to reduce traffic jams and noise, and improve air-quality as well.
“I love driving, but I’m ready to make more blue-sky days in Beijing,” said Lu Chuan, a film director and a former environmental ambassador (大使). Lu plans to ride his bicycle and walk more often in the future to protect the environment.
“Motor vehicle emissions (排放) are the main cause of Beijing’s air pollution,” said Du Shaozhong, from the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (环保局). According to the city’s environment department research, Beijing’s vehicles give out 3,600 tons of pollution each day.
The “no-car day” activity comes as Beijing tries to achieve 238 “blue-sky days”, or days with good air quality this year, five days more than last year.
The “no-car day” was first introduced by 34 French cities that started the world’s first “no-car day” on September 22, 1998.
1. How often are members of Beijing’s driving associations asked to leave their cars at home?2. Lu Chuan agrees to help make more blue-sky days in Beijing, doesn’t he?
3. What’s Lu’s plan to protect the environment?
4. What are the main cause of Beijing’s air pollution?
5. How many “blue-sky days” did Beijing achieve last year?
6. What do you think the writer of this passage tries to tell us?
