Mrs. Cook was lazy. Mr. Cook had to cook dinner and wash the dishes every day. One evening, Mr. Cook was cooking dinner. Mrs. Cook was watching TV. Henry, their son, came into the kitchen and said in a low voice, “Dad, you pretend(假装) to be ill after supper, then mum will wash the dishes.”
After dinner Mr. Cook said that he felt some pain in his back. His wife was very worried. She said, “If you are ill, what should I do?” Henry came to his father to make him comfortable(舒服的) with his hands.
“Are you better?” Mrs. Cook asked him after a while. “Yes, I feel much better now. I’m all right.” Before Henry could stop his words, Mr. Cook told his wife.
“Really? Go and wash the dishes!” said Mrs. Cook.
1. Mrs. Cook cooked dinner that evening.2. Henry went into the kitchen and said to his father in a low voice.
3. Mr. Cook was worried about Mrs. Cook.
4. Henry wanted his dad to wash the dishes.
5. Mr. Cook had to wash the dishes in the end.
Mary: I’m going to visit the Butterfly Park with my grandparents. I like butterflies there.
Jack: I’m going to play football on Sunday. It’s my favorite sport.
Tony: I’m going to see a film with my parents on Saturday afternoon.
Rose: I’m going to fly a kite in the park on Sunday.
Linda: I don’t have any plans for the weekend.
Rose: Do you want to come with me, Linda?
Linda: Sure. Thank you very much, Rose.
读对话，判断句子，正确的写“A”，错误的写“B”
1. Mary is going to visit the Butterfly Park.
2. Jack’s favorite sport is football.
3. Tony will see a film with his grandparents on Saturday afternoon.
4. Mary and Linda are going to see the butterflies on Sunday.
5. Rose and Linda are going to fly a kite on Sunday.
Fin is puppet (玩偶). He is made of wood. There are strings on his arms and legs. There are also strings on his hands and feet. Children like to play with. They move his arms and legs. They move his hands and feet too. They cannot move his nose or his mouth either.
Pip is a puppet too, but she is made of cloth. She is a glove puppet. She doesn’t have any strings. Children like to play with Pip too. They can put their small hands inside Pip. They can put their fingers in her hands and move them.
1. There are strings on Fin’s arms, legs, hands and feet.2. Children can move Fin’s legs by pulling his strings.
3. Fin and Pip are glove puppets.
4. Pip has lot of strings.
5. Pip can move her hands by herself.
Jenkins was a jewler, a master craftsman (工匠) in the Silkstone Jewellery company. Ten years ago, he made a large diamond ring for the company. It was worth ＄2,000. The second ring looked exactly like the first one. Jenkins knew it would pass all the usual tests—except one possibility. Jenkins gave the much more valuable ring to his wife on her fortieth birthday, and the couple flew to Paris for a weekend. Later, the company sold the ring for ＄6,000.
Six months ago the buyer brought it back to Silkstone’s head office. “It’s a faulty diamond,” he said. “It isn’t worth the high price I paid.”
He explained the facts. His wife’s car had caught fire in an accident. She escaped, but the ring had come off her finger. It had fallen to the ground and been damaged in the great heat of the burning petrol.
The company had to agree. They knew that no fire on earth can ever damage a perfect diamond. Someone had taken the real diamond and put a faulty stone in its place. The question was: who?
A picture of the ring appeared in the newspaper. A professional photographer recognized the ring. The next day there was another picture in the paper: it showed a famous actress walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the actress there was a woman wearing a large diamond ring. “Do you know the woman with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked the readers.
At his trial (审讯), Jenkins asked the judge to consider eighty-one similar crimes against the Silkstone Jewellery company.
The judge said, “You are a master craftsman who turned bad. I feel rather sorry. But I must send you to prison for seven years.”
1. From the passage we can tell that the master craftsman is good at making diamond rings.2. Jenkins made a large diamond ring for his wife on her fortieth birthday.
3. The Silkstone company didn’t know about the faulty diamond ring they had sold for $2,000 until they received the complaint from the buyer.
4. The faulty ring looked just like the real one except that it would be seriously damaged in a fire.
5. The actress in the photograph gave the judge very important clues.
6. It was the professional photographer that helped to find the criminal.
7. The master craftsman wasn’t put into prison at last.
When children are faced with problems, they may not be able to deal with them. Children need to learn how to solve problems. You can help them to learn it. The best way is to take the time to talk about problems as they happen. Of course, this is not easy to do. Problems have a way of bursting upon (突然发生) someone at the worst time. But even if the time is not the best, you should try to help.
There are many things you can do to help children learn problem-solving skills. One of the good ways is to find out what made the problem happen. This is a skill that children won’t learn without help. A child may knock over a glass of milk at the dinner table, but he may not realize that the glass was too close to the edge. You can show the child what the problem is. Then it can be solved.
The next step for children is to learn how to solve the problem alone. This step takes courage. Some of them are so afraid of being wrong that they cannot solve problems. You can help them by talking about some possible answers. You and the child can decide which answer is the best. Let the children try it out. Now the children will see that problems can be solved, and you can praise them for choosing a good answer.
Another step to problem-solving is to help children see the laws of cause and effect (因果规律). If a glass is knocked over, it will fall and break. If children might like to write on the wall, the pencil always leaves a mark. Soon the children will see the link(链接) between cause and effect, and then they are on the road to growth. When children see someone else knock over a glass, they now know that it will break. When they see writings on the wall, they can tell how it got there.
The ability to solve problems is not easy for children to learn. It is not easy for adults either. It takes patience for you, and it takes practice for the child. But problem-solving can be taught. All you need is time and effort.
1. Children should learn to deal with problems.2. When problems happen, you needn’t help them. They should deal with them by themselves at first.
3. We should help children to learn problem-solving skills.
4. We should help children find out what made the problem happen.
5. Children should learn to solve problems alone without any help.
6. Another step to problem-solving is we should help children see the laws of cause and effect.
7. This passage is mainly to tell how to help children to deal with problems when they face them.
“My family have been watching the ‘Super Girl’ singing competition TV programme. My little daughter asked me what ‘PK’ meant, but I had no idea,” said a Yangzhou father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing MUD games(多用户网络游戏) online, it is impossible not to know this jargon(行话). In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight with each other until one ends the life of the other. In the case of the “Super Girl” singing competition, “PK” was used when two singers had to compete with each other for only one chance to go up.
Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also found their students’ compositions, using Internet jargon, difficult to understand. Once a high school teacher from Nanjing asked her students to write compositions, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargon that she didn’t understand. “My ‘GG’ came back this summer from college. He told me I had grown up to be a ‘PLMM’. He always took me to the ‘KPM’...,” went one composition. “GG” means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for “brother”). “PLMM” means Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). “KPM” is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonalds. “Gr 8”means “Great”. “LOL” has the meaning of “Laugh Out Loud”.
If you don’t even know what a “Kong Long” (a bad-looking girl) or a “Qing Wa” (a bad-looking boy) is, then you’ll perhaps be thought as a “Cai Niao” (a person who starts to use the Internet).
While some language experts agree that Internet jargon is a new development in language, many teachers and parents are worried that too much use of such language may keep the students away from the “right” usages (使用) or make them fail to do well in language exams.
1. The Yangzhou father doesn’t know the meaning of “PK”.2. Many Chinese school students like to use Internet jargon in their speaking and writing today.
3. On the Internet, you can use “GG” and “MM” to show you are very happy.
4. We call a person “Cai Niao” if he or she is a beginner in using the Internet.
5. If you use the Internet jargon in your composition, it will be difficult to understand.
6. “PK” in the Internet games means to help the other.
7. Many teachers and parents think of Internet jargon may keep the students away from the “right” usages of language.
National Holidays
Countries around the world have national holidays. Of course, the holidays are on different days. The ways people celebrate national holidays are sometimes the same, though.
In the United States, the national holiday is on July 4th. There are many parades of all kinds of people and jobs on that day. People cook food outside and eat outdoors. In France, national holiday is on July 14th. There are big parades, too. Planes fly overhead in the sky to give a show sometimes. People dance in the streets. Many events such as concerts and films are free on that day.
Mexican Independence Day is on May 5th. There are big parades, too. In Mexico City, people put on play every year. The play shows how Mexico won its independence. Everywhere around the city is mariachi (墨西哥流浪乐队) music and dancing. People eat their favorite Mexican dish Mole Poblano (chocolate chicken) on that day.
1. The national holidays in different countries are on the same day.2. Mexico’s Independence Day is on July 14th.
3. In the United States, people have all kinds of parades on July 4th.
4. In France, you don’t need to pay any money if you go to the concerts on their national holiday.
5. In France, people play mariachi music on their Independence Day.
8 . What do we know about the sea? Most of us have seen it. We know that it looks very pretty when the sun is shining on it. We also know that it can be less pretty when the weather is terrible. What other things do we know about it?
The first thing is that the sea is very big. Look at a map of the world and you will find there is less land than sea. The sea covers 3/4 of the world. Some parts of the sea are very shallow (浅的). The sea is very deep in some places. At a place near Japan, the sea is nearly 11 kilometers deep! If the highest mountain in the world were put into the sea at the place, there would be two kilometers of water above it.
判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T表示，不符合的用“F’表示。
1. All the people know about the sea clearly.
2. The sea doesn’t look pretty all the time.
3. If you look at a map of the world, you will find there’s much more sea than land.
4. The land covers three-fourths of the world.
5. The passage tells us that the depth (深度)of the sea in different places are quite different.
6. The word “it” in the last sentence means the water.
Mr Smith works in a middle school. He teaches English. His wife was born in a rich family and stays at home. She doesn’t want to find a job and never does any housework. Their son, Bill, is ten years old but the boy likes nothing but playing. So he isn’t good at his lessons. He can’t do his homework and often asks his mother to help him. But the woman can’t do it, either. She asks her husband to do all the homework for Bill every day. The woman says she will do some housework if he helps their son.
It was Saturday yesterday. Mr Smith didn’t go to work. But he had to get up early. There were a lot of clothes to wash. He hates to do washing. So he asked, “Do you have any homework to do, Bill?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Bad luck!” said Mr Smith. “I have to wash clothes today. ”
1. Mr Smith works as an English teacher in a middle school.2. Mrs Smith is also a teacher. She works hard every day.
3. Bill is Mrs Smith’s son, and he is ten.
4. Mrs Smith often helps her son do his homework.
5. Mr Smith had to get up early yesterday morning because he had many clothes to wash.
6. Yesterday Bill had a lot of homework to do.
10 . In Britain, cars, buses and bikes must keep to the left side of the street. If a person wants to cross a street, he must be very careful. Before he crosses a street, he has to stop and look to the right first and then the left. While in China, we look to the left first instead. When visitors are in London, they should learn how to take buses and underground trains. The most important of all, they must know in which direction (方向) they are going and which bus and which underground train they should take. At the bus stop they should wait for their buses to come. As soon as they get on a bus, they must pay for their fares (车费).
判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示
1. In England, people go along the left side of the street as we do in China.
2. When they want to cross a street, people in England do not look to the left first.
3. Visitors in London should learn to drive buses.
4. When they take a bus in England, visitors must make sure in which direction it is.
