Look at the family! They are Mr Smith, Mrs Smith, Tony and Jenny. Mr Smith is thirty-eight years old. He is American. He is a teacher at a middle school. He can play basketball. Mrs Smith is Chinese. She is a teacher too. She is thirty-five years old. She can play tennis very well. Tony is their son. He is eight years old. He is in Class Six Grade Two. He can play football. Jenny is their daughter. She can play table tennis. It’s one of the most popular (最受欢迎的) sports in China. She is in Class Two, Grade One. They are both in their parents’ school.
1. Jenny’s parents are teachers.2. Mr Smith is from America and Mrs Smith is from China.
3. There are five people in the family.
4. Jenny and Tony can speak French (法语) and Chinese.
5. Tony and Jenny are in their parents’ school.
One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was puzzled, and I thought, “Perhaps this isn’t a right thing to talk about.” Then I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?”
“Certainly, everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful!” “Yes, it’s one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it.” As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, “You don’t say!” I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?”
“Well, I didn’t ask you to do so,” he answered, greatly surprised.
“Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say!’?” I asked again.
Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain. “‘You don’t say!’ means ‘Really?’ Perhaps you know little about English idioms (惯用语).”
Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.
1. The writer was puzzled because the foreigner has some trouble in understanding him.2. The writer didn’t understand the meaning of the idiom “You don’t say!”
3. The writer’s question made the foreigner laugh.
4. When the foreigner used the idiom “You don’t say!”, he meant “Stop talking.”
5. The story probably happened in China.
Is there life on Mars? We don’t know.
We’re sure that people on the earth are not able to live on Mars. People need oxygen to breathe. There is almost no oxygen on Mars.
Living on Mars would be like living on a very high mountain. There would be little air.
The temperature might be 50 degrees above zero at noon and 140 degrees below zero at night. Many people think there may be plants on Mars. We know that on Mars there is carbon. This is a kind of material found in all plants and animals on the earth. Through a telescope, Mars looks red. In some places, it seems gray. At times the gray color turns gray-green, then brown, then gray again. The gray-green color may be a kind of plant life changing color with the seasons.
Will men go to Mars one day? If they do, they must take their own oxygen, food and clothing with them.
1. There is enough oxygen for us to live on Mars.2. It’s too hot in the daytime and it’s too cold at night on Mars.
3. We can find carbon in all plants and animals on the earth.
4. Sometimes Mars looks blue.
5. If one day we can go to Mars, we must take enough oxygen, food and clothing with us.
History was made at 9 a. m. on 15 October, 2003. Yang Liwei, China’s first astronaut, was sent up into space by China’s Shenzhou V. It moved around the earth fourteen times. He came back safely at 6:23 a. m. the next day, making China the third country to successfully send a person into space. He was born in an ordinary family in Liaoning Province in 1965. His years at school did not reveal what was to come — his grades were average. However, he did well in science. He was athletic and loved to swim and skate, and he showed particular talent in track and field events.
Yang joined the People’s Liberation Army at the age of 18, graduating from an aviation college in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree to become a fighter pilot. He was chosen as an astronaut in 1998 and studied hard to prepare for his journey into space. During his space flight, he was able to talk to his wife, with whom he has a son.
1. Yang Liwei is the first astronaut of China that was sent up into space.2. China was the second country to successfully send a person into space.
3. Yang Liwei’s schoolwork wasn’t very good when he was at school.
4. In 1987 he joined the People’s Liberation Army and was chosen as an astronaut.
5. During his space flight, he was able to talk to his wife and his son.
5 . A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another country.
Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who was interested in computer. One day, he was sending an email to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying “Help! Pain! Help!”. The message was from Finland（芬兰）, thousands of kilometers away from the USA.
“I didn’t know what I should do,” Dean said to a reporter afterwards. “It was really difficult to tell if the message was real.” So Dean did nothing at first. But the message kept coming.
“By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble,” Dean explained. He replied and discovered that the sender was a 20-year-old student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was very ill. What was worse, there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email.
Dean got in touch with the Texas police. The police immediately realized that the situation was quite serious. They found it necessary to telephone the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the university, and soon doctors found Tarja. Luckily, she was still alive and was quickly sent to the hospital.
“I’m glad she’s OK,” Dean said. “It’s hard to believe, but the email saved her life.”
1. Dean Bluey was a 14-year-old boy from Dallas, Texas, the USA.2. When he was sending an email, Dean heard someone calling outside.
3. Dean didn’t know whether the message was real when he first got it.
4. Tarja was a university student in the USA, thousands of kilometers away from Dean.
5. At that time in the library, Tarja was able to ask for help in many ways.
6. Dean made a phone call to the police in Finland and told them about Tarja’s trouble.
7. From the story we know that the Internet played an important part in saving Tarja’s life.
Li Ming is twelve years old. He had hearing loss when he was born. He could hear nothing since (自从) then. The world is quiet and boring to him. He couldn’t go to school. His parents took him to many hospitals to see doctors, but nothing good returned. At last, they came to Beijing Children Hospital. After checking him over, the doctor told his parents that it was very serious. And he needed an operation (手术). But it was so difficult for the family from a poor village (乡村). They had no enough money for the operation. After hearing this, the doctors asked them not to worry about it. They would help them get donations (捐款) from all over the country. His parents were very thankful (感激的). “I’ll work hard after I am OK. I am going to be a doctor to return to the society (社会) and help others,” said Li Ming.
1. Li Ming was blind when he was born.2. His parents never took him to see doctors.
3. Many people would like to help Li Ming.
4. The doctor said his illness was very serious.
5. Li Ming studies in a school in China now.
A: Good morning!
B: Good morning!
A: Are you Mr. Green?
B: Yes, I am. Are you Kangkang?
A: Yes, I am.
B: Nice to meet you!
A: Nice to meet you, too! Welcome to China!
B: Thanks.
1. Mr. Green and Kangkang meet in the morning.
2. Mr. Green and Kangkang are good friends (好朋友).
3. Kangkang doesn’t know (不认识) Mr. Green.
4. Mr. Green isn’t a Chinese.
5. Kangkang is a Chinese boy.
8 . Mr. Wang is from China. Now he is in the USA. He speaks Chinese. And he speaks English, too. His English is very good. Many people learn to speak English in a school in New York. Some are from Japan and Italy (意大利). Some are from Brazil (巴西) and India (印度). Mr. Wang works in the school. He likes the students very much and the students like him, too. He helps them with English. One of his students is from China. He speaks Chinese to Mr. Wang, but Mr. Wang only speaks English to all the students. They soon (不久) can speak English very well. Mr. Wang is a good teacher.
根据短文内，判断对(√)错(×)。
1. Mr. Wang is Chinese, and he lives in the USA.
2. Mr. Wang teaches Chinese in New York.
3. No students are from Brazil or India.
4. Only two students are from China.
5. Mr. Wang doesn’t speak Chinese to his students.
Do you know the Huaxin Clothes Shop? The clothes in the shop are very good. Look at the purple skirt. It’s very nice. And It’s just 60 yuan. The red dress looks cool and it’s just 35 yuan. Look! There are many caps. And it has all kinds of T-shirts and shoes. Boys and girls, welcome to the Huaxin Clothes Shop.
1. We can buy some vegetables in the shop.2. The purple skirt looks very nice.
3. The red dress is just 60 yuan.
4. The cap looks cool and it’s 35 yuan.
5. All kinds of T-shirts and shoes are in the shop.
10 . Hello! I’m Kangkang. I’m from Xi’an. I’m in Class Six, Grade Seven. I’m in Row Four (第四排). I’m Number Ten. Jane is my friend. She’s from Canada. She is in Class Five, Grade Seven. She is in Row Four, too. But she is Number Two.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子正(T)，误(F)。
1. My name is Kangkang.
2. Kangkang is Number Four.
3. Jane and Kangkang are in the same (相同的) row.
4. Jane isn’t in Class Five, but she is in Grade Seven.
5. Kangkang is not in Class Five. He is in Class Six.
