These cards _____ me￥2.5.

        A. cost             B. spend            C. take         D. pay

 –Are _____ here? – Yes, they _____ here.

        A. all you friends; all are             B. all your friends; are all

        C. your all friends; are all            D. your all friends; all are

 There is _____ sugar in snacks.

        A. many too         B. too much         C. much too     D. too many

 She usually has _____ egg and _____ bread for breakfast.

        A. an; breads       B. a; one       C. an; some     D. an; a

 He wants to buy two _____.

    A. kilos of apples      B. kilos of apple  

    C. kilo apples          D. kilo of apples

 How much money can you spend _____ your snacks?

        A. buy              B. to buy       C. buying       D. buys

Each country has many kind people who help to take care of o_1__. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many h__2_ as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤兒院) or homes for the old. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or l3__ to their problems.
  Other young people volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization c__4__ Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their f_5__.
 Each city has a n_6__ of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of i7_. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers b__8_ they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls
    Volunteers believe that some of the h__9__ people in the world are those who help to b_10_ happiness to others.

1 o________  2 h________   3 l________    4c________   5f________

6 n________    7 i________ 8 b________   9h________   10b_______

Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. “I got a red flower today. Could you please sign this note?” he said to mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.

Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is “OK”, but he often gets “You can do better than this.” Mum knows what it means. She tells me “You can do better than this” means “Extremely bad” in China.

In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is “Please be nicer tomorrow”. Many parents are satisfied with a B-grade for each subject.

But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spend more time on homework than I did when I was 6^th grade in the US! Yet his parents and teachers didn’t think he worked hard enough.

Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.

(    )1Why did Ted come home with a letter last Friday?

        A. Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother.

        B. Because he did something wrong.

        C. Because the teacher was happy with his progress.

        D. Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.

(    ) 2 If a student in the USA gets “OK” in his schoolwork, it means ________.

        A. he gets top scores               B. he gets medium scores

        C. he gets extremely bad scores      D. he gets the worst scores

(    )3 American parents will be ________ when their children get a B-grade in their school.

        A. excited        B. sad          C. angry         D. happy

(    )4The underlined words “high expectations” in this passage means “________”.

        A. 很高的待遇    B. 很多的自由    C. 很高的期望    D. 很多的關愛

(    ) 5 The writer mainly wants to tell us ________.

        A. the differences between Chinese education and American education

        B. Chinese students are better than American students

        C. American parents are not strict enough with their children

        D. what’s the best way to educate child

Films in Grand Movie Theater this week

Harry Potter Ⅲ

American film

Director (導演): Alfonso Caron

Stars: Daniel Redcliffe, Rupert Grint, Amma Waston.

Time: From Monday to Wednesday, at 6:00 pm.

Ticket price: $4.5

Kungfu Hustle

Chinese Hong Kong film

Director: Zhou Xingchi

Stars: Zhou Xingchi, Yuan Hua,

      Liang Xiaolong.

Time: From Wednesday to Friday, at 9:00 pm.

Ticket price: $5

A World Without Thieves

Chinese film

Director: Feng Xiaogang

Stars: Liu Dehua, Liu Ruoying, Ge You, Li Bingbing

Time: From Friday to Sunday, at 6:30 pm

Ticket price: $6 (Half on Sunday for children)

Troy

American film

Director: Wolfgang Peterson

Stars: Julian Glover, Brian Cox, Nathan Jane

Time: From Tuesday to Saturday, at 9:30 am

Ticket price: $5.5

(    ) 1There will be ________ in Grand Movie Theater this week.

       A. one Chinese film             B. two Chinese films

       C. three American films          D. a lot of foreign films

(   ) 2 If a man with his child goes to Grand Movie Theater on Sunday, they

         will pay ________ for the film.

         A．$12            B. $9           C. $6           D. $5

(    )3 If you are free on Friday morning, you can see the film ________.

        A. Kungfu Hustle             B. A World Without Thieves

        C. Troy                      D. Harry Potter Ⅲ

(    )4 You can see three films either on ________ or on ________.

        A. Wednesday, Friday          B. Tuesday, Wednesday

        C. Thursday, Friday            D. Saturday, Sunday

(    )5 From the poster, we know ________ is a director and actor in the film.

        A. Alfonso Caron              B. Feng Xiaogang

        C. Wolfgang Peterson          D. Zhou Xingchi

A man was selling medicine at a fair(集市). At first he sold bottles of a cure(藥劑) for colds for just a dollar a bottle.

Many people wanted to buy it and the man’s young assistant moved quickly through the crowd collecting money and handing out bottles of the cure.

Then, when he had a bid crowd, the man stood up, held up a very small bottle and said, “And now, ladies and gentleman, I am not going to charge you a hundred dollars a bottle for this wonderful medicine. I am not going to charge you fifty dollars a bottle. I am not going to charge you twenty-five dollars a bottle. Now, ladies and gentleman. I am not going to charge you ten dollars, and you can live forever.

Most of the people in the crowd did not believe this. One person shouted, “ If you can make you live forever, why don’t you drink it?” Then the other man cried, “ Yes, you look as if you are at least sixty years.”

“ Thank you, sir, thank you,” the man answered, “ I am so glad you said that. My real age is three hundred and twenty-nine.” The crowd laughed at this but there were still some people who wanted to believe the man. One of them spoke to the man’s assistant as he passed by, “ Is that true?” he asked. “ Is he three hundred and twenty-nine?

“ Don’t ask me, ” the assistant said, “ I have only worked for him for a hundred and fifty years.”

(  ) 1What did the man sell at first? He sold ________.

        A. a cure for colds               B. bottles

        C. a cure for old age              D. a medicine that made people live forever

(    ) 2 The people didn’t believe that the man’s medicine could cure old age because _______.

A.      the medicine was too cheap

B.      the medicine was too expensive

C.      he looked quite old himself

D.     he didn’t look honest

(    )3 What does the word “charge” mean in this passage?

        A. 變化        B. 付錢        C. 給……錢         D. 向……要價

(   ) 4 How much did the man charge for the cure for old age?

        A. one dollar a bottle             B. twenty-five dollars a bottle

        C. ten dollars a bottle             D. fifty dollars a bottle

(    )5 What does this passage really mean?

A.      The cure for old age is very useful and not so expensive.

B.      The man is not honest, and neither is his assistant.

C.      The cheaper the medicine is, the more people will buy.

D.     The two men are very honest, and they’d like to help people live forever.