It was Christmas,and there was a big party in the house.Guests（客人）came and went,but the party went on.Then the bell rang.Several people shouted. “Come in!” and a small man opened the front door and came in.Nobody knew him,but the host went to meet him and took him to the bar for a drink.The man sat there happily for an hour and a half and drank.Then suddenly he stopped and looked at the host（主人）.“Do you know,”he said，“Nobody invited me to this party．I don’t know you，I don’t know your wife and I don’t know any of your guests.My wife and I wanted to go out in our car, but one of your guests’ cars was in front of our gate,so I came here to find him,and my wife is waiting in our car for me to come back!”
【小題1】There was ________ in the house．   

A middle school organized a “No TV Week” program. All the teachers, parents and students worked together for this program and most of them found it to be a very good one. The headmaster said, “The idea was not to stop watching TV completely but for the students just to find how much time they watch TV and try to use the time for other things.” What did the students say about this “No TV Week”? One boy said, “I can’t believe I haven’t watch TV for a week, but it’s been fun doing it.” A girl student said, “I’m going to give up all TV program except for ‘Our Animal World’ and other language-teaching program. I’m really pleased that I have more time to do things like walking and thinking. I enjoy this ‘No TV Week’ very much…” But not all the students thought it was good. Here one student Paul said something different, “I don’t like ‘No TV Week’ because I like watching TV. I have lots of favorite programs and I don’t want to miss them. But we have to do it.”
【小題1】The “No TV Week” program begins——.
A. in a family     B on a newspaper     C. in a school      D. with a movie
【小題2】 ________ people express(表達) their ideas in the passage.

Bob is six years old．He is old enough to go to school． On the first day，his teacher taught him three words，“I，you，he”．Then the teacher said，“I am your teacher．You are my student．He is your student. He is your classmate.”When school was over，Bob went home. His mother asked him，“What has your teacher taught you today?”Bob said with a smile，“Listen，Mum and Dad，I am your teacher．You are my student．He is your classmate．”His mother said，“No，dear．You’re wrong．”Then she said，“I am your mother．You’re my son．He’s your father．”The next day，Bob’s teacher asked Bob to make sentences with “I，you and he”．
Bob stood up and said，“I’m your mother．You’re my son．He is your father．”All the students in Bob’s class laughed．
【小題1】Who taught Bob new words in the school?

閱讀判斷正誤，正確的用T，錯誤的用F。
Mr. Wang and Mr. Li go to London to see a friend. They don’t know much English and they know little about London. They can’t find their friend’s house. They walk in the street for a long time. Then they see a man near a bus stop. They go up to him and ask the way. The man smiles（微笑）but say nothing. Then he puts his hand into his bag and takes out a book. He opens the book and reads. "I’m sorry, I can’t speak English." In the evening，they find their friend’s house with the help of a policeman.
【小題1】Mr. Wang and Mr. Li know a lot about London.
【小題2】They can speak much English.
【小題3】The man near the bus stop helps them find their friend’s house.
【小題4】They don’t see any policeman in London.
【小題5】The man near the bus stop can’t speak much English like Mr. Wang and Mr.1i.

Today is Saturday. It’s sunny and warm. Many children from No. 1 Middle School are at the Old People’s Home. Now, they’re helping the old people.
Look! Li Min and Zhan Ran are cleaning the windows. Ma Lan and Liu Qian are washing clothes.
What’s Li Na doing over there? Many old people are clapping their hands(鼓掌)for her. Oh,  she’s singing for them. Her song is really beautiful. And where’s the American boy, Tom? He likes helping others and he often comes here. Listen! Who’s speaking English? It’s Tom. He’s teaching two old people to speak English.
All the children and the old people are very happy. “We are happy when we help others, ” says Tom. 
【小題1】How’s the weather today?

My name is Andrew．There are three people in my family—my father，my mother and I．
My father is a bank clerk．And he works in a bank．He thinks it’s a boring job．He wants to be a policeman．My mother is a teacher．She teaches Chinese．She thinks her job is very interesting．She works hard and often comes back home very late．In her free time，she likes writing stories for a magazine．I’m a student．I want to be a musician when I grow up.
【小題1】Where does Andrew’s father work?

One day, Jack's wife was in their bedroom. She found many things in an old box. “l(fā)ook at all these umbrellas,” Jack's wife said to him, “There are eight and they are all broken.” “I'll take them all to the umbrella shop and mend them,” Jack said, “They are too good to throw away.” Jack took the eight umbrellas to the shop and left them there. “They'll be ready tomorrow, ” the shopkeeper said.
That evening Jack went home from the office by bus as usual. he sat next to an old woman. She had an umbrella on the floor near her. When the bus reached his stop, he picked up her umbrella and stood up. “Hey!” the woman said, “That's my umbrella.” “ I'm so sorry,” Jack said And gave it back to her, “ I took it by mistake. Please forgive(原諒) me. ”
The next day he got the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on a bus. As he sat down, a voice (聲音)behind him said, “ You have certainly had a successful (成功的) day ! ” He turned around and saw the same woman again. He almost (幾乎) took her umbrella the day before.
【小題1】Jack's wife found the umbrellas in _______.

One day, in an English class, the students are having their lessons. Their teacher, a young woman is very happy. She sings some nice songs with them and then she goes to the blackboard and writes “SMILES” on it. “This is the longest（最長）word in English,” she says to the class.
A girl stands up and says, “It has only six letters. How can it be the longest word in English?”The teacher smiles and says, “Oh, look! There is a mile（英里）between the first letter and the last one.”
【小題1】One day, the students are having _________.

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe, pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries(櫻桃).
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent(彎腰) down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.”
【小題1】Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

Uncle Wang works in a book shop in the middle of the city. The shop is not far from his home. It is about one kilometer away. So Uncle Wang seldom(很少)goes to work by bus. He usually goes bike there by bike, sometimes on foot .It takes (花費) him twenty minutes to get there by bike and forty minutes on foot. Today his bike is broken. He wants to walk there. Now he is having breakfast. He leaves home at 7:50 and he walks to work twenty minutes earlier. His work starts at 8:30 in the morning and finishes at 4:45 in the afternoon.
【小題1】What does Uncle Wang do?