---Can you come to my party on Saturday afternoon?

---       .I’ll have to help my parents.

A．Sorry, I can’t.                         B．Yes, I’d love to.

C．Let’s go.                             D．No, I don’t think so.

---          today!

---Yes. Shall we have a picnic in the open air?

A．What fine weather is                     B．How fine weather it is

C．What a fine weather it is                  D．How fine the weather is

---I don’t know if Aunt Li     to look after these“stay-home children”tomorrow morning.

---If he       ,I will phone you.

A．comes;will come    B．comes;comes      C．will come;will come  D．will come;comes

---Can you guess         the new Nike sports shoes?

---Yes. Maybe he asked his grandpa to pay for them, I think.

A．where he bought                       B．how he paid for

C．when he paid for                        D．why he bought

--- Good news! The great movie is on in the cinema

---Nothing new．I_________ it with my parents on the first day.

A．would see         B．see              C．saw              D．had seen

We have no idea about  1 men first began to use salt. But we do know that it had been used in many different ways    2  the history.

For example, in many history books it is  3   that people who lived three thousand years ago 4 salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt（埃及）, salt 5  keep the dead. It can keep the dead bodies  6 decay.（腐爛）

In the eighteenth century, a person who stole salt was   7  to have broken the   8 . if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into   9  . Books also record that in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century   10  stealing salt! In the year 1553, if a man took   11  than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be   12  punished(懲罰).

Salt was very  13  on the dinner table of a king. It was always put   14 the king when he sat down to eat. Then important visitors sat near the salt   15 less important visitors were given seats farther away from it.

1.                A．when          B．where          C．what D．which

2.                A．throughout      B．thought         C．though   D．a(chǎn)lthough

3.                A．say            B．reported        C．recorded D．reading

4.                A．eat            B．a(chǎn)te            C．eating    D．have eaten

5.                A．used to         B．was used to      C．was used  D．used

6.                A．off            B．from           C．on   D．out

7.                A．think           B．consider        C．thoughtful D．thought

8.                A．law            B．glass           C．computer D．time

9.                A．pool           B．hill            C．prison    D．river

10.               A．because        B．because of      C．by   D．a(chǎn)s

11.               A．more          B．less            C．fewer D．most

12.A. serious    B. bad       C. terrible         D seriously

13.               A．important       B．necessary       C．clever D．cheerful

14.A. in the front of B behind  C. in front of     D. before

15.               A．when          B．a(chǎn)s             C．however  D．while

Books for Children

Fleabag and the Ring's End

Beth Webb

More stories of Fleabag, the talking cat—star of this wonderful set of 3 books.

Ages 8—13, 208 pages, paper-back

07459 44116, ￡3.99                     The little White House

Elizabeth Goudge

A fairy tale and winner of the Carnegie Medal.

Ages 8—12, 240 pages, paper-back

07459 45783, ￡4.99

My Very First Christmas Book

Lois Rock and Alec Ayliffe

A big, bright book, which presents the story simply, and delightfully for very young children.

Ages 0—3, 12 pages, 200mm x 200mm, board

07459 40560, ￡4.99                     First Festival: Christmas

Lois Rock

An all-in-one book to help grown-ups and children prepare their Christmas celebration together. Presents, activities and customs.

Ages 5—8, 48 pages, 290mmx250mm, hardback

07459 39074, ￡8.99

Star of Wonder

Pat Alexander

A wonderful collection of Christmas stories and poems. Full of lively pages to read and enjoy.

Ages 7—12, 224 pages, paperback

07459 39323, ￡4.99                     The Not-So-Wise Man

Alan MacDonald and Andrew Rowland

We all know about the 3 Wise Men who traveled to Bethlehem（伯利恒）and discovered the baby Jesus Christ. This is the tale of another one, who always missed the point.

Ages 5—9, 32 pages, 270mm×210mm, hardback.

07459 38922, ￡8.99

1.If you want to make a Christmas plan together with your children, which book do you   prefer？

A．Star of Wonder                         B．The Not-So-Wise Man

C．First Festival: Christmas                   D．My Very First Christmas Book

2.Which number would you dial if you want to order a book for your 2-year-old child?

A．07459 40560.                          B．07459 38922.

C．07459 45783.                          D．07459 44116.

3.If your child wants to read stories of animals, whose book will be your choice?

A．Pat Alexander.      B．Beth Webb.        C．Lois Rock.         D．Elizabeth Goudge.

This course is for those who want to learn to type, as well as those who want to improve their typing. The course is not common. You are tested in the first class, and begin practising at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper.

Course fee: $125      Materials:  $25

Two hours for each evening for two weeks. New classes begin every two weeks.

This course is taught by a number of professional business education teachers who have successfully taught typing course before.

UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS

This twelve-hour course is for people who do not know very much about computers, but who need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can or can’t do and how to use them.

Course fee：$75  Jan 4,7,11,14,18  Wed.&Sat. 9:00---11:30 a.m.  Equipment fee:$10

David is a professor of Computer Science at Beijing University. He has over twenty years of experience in the computer field.  

STOP SMOKING

Do you want to stop smoking? Have you ever tried and failed? Now is the time to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-course will help you do it.

Course fee：$30  Jan 2,9,16,23   Mon 2:00---5:00 p.m.

Dr. John is a practicing psychologist who has helped hundreds of people stop smoking.

1.If you choose the UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS course, you will have

classes_______.

A．twice             B．three times        C．four times         D．five times

2.Mr. Black works every morning and evening, but he wants to take part in one of the three

courses. Your suggestion is __________.

A．TYPING                               B．UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS

C．STOP SMOKING                         D．a(chǎn)ll the courses

3.If you want to learn about computers, and at the same time you want to improve your

typing, you will pay  ______________.

A．$75              B．$150             C．$115             D．$235

4.The special difference between the TYPING course and the other two is that __________.

A．people with different skill levels pay differently.

B．you will take a test in the first class for level decision

C．you will pay the fee before practicing typing.

D．you will pay less money for your study.

Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!

Parapsychologists (靈學(xué)家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a “sixth sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist (心理學(xué)家) at the University of Kentucky, did two experiments.

In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects（受試者）were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later, when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.

For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t.

Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at. If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker, “I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”

1.The aim of the two experiments is to ________.

A．explain when people can have a sixth sense

B．show how people act while being watched in the lab

C．study whether humans can sense when they are stared at

D．prove why humans have a sixth sense

2.The underlined word “outcome” in the last paragraph most probably means ________.

A．value             B．result             C．performance       D．connection

3. In the second experiment, the subjects _________.

A．could tell when they were stared at and when they weren’t.

B．could tell when they were stared at but couldn’t tell when they weren’t.

C．couldn’t tell when they were stared at but could tell when they weren’t.

D．couldn’t tell when they were stared at or when they weren’t.

4.What can be learned from the passage?

A．People are born with a sixth sense.

B．The experiments support parapsychologists’ idea.

C．The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.

D．People have a sixth sense in all places.

Now satellites are helping to forecast the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere（大氣）, because this is where the weather forms. They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists（氣象學(xué)家）can see the weather of any part of the world. From the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.

Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, the meteorologists can say this.

So the weather satellites are a great help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented, the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead（提前）.

1.Satellites travel _____________.

A．in space          B．in the atmosphere   C．a(chǎn)bove the ground   D．a(chǎn)bove space

2.Why do we use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere? Because ________.

A．the weather satellites can do it easily        B．clouds form in the atmosphere there

C．the weather forms in the atmosphere        D．the pictures can forecast the weather

3.Meteorologists forecast the weather __________.

A．when they have received satellite pictures

B．a(chǎn)fter comparing the pictures with earlier ones

C．before they received satellite pictures

D．while they study satellite pictures

4. The main idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in _________.

A．taking pictures of the atmosphere           B．receiving pictures of the atmosphere

C．doing other work in many ways             D．weather forecasting to the pictures