Reading comprehension. 閱讀理解.

　　Aunt Rose's birthday is coming. She is going to be thirty years old. She is in Beijing now. Dad and Mum are going to take me to her house. We are going there by plane. We are leaving on Friday evening and coming back on Sunday afternoon. Aunt Rose is going to give a birthday party on Saturday. I'm going to give her a nice card. I'm making it now. I'm drawing some nice flowers on the card with my colour pencils. I'm going to draw a small dog on it, too. My aunt likes dogs very much. My parents are going to buy her a new MP3. She can listen to songs every day. We are going to have a good time with my aunt.

Choose the best answer. 選擇最恰當(dāng)?shù)拇鸢? 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括號內(nèi).

(1) Aunt Rose is ________ years old now.

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(2) We are going to ________.

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A．visit her friends

B．visit Beijing with her

C．give her a birthday party

D．join in her birthday party

(3) We are leaving ________ and coming back ________.

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A．on Friday evening ... on Sunday afternoon

B．on Friday afternoon ... on Sunday evening

C．on Saturday ... on Sunday

D．on Saturday afternoon ... on Sunday evening

(4) I'm making ________ for her.

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(5) My parents are going to buy her ________.

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Reading comprehension. 閱讀理解.

　　People all over the world like to eat in fast food restaurants. The food there is delicious and it comes very quickly. Also, it is not expensive and the restaurants are always clean and bright. People can eat in or take their food away.

　　Chinese families love to eat in fast food restaurants, too. There are two kinds of fast food restaurants in China. There are Western food restaurants, and there are Chinese ones.

　　Western fast food restaurants sell hamburgers, French fries, fried chicken wings, pizza, drinks and so on. The Chinese fast food restaurants sell noodles and other Chinese snacks.

Choose the best answer. 選擇最恰當(dāng)?shù)拇鸢? 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括號內(nèi).

(1) People all over the world like to eat in ________.

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(2) The food in fast food restaurants comes ________.

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(3) The food in fast food restaurants is ________.

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(4) Chinese people ________ to eat in fast food restaurants.

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(5) We can buy ________ in a Chinese fast food restaurant.

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Reading comprehension. 閱讀理解.

　　Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人). He and the servant (仆人) loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒藥) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” With these words, he went out.

　　But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn't find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. It was afraid to be punished, so it drank the poison to kill itself.

Choose the best answer. 選擇最恰當(dāng)?shù)拇鸢? 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括號內(nèi).

(1) In the story, ________ liked wine and good food very much.

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(2) The rich man knew that it was ________ that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.

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(3) The rich man told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because ________.

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A．there was in fact poison in the bottles

B．did not want the servant to drink his wine

C．he wanted to kill the cat

D．he wanted to kill the servant

(4) In fact, ________ ate all the nice food and drank the wine.

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(5) From the story, we know that the servant is very ________.

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　　Earth has many different kinds of lands. In some places, the land is flat（平坦的）.Flat lands are called plains（平原）.

(4) What's the meaning of the word“coast”?

A．The water in rivers and lakes is salty.

B．The water in oceans and all lakes is salty.

C．The water in oceans and some lakes is salty.

D．The water in oceans and most of lakes is salty.

　　When people hold the Olympic Games, they often make an emblem（會徽）. The emblem of the Athens Olympic Games this year is a white circle of oliver branches in the sky.

　　Now Athens is developing a spirit of peace（和平）. An officer said, “While in Athens, the world should be at peace. We hope the peace is not just for a short time. We would like the message from the Athens Games to help countries come together and solve their problems.”

　　Four years later, the Olympic Games will be held in China. And China has already made a seal as the emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The emblem has a single Chinese character on a red seal and means“Chinese seal--dancing Beijing”.Below it, there are the words“Beijing 2008”. The character in the emblem is“Jing”. It means“capital”of China and it is also like a runner or a dancer. The running figure （人形）of the emblem shows spirit of the Olympics--faster, higher and stronger.

A．hsitory and friendship

B．faster, higher and stronger

C．running and dancing

D．peace, friendship and development

　　Water on the earth will never be used up. It goes from the ocean to the air to make clouds. Then, it falls from the clouds down to the land. It runs off the land and out to the ocean again. Tile clouds in the air are made up of water. Sometimes the water falls down from the clouds. It makes rain. The rain falls onto the land. Some of it goes into the ground. Some of it washes down and goes back into the ocean. Some water that is not rain or snow falls down from the clouds. Some of this water is sleet（雨夾雪）. The sleet is made of little pieces of ice. Some water that is not rain or snow or sleet falls down from the clouds. Some of this water is hail（冰雹）. The hail is made of ice halls!

A．we can live without water

B．the animals don't need water

C．human beings can't live without water

D．only plants must have water

A．more plants than animals

B．more water than land

C．more rain than snow

D．more air than water

(5) Which of the following shows the water cycle（循環(huán)）?

A．water from the ocean→air→clouds→rain→land→ocean

B．water in the air→clouds→rain→land→hail

C．water in the clouds→snow→land→ocean

D．rain→land→river→ocean→storm

　　When you meet English people, they often talk about one thing—the weather. So when you meet someone in England, you can say：“Nice weather for the time of year!”

　　“But it was a little cold yesterday,”someone may answer.

　　“But it got a bit warmer later!”you can say.

　　If you talk like this, the English will think, “How friendly（友好的）you are!”

(3) When you meet someone in England, you may say. “___________”

　　He is handsome（英俊的）. He can save the world. He drinks a lot, but never makes his clothes dirty（臟的）.

　　Who is he? “Bond, James Bond”.

　　British James Bond is the most famous spy in films. People also call him 007. He does everything well. He never makes mistakes. He is very lucky. In every 007 film, there are beautiful women. Some of them are good and some are bad. But they all fall in love with 007. There are also bad men in the films. But they can never beat（打敗）Bond. So far, there have been 20 Bond films.(Please watch the 007 series with your parents.)

　　British Austin Powers must be the most interesting film spy. He is short and wears a big pair of glasses. He is a photographer（攝影師）by day and a spy by night. He loves women very much.

　　Austin always makes foolish（愚蠢的）mistakes. But there is a strange power（力量）in his body. It makes him very strong. Bad men want to do something bad to the world. They take Austin’s power away. Austin has to go back to the world 20 or 30 years ago in his time machine. There he can get his power back and save the world. The Austin Powers series（系列）has three films. (Please watch the Austin Powers series with your parents. )

(3) The“007”series are ________ films.

A．James Bond never makes mistakes.

B．Austin is short but very strong.

C．Juni and Carmen save money in bottles to save their parents.

D．James Bond is cleverer than Juni and Carmen.

　　If you ask some people.“How did you learn English so well?”You may get a surprising answer“In my sleep”.

　　These people have taken part in one of recent experiments to test“Learn-While-Sleep”ways. People are now trying these ways in several countries and with several subjects. English is one of them.

　　Specialists（專家）say that“sleep-study”way speeds language learning greatly. They say that the average person can learn two or three times as much during sleep as in the same period during the day and this does not effect his rest in any way. A word of warning: sleeping teaching will only strengthen（加強）in your mind what you have already studied while you are awake.

　　In an experiment, people gave lessons over the radio. Each lesson lasted twelve hours from 8 p. m to 8 a. m. People gave the students awake the first three hours of English grammar and vocabulary. At 11 p. m. people let the students listen to a lullaby（催眠曲）to sleep and for the next three hours the radio whispered the lesson again into the students' ears, At 2 a. m. people sent a sharp noise over the radio to wake the sleeping students up for a few minutes to review the lesson. The soft song sent the students back to rest again while the radio went on. At 5 a. m. their sleep was over and they had to go through the lesson again for three hours before breakfast.

(1) In the experiment to test“Learn-While-Sleep”people have tried ________

(2) Compared with other ways, the“Learn-While-Sleep”is ________

A．the students were wide awake

B．the students were fast asleep

C．the radio whispered the lesson again

D．a sharp noise woke up the sleeping students

A．The“Sleep-study”Way

B．Learning lesson over the Radio

C．English Study

D．Teaching Experiment

(5)“Sleep-study”way speeds language learning but ________

A．it effect rest

B．it is no good to health

C．it speeds language learning

D．it only strengthens what you have learned while you are awake