One day Peter told Bill,“I'd like to give a party on Saturday. I'd like you to come and bring Martha, too.”

　　“Thanks, Peter. We'd be happy to come.”

　　“Perhaps you'd like to bring your violin. You and Martha sing well together. I'm sure everyone will want you to sing for us.”

　　That was how Peter began to plan（制訂）his party. Next he asked another friend, Betty, to bring a cake.“You make the best cakes in the world, Betty, and I prefer to（喜歡）eat your cake than the one from the bakery（面包店）.”

　　Peter invited several other friends to come to his party. He did not forget to-ask something from each of them. He even asked Jim and Mary Jackson to give the party at their house ! They agreed（同意）.

　　The party was a big success（成功）, However, as the guests were leaving they said“Thank you”to Bill and Martha for the music, Betty for the cake, the Jacksons for the use of the house and to others for their hard work. To Peter, they said simply,“Thanks for the invitation（邀請）.”

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　　Pan made two albums during the past two years, and his fans love them both. Pan always wanted to be a singer. In 2002, he was in a singing contest, but he was told he was not ready yet. “So I went into acting first. And when I got the chance to make an album, I was so happy that I cried.” He said.

　　His song “Pass Me the Mic” tells about how hard it is to become a singer. “I felt people had taken my Microphone away, so I could not sing. But I didn't give up, and I got better. At last, I got a second chance.”

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(4)The song “Pass Me the Mic” tells people not to be a singer.

(5)Pan is not afraid of failures (失敗).　　　　　　　　    (　　)

　　Have you ever thought about the shape of the universe? Scientists have been puzzled with that question for years.

　　Now they have come up with a new theory that says the universe may be shaped tike a soccer ball. The theory also says that the universe is finite (有限的), meaning it has boundaries.（邊界）

　　Scientists say that old beliefs about the shape of the universe may be wrong. Before, people thought that the universe was flat or shaped like a circle or a saddle.（馬鞍）

　　Now scientists say that it could be a dodecahedron(十二面體). A dodecahedron has twelve sides. Each of those sides bas five sides of its own like the black and white patches on a soccer ball.

　　Next time you play soccer, remember that you could be kicking a little model of the universe!

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　　How is the weather in Australia? Would you like to know about it? Let me tell you.

　　It is autumn in China now, but it is spring in Australia. Spring is very nice in Australia. It is fine and warm. There are a lot of flowers there. Every year there are many flower shows in some big cities. Many people go to the flower shows. Winter is not very cold and summer is not very hot. In summer it is a little hot at noon, but it is cool in the morning and in the evening. It rains sometimes, but it doesn't snow.

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　　Do you know anything about Big Ben? People all over the world write to Big Ben. They even send birthday presents to Big Ben. One of the presents is a bottle of oil. It is helpful to keep Big Ben running. But Big Ben is not a man. It is a clock.

　　Big Ben is in London. It has four faces. People in London like to see Big Ben's faces. They like to hear its chimes every fifteen minutes. Radio sends the sound of the big clock to the rest of the world. Big Ben is a radio star.

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　　one of Harry's feet was bigger than the other. “I can never find boots and shoes for my feet,” he said to his friend Dick.

　　“Why don't you go to a shoemaker?” Dick said. “A good one can make you the right shoes.”

　　“I've never been to a shoemaker,” Harry said. “Aren't they very expensive?”

　　“No,” Dick said. “Some of them aren't. There's a good one in our village, and he's quite cheap. Here's his address.” He wrote something on a piece of paper and gave it to Harry.

　　Harry went to the shop again a week later and looked at the shoes. Then he said to the shoemaker angrily, “You're a foolish man! I said, 'Make one shoe bigger than the other, but you've made one smaller than the other!”

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　　Helen's eyes are not good, so she usually wears glasses. But when she goes out with a young man, she doesn't wear her glasses. When she comes back home, she begins to wear her glasses again.

　　One day her mother asks her, “But Helen, why don't you wear your glasses when you are with Jim? He takes you to many beautiful places in his car, but you don't see anything. ”

　　“Yes, mother,” says Helen, “but I look nice to Jim when I am not wearing my glasses and he looks nice to me, too.”

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　　Tim and his mother were sitting at the table. They were having their lunch. “I don't like the soup,” Tim said. “I don't want to eat it.”

　　After lunch mother took Tim to the farm. They spent a lot of time there planting vegetables and cutting rice. They didn't leave until they finished the work. They were tired when they got home.

　　Tim's mother gave him some soup and bread for supper.

　　“Oh, this soup is good. I like it,” said Tim.

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　　What should we do if we catch someone cheating? If we keep silent, then the cheater will not learn their lessons and may cheat again in the future. If we tell the teacher, though, won't we be betraying（背叛）our classmate? What should we do?

　　Cheating is a very serious（嚴重）problem because it affects the entire class when someone cheats. A cheater tries to get a grade that they did not earn（獲得）. It gives them an unfair advantage, which punishes those who worked much harder for the same grade, Cheating needs to stop, but whose job is it to make the cheating stop?

　　To some extent, it is everyone's job to stop people from cheating. As we said before, cheating hurts everyone in the class.

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　　Mike is twelve years old. He usually comes back from school at half past four. One day he came home at five to five. His mother said to him, “You're very late today, Mike. Come here.”

　　Mike went to his mother, and she looked at him for a few seconds. Then she said. “You've cut your hand. You've had a fight with your classmate, haven't you?”

　　“Yes, Mum,” said Mike, “After school this afternoon, Tom said that I was a foolish boy and I had a fight with him.”

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(5) It was right of Mike to fight with Tom.　　　　　　   (　　)