Newspaper Advertisements（廣告） Business Services Tutoring（家教）English, Math, Physics, Computer Call Miss Smith, 800-3594 Early hour wake-up service  Tel. 800-0780  Wedding invitations（婚禮邀請(qǐng)） Call 800-0942 anytime 

Typing and editing（打字編輯） 

Call Jean, 800-3535, 10a.m.-10p.m.

Guitar teacher

Wants students. Folk/ jazz. Bob 800-7535 

Help Wanted

Baby-sitter（保姆）

My home: care for a school age child. Please call Gayle Moore days 800-1111, evenings and weekends 800-4964

Telephone receptionist（接線員）

No experience necessary. Good pay. Tel. 800-2817. After 9 a.m.

Waitress（女招待）

Wanted 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or 10:30a.m.-5 p.m. Apply in person.

Curtis Restaurant

 ( ) 7. If you want to find someone to help your child with his math in his spare time, what will you do?

A. Call Gayle moor days 800-1111.

B. Call Miss Smith, 800-3594.

C. Call 800-2817

D. Call Jean, 800-3535, 10 a.m.

 ( ) 8. Which phone number can you call to have services about wedding invitations?

A. 800-0942 B. 800-7535

C. 800-3535 D. 800-0780

 ( ) 9. Who probably（可能）wants to teach students to play the guitar?

A. Steve B. Jean C. Bob D. Moore

 ( ) 10. Gayle Moore wants someone to ______ .

A. take care of his sick child in the hospital.

B. wake him up early in the morning

C. help his child with his lessons

D. take care of his child at home.

 ( ) 11. What do the Curtis Restaurant say in its advertisement?

A. A telephone receptionist is wanted.

B. Help is wanted for housework .

C. Waitresses are wanted.

D. Math and English can be taught.

閱讀并判斷正誤（正確寫T，錯(cuò)誤寫F）

One day while Lu Ban and his younger sister were visiting the West Lake in Hangzhou，they were caught in a sudden heavy rain and had to turn back．"What a pity，" thought sister Lu．

When they got home，she told her brother，"You are the best craftsman around here，trot I will make a bet with you．Let's see who can invent something that will let people enjoy the scenery even in the rain．"

Lu Ban laughed．"All right．" he said，"But there must be a time limit．Three days?"

"No，just one night．We start tonight and stop at the first cook's crow．"

Lu Ban was surprised，"All right，it's a bet．"

When it turned dark，Lu Ban started building a pavilion （亭子） at the lakeside．Under the pavilion，people would be able to enjoy the scenery，even in wet weather．When he finished，he went home and looked through the window of his sister's workshop．All was quiet inside．

Lu Ban went back and built another pavilion，then another，and still another．He built nine and started working on the tenth，but before he could finish，he heard a cock crowing，so he stopped．

Soon the sun rose．As he stood by one of the pavilions wondering what his sister had done，Lu Ban saw something coming towards him，something like the roof of a pavilion．Under it was his sister．

As she came nearer。Lu Ban saw that she was holding a bamboo pole（竹竿） which had something round and flat（平的）at one end and covered with silk of many colors．

“What a useful thing! How clever!” he cried out，examining his sister’s invention．

Sister Lu smiled．“Mine can only be used by a single person, while yours can he used by many at the same time．What’s more，it was your design that gave me the idea．The scenery looks so much nicer with your pavilions．”

Some people say that was the beginning of the Hangzhou umbrella．

1．He was visiting the West Lake when it began to rain．

2．The word “craftsman” means“發(fā)明家”in Chinese．

3．Lu Ban built nine pavilions．

4．Lu Ban invented the same thing as his sister．

5．It is said people in Hangzhou learned to make an umbrella，following sister Lu's idea．

Today we’ll talk about the history of blue jeans. For many people, blue jeans stand for (代表) American culture.
The history of blue jeans usually began with a man named Levi Strauss. He did not invent jeans. But he is the first person to produce and sell them in large numbers. Levi Strauss was born in Germany. In 1847, he and his family moved to the United States. He opened a small store and sold jeans. These pants were especially useful for miners (礦工) in California. They needed strong clothing. Levi Strauss worked with Jacob Davis, who had invented a step for making rivets (鉚釘) for jeans. They helped make the blue jeans stronger.
In 1873, Strauss and Davis received a patent (專利) to own this invention. Nineteenth century workers would probably be surprised to know that their pants would one day become fashions. Today, jeans are worn by people of all ages. Jeans come in many colors other than blue and in many styles and prices. Fashion designers even create very costly jeans.
Writer James published a book called Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon (偶像). In the book, he says jeans serve as a sign for two American values, creativity and rebellion (叛逆).
【小題1】 Why did Jacob use rivets for jeans?

Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work, ” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

1.Edison was______________.

A．interested in changing people’s ideas

B．interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C．very much uninterested in nature

D．uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

2.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Many other people have changed Edison’s life.

B．Edison has changed the lives of many other people.

C．Only a few men in history can change other people’s lives.

D．Edison invented the electric light.

3.The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(意指)___________.

A．people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 year’s work

B．Life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

C．Edison made 100 inventions in his life

D．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years