American boys and girls love to watch TV. Some children spend six hours a day in front of the TV set.
Some children even watch TV for eight hours or more on Saturday. Many parents let their children watch TV
only during certain (特定) hours.
     TV shows are like books or films. A child can learn bad things from some of them and good things from
others. Some shows help children to understand the news from the world. Some programs (節(jié)目) show people and places from other countries or other times in history. With TV a child does not have to go to the zoo to see
animals or to the sea to see a ship (輪船). Boys and girls can see a play or a basketball game at home. Some
programs even teach children how to cook or how to use tools (工具).
     It is fun to watch TV, but it's also fun to play games, to read a book or to visit friends.

1. American boys and girls spend _____.

A. six hours at school on Saturday
B. four or six hours on TV shows on Saturday
C. eight hours or more watching TV every day
D. very long time in front of the TV sets at the weekend

2. Many parents _____.

A. let their children learn things from TV but not going to schools
B. ask their children to watch TV during the certain time
C. think that TV programs are better than (好于…) the textbooks
D. let their children to watch what they like

3. With TV, boys and girls can _____.

A. learn good things and bad things
B. only learn interesting news and places
C. learn from each other (相互) and play basketball games at home
D. read books at home and see movies in the cinema

4. Boys and girls like to watch TV because _____.

A. they do nothing at home
B. their parents like TV programs
C. they don't want to play games or visit friends
D. it is fun

5. The writer's opinion is _____.

A. boys and girls should spend some time both on TV and other things
B. children shouldn't watch TV shows
C. parents can't buy TV sets
D. children should stop watching TV

     Sam gets up at six in the morning. He has breakfast at home. He goes to school at seven. He has lunch
at school, but on Sundays he has lunch with his family. He often has supper at home. He doesn't watch
TV in the evening.He only watches TV on Saturday evening. He often does his homework after supper.
He goes to bed at nine. 
(     )1. Sam is a boy student.
(     )2. Sam doesn't have lunch at home on Sundays.
(     )3. Sam watches TV every evening.
(     )4. Sam does his homework before supper.
(     )5. Sam doesn't go to bed late every day.

      We each have a memory. That's why we can remember things after a long time.
Some people have a very good memory and they can easily learn many things by heart,
but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again.
     A good memory helps one learn a language well. Everybody learns his own language
when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak.
Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages
easily because they hear, remember and speak the two languages every day. In school it is not
easy to learn a foreign language because the students have little time for it and they have to learn
other subjects, too.
     Our memory can get better and better if we do more and more exercises. Do you want to
learn a foreign language well? If so,  you must do a lot of listening and speaking.

1. We can remcmber things after a ______ time because we each have a ______.
2. A man with a memory can learn many ______ by heart.
3. If a child often hears, remembers and ______ two languages every day, he or she
   can ______ these languages easily.
4. At school, it is not easy for the ______ to learn a foreign language well because
    they have _____ time for it and they have to learn other subjects, too.
5. If we want to learn a foreign language well, we must ______ a lot of ______ and speaking.

        Paul is a fourteen-year-old boy. His parents are both doctors. They are very busy. They have no
time to spend weekends with Paul, so Paul spends lots of time on the Internet, chatting(聊天) with
others on QQ. Of course, he doesn't use his real name on QQ.
       Last year Paul made a special friend on QQ. His name is Mike. He lives in New York Mike likes
to tell jokes and stories. So they always spent hours talking happily on QQ. Two months later, Mike
sent Paul a photo of himself. Oh, he is about fifteen years old. He has long curly hair. Paul likes him
very much.
       Last month Paul's father went to New York to have a meeting. So Paul went there with him He
wanted to visit Mike. When he saw him, he found his special friend was only a ten-year-old boy. Mike
is his real name. But the boy in the photo isn't him. It is his cousin Jack.

根根短文內(nèi)容，回答下列問題。

1. What does Paul's mother do?
                                                                            

2. Where does Mike live?
                                                                            

3. What did Paul's father do last month?
                                                                            

4. Who has long curly hair?
                                                                            

5. How old is Mike?
                                                                            

          Dinner customs (習慣) are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana(加納), this
information will help you a lot.
          In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no
strict rules (規(guī)則) about time. Whenever a guest arrives. a family offers food. When you go to a
home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone
welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water.
All the food is on the table.
         In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else.
But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the
dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
         Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder
(粉末) of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(鋸子) because it is very hard.
You must chew (咀嚼) fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right
hand only.

1. From the passage we know that in Ghana _______ .

A. the rules for dinner time are not strict
B. dinner is always at six in the evening
C. a family offers food only at four in the afternoon
D. people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening

2. If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host (主人) always takes you to _________ .

A. the dining room first
B. the living room first
C. the kitchen first
D. the garden first

3. People in Ghana usually eat _______ .

A. from one side of a dish to the other
B. from the other side of the dish
C. with their fingers
D. with their spoons

4. In fact, most dishes in Ghana _______ .

A. are cooked with the powder of some plants
B. have fufu in them
C. are too hard to eat
D. are not very hard

5. When you eat fufu, you'd better ________ .

A. cut it with a saw
B. use your right hand only
C. chew it well
D. all of the above

       Climbing a mountain is hard work. But one step after another finally bring a person to the t  1  .
  Along the way, he can stop and look a  2  . And the h  3   he climbs, the more wonderful his view is. If
  he keeps climbing, he will have a new world before him. He will have a new way of s  4   everything.
  Now learning a  5   language is something like climbing a mountain. This new language can give a new
  view of life. And it is more than a look at the surface of things. It can open the way into people's minds
  and hearts, into a culture very d  6   from the one of your own. This will make you richer and r  7   in
  things that money can't buy. Even though you never set foot on a ship or a plane, you can be a t  8    
  through books.
       Like the mountain climber who stops now and then to e  9   the scenery around him, everyone who is
  interested in reading will find p 10  in books as he learns more of that new language.

1. __________                 2. __________
3. __________                 4. __________
5. __________                 6. __________
7. __________                 8. __________
9. __________               10. __________