Sam likes eating fish very much. He often buys fish in the shop and takes them home. Oneday his wife
sees the fish and thinks,  "Good! Now, I can ask my friends to have lunch and we can eat the fish. They
like fish very much."
     When Sam comes home from work in the everning, the fish is not there and his wife says,"Oh, your cat
eats it." And then she gives him some bread for his supper. Sam is angry. He takes the cat and his wife to
a shop near his house and weighs(稱) the cat. Then he turns to his wife and says,"My fish weighs one kilo.
The cat weighs one kilo, too. My cat is here,you see, then, where is my fish?"

1. What does Sam like eating very much?
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2. Who eat the fish that day?
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3. How much does the fish weigh?
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4. What does Sam's wife give him for supper?
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5. Can you guess if(是否) Sam knows where the fish is?
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     Read the three postcards and answer the following questions.
Dear Mum and Dad,
     This is not my dream holiday. The weather's awful. I'm sitting in our hotel room and it's rairung quite
hard outside. All the other people in our group are playing cards or sitting miserably under the umbrellas
near the pool.
     In fact,everything's quite miserable here. I can't wait to get home.
                                                                                                                                             Love,
                                                                                                                                                P
Mr ard Mrs Davies
41 Hart Road
Oxford

     Hi! This is great. We're having a really good time.We're staying in a comfortable small hotel in the
mountains.Right now the sun is shining warmly it's about 23℃ today.I have skiing lessons every morning
and then I practise on the slopes every afternoon. I'm getting quite good. See you soon !
                                                                                                                                               Sam
Anna Richards
28 Homefield Avenue
London SW28 4RT
England

Dear Mum,
      The summer camp is going badly.I'm writing this in my tent and it's raining again. Water is coming
through the tent. Everything's wet. The food is terrible. I'm hungry all the time-and I don't like any of the
other children here. Please send me some money immediately.I want to go home.
                                                                                                                                        Love ,
                                                                                                                                        Terry
Mrs Rachel Duffy
158 Museum Street
Edinburgh
Scotland
1. Only one writer really is having a great time,which one? Writer l,2 or 3.
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2. Whom did P send the postcard to?
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3. Where does Sam come from?
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4. What does Sam do every morning?
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5. Of the three who needed money most?
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     Zhang Xini, a 15-year-old deaf girl from Shenzhen, has published four novels, created three websites,
and made two inventions. As the youngest member of Shenzhen Writers' Association, she has attracted
attention in the Chinese literary circle (文學(xué)界) with her latest biji. If I am Helen. She is compared (比做) to
Helen Keller by many people.
     Zhang does not complain although she has lost her hearing ability, as she believes fate (命運(yùn)) actually
brought her to a world in which she can develop all of her potential (潛在的) abilities. When she was only
12, she had read more than 100 literary masterpieces (名著), and published a large number of essays in
newspapers and magazines. She said she felt lucky that she lived in an Internet time, which brought her a
virtual (虛擬的) way to express her feelings and chat with others. Even though she still cannot speak clearly,
she is always eager to communicate with her parents, teachers and friends. She wants to study in Beijing Film
Academy (學(xué)院) and major in movie directing in the future.

1. What's the name of Zhang Xini's latest book?
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2. Who did many people compare her to?
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3. What did she publish in newspapers and magazines when she was only 12?
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4. What does she want to do in the future?
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5. What can we learn from the passage?
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