Last Tuesday Lucy did a survey on how often the students do the housework at home. Most of students’answers are HARDLY EVER,because their parents do everything for them. Well, it’s necessary to teach your children the importance of doing the housework when they are at an early age.

By encouraging your children to do the housework, you not only help them learn the basic life skill that they will need as adults, but also make them feel like they are a necessary part of the family.Christine Field, the writer of Life Skills Kids, says it’s important for parents to ask children to take part in the household chores.

“When my son Daniel was about two years old, he loved to be with me when I was doing some washing,”Jane, a full— time mom said to the newspaper. “He couldn’t help me ,but I still gave him towels to wash. Now Daniel is four years old.and he’s our “towel man”! He feels like he is needed.”

Letting your children help you with tasks is also helpful for to get close to your kids and understand them well.
1What can we learn from the paragraph ?  

    A. The writer doesn’t think it is necessary to ask kids to do the housework. 

    B. Most parents do little for their kids.

    C. The writer did the survey last year.

    D. Most students don’t do the housework.

2 Children will be glad to do the housework when         .

A. They feel like they are needed       B. Their friends like doing it

C. Their parents are busy             D. Teachers say it is important

3The underlined word “basic” means__________ ?

A. 专业的                        B. 高难度的

C. 完美的                        D. 基本的

4 Which of the following is TRUE ?

A. Housework helps children with their study.

    B.Teachers ask children to do the chores for their parents.  .

    C.Daniel could fold the clothes when he was two years old.

    D. Parents should let their children help do the housework. .

Last month I went to Kate’s school in the UK.It was really different from my school in China.

    Girls wore grey skirts and white shirts, boys wore grey trousers, and everyone wore the school tie.

    Some of Kate’s lessons were a bit strange for me. We were reading Shakespeare in the English lesson, and there were quite some old words like “thou” and “thee” to mean“you ”. In history we studied 20th Century China. It was strange hearing a foreign side of history-and hearing English people trying to say all our Chinese names!

Classes were also a lot more relaxed than in China . Teachers were called “sir ” or “miss”,everyone shouted answers and raised their hands in classes. It was more like a debate than a class. A bell rang at the end of each lesson and everyone jumped up to go to the next class.

    At break we bought potato chips and cookies in the dining room. Lunch was later than in China at 1 o’clock.We had big plates of pie with carrots. For dessert there was hot sweet rice called rice pudding.

    It was good that I’d had an excellent lunch, because at Kate’s school Monday afternoons are taken up with sports.

    I played my first game of netball— a bit like basketball, but with some differences. Luckily I’d had a quick look in the rule book before I tried to join in the game.

Kate’s weekly schedule of classes

1 The underlined word debate_ in Paragraph 4 means ________.

 A. study                  B. discussion                C. exam            D. suggestion

2 What do they have for lunch at Kate’s school ?

    A.Bread.        B. Carrots.              C.Potato chips  D. Pie and sweet rice.

3How many hours do they have for foreign language study ?

    A.4 hours.       B. 2 hours.              C. 3 hours.     D. 6 hours.

4What’s the best title for the passage ?______.

   A. A Day in Kate’s school

   B. Clothes, Food and Sports in a UK School 

   C.Relaxed Classes in the UK 

D.Strange Lesson in Kate’s School .

 My good friends, if you ‘re too busy , maybe it’s time you slowed down and enjoyed a meal with a friend. Try to get away from fast food and choose slow food.

    For years, the pace(节奏)of life has increased for many people. They are too busy to cook.Luckily, there are business people who take the chance to provide a “fast ” way to deal with the problem. You can go to the supermarket and buy cooked food. All you have to do is to heat it and you can enjoy your meal in 10 minutes.

Still too slow ? OK, just go to a fast-food restaurant , order your meal and within 5 minutes it will be made for you.

    The problem is health. Fast food has much more fat, sugar,salt, oil and calories (卡路里), and far fewer vitamin's(维生素)than homemade food. And so, since people have always wanted to live longer,a small but growing population is choosing not only fresh food, but also organic(有机的)food.

    Another reason for changes in eating habits is social. Over the centuries,mealtime has been used to visit , laugh and learn. However, today most of us are having a very different lifestyle! Some people have realized it and they are looking for ways to return to that. Goodbye, McDonald’s.

    Finally, it makes you feel good to plan your meal, cook your meal and see your meal looking like the picture in your cook book. So if you’re too busy, maybe it’s time you slowed down and enjoyed a homemade meal.

1Why do many people buy cooked food in the supermarket ?

    A. It’s delicious.                  B. They think it’s a fashion to eat it.

    C. It saves them time.              D.it save them money. 

2 The writer thinks we just have to wait _____ minutes at most for our meal in a fast food restaurant.

    A. five .        B.fifteen.          C.eight.       D. fifth 

3 Fast food is low in _________ ?

    A. salt .        B.calories .        C.sugar.       D. vitamins .

4 What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 5 mean ?

A. Eating in a fast-food restaurant .

B. Visiting friends.

C. Having a different lifestyle. .

D.Enjoying slow food. 

I know World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by UNESCO(联合国教科文组织) in 1955 to encourage people,especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of     1  .

Many countries celebrate World Book Day. On that day in the UK,millions of students can buy books of special prices, much lower than usual in any bookstore. It has been done every year     2   1998. World Book Day is also celebrated in China .Premier Wen Jiabao does lots of reading  3     he’s very busy . On World Book Day 2009. He called on people to do more reading .He suggested that young people should spend more time reading . “Books can’t change the world, but  people can change the world by changing   4    through reading,” he said.

Reading can benefit (有益于)people  5  . Reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent . Reading helps us to follow the   6  developments of science and technology.Reading provides us with information about other culture and places of the world.When we read, we may find many things   7    are unfamiliar to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know, The more we know, the smarter we  8   . Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language    9    English. We all know that we 10   learn everything at school , for example, the ways English people are speaking and writing today.

“Reading makes a full man.” Books magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help to know more about the outside world and perfect us. Therefore, it is necessary for us to from the habit of reading every day.

1 A.singing               B. writing      C. listening     D. reading

2 A.of                          B. from       C. since        D. by

3 A. though               B.because      C.when        D. through 

4 A. itself                B. yourself     C.ourselves     D. themselves

5 A. in the way                B. by the way   C. in any way   D.in many ways 

6 A. last                       B.later          C.latest          D. earlier

7 A. where                    B.that           C.how          D. those 

8 A. come                  B. go           C.become      D. start

9 A.like                  B. about        C.at              D. towards

10 A.must                     B. can’t          C.have to      D.can 

 — Liu Fei, could you come to our art club tomorrow?

— ______.

A. You’re welcome                   B.  Never mind 

C. Sure, I’d love to                  D. I’m sorry to hear that

—I’m sorry I broke your glass.

       —        . Be careful next time.                        

      A. No, thanks                  B. Yes , please

C. Sure                       D. It doesn’t matter

 Please turn to page________ and look at the ______ picture in this unit. 

        A. twenty; first               B. twenty; one 

 C. twentieth; one              D. twentieth;first

 —It might be cool to see a film this afternoon.

       — Yes,      ? 

        A. so what     B. what       C. why          D. why not       

— Can I come this afternoon or tomorrow morning?

       —        is OK . I’m free today and tomorrow.

       A. None        B. Both         C. Neither       D. Either

—  ______ have you lived in Zibo?

        — For about ten years. .

       A. How much   B. How long    C. How often    D. How soon