Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽车).

A small car can hold(容纳)four persons and a large car can hold six persons, but it is very crowded(拥挤). A van hold seven persons easily, so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel. They could all travel together.

Mr.Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. Their children sixth and seventh seats are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’ home , the suitcases are brought into the two seats, the van can then carry the grandparents.

Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.

1.From the passage, a van is also called ____________.

2.Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they__________.

3.A motor home is usually owned by a family with__________.

4.Americans usually use motor homes____________.

5.Motor homes have become popular because___________.

Every day，it is easy to see advertisements in English all around us．Look at your own bags and clothes，and at the bags and clothes of your classmates．How many different advertisements can you see which use English words?

Often bags and clothes show the name of the company that made them. This is a popular form．A special picture or symbol called a logo(标识语)is sometimes used．Logos appear on many different products(产品)．They are popular because when you see a logo，it is hard to forget that product or company．

It is common to see advertisements on TV and hear them on the radio．Most advertisements are very short．Sometimes the advertisers use a short sentence which is easy for people to say and remember． Nike，for example，has a simple English sentence which is used all around the world：“Just do it．”Advertisements often use funny situations as well．It is simple to remember it．

All advertisements are designed(设计)to make people buy a product．An advertisement for a soft drink，for example，might show a group of young people who are having fun．The young people are al1 drinking the soft drink．Advertisers are saying to you，“Why don’t you buy this drink and be like these people? You can be young and modern.”

You might think that advertisements are not after you，but the next time you buy a soft drink，ask yourself this question：Why am I buying this particular(特别的)product?

1.From the passage，we know that           ．

2.A good logo is            ．

3.People are most likely to remember an advertisement that is           ．

4.All advertisements are designed to          ．

5.The best title（题目） of this passage may be          ．

It was the last day of the final examination(考试)in a college. On the steps of building, a group of engineering students were waiting for the last exam. On their faces was confidence(自信).

They knew the exam would be easy. The professor(教授) had said they could bring any books or notes during the test.

Right after they came into the classroom. The professor handed out the papers. There were only five questions on it.

Three hours passed. Then the professor began to collect the papers. The students no longer looked confident. On their faces was nervous expression. The professor watched the worried faces before him, and then asked. “How many of you have completed all five questions?” No hand was raised. “How many of you have answered four?” Still no hands. “Three? Two?” The students moved restlessly in their seats. “One, then? Certainly somebody has finished one.” But the class kept silent(沉默). The professor said, “That is exactly what I expected(期盼). I just want to make you know clearly that even though you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the subject you don’t know. These questions you could not answer are common in everyday practice.” Then, smiling, he added, “You will all pass this course, your education has just begun.”

The years have obscured the name of this professor, but not the lesson he taught.

1.Why did the students think the exam was easy at first?

2.How many students have finished all the five questions?

3.What does the underlined word “obscured” mean in the last paragraph?

4.What could the students learn from the last exam?

5.What’s the best title for the article?

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    My mother speaks very good English but she knows  1  Japanese. She went to Tokyo for a meeting on November 11th. The meeting was  2  on November 15^th.

The next morning she went to a park and then did some  3 . At noon she felt  4  .She went to the  5  restaurant and sat down at a table. A waiter came  6 and asked her  7 she wanted. My mother said in English that she would like some noodles with chicken and some vegetables. But the waiter didn’t know English. My mother looked around. No one was eating noodles.

When she saw a piece of paper on her table, she had  8 idea. She took out a pen and wrote the  9 words for the food on the paper. She  10 the paper to the waiter. The waiter said “OK” and soon he brought her noodles.

根据句意和首字母提示完成下列句子。

1.There are sixty m___________ in an hour．

2.He is ill, and his i__________ makes us feel sad．

3.A lot of t__________ are visiting the Great Wall, so it is very crowded．

4.Good food and e__________ help me to study better．

5.It is n_________to eat a balanced diet.

你在多年的学习和生活中，一定交了不少的好朋友，留下了许多美好的回忆吧！请以“My best friend Tom/Mary”为题，写一篇100词左右的短文，介绍一下你最要好的朋友，男生姓名统一用Tom，女生姓名统一用Mary代替。

内容要求：

1.他/她的外貌特征和个性特征；

2.你们一起经历的一件你印象特别深刻的事情;

3.你对他/她以及这件事情的评价；

4.文中不得出现真实人名和校名等相关信息。

 --- Where ___________ your pen pal  from? --- The United States.

  A. does   B. do     C. is     D. are      

Toronto is in _______.

A. Canada        B. Australia    C. Japan   D America

--What language do Americans speak?  -_________.

       A．Japanese．    B．English．    C．French．    D．Chinese

 ---Is there a park near your house ?

---No , _________. But there is a school.

A .it isn’t           B .I’m not         C . it doesn’t    D . there isn’t