Hundreds of years ago there lived a king in a small country. He liked swimming. When summer came, he always went to another palace with his guards by a forest and returned to the capital in autumn.

(1)Which is the best title of the story?

(2)________, so he was happy.

(3)When the king saw the bear, he ________.

(4)At last the king found ________.

(5)The king felt better, because ________.

Dickens Festival

　　Dickens Festival is one of the most famous festivals in England. If you come to the town of Medway, Rochester in England between May 28 and June 6, you will find you are back to the Victorian Days. The town is crowded with people, as so many people come to the town from all over Britain. They all wear Victorian clothes: men with tall hats and women in long skirts. They are celebrating the annual Dickens Festival, because it was here that Charles Dickens spent his childhood, held his wedding and died not far from here.

　　The climax of the Dickens Festival is in the big church where people hold service in memory of the great writer Charles Dickens.

(1)Which month is Dickens Festival in?

(2)Where do people celebrate Dickens Festival?

(3)Why do people celebrate Dickens Festival?

(4)What did Dickens do?

(5)Where does the climax of the Dickens Festival take pace?

　　Ronaldo is one of the world's top football players. He was born on September 22,1976. He was the winner of the prize for the Best Latin-American Football Player. The Royal Madrid player said he wanted to keep on winning.

　　But there were also some difficulties on his road to success. He hurt his right knee badly in 1998, and got a lot of troubles after that.

　　But these problems couldn't stop him. He made a successful return to football. In 2002, he help Brazil win the World Cup and did very well during the World Cup in 2006.

(1)Ronaldo is famous for ________.

(2)Which team does he play for?

(3)When did he join the Brazilian national team?

(4)What troubled him?

(5)Which country got the championship during the World Cup in 2002

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　　In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.

　　After that, I changed the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don't respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don't show my feelings through words.

By Jack

(1)Jack brought the couple their food very fast because ________.

(3)In Jack's hometown, ________.

(4)After this experience, Jack ________.

(5)Which of the following is TRUE?

American Teenagers

　　Teenagers who are between the ages of 13 and 19 are no longer childten, or they are not yet adults. They express themselves through their own music, clothes and language. There are more than 36 million teenagers in America.

　　Teenagers have the emotions of a child in the body of an adult. They want to be free and independent. Yet they also want to be taken care of. Many teenagers disagree with their parents how much freedom they should have. Some disobey their parents. They say their parents do not understand them.

　　Today American teenagers spend a lot of money buying records, clothes and electronic devices. They also spend a lot on entertainment. Where do the American teenagers get all this money? Many of them have part-time jobs. Some work as baby-sitters. Others work at fast food places. They make about 4 dollars an hour. Many teenagers do not have jobs. Instead, they receive 20 dollars a week from their parents.

　　American students usually begin high school at the age of 13 or 14. Some leave at the age of 16, but most complete the 4-year high school program. They do not get their first full-time jobs or begin university studies until they are 17 or 18 years o1d. The high school day is about 7 hours long. The day is divided into classes of about 50 minutes. The students have a meal in the middle of the day.

　　American teenagers study English, history, math, science, art and foreign languages. Some also learn job skills. They might learn how to use a computer or how to fix a car. Other students might learn by working in an office, a hospital or other places one day a week.

(1)They express themselves NOT through their own ________.

(2)Today American teenagers spend a lot of money buying ________.

(3)Where do the American teenagers get no money?

(4)How old do the American students usually begin high school?

(5)What may the American teenagers NOT study in a high school?

　　Australia's four-term school year begins in February with a two-week holiday between terms. The fourth and last term ends on December 20. The Christmas holiday is also with the end of school and the beginning of the summer vacation (holidays). The students return to school in February. In the United States, children have their summer vacation from June until August.

　　Students in the United States eat a hot lunch at school. Australian students do not.

　　They listen to the teacher on the radio each day when it's time for school. Students have their own books. They answer questions over the microphone. The teacher asks them to do some homework. The completed homework is mailed to the teacher. It is discussed over the microphone, corrected and mailed back. In the United States some children attend school at home. Their parents are their teachers!

(1)How old are the students in Australia at school?

(2)Who attends school at age of 16?

(3)How many grades are there in Australian schools?

(4)Who doesn't wear uniforms at school?

(5)Where can you find large schools?

　　When Mary was just seven, her family moved to a new city. She went to school by school bus, for it was not near to her house.

　　One morning, there was something wrong with the family's clock and when they got up, it was too late for Mary to catch the school bus. Her mother said she would drive Mary to school on her way to the office.

　　They started out and Mary asked her mother to turn one way or another on their way to school, so she made her mother drive round most of the twon before they got there. When they arrived, her mother saw that it was not really very far from their house.

(1) Mary usually went to school ________.

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(2) Mary's mother had been to the school

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(3) Mary's mother didn't know ________ to her school.

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(4) The school was _______ her home.

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(5) Mary made her mother go such a long way because ________ .

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　　A few years ago, I was in a small town in England. One day on my way to school, I saw a policeman stop a car, and at once a young man from another country came out of it. Then there was an interesting talk

between them:

Policeman: Why are you driving on the right side of the road?

Young man: Do you want me to drive on the wrong side?

Policeman: You are driving on the wrong side!

Young man: But you said I was driving on the right side.

Policeman: Yes, you're on the right, and that's wrong.

Young man: I don't understand if right is wrong, I'm right when I'm on the wrong side. So why did you stop me?

Policeman: You must keep to the left, sir! The right side is the left.

Young man: It's like a looking glass. I'll try to remember.

Young man: Now let me think. Turn left! In England left is right, and right is wrong. Am I right?

Policeman: You'll be right if you turn left. But if you turn right, you'll be wrong.

Young man: Thank you, I understand.

(1) The young man was ______ .

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(2) The young man did not know what was wrong with _______ .

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(3) The young man did not understand at first why _______ .

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(4) The policeman stopped the young man because he _______ .

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(5) If you drive in England, you ________.

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　　One Thursday evening Mr Smith left his car in front of his house as usual, but when he came down the next morning to go to his office, he found that his car was missing. He called the police and told them what had happened, and they said they would try to find the car for him.

　　Mr and Mrs Smith went to the theatre with the two tickets the next evening and they had a good time.

　　When they got home, they found that thieves had taken almost everything they had in their home.

(1) Mr Smith usually _______ .

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(2) Mr Smith called the police ________ .

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(3) When was the car stolen?

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(4) Who sent back the car?

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(5) On _______ Mr and Mrs Smith went to the theatre with the two tickets.

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　　A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his mother 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 as easily as one because they hear, remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.

　　But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.

(1) Some people can easily learn many things by heart because __________.

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(2) Everybody learns his mother language ______________.

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(3) Before a child can speak, he must ______________.

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(4) In school the pupils can’t learn a foreign language well because __________.

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(5) Your memory will become better and better ______________.

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