Ben Jones was walking home from school one day when he saw a black cat. It was walking across the street in front of him. Ben stopped, turned around, and walked down a different street to go home. Why did he do that?
“It’s unlucky when a black cat crosses the street in front of you,” says Ben, “I did not want to walk down that street!”
Many people think that some things bring bad luck or good luck. For example, some people think that 13 is an unlucky number. They never invite 13 people to a party.
“I never walk under a ladder(梯子),” says Ben. “And I never open an umbrella inside the house. They both bring bad luck.”
And what brings good luck? “We have a horseshoe over the front door of our house for good luck,” says Ben.
“And when I find a penny on the ground, I always pick it up. That brings me good luck all day!”
小题1:Why did Ben turn around when he saw the black cat crossing the street?
A. Because he thought it was unlucky.   
B. Because he disliked a black cat.
C. Because he was afraid of the cat.
小题2:In western countries, which number do some people think is unlucky?
A. 4       B. 10       C. 13
小题3:Which of the following things can bring people good luck?
A. Opening an umbrella inside the house.     
B.  Walking under a ladder.
C. Picking up a penny on the ground.
小题4:Where does Ben’s family have a horseshoe?
A. Over the front door.  
B. Inside the house.  
C. Under a ladder.
小题5:Which is the best title of the passage?
A. A black cat.           
B. Good luck and bad luck.
C. Good things can bring good luck.

2011 is a special year to all the people in Shenzhen. The 26^th World Universiade will be held in the city from August 12^th to 23^rd.
As we all know, “Start Here” is the slogan of this great event. Does anyone know that a new life of two giant pandas will start here as well?
Shenzhen is expecting the pair of pandas for the Summer Univcrsiade. The pandas, a male and a female from Wolong Panda Research Center in Sichuan Province, will be “universiade Pandas”, just like “Asian Games Pandas” and “Olympic Pandas”.
Shenzhen Safari Park will rebuild its panda house to welcome the pandas. The panda house has been empty since another panda, Yongba, 25, was returned to Sichuan in 2009 because it was too old.
How old are the Universiade Pandas? What are their names? What are they like? What are their living habits? We will find out the answers in June when they arrive.
小题1:The26th World Universiade will begin on       .

A．August 12th

B．August 23rd

C．September 12th

D．September 23rd

小题2:The pair of pandas comes from       .

A．Shenzhen

B．Sichuan

C．Guangzhou

D．Beijing

小题3:Yongba is a(n)     

A．Universiade Panda

B．Asian Games Panda

C．Onympic Panda

D．panda that used to live in Shenzhen Safari Park

小题4:From the passage we can know the       of the Universiade Pandas.

A．arrival time

B．ages

C．names

D．living habits

小题5:The passage tells us that       

A．the slogan of the 26th World Universiade is “Just Do It”

B．there will be two male pandas coming to Shenzhen

C．Yongba left Shenzhen in 2009

D．Wolong Panda Research Center will build a panda house for the Universiade Pandas

One day, my English teacher asked me to help her save back-up（备份） copies of her work in the computer. I then realized I was able to know the grades of all of her students. I   36  her how to copy files（文件） from one disk to another and she thanked me.
A few days later, she asked me to help her again, because she   37  how to do it. When I showed it to her, some students in my class  38  and began to talk among themselves   39 .Later that day, at lunch time, several of them came up to me.
“Hey, could you help us change our grades? We’ll   40  for it.”
I could not believe what I heard. I could get paid for something very  41 . “All right. I’ll do it.” The next day, my English teacher   42  me to help him out again. When he was not paying   43   , I changed their grades from Fs to As.
I soon became very   44  among my friends. They began to treat me like God who could do  45 . Word spread quickly and I became very rich.
Everything was going fine  46 I was called into the headmaster’s office. When I got there, both of my teacher and the headmaster were very angry. “ I don’t want to  47  what your teacher said, but I have to. She has too much evidence(证据),’’ the headmaster said. “Do you have anything to say for yourself?”
“No,” I said finally. I didn’t realize how   48  my behavior had been. I had disappointed my teacher and the headmaster. And there was no way  49  . I had to leave my school. That was a good  50  for me.

小题1:	A．said B．urged C．knew D．showed

小题2:	A．lost B．remembered C．reminded D．forgot

小题3:	A．listened B．noticed C．played D．checked

小题4:	A．quietly B．luckily C．sincerely D．angrily

小题5:	A．pay B．praise C．follow D．explain

小题6:	A．familiar B．easy C．interesting D．pleasant

小题7:	A．challenged B．allowed C．taught D．asked

小题8:	A．money B．work C．attention D．interest

小题9:	A．common B．popular C．modest D．dishonest

小题10:

A．something B．anything C．nothing D．some things

小题11:

A．until B．since C．because D．after

小题12:

A．believe B．reply C．hate D．influence

小题13:

A．hard B．interesting C．serious D．important

小题14:

A．up B．in C．back D．down

小题15:

A．skill B．lesson C．story D．example

Hello, I'm Tom. I'm a middle school student. It's nice to meet you here. First, let me tell you 46  about my family. There are five people in my 47 .They are my mother, my father, my sister, my brother and I.
My father is a worker. My mother is an English teacher. My sister is eighteen and my brother is sixteen. I'm fourteen. We  48  go to the same school. We all enjoy 49  football games.
My 50  is in West Street. There is a big tree and some small trees around my house. The big one is a pear tree and the small ones are apple  51 .  52 there 53 any pears or apples on them now.  54  a photo of my house. In the photo, you can see three cats in my house. They are all black and white. We  55 them very much.

小题1:	A．anything B．something C．thing D．anyone

小题2:	A．school B．house C．room D．family

小题3:	A．two B．five C．three D．six

小题4:	A．seeing B．looking at C．watching D．looking

小题5:	A．bed B．school C．room D．home

小题6:	A．trees B．rivers C．houses D．schools

小题7:	A．But B．And C．So D．Or

小题8:	A．isn't B．is C．are D．aren't

小题9:	A．He's B．Here's C．It's D．There are

小题10:

A．are liking B．likes C．like D．is liking

Kate is an English girl. She lives in a tall building in the city of London. There are sixteen floors in the building, and she lives on the tenth floor. She uses a lift to go up and down. Kate studies in a middle school near her house and she works hard. She goes to school early. Every day she leaves her home at half past six. She walks to the lift, and it takes her down to the first floor. There is a bus stop near the building. Usually she takes No.7 bus to her school, but sometimes she goes on foot. It is only four kilometers to her school from the building. She gets to school at about seven twenty. Classes begin at eight. She goes to play games at three forty. She gets home at a quarter past five. She begins to do her homework at eight and finishes it at half past nine.
小题1:Kate lives in a tall building ________ London.

A．near

B．in

C．outside

D．far from

小题2:She goes up and down the building ________.

A．in lift

B．by a lift

C．by lift

D．use a lift

小题3:She leaves ________ at six thirty.

A．her home

B．the building

C．the lift

D．the bus stop

小题4:She goes to school ________.

A．by bus

B．by bike

C．on foot

D．A and C

小题5:It takes her ________ to do her homework.

A．about an hour	B．about one hour and half
C．eighty minutes	D．one hour and a half

Dear Zhou Lan,
Thank you very much for your mail. I want to go to China. I know something about China from your e-mails. Your English is very good. But I don't know much Chinese. Now I'm learning it from my parents. They know much about China. They tell me many things about China.
I'm happy to know you like your school and your family. You want to know my family and my school. I have a big family. My grandparents and my parents are all very fine. My father has a brother. He is my uncle, John. He and my aunt have their children. They're Bill, Linda, Mary and Lily. My brother Dick is a boy of eighteen. I like my family very much. I'll go to China next year with my mother. She is going to teach English in a middle school in Beijing.
Yours,
Annie
小题1:This is an e-mail from _____ to _____.

A．Zhou Lan; Annie

B．Annie; Zhou Lan's family

C．Zhou Lan; Annie's family

D．Annie; Zhou Lan

小题2:How old is Dick?

A．17	B．18
C．19	D．20

小题3:How many people are there in Annie's big family?

A．4

B．6

C．12

D．14

小题4:Who will come to China?

A．Annie	B．Annie's family
C．Annie and her mother	D．Annie's parents

小题5:Who teaches Annie Chinese? (   )

A．Zhou Lan.	B．Annie's parents
C．Annie's grandparents	D．Annie herself

One day, in an English class, the students are doing their lessons. Their teacher, a young woman, is very happy. She sings with them and then she goes to the blackboard and writes “SMILES” on it.
“This is the longest word in English,” she says to the class.
A girl stands up and says, “It has only six letters. How can it be the longest word in English?”
The teacher smiles and says, “Oh, look! There is a mile (英里) between the first letter and the last one.”
小题1:One day, the students are having        .

A．a good time	B．a big meal
C．a long meeting	D．an English lesson

小题2:The young woman sings some nice songs with      .

A．her children

B．her students

C．the teacher

D．a girl

小题3:What does the teacher write on the blackboard?          .

A．A song

B．A letter

C．A word

D．Her name

小题4:A girl       what the teacher says

A．asks

B．believes (相信)

C．doesn’t ask

D．doesn’t believe

小题5:Is the word “smiles” the longest in English?          .

A．Yes

B．No

C．Certainly

D．Sure

David comes from the train station and he doesn’t know where to go. This is the first time he comes to this town. He comes to see his good friend, Peter. Peter is a doctor. He works in a hospital. But David doesn’t know where the hospital is.
He walks in the street. He passes（经过）a bank, a post office, a hotel and at last he goes to a school. Some students are coming out, so he asks one of the students, “Excuse me. Which is the way to People’s Hospital?”
“Well, I know, you can go along this street, take the second turning on the right, and then take the third turning on your left. It’s next to a museum.”
“I’m sorry I can’t follow you.”
“Well, I just live near there, and my mother works in that hospital, too. I’m going home now. Will you go with me? I’ll take you there.”
“That’s great! Thank you very much！”
“Then, let’s go to the bus stop. And we’ll take the No.12 bus there.”
小题1:_______comes to the town to see his friend.

A．A doctor

B．A student

C．David

D．Peter

小题2:_______works in a hospital.

A．David

B．Peter

C．David’s mother

D．Peter’s mother

小题3:David doesn’t know the way to the hospital and asks________.

A．a policeman

B．a teacher

C．a student

D．a doctor

小题4:The student’s mother works in _________.

A．hospital

B．the hospital

C．a school

D．post office

小题5:Where do the student and David go at last?

A．The school

B．The bank

C．A bus stop

D．A train station

Last Sunday I got   36  early in the morning. After a quick 37  , I rode my bike to English Corner (英语角)to practice 38  English. I really like to go there. When I   39  there, it   40  half past eight. There were many people   41   with each other in English. A foreigner（外国人） came up and said “Hello”   42   me. I was excited,    43   that was my ___44  time to talk   45  a foreigner. I never met a foreigner before. At first, I didn’t know what he said. His English was   46  what I learned at school. Later, he slowed   47  . I began to understand （理解）his   48  . He told me the best   49   to learn English was to use it. We talked and talked. I was so hungry,   50  I felt very happy.

小题1:	A．up B．at C．there D．here

小题2:	A．lunch B．breakfast C．supper D．dinner

小题3:	A．saying B．telling C．speaking D．talking

小题4:	A．get B．gets C．getting D．got

小题5:	A．be B．had C．was D．went

小题6:	A．speaking B．saying C．singing D．talking

小题7:	A．for B．with C．at D．to

小题8:	A．how B．because C．so D．also

小题9:	A．next B．third C．second D．first

小题10:

A．at B．into C．about D．with

小题11:

A．better than B．the same as C．different from D．worse than

小题12:

A．down B．all C．over D．to

小题13:

A．name B．sound C．words D．thing

小题14:

A．road B．way C．street D．time

小题15:

A．and B．but C．so D．because

My mum only had one eye. She cooked for students and teachers to   41   the family when I was young.
One day my mum came to 　42  hello to me in primary school. I was so embarrassed（尴尬的） that I threw her a hateful  43 and ran out.
The next day at school, one of my classmates said, “Your mum only has one eye!” and  44  at me.
I hated my mum and decided to leave her, so I studied very hard. Later I got a chance to go abroad to study and I left my mother.　45　graduation I worked, bought a house and got   46  there. Then I had kids of my own. I was happy with my wife and my kids. But one day someone knocked at my door. It was my 47  !When she stood by the door, my children laughed at her, and I  48  at her, “How dare you come to my house and scare my children! GET OUT OF HERE NOW!” And to this, my mum 　49  answered, “Oh, I’m so sorry. I may have got the wrong  50  ,”and she disappeared.
One day, a letter regarding a school reunion（聚会） came to my house. So I told a 　51  to my wife that I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went to the old house.
My neighbours said that she   52   . I did not have a single tear. They handed me a letter that she had wanted me to have.
My dearest son,
I am thinking  53 you all the time. I’m sorry that I came to your house and scared your 　54　 .
I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I may not be able to even get out of bed to see you. I’m sorry that I was still an embarrassment to you when you were growing up.
You see…when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn’t stand watching you grow up with one eye. So I gave you   55  .
  …  With all my love to you!
Your mother

小题1:	A．support B．provide C．offer D．prefer

小题2:	A．speak B．talk C．say D．tell

小题3:	A．cry B．look C．laugh D．smell

小题4:	A．smiled B．shouted C．knocked D．laughed

小题5:	A．After B．Since C．Before D．Until

小题6:	A．worried B．excited C．married D．satisfied

小题7:	A．Dad B．friend C．son D．Mum

小题8:	A．said B．screamed C．talked D．added

小题9:	A．quietly B．happily C．loudly D．angrily

小题10:

A．name B．address C．number D．city

小题11:

A．story B．joke C．lie （谎言） D．news

小题12:

A．returned B．moved C．hurt D．died

小题13:

A．over B．of C．out D．about

小题14:

A．wife B．son C．family D．daughter

小题15:

A．his B．yours C．hers D．mine