One day Mozart saw an old blind street-performer playing the violin in the street corner  26  a hat in front of him . He found out the old man was  27  one of his compositions . The old man played for  28  but still nobody put any money into his hat . Mozart asked the old man , “Do you often play compositions by Mozart ?” “Yes,  29 _ ,” answered the old man . “now, everybody knows Mozart and likes his music .” “Do you  30  a living by playing the violin ?” The old man said he  31 . Mozart took over the violin from the old man and began to play .
He played so well  32  all the passerby stopped to listen to the wonderful music and soon the old man felt very  33  that the man could play so well . He asked Mozart , “Who are you , sir ?” “Your colleague（同行） , a poor  34  like you .”
Then Mozart gave the  35  back to the old man and went away .

小题1:	A．on B．by C．with D．to

小题2:	A．writing B．playing C．reading D．listening

小题3:	A．sometime B．sometimes C．some time D．some times

小题4:	A．you B．it is C．Mr. D．Sir

小题5:	A．make B．buy C．give D．take

小题6:	A．certainly B．did C．yes D．sorry

小题7:	A．which B．how C．that D．what

小题8:	A．happy B．worried C．disappointed D．surprised

小题9:	A．musician B．artist C．scientist D．writer

小题10:

A．money B．violin C．food D．hat

William Shakespeare was one of the world’s great writers. He lived in England    21  1564 to 1616. Shakespeare is famous for his   22  and poems. His plays are all about love and feelings. Some, like Julius Caesar, are about history.   23 , like Romeo and Juliet, are about love and romance. The plays are very interesting, and the writing is beautiful. Sometimes it’s hard to understand them. English today is very different from   24  it was 400 years ago. Also, people in the plays often speak like they’re in a poem. There are many movies about Shakespeare’s plays. When you don’t have the chance to see a live play(现场演出), you can   25  one of the movies.

小题1:	A．in B．from C．since D．for

小题2:	A．novels B．plays C．stories D．songs

小题3:	A．Another B．The other C．Others D．Either

小题4:	A．what B．that C．which D．how

小题5:	A．make B．enjoy C．write D．play

The Japanese Macaca monkey has been studied in the wild for over 50 years. In 1952, on one small Japanese island, scientists dropped some   26  in the dirt for the monkeys. The monkeys liked their taste, but they found the dirt   27 .
One clever 18-month-old monkey found she could   28  the problem by washing the sweet potatoes in a nearby river. She taught this to her mother. Her   29  also learned this new way and they taught their mothers, too.
All the younger monkeys   30  learned to wash the dirty sweet potatoes to make them   31  to eat. But many old monkeys found it very hard to learn this and still ate the   32  sweet potatoes.
Then something very surprising   33 . In the autumn of 1958, scientists found that the monkeys on other nearby   34  began washing their sweet potatoes too. Scientists still don’t fully understand how this knowledge was   35  from one island to another.

小题1:	A．sweet potatoes B．green plants C．hard stones D．fresh nuts

小题2:	A．beautiful B．terrible C．difficult D．interesting

小题3:	A．find B．reach C．solve D．understand

小题4:	A．children B．brothers C．sisters D．friends

小题5:	A．quietly B．easily C．angrily D．awfully

小题6:	A．nicer B．smaller C．lighter D．drier

小题7:	A．small B．large C．new D．dirty

小题8:	A．took on B．took off C．took place D．took away

小题9:	A．trees B．islands C．beaches D．rivers

小题10:

A．lost B．dropped C．passed D．left

Once there was a king. He liked to write stories. He thought his stories were good, so he like to show them to people. As people were afraid of him, they all said his stories were very good. One day, the king showed some of his best stories to a famous writer. He wanted the writer to praise(赞美)these stories. But the writer said his stories were so bad that he should throw them into the fire. The king got very angry and sent him to prison(监狱). After some time, the king set him free and ordered him to come to his palace(宫殿). Again he showed some of his new Stories and asked what he thought of them. After reading them, the writer at once turned to the soldiers and said, "Take me back to the prison."
小题1:The king thought his stories were good so ____.
A. People liked them
B. he liked to show them to people
C. he only showed some to the famous write
小题2:The famous writer was thrown into prison because
A. he was afraid of the king's stories
B. he said the king's stories were very bad
C. he said he couldn’t write good stories for the king
小题3:People were afraid of the king because
A. the stories were interesting
B. they would be sent to prison
C the king wrote many stories
小题4:Again the king showed the writer some of his new stories because
A. he wanted to know what the writer thought of them
B. he wanted to be angry with the writer
C. he wanted to send the writer to prison
小题5:When we read the writer's last words, we can be sure that
A. the writer would write some good stories while in prison
B. the writer liked the new Stories'
C. the king's new Stories were no good at all.

Scientists say there are seven kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kind; (2) citrus(柑橘类)fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made of milk, like cheese and ice-cream; (6) bread or cereal(谷类), rice is also in this kind of foods; (7) butter, or something like butter, with fat(脂肪)。
People in different countries in the world eat different kinds of things. They also eat in different kinds the day. In some place people eat once or twice a day; in other countries, people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that these differences are not important. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is that every day a person must eat something from each of the seven kind of food. The most important thing is that we must find some way to help the hungry people and make the people have right kinds of food, make them strongand healthy
小题1:It is important that people should _________.

A．eat three times a day

B．eat cooked food

C．eat dinner at 4 o’clock

D．eat something from each of the seven kinds of food every day

小题2:Which sentence is right?

A．People should eat ice-cream every day

B．We should eat chicken every day

C．Oranges belong to second kind of food

D．We should never eat fat

小题3:In different countries people _________.

A．eat the same kinds of food

B．cook their food in the same way

C．eat different kinds of food

D．eat the food in the same way

小题4:The most important thing is _________.

A．many people in the world are hungry

B．we must eat the seven kinds of food

C．many people are too heavy

D．people eat too much food

小题5:What is the meaning of “strong” in the last paragraph（最后一段）?

A．肥胖的

B．漂亮的

C．聪明的

D．强壮的

One evening two young men were walking in the street together. They tried to find a chance to steal something. The clock struck twelve. Most of the people went to bed. Quickly they came to a house and it seemed that everyone in the house had fallen asleep. Standing at the front gate, one said in English to the other in a low voice, "You wait here. I'll go around to the back door and then get into the house. "Sud­denly out of the house ran a dog, barking at them. The two men were very frightened and ran away as fast as they could. Finally, they stopped at a lonely place. The man said breathlessly, "It's too bad. I hadn't expected(期望)that the dog could understand English. "
小题1:Why did the two men walk in the street one evening? Because.       .

A．they couldn’t fall asleep

B．they wanted to steal something

C．they would like to take a walk

D．they went to visit their friends

小题2:"One said in English to the other in a low voice. "From the above sentence we know        .

A．he didn't know English

B．he liked speaking English quietly

C．he couldn't speak aloud

D．he was afraid of waking up others

小题3:The dog ran out of the house and barked at them only because.        .

A．it understood English	B．it knew them
C．it found someone outside	D．Both B and C

小题4:At last the two young men        .

A．stole nothing	B．stole something expensive
C．were bitten by the dog	D．were caught by the police

小题5:What did the owners do while the dog was barking?

A．They stopped it.	B．They got up quickly.
C．They shouted for help.	D．The story didn't tell us.

The Wilsons decided to go overseas for vacation. They had a family meeting to plan the vacation. "First," Mr. Wilson said, "we should decide where we are going."
"I don't agree," Mrs. Wilson said, "I think we should decide when we are going first. We don't want to go to places when they are cold."
Mr. Wilson agreed, so the family's first decision was when to go on vacation. They decided to go in July. "Now we can decide where to go," said Mr. Wilson. "But, Dad," Ben said, "don't you think that where we go depends on(依赖，取决于)how we go? If we plan to fly, we can go a long way. If we plan to drive, we can't go far."
Again, Mr. Wilson agreed, and they discussed this. At last they agreed to travel by plane. And so the planning meeting went on. The next day, one of Mr. Wilson's friends at work asked, "Where are you going for vacation?"
"Well," Mr. Wilson told him, "we are going in summer by plane, but I don't know where we are going!
小题1: Why did they have a family meeting?

A．Because they wanted to save money.

B．Because they had a party.

C．Because they wanted to plan the vacation.

D．Because they were in trouble.

小题2:First they decided ______________.

A．where to go

B．when to go

C．how to go

D．what to do

小题3:They decided to go in ______________.

A．June

B．August

C．July

D．May

小题4:They decided to travel by_____________.

A．plane

B．bus

C．car

D．train

小题5:They didn't decide _____________.

A．where to go

B．when to go

C．how to go

D．all of above

Dear Nancy,
How are you? Now I want to tell something interesting. Last week we had a trip to Mount Tai. On Tuesday we went to Taian by bus, a city at the foot of the mountain. We had a good rest at a hotel. At about one o’clock early the next morning, we began to climb the mountain. It took us about four hours and a half to get to the top. The mountain is covered (覆盖) with trees. I didn’t see such a beautiful place before.
“Look! The sun is going to rise!” my friend Lim shouted.
We all turned to the east and watched. Soon half of the sky because white, and a big, red ball was rising slowly. A few minutes later, the sky became bright(明亮的).
We stayed on the top and had a good time. After lunch we started going down. We got to the tour hotel at about four in the afternoon. Though we were tired, we were very happy. We came back to school the next day.
Thank you very much for your last letter and the beautiful postcards. Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours
Wu Tong
小题1:The letter is from ___________to ___________.

A．Wu Tong, Nancy

B．Nancy, Wu Tong

C．Lim, Wu Tong

D．Nancy, Lim

小题2:How did Wu Tong go to Taian?

A．On foot.

B．By bus.

C．By taxi.

D．By bike.

小题3:When did Wu Tong reach the top of the mountain?

A．At about 1:00 pm.	B．At about 4:00 am.
C．At about 4:30 pm.	D．At about 5:30 am.

小题4:The word “rise” means “__________” in Chinese.

A．赶制

B．成功

C．上升

D．冲击

小题5:From the letter we may know _______________.

A．after supper they started to go down.

B．they got to the tour hotel the next day

C．Nancy sent some postcards to Wu Tong

D．Nancy had a great time in Mount Tai

	Morning	Afternoon
Saturday April 25th
Sunday April 26th
Monday April 27th
Tuesday April 28th
Wednesday April 29th
Thursday April 30th
Friday May 1st
cloudy rainy sunny windy

小题1:It changed from a cloudy morning to a sunny afternoon on         .

A．Friday

B．Saturday

C．Monday

D．Thursday

小题2:The sunniest days were         .

A．Tuesday and Friday	B．Saturday and Tuesday
C．Monday and Wednesday	D．Tuesday and Wednesday

小题3: On Sunday it would probably be the best to         .

A．go to the beach for a swim	B．stay at home and read a good book
C．take the dog for a walk	D．go on a picnic

小题4:Friday, May 1st, was         .

A．rainy in the morning and in the afternoon

B．sunny all day

C．sunny in the morning and cloudy in the afternoon

D．windy and sunny all day

小题5:Joan flew her kite on a day that was windy in the morning but wet in the afternoon. Joan probably did this on _________.

A．Saturday, April 26th	B．Monday, April 28th
C．Tuesday, April 29th	D．Thursday, April 30th

Questionnaire Read the questions and answer YES or NO, then you will find out how good you are. 1. When you don’t understand something, you ask questions. 2. You like listening to older people talk about the past. 3. You think that you can learn something interesting from everyone around you. 4. You are brave enough when you have to talk to people don’t know. 5. You enjoy reading books about famous people. 6. You always see and talk to different people. 7. You are interested in learning new ways of doing things. 8. You enjoy sharing experiences with friends and learning from people of all ages. 9. You talk a lot about yourself. 10.Even if you are often wrong, you make your own decisions. 11.You hate teaching what you are good at: sports, technology, whatever. 12.Your parents don’t understand you, so you don’t talk to them much. SCORE NOW! Score 2 points if you answer YES to each of the first 8 questions, and 0 if you choose NO. Score 2 points if you answer NO to each of the last 4 questions, and 0 if you choose YES. 18—24  You are friendly and open minded. You make people feel important by listening to what they have to say. You’ll probably succeed in learning all kinds of interesting things. Good for you! 10—16  Remember that every single person you know can teach you something. You will greatly make your life rich and colourful. 0—8    About 400 years ago, a famous writer wrote, “No man is an island.” This is still true today. Try to be more open and interested in people around you.

小题1:If you say “YES” to all these questions, you’ll get ____ points.

A．12

B．16

C．20

D．24

小题2:When you score 22 points, you are ________.

A．shy and nervous	B．silent and serious
C．open and friendly	D．brave and strong

小题3:“No man is an island.” in the text probably means that ________.

A．the famous writer was very clever

B．everything is the same as 400 years ago

C．you will feel lonely if on an island

D．you can not live alone in the world

小题4:The questions are used to test whether you are willing to ________.

A．learn from others	B．help other people
C．do all by yourself	D．depend on others