◆Wash vegetables before peeling or cutting them.
◆Peel vegetables as thinly as you can.
◆Put potatoes in water after cutting them, so the color will not change.
◆If you boil vegetables in water, do not throw (扔) the water away and   1   .
◆After peeling onions, put them in water for about 10 minutes. So   2   .
◆Heat the oil thoroughly (彻底地) before adding vegetables.
◆Put tomatoes in boiling water. Leave it for about 5 minutes. So   3   .
◆After boiling noodles,   4   to separate (分开) them each.
◆When you cook chicken or meat,   5   and then lower (降低) the heat.
◆Don't add salt to meat before you cook it.
◆Frozen (冷冻的) meat is much easier to cut or slice.     

将下列句子或词组还原到文中相应的位置, 使短文完整、通顺。

A. you can peel the tomatoes easily
B. put them in cold water at once
C. keep it to make other food
D. you should first cook over high heat    
E. you'll not "cry" when cutting

根据短文内容, 判断正(T) 误(F) 。

(     )6. We should wash vegetables before peeling or cutting them.
(     )7. If we don't put potatoes in water after cutting them, they will be bad for our health.
(     )8. We should heat the oil thoroughly before adding vegetables to it.
(     )9. Frozen meat is more difficult to cut.
(     )10. Beef is not mentioned in the passage.

     Li Hong is the only child in her family. She loves her parents, and her parents love her, too. But now
 she has some __1__ (trouble). She thinks that her parents don't understand her. She wants to make her
  own decisions, but her parents always ask her __2__ (obey) them. For example, Li Hong is good at
 __3__ (play) ping-pong and she hopes to be a famous ping-pong player like Deng Yaping in the future,
 but her parents think it is difficult for her __4__ (achieve) this dream and she should be realistic. And if she
  spends a lot of time __5__ (practice) ping-pong every day, she will fall behind the others in her studies.
 Li Hong doesn't know what to do now.

A: Hello. I'm Lily White. What's your name?
B: I'm John Smith. Nice to meet you.
A: Nice to meet you, too. John, what's this in the picture?
B: It's a quilt.
A: What color is it?
B: It's yellow and blue.
A: Thank you.

根据对话内容，判断正( T) 误( F) 。

(     )1. Lily and John are good friends.

(     )2. A blue quilt is in the picture.

(     )3. The quilt is yellow and blue.

(     )4.  The boy's family name .is Smith.

(     )5. The girl's family name is Lily.

     Mike is an American schoolboy. He's thirteen years old. He's very tall and strong. He likes reading comic
books. He likes playing basketball, too. He does well in Maths and Music. He has a lot of good friends at school. They often talk with each other on the Internet. Tomorrow is Mike's birthday. His mother buys a lot of delicious food for him. His classmates buy him lots of nice presents. They are going to have a birthday party in his home.

1. Mike is a _____ of _____ in the USA.

A. student; 13
B. student; 14
C. girl; 13
D. girl; 14

2. He _____ Maths and Music.

A. be good at
B. do well in
C. is good at
D. studies

3. He has _____ good friends at school.

A. much
B. a little
C. a few
D. many

4. He often talks _____ his friends on the Internet.

A. to
B. about
C. of
D. at

5. Where will they have a birthday party? 

A. At home.
B. At school.
C. At the restaurant.
D. At the supermarket.

     It's eight o'clock in the evening. The family are all at home. Jerry's father is sitting in a sofa. He's
watching TV. His mother is standing near the window. She's giving some food to the bird Polly. Polly
says, "Thanks! Thanks!" Where's Jerry? Oh, he's behind the door. Kate is looking for him. They are
playing games. There isn't any homework on Saturday evening.
1. Are Jerry's parents in the park?

   _____________________________________________________
2. What's the time now?
   _____________________________________________________
3. What are Kate and Jerry doing now?
   _____________________________________________________

1. What is Chris Daniels' purpose of writing this letter?

A. To persuade Bret Chrysler to turn away from quiz shows.
B. To entertain other readers with old news pictures.
C. To express his appreciation of the programme.
D. To have his story told on the programme.

2. Chris Daniels tells the story about the bus ticket to _____.

A. describe how painful his early experience was
B. draw a direct response from Alison Burnham
C. show how the programme made him think
D. teach the readers of TV Weekly a lesson

3. According to the passage, Chris Daniels had to walk home because _____.

A. he hadn't got a return ticket
B. he had lost his bus ticket
C. he didn't like big crowds
D. he missed the bus home

4. What does Chris Daniels now think about his experience on the bus?

A. He should have told the conductor then.
B. He should have been well treated.
C. He regrets going to school alone.
D. He wishes it hadn't happened.

5. We can learn from the letter that Alison Burnham may be ______.

A. an editor
B. a commentator (评论员)
C. a director
D. a man writer

    Hi! My name is Zhou Mei. I’m your English teacher. I’m from Beijing. This is Mike. He’s from the
U.S.A. He’s your teacher, too. This is Li Lei. He’s from Guangzhou. He’s new (新来的).

(     ) 1. Zhou Mei is a teacher.
(     ) 2. Mike is a teacher, too.
(     ) 3. Miss Zhou and Mike are from China.
(     ) 4. Li Lei is a student (学生).
(     ) 5. Li Lei is from Beijing.