Dear Linda
    Thank you for your letter and photos. Do you want to know about my new school in America?
OK. I'll tell you. Our new school is not big. There are twenty-six classrooms in it. Our classroom is
very small. You can see fifteen students in it. Three of the girls come from Japan.Five of the girls are
English. Seven boys are Americans. My new English teacher is English.His name is Peter Green. He
is good with us. He likes animals. On weekends he often takes us to the zoo near our school. I have
a new friend here. Her name is Helen. She is not in my class.She is in Class Seven, Grade Eight. Oh,
my brother Mike is in her class. Helen is good at singing. She tells me she wants to be a musician.
Helen is an American girl. Her home is across from our school. After school I often have dinner at her
home. Her parents like me very much. OK. Please write and tell me about your new school in Canada.

1. _______ is in Canada.

A. Alice
B. Mike
C. Helen
D. Linda

2. There are _______ students in Alice's class.

A. five
B. seven
C. fifteen
D. twenty-six

3. Peter Green is _______.

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

4. Helen wants to be _______.

A. a teacher
B. a worker
C. a musician
D. a doctor

5. Which of the following sentences is right?     

A. Alice's classroom is big.     
B. Helen and Alice are in the same class.      
C. Mike is Linda's friend.      
D. Helen's home is across from Alice's school.

     Wednesday, July1
     The weather was hot. I decided (1)______ (visit) the National Museum of  Chinese History with
my parents. We (2)______ (take) a taxi there. I saw many army men (军人) there. I was happy because
I learned a lot about (3)______ (China) history.
     Friday, July 3
     Bad weather! It rained all day. I felt kind of (4) ______ (bore). We had to stain the hotel. In the
morning, when I went out to buy (5) ______ (thing), I found an ID card on the corner of a street. I gave
it to a policeman. He (6) ______ (say) I was a good girl. Then I watched TV in the hotel all afternoon.
     Saturday,  July 4
    It was  (7) ______ (sun) today. I was very excited because I went to visit the Beijing National
Gymnasium. After Beijing Olympic Games, many people went there for  a vacation. The gym is
(8) ______ (real) great. I took some photos and put (9) ______ (they) in my QQ space (空间) after
(10) ______(go) home.

     Some people think that all wild animals are dangerous. In fact few of them will eat a man if left alone. 
If you meet a lion, I'm sure you will run away. But even a lion will avoid (避免) a man if it is not very 
hungry. Lions only kill and eat men when they have grown too old to catch their food, such as sheep 
and other animals. Some animals get frightened when they only smell a man. Some of them stand and 
look at a man for a little while before they run away. Others take no notice at all but quietly walk in 
another direction. Wild animals only eat a man when they are afraid that he tries to kill their young ones,
or when they are shot and made angry.

1. If you meet a lion which is not very hungry _____.                    

A. it will become your friend quickly                    
B. it will try to catch you                    
C. it will leave you     

2. Very old enough wild animals are dangerous to men because _____.                    

A. they like to eat men                    
B. they can't avoid them                   
C. they can't catch other small animals     

3. Wild animals usually kill and eat _____.                  

A. sheep and other small animals                  
B. moving lions                   
C. humans     
4. Wild animals will catch and eat a man if he ____.                  

A. tries to run away                   
B. makes them angry                   
C. doesn't kill their young ones     

5. In the writer's eyes, _____.                          

A. wild animals are always dangerous                   
B. young wild animals are dangerous                   
C. wild animals are not always dangerous

     Even if you are a good high-jumper, you can jump only about seven feet off the ground. You cannot
jump any higher because the earth pulls you hard. The pull of the earth is called gravity.
     You can easily find out the pull of the earth. If you weigh yourself, you will know how much gravity
is pulling you.
      Since there is gravity, water runs down hills. When you throw a ball into the air, it falls back down.
Because of gravity, you do not fall off the earth as it whirls (旋转) around.
      Then, can we get away from the earth and go far out into space? Now you can do it, because
spaceships have been invented. Then the spaceship will go so fast that it can escape  (逃出) the earth's
gravity and carry you into space.

1. 判断正（T） 误（F）。
(   )1.The weight of the earth is called gravity.
2. A good high-jumper can jump three meters off the ground, can't he?
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3. If the earth's gravity becomes smaller, will you become heavier or lighter? 
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4. Why can a spaceship escape the earth's gravity?
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5. Put the underlined sentence in the passage into Chinese.
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     The wind and the sun is talking about who is the stronger. And they all think themselves are strong.
    Then they see a man walking on the road. The sun says "Who can make the man take off his coat
will be the stronger. "
    So the sun hid (藏) behind a cloud, and the wind begins to blow (吹) as hard as it can. As the wind
blow harder, the man wrapped his coat more closely around himself.
    Then the sun comes out. He shines on the man. The man soon feels quite hot, and takes off his coat.
    Who is the winner?

(     )1. The wind and the sun want to know who is the stronger.
(     )2. The wind blows the coat off.
(     )3. The man is hot when the sun comes out.
(     )4. At last, the sun wins and he is strong.