Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their
family members, and in particular their parents don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families,
it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they only go to their friends for getting
ideas.
       It is very important for teenagers to have a friend or a circle of friends. Even when they are not with their
friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking on the phone. These conversations are very important in children's growing up, because they can discuss something difficult to their family members.
     Parents often try to choose their children's friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children
from meeting their good friends. The question of"choice" is an interesting one. Have you ever thought of the
following questions?
     Who choose your friends?
      Have you got a good friend your parents don't like?
     Your answers are welcome. 

1. Their know them better than their _____ parents for the teenagers.

A. classmates
B. friends
C. brothers and sisters
D. cousins

2. When the teenagers stay alone, they _____.

A. go to the cinema
B. talk with their parents
C. watch TV at home
D. talk with their friends

3. Parents should try their best to _____ their children better.

A. understand
B. answer
C. refuse
D. afford

4. "Your answers are welcome" means _____.

A. you can answer your children's question
B. you have got a good idea
C. you can tell us your ideas
D. you don't trouble anyone

5. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Only parents can choose
B. Teenagers need friends
C. The trouble of families
D. The most difficult questions

     The coldest and most difficult place in the world to live is Antarctica. Antarctica is the land of snow and
ice near the South Pole. Most people don't think there is much life in the icy water around it. They are wrong.
Antarctica's seas are full of life. There are many kinds of fishes, water bird, seals and whales. They eat the
thick plant life in the sea and smaller water animals. Some whales, for example, eat more than a ton of food
every day. The most famous animal of Antarctica is the penguin. It struts around the icy as if it were a moive
star walking down the street.

( )1. Antarctica is colder than any other place in the world.
( )2. There's little life in Antarctica's seas.
( )3. Some whales can eat over 1,000 kilograms every day.
( )4. There are no birds in Antarctica.
( )5. Antarctica is the sea of snow and ice near the South Pole.

     TV news programs report the weather. Radio stations tell us the weather, too. Newspapers show us
weather forecasts on maps.
     Why do people want to know about the weather? People want to make plans. Some people want to have
a good time with friends. Other people want safety while doing their jobs.
     Airport managers need to know about the weather.In bad weather,their planes cannot fly. Farmers need
to know about the weather. In bad weather, they must protect their crops. Fisherman need to know about the
weather. In bad weather, they cannot go out to fish.
     Computers help us know about the weather. They get new weather information quickly. They can use this
to predict how the weather might change. Unfortunately, we can still only guess the weather.We all hope that
weather will be easier to predict in the future.

1. Where can you get information about the weather?
_________________________________________________
2. Why do people need weather forecasts?
_________________________________________________
3. Why do farmers need to know about the weather?
_________________________________________________
4. Do fishermen need weather forecasts? Why or why not?
_________________________________________________
5. Can we use computer to predict how the weather might change?
_________________________________________________

     Do you want to say that what you think in a letter to Jimmy Carter, president of the United States? You will
get an answer from him-written in ink, not typed-after only a few days. Jimmy Carter gets about 4,000 letters
every week. He answers every letter on special White House paper. But he doesn't need a lot of time for it. In
fact, he only gives 20 minutes a week to look at his private letters. He has the most modern computer in the
world to help him. It costs about US$1,200,000.
     This computer has its own rooms on the first floor of the White House: It has a lot of electronic pens (电
子笔) and they write like the President writes, in his favourite light blue ink. Each letter takes less than a second
to write. A White House official said,"It's not important that the letters come from a computer. Each letter says what the president wants to say."

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A. President of the United States
B. The letters of president
C. President's computer
D. How president writes letters

2. How long does the computer spend in writing a letter?

A. A minute.
B. An hour.
C. A second
D. Less than a second.

3. How long does he spend in reading his private letters every week?

A. Twenty minutes
B. Twenty seconds
C. Ten hours
D. Half an hour

4. The computer cay say ______ in its letters.

A. the same words
B. the different words
C. the words that president wants to say
D. the simple words

5. The computer is very ______.

A. clever
B. friendly
C. cheap
D. useless

     Now TV programs play an important part in our daily life. We can get a lot of knowledge and a lot of fun
from it. Today is Saturday. The following are some TV programs and different channels today. Now read these TV programs and try to find some information for you and your family members. SXTV Channel 7 13∶12
Football Match XATV Channel 4 15∶30 TV Play SXTV Channel 6 18∶30 Cartoon CCTV Channel 1 12∶38
Law Today CCTV Channel 1 19∶00 News Report CCTV Channel 3 21∶00 The Latest Music

 根据短文内容判断正误,正确的用"T",错误的用"F".
(     )1. My grandfather is interested in law. He can watch CCTV Channel 1 at noon.
(     )2. My father is a football fan. He prefers football matches. He can watch CCTV Channel 1.
(     )3. My mother likes watching TV plays. She wants to watch XATV Channel 4 in the afternoon.
(     )4. My sister is only six years old. I want to find a program for her. I think she can watch CCTV Channel 6.
(     )5. I like music. So I can watch CCTV Channel 3 this evening.

     I'm Miss Bai. I'm now working for the Spring Travel Se, vice (旅行社) in Fuzhou. I just came back from
Taiwan, the biggest island of China. It is to the east of Fujian Province.
     Last week I took a group of English holiday-makers for a week's trip to Taiwan. We traveled all around the
island. I found it is as beautiful as many other places of our country. And there are a lot of places of interest.
My favourite place was the Sun and Moon Lake. You may ask why people call it so. If you fly high up over the
lake and look down around from your plane, you will find the answer yourself. In the middle of this lake,
there's a small island. People call it Pearl(珍珠) Island because it looks like a pearl. On one side of Pearl Island
the lake looks like a sun, and on the other side it looks like a moon. That's why people call the lake the Sun and Moon Lake.
     There are many mountains around this lake. One of the nearest is the Ali Mountain. We stayed there for
three days. We also had a dance party with Gaoshan People. On our first day there we went to the mountain
and watched the sun going down slowly in the west. On our last day we got up early and saw a very beautiful
sunrise. Taiwan is a very beautiful place to visit.

1. Miss Bai went to Taiwan ________.

A. a few days ago
B. yesterday
C. the day before yesterday
D. last month

2. Miss Bai like best.

A. Pearl Island
B. the Sun and Moon Lake
C. Gaoshan People
D. the Ali Mountain

3. The word "holiday-maker" in the passage means ________.

A. 外出度假人
B. 为度假准备的人
C. 新闻记者
D. 制造商

4. How long did they stay in Taiwan?

A. A month.
B. A week.
C. Three days.
D. A day.

5. Which of these is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. Taiwan is the biggest island of China.
B. Miss Bai went to Taiwan with some English tourists.
C. They saw a beautiful sunrise there every morning.
D. Fujian is to the west of Taiwan Island.

      The new school term is coming. Now the school clerks are planning a new timetable for Class 7, Grade 9.
     There are six classes every day, four in the morning and two in the afternoon. The students have a math
class every day. And they have seven English classes in a week. Two of them are given by a foreign teacher
and should be arranged (安排) together on Thursday morning.
     There are five Chinese classes in a week. Two of them should be arranged one after the other for the
students to write their compositions.
     They have two physics classes in a week but on different days. Besides these, there is an art class every
Wednesday afternoon.
     It' s necessary and important for students to take enough exercise. So they have two PE classes every
week. And they can do some outdoor activities after school every afternoon.

1. How many classes are there in a weekday?
    ___________________________________
2. A ________ teacher has two English classes every week. (填空完成句子)
3. 翻译文中划线部分.
    ___________________________________
4. How many classes do they exercise?
A. Only one. B. Four. C. Seven. D. Two.
5. The students have an art class every Wednesday afternoon. (就画线部分提问)
     ________ ________ the students have an art class?