Different sounds make the whole world more lovely, especially the sound of music I like music of all kinds and I enjoy doing work，even hard work with beautiful music around me．

    When I was in the country of America in i988，and that was about more than twenty years ago，I did many things．But one thing that I can’t forget is that I just fell in love with the different kinds of American songs as soon as I got there，folk（民间的）songs，country songs，and western songs。It was the first time for me to listen to real American songs．So I bought a walkman（随身听）and listened to the songs whenever I had free time．There were no mp3s or mp4s，not to say mp5s in those days And American people were just beginning to use computers and they were not popular then．So I recorded （录制）some of my favorite songs on some cassette tapes to take back home a year later．Believe it or not．I learnt to sing some American popular songs myself at the time．From listening to the songs and singing them I not only improved my English，but also I got to know more about the life of American people．I really killed two birds with one stone! I’m really happy because I can listen to all kinds of songs very easily from the Internet now．I’m sure I will live，listening to American songs all my life

1．Where did the writer go in the year of 1988?

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2．How many kinds of songs are talked about in the article?

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3．Why did the writer buy a walkman when he was in America?

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4．Why did he record some Songs on cassette tapes?

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5．Can you try to put the sentence“ I really killed-two birds with one stone’’ into Chinese?

词汇运用 两个学生正在网上聊天, 请根据上下文意思帮助他们补全单词。

A: Hi, How R U?

B: Fine, thanks. Yesterday morning I saw your father in the street, I went up to talk to him, but he said he didn’t know me. I was confused.

A: It (1)_________（不可能）be him! My father was at home studying English at that time.

B: Oh, sorry! I made a mistake. But why is your father studying English now?

A: He wants to (2) __________（提高）his English. He has been studying English for only one year. Last month he went to have a business talk with an American in New York, he was (3) ___________（应该）to arrive at 9:00 a.m., but he was 30 minutes late, by the time he got there, the American had already left. He sat outside the meeting-room for a long time, felt sad and (4) _________ （饥饿的）, he even didn’t know (5) i_____________ there’s a good place to eat.

B: What a pity! He should have studied English really hard and know some customs of the English-speaking countries

A: You’re right. I really need to come up with some good ideas and help him with his English, now I am teaching him to study English (6) b_________ listening to tapes.

B: Good. Have you ever been to another country?

A: Not (7) y____________. I’d like to go to France some day.

B: Me too. I’d like to go somewhere relaxing. BTW, next Saturday is my friend Sam’s birthday, I was (8) __________（邀请）to his birthday party, but I don’t know what present I should take.

A: If I (9) w__________ you, I would buy a CD of Jay Chou. Most teenagers like singers who sing their own songs. Listening to his songs usually makes us feel relaxed.

B: Thanks. Are you free 2night? How about (10)_____ (见面) 4 dinner and then c a movie?

A: OK, that’s great!

阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空(必要时加助动词或情态动词)。

Why is Tian Yuan so full of surprises? At 16, she (1)       (sing)  with the band Hopscotch (跳房子). And all the songs on an English album in2002 (2)      (write) by herself. So far she ( 3 )          (play) several characters in movies, including a flight attendant.

     Teens talked to her to find out why she is so special. "When I was in junior school, my uncle used (4)        (bring) some foreign CDs. I fell in love with them. " She said. "English has opened up a new world for me. I find an amazingly different way of living and (5)      (think) behind it. English gives me something others (6)        ( not have). "

     Although tired and busy, she enjoys. (7)       (live) such a life, because if she gives up, she ( 8 )        (lose) some opportunities. She hasn' t planned what (9)        (do) in the future. She said she (10)         (follow) her life at present.