Mary is from the U.S.A. She has two brothers. Now her family are in China. Her father, Mr. Peterson teaches English in Xihu Middle School. And her mother works in the same school. She teaches English, too. Mary likes red clothes very much. Her mother likes red clothes a lot, too.

Mary is a nice girl student. She is in Xihu Middle School .She can speak Chinese. She has many Chinese friends. She teaches them English, and they teach her Chinese. Her two brothers are twins. One is Bob, the other is Bill. They look the same. They are only three. So their grandparents look after(照顾) them at home. Mrs. Peterson has many toys(玩具) for the twins. Bob likes toy cars, but Bill likes toy bears. They are happy every day.

1.Who is in Xihu Middle school ?.

A．Mr. Peterson

B．Mrs. Peterson

C．Mrs. Peterson and Mr. Peterson

D．Mrs. Peterson, Mr. Peterson and Mary.

2.Mr. Peterson is a ________.

A．teacher           B．farmer            C．officer            D．doctor

3.How many people are there in Mary’s family?

A．four             B．five              C．six               D．seven

4.Mary ________.

A．can’t speak Chinese at all

B．isn’t very nice

C．can speak Chinese well

D．likes red clothes

5.Which one is NOT right?

A．Mary’s family is from America.

B．Mary’s parents are both teachers.

C．Mary has two twin sisters.

D．Mary’s grandparents are in China.

 

Clothes are important and necessary to us, but do you know how to choose suitable clothes in a correct way? Here are some ideas for you．

When you go shopping and want to buy some clothes，you should think about which kind of clothes you really need and decide how much money you can spend on them．Then look at the labels that are inside the new clothes. They tell you how to take care of the clothes．The label for a shirt may tell you to wash it in warm water. A sweater label may tell you to wash it in cold water. The label on a coat may say “dry clean only” and cleaning in water may ruin this coat. If you do as the directions say on the label, you can keep your clothes looking their best．

Many clothes today must be dry-cleaned. Dry cleaning is expensive. When buying new clothes, you had better check if they need to be dry-cleaned. You can save money if you buy clothes that can be washed or that are well-made. Well-made clothes last longer. They look good even after they have been washed many times.

Clothes that cost more money don’t always mean they are better made. They may not fit you, either. On the other hand, less expensive clothes may sometimes look better and fit you well.

1. The first thing for you to do before you buy clothes is__________.               ．

A. to know how to wash them

B. to 1ook for well-made clothes

C. to read the directions inside them

D. to see which kind of clothes you need

2.  According to the passage，a sweater may be__________.                ．

A. washed in cold water                                         B. washed once a week

C. washed in hot water                                               D. dry-cleaned only

3. What does the underlined word “label’’ mean?

A. 品牌                B. 标签              C. 价格              D. 尺寸

4.  The main idea for the passage is __________.                           ．

A. buying less expensive clothes                 B．washing clothes in a right way

C. being a clever clothes shopper                D．choosing the well-made clothes

 

Almost all people like flowers. Some people like flowers because of their smells, shapes, colors and so on. Others like flowers because they think different flowers mean different things. Flowers have their own language. For example, red roses mean “love” and sunflowers mean “loyalty(忠诚)”. So people in more than 100 countries have chosen their own national flowers which say something about their countries’ spirit. In 1994, China talked about choosing a national flower. Some people liked the peony(牡丹) but others liked the plum blossom(梅花). They couldn’t agree with each other. So it has not been decided yet.
People like to buy different flowers in different seasons. Where do all the beautiful flowers in shops come from? They may come from far away, so their price is higher.
a. Farmers grow flowers in their fields.
b. Planes or trains or buses take the flowers to different places.
c. Flower shopkeepers buy flowers from the flower markets. They look after the flowers and throw away the broken or bad ones. They cut the flowers to make them more beautiful.
d. You go to buy the flowers in the shops. When you buy a flower, you’re paying lots of people: the farmer, the driver of the plane or train or bus, the seller in the flower market and the flower shopkeeper.
So you’d better keep your flowers from far away for a long time. But how? Why not dry them? It’s easy! Sand drying is a way. Dry, clean sand is one of the oldest things for drying flowers. And it’s one of the cheapest.
·Fill a box half-way with sand.
·Put the flowers on top of the sand.
·Put the box in a warm, dry place.
·Leave the flowers there for one to three weeks.
·Take them out and they will be dry.
【小题1】The underlined words “national flowers” most probably means ______.

A．the flowers of the country

B．the flowers of the season

C．the most beautiful flowers

D．the strongest flowers

【小题2】People usually choose their own “national flower” according to (根据) the flower’s ______.

A．smell

B．shape

C．color

D．meaning

【小题3】The Chinese national flower has not been decided yet, because ______.

A．no flower can show China’s spirit

B．China hasn’t talked to choose the national flower

C．nobody agrees to choose the national flower

D．people can’t agree to choose the same flower.

【小题4】You’d better keep your flowers for a long time, because ______.

A．the flowers are easy to dry

B．the farmer will also ask you to pay

C．the flowers are expensive to buy

D．the shopkeeper has made them more beautiful

【小题5】Sand drying is everything here in the following but ______.

A．easy

B．clean

C．old

D．cheap

-- Look at the trainers, Andy. They look like yours.

--No. Mine             black and white.

A．is                B．has              C．have             D．are

 

The earth moves round the sun, and the moon moves round the earth. When our part of the earth turns to the moon, it is night.

   The sun is much bigger than the moon. But sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because it’s much nearer to the earth.

   The sun is very bright. It gives a very strong light. The moon looks quite bright,  too. But it doesn’t give any light at all.

    The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look smaller than the moon because they’re much farther away from us.

Read and choose the right answer

1.____moves round________.

   A. The earth; the moon   B. The moon; the earth

   C. The moon; the stars    D. The sun; the earth

2.Sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because_________.

   A. it is much bigger than the sun

   B. it comes out only at night

   C. it is much nearer to the earth than the sun

   D. it doesn’t give a strong light

3.The sun_______________.

   A. is very bright, and it gives a very strong light

   B. isn’t bright, but it gives a very strong light

   C. is very big, but it doesn’t give any light at all

   D. is very round, but it can’t move round

4.The stars______________.

   A. look much bigger than the moon

   B. look much bigger than the sun

   C. are a lot brighter than the moon, but they are not bigger than the moon

   D. are much farther away from us than the moon