Do you know the girl in a hat with flowers on it? Her name is Yinzi. She is a nice Japanese girl, my new friend. She is in our class, studying Chinese.

I like Yinzi. I don’t know Japanese, and Yinzi doesn’t know Chinese. We know some English. We are the same age. In the same class we have the same interests (兴趣). We like to sing Chinese, Japanese and English songs. I help her to ride a bike and fly a kite. She helps me to swim and jump. We like playing football, but we can’t play in the school because the playground is small. Yinzi and the other girls in our class will go to the swimming pool on Monday, and I want to go with them.

1.Yinzi likes to _________.

A．wear a hat with flowers on it	B．play on the playground
C．speak Chinese	D．pick flowers in the garden

2.Yinzi _________. 

A．is from England	B．comes from China
C．is from Japan	D．comes from America

3.The Japanese girl knows _________.

A．some Chinese

B．some English

C．little Japanese

D．A and B

4.Yinzi is good at _________.

A．swimming and jumping	B．riding a bike
C．flying a kite	D．Chinese

5.Yinzi and the other girls want _________ on Monday.

A．to play yo-yos

B．to swim

C．to play football

D．to fly kites

 

Dear Peter,
My name is Frank. I am from America. Here is a picture of my friends. We are in the same grade. Look at the picture, in the middle, you can see my friend Jimmy. He likes all the sports. He likes to eat apples and French fries. You can see Helen in the picture, too. Helen likes math. Her favorite food is meat. But Sandra doesn’t like math. Look, Sandra is here in the picture. She can speak French. She likes ping-pong. Behind her, there is a girl. She is Sally. She is a black girl. She likes to swim. And she likes to eat ice cream. Maria and Rick are behind Jimmy. Maria likes computer very much. She plays computer games very well. Rick is fun. He can play soccer ball. He likes strawberries best. I like math, too. I like to eat bananas. All of us think Beijing Opera is fun. So we go to see it. But we can’t understand the words. So we don’t want to see it again. But my father likes it very much. He often watches it. He can understand it. One interesting thing:two of my English friends can understand it, too. They are Maya and Kelsey. They are not in the picture. They often go to see Beijing Opera like my father.
Can you send me a picture of your friends. 
Yours,
Frank
【小题1】 Frank has__________ friends in the picture.

A．seven

B．six

C．five

D．eight

【小题2】This e-mail(电子邮件) is for_________.

A．Sally

B．Sandra

C．Frank

D．Peter

【小题3】 _____like sports.

A．Jimmy, Sandra and Sally	B．Maria, Rick and Jimmy
C．Sally, Rick, Jimmy and Sandra	D．Helen, Frank and Rick

【小题4】 “understand” means(意思是)_________ in Chinese.

A．喜欢

B．理解

C．听说

D．观看

【小题5】Why don’t Frank and his friends in the picture want to see Beijing Opera again?

A．Because Beijing Opera is boring	B．Because Beijing Opera is bad
C．Because Beijing Opera is fun	D．Because they can’t understand it.

 —What a beautiful car !

    —Yes, but it’s so expensive that we can’t _______ it.

   A. pay                       B. offer              C. provide          D. afford

 

The Wilsons decided to go overseas for vacation. They had a family meeting to plan the vacation. "First," Mr. Wilson said, "we should decide where we are going."

"I don't agree," Mrs. Wilson said, "I think we should decide when we are going first. We don't want to go to places when they are cold." [来源:Zxxk.Com]

Mr. Wilson agreed, so the family's first decision was when to go on vacation. They decided to go in July. "Now we can decide where to go," said Mr. Wilson. "But, Dad," Ben said, "don't you think that where we go depends on(依赖，取决于)how we go? If we plan to fly, we can go a long way. If we plan to drive, we can't go far."

Again, Mr. Wilson agreed, and they discussed this. At last they agreed to travel by plane. And so the planning meeting went on. The next day, one of Mr. Wilson's friends at work asked, "Where are you going for vacation?"

"Well," Mr. Wilson told him, "we are going in summer by plane, but I don't know where we are going!

1. Why did they have a family meeting?

A．Because they wanted to save money.

B．Because they had a party.

C．Because they wanted to plan the vacation.

D．Because they were in trouble.

2.First they decided ______________.

A．where to go

B．when to go

C．how to go

D．what to do

3.They decided to go in ______________.

A．June

B．August

C．July

D．May

4.They decided to travel by_____________.

A．plane

B．bus

C．car

D．train

5.They didn't decide _____________.

A．where to go

B．when to go

C．how to go

D．all of above

 

If you have failed in the past to try to make big changes in life，try again now，one tiny step at a time．

Every year it’s the same．As December comes to an end，you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life. But as you start to write down your hopes for the new year，you think about the last year．You excitedly write down all the changes you are going to make，but by the end of January those ideas get lost in your busy life．

Here’s a suggestion：Forget the too big，hard-to-achieve goals(目标) and just think about the small ones．“We often think that we have to do everything in big steps, even though it’s so hard for us to reach it．” said Robert Maurer，who recently wrote the book One Small Step Can Change Your Life．“What we try to do is to begin with such a small step that we can’t find any excuse not to do it．”

“Kaizen”，a Japanese word，is used to mean to change behavior and attitudes（态度）．During World War Il，American factory managers were able to increase productivity by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes．After the war，the idea was brought to a rebuilding Japan．It made Japan develop fast. The Japanese called it “kaizen”, which means “improvement”．

Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it. “Kaizen” could possibly help people succeed in doing everything

1.Robert Maurer wrote a book to tell us           .

A．we should do everything in big steps

B．how to change one’s life with one small step

C．we should try a lot of sudden changes

D．how to find a small step without any excuse

2.The writer of the passage suggests we should           .

A．make changes at the end of the year

B．do few experiments with “kaizen”

C．do things with hard-to-achieve goals

D．take a tiny step to achieve big goals

3.Which of the following is TRUE from the passage?

A．Robert Maurer studied “kaizen” and found it helpful.

B．You can achieve your goals if you are not too busy.

C．You can’t find any excuse not to reach a big goal.

D．“Kaizen” was brought to Japan during World WarⅡ.