My class will put on a short play in English at the end of the year. Yesterday our English teacher gave us copies of the play.

“Choose a character in the play whom you’d like to be, ”she told us. “This afternoon learn a few lines of this part for homework. Then tomorrow you can say those lines in front of the class. Ill decide who play each part.”

I wanted to have one of the bigger parts in the play, so I choose the part of the king. He has a lot of lines to say. I learned them by heart.

This morning in our English lesson we had to say our lines. I acted the part of the king. When I said my lines, I put a lot of expression into my acting. I thought I acted really well.

Everyone in the class read a part and then the teacher who would play each part.

Many of the students in my class couldn’t act at all. They couldn’t even read without making lots of mistakes. I was sure that I would get a big part in the play.

However, the teacher gave me the part of a soldier. He has only one line. It is, “Yes, sir!”

I was very disappointed. At the end of the lesson I went up to her and asked her why I had such a small part.

“You put too much expression in your acting,” she said. “Good acting is not big acting. It is acting the audience can believe in.”

I think I know what she means.

1. What did the boy want to do in the play?

A. To get a  morning eating part 

B. To organize the play

C. To get a large acting part. D. To work the lights.

2.How did the boy feel when the teacher told the class they would put on a play?

A. Bored.           B. Sad.             C. Excited.         D. Unhappy.

3.Why didn’t the teacher give him the part of the kings?

A. He did not act correctly.        B. He did not know the lines.

C. He was not handsome.         D. He was too short.

4. What does the underlined word “expression” in the passage mean?

A. 表情       B.建议        C. 模仿         D. 服饰

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　　Peter and John are classmates. One day they had an English exam. Peter got a full mark but John didn't 1 it. Peter became so happy 2 he began to play all day long.

　　John made up his mind to 3 4 with the other students in his class. He corrected all his mistakes 5 the help of the teacher. He also studied hard at home. In the evening, when Peter was 6 TV, John was working hard at English. A month later, they had 7 English exam. To their 8 , John got a full mark while Peter failed the exam.

1．________　　2．________　　3．________　　4．________

5．________　　6．________　　7．________　　8．________

About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend classes in school buildings.

Instead, they receive their elementary and high school education by working at home on computers. The center for Education Reform says the United States has 67 public “cyberschools(网络学校)” and that is about twice as many as two years ago.

The money for students to go to a cyberschool comes from the governments of the states where they live. Some educators say cyberschools receive money that should support traditional public schools. They also say it is difficult to know if students are learning well.

Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed. These people say cyberschools help students who were unhappy or unsuccessful in traditional schools. They say learning at home by computer ends long bus rides for children who live far from school.

Whatever the judgment of cyberschools, they are getting more and more popular. For example, a new cyberschools called Commonwealth Connections Academy will take in students this fall. It will serve children in the state of Pennsylvania from ages five through thirteen.

Children get free equipment for their online education. This includes a computer, a printer, books and technical services. Parents and students talk with teachers by telephone or by sending emails through their computers when necessary.

Students at cyberschools usually do not know one another. But 56 such students finished studies at Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School recently met for the first time. They were guests of honor at their graduation.

1.What do we know from the text about students of a cyberschools?

2.What is a problem with cyberschools?

3.Cyberschools are getting popular because__________.

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Charter schools in the US operate with public money but without many of the rules that govern traditional public schools. In the United States the rules for charter schools are different from state to state. But in general these schools have greater freedom to decide what and how to teach.

A charter school might have nothing to do with the local public school system. It might be started by teachers, parents, community groups or a profit-making business.

Forty-seven million students go to traditional public schools. And more than a million students go to charter schools.

And now a group of charter schools have formed the Green Charter Schools Network. The idea is to have environment friendly school buildings but also to go further than that.

The schools teach students to give lots of time and attention to the community problems that affect them and the environment. For example, young children grow vegetables in a school garden and learn about healthy eating. Older students help recycle waste from restaurants. And local schools share what they grow in community gardens with people in need.

Jim McGrath is president of the Green Charter Schools Network. He says there are about two hundred “green” charter schools across the United States. And the Green Charter Schools Network holds its first national conference this October in Minnesota. Supporters of green schools say their goal is to let the movement be popular across the country.

1.. Are the rules for charter schools the same in the US?  

2.. How many students go to charter schools? 

3.. What do students in charter schools often do?

4.. Do teachers teach students to protect the environment or to know the Network?  

5.. Why do supporters hope charter schools to be popular across the country?

A) 根据句意及所给中文提示或英文解释，写出句中所缺单词。

1.Mr Li is 50 years old, but he is still _____________________(精力充沛的).

2.Do you know colours can affect our________________________(情绪)？.

3.The old man is strange. He doesn’t act ______________________(正常)

4.If you take more exercise, you will be ________________________(健康).

5. Many of the patients are so poor that they can’t__________________(买得起)to travel to hospital.

6.The students in Class 8 are __________________(very good).

7.Tom is very ___________________(funny and making you laugh). We all like him.

B) 根据句意，用括号中所给单词的适当形式或句子的语法要求填空。

8.He spent much time in              (search) the Internet.

9.His grandpa used to _____________(smoke) a lot.

10.Don’t be __________________(worry) too much. You’ve just got a bad cold.

11.Thank you for           (operate) on them on the plane.

12.White is the colour of purity. If you wear white, you will feel _____________(relax).

13. His father died because of         (ill).

14.When he was a boy, he_________(prefer)to stay at home rather than go to school.

15. He is very patient and always waits without ____________(get) angry.