Martin is an American boy. He is eight years old. His parents       five years ago and he is now living with his grandmother in New York.

  One morning, Jimmy, one of his classmates, came to his home with an exercises book in his hand. Jimmy lives in a house not far from Martin's. They often go to school together. 

"Would you help me with this maths problem?" Jimmy said as soon as he came into the room. "It's too hard for me and I can't work it out."

"Let me try, " Martin said. "I          it isn't too hard for me. " Martin tried his best but he couldn’t work it out,         . 

"If we had a small computer,  all the problems would be         for us to do. " Jimmy said.

"A small computer. . . , " Martin thought for a minute,  then he said, "I've got an idea. We can         one in a shop. "

"A computer is very          , and we don’t have enough money. "

"That's OK," said Martin. "We can ask the new president         some money. He said he would help anyone in trouble. I' m sure he will help us. He is very rich, you know."

So they decided to write a letter to the new president. Soon the letter was finished and they hurried to the post office. In front of the post office stood a small box. They         the letter into the box carefully and went home happily. 

The next morning ,they         he post office on their way to school. They found,__­­­­­______,  the box was not a post box but trash-box(果皮箱).

1.A. have died           B. had died           C. died               D. have been death

2.A. sure                B. think              C. hope               D. wish

3.A. neither               B. either              C. too                 D. also

4.A. easy enough                        B. enough easy

C. difficult enough                    D. enough difficult

5.A. borrow              B. lend               C. bring               D. buy 

6.A. expensive         B. cheap                 C. important          D. useful

7.A. to                    B. for                C. about               D. on

8.A. place                B. take                C. dropped             D. bring

9.A. passed             B. past                 C. pasted              D. passing

10.A. with their surprise                  B. in their surprise 

C. to their surprise                      D. of their surprise

Dear Mr. Wang,
Someone comes to the office to see you in the morning, but you and your
wife are out. He comes here at 10am. Because he is very busy, he goes away
half an hour later. He tells me that he is your classmate at college(大学). Now
he teaches Chinese in a high school(高中) in this city and he lives near the No.
6 Middle School. He is a very tall man with short hair. He wears a pair of
glasses. He tells me his telephone number is 33426685. He is often at home
at 7:00 pm. So you can call him in the evening.
【小题1】 The author(作者) writes this note(便条) to ______.

______ he is very busy, Li  Ming  always  helps  others.

在下列各句的每个空格内填上一个适当的完整的单词，该词的首字母已给。

1. The man had nothing to eat for two days, so he is very h _________.

2. The music is too boring, so all of us d _________ it.

3. I don’t want to go to that cinema. It has the w_________ service in town.

4. The farmer went on working ，a _________ it rained heavily。

5. You bought lots of things for us, but nothing for y__________.

Peter is thirteen years old. He is in Grade Two this year. He likes to play soccer and watch soccer games. And he often reads newspapers. He does his best to know when and where there is going to be a soccer game. Now Peter is having lunch. He is listening to the radio, too. He is very happy because there is going to be a nice soccer game on TV at four this afternoon. He wants to watch it very much. But he is going to have English and Chinese classes. He thinks hard and wants to find a way.

“Hello, Mrs. Black,” Peter says to his teacher on the telephone, “Peter is ill in bed. He wants to ask for half a day’s leave ( 请半天假 ).”

“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.” says Mrs. Black, “But who’s that?”

“It’s my father, Mrs. Black.”

1.Peter is a ______.

A．middle school student                    B．a father           C．worker D．teacher

2.Peter will be in ______ next year.

A．Grade Two         B．Grade Three       C． Grade One        D．school

3.Peter often reads newspaper because _______.

A．his father wants him to read them           B．he likes to read stories

C．he wants to know something about soccer game D．he likes to read news

4.Peter wants to ask for half a day’s leave because _______.

A．his father is ill in bed                     B．he wants to watch the soccer game

C．he is ill in bed                          D．he doesn’t like English or Chinese classes

5.Which sentence is NOT right?______

A．Mrs. Black is going to take Peter to see a doctor .

B．Peter isn’t an honest ( 诚实的 ) boy.

C．Peter is a 13-year-old boy.

D．Peter wants to watch TV at four in the afternoon.