It’s a goal for millions and millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within a certain amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concern (忧虑) is becoming greater and greater theses days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.

Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o’clock in the morning and fight to get a good deal (交易) on Black Friday ( the first Friday at Christmas time). It’s surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a good deal. But sometimes it can be well worth. Many retailers (零售商) offer specials all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.

Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.

Shop online. Some of us don’t like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don’t like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.

The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and some

specialty stores on the Internet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.

1. The underlined word “specials” in Paragraph 2 means______.

A. 赠品            B. 奢侈品            C. 特价商品          D. 圣诞礼品

2.We can have more choices to get a good deal ______.

A. on the Internet    B. in specialty stores   C. from salesmen        D. from retailers

3.In this passage the writer wants to ______.

A. tell us to shop online                      

B. tell us the best way to do shopping

C. show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping

D. give us advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time

4. From the passage we can infer (推断) that ______.

A. people are surely able to get a good deal on Friday

B. it is possible for people to buy the perfect Christmas gifts with less money

C. retailers will be hungry because they are busy selling Christmas gifts

D. with traditional Christmas shopping, people can’t buy the perfect gifts

I will never forget my first English class. It is very interesting. It’s the first class in the morning. The teacher goes into the classroom with a smile on his face. At the beginning, he makes a self-introduction(自我介绍). And he tells us that his English name is John. Then he asks all of us to think of English names for ourselves. We are very excited(兴奋的) to find a good name. Then he asks us to write our names down on a piece of paper. I think about my English name for a long time. Then I come up with(想出) a beautiful name ---Shirley. All the students write their names down and give the paper to the teacher. When the teacher calls “Shirley” to answer his question, three girls stand up at the same time.

1.What do we do in the first English class?

A. Tell the teacher our Chinese names.

B. Find English names for ourselves.

C. See an English film.

D. Draw pictures.

2.What does our teacher do first?

A. He asks every student to make a self-introduction.

B. He introduces(介绍) himself to all of us.

C. He asks us many difficult questions

D. He tells us a story.

3.What’s the English name of our English teacher?

A. Jack. B. Shirley C. John. D. Tom.

4.Where do we write down our English names?

A. On the blackboard. B. On the desk.

C. On our hands. D. On the paper.

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The teacher gives every student an English name.

B. Our teacher is a young girl.

C. Three girls choose(选择)the name “Shirley”.

D. The teacher calls our Chinese names in class.

Everyone likes living in a clean and comfortable environment. If the environment is bad, it will affect our body, and make us not feel well. Sometimes we may be terribly ill. Why? It’s germs（细菌）that make us ill. There are germs everywhere, They are very small and you can’t find them with your own eyes, but you can see them with a microscope（显微镜）They are very small and there may be hundreds of them on a very small thing, Germs can always be found in dirty water. When we look at the dirty water under the microscope, we shall see them in it. Germs can also be found in the air and dust（灰尘）. If you cut your finger, some of the dust from the floor may go into it, and you will have much pain in it. Sometimes the germs will go into all of your body, and you will have pain everywhere.

So environment is very important to us. To keep us healthy, we should try our best to make our environment become cleaner and tidier. It needs us to act together.

1.Germs are the things that________.

A. you can’t see with your eyes

B. you can see everywhere     

C. are very big

2. Germs can be found_________.

A. on the small thing       B. everywhere                              C. only in dirty water

3.You feel ____________ if germs go into the finger that is cut.

A. nothing                B. painful                                C. relaxed

4.The underlined word “affect” means __________ in Chinese.

A. 强壮                 B. 打动                                 C. 侵害

5.From the passage we know that________.

A. the environment is becoming worse         

B. if the environment is better, germs will be more

C. germs may make us ill

When you travel(旅游) in Hong Kong, you must be careful of the traffic(交通) rules, because the traffic keeps to the left and it’s different from that of the interior(内地) of China. Before crossing the street, you must look to the right and then to the left. If the traffic lights are red, the traffic must stop, people can go across the zebra line.（斑马线） If the traffic lights turn green , the traffic can go, and people mustn’t cross the road.

  In the morning and in the evening, when people go to or come from work, the streets are very busy. The traffic is the most dangerous.

  When you go somewhere by bus in Hong Kong, you have to be careful, too. Always remember the traffic keeps to the left. Have a look first, or you may go the wrong way. In Hong Kong, there are a lot of big buses with two floors. You’d better sit on the second floor. From there you can watch the city very well. How interesting !

1.In Hong Kong the traffic moves __________.

A. on the right       B. on the left    C. in the middle     D. in the park

2.When you cross the street, you must look to ____ first.

A. the front         B. the right      C. the left          D. B and C

3.If the traffic lights are red,  _______.

A. the people must stop               B. the traffic must stop

C. the people and the traffic must stop   D. the traffic and the people must wait

4.It is ______ to cross the streets in the morning and in the evening.

A. dangerous        B. interesting      C. easy        D. safe

5.You can see the city very well on the _____ floor of the bus.

A. first             B. second         C. third        D. fourth