An artist went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday, and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with his paints and brushes and painted from morning to evening, and then when it got dark, he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed.

At the end of his holiday he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said, “No, I don’t want money… but give me one of your pictures. What is money? In a week it will all be finished, but your painting will still be here.”

The artist was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about his pictures. The farmer smiled and answered, “It’s not that. I have a son in London. He wants to become an artist. When he comes home next month, I’ll show him your picture, and he will not want to be an artist any more, I think. ”

1.__________ people are mentioned (提到) in the article.

A. Two                                  B. Three                     C. One                                  D. Many

2.The artist lived with the farmer __________.

A. for about a month                                                       B. for a year

C. for a holiday                                                                  D. for the farmer’s son

3.The farmer asked the artist to give him a picture because __________.

A. he liked his picture

B. he didn’t want his money

C. he wanted to sell his pictures for some money

D. he wanted to show it to his son

4.The artist was very pleased and thanked the farmer because __________.

A. the farmer didn’t want him to pay him

B. the farmer decided to let his son learn from him

C. the farmer’s son would be an artist like him

D. he thought the farmer praised (表扬) him for his pictures

1电视已经走进了千家万户，是我们生活的重要组成部分。每个人都有自己最喜爱的电视节目。下面是五个人的描述，请根据他们的描述从A-F中为他们选择合适的电视节目。

1.I am 73 years old. I often watch TV in my free time. Of all the programs, I like the news best. Through the TV, I can learn what is happening in our country and in the world. At seven every evening , I always sit in front of the TV.

2.I am a grandma. I like Chinese traditional opera. From Monday to Thursday, I usually turn on the TV at half past seven. The programs from CCTV7 are my best.

3.I am a basketball fan. I like playing basketball very much. But I am too busy. So I have to watch it on the TV. Every night, I watch the match till midnight.I am crazy about it , especially NBA

4.I am a housewife. I do the housework all day, I’d like to watch TV at night. I prefer to see soap operas like ‘palace”, “meteoric garden” and so on.Because they can make me feel relaxed.

5.I am the only son in the family. I am in Grade Five. I like cartoons best. I often watch cartoons on the TV after doing the homework.

           A                          B

C                          D                      

            E                         F.

Reading newspaper has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspaper as the first thing to do in the morning;  66_ read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is _ 67 _in the world.
Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news _ 68_, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other _ 69_we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few _ 70_to look at the headlines of the passage.
Newspaper can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different _ 71_of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountains _ 72_we can see few newspaper.
Some kinds of newspaper are published once a week, but most of them are published once a day with many pages, some even published _ 73_a day! You know different people enjoy reading different kinds of newspaper. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are _ 74_in.
Today newspaper in English has the largest numbers of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are _ 75_English newspaper such as China Daily or 21^st Century. Also they bring us more and more imformation with Internet.