A．Happy Spring Festival!

B．Where are they from?

C．How are you?

D．How is the weather in Canberra?

E．I'd like to.

Li Ming and his mother are talking on the phone.

M: Hello, mom! This is Li Ming.

W: Hello, Li Ming! 1　　

M: I'm fine, thanks, mom. What about you and daddy?

W: Fine, too. It's winter here in Beijing and it's a little cold. 2　　

M: It's summer here now. It's hot.

W: Oh, I see. Are you getting on well（进展顺利）with your English learning?

M: Yes. I have many good friends here. They help me a lot.

W: 3　　

M: Most（大多数）of them are from Australia. Some are from Canada, and some are from the U.K. and the U.S.

W: You can help each other（互相）.

M: Yes. I help them with their Chinese and they help me with my English.

W: Good. The Spring Festival is coming. Are you coming back to Beijing for it?

M: 4　　 But I'm afraid not（恐怕不能）. The Spring Festival isn't a holiday in Australia.

W: Oh, I see. Then take good care of yourself（好好照料自己）.

M: Thanks, mom. 5　　

W: The same to you. Good-bye!

M: Bye, mom.

My English teacher Mr Smith   41   from Singapore. He is 35 years old. He can   42   

English and Chinese. He is good with us,so we all like   43   . He tells us Singapore is a beautiful   44   . There is a zoo named Night Safari in the city. It’s very   45   . Mr Smith often goes to the zoo to see the animals with his children on weekends.

    Mr Smith lives at 87 King Street. In the morning, Mr Smith goes to work   46   his children go to school. Mr Smith always takes them to school every day.

    Mrs Smith stays at home every day. She does the housework. She always eats her lunch at home.   47   the afternoon, she usually visits her friends. They often drink tea together.

    In the evening, Mr Smith and his children come home from   48   .

    At night, the children always do   49   homework. Then they go to bed. Mr Smith usually   50   his newspaper. But sometimes he and his wife watch television.

41．A.come                B.is                       C.are                    D.be

42．A.speak                B.say                    C.tell                    D.talk

43．A.he                     B.his                    C.him                   D.himself

44．A.country              B.countries            C.beach                D.city

45．A.interest              B.interested            C.interests            D.interesting

46．A.but                    B.and                   C.or                     D.so

47．A.Of                    B.On                    C.At                     D.In

48．A.school               B.home                 C.park                D.zoo

49．A.his                    B.her                   C.their                  D.theirs

50．A.looks                 B.watches             C.sees                  D.reads

While reading a book in English, every few lines of text, you run across a word or two that you don't know. You look every new word in the dictionary. Bad move. All that does slow you down. Even electric or CD-ROM dictionaries can get in the way of your reading progress. A dictionary is like a road map. It can help you if younger lost and point you in the right direction. But if you stop to look at the "map" each time you take a step, you'll get nowhere fast .

On your English learning "journey （旅行）”, a dictionary Can be a helpful “travel companion"---if it is not overused. To help you start thinking in English, use an English-to-English dictionary. Otherwise（否则），you will always depend on your native（本国的）language and end up translating in you head.

A good dictionary can help you do more than just find the meaning of a word. it can help you verify （test and check） spelling, check word forms and grammar usage, find example sentences and learn pronunciation. Some dictionaries even provide exercises to teach you how to use their resources（资源）.

Take time to get to know your dictionary. Learn the pronunciation symbols （符号）.

Understand what the abbreviations （缩写字） mean. Try to master the important grammar rules. Look for charts, diagrams and lists that might be useful in the future. You will discover how helpful it can be to make friends with your dictionary. And as they say, "A friend in need is a friend indeed."

1．According to the passage,________________________

A．we should look up each new word we meet while reading

B．dictionaries will be helpful if we use them properly

C．we can't look up any new words we come across while reading

D．we can get everything we want in dictionaries

2．The underlined word "companion" means____________________

A．指南            B．札记            C．工具       D．路标

3．Why do we need a good English-to-English dictionary?

A．Because it is a good friend.

B．Because it can help us to find the right direction if we get lost.

C．Because it can help avoid to think in our native language.

D．Because it can help us to start thinking in English and in Chinese.

4．The underlined word "that" in the last paragraph refers to （指） ____________ 

A．pronunciation symbols and grammar rules

B．abbreviations and usage for grammar rules

C．the meaning of a word, spelling and grammar usage

D．charts, diagrams and lists

5．According to the passage, we learn that____________________

A．the more you use a dictionary, the better you can understand the article

B．the more you use a dictionary, the faster you may read

C．the more you use the resources in a dictionary, the more information you can get

D．the better a dictionary is, the more expensive it is

The Chinese character “an”

 A．Tile character for “sun” was a circle with a dot(点)in the center．The character for “man” looked like a body with two legs．

B．The Chinese began writing their language over 3,000 years ago．Their way of writing is very different from that of English writing．

C．Now the language of Chinese has greatly been developed．More and more people outside China are beginning to learn Chinese．It has become one of the most charming languages in the world．

D．It is written in characters．The early characters were a little like pictures．Each one stood for a different character．

E．As time went on, the characters changed．New ones appeared and many became different in meaning from their shapes．People could no longer tell what a character meant just by looking at it．

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