How are you, Lin? I’m writing   1  you at my school. It’s a big middle  2 . I’m in a big class. There’re fifty students in my class. There are about two hundred teachers in my school. My English teacher   3  Miss Liu.   4  is a nice teacher.

We go to school  5  Monday to Friday. There are four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. We play games   6  four on Friday after class.

I have some friends at school. One is  7  America. She speaks English and   8  Chinese. I like to play   9  them. We   10  football. That’s my favorite game.

短文填空。从下面方框中选出10个单词，用它们的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺 (每词限用一次)。(共10小题，每小题1分；计10分)

before; other; think; teach; wind; hope; stay; say; something; good; after; take

? Bill is a good student but he doesn't like to use his head. He often says something without ___1.__. It makes__2.__ unhappy. Mr. Green was a teacher in a school. He's old and doesn't work now. He likes children. He often gives Bill some fruit or cakes and ___3.__ him to read and write. So he likes the old man very much.

It was a___4._ Saturday, and Bill didn't go to school. He had some questions and __5.to ask Mr. Creen, but he couldn't find him. Mother said. “Mr. Green isn’t __6.__ at home now. He is ill in hospital. I will go and see him_7.__ breakfast. “Bill wanted to go there with his mother. But his mother didn’t agree. She said, “You are not a good boy. I can't take you there. "

“Don’t worry, mum. I am sure I will not do that. "

Then they went out with some flowers. They _8.__a taxi to the hospital. In the hospital, Bill didn’t say ___9.___ at first. When they wanted to leave, he comforted the old man and said,”You look ___10.___, I think. The doctors say you are going to die, but I don’t think they are right. ”

 用所给词的适当形式填空。（5分）

1.Fish can not ______________(breath) out of water.

2.No _________________(difficult) can hold us back.

3.It is ______________(harm) to your health to drink too much.

4.He emphasized(强调)the _________________(important) of careful driving.

5.We got the name list, ________________(include) his name.

6.What he said caused me _______________(feel) sorry for him.

7.Of all the countries in the world, the USA is the _______________( develop).

8.We are supposed to help the _______________( able) people.

9.Jane has _______________(success) in the speech contest.

10.The teacher stopped them________________(fight) in the school.

American Schools
American schools begin in September after a long summer holiday. There are two terms(学期) in a school year. The first term is from September to January, and the second is from February to June. Most American children begin to go to school when they are five years old. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they finish high school.
High school students take only four or five subjects(学科) each term. They usually go to the same classes every day, and they have homework for every class.  After class they do many interesting things.
After high school, many students go to college(大学). They can go to a small one or a large one. They usually have to give a lot of money. So many college students work after class to get the money for their studies.
【小题1】How long is each term?