Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽车).
A small car can hold(容纳)four persons and a large car can hold six persons, but it is very crowded(拥挤). A van hold seven persons easily, so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel. They could all travel together.
Mr.Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. Their children sixth and seventh seats are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’ home , the suitcases are brought into the two seats, the van can then carry the grandparents.
Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.From the passage, a van is also called ____________.
| A．a motor car | B．a motor home | C．a motorbike | D．a big truck |
Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they__________.
| A．sold their old house |
| B．moved to their grandparents’ house |
| C．built a new place for a van |
| D．sold their second car |
A motor home is usually owned by a family with__________.
| A．a baby | B．much money |
| C．more than two children | D．interest in vans |
Americans usually use motor homes____________.
| A．to travel with all the family members of holiday |
| B．to do some shopping with all the family members |
| C．to visit their grandparents at weekends |
| D．to drive their children to school every day |
Motor homes have become popular because___________.
| A．they can take people to another city when people are free |
| B．they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays |
| C．some people think motor homes are cheap |
| D．big families can put more things in motor homes |
Tom and Mike were good friends.Sometimes they were kind to each other, sometimes they were not.But all of their classmates said they were like brothers.
One day they went out for a walk together.At noon they were very hungry and they went into a restaurant to have lunch.The waiter came up to them and asked, “What can I do for you?”
“Please bring us two apples first.” said Tom.
When the waiter put two apples on the table, Mike took the bigger one at once.Tom got angry.
“You are impolite, Mike.Why don’t you take the smaller one?” Tom said.
“But I am right.” said Mike with a smile, “if I let you take first, which one will you choose?”
“Of course I’ll take the smaller one.” said Tom.
“Yes,” Mike said, “If you take the smaller one, the bigger one will still be mine.Don’t you think so?”
“Oh!” Tom couldn’t answer.Tom and Mike were .
| A．always kind to each other |
| B．sometimes kind to each other |
| C．dear brothers |
| D．friends of different school |
Mike thought only about when they were having lunch.
| A．himself | B．Tom | C．his parents | D．his friends. |
The waiter gave them .
| A．two eggs | B．two apples |
| C．three oranges | D．some milk |
Tom took the apple.
| A．better | B．bigger | C．smaller | D．worse |
took the apple first.
| A．Mike | B．Tom | C．Tom and Mike | D．The waiter |
One afternoon, Kate and her brother Bob went out to play.Kate was eight, and Bob was ten.“Let’s go to the bridge and we can see fish in the river.” said Kate.
“I don’t know…” Bob said.“Mum told us, ‘don’t go on the bridge.’ She said it’s dangerous.”
Kate said, “I am not afraid.Are you?”
They walked onto the bridge and began looking for fish in the river.The bridge was a train bridge.Trains went over the bridge three times a day.
The children were standing in the middle of the bridge when they heard a loud noise.“A train is coming!” Bob shouted.“Run!” He ran to the end of the bridge.He was safe.
Kate ran, too, but she fell.The train was coming fast.Kate ran towards Bob.She fell again right on the train tracks(铁轨).There was no time to leave.She had to lie down between the tracks.A few seconds later, the train went over the girl, but she was not hurt at all.She stood up and said to Bob, “Don’t tell Mum! Don’t tell Mum!”
At last their mother found out about the story.She was angry because they went on the bridge.But she was happy that Kate was all right. Bob and Kate were .
| A．twins | B．brothers |
| C．sisters | D．brother and sister |
One afternoon they went to the bridge to see .
| A．their mother | B．fish |
| C．the train | D．the river |
When the train came, the children were .
| A．in the middle of the bridge |
| B．at the end of the bridge |
| C．on their way to the bridge |
| D．away from the bridge |
Where was Kate when the train was going over her?
| A．She fell again right on the train tracks(铁轨). |
| B．Kate ran towards Bob. |
| C．She had to lie down between the tracks. |
| D．She stood up and cried. |
When their mother knew about the story, she was .
| A．happy | B．angry |
| C．sorry | D．both angry and happy |
Last winter vacation, our class went to Xiangshan for a trip.Though the weather was a little cold, it was sunny.
At six in the morning we met at the school gate.We took a bus there.On the bus, our monitor told us an interesting story.The story was about an interesting man.Then three girls in our class sang songs.We were very happy.
At about seven thirty we got there.It was a beautiful mountain.There were many visitors.Then we started to climb the mountain.The boys had a climbing race(比赛).Li Ming won the first prize.He got a blue hat.At about nine o’clock we met a famous singer.Qi Hui and Ma Yan even got his autographs.They were very excited.
We had lunch in the mountain.We brought food from home and ate together.
After lunch we went to the zoo, because the was a new member(成员) in the zoo.It was a cheetah(猎豹).It came from Africa.
Finally, we took the bus back to school.Although we were tired, we really had fun.How was the weather on that day?
| A．It was warm and sunny. |
| B．It was hot and sunny. |
| C．It was cold, but sunny. |
| D．It was cold and cloudy. |
They went to the mountain .
| A．by bike | B．by bus | C．on foot | D．by car |
It took them about to get to he mountain.
| A．one and a half hours |
| B．an hour |
| C．forty minutes |
| D．half an hour |
They had lunch .
| A．at home |
| B．at school |
| C．in a restaurant |
| D．in the mountain |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．They were quiet on the bus. |
| B．Two students got the singer’s autographs. |
| C．They bought food in the mountain. |
| D．The cheetah came from America. |
补全对话
| A.When is Ann’s birthday? B.I’ll pick you up at 9:00. C.When are you free? D.I’m not sure. E.I’m sorry, but I have anothing thing to do tomorrow. F.I’m thinking about going to buy a gift for her. G.I think there will be twenty people at her party. |
A: Next Friday is Ann’s birthday.
B: Oh, I forgot it.Let’s go to buy gifts together.
A: what about the day after tomorrow?
A: OK, that’s fine.What time shall we meet?
B:
A: Good! How many people will there be at Ann’s party?
B: Maybe thirty or forty.
A: I can’t wait.I believe we’ll have fun at the party.
B: Sure we will.
Wang Ling, a middle school girl, felt angry with her parents after getting a boy’s phone call.“A classmate called me to discuss homework.We talked 1 just a few minutes before my parents got mad,” said the girl.“They asked whether I liked the boy.I said I didn’t, 2 they wouldn’t believe me.”
Wang’s trouble is not strange at all because puppy love(早恋) becomes a big headache for 3 parents and schools.They worry that puppy love will be bad for 4 .Her school makes it a rule not to allow any talk or any physical contact(身体接触) 5 one boy and one girl alone.
Many students say they understand 6 parents and teachers are so nervous about puppy love.But some think they are going too far.“We have our own thoughts and we know what to 7 with it,” said Wang Ling.
Another girl, Jiang Ting, liked making friends with boys.” Boys and girls can learn from each other,” she said.” My mother asks me to study hard.However, she 8 stops me from making friends with boys.“once Jiang told her mother she might fall in love with a boy.Her mother let Jiang make 9 own decision.Soon Jiang found that she didn’t like him any more because the boy was not as 10 as what she had thought before.And she did wrose and worse in her subjects because she spent much on it.At last she understood the worry form schools and most parents about puppy love.
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