What do you usually do after school? Playing football? Watching TV? Come on, we need something new! Let’s see how kids in foreign countries spend their free time!
Mess Around with Dress-up
Do your parents have any old clothes? See if you get an old box and start collecting hats, shoes and clothes now! Then, when your friends come over after school, you can play dress-up. See if you can make yourself into a doctor，or a cowboy, or even a spaceman! Use glitter paint and old material to decorate the clothes the way you like them.
If you are really clever, you could even put on a show for your family! Let your imagination run wild!
Want to learn new things after school? Want to make new friends who aren’t in your class? You can get both of them in clubs. In other countries, schools, there are usually all kinds of clubs for kids to join. There is French club，student government, theater, choir (合唱队）and photography club.
Take photography club as an example. One may learn all the necessary skills about taking photos. For example, you will learn how to choose a camera，how to use the light and how to develop pictures. Sounds cool, right?
But that’s not all. One can also make a lot of friends in clubs. It’s always good to enjoy your spare time with friends，isn’t it?What is the best title for _____？
| A．Start a Club | B．Learn a Club |
| C．An Important Club | D．A Photography Club |
From the first paragraph we know________.
| A．foreign kids don’t like watching TV |
| B．Chinese kids like playing football with foreign kids |
| C．playing football is not popular with foreign kids |
| D．foreign kids have some different ways to spend their free time |
When you join a photography club，you cannot________.
| A．enjoy your free time | B．get a camera for free |
| C．make some new friends | D．learn to take pictures |
The text mainly talks about________.
| A．how to take a good picture |
| B．how to join a photography club |
| C．after-class activities in foreign countries |
| D．putting on a show in foreign schools |
Traveling is one of the most important activities and people have been interested in it for many years. Modern traffic develops fast, so traveling to different places has become much easier than before.
Staying healthy while traveling can make your trip happier.But do you know how to keep healthy during a trip？The following information may be useful for you.
Before traveling：
●Wear comfortable shoes，a hat and sunglasses.
●Take some necessary medicine with you.They can be used when you get sick or have other problems.
●If you do lots of sports like walking or climbing during your trip，you should do some exercise for weeks or months before you leave.
While traveling：
●Be sure not to eat dirty food or bad fruit.
●Have enough time to take a rest during your trip.
●Tap water is not safe，so drink bottled water and always clean the cover on the bottle.
判断下列句子是否与短文内容相符，相符的填“T”，不相符的填“F”。 Traveling has become much easier because of the modern traffic development.
You should wear less clothes before you leave your home for a trip.
You had better not be too tired while you are having a trip.
If you walk more and eat more while traveling, your trip will be happier.
The passage mainly talks about activities while traveling
You may know the song Happy Birthday very well. But do you know who wrote this song and for whom it was written? Let me tell you a story. About one hundred years ago, there was a girl called Kate in the USA. She loved children very much and wrote many songs for children. One of them was the song Good Morning To You. The song was very popular at that time among children, but not all grown-ups ( 成年人 ) knew it.
The girl was very poor. Once her friends invited her to a little child's birthday party. She felt happy but sad because she had no money to buy a present for him. Finally she decided to sing the song Happy Birthday. in the melody (曲调) of Good Morning to You for the little boy. When her friends heard the song at the party, they were very happy. "How wonderfully she is singing!We have not heard this song before. It's a special present," said someone. And they learned to sing it together. Later, the song became very popular throughout the world. People like it because it's simple and friendly.
判断下列句子是否与短文内容相符，相符的填“T”，不相符的填“F”。 Happy Birthday is a old song. Nobody knows who wrote the song Happy Birthday.
The song Happy Birthday is a song from America.
The melody of Happy Birthday comes from the melody of Good Morning to You.
The girl first sang the song for a little child as a birthday present.
The girl knew the song would be popular before she came to the party.
Microblog(微博) is used by more and more people in China. Do you know what it is? Microblog makes the people around the world to know each other better. It helps people to find the information that they need easier, also to get some information about the world they did not know before.
Many famous people are using microblog now, including singers, TV hosts and artists. Yao Chen once became the queen of microblog because her microblog has over 1.3million followers; Li Yuchun sent a microblog and got 11760 comments(评论) within 24 hours; Cai Kangyong, who is a famous TV host and famous writer in Taiwan, has 15143 more followers within 24 hours.
Why is microblog so popular? The most important reason is that it is convenient(方便的). People need not use too much time to write the articles to express their feeling. They can write at most 140 words, and then send it through computers or mobile phones onto the microblog. They can use it anytime, anywhere.
Many of my friends use microblog to share what they see, hear and think in a sentence or a photo with others. Also, they can follow their friends’ or their favorite stars’ microblogs. Microblog is very hot now!
Have you microblog today ?
根据短文内容，完成下列句子。Microblog helps people to find ___________ that they need easier.
___________ is the queen of microblog.
Microblog is so ___________ that it’s becoming more and more popular.
People send their words through ______ or mobile phones onto the microblog.
We can use a microblog to _________ what we see, hear and think in a sentence or a photo.
从方框中所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项补全短文，其中有一项是多余选项。
Pablo Picasso（毕加索） was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher. __________________He won a prize — “Science and Charity” for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know.
________________________
Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. __________________When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live .
_______________________
When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. ____________________________
When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old.
Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was 12 years old, Jeff had cancer(癌症). Doctors had to cut off most of his right leg.
Every day Jeff puts on an artificial leg(假腿). With the plastic artificial leg Jeff can ride a bicycle, swim, and play soccer. He can also run.
Jeff made a plan with his friends who had plastic legs, too. They decided to run across America.
When he was 22 years old, Jeff Keith ran across the United States from the east to the west. He started running in Boston. Seven months later, he stopped running in Los Angeles. He ran 3,200 miles. Jeff stopped in cities on the way to Los Angeles. In every city people gave Jeff money. The money was not for Jeff, but for the American Cancer Society.
Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things. He is studying to be a lawyer(律师). Jeff says, “People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that. I ran not only for disabled people. I ran for everybody.”
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。Jeff’s right leg was cut off because he had_______.
| A．TB（肺结核） | B．an accident | C．cancer | D．a serious injury |
From the passage we know that Boston is _______.
| A．in the west |
| B．half between the east and west |
| C．near Los Angeles |
| D．in the east |
It took Jeff _______ to run from Boston to Los Angeles.
| A．about four and a half months | B．over two hundred days |
| C．almost twenty-five weeks | D．less than half a year |
The underlined word “disabled” means _______.
| A．优秀的 | B．劳累的 | C．残疾的 | D．无能为力的 |
The fifth passage tells us that _______.
| A．people should give him more money |
| B．people can do anything they want to do |
| C．some disabled men will become lawyers |
| D．disabled people also can run |
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