The airport in Boswell is twenty-one miles from the city. The banks and business offices are in the centre of the city. Read the notes from the diary of Mr Simpson.
| 12th. MON. Groups of 35 Australian students visiting Boswell---want cheap holiday. 13th. TUES. Mr and Mrs J. Grant arriving from Sydney --- need overnight stop at Boswell --- leaving early on the 15th by air. 14th. WED. Mr Nagashima, Tokyo, arriving for two days’ business trip. 15th. THURS. 65 German students need two days in a cheap hotel. 16th. FRI. 17th. SAT. Mr and Mrs Johnson, from New York City, arriving by air. 18th. SUN. 19th. MON. Mr and Mrs F. Ray, small inexpensive hotel needed for two days. |
How far is it from the city to the airport in Boswell?
| A．21km. | B．31km. | C．21m. | D．21 miles. |
Mr Nagashima is from ________.
| A．Australia | B．Japan | C．America | D．Germany |
Mr and Mrs J. Grant will leave Boswell on ________.
| A．Tuesday | B．Wednesday | C．Thursday | D．Friday |
How many travelers will Mr Simpson meet in just over a week?
| A．107. | B．65. | C．35. | D．131. |
Mr Simpson is probably ________.
| A．a headmaster | B．a travel manager |
| C．a traveller | D．an engineer |
What do you eat every evening? Do you eat meat? Do you eat vegetables? Do you eat fruit or dessert(甜点) after dinner? We asked the 55 students of Class 1, Grade 7 in Sunshine School. Here is the result(结果).
How many girls are there in Class 1, Grade 7?
| A．Twenty. | B．Thirty-five. | C．Thirty. | D．Twenty-five. |
All the students in the class eat for dinner.
| A．meat | B．dessert | C．fruit | D．vegetables |
In the class, 10 students don’t eat for dinner.
| A．meat | B．dessert | C．fruit | D．vegetables |
I didn’t think I had a passion(激情). I would sit in front of the TV all day, thinking about nothing but the next show. It was not long ago that I first learned how important having a passion is to life.
That day I went with my mum to drive my sister to the gym. I was bored. Then, as my mum stopped at a red light, someone on the side of the road caught my eye（吸引我的世界）. It was a man dressed in rags (衣衫褴褛). He was homeless. That didn’t interest me, for I had seen many like him before.
But in some ways he was different. This man was not sitting down with a sad expression(表情). He had a radio in his hand and was dancing happily to the music. The radio seemed to be the most precious(珍贵)thing he had.
“Mum, why does that man have a radio even thought（尽管） he’s homeless?” I asked.
“He bought it,” she replied. I was still unable to understand.
“But if he’s homeless, why doesn’t he use the money to buy food or clothes? He wasted it on something he doesn’t need.”
“Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t the most important things. We need happiness, too.”
The man must care too much about music to buy a radio instead of food clothes. I soon realized（意识到）that happiness is the key to life. Without it, there’s nothing to look forward to.
Since then I’ve never gone a day without thinking of what’s truly important. A home, a meal, clothes—these things are only part of the picture. What’s often forgotten is that we all need a pleasure, a light in a dark day. We all need a passion.How would Sarah spend her days long ago?
| A．She watched TV all day. |
| B．She used to read a lot. |
| C．She did nothing but thinking. |
| D．She was always sleeping. |
Who caught Sarah’s eye when her mum stopped the car at a red light?
| A．A man dressed in rags. |
| B．A man dressed in new clothes. |
| C．A man sitting down with a sad expression. |
| D．A man singing happily to the music. |
Why was the man different?
| A．He wore new clothes. |
| B．He was sitting with a sad expression. |
| C．He was homeless. |
| D．He lived an active life though he was very poor. |
What did Sarah do after she understood the fact?
| A．She thought all day without doing anything. |
| B．She bought a radio just like the man’s. |
| C．She had a passion with everything from then on. |
| D．She always danced to the music on the radio. |
What can we learn from the passage?
| A．Sometimes food and clothes are the most important things in our life. |
| B．Happiness is the key to life and it is what we are looking forward to. |
| C．Music is more important than food or clothes. |
| D．Money is the most important thing for a person. |
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized(听出)his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”
What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day; I can not see it.”
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply sign the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective (有效的)？The boy in the passage can not .
| A．see | B．walk | C．hear | D．speak |
How did the man help the boy?
| A．He gave the boy a lot of money. |
| B．He brought the boy back to his home. |
| C．He wrote some new words on the sign. |
| D．He sent the boy to a special school. |
The underlined words “held up” in the first paragraph mean .
| A．阻碍 | B．举着 | C．承受 | D．坚持 |
What happened after the man changed the sign?
| A．The boy still got a few coins in the hat. |
| B．The boy got much more money. |
| C．No one gave the boy coins any more. |
| D．No one gave the boy coins any more. |
What can we learn from the story?
| A．Time can we learn from the story? |
| B．You should be brave even thought you’re blind. |
| C．Treating a thing differently brings a different result. |
| D．If we want to be rich, we should be honest.(结果) |
I think the most terrible thing in life for my little brother is getting up in the morning. He is almost sick when my mother calls, “Herbert! It’s seven o’clock! Get up!”
Herbert answers, “I’m coming!” and goes right back to sleep. I’m not at all like my brother. I don’t like to go to bed at night but I don’t mind getting up in the morning.
I usually wake up before my mother calls me. I jump out of bed and go into the bothroom to take a shower . I great dressed, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and get ready to go down stairs for breakfast as soon as my mother calls.
But not Herbert. He just sleeps. A military band (军乐队)in our bedroom could not wake him up . I call him and say, “Get up!” Mum will be up here to pull you out of bed if you don’t get up quickly.
But he just sleeps. After calling a few more times my mother has to come upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed. It’s that way every day with my little brother. Perhaps some day he’ll learn to get up on time, but I really don’t think so.I’m not like my brother because I like to go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning.
I usually jump out of bed and go into the bothroom for a shower before my mother calls.
When mother calls, Herbert doesn’t answer and keeps in bed .
My mother often has to go upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed as he refuses to get up.
Sometimes we have to send for a military band to wake Herbert up.
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