Mary likes to invent things. She creates a new language and teaches it to her friend, Jean. Mary and Jean like to talk to each other in their own language because they think no one understands them and it is funny. When they go shopping, they say things like: “Look! He is fat.” “This CD is awful.” “I want to eat free hamburgers.” A clerk comes but he can’t understand what they say. He asked them: “May I help you?” Mary and Jean just laugh. What fun it is to create something new.
【小題1】Which is Mary’s invention?

A．Teaching her friend.

B．A new language.

C．Go shopping.

D．Making hamburgers.

【小題2】Why does Mary like speaking her new language with her friend Jean?

A．Because they can talk but no one knows what they say.

B．Because it’s easy to speak new language.

C．Because her friend Jean likes it.

D．Because she wants free hamburgers.

【小題3】What do they do in the store?

A．They buy some things.

B．They talk with the clerk.

C．They want to understand what people say.

D．They use their new language and talk about people and things.

【小題4】The clerk may think that ________, so he comes to help them.

A．maybe they need help

B．they talk about him

C．they laugh at him

D．they invent things

【小題5】According to the passage, creating something new is _____.

A．boring

B．interesting

C．hard

D．easy

※Live Music - Late Night Jazz  Enjoy real American jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He is known play well into the early hours, so don’t want to get much sleep.

PLACE: The Jazz Club            DATES: 15- 23 June PRICE：￥100-150         TIME: 10p.m.till late!   TEL: 4668736

※Scottish Dancing  Scottish dancing is nice and easy to learn. The wonderful dance from England will be given.

PLACE: Jack Stein's            DATES: 10-20 May PRICE: ￥150                 TIME: 7-10p.m. TEL: 4021877

※Shows- Anhui Museum   There are 12,000 pieces on show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history.

PLACE: Anhui Museum           DATES: 1 Mar - 30 Jun PRICE: ￥60 (￥30 for students)  TIME: Monday- Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. TEL: 4886888                           Weekends 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

※Hotels     Three-star hotels whose service can make you feel at home.

Dates 1 Oct - 31 Dec. 1 Jan - 31 Mar. 1 Apr - 30 Apr. 1 May - 31 May. 1Jun - 30 Sep.	SUN  HOTEL Prices (a night) ￥ 168 ￥ 148 (closed) ￥  188 ￥  208	ROSE HOTEL Prices (a night) ￥ 198 ￥ 178 (closed) ￥ 218 ￥ 248
	TEL: 4686788	TEL: 4686755

【小題1】If you want to watch dancing, you can call________.

A．4668736

B．4021877

C．4886888

D．4686788

【小題2】 You can see the whole of Chinese history at________ in April in Anhui Museum.

A．3 p.m. every day

B．9 p.m. from Monday to Friday

C．7 a.m. at weekends

D．7 p.m. every day

【小題3】 You can enjoy________ at Jack Stein’s.

A．American jazz

B．Scottish dancing

C．12,000 pieces on show

D．yourself all night

【小題4】 Sun Hotel and Rose Hotel are open for________ months of the year.

A．nine

B．ten

C．eleven

D．twelve

【小題5】You have ￥148and you can________ in May.

A．listen to Jazz

B．watch Scottish dancing

C．go to Anhui Museum

D．stay in Sun Hotel for a night

“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”
That may seem a strange thing to say. But touching things can help you to see them better. Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can tell how heavy the glass it. When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it.
With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pockets. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too. You can even feel sounds against your skin. Have you wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They must like to feel the sounds of music.
All children soon learn what “Don’t touch!” means. They hear it often. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up. In shops, we touch things we might buy: food, clothes. To see something well, we have to touch it.
The bottom of our feet can feel things, too. You know this when you walk on warm sand, cool grass or a hard floor. All feel different under your feet.
There are ways of learning to see well by feeling. One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin. Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body, the air on your skin. At first, it is not easy to feel these things. You are too used to them.
Most museums are just for looking. But today some museums have things for visitors to touch. Their signs say, “Do touch!” there you can feel everything on show.
If you want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really see.
【小題1】By touching things ___________.

A．you will have a strange feeling

B．you will learn how to reach out your hand

C．you can see them well

D．you can tell what colors they are

【小題2】According to the passage, which of the following CANNOT feel things?

A．Skin.

B．Fingers.

C．Feet.

D．Eyes.

【小題3】 Why does it say “At first, it is not easy to feel these things?” Because ___________

A．the things are used by people too

B．people feel the things too much

C．people know how to use the things

D．these things are familiar to you

【小題4】You can see the sign "Do touch!"_____________________.

A．in every museum

B．in most museums

C．in some museums

D．only in one museum

【小題5】The best way to see the world well is to ___________________.

A．touch by feeling

B．see or to feel

C．read

D．see and feel

As prices and building costs keep rising, “the do-it-yourself”（DIY）trend（趨勢(shì)） in the US continues to grow.
“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Kose, “and we didn’t have enough money to buy it.” So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs. John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling （努力）to make a home when the cost of living is very high. The Koses took a 2-week course for $ 280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was very upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course. I should be able to fix the car myself. ”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourself”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how to do things yourself.
【小題1】We know from the passage that many people ________ .

A．seldom go to a department store to buy things

B．take DIY courses run by the government

C．like to learn to make their own furniture

D．find it hard to pay for what they need

【小題2】 John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to _______ .

A．improve the quality of life

B．save time and money

C．make or repair things

D．run a DIY shop

【小題3】When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim ______.

A．keeps house and looks after his children

B．does his own car and home repairs

C．does extra work at night

D．make shoes in his home

【小題4】Jim Hatfield decided to become a do-it-yourself when ______ .

A．he had to raise the children all by himself

B．he could not possibly do two jobs

C．the car repair class was not helpful

D．his car repairs cost too much

【小題5】How can people learn DIY? 

A．Go to classes.

B．Read books.

C．Go to classes and read books.

D．The passage doesn't tell us.

Young people and older people do not always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one special program in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in a friendly way.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. They do so not just to keep busy but to find meaning and fun in work. Some teenagers work in the forests or on the farms near the village. Some learn to make things like tables and chairs and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.
There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too .During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photo-taking or drawing. Others sit around and talk or sing. Each teenager chooses his own way to pass his free time.
When people live together, they should have rules. In this program the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “Why did it happen? What should we do about it?”
One of the teenagers has said something about it: “You have to stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group.”
【小題1】In one special program in New York State, young and older people_________.

A．don’t work well together

B．live together like friends

C．teach one another new ways of building houses

D．spend eight weeks together, working as farmers

【小題2】All the members work some time every day mainly to_______.

A．lead a busy life

B．learn new skills of farming

C．get used to the life on the farms

D．find useful things and pleasure in work

【小題3】 Living together__________.

A．the teenagers don’t have to obey the rules

B．the members have to obey the rules the adults make

C．the members have no free time but on weekends

D．the members should not break the rules they make together

【小題4】 The last paragraph shows that the teenager thinks this the program is_________.

A．unpleasant

B．tiring

C．helpful

D．boring

【小題5】The best title for the passage is ____________ .

A．The Rules of Living Together

B．Life in New York State

C．Teenagers and Adults Together

D．Free Hours in the Special Work Group

情景交際運(yùn)用
IX. 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇填入恰當(dāng)?shù)脑~語。（每空一詞，每詞1分，共6分）
Linda and Jenny are senior 3 students in our school. They are from Hong Kong. It is a busy city, and sometimes it is very 【小題1】 n______ because of so many tourists. Different from that, Xiamen is more 【小題2】p           . Linda is a quiet girl so she likes to study here very much. But her sister Jenny 【小題3】 p        Hong Kong because she loves shopping.
After 【小題4】 g             next year, Linda will go to London for further education, and Jenny is going back to Hong Kong. Linda learns from a travel book that the 【小題5】w_________ there is rainy. She needs to prepare an umbrella and a raincoat. Jenny thinks that she will be really【小題6】c___________ when she comes back to Hong Kong.

根據(jù)對(duì)話情景，選擇填入恰當(dāng)?shù)木渥�。（每空一句，每�?分，共6分）
A: It is my sister's birthday soon. 【小題1】____________________
B: How about a shirt?
A: No, that's not interesting enough. 【小題2】___________________
B: Let me see. How about a MP3?
A: Oh, that's too dear. 【小題3】___________________
B: Oh, it really is a problem. Let me think, I hear that your brother likes listening to pop music. 【小題4】__________________________________
A: 【小題5】_______________ I will buy him a CD with "Tell me why" on it. He likes it very much.
【小題6】____________________________
B: You're welcome.

A．I want to give him a surprise.

B．That sounds great.

C．What should I get him?

D．Why don't you get him a CD?

E. Shall we go shopping?
F. Thank you very much.
G. I don't want to spend so much money.

根據(jù)情景提示，用恰當(dāng)?shù)木渥犹羁�。（每�?分，共8分）
【小題1】今天上課的時(shí)候發(fā)現(xiàn)你的同桌Amy臉色不好，你關(guān)心的問她：
【小題2】你的同學(xué)邀請(qǐng)你去參加他的生日聚會(huì)，但是你得準(zhǔn)備考試，不能參加，你的回復(fù)是：
【小題3】你看中的一幅太陽眼鏡，你想知道價(jià)格是多少，你可以問店員：
【小題4】你的好朋友計(jì)劃去Bali度假，你想知道她會(huì)在那里待多久，你可以問：

看圖寫句。（每句2分，共8分）
根據(jù)圖示和提示詞，寫出恰當(dāng)?shù)木渥�，每圖一句。
（要求：1. 使用全部的提示詞；2. 寫出完整的句式結(jié)構(gòu)。）

1. why, doesn't, dentist?  
 
2. shoes, sale.
3.
surf, experience, never, forget
4.
rainy, Sunday.

在11月，你將有一個(gè)為期兩天的假期。旅行社能為你提供兩個(gè)目的地，表格如下：

Place to go	Shanghai	Guangzhou
Cost	￥1299	￥1899
Temperature	About 10℃~15℃	About 17℃~21℃
Activities	1. Visit China Pavilion in Expo 2. Walk along The Bund 3. Shopping	1. Asian Games (Guangdong Olympic Sports Centre, football) 2. Shopping
Transportation	high-speed train	plane

   請(qǐng)根據(jù)表格進(jìn)行比較，選擇你想和朋友或家人去的地方，至少說兩個(gè)理由。字?jǐn)?shù)為80詞左右。
（參考詞匯: plan to, warmer, have the time of one’s life, experience）