I do not need a calendar to tell me when it is winter. All I need is my nose. When I wake up in the morning and smell the tasty treats my mom is cooking downstairs, I know winter has arrived.
The first one is the smell of chocolate. During the holiday season (from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day) my mother makes her special hot chocolate. She always adds a peppermint candy cane (薄荷味拐棍糖) to the drink and tops it with cream.
The hot chocolate gets me out of bed, but it is my mother’s chocolate fudge (軟糕) that makes me run downstairs. It is a thick chunk (塊) of chocolate that tastes like heaven. My mother adds nuts. That gives it more texture (質感).
But my mother isn’t done yet. She also makes a treat she calls “window panes (窗玻璃)”. She takes a few different colored marshmallows (棉花糖) and melts them together with chocolate. The final product looks like a colorful church window, so we call it “window panes”.
These tasty holiday treats are usually eaten after a meal as a dessert. But don’t tell Santa Claus because I secretly eat them all day long.
【小題1】What wakes “me” up in the morning?

It's Jim's birthday today. He is five years old. He gets many nice birthday presents from his family and one of them is a big drum (鼓).

" Who gives him the drum?" his father asks.

" His grandfather does." answers Jim's mother.

Jim likes his drum very much. He makes a noise(噪音) with it, but his mother doesn't say anything about it. His father is not at home. He is working in a school. So he doesn't hear(聽見) the noise.

But one of the neighbours doesn't like the noise at all. So one morning she takes a knife and goes into Jim's room. Jim is making a noise with the drum. She says to him, "Hello,  Jim, Do you know there is something nice in your drum? Here is a knife. Open the drum and let's find it."

1. Jim's        gives Jim the drum.

        A. grandfather B.  father       C. mother     D. neighbour

2.Jim's father is        

        A. a worker      B. a  teacher          C. a cleaner   D. a shopkeeper

3.The neighbour hates                .

        A. Jim's presents  B. the drum      C. the knife   D. the noise

4.The neighbour tells Jim                .

        A. to put the drum away (收拾)       B. to look after the drum

        C. to open the drum with the knife     D. to make a noise with the drum

5.Which of the following is right?      

         A. Jim's grandfather makes the drum.

         B. Something is wrong with Jim's father's ears.

         C. There is a nice present in the drum.

         D. Jim's mother doesn't stop (阻止) the noise.

Kate is an English girl. She lives in a tall building in the city of London. There are sixteen floors in the building, and she lives on the tenth floor. She uses a lift to go up and down. Kate studies in a middle school near her house and she works hard. She goes to school early. Every day she leaves her home at half past six. She walks to the lift, and it takes her down to the first floor. There is a bus stop near the building. Usually she takes No.7 bus to her school, but sometimes she goes on foot. It is only four kilometers to her school from the building. She gets to school at about seven twenty. Classes begin at eight. She goes to play games at three forty. She gets home at a quarter past five. She begins to do her homework at eight and finishes it at half past nine.

1.Kate lives in a tall building ________ London.

2.She goes up and down the building ________.

3.She leaves ________ at six thirty.

4.She goes to school ________.

5.It takes her ________ to do her homework.

Six years ago, Ann graduated（畢業(yè)）from college with a degree of Art. Now she is twenty-nine and works for a large computer company. She takes classes twice a week after work. She is learning to use the computer program PowerPoint. “I enjoyed the college, but my job doesn’t use the information I learned at college,” Ann says. “The course is helping me to do my job better.”

Ann’s sixty-year-old mother and father are taking courses in Art and Music. “We love these two subjects. Learning is so much fun,” they say happily. “It’s never too old to learn.”

1. Ann graduated from college when she was ??? .

A. twenty-nine???????? B. twenty-six?????? C. twenty-three?????? D. twenty

2.The underlined word ‘degree’ means ‘??? ’ in Chinese.

A.溫度?????????????? B. 程度??????????? C. 學位??????????? D. 位置

3. More people are taking training courses after work in order to ??? .

A. improve their working skills??????? B. enjoy Art and Music

C. study computer programs????????? D. make more money

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Ann doesn’t want to use the information she learned at college.

B. People in the past usually stopped studying after graduating from college.

C. People can only get information from their teachers.

D. Ann’s parents are too old to learn Art and Music.