Linda lives far from her school. It takes her 50 minutes to get there on the train from her house. Linda has many ways to spend the time during the trip.

She can do one of the followings:

Read 25 pages of a novel. Do 2 Maths exercises. Write a letter to a friend. Write 20 English sentences. Sleep for 50 minutes.

She never sleeps on the train on Monday mornings, because she has tests that day, and she likes to study on the train.

Linda often writes to three different friends. She sends them each a letter twice a month.

Jack was born in New York. He lived there with his parents for more than ten years. Last year his father came to work in Beijing. China is quite different from America, and Beijing is far away from New York. So Jack wanted to know what kind of life the Chinese people were living. He often wrote to his father to ask some questions about China.

Last month, Jack and his mother came to China. How happy he was! Now Jack has some Chinese lessons every day. We all know Chinese is quite different from English. It's not easy for an American boy to learn. But Jack is interested in it and he works very hard.

For the first time in Beijing Jack was walking in Chang'an Street with his mother yesterday. He saw so many people in the street. Most of them were very kind and friendly. He tried to ask them some questions in Chinese. They answered his questions kindly. But sometimes some of them couldn't understand him.

When Jack came back to school, he told the story to his friends. They said to him, "A lot of Chinese are studying English now. Why didn't you ask them questions in English?"

A．New York

B．America

C．Beijing

D．Shanghai

A．easy

B．not easy

C．interesting

D．hardly

A．for the first time	B．for the second time
C．for the third time	D．for the fourth time

One day Mr. and Mrs. White went shopping by car. They stopped their car near a shop. They bought(买) a lot of things and wanted to put the things into the car. But Mr. White couldn't open the door of the car, so they asked a policeman to help them. The policeman was very friendly. He started to open the car for them. Just then a man came up and shouted(喊) ,"What are you doing with my car?" Mr. and Mrs. White had a look at the car's number and they were frozen(惊呆了) there. It wasn't their car.

Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, "I'm going to fly to New York next week because I will work there. ""Where are you going to stay there?' his wife asked. "I don't know yet," Dick answered. "Please send me your address, from there in a telegram (电报)," his wife said. "All right," Dick answered.

He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the centre of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.

In the evening he went to a cinema. After seeing the film, Dick wanted to take a taxi to the hotel and have a nice dinner, but he didn't remember the name and address, of his hotel.

"What should I do now?" Dick said to himself. After a while, Dick went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, "Please send me my address to this post office."

Mrs. Brown is very fat. She has a lot of health problems. Her husband (丈夫) and she go to see the doctor. Her doctor says to her, "Don't eat meat and cakes." Her husband says, "I am going to make her stop eating them, doctor." The next morning Mrs. Brown buys a can of meat and her husband eats half (一半) of it. Then he leaves home to work. Mrs. Brown cuts (切) a very small piece of it and eats it. It is very good. She cuts a big piece of and eats it. Ten minutes later she eats it all.

"My husband will be angry. What shall I do?" she thinks. She buys another (另一个) can of meat very quickly.

She eats half of that and leaves half on the table. Her husband comes back later and he sees the half meat on the table. He is very happy.

A．tall

B．slim

C．short

D．unhealthy

A．Mrs. Brown likes them	B．meat and cakes aren't good
C．Mr. Brown tells him to say so	D．meat and cakes make her fatter

A．she is good at making cakes	B．her husband likes meat（    ）
C．she wants to eat	D．she is afraid that her husband will be angry

Every year there is a very big Christmas tree in the centre of London. This is the present from the people of Norway to the people of Great Britain. They send it to the Londoners every year and Londoners decorate the Christmas tree. In the evening before Christmas, people like to look at the big tree. On Christmas Eve the streets in London are decorated, too. The shops are very busy at Christmas. People want to buy presents for their family and friends. People open their presents on Christmas morning and they are all happy with what they get. For Christmas lunch people eat turkey, potatoes and green vegetables. Then they have the Christmas pudding. At five o'clock it's time for tea and Christmas cake. On Christmas Day people wish their nearest and dearest friends a merry Christmas.

A．presents

B．it

C．Christmas

D．a Christmas tree

A．They want to buy presents.	B．They want to buy presents and a lot of food and drink.
C．They want to buy nothing.	D．They want to buy potatoes and green vegetables.

A．At three o'clock.

B．At four o'clock.

C．At five o'clock.

D．At six o'clock.

Helen has four brothers and sisters. They are Jenny, Peter, Bill and Anna. Helen is the oldest of them. Jenny is thirteen years old. She is two years younger than Helen, and one year older than Peter. Bill is nine and Anna is seven years old. Jenny and Peter are good runners. But Peter can run faster. Helen and Anna like to play basketball after school. Helen plays better than Anna. Bill is the best singer of the five. Helen and Betty study in a middle school. Peter, Bill and Anna study in an elementary school. They all work hard at their lessons. They help each one another(互相) and they love one another.