I’m a junior high school student. My name is Sarah. I have a pretty aunt. Her name is Jenny. She is an actress. She must be at least thirty-five years old. In spite of this, she often appears on the stage as a young girl. Jenny will have to take part in a new play soon. This time, she will be a girl of seventeen. In the play, she must appear in a bright red dress and long black stockings. Last year in another play, she had to wear short socks and a bright, orange-coloured dress. If anyone ever asks her how old she is, she always answers,“Darling, it must be terrible to be grown up!”This is my lovely aunt. I love my aunt.

This is Lucy and that is Lily. Lucy is 12 years old. Lily is 12 years old, too. Lucy looks like Lily and Lily looks like Lucy, too. They look the same. They are twins. But they have different hobbies. Lucy likes listening to music and drawing pictures. Lily likes dancing and playing basketball. They are American. They are new students in Jim’s class. They are in Grade Six. Jim often looks after them. They are new friends. They go to a shop. They would like something to eat and drink. Lucy would like some bread. Lily would like a bottle of orange. Jim would like some apples.

Mr. White lives in a tall building. He lives on the sixteenth floor. Every day, he takes a lift (电梯) up and down.

One Saturday afternoon, he went shopping with his little son and bought many things. They drove back and carried all the things up to the lift. Suddenly they saw a piece of paper on the wall. It said, "Dear sirs, there's something wrong with the lift. Please use the stairs now." The son took a bag and ran upstairs quickly. But Mr. White walked and walked.

At last they stood in front of their door feeling very tired. Mr. White began to look for the keys, but he could not find them. Suddenly he shouted in a loud voice, "Oh, no! I've left my keys in the car."

A．Yes, they did.

B．No, they didn't.

C．Yes, they were

A．At home.

B．In the car.

C．In his bag.

There are many apple trees in a garden. They’re good friends. One day an old tree is ill. There are many pests in the tree. Leaves of the tree turn yellow. The old tree feels very sad and unwell. Other trees sends for a doctor for him. At first, they send for a pigeon, but she has no idea about it. Then they send for an oriole(黄鹂), and she can’t treat the old tree well either. Then they send for a woodpecker. She is a good doctor. She pecks a hole in the tree and eats lots of pests. At last the old tree becomes better and better. Leaves turn green and green.

When old Mr Chow was a young man, he went to visit his uncle in the city. His wife and children met him at the train station when he arrived back in the countryside. When he got off the train, his wife asked, "Did you miss us?"

"Yes, I missed you all. There's no place like home. Life in the city was strange. Uncle Tom lives in a modern neighbourhood (居住区). People go up to their homes in a big box." Mr Chow said.

"You look tired." said Mrs Chow.

"Yes, I need to sleep. I couldn't sleep at night because the light was much brighter (更亮）than the candle in our house."

"Why didn't you blow it out?" asked Mrs Chow.

"I tried (尝试）to, but it was in a glass ball." said Mr Chow.

A．city

B．countryside

C．town

A．Yes, he did.

B．Yes, it did.

C．No, he didn't.

A．lift (电梯）

B．box

C．house

A．

B．

C．

My name is Li Mei. I’m 13 years. There are three people in my family. They are my father, my mother and me. My father is a farmer. In the past, he got the crops in by hand. Now he uses a machine. It can get the crops in very quickly. It can save a lot of time. My mother is a street cleaner. In the past, she swept the streets with a broom. Now she drives a street sweeper. It can clean the streets in a short time. My home is far from my school. I went to school on foot five years ago. Now I go to school by bus every day.

My name is John. Joe is my pen pal. He lives in the city. He weighs 55 kilograms. He is 160 centimetres. He goes to school by bus every day. He likes dancing and drawing pictures. There are a lot of tall buildings in the city. There are a lot of shops and restaurants too. Joe often goes to the cinema to see films. He often goes to museums too. I live in the countryside. I weigh 50 kilograms. I am 157 centimetres. I go to school on foot. I like playing football and singing. There are a lot of rivers and mountains in my hometown. I usually swim in the river in summer. I often play games in the mountains.

With the improvement of our living standard, more and more people can afford cars. However, the smoke from the cars makes the air dirty. Air pollution has become a serious problem around the world. That’s very dangerous for us and animals.

We should do something to make the air clean again. But what can we do? We can do some small things in our daily life. For example, we can go to school by bike or on foot. That can reduce the smoke. Trees can clean the air. So we should plant more trees and stop cutting down so many trees. Why not have a try?

Long long ago, in ancient China, there lived a farmer. He was worried that his seedlings (秧苗) grew too slowly.

One day, he went to the fields (田地) and pulled up the seedlings one by one. When he returned home, he was exhausted (筋疲力尽的). “I am tired out today,” he said to his family, “I helped the seedlings grow.”

His son was surprised. He hurried to the fields to see what had happened. It turned out that all the seedlings had shriveled up (枯萎).