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.

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?

Bob and Jim once worked in the same factory. One day, Bob lent Jim ten dollars, but then Jim left his work and went to work in another town without giving back the money.

Bob didn’t see Jim for a year. And at that time he knew that Jim was in another town and staying at a hotel (旅馆) .So he went there to look for him late in the evening.

When he got to Jim’s room, he saw his shoes near the door. “Well, he must be in,” he thought and knocked at the door. There was no answer. He knocked again and said, “I know you are in, Jim. Your shoes are out here.”

“I’ve gone out in my boots (靴子),” answered Jim.

Harbin is a great city in China. It’s in the northeast of China. It’s famous for its cold winter. People call it “the Ice City”.

Every year, millions of people from all over the world visit Harbin. They come to see the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. The festival usually begins in January. During the festival, visitors can enjoy the beautiful Ice and Snow World. They can see many kinds of ice and snow sculptures (雕塑). They can go skating and skiing too. If you like ice and snow, you will love Harbin.

Harbin is over 800 years old. Tourists can see many traditional (传统的) buildings in the city. They can also see many nice European style (欧洲风格) buildings in Central Street. People call Harbin “the Eastern Moscow(东方莫斯科)”.

Mr Brown got up late this morning. He was going to be late for work. It was raining hard and the streets were wet. He drove so fast that he didn’t see the red lights. He couldn’t stop his car and hit a car. An old man got out of the car and called out angrily, “What are you doing? How can you drive so fast?”

“I’m sorry, sir,” said Mr Brown, “I didn’t see the lights turn red.” Then he brought out a bottle of wine and gave it to the old man.

“It’s cold today, sir,” said Mr Brown, “Please drink a little, and then you’ll get warm.”

The old man drank some wine and became happy. He said, “I’m feeling much better now. Why don’t you drink any?”

“I can’t drink anything now, sir,” answered Mr Brown, “I’m waiting for the policeman. Only drunkards (酒鬼；醉鬼) cause accidents, you know!”

Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, a cartoon film based on a popular Chinese cartoon TV series, won the hearts of children in China.

The Chinese cartoon began to show in public on 16th January, 2009 (the first day of the winter holiday for Chinese primary school students). The children seemed to go straight to the cinema.

Two weeks after its release (首次上映), the cartoon film got a box-office income (票房收入) of 68 million yuan more than that of Madagascar 2 (《马达加斯加2》), which was released in China on January 1, 2009.

“I think it is more interesting than Madagascar 2,” said 8-year-old Wang Lu who saw both Chinese and American cartoon films.

However some parents didn’t enjoy Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf so much. “It’s so childish that I almost fell asleep in the cinema,” Wang Lu’s father said.

But primary school children’s great interest has brought the great box office. Parents join their children in the cinema—buying two or three tickets to keep them company (陪伴).