Kwame Alexander is an American writer of children's fiction. His novel The Crossover was written in poetic (詩(shī)歌的) form and won several awards in 2015. Alexander's most recent novel Booked is about a middle school student Nick Hall, whose love for soccer helps him deal with the challenges of growing up. Recently, a reporter had an interview with Alexander about his books.

(R=Reporter, A= Alexander)

R: 1.

A: It has to do with my love of sports. As a kid, I loved to play sports. I was a tennis player. I love to watch sports and to get excited about what happens on the field. Why not use sports as a way to tell these stories? I know kids are going to get into it. What kid doesn't love tennis or swimming or soccer?

R: 2.

A: I've always been interested in the power of poetry. I've been trying to write my feelings and ideas about the world we live in and poetry allows me to talk about some heavy and deep things in a pleasant way. I love poetry and for me, it's so cool.

R: 3.

A: Video games and television mostly offer fantasy (幻想). They offer interesting and unrealistic fantasy. Literature (文學(xué)) opens up a world of possibility to readers. As a writer for kids, I want to help readers imagine what's possible in the world — how to make it better and how to make themselves better in it.

R: 4.

A: Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings — those are the main ones. It's the things they wrote about, the way they played with language and held the readers' attention.

R: Are you planning a new novel?  5. 

A: It will be. I'm writing a prequel (前傳) to The Crossover. It's about the father, Chuck Bell, when he was 12 years old.

A. Will it be in poetic form?

B. What can literature offer young people that video games and television cannot?

C. Why are both of your recent novels about sports?

D. Do you write from your experience or imagination?

E. Why did you write these two novels in poetic form? 

F. Which writers have had the greatest influence on your writing?

A. Will it be in poetic form?

B. What can literature offer young people that video games and television cannot?

C. Why are both of your recent novels about sports?

D. Do you write from your experience or imagination?

E. Why did you write these two novels in poetic form? 

F. Which writers have had the greatest influence on your writing?

根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示完成句子，一空一詞（包括縮寫詞）

1.艾倫18歲時(shí)上了大學(xué)。

Alan ___________ ___________ at the age of 18.

2.里克長(zhǎng)大了，他可以自己做決定了。

Rick has grown up. He can ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________.

3.抱歉，你不應(yīng)該把你的書放在書桌上。

Sorry, your book ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ on the desk.

4.父母必須讓孩子們遠(yuǎn)離危險(xiǎn)。

Parents must ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ danger.

5.當(dāng)媽媽叫薩拉停止看電視時(shí)她和媽媽頂嘴了。   

Sarah ___________ ___________ to her mom when Mom told her to stop watching TV.

下面是Learning English雜志社發(fā)給全國(guó)中學(xué)生的一封電子郵件。假如你叫李華，你對(duì)該郵件中的問題很感興趣，請(qǐng)你給該雜志社的編輯回一封電子郵件，參與此次活動(dòng)。

Dear students,

There must be some rules in your family, right? How do you like them? What's the best rule and what's the worst rule? Please e-mail us and share your thoughts with our readers.

Learning English

Dear students,

There must be some rules in your family, right? How do you like them? What's the best rule and what's the worst rule? Please e-mail us and share your thoughts with our readers.

Learning English

要求：詞數(shù)90左右，電子郵件的格式和開頭已給出，但不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

Dear Editor,

There are many rules in my family, some good and some bad.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

根據(jù)所給音標(biāo)寫出相應(yīng)字母的大小寫形式。

1.

2.

3.

4.

填入所缺的字母，并翻譯成中文。

1.g___od ___

2.m___rning ___

3.h___ll___ ___

4.___ft___ _r__noon ___

5.___v___ning ___

6.h___w ___

7.th___nks ___

8.f___n_e__ ___

9.___re ___

10.BB___ ___

根據(jù)所給漢語(yǔ)情景提示完成句子。

1.朋友早晨見面時(shí)打招呼： Good ____！

2.朋友之間見面時(shí)詢問對(duì)方身體狀況： ____are you?

3.下午見面時(shí)的問候語(yǔ)： Good ____！

4.聽見對(duì)方說(shuō)“Fine, thank you. And you？”后，你的回答可能是： I am ____， too.

5.傍晚見面時(shí)的問候語(yǔ)： Good ____！

比較下列每組字母或單詞所含元音音素的發(fā)音，相同的用“S”表示，不同的用“D”表示。

1.F—G ____

2.I—fine ____

3.Dale—Grace ____

4.C—E ____

5.A—thanks ____

6.E—Frank ____

7.F—B ____

8.D—Helen ____

9.B—evening ____

10.A—H ____

將方框中所給的詞按不同元音音素歸類。

Hello, My name is Dale. _____ are you? I am from the UK. There are _____ people in my family. They are my parents, my sister and me. My father is a worker. My mother is a teacher. She is in a middle _____. My sister and I are students. My sister _____ 15 and I am 12. This is a picture of my home. There is a big tree near my house. Can you _____ a cat in the picture, too? It is Mimi. I like my family, my home and _____ cat.

1.A. How B. What C. Who D. When

2.A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

3.A. book B. school C. name D. evening

4.A. is B. are C. am D. be

5.A. know B. say C. listen D. see

6.A. your B. my C. his D. her

What's this? It's the letter “P”. What color is it? It's green. What's this and what color is it? This is the letter “E”. It's yellow. What's this letter? It's the letter “N”. It's red.P－E－N. Is it a “pen”？ Yes, it is. I have a blue pen in my pencil box. My pencil box is orange. My Chinese book is in my bag. My bag is black. Look, the bag is in the brown desk. The chair is yellow. It's nice. I like it.

1.What color is the letter “P”？

A. Green.

B. Yellow.

C. Red.

D. Blue.

2.The letter “________” is red.

A. P

B. E

C. N

D. M

3.What's in the pencil box?

A. An orange case.

B. A blue pen.

C. A black bag.

D. A yellow chair.

4.Where is my Chinese book?

A. It's in my bag.

B. It's in my desk.

C. It's on my chair.

D. Sorry, I don't know.