—Oh, it’s raining so hard and I’m afraid we can’t go shopping today.

— ___________. We have to stay at home .It’s boring.

 —Does Ted tell you if he           next Sunday? 

—No, he doesn’t . But if he            , I’ll give you a ring.

My mother warns me __________play computer games.

—Can you tell us ________?

—Of course, but they’re coming over to visit me in a few months. 

—Thank you for coming to help us.       —________

From Monday to Friday most people are busy working or studying, but in the evenings and weekends they are free and  31 themselves. Some watch television or go to the cinema, others take part in sports. This is decided by their own   32  .

There are many different ways to spend our free time.

Almost everyone has some kind of   33  : it may be something from collecting stamps to ____34___ model planes. Some hobbies are very   35 , but others don’t cost anything at all. Some collections are worth(值得…的)  36 of money, others are valuable(有價(jià)值的) only to their owners.

I know a man who has a coin collection worth several   37  dollars. A short time ago he bought a rare(罕見的)fifty-cent piece which   38  him $250! He was very happy about this collection and thought the price was all right. On the other hand, my youngest brother collects match boxes. He has almost 600 of them, but I wonder(懷疑) if they are worth any money. However,  39  my brother they are quite valuable.

 40  makes him happier than to find a new match box for his collection.

More than a hundred years ago, an American produced (創(chuàng)造) a game. He called it indoor tennis. The Americans were not interested in it at first so he sent it to his London friends and it became very popular (流行) in Britain. The game was then played across the dining-room table or on the floor with the net hung between two chairs. In the early days ，the balls were made of cork (軟木) or rubber. The bats(球拍) were made of wood.

A few years later a hollow (空心) ball like the one we use today was invented. The game then quickly spread all over the world. An Englishman once made a bat covered with rubber. He first played the game in England and called it "ping - pong". "Ping" was the sound of the bat when it hit the ball, and "pong" was the sound of the ball when it hit the table.

1.Who invented the game of ping-pong?

2.The game was first called ________ by its producer(創(chuàng)造者).

3.What did the British think of the game?

4.In the early days，the ball was________.

5.The name of ping-pong has something to do with __________.

I will never forget the year when I was 12.My mother told us that we would not get Christmas gifts because there was not enough money .I felt sad and thought, ”What shall I say when the other kids ask me about my gifts?” I started to hope the Christmas wouldn’t come that year. Just then three women came to our house with gifts for all of us. For me，they brought a doll .I felt so happy.

Years later, my life changed a lot. So one Christmas, I wanted to do something special. I asked forty friends to help me. We visited 125 orphans(孤兒)to come to our Christmas party. For every child, we prepared a beautiful gift.

Finally the moment came. I called out,” One, two, three. Open your gifts!” As the children opened their boxes, the whole room was full of their bright smiles. The feeling I got from that Christmas so long ago came again.

1.___gave the writer a Christmas gift when she was 12.

2.From the sentence “Years later, my life changed a lot.” we can guess that _____.

3.The writer was so _____when she got a Christmas gift.

4.Which of the following is WRONG according to the passage?

5.What’s the best title for the passage?

根據(jù)中文提示及首字母，填寫單詞。

1.— What subject are you _____________ （感興趣）in?    —Maths.

2.Don’t be __________（擔(dān)心） about my study, I’ll work harder.

3.My mother often________ (警告)me to wash my hands before dinner.？

4.The snake climbed out of the box and _________( 躲藏)under the dish.

5.Tell me the ________ (真相) , or I can’t help you.

6.We have lessons every day ________ (除了... 之外)Saturday and Sunday.

7.In my  ________ (觀點(diǎn)) ,he is a good boy.

8.The girl has a sweet ______（嗓音）and I like listening to her beautiful songs.

9.I asked the secretary  __________（是否）she could come or not.

10.Computers are very __________（有用的）, they can help us do many things.

用方框中所給單詞填空的適當(dāng)形式。

1.One of the ______ is my friend.

2.Tony is the _____boy in our class.

3.The students are busy ______their classroom .

4.The maths problem is easy, I can do it ______.

5.I'd like to collect ______ because it's interesting.