grandfather worked very hard,      he couldn’t support the big family.

I have            to tell you.

It’s important            exercise every morning.

When he heard the good news, he felt           .

The government keep          our country.

A large number of students           planting trees now, the number of the students        2000.

There is something about New Year's Eve. In Scotland the last day of the year is the 26_ important holiday of the winter,27 important than Christmas. On New Year's Eve friends and neighbors go about from house to house drinking to each other's health and wishing good luck. 28 New Year's Day. All shops and factories are closed and no 29 is done. Families meet together for a big meal and a family 30 , They often sing and dance all the night.

In England New Year's Day is not 31 holiday and people go to work as 32 But on New Year's Eve most people sit up till 33 "to see the new Year in" or they 34 to parties and dances. Most of the London hotels 35 a New Year's Eve dance.

5.A, party    B. work     C. clean        D. shopping

Little Tom likes cartoons (動(dòng)畫片) very much .When the cartoons begin on TV, he does nothing until they’re over. Sometimes he’d rather wait for a long time and go to bed late. In the morning his mother has to wake him up, or he will be late for school.

Yesterday Tom heard there would be an interesting cartoon today. This morning, as soon as he got up, he turned the television, but didn’t receive the programme. He had to have breakfast and then went to school. After school he ran home while his mother was cooking supper in the kitchen (廚房). He hurried to the sitting room and turned on the television again, but he couldn’t find the cartoon. He rushed into the kitchen and asked his mother to help.

“It’s only five now,” said the woman. “Your programme will be after supper.”“Well, let’s have supper right now!”

1. Tom goes to bed late sometimes, so______ .

2.Tom spends much time _____ when he is free.

3.Tom _____,so he turned on the television after getting up this morning .

4.Tom was afraid _____, so he ran home.

5. Tom thought _____.

Li Shizhen was born in 1518. His father was a poor doctor. Li Shizhen often saw that people fell ill. He decided to study medicine so that he could be able to help people. Li Shizhen read many books about medicine. He found many of the old medical books to be full of mistakes. So his wish was to write a new one.

He did his best to study medical science. He studied not only the herbs（草藥）in his own garden, but also the wild ones. He set out many times on long journeys to collect herbs and talk with old farmers. He learned a lot from the working people.

After many years of hard work and study, Li Shizhen finished his great work “Ben Cao Gang Mu”（本草綱目）. At that time he was sixty. His book is now one of the greatest contributions（貢獻(xiàn)）of the Chinese people to the medical science of the world.

1.Li Shizhen’s father was      .

2.Li Shizhen decided to study medicine because he wanted to       .

3. Li Shizhen wanted to write a new medical book because      .

4.“Ben Cao Gang Mu” is      .

5.Li Shizhen collected a lot of         on his long journeys.

 Mobile phone has become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have banned(禁止) students from carrying mobile phones during school hours.

Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, teachers said mobile phone use is a distraction(娛樂(lè)) to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.

She said some schools had tried to ban mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with(與…聯(lián)系) their children.

Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at school: they were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.

Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.

1.Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones,          

2. We know from the passage that some children get mobile phones from       .

3.What does the underlined word cheat mean in the passage?

4.Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t         during school hours.

5. The passage tells us that        .