Mary is my cousin. She is only nine years old. She is in Class 2, Grade 4. She likes sports. (A) She plays baseball every day. Her math teacher is Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown has a daughter. Her name is Mona. She is Mary’s good friend. She is nine, too. And she likes sports, too. But she doesn’t like playing baseball. (B)She likes playing ping-pong.(C)她有九个乒乓球. She (D)____some ping-pong balls to school every day.

（1）Many students in China love the star Zhang Yixing(张艺兴) .He was born on October 7^th, 1991 in Changsha. He is a handsome and talented(有天赋的) boy.   (1)  他很喜欢运动。And he has a great sports collection (体育收藏).He has five soccer balls, four volleyballs and seven basketballs.   (2)  晚餐后，他和朋友一起打篮球。He is busy, but he also loves to stay with his family.   (3)  他总是和他的祖母一起看电视。（5） It’s very relaxing for him.

This year, he gives one million yuan to his high school to help the students. He is very nice.

Jean is a bright young woman who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy. Well, almost everything. (1)The problem is that the people in Jean’s family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely.

So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous（匿名）, talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.

Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common interest in rock music and modern dance. (2)因此他们总是在QQ上聊很长时间，甚至有时忘记了时间。Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself. He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big, happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.

When Jean’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. But when she knocked on David’s door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!

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 Damin usually (A) sets off in the late afternoon and gets the cormorants ready for work. First, he ties a piece of grass around their necks(B)为了阻止它们吃大鱼. Then when Damin’s boat (C)_________ the right place in the river, he pushes (D)them into river. Damin uses(E) several was to attract fish. During the day, he jumps up and down on his boat. The cormorants bring the fish back to the boat. (F)The fish are then taken and thrown into a big basket by Damin. (G)______ net are required for this type of fhishing.

Tom and Jerry

Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse are two of the most popular（A） ________characters in the world. In the short cartoons, Tom is always trying to (B)_______ Jerry, but he never has any success. Almost every cartoon (C)ends with Tom in trouble and Jerrylaughing athim. (D)The stories are full of fun and have a long history.

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both worked for MGM in the late 1930s. Their boss told them to make funny cartoons. Together they thought of the idea of a cat and a mouse. They thought it would be funny if the mouse was clever and (E)总是使猫陷入麻烦.

The first Tom and Jerry cartoon was shown in cinemas in 1940. It was a great success. Over the next 17 years, they made many Tom and Jerry cartoons. Most of them are (F)around seven minutes long.

In total, Hanna and Barbera made 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons. The cartoons were so good that they won a number of awards. The famous cat and mouseremainpopular today, as the cartoons are still shown on television around the world.

“Without music, life would be a mistake,”famous German philosopher (哲学家) Friendrich Nietzsche said over a century ago. Music is a (A) big part of our lives. But in recent years, some US schools have cut music classes to control budgets (预算).

For example, Chicago public schools hurt arts education when it fired (解雇) over 1,000 teachers. Among (B) them, 10 percent of the teachers taught art or music, according to The Washington Times. In fact, this is not just a problem in the US. In other (C) ________,(D) such as China and Britain, music class is not thought to be as important as classes like science, math and history. That’s partly because music is not seen as a very important life skill, and it doesn’t use an exam system (体系). many students(E )忙于schoolwork，so parents and students choose to focus on subjects that are tested more often.

However, learning music is beneficial (有益的) in many ways.

Playing music is not as simple as it looks, according to Kenneth Guilmartin of Music Together, an early childhood music development program. When making music, you need different abilities to work together. For example, when playing the piano, people see music notes and decode (解码器) them in their brains. They also use their fingers to make sounds. You need to deal with all these things at the same time.

(F)Music has a special connection with (有关，联系)science as well. You can see that many (G) ________ are good at playing music: Einstein played the violin, and German physicist Max Planck was talented in playing the piano.

By midnight, the main square was empty, except for the huge horse. Suddenly a (A)________ door opened on the side of the wooden horse. The horse was（B）full ofGreek soldiers! (C)They quietly（D）爬出了the horse one by one.

 The soldiers opened the main gates. The Greek army (E) entered the city.

For ten years, the Greeks could not capture the city by fighting . In one night, however, (F) they succeeded in capturing it through a clever(G)_______.

 " Can I have a glass of hot water?" This is a very (A) common question for Chinese customers in a restaurant. But if you go abroad, you may find that meals in the West tend to come with tall glasses of ice water. Are you curious(好奇的) about this difference?

   For most Chinese people, drinking hot water is part of everyday life. More importantly, it is strongly connected with traditional Chinese medicine. One idea suggests that water of a warm temperature is (B)对健康有益处, especially for the stomach. It also helps to stop digestion(消化) problems.

   But for many Western people, they drink cold water even in (C) ________. One possible reason is that in Western countries people can drink water directly from the tap, rather than having to boil it. And it's not only drinking water that they have cold. After exercise, it's OK to jump into a cold shower, to bring the heart rate down.

   However, (D) there is one thing agreed by both the East and the West: One can cool down by drinking a hot drink in summer. (E) As sweating is a good way to cool off in summer, hot drink makes you hotter and you begin to sweat.

   Of course, it doesn't matter if you drink hot or cold water. The more comfortable your body (F) ________, the better it is.

 Although Angela was not prepared , (A)她看起来很放松and did really well .(B)She answered the questions with no problems and was soon(C) _______ of the other two contestants .

 Twenty–five minutes later ,Angela just had to answer six(D) ______questions to win the prize .

 Denise was so excited that she could hardly keep (E)still ! (F)Though the questions were getting more and more difficult, Angela kept getting them right . Soon there was just a single question between Angela and (G)victory .

 “And finally ,where is Big Ben ?”Lester asked .

 “In England,”Angela replied .

 “Correct !” shouted Lester . “You’re tonight’s lucky winner. You have own tonight’s big prize ——a trip for two to the lovely city of Paris !”