Gina Smith:

Yes, I have two soccer balls, three volleyballs, four basketballs and five baseballs and bats. I love sports, but I don't play them---I only watch them on TV!

   Wang Wei:

(1)我不喜欢足球。Soccer is difficult. I like ping-pong. It's easy for me. I have three ping-pong balls and two ping-pong bats. (2) After class, I play ping-pong with my classmates.

根据短文内容回答下面三个问题。

Passage Five

Mary Donaldson is worried about her 16-year-old daughter. Sophia. Six months ago, Sophia came back from a party, upset and unhappy. From then on，(1)she thinks of nothing but how to lose weight and become beautiful. She refuses to eat and keeps on doing exercise. (A)Sophia had always been a little heavy, so when he decided to go on a diet, Mary encouraged her. (2)She felt that her daughter would look more attractive if she loses 10 kilograms. However, Sophia has lost over 20 kilograms until now. Her eating and exercising habits are having a harmful effect on her health. She is too thin and is often sick.

Her mother is trying to prevent her from going on a diet and losing weight, but Sophia thinks that she is still too heavy and refuses to start eating as usual. Sophia's mind is full of the idea of looking like a model. (B)Every day she goes to a club to do exercise. When she is not there, she spends her time reading magazines like Fashion & Beauty (《时尚与美》). The models in these magazines are very thin and beautiful. Sophia says. "If I look like these models, I will be happy."

(C)Mary doesn't know how to help (3)her daughter. She feels sorry for having encouraged her at first, because Sophia no longer feels good or pleased with her body. She's afraid that Sophia will never be happy if she keeps comparing herself with the models in the magazines. (D) Common people are not supposed to look like models. The most ordinary face becomes (4)beautiful when the person behind it is filled with confidence, wisdom and the joy of life.

“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)_______.

 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 !”

Hi! (A) I’m Tom Green. I’m a middle school student. (B)这是我的电话. It is blue. My phone number is 121-5783. (C)My friend is in China now. His name is Eric. (D)His telephone number is 368-9911.

MissXuis a teacher. She has 40 students. Their ages are from 11 to 12. She is a good teacher and all her students like her. They think she is their good friend.

MissXu’shome is near her school, so she often walks to school in the morning. Today is cold and windy. MissXuwalks to school. The wind goes into her eyes. Big tears(眼泪) begin running out. Ten minutes later, MissXugets to school. She opens the door of the classroom and gets into the classroom, and MissXufeels happy there.

But little Tom, one of MissXu’sstudents, looks at her carefully. He finds tears in her eyes, so he walks up to MissXu, gives a big hug(拥抱) and says, “Don’t cry, MissXu. School isn’t so bad.”