Buckingham Palace is in London, England. Buckingham Palace is famous because Queen Elizabeth（伊丽莎白女王）of England lives there. She became queen in 1952.
Buckingham Palace is a big and beautiful building. Queen Elizabeth and her family live on the second floor of the palace. The queen also has her office at the palace. Queen Elizabeth often asks important people to eat dinner at the palace. She invites 9,000 people to each party!
Buckingham Palace is like a small town. It has a police station, a hospital, two post offices, a movie theatre, a swimming pool, two sports clubs, a garden and a lake. The palace has about six hundred rooms. About four hundred people work there. Two people have very unusual jobs. They take care of the clocks. There are 300 clocks in Buckingham Palace.
Queen Elizabeth’s day starts at 7:00 in the morning. Seven people take care of her. One person prepares her bath, and another person prepares her clothes. Another person takes care of her dogs. The queen loves dogs.
It’s very interesting to have dinner at Buckingham Palace. You have to follow rules. Queen Elizabeth starts to eat first, and then everybody eats. When the queen finishes eating, everybody finishes eating. You can’t leave the table during dinner.
People visit the rooms in Buckingham Palace in August and September. There are wonderful things to see. Don’t forget that Queen Elizabeth is one of the richest people in the world.
1.Which floor does the queen live on?
A. the ground floor B. the second floor
C. the sixth floor D the tenth floor
2.The underlined word “unusual” means ___________ in Chinese.
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A．不经常的 |
B．有意义的 |
C．特殊的 |
D．通常的 |
3.How many rooms does Buckingham Palace have?
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A．900. |
B．600. |
C．400. |
D．300. |
4.According to the text, everyone has to ____________ during dinner at Buckingham Palace.
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A．stay at the table |
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B．listen to music |
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C．finish eating later than the queen |
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D．finish eating earlier than the queen |
5.Which sentence is NOT true?
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A．We can guess the clocks in Buckingham Palace are very important. |
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B．Buckingham Palace is a palace and a home, too. |
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C．People can visit Buckingham Palace all year round（全年）. |
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D．Queen Elizabeth can swim or do other sports. |
Uncle Wang works in a book shop in the middle of the city. The shop is not far from his home. It is about one kilometer away. So Uncle Wang seldom goes to work by bus. He usually goes there by bike, sometimes on foot. It takes him twenty minutes to get there by bike and forty minutes on foot. Today his bike is broken. He wants to walk there.
Now he is having breakfast. He leaves home at ten minutes to eight and he walks to work twenty minutes earlier. His work starts at half past eight in the morning and finishes at a quarter to five in the afternoon.
1.What does Uncle Wang do?
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A．He sells books. |
B．He grows flowers. |
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C．He makes shoes. |
D．He works in a hospital. |
2.Why does he seldom go to work by bus? Because________.
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A．there is no bus |
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B．his shop is not far from his home |
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C．he likes riding a bike |
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D．his shop isn't in the middle of the city |
3.How long does it take him to walk to his book shop?
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A．Twenty minutes |
B．Forty minutes |
C．Ten minutes |
D．Half an hour |
4.He usually finishes his work at ________in the afternoon.
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A．4:45 |
B．5:15 |
C．4:55 |
D．5:05 |
5.What time does he usually leave home by bike?
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A．7:50 |
B．8:10 |
C．8:20 |
D．7:30 |
How do you usually have your art lessons? What do you think it will be like if your art teacher brings a real boa constrictor (蟒蛇) to your class for you to draw l a model?
These days, Zou Huazhang, a teacher from No. 59 Middle School in Wuhan, Hubei is becoming a 2 person on the Internet. Usually, most art teachers will 3 the students some bottles, cups, fruits 4 _ vegetables in art classes. And they ask students 5 and draw. Mr. Zou gives an art lesson with a boa constrictor. All the students feel 6 when they see the animal.
"I like Mr. Zou's class," a girl says. "When I see the boa constrictor 7 in his hands, on his arms or on his body, I see its different shapes and actions. Then I can draw it well more 8 . " 9 does Mr. Zou get the animal? "I know a man who keeps many animals. And I also know the boa constrictor. It is very tame (温顺). And it has no 10 . So it will not bite (咬) students. I'm happy the students like this class and learn a lot."
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---Would you like a piece of cake? ---________. I'm full.
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A．I'd like to. |
B．Yes, please |
C．No, thanks. |
D．That's OK. |
________ your daughter often help you ___________ the housework?
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A．Do, for |
B．Do, with |
C．Does, for |
D．Does, with |
---How many students are there on the playground? ---_________.
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A．Nobody |
B．Nothing |
C．None |
D．None of them |
