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Ravi loved to talk to his grandma，who lived in India. Grandma had grown up in a small village called Tambaram and had lived there her whole life. Sometimes Ravi got to visit her with his mom and dad and his sisters. Grandma would make him tea and tell him 1. about her childhood.
When Ravi was younger，Grandma would often come to visit him in Texas. But now it was much 2. for her to travel，So She stayed at home. He 3. her visits. Smetimes she would call 4. the phone. Grandma always called late at night. Dad explained to Ravi that when it was nighttime in Texas, it was daytime in India. Ravi loved 5. her voice. He would always ask Grandma if she would make him a cup of tea. She would always laugh and gay，“Ravi sweetheart, I can send you my voice, 6. not my tea.
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假如你是李华，你美国的朋友Tom 在寒假打算学习中文。请你根据他提出的问题给出一些学习建议。要求，50个词左右。
提示词语：practice, listen, speak, China, computer, easily
Dear Tom,
I am glad that you want to study Chinese.
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Best wishes,
Yours,
Li Hua
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A Smart Dog
Rico is a dog who lives in Germany, ____1.______ When his owner says the name of a certain toy, Rico can find it. In fact, he seems to know the names of 200 toys!
___2.___. They put his toys in a room and then told him to go in the room and find a certain toy. Since nobody was in the room with Rico, he had no help from anyone finding the right toy. The researchers did this test forty times. Rico found the right toy thirty-seven times!
Then the researcher tried something else. They put seven of Rico’s toys in the room and one new toy that Rico had never seen before. ______3.__ . This new toy had a name Rico had never heard before. Rico found the right toy seven out of ten times.!
Researchers cannot really say that Rico know words or languages. ___4.___They believed Rico can think about what he hears and thin about what he knows. In fact, Rico seems to thin and remember thins as well as three-year-old child.
From these tests, animal researchers know one thing for sure. Rico has given them a lot to think about.
A. Then they told Rico to go into the room and get the new toy.
B. However, these tests seem to show Rico is smart.
C. Some researchers in Germany wanted to test Rico.
D. His owner has trained him to find his toys.
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People have always wanted to know what our future will look like. Go on reading this text, and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.
How can we know what the future will look like? To be able to understand the future, you have to know the past, what has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but people are driven by the same basic needs as they were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.
What inventions have really made a different in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have changed most people’s everyday life are telephone, radio, television, computer, the car and the internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster cars, trains, etc. In general, people have been working hard in the last 150 years to make inventions that will make the world a better place. Since there is still much to do in the area, this will be important for at least the next 150 years.
Why do we need to guess the future? Guessing the future is important for two reasons: First, we need to start to think about what kind of future we would like for ourselves and our children. And then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give us the best future.
1.What does the author try to tell us in the second paragraph?A．Our basic needs will not change in the future.
B．The world is quite different from what it was.
C．Humans will no longer enjoy food in the future.
D．The world will be completely changed tomorrow.
2.Our past inventions have made .
A．our daily life more stressful
B．it easy for us to live
C．our work easily done
D．us work less time
3.What will humans do in order to keep the world under control?
A．To produce more cars for transportation.
B．To spend more time working on the Internet.
C．To work much harder to achieve their goals.
D．To focus on making more inventions.
Do you know some world famous brands (品脾), such as Nike, adidas, Kappa...？ What do you think of them？ Do you use their products(产品)？ Here are some students' opinions:
Sam: I am a Nike fan. Many of Nike's advertisements are fun and its products are great! I have a pair of Nike basketball shoes.
Joe: In my eyes , top brand means high quality, So I love top brand products though they're very expensive. I was glad Mum bought me a Kappa T-shirt last month.
Sally：The logos(标识) of famous brands are usually unique and nice. It's cool to own products with those logos. Sometimes I wear my adidas coat.
Jack：Many top brand products are advertised by spokesmen(代言人). I love the spokesmen of many top brand products. I've got many Nike socks.
Susan: I know it's popular for young people to have famous brand products these days. But my parents both lost their jobs. I have no interest in following the fashion. I only choose the products that are not expensive.
Adam: As a student, I don't earn money myself. It's not easy for my parents to support me. So I only use some ordinary products. I don't agree students use the famous brand products.
1.Joe loves top brand products because he thinks ______.
A．top brand means high quality
B．top brands' advertisements are fun
C．it's cool to own top brand products
D．the spokesmen of top brand products are his favourite
2.What does Sally think of the products of famous brands?
A．She thinks they are expensive.
B．She thinks it's cool to own them.
C．She thinks they are popular
D．She thinks they don't suit her.
3.Among the six students, who don't have top brand products?
A．Sam and Joe. B．Sally and Jack.
C．Susan and Adam. D．Jack and Sam.
When I was five years old. I took a boat out on the river and went fishing by myself. I really wanted to catch a fish! But they were not biting.
I stayed in my boat for three days, waiting. A few times, I thought I felt a fish at the end of the line. The first time I pulled in my catch, it was not a fish; it was an old bag. The second time, it was a shoe. Finally, at the end of the third day, I felt a strong pull at the end of the line. The pull was so strong they my boat raced around and around. I needed all my power just to hold onto the fishing rod. I pulled, and I pulled and I caught the biggest fish that ever swam on the Earth! It was heavier than everyone in this room put together! Then something terrible happened!
After I pulled the huge fish into my boat, I saw that the boat was going under water! Water was coming into the boat from all sides! I was not a very good swimmer, so I was scared.
Although it was the hardest choice I ever made. I had to let the fish go. I pushed it back over the side of the boat, and we waved good-bye to each other as it swam away.
1.How long did the writer spend in his boat?
A. Two days. B. Two hours
C. Three days D. Three hours
2.What did the writer get when he pulled in his catch the second time?
A. A shoe B. An old bag C. A fish D. A small boat
3.Why did the writer let the fish go?
A. The fish bit people
B. The fish was too small to keep
C. The boat started to go under water.
D. There was a hole in the side of the boat.
4. The underlined word “raced” in Paragraph 2 probably means “____________”.
A. walked B. beat somebody C. moved very fast D. swam
