阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出一个最佳选项回答问题或完成句子。

A Manchester teenager has received a phone bill (账单)for over £450 after sending 3 ，500 text messages in just one month.

Tony Russell has had his new mobile phone for only three months, but now his father, Lionel, has taken it away.

He's been asking me for a mobile for years because all his friends have got one，“ explained Lionel. "I finally bought one for his birthday because he's been doing so well at school, but he and his friends are crazy (疯狂的)about sending text messages. They do it all the time. They even text each other from different sides of the school playground.

Tony said, "I thought texting was much cheaper than phoning, so I've been texting my friends all day long and even into the early hours of the morning. I've been going to bed at 2 ： 00 most nights. Sometimes my hand hurt because I pressed the buttons so much, but I was having such good fun that I couldn't stop！"

His father said,"! have forgiven him, but I am angry with the phone company as they are encouraging this crazy behaviour. " He has made his son promise to pay back the money, so Tony has been working on Saturdays. He has found a job in a shoe shop. "I think it will take me about a year to clear this debt(债务)，"he said.

A Xiangtan teenager has received a phone bill for over 350 yuan after sending 3,500 text messages in just one month.

Tan Wei has had his new mobile phone for only three months, but now his father has taken it away

He's been asking me for a mobile for years because all his friends have got one," explained Tan Wei's father. "I finally bought one for his birthday because he's been doing so well at school, but he and his friends are crazy about sending text messages They do it all the time. "

Tan Wei said, "I thought texting was much cheaper than phoning, so I've been texting my friends all day long and even into the early hours of the morning, Sometimes my Angers hurt because I pressed the buttons(按键)so much, but I was having such good fun that l couldn’t I stop！”

His father said, “I am angry with the phone company as they are encouraging this crazy behaviour.' He has made his son promise to pay back the money, so Tan Wei has been working on Saturdays He has found a pan-time job in a shoe shop 'I think it will take me about hall a year to clear this debt(债务) he said.

1.Tan Wei got the mobile phone because_____.

A. he's been asking for it for years.

B. all his friends have got one.

C. he's been doing well at school.

2. The underlined word "texting" probably means_____

A. 读课文                 B. 短信                  C. 发邮件

3. When he sent text messages, Tan Wei_______ .

A. made friends at school  

B. got himself injured

C. felt quite happy

4. How much money does Tan Wei get for his job every month?

A. About 40 yuan          B. About 60 yuan          C. About 80 yuan

阅读下面的材料，然后根据材料回答问题。

    Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood(洪水) ,and quite a few houses were washed away, but Elizabeth's house was high enough to escape it.

    Elizabeth helped one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a new house. Elizabeth's friends could not understand her since she already had so many children to take care.

"Well," Elizabeth explained to her friends, at the end of World War II, there was a poor woman in a town in England .Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now .The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, “We won't be able to have much for Christmas. I'm going to get just one present for us all .Now I'll go and get it. She came back with a little girl who had no parents .Here's our present, she said to her own children. The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grow up as their sister. I was that Christmas present."

阅读短文，然后在下面的表格中完成内容提要，每空不超过3个单词。

New Energy in the Twenty-first Century

Energy from the wind

Wind is a kind of clean energy, and there is lots of it, But, if there's no wind, there is no wind energy.

Energy from the water

When water moves from a high place to a lower place, it can make electricity(电）without pollution. However, people have to build dams(水坝) to use this energy, and building dams is very expensive.

Energy from the earth

    There is heat in the rocks under the earth. Scientists use the heat to make geothermal(地热的)energy. This kind of energy is cheap, but it is only possible in a few places in the world.

Energy from the sun

    Solar panels (太阳电池板) on the roofs of houses can turn energy from the sun into electricity. Solar power is clean and plentiful(丰富的).but when the weather is bad, It doesn't work.

New Energy in Twenty-first Century

写作技能。

阅读下面的短文，然后根据汉语或英语首字母提示写出所缺英语单词的正确形式。

Dear grandma，

    How's it going? I hope that grandpa is well now, I was sorry to （1）h     that he had a cold last week I hope you are in good  （2) h     .

    Things are fine here, I (3) f   my end-of-year exams last week and got my report (4)c     today. I always get (5) 紧张 when I see me envelope from school in the mail. put luckily I did OK this time. I had a hard time with science this semester and I wasn't surprised to find that my worst report was from my science teacher She said I was (6) 懒惰. which isn't true it's just that I find science really difficult. (7) 另一个disappointing result was in history. My history teacher said I could do (8) 更好 The good news is that my （9）数学 teacher said I was hard-working. And my Spanish teacher said my listening was good

    Well, that's about all the news I have for now. Mom and I  （10）D    send their love.

                                                                      Love，

                                                                      Alan

 阅读下面的内容，将划线部分的句子译成汉语或英语。

    Last year my English class was difficult (1）first of all, it wasn't easy tor me to understand, what the teacher said .To begin with, she spoke too quickly, and I couldn't understand every word. Later on, I realized that it doesn't matter if you don't understand every word (2)I was also afraid to speak in class. because I thought my classmates might laugh at me. I couldn't always make complete sentences, either. Then I started to watch English-language TV. (3)这很有帮助. I think that doing lots of listening practice is one of  the secrets of becoming a good language learner. I also found English grammar very difficult. (4)50 I decided to take lots of grammar notes in every class. Then I started to write my own original sentences using the grammar I was learning It's amazing how much this helped.( 5)现在我喜爱学英语