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Passage 1.I don’t think so
Jack is a good boy but he
doesn’t like to use his head. He
often says something withou makes
others unhappy.
Mr. Black teaches math
in a school. He’s old now and he likes
the Friday Mr. B
lack
doesn’t go to work, because
he’s ill in a hospital. And Jack’s
mother will see him after
dinner. “I
want to be there with you.” says Jack.
“You’re a rude boy. I can’t take you
there.’’ says his
mother.
“Don’t worry, mum. I won’t do that again.
Plea
se
believe me. ” says
Jack. In the hospital, Jack says nothing at
first. When they’re leaving , he says
to Mr. Black, “You look fine.
The
doctor says you’re going to
die, but I don’t think so. ”
Passage days in a week
There are about fifty-two weeks in a
year. And there are seven days
in each
week. The first day of a week is Sunday. The other
days of a
week between Sunday and
Saturday are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday and Friday. Monday is the
second day, Tuesday is the third
day,
Wednesday is the fourth day, Thursday is the fifth
day, and Friday
is the sixth day.
What’s the last day? Do you know?
Passage special Friend
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I have a friend in the U.S. His name is
Don Adams. I know him very
well, but I
have never met him. We write to each other all the
time. My
letters are very short. It is
still hard for me to write in English. I
received a letter from Don yesterday.
It makes me very happy. He is
coming to
my country for a visit next summer. We are going
to see each
other for the first time.
Passage 4.A Day in My Life
My family lives on this street. In the
morning, my father goes to
work and all
the children go to school. My mother takes us to
school
everyday. She does the
housework. She always has her lunch at home, and
sees her friends in the
afternoon. In the evening all the
children come home from school.
They
always get home early. My father goes home from
work and he is
often late. After supper
my two brothers and I do our homework. We go to
bed at ten.
Passage 5. The
Sea
What do know about the sea? Some
people have seen it but others
haven’t.
The sea looks beautiful on a
fine sunny day and it can be very tough
when there is a strong wind.
What other
things do you know about it? Of course, the sea is
very large.
In the world there is more
sea than land. If you have swum in the sea,
you know that the sea is salty. Rivers
carry salt from the land into the
sea.
Some places of the sea are saltier than the other
places. Do you
know the Dead Sea? It is
so salty that you can’t sink when
you
are in
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the water! And fish cannot live in it!
Passage 6.A Good Young Pioneer
Li Hua is a Yong Pioneer. He is going
to the park. Now he
is waiting for a
bus. Suddenly he finds a watch
on the
ground. He asks some people, “Whose watch is
it?” But the watch isn’t
theirs. So he gives the watch to
a policeman.
Now Li Hua
gets on the bus. He is sitting near the window. An
old
woman gets on the bus. She has no
seat. So he stands up and says, “Here
is a seat for you, Granny.
Please sit here”
Passage horse
There are
all kinds of horses in the world. But one of them
you
can’t ride. It doesn’t live on
land, but in the sea. It looks like the
head of horse. So the people call it
sea horse. In fact, the sea horse
is a
small fish. It likes to live in warm water. A sea
horse stands up
in the water when it
swims.
Father horse carries the eggs
to keep them safe in its pouch. When
the eggs are hatched, the baby horses
swim away.
Passage 8.A Cat and a Bird
There are three trees near the house.
There is a big tree, and two
small
trees.
In the big tree there is a
bird. Can the bird sing? Yes, it can.
What’s under the big tree? It’s a cat.
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“I want some food,” thinks the cat.
“Bird, my good friend,
Come
here! It’s time to play games” says the cat.
“No today, thank you!” says
the bird, “You can’t catch me!
Goodbye!” Look! The bird is flying!
Passage
Air is
all around us. It is around us as we walk and
play. From the
time we were born air is
around us on every side. When we sit down, it
is around us. When we go to bed, air is
also around us. We live in air.
We can
live without food or water for a few days, but we
cannot live for
more than a few minutes
without air. We take in air. When we are working
or running we need more air. When we
are asleep, we need less air. We
live
in air, but we cannot see it. We can only feel it
when it is moving.
Moving air is called
wind. How can we make air move? Here is one way.
Hold an open book in front of your
face, close it quickly. What can you
feel? What you feel is air.
Passage
There are many
clocks in the Brown’s house. They are in
different rooms.A big clock
stands in a corner of the sitting room.
It is a very, very old clock, but it
still keeps good time. Mr. Brown
winds
it once a week.
Passage11. Swimming
Swimming is a good sport. It’s popular.
People like swimming
because the water makes people feel
cool. But if they swim in a
wrong
place, it is very dangerous. These years, some
people died when
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they were enjoying themselves in water
and most of them were students.
Summer
holiday will be there again. I want to give you
some advice.
First, don’t get into
the water when you are
alone. Second, don’t get into the
water if there is a No swimming sign.
Third, you should be careful
in the
water. If you
remember these, swimming
will be safe and it’s
good for your
health.
Passage 12.A missing tiger
We used to have a cat called Tiger. He
was a beautiful tabby with a
great deal
of character. He was a natural hunter, and very
soon no mouse
dared to show its face in
our house. Unfortunately Tiger also used to
catch a lot of birds and this made him
very unpopular with some of the
neighbors. Onday day, just after his
second birthday, Tiger disappeared.
Perhaps he was run over by a car, for
at that time we lived near a busy
street. Although we offered a reward,
we never discovered what had
happened
to him and we never saw him again.
Passage
Jim gets up at
6:30. His home is near his school. He leaves home
at
7:30. They begin class at 8:00. He
has lunch at home. After lunch he
plays
games with his classmates, in the afternoon, Jim
has three classes.
He leaves school at
4:30.
Passage 14.A Chinese Boy
I’m a Chinese boy. My name is Chen
Dong. I am twelve. I have two
sisters.
My sisters and I are all students. My father is a
teacher. He
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is a Chinese teacher. He teaches in No.
19 Middle School. My mother is a
teacher, too. She teaches English in
the No. 11 Middle School.
Passage ’s
Family
A picture is on my
desk. This is a picture of Jim’s family.
The
man is Jim’s
father. A woman is behind Jim. She is his mother.
They are teachers. A girl is in the
picture, too. She is Jim’s sister.
Her
name is Kate Green. Jim and his sister are in the
same school. But
they aren’t in the
same grade. They look like thei
r
mother. They are
English.
Passage House
Our home is
near the school. We have a house. It is a good
house.
The house has three rooms. One
is a living room. The other two are
bedrooms. In the living room there is a
table and six chairs. There are
some
flowers on the table. There is a garden in front
of the house.
Our house isn’t big, but
we like it.
Monitor
This is Lin. She is from Beijing. She
studies very hard.
In class she can
answer the teacher’s questions
very quickly. Lin loves her classmates
and often helps them with
their
lessons. Everybody says she is a very good
monitor.
Passage bedroom
This is my bed room. There are two
windows in it. Near the window
there
are some red flowers. A map of China is on the
wall. You can see
four shoes and a
basketball under my bed. There are trousers and a
coat
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on the bed. Many schoolbooks are on my
desk. And there are three lights
in my
bedroom. One is on my desk, and the other two are
near my bed.
Passage 19.A Piece of
meat
A dog has a large piece of meat
in his mouth. Near the water he
looks
down and sees himself in the water. He thinks it
is another dog.
That dog has also a
large piece of meat in his mouth. He says to
himself,
“I want to
get his meat. Then I can have two
pieces.
” He opens
his mouth to bark and his meat goes
down into the water.
Passage 20. Our
school
This is our school. There are
many classrooms in it. There are eight
hundred students and
sixty
—
nine
teachers in our school. There are many
trees and flowers in it. All
the
teachers and students like our school very much.
We come to school at seven. We have
four classes in the morning and
two in
the afternoon.
Our classroom is big
and clean. We have lessons here. We do our
homework at home.
All the
students study hard.
Passage 21.A
Holiday
It’s fine today. Tom and his
family are at a park. The man in white
is his father. He is standing by the
lake and looking at the boats. The
woman in blue is his mother. She is
sitting on the grass. Beside his
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mother is Alice, his sister. She is
eating cake. The park is big, and
there
are many trees and flowers in
it. They
are having a good time.
Passage Old
Mouse
An old woman has a cat. The cat
is now very old. She cannot run fast,
and she cannot bite. One day the old
cat sees a mouse. she jumps and
catches
the mouse. But she cannot bite it. So the mouse
gets out of her
mouth and runs away.
Then the old woman is very angry
because the cat cannot kill the
mouse.
She begins to beat the cat. The cat says to her,
“Don’t
beat me.
Be friendly
to me. When I was young, I did good
work for you.”
Passage 23.A
hungry fox
A hungry fox is from a
forest. He arrives at a village. He wants to
find some food. He comes to a house and
pulls the door. But it locked.
He sees
there is a
hen inside. “Hello I’ll come
to visit you,” he
tells the hen. “I
know
that you are ill. Come
out and let me take your temperature.”
“Thank you,” says the hen. “I have a
headache.
But if I come
out, you will kill me.”
Passage Each Other
Look!
Kate is flying a bird kite. Oh, her kite is in the
tree. And
it is broken. She can’t climb
up the tree.
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Li Lei and Jim are coming here. Li Lei
is helping her. He is getting
the kite
from the tree. But he can’t get down.
Jim is helping Li Lei. Li Lei is
jumping to the wall. They are
getting
down from the wall. Kate, Jim, and Li Lei are
mending the kite
under the tree. They
are good friends.
Passage Weather
The weather in Shanghai is not always
good. In winter it
is often cold and
wet. In summer it is very hot. Spring is very
beautiful. It is not very cold, but we
have a lot of rain in spring.
Autumn is
the best season. The days are clear and dry and it
is sunny
and warm all the time. The
weather in Shanghai is sometimes warmer than
in Beijing. But in summer it is cooler
in Beijing than in Shanghai.
Passage
’s Happening?
It is in
autumn. A young man comes to a forest. He’s
walking
beside the forest.
On his right is a river. On his left is the
forest. Suddenly he sees two green eyes
looking at him from the trees. A
tiger
is getting ready to jump on him. What does he do?
He must jump
into the river. In the
river there is a big crocodile. Its mouth is very
big. The young man closes his eyes. The
tiger jumps over him. And the
young man
opens his eyes. Now the tiger is in the mouth of
the crocodile.
Passage oos
There are many kangaroos in Australia
and not only in zoos. You can
see them
everywhere outside of the cities and towns. When
they want to
have a rest on their
tails, kangaroos are also very good at looking
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after their babies. mother kangaroos
keep their babies safe in their
pockets.
Passage 28.A Pair
of Shoes
One day an old man is taking
the train to his hometown .One of his
shoes falls onto the ground, but the
train starts. He cannot pick it up,
then he takes off the other and throws
it near the fallen shoe. A boy
beside
him asks him, “Why do you do that?” He answers,
“If a man
picks them up, he
may get a pair of shoes.”
Passage 29. We get the Wrong car!
One day my wife and I go shopping at a
shop. We stop the car in
front of the
shop. An hour later we come back to the car with
many
things. But we can not open the
car door. “Oh, dear,” says my wife.
“What shall we do?” “Let’s ask that
policeman!” The policeman
comes to help
us. A few minutes later,
he
gets the door open. Just at that
moment a man comes up and shouts, “Why
are you opening my car door?”We look
at the number of the car
and our faces turn red.
Passage 30.
Thank you.
Many people like to say
“Thank you” when ot
hers
help them or say something kind to
them. It is a very good habit.
You
should say “Thank you” when someone passes you the
salt
on the table, when
someone is walking ahead of you keeps the door
open for you, when someone says you
have done your work well, or you
have
bought something nice or your city is very
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