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一、 用正确的语音语调朗读下面短文。
How do you give messages to other people? You speak, or you write, of course. But you give messages with your body, too. People know when you are happy. Both your mouth and your eyes tell them that. They can see the smile on your face. What happens to your mouth when you are sad? Everybody uses their hands to say different things. When you say “Hello!” to somebody, you often put your hand in the air, too. When you say “Goodbye !”, you put your arm up and move your hand a few times from side to side. You can say “Come here” with your hands. Which part of your body do you use to say “Yes” and “No”? How do you move it? 二、 根据实际情况回答下列问题。
1. How are you feeling today? 2. What do you want to be when you grow up?
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一、 用正确的语音语调朗读下面短文。
Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Many people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning. Others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they learn what is happening in the world. Sometimes, however, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page, at other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages. Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in the big cities, of course, but in some of the mountain villages we can see fewer newspapers. Today newspapers in English have the largest number of readers in the world. The English Language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century as they bring us more and more messages together with the Internet. 二、 根据实际情况回答下列问题。
1. Who is your favorite pop singer? 2. What kind of sport do you like best?
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一、 用正确的语音语调朗读下面短文。
Christmas is a very busy time for everyone. People send cards to all their relatives and friends. They make their houses pretty. Everybody has a Christmas tree with colored lights and lots of bright things on it. People buy presents for everyone in the family. They put them under the tree. In many countries, Christmas is one of the most important festivals of the year. Christmas Day is the 25th of December. In some countries, Father Christmas brings presents to all good children on Christmas Eve. He rides through the sky with a big bag of presents. He can travel all over the world in one night. On that night, children are very excited and sometimes a bit naughty. Often parents say, “If you are naughty, Father Christmas might not come. Remember! He only comes to visit good children. ”That makes them quiet again! 二、 根据实际情况回答下列问题。
1. What’s your favorite animal? 2. What do you usually do in your spare time?
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一. 朗读短文：
Friendship is one of the greatest pleasures that people can enjoy. A true friend does indeed find pleasure in our joy and share sorrow in our grief. Our friend is always at our side to give us help and comfort．
Knowing how valuable friendship is，we should be very careful in our choice of a friend．We must choose someone who has a good character，whose activities are good and who shows kindness of heart． A true friend can always be trusted，loved and respected. Friends share each other’s joys and sorrows．They help each other when they are in trouble，and cheer each other up when they are sad．The most important thing is that a friend always understands you．
二. 回答问题
1. Who is your best friend? 2. What’s your favorite movie?
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一. 朗读短文：
We all have a common home. She gives us enough food, enough water and enough living room. We get everything from her to live better, but we don’t do enough to protect her. The air has been polluted; the water is unsafe to drink. Lots of waste material is produced
Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry. So many trees are cut down, and more large cities will be set up.
How can we solve this problem? The answer is that we must control the growth of people, prevent people from cutting down trees and pouring waste water into rivers. If we can do this, our earth will become very clean, and our future will be full of happiness.
二. 回答问题
1. What do you usually do while surfing the internet? 2. What do you want to be when you grow up?
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一. 朗读短文：
There is an elephant and a monkey. They are friends. They often play with each other near a river. But one day they want to know who is stronger. One of them says, “He who can get apples over the river is stronger.”
The apple tree is on the other side of the river. The monkey says, “I can’t swim.” The elephant says, “I can carry you across the river.” They go across the river. The apple trees are very tall. The elephant can’t get the apples. The monkey climbs up the tree and gets many apples. They are happy. Now they know they should help each other.
二. 回答问题
1. What’s your favorite subject? 2. Who is your favorite pop singer?
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一. 朗读短文：
Mrs Green lives in a small village. Her husband is dead, but she has one son. He is twenty-one and his name is Tom. He worked in the shop in the village and lived with his mother, but then he got a job in a town and lived there. It is quite a long way from his mother's village, and she is not happy about this, but Tom said, \"There isn't any good work for me in the country, Mother, and I can get a lot of money there and send you some every week.\" Mrs Green was very angry last Sunday. She got in a train and went to her son's house. Then she said to him, \"Tom, why do you never phone me?\" Tom laughed. \"But, Mother\\"I haven't, but you have got one!\" 二、回答问题
1．What kind of movie do you like best?
2．What would you do if you had a million dollars?
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一、朗读短文：
John, who was working a long way from home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter-writer whose name was Bill. Bill was already in bed. “It is late,” he said. “What do you want?” “I want you to write a letter to my wife,” said John. Bill was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, “Does the letter have to go far?” “What does that matter?” answered John.” Well, my writing is so strange that only I can read it, and if I have to travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it will cost you a lot of money.” John went away quickly. 二、回答问题
1．Where would you like to go on holiday? 2．What’s your favorite subject?
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一、 朗读短文：
Why did the population grow very slowly in the beginning, and why is it now growing faster and faster?
A long time ago, many babies died when they were only a few days or weeks old. If people grew up, many didn’t live for very long. Why? Sometimes they didn’t have enough food. Sometimes their food didn’t make them strong. But, most importantly, people became ill very easily. There were no hospitals or doctors, and people often died young.
But what will happen if the population doesn’t stop growing? We will have to use farm land to build houses. There will be no animals or plants or trees. Then there won’t be enough food in the world for everyone. 二、回答问题
1. Who is your favorite teacher? 2. Do you like playing computer games?
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一、 朗读短文：
E-mail is quick. It can take days or weeks for a paper letter to arrive somewhere, but an e-mail will arrive in a few hours. With e-mail, you can also send copies of your letter to as many people as you want. Now, you can even send pictures, sounds and short films in your e-mail. But there are still some things that you can’t do with e-mail. For example, you can’t send real things, like a stamp or a pretty leaf.
Of course, you can’t send an e-mail to someone who doesn’t have a computer, but as e-mail is almost free, more and more people are using it. Maybe, one day, people will live and die without ever receiving a paper letter!
二、回答问题
1. Who is your favorite movie star? 2. Do you like animals?
