Reading

Amazing inventions (P2)

Fill in the blanks:

1. Race car:

The car is made of ______, such as ______, ______, chocolate, and ______. It was invented in ______. It's __________.

2. Spider web silk

____________ from two countries worked together to make cloth using ______. Making it was ______.

3. Bicycle vending machine

People who want a product have to ______ to get it. The inventor wants people to ________________.

PE classes get more interesting (P3)

完成下列任务：

Answer the questions:

4. How are the new sit-ups different from the usual ones?

_____________________________________________

5. Why did Teixeira take the new PE course?

_____________________________________________

Fill in the blanks according to the story:

6. Tchoukball is a ______ game. It's ______ to soccer but more complicated. Players have to use their ______ because sometimes _____________ means failure.

7. Roxanne Baker thinks _____________ is good for students because ______ kids will be able to learn better.

Translate the following sentence:

8. Some schools are trying to make PE classes more meaningful and interesting to more students, especially those who hate running.

_____________________________________________

9. What's the best title for the story?

_____________________________________________

The cost of fitting in (P5)

Choose the best answer:

10. At the beginning, the writer wanted very much to _____.

A. get good grades in tests B. be accepted by the cla

C. become a teacher's pet D. become a class monitor

11. At lunchtime, the students _____.

A. talked about their lesson

B. played some sports game

C. shared information about the school

D. laughed at one of the teachers there

12. The writer said mean words to Mary Lou because she _____.

A. didn't like her way of dressing

B. wanted to be part of the cla

C. liked to make fun of people

D. was jealous of Mary Lou

13. By saying “If you've ever picked a wing off a butterfly, you know how I felt”, the writer means that _____.

A. she felt sorry for what she did toward Mary Lou

B. she thought Mary Lou was as beautiful as a butterfly

C. she understood the pain that Mary Lou was suffering

D. she considered Mary Lou to be an old-fashioned girl

14. We can tell from the story that Mary Lou's father _____.

A. was easy-going B. had good manner

C. was a funny man D. didn't like his daughter

Looking for fun? Let's go play ‘Go' (P8)

Fill in the information about “Go”.

The game of "Go"
What it is	an interesting 15. ______
How to play it	It's easy to 16. ______ but hard to 17. ______. The actual rules are very 18. ______. Players 19. ______ placing stones on the chess board. If a stone or group of stones is completely surrounded by stones of another color, they are 20. ______. The winner is decided by counting the territory 21. ______ each player.
How it started	It has a history of 22. ______ in China. It was said to be invented by Shun to teach Danzhu 23. ______.

Listening

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第一节：听下面的两段对话，选择与句子内容相符的图片。每个句子读一遍。

1. What does the woman want?



第二节：听下面一段短文，填上表格中所缺的信息（每空不超过3个词）。该短文读两遍。

London is the 3.______ of England.

Its population is about 4. ___________.

People there are 5. ______________.

It's beautiful with lots of 6. ____________.

Its places of interest include (包括) 7. ___________, Big Ben, and River Thames.

Key:

Reading

1. different kinds of food, carrots, potatoes, vegetable oil, England, eco-friendly / friendly to the environment 2. Fashion designers, spider silk, difficult 3. ride a bike for a certain distance, exercise before eating snacks 4. The students have to keep a 2kg ball between their knees while lifting their upper bodies into the air.

5. Because she wanted to lose weight.

6. European, similar, minds, catching the ball

7. taking PE, healthier

8. 有些学校正在努力让体育课变得更有意义，让更多的学生喜欢上体育课，尤其是那些讨厌跑步的学生。

9. One possible version: A new kind of PE class 10—14 BCBAB 15. mind sports game 16. pick up 17. master 18. simple 19. take turns 20. removed 21. belonging to 22. more than 4,000 years 23. discipline, concentration and balance

Listening

1—2 BB 3. capital 4. 7 million 5. friendly and helpful 6. parks and gardens 7. the London Museum