Lan and Maryam are penpals. They ............ each other twice a month.
A. writing
B. has written
C. write
D. wrote
Lan and Maryam are pen pals. They correspond ___________ each other twice a month.
A. to
B. with
C. of
D. for
Read the passage, and decide whether the statements that follow are True or False.
Everybody knows that in studying foreign languages practice is the key to fluency. All foreign language learners even the advanced learners need practice. There is a fact that a learner can know a lot of grammar rules and have a large vocabulary; however, they can't speak well yet. So the learners must know how to use what they have learnt, apart from the ability to explain grammar rules. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are all important skills but most English learners find listening and writing the most difficult.
Question: A learner can't speak well even though he knows a lot of grammar rules and has a large vocabulary.
A. True
B. False
Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several scientists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well - especially if the parents are very supportive of their child.
Michael is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael's mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.
Winston, Michael's friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to …………
A. push their child into trying too much
B. help their child to become a genius
C. make their child become a musician
D. neglect their child's education
The Game of Squares
Either boys or girls, usually aged from seven to ten, play the two-person game of"Mandarin's Box". They draw a rectangle on the ground and (1)……….. it into ten smallsquares called "rice fields" or "fish ponds”.
They also draw two additional semi-circular boxesat the two (2)………. of the rectangle, which are called"mandarin's boxes" - the game's name. Each person has 25 small pebbles and a bigger stone.
Each player places the stone in one of the mandarin's boxes and five small pebbles in each of the other squares. Then the game begins. The first player takes up the contents of one square on his or her side ofthe board, but not a mandarin's box and distributes the pebbles one by one, (3)……….. with the next square in (4)………. direction. Since each square contains five pebbles at the beginning, the first move will distribute five pebbles to the left or right.
After the last pebble is distributed, the player takes the contents of the following squareand repeats the distribution (5)………... But if the following square is one of the mandarin's boxes, the turn ends and passes to the other player.
If the last pebble falls into a square that precedes one empty square, the player wins all the contents of the square following the empty square and (6)……….these pebbles from the board. However, if there are two or more empty squares in a row, the player (7)…….. his or her turn.
Once a player has taken pebbles from the board, the turn is (8)……….to the other player. If all five squares on one player's side of the board are emptied at any time, that player must place one pebble he or she has aside back in each of the five squares so that the game can resume.
The game (9)………until the two mandarins' boxes have both been (10)……….. At the end of the game, the player with more pebbles wins, with each of the large stones counting as ten points.
Question 1
A.share
B.divide
C.separate
D.leave
II. Read.
I was a postman in a remote area of Myanmar. Once a month I went downtown to collect the post and then walked from village to village, which were far away from each other. In each village, I delivered and collected the post. I also used to read and write letters for the villagers. Most of them were illiterate. I also passed on the news I had heard from the town and the other villages. The people treated me well. It was a hard job but I loved it.
U Sein Tun
from Myanmar
My mother came from Baffin Island. She used to live in an igloo: a domed house built from blocks of ice. The house had only one room for all the generations: grandparents, parents, brothers, unmarried sisters, and sometimes other relatives. Everyone worked together to survive the Arctic winter. Men went out hunting while women stayed at home making clothes and preparing food. When they had to travel far, they rode on dogsleds. At night they used to entertain themselves by telling and acting out stories. They danced to drum music too.
Akycha from Canada
* Find the words which mean:
Story 1. 16. not able to read or write: ………………………………
17. tell: ………………………………
18. behave towards (somebody): ………………………………
Story 2. 19. a cubed chunk: ………………………………
20. to live in difficult conditions: ………………………………
21. a vehicle that travels over snow: ………………………………
** Discuss the questions.
22. Why did the postman have to walk from village to village?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………23. Why were most villagers illiterate?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………24. Why did the people in Baffin Island use ice blocks to build their houses?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………25. Why did each house have only one room?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Read the passage, and decide whether the statements that follow are True or False.
Everybody knows that in studying foreign languages practice is the key to fluency. All foreign language learners even the advanced learners need practice. There is a fact that a learner can know a lot of grammar rules and have a large vocabulary; however, they can't speak well yet. So the learners must know how to use what they have learnt, apart from the ability to explain grammar rules. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are all important skills but most English learners find listening and writing the most difficult.
Question: Some English learners find listening and writing the most difficult skills.
A. True
B. False
Read the passage and answer the questions.
John Brown is a lecturer. He went to university in 1982, and was one of the best students at that time. In 1990, he became a professor. He has been a senior lecturer since then. He is a very well known in his teaching career. He has written five books about education, including a book “How to teach deaf children” in 1995. He is married to his assistant, Linda. They have two children.
How many books about education has he written?
………………………………………………………………………………………
Circle the correct answer A, B, C or D.
Many children in our village are still_____. They can't read or write.
A. creative
B. illiterate
C. unhealthy
D. traditional