Hearst Castle is in California, America. A person called William Randolph Hearst built it between 1922 and 1939, at a cost of more than $30 million. Last year, I had a trip to that castle.

I spent the whole day looking around. But there was much to see, and a day wasn’t enough. Hearst Castle has four houses. The main house, “Casa Grande”, is the biggest one. Visitors can live in the other three ones. Many of them are Hollywood film stars, and they often come to the parties there.

At Hearst Castle, there are also beautiful gardens and two swimming pools, one inside and a larger one outside. I loved the one outside, the “Neptune Pool”. It was a pity that we couldn’t go swimming there!

The guide told us that Mr. Hearst travelled around Europe with his mother at the age of ten and looked at paintings and castles. He never forgot that tour and wanted his house to look like a castle. When Mr Hearst died in 1951, his family gave Hearst Castle to the people of California. Now it’s a museum.

1.The underlined word “Castle” in the first paragraph means _____.

A．城堡             B．勝地             C．城垛             D．樓閣

2. “Casa Grande” is _____ the other three ones at Hearst Castle.

A．younger than                          B．bigger than

C．older than                             D．smaller than

3.There are _____ at Hearst Castle.

A．beautiful gardens

B．one swimming pool inside

C．one swimming pool outside

D．a(chǎn)ll the above

4._____ made Mr. Hearst build this wonderful castle.

A．A tour around Europe

B．The paintings and castles in Europe

C．His mother

D．His dream

5.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A．Hearst Castle in California was cheap to build.

B．Hearst Castle is on a mountain near the sea.

C．Many Hollywood film stars come to Hearst’s parties.

D．After Mr. Hearst died, his family lived at Hearst Castle.

Although I’m not in my childhood, I still prefer reading fairy tales. They often make me think of some special experiences and feelings. This summer I’ve reviewed this kind of tales, The Little Prince. It was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy tale by the French author Antoine.

“I”, the narrator(講述者) of the story, is a pilot. His plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. The little prince lives on a small planet, and he grows a flower called ROSE there. One day they have a quarrel(爭吵), so the little prince runs away. On his all-alone journey, he meets different kinds of people. From these people he gets a conclusion(結(jié)論) that grown-ups are strange. And with the help of the man he meets, he descends in the Sahara.

This book moved me a lot. It is not only a fairy tale for children and teenagers, but also for grown-ups.

1.The author loves fairy tales, because _____.

A．they are very interesting

B．they are not about real life

C．they make him or her think of special feelings

D．they often have a happy ending

2.The writer of The Little Prince is from _____.

A．France                               B．China

C．Canada                               D．America

3.The little prince runs away, because _______.

A．he doesn’t love his hometown

B．he is a naughty boy and loves adventures

C．he has made mistakes

D．he has quarrelled with ROSE

4.The underlined word “descend” means ______ in the passage.

A．end                                  B．die

C．land                                 D．fly

5.The best title for this article is “_____”.

A．A fair tale

B．My favourite fairy tale—The Little Prince

C．How to choose the story

D．How I spent my childhood

Who's building the new China? It's not the factory owners or the business men and women of China. It's someone else. We see them every day, They work day and night in the terrible working conditions and weather. They build the roads, the theaters, the cinemas and the supermarkets. They even clean up our rubbish. They are China’s migrant workers(民工).

More than 140 million workers have left their homes in the countryside to look for jobs in big cities all over China. They hope to be rich, but they realize they have many difficulties in making enough money. And one of the difficulties that these workers have is the pride and discrimination (歧視) from the people in cities. When night falls, everywhere I look I see the sad faces of the migrant workers. Many are living far away from those whom they love. Yes，they dress differently, they speak differently, and they have different habits, but they work hard .The people in cities regard them as outsiders, and most governments refuse to give them medical care and public schooling for their children. If China hopes to move into the future, many things need to change. The first is discrimination! We need to stop our discrimination against the migrant workers of China! They may not make as much money as some people in cities, but they are good honest people just trying to survive this game of life. These workers are very important and necessary to China’s economic (經(jīng)濟(jì)) development and have become an important force for the change of Chinese society. They are building the new China, so we should help them.

1.The journalist think __________ is building the new China.

A．the factory owners of China

B．the business men and women of China

C．the migrant workers of China

D．the people in Chinese cities

2.Which is the best title for the fourth and fifth paragraphs?

A．Moving forward

B．The discrimination from the people in cities.

C．How to make more money.

D．A lonely life.

3.The    word “survive” here in Chinese means “________”.

A．活過來           B．挺過來           C．活得累           D．活得長

4.Which one is NOT TRUE about China's migrant workers according to the report?

A．They should be helped by us.

B．More than 1.4 billion migrant workers have been in big cities to make money.

C．They are not welcomed by the people in cities because they regard them as outsiders.

D．They have become quite important to the change of Chinese society.

5.What does the report mainly tell us?   .

A．Though China's migrant workers work hard, their condition is terrible.

B．The condition of China's migrant workers needs to be changed for China's development.

C．The people in cities aren't polite to the migrant workers.

D．China's development only depends on the migrant workers.

單詞拼寫

1.I would give it to m __________research if I had a million dollars．

2.His mother is very ____________（有耐心的） and doesn’t give up helping him．

3.Our football team won the prize．We were very e_________．

4.He failed in the exam because he made many m__________．

5.Wei Ming feels __________（不同） about English study．

6._________（無論什么）I do, I always try to do it well．

7.Eating burnt meat can ___________（增加） the risk of cancer．

8.Books fill my life with ________________（快樂）．

9.There are some fantastic sights in Paris, i_______ the Eiffel Tower．

10.What should I do if I fell ____________（樓下）．

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There______ some milk in the glass.

A．a(chǎn)re              B．is                C．a(chǎn)m               D．be

Miss Yang is ________ English teacher.

A．a(chǎn)                B．a(chǎn)n               C．the              D．/

–Do you like sports?

--Yes, I ________.

A．does             B．do               C．a(chǎn)m               D．don’t

This is Kate. She’ s________ sister.

A．me              B．I                 C．my               D．you

–What’s _______mane?

-- ________ am Millie.

A．you, My           B．your, My          C．your, I            D．you, I