学业考试-初中英语-上海-2010(11)

W: Well, I sometimes go skating.

M: That sounds like fun. Why don’t we try this weekend?

W: Good idea.

Q: What will they probably do this weekend?

16. M: How did you like the play at the theater last night?

W: I must tell you that I fell asleep after the first twenty minutes.

Q: What does the woman mean?

III. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false.

Our teacher Mrs. Grant has a friend who runs an old people’s home. It is called “Love and Care”. He asked Mrs. Grant if some of her students would go and visit the old people. Some of the old people do not have any visitors and they get lonely. Mrs. Grant told us about it. And we had a discussion. Several of my classmates and I volunteered to go after school. Mrs. Grant said that it would be nice if we could give some performances to the old people. They do not often have the chance to watch performances. Mainly they watch TV. We decided to sing some old songs to them. We asked Mrs. Grant to play the piano for us. We practiced twice before we went there. At Love and Care, we talked to the old people while having tea and cake with them. Some of them couldn’t walk easily. An old man kept falling asleep and waking up suddenly. One of the old women was talking to herself all the time. Then we sang to the old people. They really liked the songs. Some of them joined in the singing. They got really excited. It was good to see the old people so happy. We would like to visit them again. (213 words)

IV. Listen and fill in the blanks.

Hello, let me introduce myself to you. I am a storybook for children. My home is in the library. I live on the shelf with a lot of other books. Before I came to the library, I stayed in the factory for five weeks. I remember being on the shelf with a lot of books, which looked exactly like me. Then I went to the library. Others were sent away to bookshops. People often take me from the library to their homes to read me. Some people take good care of me. They make sure that their hands are clean and turn my pages softly. They put a bookmark in me when they stop reading for a while. Other people are bad to me. They read me with dirty hands. They turn up the corners of my pages, so they know where to start reading again. Some people read me in the bedroom. They just throw me away when they want to sleep. I am quite old now. My pages used to be really white, now they look different. When I first came to live in the library, the colors on my cover were bright. Now they have turned pale. I like being a book. It is good to meet so many different kinds of people. (216 words)