1. Choose the correct words to put into the sentences below.
1) His sister works in a ____________. She is a nurse. 2) Watch out! There?s _________ glass on the floor. 3) I can?t ____________ long.
4) We often ____________ friends on Saturdays.
2. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) 1) Everyone goes to the hospital everyday. ( )
2) All the doctors in hospitals look after one type of patients. ( ) 3) Often Julie doesn?t see her son for a few days. ( ) 4) Matt can help his father with the housework. ( )
初一上英语悦读联播6GOING TO A CONCERT
Anna and Jane had tickets for a pop concert in London. They were very excited about the concert. They had planned their day out in London very carefully. They worked out which trains to catch, where to eat and where they wanted to go shopping. Then they got some really exciting news. A friend of Jane?s was working with the sound equipment backstage. He said he could get them special passes so they could go backstage. He promised to ask the group if the girls could come to say ?Hello?. He said that he was sure he could get them the group?s autographs. The girls could hardly wait!
Then two days before the concert, Anna got a cold. It got worse and worse, eventhough she stayed in bed and took medicine. One the evening before the concert,she had a fever and was very sick indeed. Anna?s mother rang Jane.
“Anna?s too sick to go to the concert,” shesaid. “You had better find someone else to go with.”
The next day, Anna was feeling very sorry forherself. Then she had a visitor. It was Jane! She came with a big bag of fruitand a pile of their favorite CDs.
“I gave the tickets to Jill and Sue in theend,” she said. “We?ll go to anotherconcert when you?re well. It wouldn?t be much fun without you.” WORD BANK pop 流行音乐 carefully 细心地
backstage 在后台、在幕后 cold 感冒 fever 发烧 indeed 确实、当然 pile 叠、堆 another 另一个 EXERCISES
1. Put the letters in the right order to form a wordfrom the passage you
just read. The first two letters of each word have beengiven below.
ca____ __ __ __ __ __
2)
ex __ __ __ __ __ 3) fr ____ __ 4)
co ____ __ __ __
2. Complete the followingsentences according to the passage. 1) Anna andJane were very glad to ______________ in London. 2) One of Jane?sfriends could get them ____________. 3) Anna got acold, so she couldn?t ____________. 4) Jane broughtAnna ____________.
初一上英语悦读联播7 MYNEW SCHOOL
Hi Ben,
How are you? I’mwriting to tell you about my new school. I’m a bit nervous. It is called Senior High School. In England youchange schools when you are about 11 years old, don’t you?
Here in America, moststudents change schools at about 10 and again at about 13. At 10 we move from elementary school to Junior High. Thatis when we move from having one teacher for all our subjects to having adifferent teacher for each subject. But our school is still quite small, though notas small as our elementary school. We move to Senior High at 13. This time someof my friends are changing schools with me. Some of them are going to adifferent Senior High. Sometimes a Junior High School is next to a Senior HighSchool. My Senior High is in a different place from the Junior
High. I have totake the bus and it takes longer to get there. It is a lot bigger too. Therewere about 900 students in my Junior High, but there are about 3,500 studentsin Senior High. Wish me luck on my first day! Eric
WORD BANK
bit 稍微、有点
nervous 紧张的、不安的
elementary school 小学
still 仍、还是 though 尽管
EXERCISES
1. Choose the correct wordsor phrases to put into the sentences below.
1) I can’t run ________ fast _________ you.
2) We’d alllike to wish you _______ in your new job. 3) You’ll haveto wait _________ longer.
4) He’s alwaysbeen a little _________ of change. 2. Match the sentencesaccording to the passage.
初一上英语悦读联播8 SCIENCEIS MY FAVOURITE SUBJECT
Hi Eric,
Good to hear from you. I remember when I changed schools, I was nervous on the first daytoo. Almost all the students were nervous! But now most of us like it. Thereare about 2,000 students in my school and about 80
teachers. The big differencebetween our old school and the new one is that our new school has a lot moreequipment. In our science classes we can do experiments using chemicalsand complicated equipment. I feel like a real scientist!
Science is my favorite subject. We have twolessons together every
Fridayafternoon. This is when we do experiments. We have to write them up carefully afterwards, but the best part is doingthe experiments. Often we set fire tothings (on purpose, for theexperiment!). It is amazing howchemicals react with each other!Even when that doesn’t happen, you do interesting things. For the last threeweeks we have been growing a crystal on a piece of string. It seems to comefrom nowhere. It gets bigger and bigger. Our teacher says that if we had abeaker the size of the science lab, we could make a crystal bigger than me.That would be cool, don’t you think so?
I must go, let me know how your first daywent. Ben
WORD BANK remember 记得 experiment 实验 chemical 化学药品 complicated 复杂的
feel like 感觉自己是（某种人） together 一起
afterwards 后来、其后 set fire to 使?燃烧 on purpose 故意、蓄意 amazing 令人惊奇的 react 起化学反应 EXERCISES
1. Match the word with its correct meaning in thetext.