(A) 阅读短文，选择正确答案

   One day Mrs. Wilson went shopping with Tracy and Ben. They went to the supermarket in the new shopping center.

   “Why do you buy things here?” Tracy wanted to know. “Because they are cheaper here than at the corner store near our home,” Mrs. Wilson said.” Help me check the prices, please.”

   The Wilsons were not rich and Mrs. Wilson was always careful with her money. She looked carefully after the prices of things. She bought lots of things in the supermarket. When they got home, the children said,“ We don’t think you saved money by going to the supermarket.”

  “Of course I did,” Mrs. Wilson said. “ Everything was cheaper there.” “We know,” the children said,“ but we came home by taxi because we had too much to carry. The taxi fare was more than the money that you save! ”

  Mrs. Wilson added everything up. Her children were right.

（  ） 1. The things at the corner store were ______than those in the supermarket.

       A. cheaper    B. nicer     C. more expensive    D. saved a little money

（  ） 2. Mrs. Wilson ______ in the end.

       A. spent more money               B. paid less money

       C. lost some money                D. saved a little money

（  ） 3. From the passage we know the children were _________.

       A. happy       B. clever       C. tired     D. lazy

（  ） 4. Mrs. Wilson will _____________.

       A. never call a taxi       ;    B. go on buying things in the supermarket

      C. buy things near her home     D. not go shopping with her children

（  ）5．The best title for the passage is ____________.

A. Cutting Price  B. Corner Store    C. Supermarket   D. Shopping

  (B) 阅读短文，回答下列问题。

Walt Disney, the great film-maker, was born in 1901. When he was a young man, He often sat in the family garage and draw pictures there. One day a mouse came into the garage and played on the floor. He stopped drawing and watched the mouse. The mouse came towards him, so he gave the mouse a piece of bread. Day after day they became good friends.

 Some years later, Disney moved to the west coast of the USA. He tried to get work as an artist, but still he was unsuccessful. One day he remembered the mouse that used to come out in his father’s garage. He picked up his pencil and started to draw. At last he was pleased with one of his pictures of the mouse. He called it Mickey Mouse.

His success as a cartoon-maker had begun. He made scores of cartoons. All of them were liked very much by children. He died in 1966. But the studios which he started are still busy today, producing more and more interesting films.

1.Who is Walt Disney?

  __________________________________________________.

2.Where did he make friends with that mouse?

 ___________________________________________________.

3.He thought that mouse was lovely, didn’t he?

 _____________________________________________________.

4.How long did he live in the world?

 _____________________________________________________.

5.What is the main idea of this passage?

 ______________________________________________________.

五、下笔如有神  书面表达

 老师让同学们讨论网上购物 (Internet shopping) 的利（advantages）与弊（disadvantages），根据下列信息，请你代表你们组做个发言。

 好处：方便(convenience)，24小时营业，不用排队（queue with）；不足：看不见物品，不能享受和朋友一起购物的乐趣……

要求：1. 语言流畅，规范；2. 包含提示内容，并作适当发挥；3. 80 词左右。

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附基础知识巩固练习参考答案

一、1. dictionaries 2. first second third 3. longest 4. dress 5. different 6. interested, interesting

7. convenient 8. safe 9. jealous 10. heroes

二、1-5 CCBBB  6-10 BDBBB

三、1. drink some tea instead of coffee   2. true real   3. she is no longer young   4. is standing among the students   5. This book is written by Bai Yansong   6. We have friends all over the world 7. I prefer music to sports   8. not allowed   9. China is famous for  10. plain looks, kind-hearted

四、

(A) 1-5 CABCD

(B) 1. He is a great film-maker, the inventor of Mickey Mouse    2. In his father’s garage

3. Yes, he did. He gave the mouse a piece of bread    4. 65 years   5. It mainly tells us about how Mickey Mouse became popular and how Walt Disney became successful.

五、One possible version

   Internet shopping is a new way of shopping. It offers a lot of advantages. The most important one is convenience. You can shop whenever you like as the on-line shops are open 24 hours a day, and you do not have to queue with others. Secondly it is often cheaper to buy goods through the Internet and it is also easy to find what you are looking for.

  There are some disadvantages too. You can not see the products or check their quality. Besides you can not enjoy walking around the shops and talking with your friends.