—Susan’s parents have bought a large house with a swimming pool.?

—It               be very expensive.?

No one knows how the huge rocks   and ___ without our modern machines eight hundred years ago.

Many objects that people use each day started with a simple idea. These objects have often changed the way we  46 . Some help us to do a job more   47 . Others fill a need or solve a problem.

In 1858, Lipman had such an  48 . He took out a pencil, a piece of paper,   49 an eraser. Then he began to write. Sometimes he needed to  50  a word. Each time he had to search under his books and papers to   51  the eraser. “ I wish my eraser would stay in one 52 !” he said.

Then Lipman had his simple idea. He   53  a groove(凹槽) in one end of the pencil. He glued(粘牢) the eraser into the groove. Lipman had solved his problem. Later he thought that others might like to have such a pencil. So he sold his  54 .Some pencils with erasers were 55 . His design earned $ 100000.

Two farmers were on their way home one evening after a hard day's work. Both were tired. They happened to look up at the sky and saw a black cloud overhead.

"Ah!" said one farmer, "tomorrow we shall have rain and the rice will grow well." The second answered, "Nonsense (胡說), the rain will only kill the crops (莊稼)."

So they began to quarrel (爭(zhēng)吵). Just then a third farmer came along and asked them why they were quarreling. Both farmers explained about the black cloud.

"What cloud?" asked the third farmer. They all looked at the sky. The cloud was no longer there.

Choose the right answer

1.The two farmers were _____.

2.The two farmers _____ on that day.

3.When there are black block clouds in the sky, _____.

4.The two farmers fought in words because _____.

5.The third farmer came with and said to the other two. He _____.

Trudy’s class has a newspaper. The students write stories, articles and poems for it. Then one of them types their work into a computer and prints it out. The teacher puts up everything on the wall so that it looks like a large, open newspaper.

One day Trudy said to the teacher, “most newspapers have advertisements. Can we have our advertisements?

The teacher thought this was a good idea. She made Trudy the advertising manager and Trudy asked the other students to advertise in the newspaper. Here are some of the advertisements she received.

1.What is Tom willing to do?

2.What does Alan want to buy?

3.why will Sheila pay well for a Raiders’ concert ticket?

4.Who will Patricia see to get her lost ring?

5.What is the main idea of the passage?

A rabbit is running into his hole. You may ask, “What happened?”

Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they ran, too. They know there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.

Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home. It can’t tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.

But animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for examples, when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs(發(fā)出呼嚕呼嚕的聲音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.

But human beings have something that no animals have---- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.

No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.

People in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for examples, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don’t know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we met a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.

1.What’s the meaning of the underlined word?

2.A dog can tell something__________.

3.It has been proved that no animals are able to_________.

4.Generally speaking, what we mean by “vocabulary” is_______.

5.What must we do in order to make our vocabulary larger?

You must have your hair _____.

---Let’s join the music club.  ----        .

Hurry up,       you’ll be late.

 How long have they ____ this new car?