I have always heard that walking under a ladder brings bad luck, but I've never thought so. I have walked under ladders many times, but I have never met anything bad before. It's the damn with black cats. People say if a black cat crosses before you, it means bad luck. I have never thought that until this afternoon. But ever since I heard my student Sam's story, I've begun thinking about whether it was true.

　　This afternoon, Sam was walking down the street thinking about something, so he wasn't paying attention to where he was going. He walked right under a ladder standing against a building. A black cat ran out of a door just at that moment, and Sam fell over it, his head hit the ladder. A man washing the window was at the top of that ladder and the dirty water went down through the air. Poor Sam! He got wet all over.

(1) At first, the writer believed that walking under a ladder would bring bad luck.

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(2) A black cat crossing will bring you good luck when you are walking.

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(3) This afternoon, the writer's son Sam was walking down the street thinking about something.

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(4) When Sam was walking under a ladder, a black cat ran out of a door.

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(5) There was a man washing the window near the door.

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　　All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help people keep healthy, happy and to live longer.

　　Sports change with the seasons. People play different games in winter and summer.

　　Swimming is good in warm weather, but skating is good in winter.

　　Some sports are very interesting and people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, is popular in the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea ort in those with many rivers.

　　 Some sports or games last for thousands of years, like running or jumping. But basketball and volleyball are very new. They are no more than a hundred years old.

(1) Sports are good for people's health.

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(2) Some people pay to watch others play sports games.

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(3) People play different games in different seasons.

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(4) Football is very interesting and everyone in the world plays it.

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(5) People began to play basketball and volleyball hundreds of years ago.

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　　Many people like to watch TV. It is very interesting to watch TV. We know what has happened in our country or in the world. If you trim on the TV and watch it, you can see a lot and you can learn a lot. Of course people can also learn over the radio. But they can learn better and more easily with TV. Why? Because they can hear and they can watch, too.

　　TV helps to open our eyes. TV also helps to open our minds. TV often gives us new ideas. We learn newer mad better ways of doing things.

(1) I Watching TV is the only way of learning things.

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(2) Not all the people regard TV as a wonderful thing.

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(3) It is no use listening to the radio.

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(4) TV is a wonderful thing, because it gives people everything.

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(5) Though the world isn't smaller than before, we can get information much more quickly.

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(2) Pasta has different shapes, colours and tastes.

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(3) Italians only use pork and vegetables to make sauce.

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(4) If you cook pasta, you should let the water go before putting sauce into it.

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(5) The story mainly tells us how to cook Italian pasta.

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　　If you ever cross a road in a foreign country, be careful! Traffic rules are often different there!

　　Before you cross the street, you always look right first, not left! Cars drive in the opposite direction. Give yourself enough time to cross the road. Cars go much faster in Britain.

　　So why do the British drive on the left when most of the world drives on the right?

　　Hundreds of years ago, almost every one drove on the left. Why? Men used their right hands to draw their swords while they rode their horses. If an enemy came toward them they would have their swords ready in the middle of the road to start fighting. Napoleon, the great French leader, was left-handed. Some say that's why Europeans drive on the right side!

　　About a quarter of the world's people drive on the left. Australians and New Zealanders do. Americans drive on the fight like us.

(1) You should look left first in Britain when you cross the street.

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(2) You should walk as fast as possible when you cross the street in Britain.

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(3) It was not long time ago that people started to drive on the left.

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(4) Napoleon asked people to drive on the fight side.

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(5) People in the USA drive on the left like British people.

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　　For breakfast, some Americans usually eat bread with jam or butter, and drink milk or orange juice. Some like eating fried eggs, fried potatoes and breakfast meat such as sausages. Lunch is more colorful to most Americans. Because the time is too short to go home for lunch. Most people take lunch with them from home, or have it in cafeterias.

　　Dinner is the most important meal during the day. Americans usually start the meal with soup or drinks and snacks, then have roasted meat or fish with vegetables, sometimes have beef or chicken. and next dessert, followed by coffee. Americans are different from us. They use knives and forks to eat.

(1) Most Americans have three meals in a day.

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(3) In the U. S. A., breakfast and lunch are big meals, there are many courses.

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(4) Americans go home for lunch every day.

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(5) Dinner is the main meal during the day in America.

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　　The writer had a quick breast and then he went to school. He found it difficult to work in class because he kept on thinking about the match in the afternoon.

(1) The writer went to school without breakfast.

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(2) The writer worked hard in class that morning.

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(3) The players in No.64 Middle School were strong.

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(4) The writer's team did very well.

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(5) The writer's team didn't win the game at last.

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(1) Fish and chips are very popular in China.

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(2) In the U. S. A. the most popular kind of take - away food is pizza.

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(3) The hamburger does not have any pork in it.

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(4) Hamburger are also popular in England and Australia

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(5) Chinese take- away food are very popular in England.

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(1) A farmer saw his grandpa planting something on the other side of the river.

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(2) The old man answered the farmer's question at once.

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(3) The farmer really wanted to know what the old man Was planting.

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(4) When the old man told the farmer he was planting peas, the farmer was a little angry.

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(5) The old man is really afraid that birds would eat up his peas when they heard his words.

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(1) Food shopping is much more convenient today than years ago.

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(2) If people don't want to cook lunch themselves, they can go to a supermarket.

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(3) Big, modern shops sell only food and clothes.

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(4) Many people can have fast food and drinks at a fast- food restaurant.

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(5) Sometimes people find it difficult to choose which to buy because there are too many kinds of the same things.

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