—Where did you go last night?

    －I _______to go to Lily's birthday party.

    A. have been asked    B. have asked         C. asked           D. was asked

Mr. White works in an office. He is very  1   and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back   2    his office, he’s always tired and wants to go to bed early.   3     his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after supper. She doesn’t stop talking until he falls    4    . But it’s usually too late and Mr. White has to    5     early in the morning when she is asleep.

One day the man    6    terrible and couldn’t（不能）go to work. He decided to go to    7    . And Mrs. White went with him. Before her husband said   8   was the matter with him, the woman had told the doctor all and the doctor understood（知道）why. He wrote a prescription(處方)。And when Mrs. White brought the medicine to the doctor, he said to her, “    9    is for your husband and the pills are for you.”

“For me?”the woman said in surprise, “I’m fine. I don’t need   10medicine”

“I don’t think so, madam,” said the doctor. “They are sleeping pills(安眠藥丸). Your husband will soon be all right if you take them.”

6.A. feels            B. was feeling   C. falls         D fell

Expert(專家) say that students usually need eight to ten hours’ sleep at night, but most Chinese students do not get enough sleep. Some Chinese parents are usually glad to see their children studying late. They will think their children work very hard, but not all parents are happy about this. Once a mother told us that every morning her 10-year-old boy put up one finger (手指) with his eyes still closed, begging(請求) for one more minute to sleep. Like thousands of students “early birds” in China, he has to get up before six every morning.

  A report shows that without a good night’s sleep, students seem to be weaker (虛弱) than they should be. Many students have fallen asleep during class at one time or another. Too much homework is not the only reason why students stay up late. Some watch TV or play the computer games late into the night.

   Experts have ever said that the students should develop good study habits. So some clever students never study last, they are able to work well in class.

1.The 10-year-old boy begged for more minute to sleep because__________

A. he didn’t have enough sleep   

B. it wasn’t time for him to get up

C. he didn’t want to go to school  

2.In this passage we know if students don’t get enough sleep, they may________

A. become too weak to sleep      

B. not work well in class

C. go to bed early               

3.In this passage “early birds” means “persons who ______________”

A. get up early       B. get up late       C. sleep less  

4.“Stay up late” here means “_____________”

A. study late     B. watch TV late      C. not go to bed until late 

5.According to the passage, which of the following is right?_________

A. If you want to study better, you must work hard at night.

B. Sleeping less means working hard.

C. Some clever students are able to work well in class because they have good study habits.

Only Mother Love is true love.It gives everybody everything

all his life. When you are a baby, Mother looks after you as well

as possible. In your waking hours, she always holds you in her arms.

When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you

Day and night and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day

by day, she feels very happy, When you are old enough to go to

school, Mother still looks after you all the time. On cold winter

days, she always tells you to put on more clothes. She always stands

in the wind waiting for you back from school. When you hurry to leave

home for school with little breakfast, she always feels worried

about you at home. She usually knows about your study and spends much

money on your school things. When you do well at school, you will

see the brightest smile on her face. Mother is always ready to

give everything she has to her children, not to receive. What true

love it is in the world! We should remember Mother love forever!

Answer the following questions according to what you read above.

1 What does Mother do when you are a baby?

2 What does Mother do when you are awake?

3 What does Mother do when you are ill?

4 Does Mother always look after you when you are old enough to go

to school?

5 What will you see When you do well at school?

Teachers say buying homework answers online is not many in schools, but an interview with school students shows only 10% are willing to finish their holiday homework by themselves.

Their main complaint is that the homework is too much for them to finish.

“As far as ！ know, many of my students have to go to all kinds of training classes during the holiday. These lake away much of their time for doing homework.”

But as for the parents  who are sending their children to these training classes  they also say they've got no choice. Here's a view from a student's father.

"All the other kids in the neighborhood are learning extra things. You know parents sometimes compare their kids. I'm afraid my kid will be less successful than the others in the future."

In order to do with this situation of students copying each other's homework, some schools have even dropped the idea of holiday homework. Instead, they organize some interesting outdoor activities.

Educational experts say students love to learn through games or activities that they can be a part of‘ They suggest schools drop the current (目前的）homework format (設計)，and turn to homework that encourages kids to get involved (參與).This way, they would no longer want to copy from each other or buy answers through the Internet.

Answer the following questions according to what you read.

1.Why do students copy or buy homework answers?

2.  What do students spend much time on during the holiday?

3.Most parents want their kids to be successful, don't they?

4.  How do some schools deal with the problem of students copying homework?

5.  List a kind of your favorite holiday homework according to the passage.