1. Farmers are busy (harvest) crops now. Shall we help them?
2. In summer, I can sit under the tree with my friends, (eat) ice cream to feel cool.
3. Do you know that the (leaf) of this kind of tree stay green all year round?
4. My sister likes reading and she often goes to the library (borrow) some books.
5. The temperature (drop) a lot last night. I have to wear a thick coat today.
6. Look at the clouds in the sky! I think it (rain) soon.
7. Look! There are so many colourful (butterfly) flying in front of us.
8. When winter comes, the daytime is getting (short).
9. The weather forecast says it (be) sunny tomorrow. Let's go hiking!
10. — Wow, it snowed heavily last night! We can go out to play with snow. What do you want to make with the snow?
— I want to make some cute (snowman).

1. harvesting 2. eating 3. leaves 4. to borrow 5. dropped 6. is going to rain 7. butterflies 8. shorter 9. will be 10. snowmen

1. The TV show Letters Alive brings back people's ______ of writing to each other.
A.ideas
B.hobbies
C.styles
D.memories

D

2. — I am afraid the temperature will drop ______ zero tonight.
— Yes. There will be ice on the road.

A.above
B.over
C.below
D.under

C

3. The flowers died because I forgot ______ them into the room yesterday evening.
A.to bring
B.brought
C.bringing
D.to bringing

A

4. Which of the following words rhymes with “snow”?

A.blew
B.sparrow
C.now
D.grew

B

5. — Look at the bees flying ______ the flowers. — Oh, they are busy collecting nectar.
A.of
B.across
C.among
D.between

C

6. — Why do the birds fly to the south? — ______ from the cold winter here.
A.Hide
B.Hides
C.To hide
D.Hiding

C

7. — Is your hometown ______? — Yes. It's about 300 kilometres ______ Nanjing.
A.far away; far from
B.far away; away from
C.away; away from
D.away; far away from

B

8. — Shall we have our picnic here? — OK. ______ it is to have a picnic!
A.How a perfect place
B.What a perfect place
C.How perfect place
D.What perfect place

B

There are four seasons in a year. They are winter, spring, summer and autumn. In winter,
white snow 1. the whole earth. It is often very cold and the temperature can 2. below zero. The birds fly away to find a warm and 3. day. The 4. is nice in spring. A windy day is 5. for flying a kite. Bees and butterflies play 6. flowers. Then they hide when the April showers come. People often have sweet 7. of summer days. They go swimming and eat ice cream. They like to play by 8. streams or under the shade of trees. When autumn comes, the leaves turn 9. and fall into piles upon the ground. Farmers work hard to 10. crops. Very soon it will be a new year once again.

1. covers 2. drop 3. sunny 4. weather 5. perfect 6. among 7. memories 8. quiet 9. brown 10. harvest