Ⅳ. Read the passage and choose the best answers.
阅读短文，选择最佳答案。
My friend Tony is an American boy. He is twelve years old. He lives 1 his family in China now. 2 four people in his family— his father Mr Green, his mother Mrs Green, his sister Amy and Tony. He has a white cat. Its name is Betty.
Look! Amy 3 with Betty. His father is watching a basketball game on TV in the living room. His mother is doing some housework. What about Tony? He is doing his Chinese homework. He can’t speak Chinese well, 4 he likes Chinese very much. Tony’s mother 5 in a TV station as a reporter and his father works in a school as an English teacher. Tony and his sister go to the same school. So Mr Green drops them 6 at school every morning.
() 1. A. with
B. of
C. for
() 2. A. Have
B. There are
C. There is
() 3. A. plays
B. playing
C. is playing
() 4. A. and
B. so
C. but
() 5. A. works
B. working
C. is working
() 6. A. of
B. off
C. up

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. B

1. "live with sb"为固定搭配，表示和某人住在一起，因此选择A。
2. "there be"句型表示存在，four people为复数，因此选择B。
3. 根据"Look!"可知，该句为现在进行时，结构为"be+doing"，因此选择C。
4. 根据前后文，他中文说得不好和他非常喜欢中文之间为转折关系，因此选择C。
5. 根据后文"as a reporter"以及该句句意可知，托尼的妈妈在电视台当记者，为一般现在时，因此选择A。
6. "drop sb off"为固定搭配，表示让某人下车，因此选择B。

Ⅴ. A) Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words or the given words in their proper forms.
阅读短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The new camera looks like a real beaver (河狸)! We put 1 by the river. The sun is shining 2 (bright). Now we are watching the beavers. Look! One beaver is cutting a tree with its teeth, and the other two 3 (put) the sticks (棍) in the river. They want to make a pond (池塘). But what’s it for? Oh, I see! They are building 4 (they) home in it. The pond can protect them from wolves, 5 (fox), etc. This is 6 (amaze)!
Now the work is done! Two beavers are swimming 7 (slow) in the pond, and the other one 8 (try) to catch fish. It’s such nice work. No wonder beavers are called “nature’s engineers”!
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B) Read again and answer the questions.
再读短文，回答问题。
9. What do the beavers make a pond with?
10. Where do the beavers build their homes? And why?
11. What does the writer think of the beavers’ work?

A)
1. it
2. brightly
3. are putting
4. their
5. foxes
6. amazing
7. slowly
8. is trying
B)
9. They make a pond with sticks.
10. They build their homes in the pond. Because the pond can protect them from wolves, foxes, etc.
11. The writer thinks it's such nice work.