Alice is my pen friend, She is a 16-year-old girl from the UK, but now she lives in China. She is a middle school student in Nanjing. She likes going to school, but there are some things she doesn't tike, such as PE. She enjoys playing sports. She thinks sports are interesting and exciting. But she doesn't like doing physical exercises in PE classes. She feels that they are boring! Her favorite subject is Science. It seems that the amazing and useful Science attracts her. She thinks she is on the way to be a scientist. She wishes to invent things to make the world more beautiful.
In her free time, she often goes to the beach. She loves just sitting around and talking to friends there. She's getting better at understanding boys, but she hates listening to hours of talk about football. " It's not interesting at all!" she once said to me.
That is my pen friend Alice.
Information about Alice
BasicInformation
Name : Alice
Age: sixteen 1.__ old
Birth place : in the UK
Living now : in China
Like
What
Why/ For what
Playing sports
Interesting and __2._
Going to the _3.__.
Sitting around and __4.__ to friends.
Favorite subject: Science.
__5.__ and useful.
Dislikes
Having _6.__ classes.
Physical exercises are _7._.
_8._ of talks about football.
Not interesting at all.
Wishes
To be a _9. .
Be attracted by Science.
To invent things
Make the world _10.__ beautiful.
【解析】
试题分析：本文介绍了作者的笔友Alice。她是一个16岁的女孩，来自英国但现在住在中国。她是南京的一名中学生。文章介绍了Alice的兴趣爱好，她喜欢和讨厌的科目以及她的愿望。并讲述了她业余时间爱做的事。
2.根据In her free time, she often goes to the beach. 可知Alice喜欢去海滩。故填beach。
3.根据She thinks sports are interesting and exciting.可知填exciting。
4.根据In her free time, she often goes to the beach. She loves just sitting around and talking to friends there.可知填talking。
5.根据Her favorite subject is Science. It seems that the amazing and useful 可知此处填amazing。
6.根据 there are some things she doesn't tike, such as PE.可知此处填 PE。
7.根据she hates listening to hours of talk about football. 可知此处填hours。
8.根据But she doesn't like doing physical exercises in PE classes. She feels that they are boring!可知此处填boring。
9.根据Science attracts her. She thinks she is on the way to be a scientist. She wishes to invent things to make the world more beautiful.可知此处填scientist。
10.根据She wishes to invent things to make the world more beautiful.可知此处填more。
考点：人物类短文阅读。
—Could you tell me ____________?
—Sure. Walk straight along this street and you’ll find it.
A. how can I get to the post office
B. where is the post office
C. which is the way to the post office
D. how far the post office is
I always share my happiness with my ___________friends.
I have ______money than you , but I have ___ friends than you .
A. more more B. less more
C. fewer more D. more less
The weather in Heilongjiang is much colder than _______ in Hainan.
A. this B. that C. these D. weather
One day a farmer went out for a walk with his daughter. The farmer put on a pair of wrong shoes－one with a thick sole(鞋底) and the other with a thin one. So as he began to walk, he felt very uncomfortable. When he was just out of the house, he turned to his daughter and said, “Why should one of my legs be longer than the other today?”
The daughter looked at his father’s legs carefully as he was walking, and then laughed, “Oh, no, Daddy, your legs are all right. You have put on the wrong shoes.”
The farmer was very happy to hear that and said to himself, “What a clever daughter I have got!” Then he asked his daughter to go back and get the other pair of shoes for him.
The farmer had only two pairs of shoes.
When the daughter ran back to the house, she found that the other pair was also a pair of wrong shoes.
She had to return to his father with nothing in her hands and said out of breath, “It’s no use changing them, Daddy! The shoes at home were not a pair, either!”
A. wrong B. comfortable
C. old D. new
2. A pair of wrong shoes means ________.
A. the shoes are not the farmer’s
B. the shoes are too small
C. one of the shoes has a thick sole, the other has a thin one, they are not a pair
D. the shoes are too big
3. When the farmer began to walk, he felt very uncomfortable because ________.
A. one of his legs was longer than the other one
B. he was ill that day
C. he wore a pair of wrong shoes
D. the shoes were too small
A. she could make shoes
B. she could find out that her father wore a pair of wrong shoes
C. she could find out a pair of right shoes
D. she found that her father’s legs were sick
A. brought back a pair of wrong shoes
B. brought back of a pair of right shoes
C. didn’t bring any shoes; she knew the other pair at home was not a pair, either
D. couldn’t find anything at home
People in Britain say “garden” while people in the USA say “_________”.
A. truckB. soccer
C. yardD. eraser
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Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself.”
When I was a young boy, I was too shy to talk to anyone. My classmates often 1. at me. I was sad 2. could do nothing. Later, something happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to take part in it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak in front of all the teachers and students of my school!
“Come on, boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to win.” Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I chose the topic “Believe in yourself”. I tried my best to remember 3. the speech and practiced it over 100 times. With my 4. great love, I did well in the contest. I could hardly believe my 5. when the news came that I had won the first place. I heard the cheers from the teachers and students. 6. classmates 7. once looked down on me, now all said “Congratulations!” to me. My mother hugged me and cried 8.. Since then, everything has changed for me. When I do 9. , I try to tell 10. to be sure and I will find myself. This is true not only for a person but also for a country.
My father goes to work ______ every day.