Roger was new in town, and he had no friends here. His birthday was coming. He wanted to have a big party, but he was1that other kids would not come to his party.
One week2the birthday party, Roger and his3went to Benny's Pizza Store. It had the best pizza in the town. Roger wanted a large pizza. He4it very much.
5, Roger got a great idea. "Will you teach me to cook pizza?" he asked Benny.
"Benny is very6. He may not have time to teach you," said Roger's father.
"But7loves his pizza!" said Roger. "8I can cook pizza like him, I'll be the most popular boy in school."
"I will help you," said Benny. "Come here after school every day and you can learn to make it9!"
Roger decided to have a10. After that he went to Benny's Pizza Store every day after school. Benny11him how to make pizza. At last, he could make very good pizza.
Roger told the kids at school that his party would have pizza from Benny's. Everyone was 12. But when they came to Roger's13, Benny wasn't there. However, they saw Roger14 pizza himself. The kids didn't believe that Roger could make pizza. But when Roger took the pizza out of the oven（烤箱）, everyone agreed the pizza15just like Benny's. It might be a little bit better.
A very new, young officer（军官）was at a station. He was on his way to visit his mother in another town, and he wanted to telephone her to tell her the time of this train, so that she could meet him at the station in her car. He looked in all his pockets, but he did not have the coins（硬币）for the telephone, so he went outside and looked around for someone to help him.
At last an old soldier came by, and the young officer stopped him and said, "Do you have change for ten pence（便士）?"
"Wait a moment,' the old soldier answered. He began to put his hand in his pocket, "I'll see if I can help you."
"Don't you know how to speak to an officer?" the young man said angrily. "Now let's start again. Do you have change for ten pence?"
"No, sir," the old soldier answered politely and quickly.
Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful（有害的）. Fire can heat water, warm your houses, give light and cook food. But fire can burn（燃烧）things, too. It can burn trees, houses, animals or people. Sometimes big fires can burn forests. Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting old stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope and brought fire down.
Today people know how to make a fire with matches（火柴）. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can burn a piece of paper, and then it might burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire very fast.
Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with matches. You should also learn to put out（灭）fires. Fires need oxygen（氧气）.Without oxygen they will die. Cover（覆盖）a fire with water, sand, or sometimes with your coat. This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it.
Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it will burn you.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup, the twentieth World Cup football match, will be held in Brazil from June 12th, 2014 to July 13th, 2014. Thirty-two teams from different countries will bring us sixty-four wonderful games during the World Cup. This is the second time the World Cup is held in this country and the fifth in South America. Thousands of football fans are looking forward to watching the games. |
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A Bite of China（古尖上的中国）, a mouth-watering documentary TV program featuring delicious Chinese food, has interested a large number of people. The program has become very popular since it was shown on TV. The documentary provides not only Chinese delicious food but also the relations between people and food. "We made this documentary with our respect and love for food. I hope it will help people learn more about Chinese food as well as Chinese culture," said the director Mr. Chen. |
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Lu Jialei, a school girl from Hangzhou, China, won the championship of the first Chinese Character Dictation Contest, which made her become famous overnight. Lu is a hard-working girl and always comes top at school. "I like reading and I'm crazy about learning Chinese characters. I enjoy the contest and hope more and more people become interested in learning Chinese characters," said Lu Jialei after winning the contest. |
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Jeremy Lin, a basketball player for the New York Knicks, was only a bench（板凳）warmer in the USA. On February 4th, 2012. Knicks'（教练）, Mike D'Antoni, put Jeremy Lin into the game（对）the New Jeremy Nets. Lin got 25（分数）in 36 minutes. The Knicks won the game. From then on, Lin became an important player in the（团队）. Before Jeremy Lin showed himself to the world, he had sat on the bench for 21 games. When he got the（机会）, he did his best to do that. In fact, Lin is also good at studying. He graduated （毕业）from Harvard University.
Now he is a very popular player in NBA. He still（训练）hard. Lin was born and grow up in the USA. Both his parents were born and grew up in China and moved to the USA in the 1970s. A lot of people get（兴奋的）about watching his basketball games and （为……加油）him on（大声地）. Jeremy Lin shows the world that a great basketball player can be smart, friendly, and at the same time（优秀的）
Dear Nancy,
Thanks for your letter. I'm happy(hear) that you're getting on well with your study in Australia. You(leave) your home town five years ago, so you must want to know something about life here. Things in Jinhua(be) not the same before. Now almost every family has computer. We often communicate（交流）with each other by email.
There are many tall buildings in(city) and also in the countryside. The roads are much(wide) and cleaner. But the population here gets larger larger. We often climb the mountains on weekends and have great fun. You can write me. We can write to each other(much) often.
Your friend,
Jimmy
Students | Problems | Appointment Time |
Jerry | I'm angry with my friend Marcus. He lied to me last week. | ① |
Paula | My teacher Ms. Dervish never praises me. I don't think she likes me. | ② |
Alfred | I think I'm fatter than any other boy in my class. I'm worried. | ③ |
Candy | I like Chinese and I work hard at it. But my Chinese is still not good enough. I'm confused. | ④ |
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1）听前注意放松；阅读问题，这些问题可以帮你理解对话或者文章。
2）听中仔细听第一个句子，它通常告诉你文章的大意；
3）在听的过程中，尽量做笔记；
4）在听的过程中，不要在一两个你不懂的词汇上花费太多时间。
参考词汇：对话 dialogue 文章 passage 大意 main idea 记笔记 take notes
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