人教新目标初中英语七年级下册Unit 3 How do yo...

—It's about fifteen minutes' walk.

—I want to be a basketball star like Yi Jianlian.

—It's ________ the desk and the bookcase.

—No, I'm ____ them.

—By boat.

—____. I need to ask my mom first.

    I have a new friend. Her name is Kate. She comes 1 the US. She lives in China with her family now. She is in a middle school of Shanghai. She likes her school and her classmates. She thinks her classmates are very 2 to her. 3she has a problem(问题). Her school is far from her home. It's not easy for Kate to get to school. Every day, it takes her 4time to get there. The road(道路) is not flat(平坦的), so she can't 5 a bike. She usually goes to school by 6. The bus is usually early, so she must 7 early in the morning. She has no time for breakfast at home. She always buys a hamburger 8school. 9she walks to school. She must walk for about an hour to get there. After school, it also takes her the same long time to get home. In the evening, she does 10homework and then watches TV. She goes to bed at 10 o'clock because she is tired (疲惫的). She likes her life now.

    I am Jim. I'm a 13­year­old boy and I come from the UK. There are 1people in my family: my grandparents, my parents, my sister and I. I have a big 2. My sister and I are students in a middle school. Our school is small. 3is near our home.

    My sister and I get up early from Monday to 4because we must go to school before 7: 40 on school days and we must go to an English club 5 bike at 7: 50 on Saturday morning. At school, we have English, P. E. , Chinese, art and so on. We like making friends. Many of our 6often play with us after school. On Sunday morning, we don't have to get up early. We either play basketball 7 play soccer. It's really 8. In the afternoon my sister and I usually 9on the computer for an hour. The games are relaxing. There is always much homework for us to do. My sister is good at math and Chinese is my 10subject, so we often help each other (互相).

A: Hi, Lisa. Is he your father?

B: He usually drives me to school.

A: How far is it from your home to school?

B:

A: How long does it take you to get here?

B: It takes me half an hour.

A: I ride my bike. Look! That is my new bike.

B: Wow! It's so cool.

A: My mother.

B: Where does your mother work?

A: She always takes the bus to work.

    Kacey Tucker is a 17­year­old girl. Her dad works in Saudi Arabia,

so she and her family live there. Kacey usually rides her horse (马) to

school.

    "I have two horses there, Jacob and Donald，" she says. "My sister, Melissa, rides them now. "

    Kacey finishes all her middle school classes. She wants to go to a university (大学) in America. "I want to ride a horse to my school in America，" says Kacey. "And my cousin's university has a really clean and big barn (畜棚). " So Kacey joins her cousin's university. Kacey's cousin Amy is 18 years old.

    Kacey buys a horse in America. His name is Winston, and Kacey takes the horse to the university. She can ride the horse after school every day.

Hi, Alice,

    My name is Tom Harper. I'm 13 years old and I go to a middle school in Chicago, the USA.

    There are four people in my family. My dad is a teacher. He teaches math in my school. My mom makes birthday cakes(蛋糕) and sells them. She's really creative. She can make ship cakes, panda cakes, flower cakes and so on. She works at home but she doesn't work on the weekend.

    My brother, Greg, is 18. He's very clever. He likes science and he wants to be a scientist (科学家). He's at college (大学) so he doesn't live at home.

    In my free time,I usually play basketball. I'm not very tall but I play it well. I'm sending (发送) you a photo of me and my family with this e­mail. I wear a white T­shirt and my brother wears a black T­shirt.

Your friend,

Tom

    Mr. and Mrs. Smith are from England. Now they live in Beijing. The Smiths don't like to stay at home on weekends. They usually go to their friends' homes and they have lots of friends in China.

    Mr. and Mrs. Smith have a son and a daughter. Their names are Peter and Julia. Peter is in Grade Eight and Julia is in Grade Seven. The children usually go to school in their father's car.

    But today Mr. Smith needs to wash (洗) his car. So he tells his children to walk to school. Then Peter and Julia have to walk to school. The school is a little (一点) far from their home. It takes them 35 minutes to get there. When Peter and Julia get to school, they are very tired(疲劳的). But they think it's good exercise to go to school on foot.

    Ina is a ten­year­old girl. Her good friend is Val. They are in the same school. Val is in the school band(乐队) and she thinks it's fun to play the violin. Ina is in the band, too. She plays the guitar. But she can't play it well, and she thinks it's boring. She wants to quit (离开) the band, but her dad doesn't let her do that because he loves having a musician in the family.

    It's a Sunday afternoon. Ina's brother Bob goes to her room and plays the guitar. Bob thinks it's fun and tells Ina he wants to learn to play the guitar. Ina is very happy. She asks Bob to get the guitar. Then she goes to find her dad in the living room. She wants to tell him about the new family musician.

    Mary Dexter is a student. She is from the USA. She studies in a middle school. Mary is good at all the school subjects. Her favorite subject is science. Though Mary is only 13 years old, she begins to think about her future (未来). After she finishes high school, she wants to study at a big college (大学) in San Diego. That's her favorite city.

    Mary wants to study marine biology. That is to say, she will learn about all the animals in the sea. And San Diego is a great place to study marine biology because it is near the sea, and the city has a great Sea World. People can see many sea animals there.

    What will she do after she finishes college? "I want to work with sea animals and help them," says Mary.

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