閱讀理解

Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working， they usually have two cars. When the family is large， one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van.

A small car can hold four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded. A van hold seven persons easily， so a family three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel. They could all travel together.

Mr Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. Their childrens sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things， for a family of five must carry many suitcases when they travel.

A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the mountains or the seaside， they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.

1. From the passage， we can learn a van is ___ .

A. a motor car B. a big truck

C. a motorbike D. a motor home

2. Before Mr Hagen and his wife bought a van， they ___ .

A. sold their old house

B. sold their second car

C. built a new place for a van

D. moved to their grandparents house

3. A motor home is usually owned by a family with ___ .

A. a baby B. much money

C. interest in vans D. more than two children

4. Americans usually use motor homes to ___ .

A. visit their grandparents at weekends

B. drive their children to school every day

C. travel with all the family members on holiday

D. do some shopping with all the family members

5. Why have motor homes become popular？

A. They are cheap.

B. Big families can put more things in them.

C. They can take people to another city when people are free.

D. They can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays.

選詞填空

用方框里單詞的正確形式填空，使其句意完整。每空一詞，有兩個詞是多余的。

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definite shape arrest eventually limit

1. Its hard to ____ when it will happen.

2. I cant tell you ____ when I will come.

3.The children are ____ the sand into a hill.

4. He was ____ by the police after a single day.

5. Im sure a man of great ability like him will ____ reach the top in spite of some difficulty.

6. As the football match was in ____ ， we kept cheering on both teams.

7. He is a responsible person and can be trusted to ____ out the plan.

8. Television has replaced motion pictures as Americas most popular form of ____ .

句子翻譯

1. 我正打算往河里跳時，水里突然出現(xiàn)了一條蛇。

2. 我們所要乘坐的飛機下午五點飛往北京。

3. 不是所有的學(xué)生都去看電影了。

4. 在一間房住一晚上他們想要我付八十鎊。

書面表達

在英語口語課上，你班同學(xué)圍繞“Life in the Future”這一主題展開了討論。請你設(shè)想自己的未來生活圖景并根據(jù)以下要點寫一篇英語短文。要點如下：

1. 科技廣泛應(yīng)用于各種工作，人們的工作時間更短；

2. 機器人代替人類做家務(wù)，人們有更多的時間享受生活；

3. 學(xué)生可以在家通過電視、廣播和網(wǎng)絡(luò)等接受教育；

4. 人們可以選擇居住在海底，可以乘坐宇宙飛船到太空旅游。

要求：1. 詞數(shù)100左右；

2. 可適當(dāng)增加內(nèi)容，以使行文連貫。

Life in the Future