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Birds don’t fly high up in the sky. The air is too thin.

It is hard for birds to breathe in thin air. Thin air doesn’t hold them up. Birds fly near the ground so that they can see where they are. The birds look for places they know. Then they do not get lost. Some birds fly so low over the ocean that the waves often hide them. Many birds fly a long distance in the spring and autumn.

Passage

Air is all around us. It is around us as we walk and play. From the time we were born air is around us on every side. When we sit down, it is around us. When we go to bed, air is also around us. We live in air. We can live without food or water for a few days, but we cannot live for more than a few minutes without air. We take in air. When we are working or running we need more air. When we are asleep, we need less air. We live in air, but we cannot see it. We can only feel it when it is moving. Moving air is called wind. How can we make air move Here is one way. Hold an open book in front of your face, close it quickly. What can you feel What you feel is air.

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There are many clocks in the Brown’s house. They are in different big clock stands in a corner of the sitting room. It is a very, very old clock, but it still keeps good time. Mr. Brown winds it once a week.

Passage 30. Swimming

Swimming is a good sport. It’s popular. People like swimming because the water makes people feel cool. But if they swim in a wrong place, it is very dangerous. These years, some people died when they were enjoying themselves in water and most of them were students. Summer holiday will be there again. I want to give you some advice. First, don’t get into the water when you are alone. Second, don’t get into the water if there is a No swimming sign. Third, you should be careful in the water. If you remember these, swimming will be safe and it’s good for your health.

Passage missing tiger

We used to have a cat called Tiger. He was a beautiful tabby with a great deal of character. He was a natural hunter, and very soon no mouse dared to show its face in our house.

Unfortunately Tiger also used to catch a lot of birds and this made him very unpopular with some of the neighbors. Onday day, just after his second birthday, Tiger disappeared. Perhaps he was run over by a car, for at that time we lived near a busy street. Although we offered a reward, we never discovered what had happened to him and we never saw him again.

Passage

Jim gets up at 6:30. His home is near his school. He leaves home at 7:30. They begin class at 8:00. He has lunch at home. After lunch he plays games

with his classmates, in the afternoon, Jim has three classes. He leaves school at 4:30.

Passage Chinese Boy

I’m a Chinese boy. My name is Chen Dong. I am twelve. I have two sisters. My sisters and I are all students.

My father is a teacher. He is a Chinese teacher. He teaches in No. 19 Middle School. My mother is a teacher, too. She teaches English in the No. 11 Middle School.

Passage ’s Family

A picture is on my desk. This is a picture of Jim’s family. The man is Jim’s father. A woman is behind Jim. She is his mother. They are teachers. A girl is in the picture, too. She is Jim’s sister. Her name is Kate Green. Jim and his sister are in the same school. But they aren’t in the same grade. They look like their mother. They are English.

Passage House

Our home is near the school. We have a house. It is a good house. The house has three rooms. One

is a living room. The other two are bedrooms. In the living room there is a table and six chairs. There are some flowers on the table. There is a garden in front of the house. Our house isn’t big, but we like it.

Passage Monitor

This is Lin. She is from Beijing. She studies very hard. In class she can answer the teacher’s questions very quickly. Lin loves her classmates and often helps them with their lessons. Everybody says she is a very good monitor.

Passage bedroom

This is my bed room. There are two windows in it. Near the window there are some red flowers. A map of China is on the wall. You can see four shoes and a basketball under my bed. There are trousers and a coat on the bed. Many schoolbooks are on my desk. And there are three lights in my bedroom. One is on my desk, and the other two are near my bed.

Passage Piece of meat

A dog has a large piece of meat in his mouth. Near the water he looks down and sees himself in the water. He thinks it is another dog. That dog has also a large piece of meat in his mouth. He says to himself, “I want to get his meat. Then I can have two pieces.” He opens his mouth to bark and his meat goes down into the water.

Passage Classroom

Our classroom is bright and clean. But it is not big. There are twenty-three

desks and chairs in it. They are new. There’s a big desk in front of the classroom. It’s for our are five pictures on the right wall. There’s a map of the world and a map of China on the left wall.

Beside the window there’s a bookshelf. There are many books on it. Our classroom is very nice. We have lessons here. We like our classroom.

Passage 40. Our school

This is our school. There are many classrooms in it. There are eight hundred students and sixty—nine teachers in our school. There are many trees and flowers in it. All the teachers and students like our school very much. We come to school at seven. We have four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon.

Our classroom is big and clean. We have lessons here. We do our homework at home.

All the students study hard.

Passage Holiday

It’s fine today. Tom and his family are at a park. The man in white is his father. He is standing by the lake and looking at the boats. The woman in blue is his mother. She is sitting on the grass. Beside his mother is Alice, his sister. She is eating cake. The park is big, and there are many trees and flowers in it. They are having a good time.

Passage Old Mouse

An old woman has a cat. The cat is now very old. She cannot run fast, and she cannot bite. One day the old cat sees a mouse. she jumps and catches the mouse. But she cannot bite it. So the mouse gets out of her mouth and runs away.

Then the old woman is very angry because the cat cannot kill the mouse. She begins to beat the cat. The cat says to her, “Don’t beat me. Be friendly to me. When I was young, I did good work for you.”

Passage hungry fox

A hungry fox is from a forest. He arrives at a village. He wants to find some food. He comes to a house and pulls the door. But it locked. He sees there is a hen inside.

“Hello I’ll come to visit you,” he tells the hen. “I know that you are ill. Come out and let me take your temperature.”

“Thank you,” says the hen. “I have a headache. But if I come out, you will kill me.”

Passage Each Other

Look! Kate is flying a bird kite. Oh, her kite is in the tree. And it is

broken. She can’t climb up the tree. Li Lei and Jim are coming here. Li Lei is helping her. He is getting the kite from the tree. But he can’t get down. Jim is helping Li Lei. Li Lei is jumping to the wall. They are getting down from the wall. Kate, Jim, and Li Lei are mending the kite under the tree. They are good friends.

Passage Weather

The weather in Shanghai is not always good. In winter it is often cold and wet. In summer it is very hot. Spring is very beautiful. It is not very cold, but we have a lot of rain in spring. Autumn is the best season. The days are clear and dry and it is sunny and warm all the time.

The weather in Shanghai is sometimes warmer than in Beijing. But in summer it is cooler in Beijing than in Shanghai.

Passage ’s Happening

It is in autumn. A young man comes to a forest. He’s walking beside the forest. On his right is a river. On his left is the forest. Suddenly he sees two green eyes looking at him from the trees. A tiger is getting ready to jump on him.

What does he do He must jump into the river. In the river there is a big crocodile. Its mouth is very big. The young man closes his eyes. The tiger jumps over him. And the young man opens his eyes. Now the tiger is in the mouth of the crocodile.

Passage

There are many kangaroos in Australia and not only

in zoos. You can see them everywhere outside of the cities and towns. When they want to have a rest on their tails, kangaroos are also very good at looking after their babies. mother kangaroos keep their babies safe in their pockets.

Passage Pair of Shoes

One day an old man is taking the train to his hometown .One of his shoes falls onto the ground, but the train starts. He cannot pick it up, then he takes off the other and throws it near the fallen shoe. A boy beside him asks him, “Why do you do that” He answers, “If a man picks them up, he may get a pair of shoes.”

Passage 49. We get the Wrong car!

One day my wife and I go shopping at a shop. We stop the car in front of the shop. An hour later we come back to the car with many things. But we can not open the car door. “Oh, dear,” says my wife. “What shall we do” “Let’s ask that policeman!” The policeman comes to help us. A few minutes later, he gets the door open. Just at that moment a man comes up and shouts, “Why are you opening my car door”We look at the number of the car and our faces turn red.

Passage 50. Thank you.

Many people like to say “Thank you” when others help them or say something kind to them. It is a very good habit.

You should say “Thank you” when someone passes you the salt on the table, when someone is walking ahead of you keeps the door open for you, when someone says you have done your work well, or you have bought something nice or your city is very beautiful. Thank you is used not only between friends, but also between parents and children, brother and sister. Let’s learn to say Thank you.

Passage 51. The Sun

There is nothing more important in life than the sun. Without the sun all living things on Earth would die.

The sun is a star. In the sky there are thousands of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and ashot as the sun. At night you can see many stars, but in day-time you c an only see one star- the sun. The sun is much nearer to us than any other stars. That is why it looks like the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance of the sun from the Earth is as much as 150 million kilometers. Most of the stars are thousands of light years away form the Earth. Do you know what a light year is Nothing in the world travels faster than travels 300,000 kilometers a second. One light year is the distance that light travels in one year.

Passage 52. Air Jordan

Michael Jordan (1963- ) is one of the most famous basketball