— It's over sixty thousand.

— It's ten minutes' walk.

— _________

Most of us have learned English for several years, so we can read English books and magazines without the teacher's help. We feel good when we finish 1 an English story or a whole book 2ourselves. But 3can we be a better reader?

It is important to 4some suitable (适宜的)books. Then what books are suitable？Well, I think we should first choose books that are not too difficult or too 5. Then when we are reading, we should 6let new words take too much of our attention (注意力). Just do as we often do in our own languages. While we are reading, try to 7the meaning of the new words, and try to decide which of the key words we could guess and which we have to 8in dictionaries.

If we follow the 9, we will be 10in reading English books and magazines.

Mr Zhang is on business in France. Here is the hotel card for him. According to the information on the card，choose the right answers.

Welcome to Hotel Eiffel

Phone Number：07979­70078010

Website：http：//www.eiffel.com

Buses to the hotel：Bus 705, Bus 12, Bus 47

Usage：

●Keep the card close to the response zone（反应区） on the door until the green light is on. Then open the door.

Notice：

●Take the card with you. If you get lost，you can call us at the phone number on the card.

●If the card is lost during your stay in the hotel，please call our Service Centre（服务中心）.

●Give the card back to Service Centre when you check out（结账退房）.

Mr Green is a teacher of English. He comes from America. He teaches English in China. He speaks English quite well.

He reads a lot of books and his wife Mrs Green often writes books for the students. He gets up at five in the morning. He leaves home at ten to six. He begins the first lesson at 8:00.He teaches English every day except Sunday. At 11:50 he finishes his lessons. Ten minutes later he has lunch.

In the afternoon he often plays games with his students at about four o'clock. Sometimes he teaches his students in his room. Supper time is at about six. After that he reads newspapers and watches TV. At about ten to eleven he goes to bed.

Jeff and Joe are brothers. They are thinking about their future. In ten years(十年之后), they will be twenty-four and have their own jobs. Jeff will be a soccer coach (教练) and Joe will be a jazz musician.

First, Jeff will finish college. At college, he will take classes in science, health and education (教育). He will not take art or history. Jeff may play soccer on the college team. He will be busy but he will enjoy the classes. After college, Jeff will teach in a high school. He will teach science and coach the school's soccer team. Jeff will love coaching soccer. His team will work hard and practice four times a week. They will have fun and maybe they will win a lot of games.

Joe will start a jazz band (乐队). He will play the drums. The band will practice every day and write their own songs. Joe's band will probably play in clubs in New York. Joe hopes the band will become successful(成功的）and famous. Then Joe and the band will travel around the world by car. Joe will not forget his family. He will find time to visit them.

Jeff and Joe will work hard on their plans. Their parents are sure (确定的，确信的)about Jeff's plan, but they have doubts about Joe's plan because being a successful musician is a very difficult thing.

My name is Shelly. Wenzhou is my (家乡), it is in the   (南方)of Zhejiang Province. It is (著名的)for Seafood, Yandang Mountain, Yuliao Beach, Nanxi River and so on.

Last Friday, our school had a trip to Nanxi River. All of the(同班同学)went there (除了) Lingling. Because Lingling's leg was badly hurt in a road (事故). How (不小心的) she was!

Nanxi River was(远的)from my school, so we went there by bus. It  (花费) us an hour to get there. There were many people. So it was very(拥挤的). Though we were tired, we had a lot of fun!