Margaret Porter is a violinist and music teacher. According to her, the best age to start learning the violin is between three and six. She says, “It's the time when you are learning about the world.” Margaret, who was born in London, likes to take pupils at three and four. However, she has made lots of exceptions (例外) for five-year-olds. She started teaching the violin in 1972 and she taught her children's five-year-old school friends at first.

    In Margaret's opinion, it's important for one to know why music sounds the way it does. Without knowing it, one can't become a great musician at all. So from the earliest lessons, pupils in her class learn to play by ear. They do not even try to read music until they have been playing for several years. Margaret says that her method is not to produce great violinists. She always suggests that pupils should leave and study the violin using more traditional methods.

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    My name is Zhang Tian. There is a computer in my bedroom. I often use it to do many things. I can do my homework on it. Sometimes I go online and download some information for my lessons. It helps me a lot. Now I am good at all the subjects at school. When I have time, sometimes I watch movies on the Internet. I can also download music from the Internet. I have some good friends from different cities, so we often talk with each other at the weekend. My mother always tells me not to play computer games, because it's not good for my eyes. I don't have a printer now. My father is going to buy one for next month.

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    Here are two old stories from Chinese history. The Chinese people have told them for many years.

    One is a story about Cao Cao's son, a clever boy named Cao Chong. One day, Cao Caogot a huge elephant from Sun Quan and he wanted to know the weight of it. Because there wasn't a scale large enough, some soldiers advised him to(A)it up. But Cao Cao didn't want to kill the elephant. Just then, Cao Chong came up with a great idea. He asked some soldiers to lead the elephant onto about. As the heavy animal walked onto it, the boat went lower into the water. After Cao Chong drew a line on the side of the boat to mark how low it went, the elephant was taken off the boat. (B)The boat was filed with rocks until the water reached the line on the boat. Cao Chong then weighed the rocks. The rocks and the elephant were of the same weight. (C)曹操对他的儿子生常满意。

    The other story is about a wise man named ZhugeLiang. He was asked to make 100, 000 arrows (箭)within 10days. He told (D) his soldiers to fill 20 large boats with many straw men. In the early morning of the third day, the soldiers said the boats towards the camps of Cao Cao's army on the other side of the river. They shouted and boat their drums loud. When Cao Cao's soldiers heard the sounds, they thought they were (E)attack. However, they could not see through the thick tog on the river. Cao Caoordered his soldiers to shoot arrows towards the sounds of the drums and the shouting. Zhuge Liang got enough arrows and then sailed back successfully.

    Anger is a kind of feeling. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, when a friend borrows your favorite thing and then breaks it, you may get angry.

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    In fact, it's not good to hide your anger, and it's normal for you to get angry sometimes. As soon as you find your problems, you may cry to relax. When you get angry, you can talk about it with adults, such as parents, teachers, etc. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Here are some other things you can do when you start to feel angry: count from 1 to 100; give someone a hug, go for a bike ride, think about good things, etc.

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    Welcome to Maxwell's superstore. Maxwell's superstore is the largest store in the town. You may find everything you want in the store. Women's wear and children's wear are on the first floor. Men's wear and sporting goods are on the second floor. On the third floor are the electrical goods and furniture. On the fourth floor are travelling goods and books. Toys are on the fifth floor. There is only a restaurant on the top floor, the sixth floor. On each floor there is a cash desk. You may pay at any of them. There is a large parking lot behind the store, which can hold 200 cars at the same time.

    Dale is in the classroom now, but he can't find his schoolbag. Where is it? Is it lost? No! It is in his home. He doesn't bring(带来) it to school. He calls his sister Sally and asks her to take his school things to school. Here are his school things.

    His schoolbag is on the chair. Under the chair is his pencil box. His notebook is on the desk. His dictionary is on the bed. His pencil isn't in the pencil box. It's on the sofa.

    Oh, Sally, don't forget(忘记) to take his baseball. Where is his baseball? Oh, it's under the table.