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( C )The Soap Opera

　　Many people like to watch TV. There are all kinds of programs on TV. The soap opera is one of them. The soap opera was first on the radio in the 1920s. Then it started on TV in the 1940s.

　　Why do so many people like to watch soap operas on TV, especially young people? What makes soap operas popular? Let's find out.

　　First, what's happening in the soap opera is very different from our lives. Everything is perfect(完美的)in the play. People don't need to worry about almost anything. People don't have money problems.

　　Second, there are many beautiful girls and handsome(英俊的)boys in the soap opera. They are so cool. They drive young people crazy(疯狂的). They make young people happy.

　　Third, the story in the soap opera is usually interesting.It makes people relax after a day's hard work. Even some old people like to watch it, too.

　　But some people don't like it. They think the show is too slow and too long. Do you like watching soap operas? What do you think of them?

阅读短文，判断正（T）误（F）

( )1. The soap opera started on TV in the 1920s.

( )2. What's happening in the soap opera is very different from our lives.

( )3. The beautiful girls and handsome boys in the soap opera make young people crazy.

( )4. People like soap operas because they can make people relax.

( )5. All people like soap operas.

( D )

Mr and Mrs Brown lived in a small town near London with their child. Sometimes Mr Brown came back home from work very late, when his wife and the child were asleep, and then he opened the front door of this house with his key and came in very quiet.

But one night when he was coming home very late, he lost his key, so when he reached his house, he rang the bell. Nothing happened. He rang it again. Again nothing happened.

Nobody moved inside the house. Mr Brown knocked at the bedroom window, he spoke to his wife, he shouted, but she didn't wake up. At last he stopped and thought for a moment. Then he began to speak like a small child. \! Mother! "he said. \! I want to go to the toilet! "He spoke quite quietly but at once Mrs Brown woke up. Then he spoke to her, and she opened the door for him.

( )1．The Browns lived in a small town near London.

( )2．Mr Brown's wife and his child went to sleep after he came back from work.

( )3.One night Mr Brown lost his key to the door, so he knocked at the front door and the bedroom window.

( )4．Mr Brown said\! Mother"like a small child because he wanted his wife to wake up.

( )5.Mrs Brown woke up at once when she heard the bell rang.She opened the door for her husband.

四、词汇测试 （20分）

　A.用所给单词的适当形式填空。

　1. What will you do if you go to the old_______________ (folk) home to visit?

　2. Among the students Tom works the _____________ (hard).

3. Lucy can't go to school today because she is__________ (bad) ill.

4. Many___________ (charity) sent money to help the poor people.

　5. If you become a __________ (profession) athlete like Yao Ming, you can make much money.

B.根据句意及首字母提示完成单词。