3. Swimming Australia aims to ________.

　　A. help people reach their full potentials

　　B. spread water safety knowledge worldwide

　　C. make swimming a popular sport in Australia

　　D. provide safe and enjoyable swimming lessons

　　B

　　I started to learn English from the first grade. That year I was six. In class I learned basic phrases for greeting and describing objects. I don't have much memory for the first year of English learning. The only thing that I still remember is reading vocabulary list. A classmate of mine who was good at English would lead the whole class to read the list. One of the new words that I learned that year was "earth". "The earth orbits the sun，" he said in Chinese. Every time we came to the word "earth"， he would repeat that sentence. I was secretly admiring him because he knew the earth orbits the sun.

　　My family moved when I was in my second grade, and I transferred (转学) to a private school. My English class continued. Luckily I could use the same series of text books.

　　I stayed in the same private school for my junior high school, which is from the 7th to the 9th grade. In junior high school, I hardly felt my English skill improved because the first English class here was still titled "Good Morning" and the content was still basic greetings.

　　Following was one year of high school life: a_different_school,_the_same_story.

　　Then my family moved again, and I began to really use English. We came to America. I attended a couple years of high school, and now I'm in college. I learn to write essays and start to read books in English. I can see my progress. However, I still have a lot of space to improve. In writing, the flow between sentences isn't good and I'm still using basic words. In speaking, maybe because I hang out with Chinese speaking friends too much, it takes me time to think when telling long stories.

　　4. In Grade One, the author admired that classmate because he ________.

　　A. could speak two languages

　　B. had a very wide vocabulary

　　C. often led the whole class to read

　　D. knew about the earth and the sun

　　5. How did the author most probably feel during the first English class in junior high school?

A. Moved. B. Interested.