C. Understand your friends. D. Play with your friends.

24. What is the passage mainly about?

A. How to find a good friend. B. How to help friends in trouble.

C. How to make more friends. D. How to be a good friend.

B

I had a lot of teachers that I loved. However, the teacher that I remember most was Mrs. Green from Marianna, Florida. She was my 5th grade teacher. Since I was a new student, not only in her class, but at the school, she made my time there much more pleasant. I immediately began to like her. She was really funny and I knew that she liked me. She made learning fun. I remember one day for Christmas holidays, she taught us how to make ornaments (装饰物) from eggs. My parents still have some of the ornaments I made.

She made me leader for many group projects and that made me feel special. I think that would make any child feel special, especially when a child is in a new place with no friends. She made me want to be like that. Not to pick a “favorite” student，but to make every student feel that they are special. That year，I received the Presidential Academic Award (美国总统学术奖). I was really proud and so were my parents.

Looking back at it, I think the reason why I did so well was that I felt important. Students do better when they feel like they are important or loved. Mrs. Green always gets to know her students and forms personal relationships with them, which I will try to do some day. I just hope that there will be a student who finds me to their favorite teacher as I found her to be mine.

25. The author’s life in the new school was very .

A. happy B. common C. hard D. boring

26. What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A. The author was once received by the President.

B. The author was Mrs. Green’s favorite student.

C. The author was the pride of her parents.

D. The author always felt lonely in Mrs. Green’s class.

27. What will the author probably do in the future?

A. Become a leader. B. Become a teacher.

C. Become an artist. D. Become the President.

C

I ran into quite a few language problems while vacationing with my family last summer. The most embarrassing was when my Mom apologized to the people we were staying with because her “pants were dirty”. They looked at her in amazement (吃惊), not knowing how to react. Yosee, Mom had fallen over and gotten mud on her jeans. But in Britain, “pants” means underpants or knickers, not trousers as it does back home.

Katie-From America

I went to stay with a friend on the west coast last summer. Her flat was on the first floor of a high-rise building so I got the lift up. Then I wandered round for ages looking for her flat but couldn’t find it. Fed up and tired, I finally had to go out to find a phone box. She explained that her flat was on the first floor, which for me meant the ground floor.

David-From Britain

When I asked for the “restroom” in a big department store, people kept directing me to a room with seats where I could sit and “rest”. It took me years to get through to someone that I only wanted the toilet!

Tom-From America

Last summer we went on a two-week family touring holiday, so Dad hired a car over the Internet. This was an old vehicle (汽车) and there turned out to be lots of things wrong with it. When he phoned the hire company and tried to explain that the lock on the boot was broken, they thought he was talking about footwear! He had no idea their word for “boot” was “trunk”. In the end we went to a garage and just solved the problem.

Mary-From Britain

28. Hearing Katie’s mother’s words, Katie’s friends were in surprise because .

A. Katie’s mother got mud on her jeans

B. Katie’s mother’s underpants were dirty

C. they didn’t know English

D. they mistook “pants” in American for underpants

29. David went out to find a phone box to .

A. phone the police for help B. phone his friend for help

C. tell his friend he couldn’t go to visit her D. apologize for his being late

30. When Tom asked for the “restroom”, the people around him thought .

A. he wanted to go to a department store B. he wanted the toilet

C. he wanted a chair D. he wanted to have a rest

31. The underlined word “garage” is probably

A. a place to repair cars B. a car