I. Preparation Warm-up Activities 1. Pair Work: Talk with your neighbor about someone you love most. Words you may refer to: considerate patient a great helper generous housework hard-working point out one's mistakes a good cook encouraging tender honest gentle respectable easy to get along with a good listener kind caring

1. Learn/master new words and expressions, and be able to use them in actual situations 2. Grasp the main idea of the text and be able to answer the related questions 3. Develop the students' ability of listening and speaking 4. Cultivate proper habits in reading and writing

1. Learn/master new words and expressions, and be able to use them in actual situations 2. Grasp the main idea of the text, and be able to answer the related questions 3. Develop the students' ability of listening and speaking 4. Cultivate proper habits in reading and writing

1. Learn/master new words and expressions, and be able to use them in actual situations 2. Grasp the main idea of the text and be able to answer the related questions 3. Develop the students' ability of listening and speaking 4. Cultivate proper habits in reading and writing

1. Learn/master new words and expressions, and be able to use them in actual situations 2. Grasp the main idea of the text and be able to answer the related questions 3. Develop the students' ability of listening and speaking 4. Cultivate proper habits in reading and writing

1. Learn/master new words and expressions, and be able to use them in actual situations 2. Grasp the main idea of the text, and be able to answer the related questions 3. Develop the students' ability of listening and speaking 4. Cultivate proper habits in reading and writing

Part I Listening comprehension(20) Directions: This part is to test your listening ability. There are two sections here Section A Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short conversations. There are 10-recorded conversation on it. After each conversation, there is a recorded question. The conversations and dialogues will be spoken only once. When you hear a question

1. My sister spend studying so that she might later get a better job [A]most of her times B]her most times C her most time Dmost of her time 2. We got down to business as soon as we each other [AJhad introduced to b had been introduced to [C]had introduced by [D]had been introduced by

I. Pronunciation (1’x 10) Directions: Choose the word whose pronunciation of the underlined part is the same as that of the given word. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. 1. threat A. writhe B. father C. salty D. toothpaste 2. horrified A. opera B. totally C. extort D. grope 3. sniff A. slip B. collide C. lightning D. deprive

Background Knowledge u Time Zones and International date Line rn 1884 scientists divided the world into 24 time zones. The time in the zone containing greenwich is called Greenwich Mean Time Going westwards around the world from Greenwich, we subtract an hour for each