Module 9　Life history

Ⅰ. 听句子,选择正确的图片。每个句子读两遍。

1.Teachers’ Day is on September 10th in China.

2.Tony read the story book last week.

3.My father read a newspaper this morning.

4.Deng Yaping started playing table tennis at five.

5.Shakespeare was a famous English writer of plays and poems.

Ⅱ.听句子,选出最佳答语。每个句子读两遍。

6.What day is it today?

7.How did you go to work in the past?

8.Did your grandfather watch TV in the evening?

9.Can you tell me what Shakespeare was?

10.When did your mother and father marry?

Ⅲ.听对话和问题,选择正确的答案。每组对话及问题读两遍。

11.W:What did you do last night?

M:I listened to music and watched TV.

Q:What did the man do last night?

12.W:Is tomorrow Mother’s Day?

M:No,Mother’s Day is in May.

Q:When is Mother’s Day?

13.W:Did your parents have a telephone?

M:Yes,they did.But they didn’t have a computer.

Q:Did the man’s parents have a computer?

14.W:When did you start learning English?

M:I started learning English at the age of ten.

Q:When did the man start learning English?

15.W:When did your uncle and your aunt marry?

M:They married in 1995.

Q:When did the man’s uncle and aunt marry?

Ⅳ.听短文,选择正确的答案。短文读两遍。

Mr.Brown was a famous writer.He was born in New York in a rich family on 13th August,1941.His father from England was a scientist and his mother from Australia was a doctor.When Mr.Brown was seven,he began to go to school.He usually rode his bicycle to school.At school,he first wanted to be a scientist,but when he was fifteen,he decided to be a writer.In 1965,he wrote his first book and in 1967 he wrote his second book.

At the age of thirty,Mr.Brown married a girl from England.Then they went to England and lived there.They had four children.Mr.Brown died on 15th July,2008.