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will take six weeks to get to Auckland and the couple are expecting a redcarpet wele from family. Doris was born in New Zealand but gave up her homeland when the couple met and married in the late 1990s. But New Zealand is close to both their hearts and the attraction of family and friends, and the good fishing helped to persuade them to move. Doris, who has five children and nine grandchildren, supported her husband39。s move to New Zealand special? A. Their age. B. The red carpet. C. The ocean liner Saga Rose. D. Their marriage certificate. 4. The best title of the passage may be . A. Better late than never B. Eric and Doris KingTurner are packing their bags C. To leave or not to leave, that39。 Larry is going to be a pilot. He wants to fly an airplane. But Larry is not a rich man. He doesn’t have an airplane. He has only a chair. Larry ties 45 big balloons to his chair and then sits in the chair. The chair goes up. For a few minutes, everything is fine. The view from the chair is beautiful. Larry can see houses and trees below him. He is happy. He is flying. The chair goes up very high. Larry is afraid. “I don’t want to go very high,” Larry thinks. “I want to go down a little.” With a small gun, Larry shoots 10 balloons. Then something terrible happens. Larry drops the gun, and it falls to the ground. Larry can’t shoot more balloons. The chair goes up and up. Larry is three miles above the ground. Airplanes are flying over him and under him. Larry has a small radio. “Help! Help!” he says into the radio. “I’m flying in a chair, and I want to e down!” People hear Larry, but they ca n’t help him. Larry flies in the chair for 45 minutes. Then the balloons begin to lose air. Slowly the chair es down, and Larry is back on the ground. He is not hurt. Larry says, “For 45 minutes, I am a pilot the pilot of a chair.” 1. What does Larry want to do? _____________________________________ 2. Why does the chair go up into the air? _____________________________________ 3. What does he do when the chair goes up higher and higher? _____________________________________ 4. Do other airplanes give him any help? _____________________________________ 5. Why does the chair e down at last? _____________________________________ 七、書面表達 : 學校英語興趣小組打算在周六進行一次登山野餐活動,你作為活動組織人員,要向小組里所有同學介紹一下這次活動的主要安排。 time Activities(活動) 7:00am Meet outside the school gate 7:20am Set off 8:00am Climb the hill 11:30am Have a piic 2:30pm Go back ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________