Reading a play

Most of the text is in the form of a dialogue.This is because plays are written to be spoken aloud.Writers use different styles of speech.To really understand a play,you should read the dialogue aloud.Remember to pay attention to the instrutions .

六、Integrating skills

1、Passage A（Reading）

　　Mom:Daniel ,I need to talk to you about your ______. Dad and I realize there is probably an for why the house is so dirty,but you shouldn't have run out of the room and slammed the ___ like that.

　　Daniel:Mom,I'm sorry,but I was so angry!You want me to act like an______ but you and Dad treat me like a child.Why didn't you just ask me what had happened?

　　Mom:Well, I know that growen-ups are ______ to make good _____ but sometimes we make mistakes.We were angry too.None of us stopped to think and we should have.Can you explain to me now what you did with the cash we left?

　　Daniel:______ was sick ,Mom.,Eric and I didn't want to call you and Dad on your ____,so I used the ___you left and some of my own to take him to the ____.We stayed there and ____ for him all day.That is why we didn't have time to clean the house.

2、Passage B（Project）

　　I read your _______ every month and I love your 'Teenagers Now' _____.I myself am a teenager and have some probloms at home.

　　Whenever I want to do something or _______ an idea,he doesn't listen to me.Whenever I try to talk to him, he just me.When I ______ to listen to him, the two of us even _____ like crazy.

　　He and my mother always make me do things I don't like such as _____ the piano and ____Japanese.when I want to be alone,they call me ______ and ____.

　　My father gets very angry when I play _____ music. He has even _____ me from meeting my friends online at the Internet cafe.

　　I love him a lot,but I don't _____ why he will not ____ the things I want to do.

3、Passage C

请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后的表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词或短语。注意：每空不超过3个单词。

　　Houston is home to cowboy culture, space travel, art cars and much more.

　　Two brothers established Houston in 1836.Augustus and John Allen were land developers from New York state.

　　They purchased more than 25 square kilometers of land in a low-lying area near a small river, or bayou. They named the town after a hero of Texas history, Sam Houston. The Allens wanted to build a city that would become a center of government and commerce. They succeeded.

　　Houston soon became a center for the cotton trade, then later the oil industry. The Port of Houston links the city to the shipping traffic in the nearby Gulf of Mexico.

The capital of the state of Texas is Austin. But Houston for a time in its early years was the capital of the Republic of Texas.