【推荐1】Mr. Read lived in a city. He wrote a lot of novels and the young men liked to read them. And he was often visited. It took him much time to meet them. Some visitors talked much with him and at last he didn't like it. He told his servant(仆人) to stop the strangers from troubling him.

               One morning he was writing a novel when the door was knocked at. He hoped to finish writing it as soon as possible and he had no time to meet anybody. He told the servant he did not want to be troubled. The servant opened the door and found it was Mr. Baker, one of Mr. Read's old friends.
               "Is Mr. Read at home, Mabel?" asked Mr. Baker.
               She wanted to let him in but suddenly(突然) remembered what she was told.
               "Sorry, Mr. Baker," said the servant. "He's gone out."
               "Where has he gone?"
               "I don't know."
               "When will he come back?"
               "Sorry, he didn't tell me about it."
               Mr. Baker understood his friend wouldn't see him. He got mad and left. That afternoon Mr. Read finished his novel. He felt sorry for Mr. Baker and wanted to apologize to his old friend. He got there and shouted, "Is Mr. Baker at home?"
               Mr. Baker heard it was his friend. He remembered what happened that morning. He didn't open the door and answered, "Sorry, I'm not in." "I have heard it's you, Mr. Baker."
               "I believed your servant this morning," said Mr. Baker. "But you don't believe your friend now!"
1. According to the passage, Mr. Read was                 .

A．a waiter

B．a writer

C．a worker

D．a servant

2. What does the underlined word "apologize" mean in Chinese?

A．道歉

B．挑战

C．回答

D．邀请

3. From the story we can guess Mr. Baker felt                  because his old friend didn't let him in.

A．happy

B．surprised

C．sorry

D．angry

4. Which statement is true?

A．Mr. Read lived in a small town.

B．The servant didn't know Mr. Baker so she didn't let him in.

C．Mr. Read didn't want to be troubled while he was writing novels.

D．Mr. Baker wasn't at home when Mr Read came to his house that afternoon.

【推荐2】A businessman has a bird which he kept in a cage. He was going to India, the land from where the bird came. He asked the bird whether he could bring anything back for him. Instead, the bird asked for his freedom, but was refused. Then he asked the businessman to visit a jungle(丛林) in India and announce his captivity(囚禁) to the free birds who were there.

The businessman did so, and almost immediately after he had spoken, a wild bird, just like his own, fell off a tree and lay on the ground near his feet, senselessly. The businessman thought that this bird must be an old friend of his own bird, and felt sad that he should have caused this death.

When he got home, the bird asked him whether he had brought good news from India. “No,” said the businessman, “I’m afraid that my news is bad. One of your good friends fell from a tree suddenly and died at my feet when I told about your captivity. ”

As soon as these words were spoken, the businessman’s bird collapsed and fell to the bottom of the cage. “The news of his friend’s death has killed him, too,” thought the businessman. Sadly he picked up the bird and put it on the windowsill (窗台). At once the bird got up and flew to a nearby tree. “ Now you know,” he said, “ what you thought was disaster was in fact _________ . The message you brought back was actually telling me how to free myself. ”

1. Where did the bird come from?

A．A cage.	B．A nearby land.
C．An Indian jungle.	D．An Asian forest.

2. What does the underlined part “ did so” refer to?

A．set off for the India jungle	B．did what his bird had told him
C．set the cage bird free	D．captured another wild bird

3. What did the bird do after hearing the message the business man brought back?

A．He killed himself because of the news.	B．He flew out of the cage.
C．He pretended(假装) to be dead.	D．He couldn’t say a word.

4. What best fits the blank ___________?

A．a test for you

B．a warning for you

C．a bad idea for me

D．good news for me

【推荐3】Look at this photo! This is my family. My name is Raph. I am 15. I like red. I have three brothers.   They are Leo, Mike and Don. Leo is 16.He likes blue. Mike, Don and I are 15.Mike likes yellow. Don likes purple. Our teacher is a rat (老鼠).He is from Japan. He is like a father to us. He is very old. We love each other (彼此).People call us Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(忍者神龟). You can see us in a cinema (电影院)

根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
1. There are ________ people in the family.

A．three

B．four

C．five

2. Raph has ________ brothers.

A．3

B．2

C．4

3. _________ is a rat.

A．Raph

B．The teacher

C．Leo

4. ________ is the eldest (最大的) brother of the family.

A．Mike

B．Leo

C．Don

5. Where is their teacher from?

A．China

B．America

C．Japan

【推荐1】One day, a student asked his teacher, “What is greed? ” The teacher didn’t answer his question directly, but asked the student to walk through the chocolate factory next to their school and pick out the biggest chocolate bar he could find. But there was a rule: as he passed through the factory, he could not turn back.

The student went to the chocolate factory. As he walked, he saw a large chocolate bar. He liked it, but thought he might be able to find an even bigger one if he kept going. He went on and saw another chocolate bar. This one was a little bigger. But again, he thought he could find an even bigger one if he kept going. As he neared the end of the factory, he saw fewer chocolate bars and none of them were as large as the earlier ones. He started to feel sad about his missing the largest chocolate bar.

Finally, he gave up. He went back to his teacher empty-handed and explained (解释) what had happened.

The teacher told him, “You liked the first chocolate bar, but you kept looking for a bigger one. And later, you realized that you had given up the best chocolate bar because you thought you could do better. That is called greed.”

Sometimes in our life, we let go of good things easily because we think we can find something even better.

1. The teacher didn’t answer the student’s question because _______.

A．he did not know the answer at all

B．he wanted the boy to get a big chocolate bar

C．he knew the boy would not understand him

D．he wanted the boy to find the answer by himself

2. Why did the student give up the first chocolate?

A．To kept walking until he felt hungry.	B．To walk and think about the answer.
C．To look for the biggest chocolate.	D．To enjoy the walk-through.

3. What does the underlined word “greed” mean in Chinese?

A．欲望

B．贪婪

C．知足

D．遗憾

4. What can we learn from the story?

A．If you always want more, you may get less.	B．A student should follow his teacher’s words.
C．It’s wise to let go of good things easily.	D．Never turn back when you go for something.

【推荐2】A thirsty bee went to a river to drink. As it was drinking, it was carried away by the running water. A kind bird saw the bee’s danger. It picked a leaf and threw it into the water in front of the bee. The bee was able to climb onto the leaf, and it was brought safely to the land. The bee thanked the bird for its kindness and then flew away. Not long after, the bird was sitting on the branch of a tree. It did not see that a man was aiming his gun at it. But the bee saw what the man was doing. So the bee flew into the man’s eye, and hurt him. The pain in his eye was so great that he was not able to shoot the bird, and the bird flew away.

In this way, the bee, whose life had been saved by the bird, was able to save the life of the bird.

根据上文内容,选择最佳答案。
1. The bee was very thirsty, so it __________.

A．went to a river to drink

B．went to look for the bird

C．went home to drink

2. Why did the bird throw a leaf into the water? Because __________.

A．the bird was angry with the bee	B．the bird liked to play with water
C．the bee was carried away by the running water.

3. Not long after, the bird __________, when a man was aiming at it.

A．was playing on the land

B．was singing in a tree

C．was sitting on the branch of a tree

4. Who saved the bird’s life at last?

A．The bee.

B．The man.

C．A friend.

5. From this story, we have learned that __________.

A．both the bee and the bird are useful animal	B．a friend in need is friend indeed
C．the bee is as clever as the bird

【推荐3】A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized（听出）his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, I can not see it.”

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply showed the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective （有效的）?

1. The boy in the passage can not ________.

A．see

B．walk

C．hear

D．speak

2. How did the man help the boy?

A．He gave the boy a lot of money.	B．He brought the boy back to his home.
C．He wrote some new words on the sign.	D．He sent the boy to a special school.

3. The underlined words “held up” in the first paragraph mean ________.

A．阻碍

B．举着

C．承受

D．坚持

4. What happened after the man changed the sign?

A．The boy still got a few coins in the hat.	B．The boy got much more money.
C．No one gave the boy coins any more.	D．No one gave the boy coins any more.

5. What can we learn from the story?

A．Time is important.

B．You should be brave even though you’re blind.

C．Treating a thing differently brings a different result.（结果）

D．If we want to be rich, we should be honest.