My father used to work in the city and seldom stayed at home. But he would come back help to harvest(收割) rice every year.
One autumn， he promised to help our neighbor， who lost his arms in a traffic accident in 1999， to harvest his rice. After Father harvested our own， his little rice picker broke. What’s worse， he had to return to work the next day because his partner was ill in hospital. It meant that Father wouldn’t be back in a few days. It now seemed impossible to help out the neighbor.
Father told us that he wouldn’t let the neighbor’s rice rot( 糜烂) in the field. He decided to harvest it by hand without a machine. “If tonight’s weather is clear， I think I can do it.” added my father. In fact， he was rather tired after a day’s harvest work.
After dinner， Father had a short rest and made his way to the field. A full moon was glowing (发光) in the sky and the weather was cold but clear. He spent the whole night keeping his word.
I would never forget the image(画面)：Father was cutting rice in the light of the harvest moon. Behind him， row after row of rice stocks(秸秆) stood at attention， showing respect for a man who kept his word.
1. Where did Father use to work ? (No more than 5 words)________________________________
2. What happened to the neighbor in 1999? (No more than 8 words)___________________________
3. Why was Father required to return to work? (No more than 7 words)__________________________
4. How did Father help the neighbor harvest rice in the field? (No more than 5 words)
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5. How long did Father spend in harvesting the neighbor’s rice? (No more than 5 words)
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A blind boy sat on the street with a hat by his feet. He held up (举起) a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat. A man walked by. He put a few coins 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 could see the new words.
Soon the hat started to fill up. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized (认出) his footsteps (脚步) 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.” His words were “Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it.” Do you think the first sign and the second sign said the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign only told people to put some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they could enjoy the day, but the boy could not enjoy it, because he was blind. The first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign reminded people they were lucky that they were not blind.
1. Did the two signs express the same meaning in the same way?2. What happened after the man changed the sign?
3. Why did the boy sit on the street?
4. What can we learn from the passage? (At least 2 points)
No one really knows exactly how, when, or where fortune cookies (幸运饼) were invented. One thing is for sure, though. Fortune cookies are not from China. They were created in America. Actually, they may have been inspired by Chinese or Japanese food. Some people think that fortune cookies are like mooncakes, small Chinese cakes with messages inside. Others believe that fortune cookies are similar to a traditional Japanese rice cookie that once had a fortune inside it.
Fortune cookies are so popular that two American cities, San Francisco and Los Angeles, fought over the right to be the “home” of the fortune cookie. In 1983, a trial (审判) was held to decide where the fortune cookie came from. One side argued for David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles. He said that he has invented the fortune cookie in 1918. The other side argued the cookie was invented by Makoto Hagiwara, a man who ran (运营) the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco in the 1890s. In the end, Hagiwara won the trial.
This was no surprise, because the trial was held in San Francisco. People in Los Angeles later held their own trial and decided that their city was the home of the fortune cookie. No matter where fortune cookies are from, it is hard to imagine finishing a meal of Chinese food without opening this sweet, crunch (脆的) cookie and reading its luck message.
1. Are fortune cookies from China?2. What are fortune cookies similar to?
3. When did Hagiwara run the Japanese Tea Garden?
4. In 1983, who won the trial?
5. Where were the trials held?
6. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
“We want to see the president,” the man said softly.
“He’ll be busy all day,” the secretary said.
“We’ll wait,” the lady replied.
For hours, the secretary didn’t pay any attention to them, hoping the couple would give up and go away. They didn’t. The secretary finally decided to talk to the president.
“Maybe if they see you just for a few minutes, they’ll leave,” she told him. He agreed. But clearly, he didn’t want to meet them. When the couple went into the president’s office, the lady said: “We had a son who attended this university for one year. He loved it very much. But about a year ago, he died. We would like to give a building to the university.”
The president glanced at（瞥了一眼）the cotton dress and homemade suit, and then said: “A building! Do you have any idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars worth of buildings at the university.” For a moment the lady was silent.
The president was pleased. He thought the couple could go away now.
The lady turned to her husband and said quietly: “Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband agreed.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. What did the couple like? 或 How did the couple come to the university?
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2. Did the couple leave the university after waiting for hours?
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3. Why did the couple want to see the president?
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4. How did the president feel when he found the lady was silent?
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5. What does the story want to tell us? (有点难吧) 或 At last, what did the couple probably plan to do?
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