1 . Mr. Robin (知更鸟) had his house in a tree. His four baby robins lived in it. They grew very fast. Soon the house was too little for them. “It is time for you to fly,” said Mr. Robin.
“Oh, we can not fly,” said the baby robins.
“You can, if you try,” said Mr. Robin.
A robin tried. He flew into a tree.
“Oh, how interesting!” said the little robin. “I like to fly. See me go!”
Then the other robins tried.
In a little while they could all fly.
The robins could fly, but they could not sing.
“No, Dad, we can not sing.”
“You can, if you try. Hear the other birds sing. Look at the pretty flowers and the blue sky. Then you will want to sing. Hear me sing to you. Now sing for me.”
One little robin sang.
Then they all sang.
A little girl came by. “Wow, hear the birds sing!” she said. “How happy they are!”
1. What did Mr. Robin ask his babies to do first?| A．To fly. | B．To jump. | C．To look for food. | D．To build houses. |
| A．Interested. | B．Bored. | C．Tired. | D．Worried. |
| A．They were poor. | B．They were rude. |
| C．They were happy. | D．They were sad. |
2 . When I first come to America, I live with a family. In the family there are Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown and three little kids. They go to the school close to their house. I help them do some housework for 15 hours from Monday to Friday. I get three meals and a room to live in. My work is to walk the kids to school in the morning, pick up (接) the kids from school in the afternoon and do some work around the house. Most of the time I work inside (在……里面) the house doing some cleaning and washing. I don’t help with garden work, but only when Mr. Brown and Mrs. Brown get very busy in the garden.
One day, they are busy with the new swimming pool in the garden. I am on the second floor cleaning the floor. When I hear a call from the end of the swimming pool, I run out of the door and hear Mr. Brown say, “Jane, do you have time?” “They must need some help.” I say to myself. Then I run quickly to the end of the swimming pool and ask Mr. Brown, “How can I help?” Then Mr. Brown says, “Do you have the time?” I begin laughing at myself (笑自己) and tell him the time. I don’t hear the word clearly and don’t get what he says at the beginning.
Now I am very careful when people are saying “have time” or “have the time”. Then I can give the right answer.
1. The kids go to school ________.| A．by bike | B．by car | C．by bus | D．on foot |
| A．works on weekdays | B．helps clean the new swimming pool |
| C．does some gardening | D．cleans and washes on the second floor |
| A．she hears a call from Mr. Brown | B．she tells Mr Brown the time |
| C．she doesn’t hear the word clearly | D．she can give the right answer |
| A．love begins at home. | B．helping others is helping yourself |
| C．time is long but life is short | D．a miss will make a great difference |
3 . I am Miko and I am from Japan. I am twelve years old. My home is far from my school. It is about 25 kilometers. So I usually take a train to my school in the morning. My friend Sena goes to school with me. The journey (旅程) takes us 25 minutes. Our first lesson starts at 8: 15. I often leave my home at 7: 25.
I’m Aram. I have a big family. I live with my grandparents, parents, sister and brother in Canada. It’s a bout 10 kilometers from my home to school. It takes me about 20 minutes by bus. I go to school at 8:15 and my first class starts at 9:00. I like music and my dream is to buy a piano for myself. So I work at a supermarket every Sunday. The supermarket is about 6 kilometers away from my home. I usually go there by bike. The bike ride takes about 30 minutes.
1. How long does it take Miko from her home to school?| A．15 minutes. | B．25 minutes. | C．30 minutes. | D．45 minutes. |
| A．by bike | B．on foot | C．by train | D．by bus |
| A．Guitar | B．car | C．bike | D．piano |
| A．Miko goes to school with her sister. | B．Miko lives far from the school. |
| C．Aram’s first class starts at 8:15 a.m. | D．Aram works in a clothes store on Sunday. |
4 . Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was 12 years old, Jeff had cancer (癌症). Doctors had to cut off most of his right leg.
Every day Jeff puts on an artificial leg(假腿). With the plastic artificial leg, Jeff can ride a bicycle, swim and play soccer. He can run as well. Jeff made a plan with his friends who had plastic legs, too. They decided to run across America. When he was 22 years old, Jeff Keith ran across the United States from the east to the west. He started running in Boston. Seven months later, he stopped running in Los Angeles. He ran 3,200 miles. In every city people gave Jeff money. The money was not for Jeff, but for the American Cancer Society.
Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things. He is studying to be a lawyer(律师). Jeff says, “People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that I ran not only for disabled people, but also for everybody.”
1. Jeff’s right leg was cut off because he had _________.| A．cancer | B．a fever | C．TB(结核病) | D．a serious cold |
| A．near Los Angeles |
| B．half between the east and west of the United States |
| C．in the west of the United States |
| D．in the east of the United States |
| A．about four and a half months | B．over two hundred days |
| C．almost twenty weeks | D．less than half a year |
| A．优秀的 | B．劳累的 | C．残疾的 | D．无能为力的 |
| A．people can do anything they want to do | B．people should give Jeff more money |
| C．some disabled men will become lawyers | D．disabled people can also run |
5 . Mr. Brown is already 89 years old. He used to sell ice-cream in New York. Last month, his daughter died and left him with two grandchildren. He had to look after them.
“What should we do? We have to make money,” Mr. Brown said to his wife. Then he decided to sell ice-cream again. He got up early every morning and worked until midnight.
Steve is a reporter. He often bought ice-cream from Mr. Brown. Soon, he learned about his story. He wanted to help the old man, so he posted a photo online. Lots of people read Mr. Brown’s story and came to buy ice-cream. That was not enough. Steve started to raise money for Mr. Brown. He planned to raise $3,000, but in fact, he got more than $201,000.
Now Mr. Brown is rich. He doesn’t need to make money. But he says, “I really thank Steve and other kind people for helping me. I want to help others, too.” He keeps on selling ice-cream. He gives ice-cream to kids for free. He also gives his money to poor families.
Just as the saying goes, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Try to help, and you will feel different.
1. What happened to Mr. Brown?| A．His wife died. | B．His daughter died. |
| C．He lost his grandchildren. | D．He lost his job. |
| A．On TV. | B．In the newspaper. | C．In the magazine. | D．On the Internet. |
| A．Mr. Brown’s wife was a reporter. | B．Mr. Brown made a lot of money. |
| C．They raised $3,000 for Mr. Brown. | D．Mr. Brown is still selling ice-cream. |
| A．An old man who never gave up | B．An old man who touched our hearts |
| C．The volunteer Steve | D．A helpful program |
6 . A man likes old things very much. He is looking for things of old times. One Saturday morning, he comes to a small village and finds a blue ceramic bowl there. It looks nice and old. It is on the ground and a cat is eating breakfast from it. An old woman, the owner of the cat, is sitting near the bowl. The man wants to get the bowl, but he doesn’t want to spend much money on it. So he asks the woman, “The cat is very cute. I want to buy it. Can you sell it to me?”
“How much money can you give me?” the woman asks. The man says, “Twenty-five yuan. Is it OK?”
The woman says, “OK.” Then the man gives the money to her and runs away. After ten minutes, the man goes back and says, “My cat wants a bowl to drink with. Can you give this bowl to me?” But the woman answers, “I am sorry I cannot give it to you. Thanks to the bowl, it helps me sell many cats a day.”
根据上文内容，判断正（T）、误（F）。
1. The story happens in a small city.
2. The cat is playing with a bowl.
3. The man gives 25 yuan to the woman for the cat.
4. The man really wants the cat.
5. From the story we can see that the woman is very clever.
7 . When William Erasmus Darvin was born in December 1839, his father Charles Darwin began to carefully record observations of his firstborn in a notebook. Now housed at Cambridge University Library, it reads more like a research paper.
Today we know a good deal about Darwin’s theories. We know far less about how his private life—particularly his family—contributed to his work. But his notebook shows another side of the founding father of evolution: Darwin as a family man.
Darwin’s son William was born a year after the scientist first met London Zoo’s first orangutan(猩猩), Jenny. “The orangutan for Darwin was like a window into the origins of mankind,” says John van Wyhe, director of Darwin Online.
At this time, Darwin was already forming ideas about where humans came from, but he had never met one of our close ape(猿) relatives to test these theories. His meeting with Jenny helped build up his idea that we shared a common ancestor(祖先) with apes. He was already looking for a “real relationship between humans and apes”, says van Wyhe. When he saw Jenny’s facial expressions and noticed her social behavior, he knew his ideas were right.
What stood out to him was how human-like some of her behavior was, which he wrote about in a letter to his sister Susan: “The keeper showed her an apple, but would not give it to her, whereupon she threw herself on her back, kicked and cried, just like a naughty child.”
When his son was born soon after, it meant that he could see first-hand how a human child developed, and consider the relationship between humans and animals. “The notebook shows Darwin as a good-humoured though curious father who is playing with his young baby like he is another ape,” says van Wyhe.
His observations about both his family and Jenny the ape went on to influence his 1871 book. The Descen of Man and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872.
根据短文内容，请用完整句子回答下列问题。
1. What did Darwin do after his first child was born?
2. What idea did Darwin hold before meeting Jenny?
3. What did Darwin think of ape, Jenny?
4. What does the text mainly want to tell us?
5. What can you learn from Darwin?
8 . Today is the first day of the week. It is in the afternoon. Mr. Read is driving his car to his sister’s school. Now he is very near the school. But he doesn’t know the way to it. At this time, he sees a young woman. Mr. Read comes out of his car and goes to her. “Excuse me! Where’s the school, please?” he asks. The young woman says, “It’s very near here. I want to go with you.”
Now the young woman is sitting in the car. Soon they come to a small house and she says, “Stop, please!” Mr. Read stops the car and says, “But this is not a school.” “No,” says the young woman, “this is my house. I want to get home early before supper time. Thanks for driving me home. The school is behind the factory. So go back to the factory and then turn right, you can find the school.”
1. Today is __________.| A．Monday | B．Saturday | C．Tuesday | D．Sunday |
| A．She wants to go to the school with Mr. Read. |
| B．She wants to get home in Mr. Read’s car. |
| C．She wants Mr. Read to go to her house. |
| D．She wants to stop Mr. Read’s car. |
| A．Behind the factory. | B．Next to the young woman’s house. |
| C．In front of the woman’s house. | D．Behind the woman’s house. |
| A．Mr. Read doesn’t know the way to the school. |
| B．The young woman doesn’t get home before supper time. |
| C．Mr. Read and the young woman aren’t friends. |
| D．Mr. Read wants to find the school, so he must go back. |
9 . My name is Dale. This is my community. There is a big supermarket near my house. My mother goes shopping there once a week. There is a school across from the supermarket. It’s our school. It is small but nice. There is a library next to the school, I like reading books there.
I’m Scott. My community is busy. There are a lot of stores and restaurants in my community. My father likes to take me to the restaurants for dinner when I do well in my study. My house is on the street corner. There is a post office near it. And next to the post office is a parking lot.
My name is Helen. There is a big park in my community. Lots of people go there to have fun. I also like to play there. There is a restaurant across from the park. A bank is next to the restaurant. And some clothes stores are near it.
阅读短文，使用完整的句子回答以下问题。
1. How often does Dale’s mother go shopping?
2. How is Dale’s school?
3. What does Scott’s father like to do when Scott does well in his study?
4. Where is the restaurant in Helen’s community?
5. Whose community is busy?
10 . There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to be patient and wise. So he asked them to take turns looking at a pear tree that was far from their home.
The first son went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in fall. After they came back, he called them together and asked them what they saw.
The first son said that the tree was ugly and weak.
The second son didn’t think so—he said there were green buds in the tree and it was full of hope.
The third son didn’t agree with them. He said there were many flowers that smelled sweet and the tree looked beautiful.
The last son also had his own idea. He said the tree was ripe and full of fruit.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all correct because each of them saw just one season in the tree’s life.
He told them that you cannot judge（评价）a tree or a person by only one season. You can see how someone changes and grows as time goes by—some periods（期间）are happy, while others are sad. If you give up on someone when they are living through the “winter” of their lives, you will miss the promise of their spring, the beauty of their summer, and the greatness（伟大）of their fall.
1. Why did the man ask his four sons to look at the pear tree in turns?| A．To teach them a lesson. | B．To help the pear tree grow. |
| C．To ask them to be strong men. | D．To enjoy this beautiful tree. |
| A．In spring. | B．In summer. | C．In autumn. | D．In winter. |
| A．生硬的 | B．带刺的 | C．发芽的 | D．成熟的 |
| A．There is no need to follow other people. |
| B．There is strength in a tree. |
| C．Don’t judge a whole life by just one period. |
| D．Don’t answer a question too quickly. |
