1 . “Hey! The thermometer (温度计) reading shows 39℃ !” shouted Lily.
“What? This is critical right?” questioned Bella as she touched Emily’s forehead. “You are burning now. How do you feel?” she continued. “Terrible,” replied Emily with a weak voice.
Lily said, “I’ll get her some medicine from the doctor and a sound sleep will help her get better I guess.”
Emily, Bella, Lily and Anna were roommates and friends. These four were always together. But Emily and Anna were much closer to each other. As Emily’s father passed away when she was 12 and lived only with her mother, she just considered Anna her family. So although Emily was surrounded by Lily and Bella, she needed Anna by her side. However, to her great disappointment, Anna wasn’t there.
“Where is Anna? Where has she gone?” asked Emily.
“She rushed out just now. But she didn’t tell us where she went,” replied Bella.
Hearing Bella’s words, Emily started to feel angry towards her friend. She had fever and was in pain. How could she just went out without any explanation? She started thinking Anna was selfish and decided not to talk to her any more.
In the evening, Anna finally returned. But Emily just refused to talk to her until her mother called to ask about her health.
“How are you feeling, my dear?” asked Emily’s mother.
“I’m much better now mom. But how do you know I’m having a fever?” Emily didn’t know why her mother had known her illness.
“I called you this morning. I fell off the ladder when I was trying to repair the roof, but you didn’t answer. Then I called Anna and told her what had happened. She said you were asleep because of the fever. And she just rushed to our house and took me to the hospital. But don’t worry, the doctor had checked me. There is nothing serious and I just need some rest.”
1. 根据文本内容从方框中选择恰当的词并用其正确形式填入文本图示中，每词限用一次，有两词为多余选项。| consider ring surprise leave kind especial write attend comfortable proud disappoint anger | ||
| Emily was seriously ill and ↓ | → | Emily felt weak and ↓ |
| These four girls got on well with each other and Emily was ↓ | → | Emily became very ↓ |
| Bella said Anna ↓ | → | Emily became ↓ |
| Emily’s mother | → | Emily was |
2. How might Emily feel when hearing her mother’s words?
3. What might Emily do after talking to her mother?
4. What might happen in the end?
2 . Happy Mother’s Day
It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were leaving after finishing our shopping, we realized that only minutes earlier an elderly woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground badly. Her husband was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. Fortunately, a lot of people stopped to help out.
While we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very worried about what had happened to the elderly couple. He said to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of everyone.” Seeing that there was a flower stall(摊位)at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we buy the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was amazed that he’d come up with this sweet idea. So we went over and told the flower seller what we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can’t take your money for such a wonderful deed.”
By now medical staff had arrived, and were looking after the injured woman. There we saw the old man was also in great fear, but he tried to comfort his wife and held her hands tightly to encourage her to be strong. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was from my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a wonderful son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”
The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. Regardless of being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little smile. And my son bent down his body to the injured lady and gently said, “Happy Mother’s Day to you, too.”
1. 根据文本内容从方框中选择恰当的词并用其正确形式填入文本图示中, 每词限用一次, 有两词为多余选项| tell express comfort concern hurt touch embarrass make finish prove notice gentle |
2. What happened to the old lady?
3. Why did Tenyson want to buy the lady a flower?
4. What will happen to the old lady after the medical staff arrived?
