Mr Smith had a week’s vacation, so he said,“I’m going to the seaside by train. ”He put on his best clothes, took a small bag, went to the railway station(車站)and got into the train. He wore a beautiful hat, and he often put his head out of the window during the trip and looked at the beautiful scenery. Suddenly, the wind pulled his hat off.
Mr Smith quickly threw(扔) his old bag out of the window, too. The other people in the train laughed,“Is your bag going to bring back your beautiful hat?” they asked.
“No,” Mr Smith answered.”But My name and address are on the bag. If someone finds both of them, he or she will send me the bag and the hat.”
【小題1】Mr Smith went to take a vacation for   .

Isaac Newton was a great English scientist, but when he was thinking hard about his work, he often forgot other things.
One morning Newton got up early. He began to work at once. He worked on a very difficult problem. He was still thinking it hard when it was time for breakfast . Mary brought a pan (平底鍋)of water and an egg to his room. But Newton wanted to stay by himself and said to Mary,“You can put the egg on the table. I’ll boil(煮)it myself.” Mary put the egg beside Newton’s watch on the table and said,“You must boil the egg for four minutes and then it will be ready.” Then she went out of the room.
But when she went into the room again an hour later, she saw him standing by the pan, and having the egg in his hand. He put the watch in the pan and was boiling it! But he did not know what he was doing.
根據(jù)短文判斷下列各句是否正確，正確的寫“T”,錯(cuò)誤的寫“F”。
【小題1】Newton was careless(粗心大意) at any time.
【小題2】One morning when Newton was working, Mary brought him his breakfast
【小題3】After Mary boiled the egg for Newton, she went out of the room.
【小題4】When Mary came back, Newton was boiling his watch.
【小題5】Newton thought that he was boiling the egg.

A ten-year-old teacher
　　How young can a teacher be?  A teacher can be any age. Just ask Chrissie Mckenney. She was only 10 when she started teaching.
　　 Ｈow did Chrissie get the job It was not easy. Chrissie wanted to help children who can't hear. But the school had never had such a young helper. Could Chrissie do it
First, Chrissie learned to sign. Signing is a way of talking with your hands. Soon it was easy for Chrissie to talk to the children. So the school let her help. Now Chrissie visits the school almost every day. The children love their young teacher. She is their friend.
【小題1】Chrissie wanted to help children who can't______.
A. hear 　　　　　　  B. See　　　　　        C. play
【小題2】This story tells about a______.
A. special class 　　 B. young teacher      Ｃ. silly person
【小題3】In the third part of the story, what does the word "sign" mean______
A.看　　  B. 手勢(shì)         C. 聽
【小題4】The school let Chrissie help because she ____.
A. was too old         B. could sign 　　　 　C. could not hear
【小題5】You can guess from the story that most teachers ______Chrissie.
A. are older than    　B. do not like 　     C. are just like

A friend of mine named Paul received（收到） an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present．On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office，a street urchin(頑童) was walking around the shining car．“Is this your car，Paul？”he asked． Paul answered，“Yes，my brother gave it to me for Christmas．”The boy was surprised（驚奇）．“You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn’t cost you anything？Boy，I wish…”He hesitated(猶豫)．
Of course， Paul knew what he was going to wish for（希望）．He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.
“I wish,”the boy went on，“that I could be a brother like that．”Paul looked at the boy in surprise, then he said again, “Would you like to take a ride in my car？”
“Oh yes，I’d love that．”
After a short ride，the boy turned and with his eyes shining，said，“Paul，would you mind （介意）driving in front of my house？”
Paul smiled a little．He thought he knew what the boy wanted．He wanted to show his neighbours that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. “Will you stop where those two steps are？ the boy asked．
He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled（殘疾的） brother. He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.
“There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent（美分）. And some day I’m going to give you one just like it…then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas windows that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”
Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began an unforgettable（難忘的） holiday ride.
【小題1】The street urchin was very surprised when ________．

Mr Smith teaches English in a university(大學(xué)). He is often very busy with work. When it’s summer or winter holidays, he goes out to take vacations to relax. Usually he goes to France because he thinks it’s an interesting country. And he can speak French very well.
But last month he said to his wife(妻子), “I’m not visiting France this time. I want to go to a different country. I choose Japan. But I can hardly speak Japanese, so I’m going to study it for a month before I go.”
He studied pretty hard for a month, and then his vacation started.
Ten days later, he came back. His wife asked him, “How about your short vacation in Japan? Did you have any trouble(麻煩) with your Japanese there?”
“No, I didn’t,” answered Mr Smith. “But the Japanese did!”
【小題1】Mr Smith goes out to ______ when it’s summer or winter holidays.

根據(jù)下面一篇短文的內(nèi)容判斷下列句子的正誤，正確的用“A”表示，錯(cuò)誤的用“B”表示。
Vince is an officer in the navy(海軍軍官)．He is thirty-five years old．He lives on the sea(海洋)most of the time．
Last week．Vince went to a city for vacation．One evening，after he had supper, he decided to go to a movie．He got on a bus and stood by the door． More than ten minutes later, a drunk (醉漢) got on the bus．“Hey! Does the bus go to the zoo?”he asked Vince．
Vince said nothing and was going to the front．But the drunk caught hold of(抓住)him and went on asking，“This bus will take me to the zoo．won't it?”
Vince became angry and said，“Look carefully．I'm not a conductor，but an officer in the navy!”
Hearing this，the drunk spoke loudly，“Stop the ship, then! I want to take a bus!”
【小題1】This story happened on the sea．
【小題2】Vince took the bus to go to a zoo．
【小題3】The underlined word“conductor”means “售票員”in the passage．
【小題4】At last, the drunk thought he was in a ship．
【小題5】We can learn from the passage that the drunk took the wrong bus．

閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容判斷正誤，正確的寫A, 錯(cuò)誤的寫B(tài)。
Paul and his wife are driving down a busy street. They stop at a crossing and a car pulls up beside them and it stops too. The driver rolls down his window.
“Excuse me, sir,” he says, “But can you please tell me where the main street is?”
“Sorry, sir,” answers Paul, “But we don’t have Main Street in this city.”
The fellow looks at Paul strangely and then rolls up his window and drives away.
Paul’s wife can’t stop laughing.
“What’s so funny now?” he asks her. She says, “He doesn’t ask you where Main Street is. He wants to know the main street of the city. Every city has a main street, right? Get it?”
“Now I do. But it’s too late.”
【小題1】Paul and his wife meet a driver at a crossing on a busy street.
【小題2】The driver doesn’t know if there is a main street in the city.
【小題3】Paul’s wife can’t stop laughing because her husband doesn’t know the way.
【小題4】There is no main street in this city.
【小題5】Paul understands the driver at last.

It was Mother's Day，but the young mother was a little unhappy，because she was 800 miles away from her parents．In the morning she phoned her mother to wish her a happy Mother's Day，and her mother told her about the beautiful lilacs（丁香）in the garden．
Later that day，when she told her husband about the lilacs，he said，“I know where we can find all that you want．Get the children and come on．”So they went，driving down the country roads．
There on a small hill，they saw a lot of beautiful purple lilacs．The young woman ran quickly to enjoy the flowers．Carefully，she picked a few here and a few there．On their way home there was a smile on her face．
When they were passing a nursing home（養(yǎng)老院），the young woman saw an old granny sitting in a chair．She had no children with her．They stopped the car and the young woman walked to the old woman，put the flowers in her hands，and smiled at her．The old granny thanked her again and again．She smiled happily，too．
When the young mother came back to her car，her children asked her，“Who is that old granny？Why did you give our flowers to her？”
“I don't know her，”their mother said．“But it's Mother's Day，and she has no children．I have all of you，and I still have my mother．Just think how much those flowers meant to her.
【小題1】The young woman was a little unhappy on Mother's Day because _____.

Barak Obama(巴拉克.奧巴馬), a black man, is the president(總統(tǒng)) of the United States now. He was born on August 4^th, 1961, in Hawaii(夏威夷) and has lived in many places. His mother was from Kansas(堪薩斯州) and his father was from Kenya（肯尼亞）. Obama went to Columbia University（哥倫比亞大學(xué)） in New York and got a law degree（律師學(xué)位） at Harvard University（哈佛大學(xué)） in Massachusetts（馬薩諸塞州）. His wife is Michelle Obama（米歇爾.奧巴馬）. She also worked as a lawyer and later worked for the University of Chicago（芝加哥大學(xué)）. They have two young daughters.
Obama wrote a book Dreams from My Father.  “ I always live in the dream of my father and American people, ” Obama once said. He was born in a poor family. And his grandparents looked after him very well when Obama was young. He also lived and worked in Africa（非洲）. Then he got good education（教育） in Harvard University. On November 4^th, 2008, he became the new president of America for the next four years.
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇最佳答案，并在答題卷上按要求作答。
【小題1】Where was Barack Obama born?

Tom was ten years old and he was a very lazy boy. He didn’t like doing any work. He had to go to school, of course , but he didn’t study hard there and tried to do as little work as possible. His father and mother were both doctors and they hoped that their son would become one, too. But one day Tom said to his mother, “ When I finish school, I want to be a dustman.”
“A dustman?” his mother asked, she was very surprised. “ that’s not a very pleasant job, why do you want to be a dustman?”
“Because then I would only have to work one day a week.” Tom answered at once.
“Only one day a week?” his mother said, “What do you mean? And how do you know?”
“ Well,” Tom replied, “ I know that the dustmen who come to our house to work on Thursday, because I only see them on that day.”
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇最佳答案，并在答題卷上按要求作答。
【小題1】What kind of boy was Tom?