Dear Miss Li,

Thank you for sending money to “Animal Helpers”. The government set up the organization to help (1) ______ people. You have helped make (2) ______ possible for me to have “Lucky”. It has filled my life (3) ______ pleasure. Let me tell you my story.

Being blind, deaf and unable to walk is (4) ______ most people can’t imagine. But many people have to (5) ______ the challenges. I am one of them. Because I can’t use my arm or legs easily, (6) ______ things like answering the telephone, opening and shutting the doors or carrying things have (7) ______ been difficult for me. One day last year, a friend of (8) ______ said that she would like to help me out. She said she would talk to “Animal Helpers” to see (9) ______ I could get a specially trained dog there. She thought the dog might (10) ______.

After six (11) ______ of training with a dog at “Animal Helpers”, I was able to bring him home. I feel very lucky to have it, so I call it Lucky. It can understand different (12) ______. For example, I say, “Lucky! (13)______ my book,” he does it at once. It’s an amazing animal. I will send a photo of him to you. It can (14) _____ how he helps me one day. And also I thank you again for (15) ______ “Animal Helpers”.

Best wishes,

                                                                                                                Liz Smith

1. A. excellent                B. disabled                    C. poor                      D. kind

2. A. that                       B. one                          C. it                          D. this

3. A. of                         B. with                         C. in                          D. at

4. A. something              B. anything                   C. nothing                  D. everything

5. A. get                       B. hold                          C. bring                     D. face 

6. A. hard                       B. normal                      C. unusual                 D. daily

7. A. hardly                    B. always                      C. seldom                  D. never

8. A. my                        B. mine                         C. me                        D. myself

9. A. why                      B. that                         C. if                         D. where

10. A. make me upset     B. cheer me up             

C. let me down            D. make me energetic

11. A. days                    B. months                     C. years                     D. minutes

12. A. languages             B. voices                      C. instructions            D. people

13. A. read                    B. reach                        C. carry                     D. fetch

14. A. tell                       B. show                        C. say                       D. announce

15. A. providing         B. offering            C. supporting        D. owning

My brother and I often fight with each other over small things. One day our father said to us, “Tomorrow we will take part in the Ray Home Sports Day. Both of you must go with me. Perhaps you can learn something from those children.” My brother laughed, “Dad, Ray is a home for physically disabled children. What can we learn from them?”

   “You will see,” our father said.

   Our father works as a volunteer at Ray. The children there have problems with their hands, speech, walking or hearing. Every day, he spends hours helping them to move or exercise their legs or arms.

   The following day, he took us to Ray Home. When we got there, we found a nice place to sit down. Finally, the sports began. There was a 50-meter race to see who could run fastest. All the runners were physically disabled. As the race started, all the children moved as fast as they could. Just then, one of the girls fell over and hurt her leg. She began to cry at the top of her voice.

   All the children stopped to help the poor girl. Then they all held hands and finished the race together. My brother and I were surprised to see this: the children weren’t interested in winning the race－they were more interested in helping each other to finish the race.

1.Why did the father take the writer and his brother to Ray Home?

A. The father wanted them to do something at Ray.

B. The father asked them to help the children at Ray.

C. The father wanted them to take part in the Sports Day.

D. The father wanted them to learn something from the children.

2.What does the father often do in Ray Home?

A. He works as a teacher there.        B. He helps the children there.

C. He watches the games there.        D. He does sports with his sons.

3. Why did all the children stop in the 50-meter race stop?

A. All the children were disabled.       B. A little girl fell over and got hurt.

C. They stopped to laugh at the girl.     D. They didn’t want to finish the race.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The children there can help each other.

B. All the runners there can not run fast.

C. All the children don’t want to be winners.

D. The disabled children there were not smart enough.

 

Dogs like living with people. A dog can be a very good friend. He can do a lot of things for people. Some dogs help people to look after sheep, other dogs help them to find lost children. And some of the dogs can help the blind (盲人) do things.

Many years ago there was a very good dog. His name was Seeing Eye dog. Now we can see this kind of dogs all over the world. They are working for the blind.

The Seeing Eye dog is strong, good and easy to train(訓(xùn)練). He helps the blind to walk from place to place.

Before a dog becomes a Seeing Eye dog, he must go to a training school for about three months. First the dog has to learn to sit or stay when he hears the trainer’s call. In his next lesson the dog learns to make his trainer across busy streets.

The dog has many things to learn. And in every lesson he must learn to do one thing again and again for many times.

At the end of the training school he must take tests. When he passes the tests, the Seeing Eye dog will do the things by himself.

Now he can help blind people. The new master may be a man, a woman, or even a child. It takes the dog and his blind master about a month to learn to work and live together.

1.We can see the Seeing Eye dog _______.

A．only in the country                      B．only in small cities

C．a(chǎn)ll over the world                       D．only on the busy street

2.What can the Seeing Eye dog do?

A．Look after sheep.                       B．Help blind people.

C．Find lost children.                       D．Train blind people.

3.If you want a dog to become a Seeing Eye dog, you must let him ________.

A．go to a training school                    B．go to a middle school

C．go to an evening school                   D．go to a children school

4.First the dog has to learn to sit or stay __________.

A．when he hears the telephone call

B．when he hears another dog’s call

C．when he hears the master’s call

D．when he hears the trainer’s call

5.How long will it take the dog and his blind master to learn to work and live together?

A．One year.         B．Five years.         C．About a month.     D．One week.

 

  Ann comes from England. She’s English. She speaks English. She can also speak a little Chinese. She’s in Shanghai now. She’s studying(學(xué)習(xí)) in a middle school of Shanghai. She has classes on weekdays. On Sundays she often plays games with her Chinese friends. Her father is working in a factory near her school. He helps the Chinese workers to make nice watches. Ann and her father like Chinese food. And they like China and the Chinese people very much.

1.Which is right(正確的)?

A. Ann speaks little Chinese.　   B. Ann is good at Chinese.

C. Ann can speak some Chinese.

2.  Can Ann’s father speak Chinese?

A. We don’t know.　　      B. Yes.　　　　　　　   C. No.

3.  Ann has _______ classes on Sundays.

A.some                  B.no                        C.many

4.  Ann’s father works in a _______ factory.

 A.bike                 B.watch                 C.food

5.  Does Ann’s father like China?

A. We don’t know.　　      B. Yes.　　　　　　　   C. No.

 

 

Most middle school students find it boring to learn English. But students in Yat Sen middle school in New York, US, don’t think so. Why? Because they are in the school of One Program, which asks students to work on their own or in small groups on computers to have math lessons.
“The program gives the students a new learning style. No traditional classroom can compare with it. We give each lesson according to the students’ interest and their strong and weak points,” said JoelⅠ. Klein, the school’s head teacher, “we’re looking for a new way that interest students children.”
Students enjoy these math lessons, especially lessons with video games. They must find out the answers to math problems to get through the game. One such game is Dimension M. As students move through mazes(迷宮) with their keyboards, some questions come up.
Caleb Deng had to answer the question: What is 5+ (6×3)? He calculated on paper quickly because there was just a minute left to play.
“ I was right,” said Deng, 14, as he ended the game with a high score (高分). “this really makes math lessons more exciting, since we are fighting to learn better.”
【小題1】Students in Yat Sen Middle School like math because __________.

A．they work in large group

B．they can work on computer

C．the teachers are interesting

D．math questions are easy there

【小題2】Which is NOT true of the program?

A．It is very successful.

B．It is boring to most students.

C．It makes learning math more interesting.

D．It gives the students a new way to learn.

【小題3】The underlined word “calculated” in Paragraph 4 most probably means __________.

A．worked out

B．wrote down

C．threw away

D．gave up

【小題4】Caleb Deng’s story serves as an example to show ___________.

A．how students work in small groups

B．how to end a game with a high score

C．how the question 5+(6×3) should be solved

D．how students learn math through video games

【小題5】This article is mainly about ___________.

A．how to learn math well

B．a(chǎn)n interesting math lesson

C．a(chǎn) new way to learn math

D．kids in Yat Sen Middle School