Dear Annie,
I have never written a letter to a newspaper before, I have just never felt the need to do such a thing. I have always felt I was quite able to do everything by myself. But now I know I was wrong.
Sometimes you really need help in life, I guess. And that’s why I’m writing this letter to you.
I have a happy family. I love my children and they love me . I’m a mother of three children. I know well how to bring up (带大)children, and two of them are already over twenty, so it is nothing new for me.
But now I have a serious problem:the Internet problem. My little son is just sixteen, and I feel he should do a lot of homework now , but he doesn’t seem to be interested in it . He can happily spend six or eight hours at a time on the Tnternet every day , He chats with pelple that he has never met before , but speaks little to us .He does lots of useless things on the Internet. And he sees red if you ask him to do his homework.
I just want him to be a good student . Now he seldomdoes his lessons at home. I’m afraid he will drop behind in his class soon. His father is a doctor , a very kind man . He never seems to be afraid of his father.
What can I do ?And don’t tell to talk to him. We’ve tried that and it didn’t work. But this is really a big problem in our family. I have tried everything I can think of . I
wonder how the Internet is so attractive(有吸引力的).You’re my last hope. Please tell me what I can do!
Yours,
Ellen Smith
(   )【小题1】 Mrs Snith wrote to Annie because       .
A.she often asked others for help
B.she thought she was a great mother
C.she didn’t know how to stop his son surfing the Internet
D.she didn’t know how the Internet was so attractive
(   ) 【小题2】What might NOT Mrs Smith’s son do on the Internet?                        
A.Send e-mails to his friendsB.Prepare for his lessons
C.Chat with strange peopleD.Read the news
(   ) 【小题3】 What does the phrase “he sees red”mean in this passage?                   
A.He feels sorryB.He feels happy
C.He becomes frightenedD.He becomes angry
(   ) 【小题4】 What do you think of Mr.Smith?                   
A.An irresponsible(不负责任的)father who nerver taught his son
B.A very excellent doctor who was busy with his work and had no time to teach
his son
C.A very kind man who loved his son
D.A man who always made his son be afraid of him but failed

The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, “The problem is that my legs aren’t straight enough, so I have to get very close to the piano.”

Marc’s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven’s CDs to him when she was pregnant . Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he’d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a £225,000 university scholarship.

At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings —sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn’t.”

1.The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from       .

A.China            B.France            C.Canada           D.the United States

2.Marc played the piano at the age of        for the first time.

A.two              B.five              C.six               D.nine

3.According to the passage, the underlined word “astonished” means “     ” in Chinese.

A.使……理解                           B.使……担心

C.使……惊奇                           D.使……难过

4.At present Marc practices playing the piano        .

A.once a month                          B.eight hours a day

C.in his free time                         D.only on weekends

5.What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that       .

A.he likes challenges                      B.he doesn’t like challenges

C.he is afraid of challenges                  D.he wants to be happy and famous.

 

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