Santi's big brother Len had told him never to push all the remote control buttons at the same time. He said that something terrible would happen if he did. Santi didn't really believe this. While Len was out of the room, Santi jumped down on the sofa with the remote control in his hand. For a while, he changed from channel to channel, looking for something interesting to watch. Bored, Santi decided to see what Len could have meant.
With a quick glance(扫视) over his shoulder to make sure Len hadn't come back,he pushed all the buttons at once. Santi saw a bright flash,and he dropped the remote control. "I've broken it,"he thought. "Now I'm in trouble!" As he looked around for the remote control,he realized he was in more trouble than he'd thought. He was suddenly only the size of a mouse.
"Oh,no!"Santi shouted. He had to find his parents quickly. Carefully, he climbed down the side of the huge sofa and hurried across the floor. In the kitchen, Santi could see that the sliding door(滑门) had been left open. “If the door is open, then the cat might be in here,” tiny Santi said.
Just then, Santi and the cat saw each other. Santi ran for the door, the cat closing in quickly behind him. Just as the cat reached out to attack Santi, it slipped(打滑) on some water and slid across the kitchen floor. Out of breath, Santi hid behind a flowerpot in the corridor. He could see his mum far away in the garden. “How will I ever get there?” he wondered. As he looked out from behind the flowerpot, there was the huge cat looking right at him! Santi rushed for the garden and then…, he woke up. “It was only a dream!” he said with a relieved smile. “Thank goodness!”
【小题1】Len told Santi something terrible would happen if he _________.

A.changed from channel to channel
B.tried to pretend(假装)to be a mouse
C.pushed the buttons at the same time
D.stayed alone in the living room
【小题2】Santi thought the cat might be in the kitchen because ________
A.he heard a moving sound
B.the cat liked the kitchen
C.the sliding door was open
D.he saw the cat came into it
【小题3】The word “relieved” can be used to describe Santi’s feeling ______
A.when he was playing with the remote control
B.when his big brother warned him something
C.when he was no longer worried about the cat
D.when he saw his mum far away from him
【小题4】The story probably tries to tell that ________
A.what happens if you break a rule
B.it’s dangerous to stay alone at home
C.people don’t want to get smaller
D.sometimes pets are not friendly


I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯管) near the river. I couldn’t hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.
One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap (皮带) and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.
Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no sound. I blew and blew but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn’t playing music yet.
Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I’m in the TV studio with my saxophone strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I’m always thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I’m a happy man.
【小题1】On the bus, the writer couldn’t ________.

A.find an old man with a saxophoneB.see a river
C.hear the old man’s musicD.imagine the sound
【小题2】The statue along the river made the writer think of ________.
A.having a saxophone
B.the old man near the river
C.having a cap and a saxophone as the boy
D.playing the saxophone on TV
【小题3】The writer could get the saxophone to play ________.
A.as soon as he got it
B.after he read the instruction
C.after he tried many times
D.after his father taught him
【小题4】What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.The magic day.B.My birthday present.
C.The old man and the statue.D.My dream of playing saxophone.

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