"Do you like my dress?" she asked a stranger．"My mum made it just for me," she said with tears in her eyes．
"Well, I think it's very pretty, so tell me, little girl, why are you crying?"
The little girl answered in a low voice, "After mum made me this dress, she went away．My dad says that she's up in heaven(天堂)now with Grandfather．"
Finally the woman realized why she was crying．She felt very sorry for the little girl and gently held the child in her arms．
Then suddenly the little girl did something a bit strange．She stopped crying, walked back from the woman and began to sing．She sang softly．It was the sweetest sound the woman had ever heard, almost like the song of a very small bird．
After the child stopped singing, she said to the lady, "My mum often sang that song to me before she went away, and she asked me to sing it whenever I started crying and it would make me stop．"
"See," she said loudly, "it did, and now my eyes are dry!"
Just before the lady wanted to go, the girl showed her a spot(印迹)on her dress, and said, "Right here is where my mum kissed(吻)my dress, and here," pointing to another spot, "and here is another kiss, and here, and here．Mum said that she put all those kisses on my dress so that I would forget my sadness．"
Then the lady realized that she wasn't just looking at a dress, no, she was looking at a mother．The mother knew that she was going away and would not be there to kiss away her daughter's hurts any longer．
So the mother gave all her love to her beautiful daughter and put it into this dress．Now her child was wearing it so proudly．
The lady no longer saw a little girl wearing a simple dress．She saw a child wrapped(包)in her mother's love．
根据短文内容，选择正确答案
(1)
The little girl was crying because her mother ________．
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A．
went to a big city
B．
died
C．
went out with her grandfather
D．
was ill
(2)
Who told the little girl to sing a song when she was crying?
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A．
The lady．
B．
Her father．
C．
Her mother．
D．
Her grandfather．
(3)
The little girl showed the lady ________．
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A．
how rich she was
B．
her happiness
C．
how beautiful she was
D．
her mother's love
(4)
What do we know about the lady in the passage?
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A．
She was kind to the girl．
B．
She was beautiful．
C．
She was glad to see the girl．
D．
She was a careless woman．
(5)
From the story, we learn that ________．
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A．
the girl's mother went away with her love
B．
mother's love is the greatest in the world
C．
a girl should wear a dress made by her mother
D．
a mother should take her child with her wherever she goes
A：Thanks a lot．Here is the change (找的零钱) for you．Do you need a bag?
B：Yes，please．
A：Here you are．
B：Thank you very much．
A：Thank you，too．
(1)
The customer wants ______．
A．to get a discount (折扣)
B．to use a credit card
C．one bag for each item
D．to pay with a check (支票)
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(2)
How much does the cashier give the customer?
A．￥20．00． B．￥10．50． C．￥10．00． D．￥6．50．
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(3)
The tax is ______．
A．less than a dollar
B．10% of the total
C．fifty dollars
D．more than a price of a notebook
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(4)
“Here you are．” is the same as“______”．
A．This is for me．
B．Please leave．
C．This is your bag．
D．The door is over there．
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(5)
Which of these sentences is true?
A．The store doesn't have any bags．
B．A tape costs more than a pen．
C．The person buys six things．
D．The store doesn't take credit cards．
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阅读理解
You will have a lot of reading to do in this grade this year．You can do more of it in less time if you learn to read rapidly．
Perhaps you have been told about some habits (习惯) which keep a person from reading fast and have been strongly asked to break those habits which you might have．
Do you still have any of these bad habits?Check yourself by answering“yes”or“no”to these questions．
(1) Do you move your lips (嘴唇) when reading silently?
(2) Do you point to words with your finger as you read?
(3)Do you move your head from side to side as you read?
(4)Do you read one word at a time?
If you answer“yes”to any of these questions,start at once to break the habit．If you move your tips，hold your fingers over them，or hold a piece of paper be-tween your lips while you are reading．Then if your lips move，your will know it and can stop them．
If you point to words，hold the two sides of your book，one side with your left hand，the other side with your right hand．Then you won't have a free finger to use in pointing while reading．If you move your head，place your chin (下巴) in one hand and hold your head still (静止不动的)．
If you read no more than one or two or three words at a time，you need to work very hard in learning to take in (吸收) more words at each glance (一瞥) as your eyes travel across the lines of words．
Even if you do rather fast now，you can learn to read even faster．As you probably have been told，the secret of fast reading is to take in whole groups of words as each glance．Read in through groups and force (迫使) your eyes along the lines of words as fast as you can to make them go．Anyone who practices doing these things will he able to read faster．
(1)
You may hold your fingers over your lips while reading so as ______．
A．to tell others to be silent
B．to feel whether your lips move or not
C．to hold a piece of paper between them
D．to keep yourself from talking to others
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(2)
When you read，______．
A．don't keep your head still
B．don't hold your books with your hands
C．don't stand up near a desk
D．don't use your finger to point to words
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(3)
If you learn to read fast，______．
A．you can read more in less time
B．you can write faster
C．you can understand better
D．you can read less in more time
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(4)
You must _______ those habits that we are talking about in this reading．
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