A woman repeated a bit of gossip (流言) about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole neighborhood knew the story. The neighbor was deeply hurt. Later the woman learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old man to find out what she could do to repair the harm.
“Go to the market,” he said, “and buy a chicken, and have it killed, then on your way home, pick its feathers(毛) and drop them one by one along the road.” Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.
The next day the wise man said, “Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me.”
The woman followed the same road, but she was so discouraged when she found the wind had blown all the feathers away. After looking for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.
“You see,” said the old man, “it’s easy to drop them, but it’s impossible to get them back. So it is with gossip. It doesn’t take much to spread(散布) a gossip, but once you do, you can never completely undo(弥补) the wrong.”
【小题1】Why did the woman feel sorry?

A.She didn’t know the story.
B.She hurt her neighbor deeply.
C.She was hurt deeply.
D.She was told an untrue story.
【小题2】The underlined word “discouraged” might mean          .
A.surprisedB.excitedC.upsetD.pleased
【小题3】Which of the following statements is true?
A.The gossip didn’t hurt anyone at all.
B.The wise man is not kind enough.
C.All the feathers had been blown away..
D.The woman was given a lesson.
【小题4】What the wise man said has nearly the same meaning as the Chinese phrase “_________”.
A.覆水难收B.无中生有C.欲速不达D.得道多助

A little girl thought she was not as beautiful as other girls, and nobody liked her. So she was always unhappy and didn’t like to talk to others. However, one day, her mother gave her a beautiful hair clip(发夹). When she wore it, she looked much more beautiful than before. She decided to wear it to school.
On her way to school she found that everyone who saw her smiled at her. Most of her schoolmates said “Hello” to her, but this never happened before. She thought that the beautiful hair clip had brought her them all. She was so happy about all of the wonderful things. Although she didn’t tell her classmates about her beautiful hair clip, they all wanted to know what had happened to her.
When she went back home after school, her mother asked her: “Did you know you dropped your hair clip? I found it by the door this morning.”
She understood that she hadn’t worn the hair clip to school at all.
【小题1】Which of the following sentence is true?

A.The girl is not as beautiful as other girls.
B.Nobody liked the girl.
C.The girl’s classmates thought she was more beautiful than before with the hair clip.
D.The girl wanted to be more beautiful, so she decided to wear the hair clip.
【小题2】Why was the girl so happy?
A.She found that everyone who saw her smiled at her.
B.She heard most of her schoolmates said “Hello” to her.
C.She thought what she experienced today never happened before.
D.Both A, B, and C
【小题3】 From this passage we know that ____________________
A.the girl was really ugly without the hair clipB.the girl was as beautiful as her classmates.
C.the girl was not self-confident enough at first.D.the girl was happy all the time.
【小题4】Her classmates wanted to know what had happened to the girl because__________________
A.she didn’t tell her classmates about her beautiful hair clip.
B.she was always unhappy but that day she was so happy.
C.she looked more beautiful wearing the hair clip.
D.she wanted to talk to others.
【小题5】We can learn from this passage that_______________________
A.A friend is easier lost than found.B.Make your enemy your friend.
C.A friend in need is a friend indeed.D.The most important is how we think about ourselves.

Read how Sofia writes a composition.





1.The weekend before she has to give it to the teacher, she sits on her own in the kitchen. First, she looks at the title and thinks a lot.
2.Then she writes a few ideas onto a piece of paper, in no particular order. She looks up a couple of words in the dictionary and writes those down.
3.Then she has a sandwich and goes to watch TV.
4.The next day she looks at what she wrote. She adds some more ideas. Then she decides how to order her ideas. She starts to write.




5.There are some words she’s not sure about so she looks them up in her dictionary.
6.When she has finished writing, she reads carefully through her composition. She crosses some things out and changes one or two sentences.
7.Then she looks back at her notes from other written work. She makes sure she hasn’t made any of the same mistakes.
8.Finally, she writes out her composition onto a clean piece of paper and puts it in her bag.
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【小题1】What does Sofia do first before she writes the composition?
A.She looks at the title and thinks a lot.
B.She has a sandwich and goes to watch TV.
C.She writes a few ideas onto a piece of paper.
D.She looks up a couple of words in the dictionary.
【小题2】When she meets some words she’s not sure,        .
A.she writes them downB.she looks back at her notes
C.she crosses some things outD.she looks them up in the dictionary
【小题3】From the passage we can know Sofia is a        .
A.driverB.doctorC.studentD.parent

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