Last weekend, twenty thousand people gathered in the state of Georgia to watch students from twenty-eight countries compete with robots they built. More than ten thousand students and more than five hundred robots took part in the competition.

Almost one thousand and seven hundred high school teams entered a level of competition called LUNACY. The competitors came from eleven countries, including the United States. In January, the organization sent the same supplies for robots to each team. The teams had six weeks to build robots that could compete in the LUNACY game. The playing area had six robots, three on each team. Each robot had a trailer(拖车) connected to it. The robots had to pick up large balls and throw them into the trailers of opposing robots. The robots were moving on a surface where they could slide(滑行). A team from California won the competition.
A second competition involved building a robot that could travel on uneven(不平坦的) surfaces, move objects with unusual shapes and withstand(承受) physical stress.
Another competition was for younger students, aged nine to fourteen years old. Eighty-four teams from twenty-seven countries competed with robots made with LEGO products. They had to design, build and program robots to explore the Earth’s climates.
【小题1】The competitors coming from _______countries entered a level of competition called LUNACY.

A.twenty-eightB.twenty-seven
C.eighty-fourD.eleven
【小题2】_______sent the supplies for robots to each team.
A.SchoolsB.Volunteers
C.The governmentD.The organization
【小题3】Each team can have _______robots to compete in the LUNACY game.
A.twoB.threeC.sixD.eight
【小题4】The underlined word “involved” in this passage can be replaced by “_______”.
A.includedB.removedC.correctedD.invented
【小题5】Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?
A.In January, each team got the same supplies for robots.
B.A team from California won the LUNACY competition.
C.The writer introduces three kinds of competitions in this passage.
D.The students had to design or buy robots for the competition.


One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There's a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn't worth(值得) the trouble.” His father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.
The father and the son walked on. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn't a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost some time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent (弯身)down earlier to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.
【小题1】Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

A.Thomas.B.The old father.
C.Both the father and the son.D.Nobody
【小题2】When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe, the father _______.
A.felt very happyB.didn't say anything
C.beat the sonD.became a little angry
【小题3】The farmer bought _______ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.
A.some foodB.some water
C.some cherriesD.some pennies
【小题4】The father dropped the cherries one by one, because _______.
A.he wanted his son to eat them all
B.he wanted his son to do more exercise
C.he wanted to teach his son a lesson
D.he wanted his son to pick them up
【小题5】 From the story, we can learn that _______.
A.cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them
B.a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money
C.if the boy wants to eat cherries, he must pick up the horseshoe
D.if we want to do some great things, we should start with some small ones

Kindergartens( 幼儿园 ) may teach you very important things you need to know. Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father’s life with the skills he learned.

The boy’s father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping. He couldn’t speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father’s phone to call his mother for help. The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were. Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: “F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.” But that wasn’t enough for his mother to find them. Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey’s Route22.The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.

“He just thought his dad needed help,” Dancy’s mother told the reporter. She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too. “ It is surprising for him to get off  the highway ( 高速路 ) and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,” she said.

Shine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil. “ Dancy’s spelling skills helped him seize the moment,” he said. “And that’s the real value (价值  ) of education.”

1.When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were ________.

A.on the highway                         B.at home

C.in a shopping center                     D.in a hospital

2.Dancy called ________for help when his father couldn’t speak.

A.his mother        B.911              C.Shine             D.the reporter

3.The Chinese meaning of the word “seize” in this passage is probably“________”.

A.成功             B.抓住             C.救援             D.失去

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Dancy drove his father home.

B.The reporter was really a hero.

C.Shine sent Dancy’s father to hospital

D.Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills.