Joyce was born in a poor family. Next Friday would be her mother’s birthday. Joyce wanted to buy something for her mother, but she had no money. As an 8-year-old girl, she couldn’t do part-time jobs. What could she do to make enough money for her mother’s birthday present?
Suddenly she had an idea. Usually, she would go straight to school, but this morning, she didn’t. She walked along the streets, picking up cardboard(纸板), plastic(塑料)bottles and cans(易拉罐). When it was time for school, she hid them in the backyard and ran to school as quickly as possible.
Eight days later, she decided to sell all the things she had collected because the next day was her mother’s birthday. She had to sell them and buy a birthday present for her mother. In the shop, she bought a beautiful hair pin for her mother.
When her mother got the present, she said with tears in her eyes,“This is the best present I’ve ever received.”
【小题1】How old was Joyce?
A. Seven.           B. Eight.        C. Nine.         
【小题2】Why couldn’t Joyce buy a present for her mother at first?
A. Because she had no money.
B. Because she didn’t know what her mother liked.
C. Because she didn’t love her mother at all.
【小题3】What was Joyce’s idea?
A. Doing part-time jobs.   
B. Collecting waste things and selling them.
C. Asking her best friend for help.
【小题4】How long did Joyce collect the waste things?
A. A week.      B. A month.    C. More than a week.
【小题5】 How did Joyce’s mother feel when she got the present?
A. Very sad.      B. Very happy and moved.     C. Very surprised.

Lots of people make it as their aim to get to the top of Mount Everest. Mark is one of them. The difference between Mark and other climbers is that he lost both his legs when climbing. New Zealand’s highest mountain, Mount Cook. He was caught in a big ice hole and he had to have his legs cut below the knees after he was saved. But that couldn’t make Mark lose heart, who has become the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Everest.
From the top of the world’s highest mountain, Mark called his wife to say he made it. His wife, Anne got the phone when she was sleeping. She couldn’t hear him clearly on the phone. She was unable to say when he reached the top but thought it was around mid-day. She also said his “legs” didn’t work well sometimes, so her husband was carrying a spare leg and repair tools.
Mark used to be a mountain guide before his accident. He said it was not important that no one like him had ever reached the 8850-meter mountain.
“I’m not doing this to be the first. I have been climbing most of my life and I just feel Mount Everest is really a great aim. I want to send a message that I can do-anything better.”
【小题1】What was the difference between Mark and other climbers?

A.He went mountain-climbing with his wife.
B.He climbed mountains with man-made legs.
C.He was the first to climb Mount Everest.
D.He was the best guide of the world.
【小题2】Mark’s wife thought is was ________ on Mount Everest when Mark reached its top.
A.noonB.morningC.mid-nightD.evening
【小题3】Which of the following is the correct order in Mark’s story?
a. Losing both of his legs.
b. Working as a mountain guide.
c. Falling into an ice hole on Mount Cook.
d. Reaching the top of Mount Everest.
A.c a b dB.c a d bC.b c a dD.b a c d
【小题4】 Mark’s story makes us believe that he is a _________ man.
A.politeB.braveC.kindD.clever
【小题5】 Mark told us that he cared much about __________.
A.being the firstB.climbing higherC.keeping healthyD.being a guide

Mary was an operator(接话员) 911 in Los Angeles. One Thursday morning, she was surprised to get a call from a little girl. She said, “Mom my ill, Mom my ill,’ again and again, Mary soon found the address of the call. She called the police. In a minute, the policemen and doctors arrived at the house. They broke the door open. They couldn’t believe their eyes. The little child was so young that she could not walk! She was sitting beside her mother and holding her mother’s hand. Tears were running down her face.

The doctors gave the women some medicine and soon she woke up. Later, she told people, “Everyone was surprised that my daughter could call 911. On Monday I tried to teach her how to call 911, but she couldn’t do it. ” Mary was surprised, too. “It’s the first time I have seen a two-year-old child call 911.”

1.What did the girl really want to say?

A. “Mom, I’m ill.”

b. “My mom is ill.”

C. “Mom and I are ill.”

2.How did the policemen feel when they got into the room?

A. Strange.            B. Normal.        C. Surprised.

3.How did the policemen get into the room?'

A. By breaking the door.

b. With the girl’s help.

C. Through the window

4.What does the underlined(下划线的) word “it” mean?

A. 911.            B. Calling 911.        C. Walking.

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The little girl was so clever that she could call 911 when she was 2.          

B. The love for her mother created the miracle(奇迹).        

C. The mother knew she had to teach the little girl how to call 911.

 

         It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted the shopkeeper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.

         As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.

         He asked her what was wrong and she replied, “I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”

         The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.”

     He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地),where she placed the rose on the grave.

         The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.

         Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.

1.The man went to the shop to         .

            A. have a rest                                                   B. help the girl

       C. buy some food                                             D. order some flowers

2.The man’s mother lived         away from him.

            A. 2 kilometers           B. 75 miles       C. 200 miles              D. 200 kilometers

3.The girl was crying on the road because          .

       A. she was hungry                                           B. she got hurt

            C. she couldn't afford a rose                        D. she couldn’t find her way home

4.After the man bought the girl a rose, they went to          together.

            A. the cemetery                                                        B. his shop

       C. the girl’s home                                            D. his mother’s house

5. We can learn from the passage that           .

        A. the girl loved flowers very much         

B. the girl loved her mother very much

        C. the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother

        D. the man drove to his mother’s house to look after her

 

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