A poor traveler arrived at a small village. He had no food or money. He only had a cooking pot. Hemade a small cooking fire, placed his pot on it, and poured in some water. When a few villagers asked 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight, "You need fortune(运气)，" his father said. "But     you work hard, no fortune will come."
What made him      was that his piano teacher in Beijing didn't like him. "You have no talent(天赋).You will never be a pianist." As an eight-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly      . He decided that he didn't want to be a pianist any more. For the next two weeks, he didn't touch the piano. Wisely(明智的)his father didn't     ,but wait.
Luckily the day came when his teacher asked him to play some holiday songs. He didn't want to, but as he placed his fingers on the piano keys, he       he could show other people that he had ability to do it well. That day he told his father that he wanted to     with a new teacher. From that point on, everything turned around.
He started        competitions. In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition when it was announced that Lang Lang had won, he was too       to hold back his tears. Soon it was clear that he couldn't stay in China forever-he had to play on the world's big stages. In 1997 Lang Lang      again, this time to Philadelphia, US. There he spent two years practicing and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over．After his     performance at Chicago's Raviniu Festival, gigs（演奏会）in Lincoln Center and Camegie Hall started pouring in. Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots(找到)him, and lets him shine.

One Friday Mrs. King asked her class to write a story. “Use your imagination!” she cried, “You can write your story about anything.” Kenny looked worried. “A story?” he thought, “What could I possible have to write about? I don’t know any stories.” The bell rang and all the kids went home.
The next day, Kenny sat at his desk at home, thinking and thinking. The warm sun was shining through the windows, making him drowsy. And soon he fell fast asleep. As he slept, Kenny began to dream about fantastic things.
First he dreamed that he was a world-famous doctor, saving whole cities and curing diseases. Then he dreamed that he was in a UFO. He was talking to strange but friendly space creatures. Then he dreamed that he had become as small as a mouse by a bad scientist. He had to find a way to stop the plot（阴谋）of the mad scientist!
Kenny dreamed wonderful and exciting things until his little brother woke him up. “What were you dreaming about?” he asked. Kenny told his brother the wonderful dreams. His brother enjoyed the stories. Suddenly, Kenny knew that he had his kinds of stories in his imagination.
小题1:What did the teacher ask the students to do as homework?

A．To act as a doctor	B．To read some stories
C．To help family members	D．To write a story

小题2:How many dreams did Kenny have?

小题3:What was Kenny in his first dream?

A．A great doctor	B．A mad scientist
C．A visitor on a spaceship	D．A good student

小题4:The underlined word “drowsy” means_______.

小题5:The best title for this passage is _______.

A．A strange dream	B．Mrs. King's class
C．Writing a story with imagination	D．An evil scientist

There once was a master who went to India. In those times, we didn't have airplanes or many kinds of transportation that we do now. So the master went to India     . And when he got there, he saw a lot of fruit. In India they have plenty of fruit to sell, but much of it is    because they can't grow much       the water situation. So he saw one basket, a big basket of some very red, long fruit. And it was the cheapest in the shop, not expensive at all.
So he     and asked, "How much per kilo?" And the shopkeeper said, "Two rupees."(印度货币) Two rupees in India is     ; it's like dirt (尘土). So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and started eating it. But after he ate some of it: Oh, my God! His     __ watered, his mouth watered and burned, his eyes were burning, his head was burning and his face became     . As he coughed terribly , he       up and down, saying, "Ah! Ah! Ah!"
But he still continued to eat the fruit! Some people who were looking at him shook their heads and said, "You're crazy, man. Those are chilies（辣椒）! You can't eat so many; they're not good for you! People use them      a condiment（作料）, but only a little bit to put into food for taste. You can't just eat them by the handful like that; they're not      !" So the silly master said, "No, I can't stop! I paid money for them,      now I'll eat them. It's my     !"
And you think that master was silly, right? Similarly, we sometimes do a lot of things like that. we still continue just because we've    money, time, effort and love into it. Just like the man who ate the chilies and felt so bad but couldn't stop because he didn't want to waste the money he'd paid.
So     you've lost something, let it go and move on. That's better than continuing to      .

There was once a millionaire(百万富翁).He loved money more      anything else in the world. He didn’t know exactly how       he had. So he asked a little girl to count(数)       his money for him. It        the little girl six days to count his money. When she told the millionaire       he had forty-two million dollars, he was very glad       asked, “How much pay do you want ?”He    that she was only a child, he could cheat(骗) her.
The little girl said, “Well, I worked      six days, so I think you _   pay me for six days. Give me two pennies for the first day. Each day after that,       give me the amount(数量) you gave the day before multiplied (乘)by itself.”
The millionaire thought that in this way he would only had to give her very few dollars. What a _    _ little girl! So he immediately(立刻) asked his lawyer to make a contract (条约). He was afraid that she would change _ ___.
On the first day, the millionaire paid her two pennies, and on the second day, __   pennies. He did what he had planned. And on the sixth day the foolish(愚蠢) millionaire      to give the clever little girl all his money.
At last, it was more than he had .Do you know why? If you have       in it, you may try to work out this math problem..

Now children can do many nice things after school. They can read books, ride bikes, watch TV and play games. But boys like playing ball games best.
The children near my door often play football in the garden, and sometimes they break(打破) my windows. One Saturday afternoon I stay at home and read a book. After a few minutes, I close my eyes and go to sleep. Suddenly(突然) a sound(声音) at the door wakes me up. Soon a little boy comes in.
“ Not one of my windows again?”
“ Oh, no!” answers the boy. “ Your window is open this time and our ball is in your bedroom. May I get it, please?”
小题1: The boys like ______ best after school.

小题2: The boys ____________.

A．often play with me	B．often play football in my house
C．often come to my house	D．sometimes break my windows

小题3: One Saturday afternoon I _________.

A．read at home	B．see the boys playing football
C．read a book in the garden	D．play games with my son

小题4:The little boy comes to my house to _________.

A．get his ball	B．play with me
C．mend(修理) my window	D．break my window

小题5: Which of the following is WRONG?

A．The ball comes into my house through my window.

B．The boys often play football in the garden.

C．My house is near the garden.

D．The boys near my door break my windows every day.

Most people like watching TV. So does Mary. She doesn't mind soap operas or talk shows. But she can't stand sitcoms，for(因为)they are too boring. Sports shows are her favorite program. She likes sports very much，and she likes watching football matches on TV.
Mary likes women's volleyball，too. She often watches matches on TV，sometimes on the Internet. Her favorite team is the Chinese team. She thinks all the members are fantastic.
Mary enjoys volleyball，but she isn't good at it. She is good at table tennis. She often plays it with her best friend after school. They are both on the school table tennis team. Sometimes they play with teams from other schools. They have a lot of fun with it.
小题1:Mary thinks sitcoms are ______.

A．interesting	B．boring
C．exciting	D．surprising

小题2:______ are Mary's favorite program.

A．Talk shows	B．Soap operas
C．Beijing opera	D．Sports shows

小题3:How many kinds of shows are mentioned(提及)in the passage?

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Mary often plays table tennis after school.

B．Mary is good at playing volleyball.

C．Mary only watches volleyball matches on TV.

D．Mary's favorite team is the Japanese team.

Passage 3
Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.
Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格)。They felt unhappy and returned to their village.
"I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day.
"The tractor was too small " Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on a truck next time!"
"I agree!" said Uncle Li. "How foolish (傻的) we were !"
小题1: Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because __________.

A．they hope to save money

B．they're both poor

C．their farms are at the foot of the mountain

D．they're not far from their farms

小题2:The two farmers carried the apples to the city to _________.

A．make a journey	B．visit some places of interest
C．meet their friends	D．make a profit

小题3:The two farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because ________.

A．theirs weren't as good as the others'

B．theirs were much less than the others'

C．a lot of apples had been already carried to the city

D．they forgot to carry them on a truck

小题4:Uncle Li and Uncle Wang were unhappy because _________.

A．they had sustained losses in business

B．they had lost some money in the city

C．something was wrong with the tractor

D．other people profited in the city

小题5:Which of the following is true?

A．The two farmers found out why they were poor.

B．The two farmers will soon get rich.

C．Neither of the farmers is clever.

D．The two farmers decided to buy a truck.

A．Some money.	B．Some food.
C．A cooking pot.	D．Some salt.

A．Some relish.	B．Some vegetables.
C．A stone.	D．Some salt.

A．To let the villagers taste the soup.	B．To have his meal.
C．To let people know his recipe.	D．To get some saltfor his soup.

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