题目内容
There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben, because he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class played jokes on him because he seemed so 1 . The mother 2 that she would help her sons to do 3 in school by herself. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to 4 a book a week and do a book report for her.
One day, in Ben’s class, the teacher held up a rock and asked 5 anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him 6 . “Why did Ben raise his hand?” all of his 7 whispered(耳语) and wondered. “He 8 said anything. What could he possibly want to say?” To their surprise, Ben not only 9 the rock, but also said a lot about it. He 10 other rocks in its group and even knew 11 the teacher had found it. The teacher and the other students were 12 . Ben had learned this from doing one of his book 13 .
Later Ben became the 14 student of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University and 15 became one of the best doctors in the United States.
1. A. clever B. difficult C. slow D. quick
2. A. seemed B. decided C. wondered D. told
3. A. well B. bad C. right D. good
4. A. see B. find C. read D. buy
5. A. that B. if C. how D. why
6. A. think B. leave C. ask D. answer
7. A. classmates B. students C. teachers D. friends
8. A. always B. ever C. sometimes D. never
9. A. found B. played C. knew D. heard
10. A. said B. told C. called D. named
11. A. whether B. what C. where D. why
12. A. afraid B. amazed C. worried D. unhappy
13. A. pictures B. exercises C. shops D. reports
14. A. top B. slow C. low D. rich
15. A. at first B. at the end C. at last D. now
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Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood(洪水) ,and quite a few houses were washed away, but Elizabeth’s house was high enough to escape it.
Elizabeth helped one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a new house. Elizabeth’s friends could not understand her since she already had so many children to take care.
"Well," Elizabeth explained to her friends, at the end of World War II, there was a poor woman in a town in England .Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now .The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, “We won’t be able to have much for Christmas. I’m going to get just one present for us all .Now I’ll go and get it. She came back with a little girl who had no parents .Here’s our present, she said to her own children. The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grow up as their sister. I was that Christmas present."
【小题1】 How many children did Elizabeth have?, 【小题2】 What did Elizabeth do after the flood? 【小题3】The Christmas present was Elizabeth herself, wasn’t it? 【小题4】 What do you learn from the story? |