An old man was fishing in the bank of a river. A girl came to see him fishing. The old man was really good at fishing and it didn't take long for him to catch a full basket of fish. The old man saw that the girl was very cute, and he wanted to give her a whole basket of fish. But the girl shook her head. The old man was surprised and asked "Why don't you want the fish?"

The girl replied, "I want the fishing rod(竿)in your hands.”

The old man asked, "Why do you want the rod?"

"It doesn't take long to eat all the fish in a basket. But if I have the fishing rod, I can go fishing by myself and I won't be afraid of not having any more fish to eat."

I think you will certainly say that the girl is very smart. Wrong! If she doesn't know how to fish, she can not have fish to eat, even though she has the fishing rod. It's useless to only have a fishing rod. Fishing skills are the most important, not the fishing rod.

Too many people think that if they have a "fishing rod" in their life, they will no longer fear the wind and rain. They are just like the girl, who thought that if she had a fishing rod, she would have fish to eat.

1.The old man was fishing on the bank of a .

A. river B. lake C. pool D. sea

2.Why did the girl refuse the fish the old man gave her?

A. Because she didn't like fish. B. Because she wanted the old man's fishing rod.

C. Because the old man had few fish. D. Because she didn't like the old man.

3.The writer thought the girl was after she explained why she didn't want the fish.

A. smart B. hard-working C. silly D. lazy

4.What is the best title for the article?

A. The Fish. B. The Fishing Man. C. The Fishing Girl. D. Learn to Fish.

Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, they can help people to save much time to do more work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can't do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers before the twenty-first century, except the old people.

Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. However, many of their children use computers to play games, to watch videos or to sing. The teachers and parents complain that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.

In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble. Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness?

It will be decided by today's students themselves!

1.Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because ______.

A. our country asks us to learn it

B. it can help us a lot

C. we can use it to play games

D. it can help us to find jobs

2.What do many teachers and parents complain about? They complain that ______ .

A. their students and children use computers to study.

B. computers let them lose their jobs

C. computers make their students and children fall behind

D. computers bring people a lot of trouble

3.How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? I think it means ______.

A. computers are used by people

B. people can live well without computers

C. one must decide how to use computer

D. computers are strange machines

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