Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs. They loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their houses.
One evening, Brownie’s family noticed that their dog hadn’t returned home. They went looking for him, but with no success. Brownie didn’t show up the next day, and by the next week he was still missing.
Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie’s house alone. He barked loudly. But busy with their own lives, Brownie’s family just ignored (忽略) their neighbor’s nervous little dog.
Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take “no” for an answer. He followed Ted, Brownie’s owner, everywhere he went. He barked, then rushed towards a nearby empty lot and back, as if to say, “ Follow me!”
Finally, Ted followed the dog across the empty lot. The dog led the man to a tree a half-mile from the house. There Ted found Brownie alive. One of his legs was crushed (夹住) in a trap. Ted wished he had taken Spotty’s earlier appeals (求助) seriously.
Then Ted noticed something amazing. In a circle around the injured dog, he saw a lot of dog food. They were the remains of lots of meals.
Spotty had been visiting Brownie every day. He had stayed with Brownie to protect him, snuggling(依偎) with him at night to keep him warm and nuzzling(用鼻子爱抚) him to keep his spirits up.
【小题1】What can we learn from the first three paragraphs?

A.Brownie and Spotty didn’t like their owners.
B.Brownie was missing for three days.
C.Brownie’s family didn’t love him.
D.Spotty probably knew where Brownie was.
【小题2】According to the story, which of the following is TRUE?
A.Spotty barked loudly at Ted because he was scared.
B.Ted followed Spotty because Spotty asked him to.
C.Spotty succeeded in escaping from the trap.
D.Brownie had nothing to eat that whole week.
【小题3】The underlined phrase “keep his spirits up” in the last paragraph probably means______.
A.feed himB.praise himC.comfort himD.protect him
【小题4】What does the story aim to tell us?
A.Dog is man’s best friend.B.Even dogs can have strong friendship.
C.Dogs are one of the cleverest animals.D.Dogs have a special way to look for help.

I am my mother’s third girl. When I was born, the doctor gently explained to my mother that my left arm was missing, below the elbow(肘). Then he gave her some advice, “Don’t treat her any differently from the other girls.” And she did!

There were five girls in our family and we all had to help out. Once when I was about seven, I came out of the kitchen, “Mum, I can’t peel(削……皮)potatoes. I only have one hand.” “You get back to peel those potatoes, and don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!”

Of course I could peel potatoes—with my good hand and my other arm. “Jenny, if you try hard enough,” she said, “you can do anything.”

Once in the second grade, our teacher had each of us race across the monkey bar(攀爬架).When it was my turn, I said no, Some kids laughed. I went home crying.

The next afternoon Mum took me back to the school playground. “Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She praised me when I made progress. I’ll never forget when I was crossing the bar, the kids were standing there with their mouths open.

It was the way with everything. Mum had the courage to face anything. And she taught me I could, too.

1.How many younger sisters do I have?

A.Two.             B.Three.            C.Four.             D.Five

2.What does the doctor’s advice mean?

A.My are could be all right soon.

B.The other girls had the same arms as me.

C.My mum should look after me differently.

D.My mum should treat me the same as others.

3.Who peeled the potatoes at last?

A.Jenny.            B.Jenny’s mum.     C.Jenny’s sister.     D.Nobody.

4.Why did Mum take me back to the school playground the next day?

A.she wanted to tell me I could do anything.

B.she wanted the teacher to let me try again.

C.she would punish the kids who laughed at me.

D.she would like to praise me before the other kids.

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A.My bad-tempered mother                B.Different mother love

C.A doctor’s advice                      D.My childhood(童年)

 

I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯管) near the river. I couldn’t hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.

One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap (皮带) and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.

Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no sound. I blew and blew but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn’t playing music yet.

Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I’m in the TV studio with my saxophone strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I’m always thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I’m a happy man.

1.On the bus, the writer couldn’t ________.

A.find an old man with a saxophone           B.see a river

C.hear the old man’s music                D.imagine the sound

2.The statue along the river made the writer think of ________.

A.having a saxophone

B.the old man near the river

C.having a cap and a saxophone as the boy

D.playing the saxophone on TV

3.The writer could get the saxophone to play ________.

A.as soon as he got it

B.after he read the instruction

C.after he tried many times

D.after his father taught him

4.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A.The magic day.                         B.My birthday present.

C.The old man and the statue.               D.My dream of playing saxophone.

 

Prana, our beautiful dog whose name means ‘breath of life’, isn’t with us any more. But she brought such joy and love that we still miss her.

There are so many wonderful stories about the love in this dog, but my favorite is this one.

It was an autumn day in Minnesota, but the weather didn’t know the difference between autumn and winter. Unexpectedly, we were hit with a big snow fall for which no one was prepared.

We have two apple trees in our backyard. Prana loved apples. When she went outside, she’d take hold of an apple, put it far back in her mouth, and sneak into the house to save for eating later. The apples had been on the ground and were often dirty so I wasn’t always happy that Prana had brought them into the house. Feeling my displeasure, she would turn her head so I wouldn’t see her hidden treasure.

On the day that it snowed too early in the season, Prana went outside and I watched her from the window. I noticed that she was madly digging holes and brought the apples to the surface so they could be seen above the snow. I wondered why she was doing this. She seemed to be completely busy with some kind of important task to dig up as many apples as possible during her yard time.

When I called her back into the house, she had her usual one apple in her mouth. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The yard was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for her bird friends to eat. She knew that they wouldn’t have stored enough food to live through such an early winter.

1.The story about the dog happened _______.

A.in autumn         B.in winter          C.in spring          D.in summer

2.What does the underlined phrase sneak into mean in the fourth paragraph?

A.enter quickly       B.enter secretly      C.enter happily       D.enter slowly

3.Prana was busy digging up the apples in the snow because________.

A.she liked digging holes and eating apples

B.she was always saving the apples for eating later

C.she wanted to leave the apples to her bird friends

D.she loves playing with snow

4.From the story we can learn that______.

A.Prana is helpful to the writer

B.Prana is devoted to the writer

C.Prana is not only beautiful but also joyful

D.Prana is especially loving and thoughtful

 

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