CHARLIE CHAPLIN
1889-Bom in London.
Mother-Dancer.Father-Actor(演员), not much money.
1894-Started dancing and singing for money.
1904-Joined a travelling theatre company and went to America.
1910-Someone offered him a part(角色)in a film.
I Went to Hollywood(好莱坞).
1914-Became a film director(导演).
1914-1966-Made many funny films.
1977-Died in Switzerland -People very sad.
 

1. Charlie Chaplin was born in _____.  

A. England
B. America
C. France
D. Japan 

2. Charlie Chaplin's parents _____.  

A. made a lot of money by giving performance
B. were not very rich
C. had a travelling theatre company
D. were bom in London  

3. Chaplin began to make money when he was _____ years old.   

A. 15
B. 21
C. 5
D. 18 

4. Chaplin became a film actor in _____.  

A. 1894
B. 1904
C. 1910
D. 1914   

5. Which of the four is NOT true?  

A. Charlie was only 15 when he came to the USA.
B. Charlie worked as actor and a film director for more than 50 years.
C. Charlie worked in Hollywood.
D. When Charlie died, nobody was sad.

     Roberto Clemente was a great basketball player, in fact, he was a star.  He could jump to
catch a ball. He could run fast. And he could hit a ball hard.          
     Roberto Clemente loved children. He wanted to build a park for the children of Puerto Rico.
In 1972, Roberto was killed in an airplane, but people did not forget him. They sent money for
the park. In1975, the park was opened. Roberto Clememte's dream had come true.

1. Roberto Clemente was killed in _____.  

A. a car
B. a baseball game
C. an airplane  

2. This story tells about _____.  

A. a kind baseball star
B. Roberto Clemente's team
C. poor children  

3. In the first part of the story, wfiat does the word "great" mean?  

A. huge
B. old
C. very, verygood  

4. Roberto Clemente wanted to build a park because he.  

A. wanted to play baseball
B. loved children
C. was killed   

5. You can guess from the story that people _____ Roberto Clemente's dream.  

A. fought
B. believed in
C. didn't like

     Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s,he had become one of the best-loved and
 most successful children's book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. 
They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.   
      In 1954, Life magazine published (刊登) a report about school children who could not read. The 
report said many children's books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children
 and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending 
sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his 
books.    
     In 1957, Dr.Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old should be able to read it.lt was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their 
parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat 
made him want to write more books for children .In 1960,hc wrote a book using less than fifty words. 
The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.    In 1984,Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖). 
He was honored for the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents.    He died at the age of 87,but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold world-wide. 
People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet ,his books are
 loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said," I do not write for children. I write for people. "

1. Doctor Seuss learned from the magazine that ______.  

A. some school children could not read
B. many children's books were interesting
C. children wanted to learn to read
D. a writer for children was wanted

2. People like his books because the books ______.  

A. are cheap and easy to get
B. were written in different languages
C. are easy and interesting to read
D. were written with invented words

3. He wrote the book The Cat in the Hat at the age of ______. 

A. 50  
B. 53  
C. 56  
D. 87

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?  

A. Doctor Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham with over 230 words.
B. Doctor Seuss wrote books only for children in  the United States.
C. The Cat in the Hat was written only for six- year-old children.
D. His books provided education and enjoyment for Americans.

5. From the text we know that Doctor Seuss ______.  

A. won a Pulitzer Prize soon after his death
B. sold millions of his books himself worldwide
C. changed American children's way of reading
D. wrote the largest number of books in the world

    Dou Kou,a Chinese boy, is called "the youngest writer in the world" .He has written 3 books now.
    Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu Province in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started
working in over 30 different cities, such as Xi'an and Shenzhen .This kind of life gave him things to think
and write about.
    When Dou Kou was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one he could say five to six
hundred words. At 3, he could look up words in the dictionary. At 4, his father taught him to learn
something. His parents like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales
(童话).
    His fairy tales are all from his life. One day ,he found many mice in the house. They not only ate their
food but also hurt his mother's hand. So he thought, "lf we give mice the stomachs (胃)of cows, they'll eat grass and it'll be helpful to people. " This was his first fairy tale Change, Stomach for Mice.
     At 6, he wrote a novel about his own life in different cities with his parents.
     Now, he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel- called Eyes of
Childhood .He says ,"l am not different from other  children .I just wrote several books. "

1. How many books has Dou Kou already finished writing?

A. 3.    
B. 6.    
C. 9.

2. Because of _____ Dou Kou could write his books.  

A. his mother
B. his school life
C. his life experience

3. Dou Kou began to use a dictionary _____  

A. when he wrote fairy tales
B. before his father taught him to study
C. after he went to school

4. The underlined (画线的) sentences at the end of the passage show us that _____ .   

A. Dou Kou is not proud
B. Dou Kou doesn't tell the truth
C. Dou Kou is very ordinary

5.Which is the best title (标题) of this passage? 

A. Three Books by a Child
B. How to Write Fairy Tales
C. Dou Kou ,the Youngest Writer

     Julia Hill, an American woman, was born in 1974. She was 23 years old when she discovered that a
company wanted to cut down part of a forest in California. In the forest there were lots of redwood trees.
One of the trees was 70 metres tall and 1,000 years old.
     Julia wasn's happy about this. She traveled to California and climbed up the tree.  If I sit in the tree,"
she said, "the company can't cut it down." At the beginning, Julia planned to stay in the tree for two weeks.
She lived in a small treehouse and her friends were very helpful-they cooked food for her every day. She
used her mobile phone to talk to her family and to news reporters. She stayed in the tree day and night.
     Environmental organizations supported her, but other people weren't on her side and they tried to stop
her. The company used a helicopter that stayed near her treehouse for a long time. The helicopter was
very noisy and there was a lot of wind. Julia didn't like it, but she stayed in the tree.
     In the end, she was successful. The company agreed not to cut down the redwood. Finally, after two
years and eight days in the tree, Julia Hill climbed down and walked on the ground again. She and her
friends were very happy.
1. How tall and how old was the tree Julia Hill stayed in?
   The tree was _____ tall and _____ old.
2. 将画线句子翻译成汉语。
__________________________________________________.
3. 判断正误。
(     ) The company agreed not to cut down the redwood.
4. How long did Julia Hill stay in the tree? 
__________________________________________________.
5. Why did Julia Hill stay in the tree?
__________________________________________________.

    About the year 1900,a small dark-haired boy named Charlie Chaplin was often seen waiting outside the back entrances of London theatres. He looked thin and hungry. He was hoping to get work in show business. He could sing and dance,and above all,he knew how to make people laugh.But he couldn't get work
and therefore wandered about the city streets. Sometimes he was sent away to home for children who had no parents.
    But twenty years later this same Chaplin became the greatest,best known,and best loved comedian in
the world. Any regular visitors to the cinema must have seen some of Charlie Chaplin's films. People
everywhere have laughed at them until tears have run down their faces. Even people who don't understand English can enjoy Chaplin's films because they are mostly silent. It isn't what he says that makes us laugh. It depends on little actions which mean the same thing to people all over the world. Acting out,without
words, the common human play an important part in the dances and plays of many countries. It's a kind of world language.
    Chaplin lived most of his life in America and died in Switzerland on Christmas Day in 1977 at the age of eightiy-eight. There was sadness all over the world at the news of his death.

1.. Why was young Chaplin waiting outside the back entrance of the theatre?

A. Because he wanted to enjoy a play in the theatre.    
B. Because he had no money to buy tickets.    
C. Because he liked to act a part in a play and thus made a living.    
D. Because he wanted to become a man of business.

2. Chaplin's comedies didn' t depend on__________.

A. actions    
B. acting out    
C. common human situations
D. words and languages

3. People all over the world can enjoy Chaplin's films because_______.

A. most of them have been translated into foreign languages
B. they can enjoy the films silently
C. they are best comedies    
D. most of them were films without sound

4. What is a kind of world language according to the passage?

A. Comedy.    
B. Acting out without words.    
C. Silence.
D.Films.

5. Chaplin is regarded as kind of comedy mainly because______.

A. he acted out the common human situations best in his comedy    
B. his films are mostly silent    
C. he knew how to make people laugh.
D. any regular visitor has seen some of his films