阅读理解。
     An 11-year-old schoolboy is ageing (变老) five times faster than his friends because of a strange
illness, which is often seen in old men. Now he is fighting against it.
     Harry Crowther's bones (骨头) have started to break into small pieces, and he has poor body
condition
(状况). However, he does not let it stop him from being an energetic teenager.
     His parents know there's no cure (治愈方法) and that his fast ageing cannot be halted. His mother
Sharon Crowther told Sky News, "It's been hard, but we just take each day as it comes and let Harry
live his life to the full."        
     The boy told Sky News, "Sometimes my friends look at me for a long time. It's just annoying and
makes me feel very sad."
     Harry, who lives with his mother and IT director father John, 41, sister Emma, 16, and 14-year-old
brother Jack, is trying not to let the illness hold him back.
     "I want to be a marine biologist (海洋生物学家) when I grow up," he said. "I will never give up
and will just keep trying."
1. The underlined word "halted" in the passage means "_______".
A. stopped
B. broken      
C. developed
D. started
2. When does Harry Crowther feel annoyed according to the passage?
A. When he becomes older year by year.    
B. When his parents try to cure his illness.
C. When he can't achieve his dream.    
D. When his friends look at him for a long time.
3. How many people are there in Harry Crowther's family?
A. Three.      
B. Four.          
C. Five.        
D. Six.
4. Which of the following is NOT true about Harry Crowther?
A. He doesn't give up in his life.
B. He has no friends at all.
C. His father works as an IT director.  
D. He is the youngest of the three kids.
5. What do you think of Harry Crowther?
A. Clever and healthy.  
B. Brave but rude.
C. Active and brave.              
D. Strange but energetic.
完形填空。
  Once, in a small village, lived a family with eight children. Two of the
children loved    1   very much, but the family was so poor that it was impossible
to send    2   of them to study at the art college at the same time. After many
discussions, the two boys finally    3   a plan. They would toss(抛) a coin. The
loser would go  4    into the mines (煤矿) and, with his earnings(赚得的钱),
   5   his brother studying at the college. Then, when the brother who won the toss finished his studies, after four years, he would support the other brother studying
at the    6      
      all his heart and his paintings were much    7    than those of most of his
teachers, and by the time he    8   , he was beginning to make a lot of money for
his paintings.
     9    James returned, the family held a big dinner for his great success.
Soon after the meal began, James 10    up from his seat to drink a toast
(举杯祝酒) to his dear   11     He said, "Jack, now you can go to the art college
and your   12   will come true. I will take care of you. "
  But Jack said   13    , "Brother, the four years in the mines has done too
much to my hands, so it' s too    14   Now I can' t even hold a glass. "
  To show his great love and respect, James drew his brother' s hands with
  15    towards the sky.
  He called his drawing "The Praying Hands", which became very famous
years later.
(     )1. A. painting  
(     )2. A. any      
(     )3. A. looked out
(     )4. A. off      
(     )5. A. support  
(     )6. A. home      
(     )7. A. better    
(     )8. A. arrived  
(     )9. A. Before    
(     )10. A. picked  
(     )11. A. brother  
(     )12. A. way      
(     )13. A. happily  
(     )14. A. early    
(     )15. A. legs    
B. books      
B. all        
B. worked out
B. away      
B. agree      
B. mine      
B. worse      
B. graduated  
B. When      
B. turned    
B. sister    
B. idea      
B. surprisedly
B. late      
B. feet      
C. school  
C. both    
C. took out
C. up      
C. follow  
C. college
C. cheaper
C. walked  
C. Though  
C. looked  
C. father  
C. dream  
C. angrily
C. good    
C. arms    
D. money  
D. neither
D. got out
D. down    
D. let    
D. school  
D, older  
D. waited  
D. While  
D. stood  
D. mother  
D. practice
D. softly  
D. helpful
D. fingers
阅读理解。
  Last summer, 15-year-old Bob had a problem. Like a lot of children. Bob
was interested in doing many things. He liked dancing most and wanted to join a
dancing group. But Bob's high school didn’t have a boys' dancing group but a
girls' group. He tried to join the girls' group. And he made it.
  Bob thought his problem was over after he had been one of the dancers in
the dancing group. But a bigger problem was just beginning. The school didn't
allow Bob to stay in the girls’' group. "If we let Bob stay in the group," the
school said, "other boys will want to join. Soon, there won't be any girls in the
group." They took Bob off the group.
  Bob was very angry about it, so he went to a judge(法官). The judge said it
was not a right decision and told the school to let Bob go back to the dancing
group.
1. Bob’s favorite was _____.
A. singing    
B. dancing    
C. drawing      
D. driving
2. It was difficult for Bob to join the school dancing group because _____.
A. the school only had a girls' dancing group  
B. the school didn’t allow boys to dance
C. the group had enough dancers already      
D. he was not a good dancer
3. The school worried that _____ if Bob stayed in the group.
A. nobody would watch their dance  
B. other boys would join and the girls might leave
C. other schools might laugh at them  
D. the parents would be angry about it
4. The judge thought the school's decision was _____.
A. useful    
B. necessary    
C. right    
D. wrong
5. We can infer(推断)that Bob felt _____ when he went back to the group.
A. hungry    
B. sad    
C. happy      
D. sure
阅读理解。
     Mr Brown's house was less than two miles from his office, so he could drive home every day for  
lunch. Every time he drove home at noon, he found many cars outside his house and there was no room
for his own car. He had to drive somewhere else to park his car. Then he walked back home. This made
him very angry.
     He put up a board in the garden facing the road. The board said, "No Parking". But nobody noticed
it. People seemed to obey only a police notice with white letters on a blue board:
POLICE NOTICE  
NO PARKING
     Mrs Brown asked his husband to steal a police notice but he was afraid to do so. Then she asked him
to make one just like a police notice. Mr Brown said he was not the police and couldn't use the word
"police". Several days later, Mr Brown made a blue board with white letters.
POLICE NOTICE  
NO PARKING
"Oh!" Mrs Brown said."You told me you weren't going to use the word 'police', but why do you use it
now?" "Really?" he asked.
     "Look again," she started to laugh. "You are really clever".
1. Mr Brown's office was _____ his house.
A. next to    
B. not far from  
C. 2 hours' drive from  
D. 5 miles from
2. Mr Brown was angry because _____.
A. he found no room to park his car outside his house
B. he had nothing to eat for lunch at home
C. he lost the way when he drove back home one day
D. he couldn't make a police notice outside his house
3. Mr Brown made _____ notice board (s) altogether (总共).
A. one    
B. two    
C. three    
D. no
4.In the end, Mr Brown made a notice board and it _____.
A. was just the same as a police notice
B. was different in color from a police notice
C. just looked like a police notice
D. said "POLICE NOTICE, NO PARKING"
5. We can infer(推断) that _____ after he put up the blue board.
A. more people will park their cars outside his house
B. more policemen will park their cars outside his house
C. fewer people will park their cars outside his house
D. fewer people will visit him at noon later on
阅读理解。
     One afternoon Mrs. Green's husband wanted to catch the 3:30 flight to London to have an important
meeting. She was very surprised when he telephoned her at 5 o'clock and said that he was still at the
airport.
     "What happened to you?" asked Mrs. Green.
     "Well," said Mr. Green, "Everything was going fine. I got my ticket, checked my luggage and waited in
line at the gate. I walked across the runway to the airplane and I saw my friend Jack Scott, who was an
airplane engineer. I shouted to him and a policeman caught me."
     "Why did he catch you?"
     "I don't know," said Mr. Green, "As soon as he heard my shout, he ran towards me and caught me."
     "What did you shout to your friend?"
     "All I said was 'Hi, Jack' . You know that's the usual way we say hello to our friends."
     "But you don't know the sentence 'Hi, Jack ' also means to take control of a plane by force (武力)."
1. . How did Mr. Green want to go to London?_____.
A. By train
B. By bus
C. By airplane
2. Why was Mrs. Green surprised? _____.
A. Because her husband didn't arrived the airport in time
B. Because her husband was still at the airport at 5 o'clock
C. Because her husband didn't want to go to London
3. When did Mr. Green get to the airport that afternoon? _____.
A. Before 3:30
B. After 3:30
C. At about 5:00
4. What was Jack Scott in the passage? _____.
A. He was a pilot
B. He was a policeman at the airport    
C. He was an engineer
5. According to the passage we know _____.
A. Jack Scott asked Mr. Green not to fly to London
B. Mr. Green would take control of a plane by force
C. The policemen mistook what Mr. Green said
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