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Four Year-Old Buy Becomes Queen Elizabeth’s Pen Pal
London, England: A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the queen after he set free a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school party and it landed in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf.
She wrote: “The queen was delighted to find that your balloon had traveled all the way to the gardens at Windsor Castle.”
Tom, who proudly put the letter on his wall ,wrote back to say that his great, great grandfather ,the artist Petrus Johannes Arundzen, had been commissioned（受委托）to copy Dutch masters on display at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.
Angela at once replied that she would contact the Royal Collection to find out what had happened to the art works .She kept her word and two weeks later wrote to Tom to tell him what had happened to the etchings, explaining they now form part of the print collection in the Print Library.
Angela then asked a favor of Tom, writing: “Would you be able to ask your Mummy and Daddy for me if they know anything more about your great, great grandfather .Royal Collection would love to know more about him.”
Along with his parents, Tom wrote back to fill in all the gaps about Petrus Johannes Arundzen.
Although Tom’s parents don’t think there will be any more letters exchanged between the pair, they were touched that she had taken time to contact them.
Tom’s father said: “I don’t expect we’ll go another one, but I think it’s incredible they bothered replying at all.”
1．What is Windsor Castle?
A．A playing garden B．The queen’s home.
C．A post office. D．A rose garden.
2．What does the underlined word “etchings” mean?
A．Photos. B．Paintings. C．Postcards. D．Cartoons.
3．How does the queen know the boy?
A．By chance occurrence. B．By exchanging letters.
C．By letting go the balloon. D．By the queen’s secretary.
4．Tom’s parents .
A．feel very much shocked about the letters and refuse to answer them
B．try to deal with the friendship naturally but refuse to do anything about it
C．don’t take the matter very seriously but somehow feel good at heart
D．don’t think this friendship will last long but still look forward to new letters
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
More good things come from small things
About a year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me. I never heard any 36 from the children, but the parents were always shouting at the kids.
We 37 often in the hallways when we were coming or going. I 38 spoke, but the only 39 I ever got was a hello from the four – year – old girl.
I usually go out for breakfast and one day when I 40 they were just coming from their apartment and the little girl was holding the door 41 for the others. I 42 in the car doing unnecessary things because I didn’t like to be snubbed（冷落）. The parents were 43 her to hurry and get in the car, I looked up and saw the little girl was 44 holding the door open, 45 for me.
I hurried as much as I could and 46 her. She was smiling from ear to ear. That afternoon I saw a white toy bear, I 47 the little
girl and said to myself, “I 48 she would like that” so I bou
ght it. I wrote a note 49 how much her act of kindness had touched a soft spot in an old man’s 50 .
The next day there 
was a 51 on the door and 52 was the little girl and her father. She was so proud of her bear and thanked me. Then I 53 her mother and the other children were there in the hall too. The mother and father both thanked me.
Now when we meet in the hall we all speak, and in a 54 manner, I might add. 55 time passes, I don’t hear that shouting as often. In fact, hardly at all.
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| 【小题20】When | B．Since | C．As | D．While |
The new mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan, is a man of the people, ready to listen to their problems, but only until 6 p.m. Then he has to do his homework. Michael Sessions, 18, beat former mayor Douglas Ingles, 51, by just two votes and became the new mayor of Hillsdale. He is America's youngest mayor.
As Sessions was too young to enter the election in the spring of 2005, he registered- to vote on Sept. 22, one day after his 18-year-old birthday. The day after that he started his write-in campaign, which means he should persuade voters to remember his name and write it by hand on the voting ballots（选票）.
To help get his name known, Sessions earned＄700 by selling apples over the summer. He spent the money on posters and put them on the Hillsdale's lawns.
Sessions' month-long campaign included going door to door, explaining his ideas of the town's future in the kitchens of his neighbors. "They'd look at me, and say‘How old are you again? How much experience do you have?'And I say‘I'm still in high school', "he said. Sessions promised Hillsdale's voters he would renew local economy. “I was hopeful the whole time, ”he explained. One day he spent so long out on the streets knocking on the doors that he ended up in a hospital emergency room.
Sessions said that his schoolwork will not get in the way of his job as a mayor. “From 7:50 a.m. to 2:30p.m., I'11 be a student. From 3 to 6, I'11 be the mayor of Hillsdale," he said.
“He did a very brave thing that couldn't have been easy for him to do, "said Jack Vettel, a councilman in Hillsdale, a city of 8,200 about 75 miles southwest of Detroit. "He does care about this town. He's been here all his life. ”
Sessions will receive＄3, 600 a year during his four-year term, and will work out of his bedroom since the town does not provide the mayor with an office.
【小题1】What is TRUE of Sessions' election campaign according to the text?
| A．Sessions launched his election campaign on Sept. 22. |
| B．Sessions worked so hard that he once tried to persuade people in a hospital. |
| C．Sessions won the election campaign by a very close outcome. |
| D．Sessions felt disappointed when asked about his age and experience. |
| A．put up posters' | B．renew the economy |
| C．sell apples | D．talk to neighbors in kitchens |
| A．American mayors usually work from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. |
| B．In America, young people are encouraged to get involved in politics. |
| C．All teenagers are allowed to enter political elections. |
| D．American mayors receive a salary of 3, 600 a year during their 4-year term. |
| A．Schoolboy becomes American's youngest mayor. |
| B．How to become a teenage mayor. |
| C．Hard work is the ticket to success. |
| D．Never too young to shake the world. |