As Mrs.Thompson stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same.

But that was impossible,because there in the front row,slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard.Mrs.Thompson noticed that he didn’t play well with the other children,that his clothes were messy and that he constantly needed a bath.And Teddy could be unpleasant. It got to the point where Mrs.Thompson would actually take delight in marking his papers with a broad red pen,making bold X’s and then putting a big “F”at the top of his papers.

However,when she reviewed his file,she got a surprise.

Teddy’s first grade teacher wrote,“Teddy is a bright child with a ready laugh. He does his work neatly and has good manners... he is a joy to be around.”

His second grade teacher wrote,“Teddy is an excellent student,well liked by his classmates,but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle.”

His third grade teacher wrote,“His mother’s death has been hard on him. He tries to do his best but his father doesn’t show much interest and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren’t taken.”

Teddy’s fourth grade teacher wrote,“Teddy is withdrawn and doesn’t show much interest in school.He doesn’t have many friends and sometimes sleeps in class.”

Now, Mrs. Thompson was ashamed of herself and felt worse when her students brought her beautifully wrapped Christmas presents. Teddy’s present,however,was clumsily wrapped in rough brown grocery paper.Taking her time she opened Teddy’s gifts,a rhinestone bracelet with stones missing and a quarter full perfume bottle.How the children laughed!“What a pretty bracelet! Mm,lovely perfume!Perfect on my wrist,”The children were silent.

After school,Teddy told Mrs. Thompson,“Today you smelled just like my mom used to...”His teacher cried all night and, from that day,she stopped teaching reading, writing,and arithmetic and began to teach children instead.

1.What is the best title of this text?

A.A Student’s Best Friend        B.How to Be a Good Student

C.The Story of a Good Teacher      D.A Teacher’s Lesson

2.Which of the following is TRUE about Teddy?

A.He only bathed once a week.     B.He had no friends at school.

C.His clothes were usually untidy.    D.He was the worst student in the class.

3.How did Teddy’s behaviour change between Grades 1 and 4?

A.He became better at making friends.  B.He became closer to his father.

C.He paid less attention to school.    D.He stopped doing his homework.

4.Why did Mrs.Thompson feel ashamed after she read Teddy’s file?

A.She didn’t treat Teddy fairly.

B.She was being unpleasant to Teddy.

C.She took delight in failing Teddy in the exam.

D.She disliked Teddy for all his problems.

 

5.We can learn from the last paragraph that ________.

A.Mrs.Thompson was deeply hurt by Teddy’s words

B.Teddy missed his mother and desired love very much

C.Mrs.Thompson realised it useless to teach knowledge

D.Mrs.Thompson cried because she lied to Teddy about his presents

 

I found myself a little while ago in one of the largest American prisons. It was like a stone castle, its high towers watched by guards with guns. I had been there several times before, on earlier visits to the USA. But this time I had come to see one particular prisoner, He was nineteen and after two years by himself in one room was awaiting execution for murder. He bad just heard the result of a fresh trial. He was to serve life imprisonment instead. He was white -faced and talkative, a boy who had failed in high school and had all too easily got caught up in a night's adventure that had ended with burning down buildings, two deaths and those two years awaiting death.

This prison is no worse than many others and it is certainly better than some. After

you have passed through the complicated series of gates and doors and the electronic instruments have checked that you have no metal on your person--that you have no gun in fact--you enter within the walls. At once you are astonished at the difference between the strict controls outside and curiously easy--going way of life inside. Here are men walking about, often smoking cigars; the football team is being trained on the field~ there is a good deal of standing around waiting for something to happen. And of course things do happen: a sudden shout, a rush to the water tower, a mad climb to its top, senseless disobedience for days. But this is somehow a symbol for a bigger senselessness than that.

This time I was wondering what twenty years(and that would be the minimum)might mean for one boy pushed into this organized idleness.

1. This was _____.

A. the writer's first visit to the prison but not to America

B. not his first visit to the prison or to America

C. his second visit to America but not to the prison

D. his first visit both to America and to the

2. In this passage the word "execution" means

A. life imprisonment   B. the decision of the judge

C. punishment by death  D. another trail

3. Which of the following is true?

A. They were taking the prisoner out to kill him.

B. The punishment had been changed from life imprisonment to death.

C. The punishment had been changed from death to life imprisonment.

D. They were talking him out for a fresh trial.

4. The writer thinks that the prison system is ___

A. a very good one  B. good but could be even better

C. fairly bad but might be even worse  D. foolish

5. Here "a bigger senselessness" refers to.

A. a sudden rush to the water tower  B. a mad climb to the tower's top

C. disobedience for days  D. anything more serious than all of the above

 

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