The water tap was leaking(漏水) again, and the noise was driving Cassie crazy. Cassie looked at her watch. It was nearly nine o’clock. She climbed out of bed and stood on a chair by the shelf. Her mother’s Mr. Fix-It Book was on the top shelf. Cassie stepped down quietly. She read the book quickly until she found the page she was looking for, and then began to read carefully.

Next, Cassie opened a box in the kitchen and picked out the tools she needed--- a hammer, a wrench, and several small things. It was so easy job for her to do the repair, and she tried several times. Finally, the water tap was in pieces. One by one, she carefully laid them out on the table. That way she would know how they went back. While this was going on, her cat walked over to watch what she was doing.

Cassie worked late into the night. At one point, she thought she was done. Oops! A small piece that she had forgotten still lay on the table. Slowly Cassie took the water tap apart(分开) one more time. This time she made sure everything was in place. She turned the water tap on and then off. One…two…three… She waited a full minute. There was no leak! Cassie smiled and put the tools back into the box. Then she went back into bed.

The next morning, Dad was in the kitchen when Cassie got up.

“Notice anything, Dad?” she asked.

He looked around and listened. “Hmm, something’s missing… I can’t find out what it is… Wait, it’s too quiet in here!”

“That’s right,” Cassie said. ‘Something is missing. I fixed the water tap. It doesn’t leak any more.”

“That’s my girl,” Dad said. “It’s a good thing you are really like your mother.”

1.Mr. Fix-It Book is probably a book on how to ________.

A. train pets       B. fall asleep       C. fix things        D. cook food

2.Cassie took the water tap apart again because_______.

A. she had forgotten one piece          B. the tap was still leaking

C. the cat had taken one piece away      D. she hadn’t understood the book

3.The water tap wasn’t fixed until_______.

A. nine o’clock    B. late that night    C. the next morning    D. the next afternoon

4.We can learn from the last sentence of the passage that ________.

A. Cassie’s mother is good-looking         B. Cassie likes her mother very much

C. Cassie’s mother is good at fixing things   D. Cassie looks quite like her mother

In 1995, Oseola McCarty donated $ 150, 000 --most of the money she made in her lifetime--to the University of Southern Mississippi. She just wanted to help poor students. Her friends and neighbours were surprised at the news. McCarty was a good woman and was always friendly and h 【小题1】 . But everyone in her town knew that she was not r 【小题2】
Oseola McCarty was born in 1908. She had to leave school when she was eight to support her family by w 【小题3】 other people's clothes. She made only a few dollars a day. Oseola washed the clothes by hand. Then she h 【小题4】 the clothes to dry. She did this for nearly 80 years. In the 1960s , when many people began to buy their own washers(洗衣机) and dryers（烘干机）, McCarty didn’t have much work to do, so she started to iron clothes i 【小题5】 .
McCarty n 【小题6】 married or had children. Her life was simple. She went to work and to church. She had a black-and-white television, b 【小题7】 she didn’t watch it very often. It only had one channel. Oseola McCarty s【小题8】 money all her life and finally had about $ 250, 000.
In an interview with the University of Southern Mississippi News, McCarty said, "I can't do everything, but I can do s 【小题9】 to help somebody. And what I can do I will do. I wish I could do more." This quiet exceptional cleaning lady has t 【小题10】   the world a lesson in giving.

Hellen Keller was born in 1880 in the USA. When she was about 19 months old, she got very ill. After many weeks, the doctor told her parents, “Your daughter is better, but now she can’t see and she can’t hear.” Her mother and her father were very sad. After a few years , things got worse. There was no way for Helen to speak to other people. She heard nothing. She didn’t understand anything.

Then one day a teacher came. Her name was Anne Sullivan. She lived with Helen and her family. The teacher helped Helen learn words. Helen was a very bright child and soon she learned to spell her first word. When she was older, she went to college(大学).

Helen was a very old woman when she died. The world remembers her today as a brave and wonderful person. She was blind and deaf, but she found a way to see and hear. It helped many people in the world.

1.Where was Helen Keller from?

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

2.What happened to Helen when she was 19 months?

A．She got very ill.

B．She began to go to school.

C．She left her home.

D．Her mother died.

3. Anne Sullivan helped Helen Keller_____________.

A．hear something

B．see the world with her eyes

C．learn words

D．do housework by herself

4. What do people think of Helen Keller?

A．She was quiet

B．She was brave and wonderful

C．She was blind and deaf

D．She was ill

5. Hellen Keller was famous because____________________.

A．she couldn’t see or hear

B．she went to college as a blind(盲的) woman

C．she was a bright woman

D．As a blind,she learned to read and write and helped many people in the world.

The marathon(马拉松) in my town usually takes place in hot weather. My job was to follow the runners to help those who needed medical help. “We should stay behind the last runner, so take it slowly,” I said to the driver, Doug.

As it began, the front runners started to disappear(消失). Then I noticed a woman in blue running shorts and a white T-shirt. “ Doug, look!” We knew we were watching our “last runner”. Her feet turned in , yet her left knee turned out. Her legs were so crippled(畸形的) that it seemed impossible for her to be able to walk. How could she run a marathon？

We watched in silence as she slowly moved forward. We would move forward a little bit, then stop and wait for her. Then we would slowly move forward a little bit more. As I watched her try to put one foot in front of the other, I found myself breathing for her. I wanted her to stop, and at the same time, I hoped that she wouldn’t. Finally, she was the only runner left in sight. When the finishing line came into sight, we found the cheering people had all gone home. She slowly crossed through the line and lifted her hands, full of happiness.

I do not know the woman’s name, but since that day she has become a part of my life. For her, it was about finishing what she had set out to do, no matter what. When I think things are too difficult and want to say “I just can’t do it”, I think of the last runner. Then I realize how easy the task before me really is.

1.When does the marathon usually take place in the writer’s town？

2.The last runner had problems with her      .

3.Why did the woman take part in the marathon?

In western countries, more and more foods have additives in them. What are additives? Additives are chemicals which are put into foods to give them color and taste, to stop them going bad and so on. But doctors say that some additives can be very bad for our health.

Now let’s look at how additives can be bad for our health. For example, a little English girl called Sally Jones is two years old and quite ordinary (普通的). But when she was younger, she never went to sleep at night. She never got tired. Her parents were very worried. Finally, Sally’s parents took her to a special doctor.

The doctor said that she must never eat food with additives in it. He was sure that the additives had a very bad effect on her body, and made her too active. He was quite correct. As soon as Sally started to eat foods with no additives, she began to sleep well at night.

Now she is the same as other little girls, except that she can’t eat many foods that other children love, such as ice-creams, because they have additives in them.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

1.What’s the Chinese meaning of the word “additive”?

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2.What are the functions (功能) of the additives?

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3.Did Sally like sleeping at night before she went to see the doctor?

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4.What happened to Sally when she stopped eating the foods with additives?

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5.Why can’t Sally eat ice-creams?