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“Why pick on my family?” Jessica’s father said with anger. “Your family history isn’t so good, you know. Wasn’t your great-great-grandfather a prisoner who was brought to Australia for his crimes?” “Yes, but people these days say that you are not a real Australian unless your ancestors arrived as prisoners.” “Gosh, sorry I asked. I think I understand now,” Jessica cut in before things grew worse.
After dinner, the house was very quiet. Jessica’s parents were still quite angry with each other. Her mother was ironing clothes and from time to time she looked angrily at her husband, who hid behind his newspaper pretending to read. When she finished, she gathered the freshly pressed clothes in her arms and walked to Jessica’s closet. Just as she opened the door and reached in to hang a skirt, a bony arm stuck out from the dark depths and a bundle of white bones fell to the floor. Jessica’s mother sank in a faint(晕倒), waking only when Jessica put a cold, wet cloth on her forehead. She looked up to see the worried faces of her husband and daughter.
“What happened? Where am I?” she asked. “You just destroyed the school’s skeleton, Mum,” explained Jessica. “I brought it home to help me with my health project. I wanted to tell you, but it seemed that as soon as I said something about skeletons and closets, it caused a problem between you and Dad.” Jessica looked in amazement as her parents began to laugh madly. “They’re both crazy,” she thought.
小题1:According to Jessica’s mother, “a skeleton in the closet” means ________.
| A．a family honor | B．a family secret |
| C．a family story | D．a family treasure |
| A．She was curious about it. | B．She planned to keep it for fun. |
| C．She needed it for her school task. | D．She wanted to scare her parents. |
| A．they realized their misunderstanding |
| B．they were crazy |
| C．they were over excited |
| D．they both thought they had won the quarrel |
My friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed (移民入境检查) at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria (自助餐厅) in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.
“Start out at the end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end he’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”
“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend. “Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”
1.Where do you think the old man came from?
A. Poland. B. Australia. C. Canada. D. Japan
2.From the passage, we know if you want to get success in America, you should _________.
A. get help form your friends B. try to get it by yourself
C. know how a cafeteria works D. get up again if you fail
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The old man sat down opposite the woman so that she could take his order.
B. The old woman sat down opposite the old man so that she could serve him.
C. Although the woman didn’t know the old man, she told him how to get something to eat in the cafeteria.
D. Although the woman didn’t know the old man, she decided to pay the bill for him.
4.What does the word “it” in the third paragraph (段落) refer to?
A. The food served in the cafeteria.
B. The success one wants to get.
C. The bill one has to pay in the cafeteria.
D. The plate used in the cafeteria.
5.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. From Eastern Europe to America
B. Eating in an American Cafeteria
C. How to Eat in a Cafeteria
D. Life Is Like a Cafeteria in America
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Hermann Gmeiner’s idea for helping orphans soon spread（传播）all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children’s Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages. Today the children from the first village have grown up. Now some of them work in other SOS Children’s Villages.
In SOS Villages orphans live in family groups. There are several houses in each village. The biggest village has 40 or 50 houses! Between seven and ten children live in a house. A woman lives with each group of children and looks after them. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks meals for them and makes comfortable, happy home for them.
Of course, the children don’t spend all their time in the village. They go to school, they go out with their friends. But the village gives them a home—sometimes for the first time in their lives.
【小题1】Which of the following came last?
| A．People gave Gmeiner some money. |
| B．There were many orphans at the end of the war |
| C．Gmeiner built the first SOS Children’s Village |
| D．A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help the orphans |
| A．who has no brother | B．who has no sister | C．who has no parents | D．all of the above |
| A．governments | B．special organization |
| C．the orphans themselves | D．people in general（大体上） |
| A．She gives the children a lot of love and kindness | B．She lives with each group of children |
| C．She cooks meals for children | D．She looks after them |
“I will sit next to the boy who is best at math,” he thought, “and copy down his answers.” The day of the exam came, and Donald sat next to Brain Smith, who always was at the top of the class in math. Donald carefully copied Brian’s answers onto his own exam paper. At the end of the exam, the teacher collected the papers and graded(批改)them. Then she said, “well, boys and girls. I have decided to give a prize to the student who got the highest grade. It’s difficult for me to decide who to give the prize to, however, because two students, Donald and Brian, got the same grade.”
“Let them share it,” one of the other students said.
“I thought about that,” the teacher said, “but I decided to give the prize to Brian.” Donald was angry when he heard this. He stood up and said. “That’s not fair. I got the same grade as Brian.” ‘That’s true.” The teacher said.” However, Brian’s answer to Question 18 was “I don’t know,” yours was “Neither do I”.
小题1:Donald decided to cheat in the math exam because ________.
| A．he was always at the top of the class in math |
| B．he understood the questions |
| C．he was not very good at math |
| D．the math teacher did not explain the questions carefully. |
| A．math was his best subject |
| B．the questions were easy |
| C．he copied from another boy |
| D．the teacher explained the questions carefully |
| A．both boys were good at math | B．Donald cheated |
| C．Brian copied Donald’s answers | D．the questions were very easy |
A,his answers were the same as Brian’s
B.he wrote “I don’t know” as an answer
C.he got the same wrong answers as Brian
D.he wrote the words “Neither do I.”
小题5:Why was he angry when Donald heard that the teacher would give a prize to Brian?
| A．Because he got the same grade as Brian |
| B．Because Brian copied him |
| C．Because the teacher didn’t know Donald’s answers |
| D．Because he cheated in the math exam. |