—I dislike shopping online, I prefer to actually see and touch what I`m buying before I pay for it, especially for clothes and shoes
—That’s right.___________.                                                 

A．Seeing is believing

B．Clothes do not make the man

C．The first step is always the hardest

D．You are never too old to learn

This was the first real task I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. As I searched the name, I found that there were two famous people having the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts（花生）, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice; let the coin decide. I flipped(掷) a coin and Ah! Tails (背面)! My report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.
Weeks later, I stood in front of the classroom and proudly read my homework. But things started to get strange. I looked around the room, only to find my classmates with big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes and my stone-faced teacher. I was completely lost. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?”
Oh well, I dropped the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American War of Independence.” The whole world became quiet! How could I know that my teacher meant that George Washington?
Of course, my subject result was awful. Sad but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to the headmaster Miss Lancelot, but she said firmly: No re-dos; no new score. I felt that it was not fair, and I believed I deserved a second chance. So I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, I sat in the headmaster’s office again, but this time a completely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the terrible moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster told me I was good enough to skip(跳过) the 6th grade and started the 7th grade next term.  
小题1:The task I received was to find information about ________.

A．uses for peanuts	B．American War of Independence
C．George Washington	D．my headmaster Miss Lancelot

小题2:________ helped me decide what my report would be about.

A．The Internet

B．My classmates

C．My grandpa

D．A coin

小题3:People in the class acted strangely because ________.

A．I was too proud of my homework

B．I mistook what the homework was about

C．the whole world suddenly became quiet

D．the teacher’s face turned to a stone

小题4:I ________ after I failed the subject.

A．worked harder to prove my ability

B．started to study from the 7th grade

C．was so frightened at the awful result

D．was given a second chance to redo the work

小题5:We can infer(推断) from the passage that ________.

A．the headmaster didn’t like the writer at all

B．the writer’s classmates felt sad at his mistake

C．the writer knew little about American history

D．the writer’s grandpa was a very wise man

小题6:Which of the following proverbs can best describe the main idea of this story?

A．Seeing is believing.

B．Where there is a will, there is a way.

C．One is never too old to learn.

D．A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Once upon a time, there was a garden in the village. Its owner was an old man. He had been away for several years to visit his friends. It was a large lovely garden with soft green grass and beautiful flowers. While the old man was away, some children came to play in the garden every afternoon. The birds in the garden sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games to listen to them. For them, the time they spent there was the happiest they had ever had.
One day the old man came back. When he saw the children playing in his garden, he was very angry. "What are you doing here?" he shouted. "Nobody except myself is allowed to play in my garden." The children were terrified and ran away. Then spring came, but it was still winter in the old man’s garden. There were blossoms (花) and birds all over the village, except in the garden. The birds didn’t like singing in his garden, since there were no children." Why is spring arriving so late this year?" the old man thought. "How pretty it would be if it were spring now!" One morning, the old man was woken up by some sounds. He heard birds singing and children laughing. When he opened the window, he saw the birds sitting in the trees and the children running about happily. "I’m sure spring has come. What I’m seeing is the most spellbinding scene (场景) I have ever seen, and the sounds which I’m hearing are the most beautiful in the world," said the old man.
小题1:When the children were enjoying themselves in the garden, the old man ______.

A．was happy to watch them

B．was away to visit his friends

C．pretended that he didn’t see them

D．was angry but didn’t drive them off

小题2:What did the children think the old man was like at first?

A．Kind

B．Creative

C．Outgoing

D．Terrible

小题3:The underlined word "spellbinding" in the passage means "______"in Chinese.

A．迷人的

B．无聊的

C．普通的

D．丑陋的

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The old man’s garden was small but pretty.

B．The old man didn’t like the birds in his garden.

C．The old man was anxious (渴望)for a peaceful life.

D．The birds and the children made the old man’s garden full of life again.