Some years ago there was an old woman.  She had no children because she did not like children at all.  But she loved cats.  She had mother cats and baby cats.  She had black cats and white cats.  The children in the neighborhood came to her house to play with the cats.  More and more cats came to the woman’s house.  There were too many cats.  The old woman couldn’t feed them at all.

Then she had an idea.  “The children love my cats, ” she thought.  So she gave each child a cat.  Then she was very happy.  And the children were very happy,  too.  And cats were pleased,  too.  Because they each had a room. 

1. The old woman didn’t like ________.

A. old cats                             B. baby cats

C. old people                           D. children

2. Why did the children come to the woman’s house? 

A. To look at her house.

B. To help the old woman.

C. To play with the cats.

D. To play young cats. 

3. The word “feed” in the passage means ________. 

A. give food to                     B. look after

C. live with                            D. play games

4. The woman gave each child a cat because ________.

A. the children liked the cats        

B. she couldn’t feed so many cats

C. more cats came to her house

D. children came to her house every day

5. Finally(最后)the woman ________.

A. began to love children

B. sold(卖掉)all her cats to children

C. bought enough food for the children’s cats

D. gave each child a cat

A. There will probably be no school on Mars.
B. It might take us two or three days to get to Mars.
C. There is a problem for us to live on Mars.
D. Food will not be the same.
E. First, people will have more space.
Many people believe that, by the year 2100, we will live on the planet Mars(火星). Here is what life could be like.
First of all, transport should be much better. By 2100, spaceship can travel at half the speed of light.  【小题1】 
Secondly, humans need food, water and air to live. Scientists should be able to find plants that can grow on Mars. These plants will provide us with food and air.
 【小题2】  We could easily jump too high and fly slowly away into space. To prevent this, humans on Mars have to wear special shoes to make themselves heavier.
Life on Mars will be better in many ways.  【小题3】  It is possible to live in a large building with many bedrooms. Then, robot will do most of the work, so we have more time for hobbies.
 【小题4】 Every student can study, do their homework on the computer and take exams in online schools. Each student will also have their own online teacher called “e-teacher”.
However, in some ways, life on Mars may not be better than that on the earth today.  【小题5】Meals will probably be in the shape of pills(药片) and will not be as delicious as they are today. Also, space travel will make many people feel ill.

All the wisdom of the times, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us in books, but we must know how to make use of this treasure. The unluckiest people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
I’m very interested in people and finding out about them. Some of the most amazing people I’ve met could only  be found in a writer’s imagination, then in his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends and new worlds.
Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate(分开的), in some way they are connected with each other. The same ideas, or related(相关的) ones, appear in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in books, but with different solutions(解决方法) according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other. They connect the past, the present and the future and have their own generations (age groups), like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the end, you not only find out about the world and the people in it, you find out about yourself, too.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on(专注于) books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably won’ t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time — and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t suffer during the process.
【小题1】Which of the following ideas may the writer of this article agree with?