Monkeys are clever and lively, but they are naughty and greedy (贪婪的) as well. Whenver they find delicious food, they will eat enough.  What’s more, they will take it when they leave. They have suffered (吃亏) a lot because of this. But they never change this way.

In India, people use monkey’s greed to catch them. Do you know how they can catch monkeys? Here are some instructions.

◆               Make a hole in a big pumpkin (南瓜). The hole must be just right     ----neither too big nor too small.

◆               Put some jujubes (枣) in the hole.

◆               Leave the pumpkin under a tree. Make sure there are some monkeys in   the tree.

◆               Hide yourself and watch the monkeys.

As soon you leave, the monkeys can’t wait to come down to the pumpkin. When they find a hole in the pumpkin, they don’t know what’s in it and one of them can't help putting its hand into the hole to find what on earth there is. When it touches the jujubes, it will clench (攥紧) some of them in its hand. As a result, it isn’t able to take its fist (拳) out of the hole. You can’t come close until this time. Will the monkey drop off the pumpkin? Don’t worry. It prefers the pumpkin than its life. It will run with the pumpkin, clenching its fist more tightly. In the end, it is caught helplessly.

1.Monkeys haven’t changed their way of doing with nice food because they are

       .

   A. clever     B. lively     C. greedy    D.naughty

2.“The hole must be just right” means it is     .

   A. big enough for the monkey to put its hand in

   B. smaller than a monkey’s hand

   C. bigger than a monkey’s fist

   D. bigger than a monkey’s hand but smaller than its fist

3.Seeing the hole in the pumpkin, a monkey will     .

   A. be interested in    B. be afraid of   

C. run away at once   D. take the pumpkin away in arms

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

   A. Indians often catch the monkeys in this way.

   B. sometimes monkys are stupid.

   C. as soon as the monkeys comes to the pumpkin, you can rush to catch it.

   D. In India,monkeys like pumpkins every much.

5. What should we learn from the passage?

   A. weshould catch monkeys in this way.

   B. One mustn’t be greedy.

   C. We should protect monkeys.

   D. Come up with another way to catch monkeys.

Have you ever been sad because you failed in something? If so, please remember, for often, achieving what you expect is not the most important thing. Here is a story to tell you why.
One day a little boy decided to dig a hole behind his house after watching a science program. As he was working, a couple of boys stopped by to watch.  "What are you doing?" asked one of the visitors. "I want to dig a deep hole all the way through the earth!" the boy answered excitedly.  The older boys began to laugh, telling him that it was impossible to do it. Then they left.
The little boy kept on digging and digging. Suddenly, a few small colorful stones caught his eyes. He collected them and put them into a glass jar patiently.  Humming a song, he went on digging. The jar was full soon. Then he talked to himself calmly and proudly, "Maybe I can't finish digging all the way through the earth, but look at what I have found in the process of digging !"
The boy's goal was too difficult, but it did cause him to go on, in other words, to cause us to keep working!
Not every goal will be achieved.  Not every job will end up with a success.  Not every dream will come true.  But when you can't achieve your goal, maybe you can say, "yes, but look what I've found along the way! There are so many wonderful things that have come into my life because I tried to do something!" It is in the digging that life is lived. It is the unexpected joy on the journey that really has a meaning.
【小题1】What did the boy do after watching a program?

Now in some places of our country, many people are cutting down (砍伐) the trees in the forests. They need more ? ? to build houses and more farmland to grow crops and so on. The areas of forests are getting ? . Some scientists say that there ? ? no big forests in 20 or 30 years. It is really a(n)? thing. ? ? the forests, we will have sandstorms (沙尘暴) often. The weather will get ? ? . The earth will become a big desert (沙漠). A lot of plants and animals will ? . Crops will not grow anywhere. Life will be ? for everyone.

So we should do our best ? ? our living environment and keep our mountains ? ? , the water clean, and the sky blue.

1.A. wood????????????? B. money????????????? C. deserts????????????? D. leaves

2.A. bigger and bigger B. less and less?? C. smaller and smaller????????????? D. more and more

3.A. has????????????? B. have????????????? C. will have????????????? D. will be

4.A. excited????????????? B. happy????????????? C. better????????????? D. terrible

5.A. With????????????? B. Under????????????? C. Within????????????? D. Without

6.A. wet and cold????????????? B. hot and dry????????????? C. cold and dry?? ??? D. hot and wet

7.A. come????????????? B. live????????????? C. die????????????? ????????????? D. turn

8.A. difficult????????????? B. easy????????????? C. enjoyable????????????? D. poor

9.A. protect????????????? B. to protect????????????? C. protecting????????????? D. protected

10.A. clear????????????? B. fresh????????????? C. green????????????? D. blue

Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can’t eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.
In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of city to a dump. Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used wate r from toilets, bathtubs and other places.
To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally , a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.
In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus, which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.
【小题1】The underline word “sewage” in the passage means_______