Once(曾经) there lived a lion in the big mountain．He was very big and strong．He often ate the other animals．Every day he went out to look for food．The small animals in the mountain were all afraid of him．Near the mountain there were four bulls(公牛)．They are friends, and they often worked and played together．The tiger tried（尝试） many times to catch（捕捉）them, but he could not do so．Every time he came near, the four bulls stood together to fight(战斗力) him．So he could do nothing to them．

One day, the four bulls had a quarrel(争吵)．After that each of them went his own way．When the lion saw this,  he was happy．He caught one bull and ate him up（吃光）．Then he caught another．One by one (一个接一个地)he caught all the four bulls and ate them up．

1.How many bulls were there in the story?  _______

2.Why were the animals afraid of the lion?  Because the lion ______.

3.Why didn’t the lion eat the bulls at first?

4.The four bulls went their own way because______.

5.The lion ________at last (最终).

Britain's smallest school was closed down because its only pupil failed to turn up for class, a famous British newspaper reported in May. The newspaper said the six-year-old girl's parents were unhappy with a teacher she just got the new job to teach the only pupil.
The school was closed for the last nine months after its former(前任的) teacher retired（退休）and the only other pupil moved on to a secondary school. The new teacher, Ms Puckey, was to start teaching the girl and reopen(重开) the school. But the girl's mother is keeping her daughter at home." I was not pleased with the new teacher," the mother said, "I told the old teacher as far back as last September that if Ms Puckey got the job, my children would not be going to school." The school is on an island(岛) off the northeast coast(海岸) of Scotland. Although there was only one pupil, the school is very good in many ways and has a headmaster, three computers, a television and an art room as well as a school house with three bedrooms.
【小题1】The reading is about_______.