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?

I still remember the last time when two of my children and I went to the playground. It had rained during the night and the playground was very muddy (泥泞的). They had just put on clean clothes, so I was a little worried about the pools of water on the playground. It was not long before Kathy got her beautiful skirt dirty on the playground. She dug through the rocks. I was about to blame her for getting her clothes dirty when she ran towards me with a smile on her face. When she got to me, she handed me a little heart-shaped rock and said, “Here Mom! Here is a heart for you－just because I love you! Keep it!” with tears in my eyes, I thanked her.

Should I blame her for getting her clothes muddy? No way! I still have that little heart-shaped rock. It is one of the best gifts that I have ever received. I realize that many times it is not necessary for us adults to worry about the small things our children do. Let them do what they’d like to.

I will spend a lot more time on the playground with my children. I’m sure I will learn a lot from the children. It reminds me of some years ago when my grandfather told me, “You would not enter the kingdom (王国) of happiness until you pretended (假装) to be a small child.”

1.The writer was deeply moved by her daughter’s ____________.

    A. digging task on the playground      

B. love of the muddy playground

    C. special way to show her love        

D. smile on her face when running

2.From Paragraph 2, we can learn that the writer thought parents should _________.

    A. allow kids to do whatever they like 

    B. keep the presents given by children

    C. not give too much care to their own children            

    D. not worry about the small things their children do

3.In the last paragraph, Grandpa’s words imply (暗示) that _____________.

    A. children may find happiness easily in life

    B. children care more about happiness than adults do

    C. adults cannot share children’s happiness

    D. adults should pretend to be a child

When I was in my first year of middle school, my father died. And my mother was ill just after I started high school, I had to stop   1  school because my mother had no ___2___ to pay for my school bills.

We started working in people’s gardens to save up enough money  3  me to go back to school. After some time, I returned to school. Unluckily, my mother died the next year. Suddenly my world went  4 . I asked my headmaster  5  I could work for the school so I could pay my bills. He was a nice man and let me  6  in the school garden during the  7 . I had not been able to study well because of my mother’s  8 .   9  the end of my second year,   I  10  most of my exams and was told I would have to repeat (重复) the year. After  11  summer working in the school garden, I went back to lessons again. But suddenly I fell  12 .

Because of my illness, I was weak and couldn’t work at school. I was hopeless. My headmaster told me not to give up (放弃). And my teachers  and  classmates  helped me  a   13  . Now I’m feeling better and will finish my third year.

My life is still not  14  . A few students  15  my poor clothes. They also call me ‘farmer’ because I work in the school garden. But I know I have to do with such problems.

1.                A．to go to         B．going to         C．living in   D．visiting the

2.                A．time           B．money         C．help D．friends

3.                A．for            B．of             C．to   D．by

4.                A．bright          B．late            C．dark D．wrong

5.                A．what           B．which          C．if    D．when

6.                A．work           B．to work         C．working  D．study

7.                A．afternoon       B．holidays        C．night D．morning

8.                A．illness          B．death          C．rest  D．work

9.                A．Near           B．In             C．At   D．By

10.               A．passed         B．went through    C．failed D．had

11.               A．another        B．other          C．the other  D．more

12.               A．tired           B．asleep         C．up   D．ill

13.               A．little           B．few            C．lot   D．lot of

14.               A．the same       B．hard           C．difficult   D．easy

15.               A．laugh at        B．like            C．put on D．laugh

New York City is a very large city with 8 million people. How do so many people move on their way to work and school?
In New York you can travel by subways, bus, taxi and private (私人的) car. The subway runs on the railroad lines under the city. It crosses the city at different points and goes to all parts of the city. Travelling by subway is the fastest way to get around the city.
The second way to travel is by bus. It is a slower way to travel.
You can also travel by taxi. This is very expensive, but the taxi will take you to every place you want to go to. If traffic is heavy, the taxi will be slow. During the mornings and afternoons, there is the “rush hour”. This is the time when the traffic is very heavy with people going to and from work..
The last way is to use your private car. It’s not good to drive during the “rush hour”. If there is an accident on the road, you will have to wait for a long time.
The best time to travel is from 9 a.m to 4.pm . Traffic will be less crowded during this time because most people are already at school or at work at that time.
【小题1】How many ways of travelling are mentioned (提到) in the passage?

Mr Green has a holiday, so he said , “I’m going to the city by train.” He put on his best clothes, took a small bag, went to the station and got into the train. He has a beautiful hat, and he often put his head out of the window during the trip and looked at the mountains, But the wind blew his hat off. Mr Green quickly took his bag and threw that out of the window, too.
The other people in the carriage(车厢) laughed. “Is your bag going to bring your beautiful hat back?” they asked.
“No,” Mr Green answered, “But there’s no name and no address on my hat, and there’s a name and an address on the bag. Someone is going to find both of them, and he’s going to send me the bag and the hat back.”
【小题1】Mr Green takes a trip         .