The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queens land, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forest.

   Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.

    Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining(缠绕) the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish! It was a boa(蟒)! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.

    It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe from the ground and beat the boa with all her might.

    One...two... With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.

    Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opening her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak(牛排). Lisa was really mad!

    Blood was spurting(喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a man had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.

    It was fearless mother love that saved the little boy.

61．When she rushed into the back garden, Lisa found  ______

    A．a boa eating her son         

B．her son was playing with a big snake

C．her son in danger of losing his life    

D．her son was fighting with a boa

62．Lisa failed in fighting against the boa at first just because ______.

     A．she was bit by the boa       

B．the boa was too strong

     C．the hoe was not sharp enough 

D．she was afraid that she would hurt her son

63． Lisa bit the snake because ______.

     A．she was mad      

B．she thought her teeth were much sharper than the boa 

     C．her son was entwined by the boa

     D．she hadn’t got any other way to fight with the snake

64．The best title for this passage is ______.

     A．Mother and Boa             B．Fearless Mother Love

     C．A Boa and a Boy             D．Saving a Boy from a Boa

Rosa liked making up stories. She was so __1__ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was __2__. Now, as she got up to __3__ before the class, She knew that make –believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.

Rosa’s parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer __4__, she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.

The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and __5__ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so __6__ that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would __7__ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the __8__ he would always buy her a present.

When summer came to a close, Rosa __9__ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a __10__ to talk about.

Not long after __11__ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting __12__, like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not __13__. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to __14__.

When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could __15__ about her trip to England!

1.                A．afraid          B．worried         C．sure D．happy

2.                A．joke           B．fun            C．turn D．game

3.                A．talk            B．teach           C．show D．travel

4.                A．passed         B．arrived         C．lasted    D．changed

5.                A．made          B．played          C．helped   D．did

6.                A．weak          B．pleased         C．busy D．lonely

7.                A．show          B．visit            C．meet D．send

8.                A．farm           B．city            C．family    D．school

9.                A．wrote          B．called          C．moved   D．returned

10.               A．family          B．school         C．teacher   D．farm

11.               A．meeting        B．school         C．summer   D．talk

12.               A．people         B．cities           C．languages D．places

13.A interesting     B. true            C. long              D. same

14.               A．England        B．Germany       C．farm D．home

15.               A．think           B．see            C．remember     D．read

Rosa liked making up stories. She was so __1__ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was __2__. Now, as she got up to __3__ before the class, She knew that make –believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.
Rosa’s parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer __4__, she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.
The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and __5__ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so __6__ that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would __7__ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the __8__ he would always buy her a present.
When summer came to a close, Rosa __9__ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a __10__ to talk about.
Not long after __11__ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting __12__, like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not __13__. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to __14__.
When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could __15__ about her trip to England!

The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queensland, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forest.

Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.

Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish! It was a boa(蟒)! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth. It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe from the ground and beat the boa with all her might. One...two... With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.

Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opening her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak(牛排). Lisa was really mad!

Blood was spurting(喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of(松开) Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a man had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.

　　 It was fearless mother love that saved the little boy.

When she rushed into the back garden, Lisa found______

A. a boa eating her son

B. her son was playing with a big snake

C. her son in danger of losing his life

D. her son was fighting with a boa

Lisa failed in fighting against the boa at first just because ______.

A. she was bitten by the boa

B. the boa was too strong

C. the hoe was too sharp

D. she was afraid that she would hurt her son

Lisa bit the snake because ______.

A. she was mad

B. she thought her teeth were much sharper than the boa

C. her son was entwined by the boa

D. she hadn’t got any other way to fight with the snake

What does the underlined word “entwining” probably mean?

A. Biting.                   

B. Twisting or winding sth. around.  

C. Eating.                   

D. Being closely connected with  

单句填空（每题1分，共10分）

1. After the exam, my teacher told me that failure ______ (be) the mother of success.

2. There is no such thing ____ a free lunch.

3. There is a __________ (determine) look on his face.

4. ______she made up her mind, nothing can change it.

5. We_____________ (leave) for Japan tomorrow morning.

6. He asked me whether the big flood ___________ (destroy) the area.

7. Years passed before the war was finally at _____end.

8. He tried to work, but it was ________ (use).

9. It was the curtain _______ was full of dust.

10. Geography also plays a part _____ making dialects.