My sister and I are very different. When people meet us both, they are always surprised to learn that we are sisters. This is because we don’t look like each other, and we have different personalities(性格).
Are you similar to your brother or sister? My sister and I aren’t  similar to each other at all. I am tall, but she is very short. I have short dark brown hair and green eyes. She has long blond hair and blue eyes. I am strong, but she is not. I have big hands and feet; her feet and hands are very small. When we are kids, she was thin, but I was heavy. Now we’re both heavy.
We also have opposite personalities. She is always shy. I am more outgoing. She is very worried about what other people think and say about her, but I really don’t care. When she has a problem, she just worries about it, but when I have a problem, I try to fix it. She easily gets angry, especially with our mother. But I am more patient. 
【小题1】When people meet the writer and her sister, they are always surprised to learn          
【小题2】The writer and her sister are different in                     ways.
【小题3】The writer’s sister has                      hair.
【小题4】The writer’s sister is very worried about            about her.
【小题5】Do the write and her sister have the same personalities?              
【小题6】Find the topic sentence of the passage and copy it down. （找出文章的主题句并抄写下来）
【小题7】Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. （将划线的句子翻译成中文）
【小题8】The underlined word “heavy” in the passage means “                ”in English.

Now throwing shoes at somebody is a favorite game on the Internet. Sometimes you should throw your shoes. Here is an example.

After leaving his office at the center of city, a young man bought a new car and drove it from the city to his home.

He was very happy and the car ran very fast. Suddenly, a shoe hit the car in the door. The man got very angry. He jumped out of car and caught a boy who still had a shoe in his hand.

“Who are you? Why do you that?” the angry man shouted at the boy.

“I’m sorry… But I don’t know what else to do. My sister has been hurt. I cry for help but nobody stops,” the boy says.

The man looked around and saw a girl by the road. ___22____.

“She is my sister. She wants to cross the road but falls out of her wheelchair. She is too heavy for me. I can’t get her back into the wheelchair.” The man was moved. He helped the bleeding girl back into her wheelchair. “Thank you. You are so kind.” says the little boy.

Life speaks to our heart. Sometimes we don’t have time to listen and he will throw a shoe at us.

1.The young man drove his new car _______.

A．to the center of city                     B．to his office

C．to his home                            D．to the supermarket

2.Which sentence should be put in the blank____ (22)___?

A．She was dancing.                        B．Her leg was bleeding .

C．She was running.                        D．Her hands were dirty.

3.Why did the boy throw the shoe?

A．Because he wanted to help the young man    B．Because he needed help.

C．Because he was hurt                     D．Because the car ran fast.

4.The boy said “Thank you. You are so kind.” because___________.

A．the young boy wanted to cross the road

B．the young man was moved

C．the young man saw a girl’s leg was bleeding into the wheel chair

D．the young man helped his sister back into the wheelchair

5.What do you learn from the article?

A．We should be kind and helpful.

B．We should drive slowly.

C．We shouldn’t get angry when someone throws shoes at our cars.

D．We shouldn’t throw shoes at the cars.

My sister is four. My ______ brother is five years ______ than I. He is ______ of us three.

用所给词的适当形式填空 (10)

1.---Where did you______ (study) last night?

---No, I__________(help)my mother_______(clean) the room.

2.Mike goes to see his grandparents _________(one) a week.

3.To keep healthy，I decide _______ (exercise) half an hour every day

4.He is         (funny) than the other students in his class.

5.The boy enjoys         (swim) very much.

6.His mother often makes him        (clean) his room on weekends.

7.It’s necessary for us         (learn) English well.

8.I’m           (good) at physics than my sister.

9.Dumpling House is          (cheap) restaurant in the city.

10.I think Xi Yangyang is as         (famous) as Mikey Mouse.

I loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it when mother sat doing letters. Looking at the ink bottle, pens and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.
Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother,“But the desk,”she said again,“is for Elizabeth. ”
I never saw her get angry, and never saw her cry. I knew she loved me, and she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.
They never happened and a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional (易动感情的)”, but she lived“on the surface”.
As years went by and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way that she did forgive (原谅) me.
I posted the letter and waited for her answer. It didn’t come.
It seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to her.
I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.
Now the present of her desk told me that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work, though she had never been able to. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside… a photo of my father and a one-paper letter. Folded (折叠) and refolded many times.
Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.
【小题1】The writer began to love her mother’s desk ______.