Jane always goes to school early. She likes to talk with her friends before class. After school she does not go home early. She is always late. Jane stops to look at the animals in the pet（宠物） shop. She likes to see the dogs. One dog is white. She watches the dog in the window of the shop. She watches for a long time, and she comes home late.

　　One day Father and Mother asked why she was late, and she told them about the dog in the shop.

　　Jane was not late the next day. She stopped to look in the window of the shop. She didn't see the dog, and she was not happy, but she was also happy. That day was her birthday.

　　Mother showed Jane a big birthday cake and father gave her a birthday surprise. He gave her the white dog from the shop. Jane was very happy. The next day Jane didn't come home late. She ran home early to play with the dog.

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　　1. Jane has to go to school very early because her school is far from her home.

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　　2. Jane comes home late because she likes to talk with her friends.

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　　3. Jane was happy when she didn't see the white dog in the window of the shop the next day.

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　　4. Jane liked cats very much.

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　　5. His father's birthday present was the white dog.

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  Jim is a schoolboy who is eight and a half years old．His school is near his home，so everyday he goes to school on foot．He usually gets back home early．But last Friday he came back home late from school．

  “Why are you late today?”When he got home，his mother asked him．

  “My teacher wasn’t happy and let me go to her office．”he answered．

  “Why do you go there?”his mother asked．

  “Because she asked a question in class，”Jim said，“and I could answer．only I．”

   His mother was very angry，“Why was she not happy?”

  “I don’t know．”Jim answered．

  “What is her question，then?”Mother asked him again．

  “The question was：‘who put ink on my desk?’”Jim said．

1．Jim is___________．

  A．eight years old    B．more than eight years old  C．less than eight    D．nine

2．His school is___________ his home．

  A．not far from    B．far from    C．next to    D．besides

3．He usually___________ to school and comes back___________．

  A．walks；early    B．takes a bus；late    C．on foot；early    D．rides；late

4．Last Friday he came back___________．

  A．early    B．late    C．at six o’clock    D．in the evening

5．Jim Was the only one who can answer the teacher’s questions．What Can we infer(推断)from that?

  A．He is very clever．    B．The teacher likes him very much．

  C．He is very naughty．   D．He is very foolish．

My granddaughter, 10, was very happy the day before yesterday because her mother and the mother of one of her classmates took them to a park and a Pizza Hut （比萨饼屋）to celebrate Children’s Day. For a whole day, the two girls played heartily – no homework, no extra-curricular（课外） skills training. The happy life lasted only for one day. Yesterday, everything returned to normal: doing homework till late at night and going over lessons learned at last weekend’s English and “ Olympic mathematics” （数学奥赛）　courses.

Every time I went to my daughter’s house in the evening, I saw my granddaughter sitting by the small desk in her room doing math exercises or writing a compositions given by her teacher. On the white wall behind the desk are some words she wrote. One sentence reads: “ Why is the exercise endless?”

Poor girl!

Although teachers have stopped giving after-school homework to primary school children, parents have been forcing their kids to take part in different kinds of extra-curricular training courses-learning English, painting, music instrument （乐器）, weiqi, “ Olympic mathematics” and so on, every Saturday and Sunday.

Are these extra-curricular courses really necessary in children’s education? The answer is certainly “ No”. Take the so-called “ Olympic mathematics” for example. These courses are very difficult for the children to understand. Often, they are difficult even for adults （成年人）.

（   ）1. The writer’s granddaughter celebrated her Children’s Day by _____.

           A．playing all day              B．doing nothing

           C．having a party              D．going over lessons

（   ）2. Usually at weekends the girl will _______.

A．stay at home               B．play with their classmates

C．do whatever she likes        D．go to different kinds of training courses

（   ）3. The writer thinks that her granddaughter ______.

A．lives a happy life            B．goes to bed early at weekend

C．has too much homework      D．likes to do more exercises

（   ）4. Which is true according to （根据）the passage?

A．The “Olympic Mathematics” is too difficult for kids.

B．The grandfather thinks playing is more important than learning.

C．Teachers often give students useless homework.

D．The parents don’t want their kids to do lots of homework.

（   ）5. From the last paragraph（段落）we know that the writer thinks _____.

A．only school courses are useful to kids

B．some extra-curricular courses kids learn after school are not necessary

C．some extra-curricular courses are even more difficult for adults

D．kids shouldn’t learn difficult courses