A poor man has an orange tree in his garden. There are many fine oranges on it. He finds one of the oranges much bigger than the others. It is as big as a ball. the poor man takes the orange to the king. The king is very happy. He gives him a lot of money. A rich man hears of this. He takes his gold cup to the king. He hopes to get much more money from the kind. The king likes the cup very much. He says, “This cup is very nice. I’m going to show you something nicer. Please take this orange.” The rich man is very angry and throws the orange away.

1. 1.

   The poor man ______.

   1. A.
      grows an orange tree
   2. B.
      can make money
   3. C.
      makes cups
   4. D.
      sells fruit
2. 2.

   The king ____ the orange.

   1. A.
      doesn’t like
   2. B.
      likes
   3. C.
      wants to buy
   4. D.
      wants to sell
3. 3.

   The rich man wants ___ form the king.

   1. A.
      the orange
   2. B.
      the tree
   3. C.
      more money
   4. D.
      gold cup
4. 4.

   The king gives the rich man ____.

   1. A.
      much money
   2. B.
      the cup
   3. C.
      the garden
   4. D.
      the orange
5. 5.

   The rich man ___ the orange.

   1. A.
      throws away
   2. B.
      likes
   3. C.
      wants to eat
   4. D.
      wants to sell

①A new Long March（长征）
Twenty-one people from Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland began a new Long March on October 15. They will walk about 8，000 kilometres from Ruijin， Jiangxi to Wuqi， Shanxi. They hope to get 20.2 million yuan to build 101 schools and help poor children go back to school. They hope to finish the march by August 16, 2012.
②The football team
The Chinese under-17 football team is No. 1 in Asia. They won the Asian U-17 Championship（亚洲U-17锦标赛）in Japan on Saturday. They beat the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea（朝鲜）by 1:0. After 85 minutes， Wang Weilong got the only goal. They took the cup for the first time in 12 years.
③Liu leaves China
Chinese actor Liu Ye left for the US on Monday to make a film called Meteor（《流星》）. He is going to act with the Hollywood film star Meryl Streep. His former classmate Zhang Ziyi sent Liu a message to encourage him. Liu was worried about his English， and worked hard on it before he left. People know him from films like last year’s “Mei Ren Cao”。
【小题1】From the news，we know that the twenty-one people began a new Long March to ______.