Danny is a schoolboy. He  36  in a small town. His home is about ten miles  37  school and the roads are not flat(平坦的). So it’s  38  for him to get to school. He   39 at about five thirty every day and has breakfast. Then he  40  school at around six o’clock. First, he  41  his bicycle to the bus station. That takes about forty minutes. 42 the bus takes him to school. It usually takes about thirty minutes. Sometimes he has 43 time for breakfast at home, so he has something for breakfast on the bus.
“I’ve never taken trains. It must be a lot 44 fun than taking buses,” says Danny. He studies very 45 at school. He hopes he can go to school in a big city some day. He can take a train to school then.

Danny is a schoolboy. He  36  in a small town. His home is about ten miles  37  school and the roads are not flat(平坦的). So it’s   38  for him to get to school. He   39  at about five thirty every day and has breakfast. Then he  40  school at around six o’clock. First, he  41  his bicycle to the bus station. That takes about forty minutes. 42 the bus takes him to school. It usually takes about thirty minutes. Sometimes he has 43 time for breakfast at home, so he has something for breakfast on the bus.

   “I’ve never taken trains. It must be a lot 44  fun than taking buses,” says Danny. He studies very 45 at school. He hopes he can go to school in a big city some day. He can take a train to school then.

1.A. lives           B. works             C. plays             D. teaches

2.A. at             B. from             C. in                   D. for

3.A. easy               B. good             C. interesting          D. difficult

4.A. gets up        B. gets to          C. goes to bed          D. goes to work

5.A. gets back      B. leaves for       C. leaves               D. gets

6.A. by             B. sends            C. on               D. rides

7.A. Then           B. But               C. Ago             D. After

8.A. much           B. no              C. not                  D. a

9.A. little             B. less             C. more             D. many

10.A. badly             B. bad              C. hardly          D. hard

Rico is a dog who lives in Germany(德国). His owners trained him from a young age to find his toys. When they say the name of a certain toy, Rico can find it. In fact, he seems to know the names of 200 toys!
Some researchers in Germany wanted to test Rico. They put his toys in a room and then told him to go in the room and find a certain toy. Since nobody was in the room with Rico, he had no help from anyone finding the right toy. The researchers did this test forty times. Rico found the right toy thirty-seven times!
Then the researchers tried something else. They put seven of Rico’s toys in the room together with one new toy that Rico had never seen before. Then they told Rico to go into the room and get the new toy. This new toy had a name Rico had never heard before. Rico found the right toy seven out of ten times!
Researchers cannot really say that Rico knows words or language. However, these tests seem to show that Rico can think about what he hears and think about what he knows. In fact, Rico seems to think and remember things as well as a three-year-old child.
From these tests, animal researchers know one thing for sure. Rico has given them a lot to think about.
【小题1】From the passage we know that Rico is good at ______.