任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分，计10分) （每空一词）

We want some help

Sandy : Please help me . I am a girl from America .I can’t learn Chinese well . My Chinese teacher always speaks too fast . Many of my friends think Chinese is easy . But I don’t ! I can’t get high marks(高分). Sometimes , I can’t understand what the teacher says in class . How I hope I can have a Chinese pen friend .

Jim : I am too short . I am only 1.4 meters tall .I like playing basketball, but they all say I can’t be a good basketball player . How can I be as tall as all my friends ? Can short boys play basketball ? I hope someone can teach me how to be a good guide(后卫).

Joan : I want to be a slim girl . Some of my friends say I am too fat. Is it because my parents are fat, too ? Am I a pretty girl? When I see those slim girls , my eyes are green. I hope to know some ways to be slimmer .

Danny:I need friends .I am sad because I don’t have many good friends to chat with . I am not good at talking. And my face turns red when I am with many people . But I really want to have many friends . Can you tell me how to make friends with other children ?

Children in___1____ of Help

根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)误(F)。

Hello! My name is Danny. I’m a boy. I live in Canada (加拿大). I have a friend. Her name is Jenny. She lives in Canada, too. Li Ming is my friend, too. He is a Chinese (中国的) boy. He likes (喜欢) English. And his English is good. Ms. Liu is his English teacher. She is a good teacher. Jenny and I like China (中国).

1.Danny is a girl.

2.Li Ming’s English is good.

3.Li Ming lives in China.

4.Ms. Liu is Li Ming’s Chinese teacher.

5.Danny likes China.

Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at school. When I made my first visit to the United States, I was sure I could have a nice and easy holiday without any language problem. But how wrong I was!

    At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to tell my friend Danny that I had arrived. An American asked if he could help me. "Yes," I said, '1 want to give my friend a ring."

"Well, that's nice. Are you getting married?" he asked. "No," I replied, "I just want to tell him I have arrived." "Oh," he said, "there is a phone downstairs on the first floor." "But we're on the first floor now," I said.

    "Well, I don't know what you are talking about Maybe you aren't feeling too well after your journey," he said. "Just go and wash up, and you will feel a lot better." And he went off, leaving me wondering where on earth I was: At home we wash up after a meal to get the cups and plates clean. How can I wash up at an airport?

    At last we did meet. Danny explained the misunderstanding: Americans say "to give someone a call", but we English say "to give somebody a ring". When we say "to wash your hands", they say "to wash up". And Englishmen start numbering from the ground floor so the first floor is the second for Americans.

1.The writer went to America by ______.

A. plane             B. ship               C. bus                 D. train

2.The writer went to America for______  .

A. education       B. business         C. holiday           D. friendship

3.The American thought "a ring" should be a________ .

A. phone call       B. present         C. person                 D. letter

4.Englishmen usually wash up________    .

    A. after dinner         B. after a journey

    C. when they are tired  D. before they telephone someone

5.The third floor in England is the ______floor in America.

    A. first              B. second        C. third                 D. Fourth

Danny was just tired about the way things were going. His mum came to school and talked on and on about Rick Jackson. It seemed that she would never stop talking. “Somebody’s got to stop that boy!” she was shouting. “Rick’s troubling everybody in the neighborhood. And he loves to pick on little boys like Danny.”

Mrs. Green, Danny’s teacher, was concerned a lot. “I didn’t know that Danny was being picked on,” she said. “He’s never said anything about this to me!” Mrs. Green looked at Danny. “How long had this been going on?” she asked. Danny could only shake his head and look at the floor. He knew if he said a word about this, he would have trouble at school.

Danny hadn’t said anything about the problem because he wanted to do things with the boys in the neighborhood. After all, most of them were nice to him. He hated to leave the gang just because of Rick. Maybe the time had come to find new friends. He felt it hard to make up his mind.

1.We learn from the reading that          .

2.   When Danny’s mother came for Mrs. Green, the matter was now          to Mrs Green.

3.   Danny now          .

4.  Danny didn’t say anything about the matter to Mrs. Green because          .

5. The word “gang” in the reading means “         ”.

Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at school. When I made my first visit to the United States, I was sure I could have a nice and easy holiday without any language problem. But how wrong I was!
At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to tell my friend Danny that I had arrived. An American asked if he could help me. "Yes," I said, '1 want to give my friend a ring."
"Well, that's nice. Are you getting married?" he asked. "No," I replied, "I just want to tell him I have arrived." "Oh," he said, "there is a phone downstairs on the first floor." "But we're on the first floor now," I said.
"Well, I don't know what you are talking about Maybe you aren't feeling too well after your journey," he said. "Just go and wash up, and you will feel a lot better." And he went off, leaving me wondering where on earth I was: At home we wash up after a meal to get the cups and plates clean. How can I wash up at an airport?
At last we did meet. Danny explained the misunderstanding: Americans say "to give someone a call", but we English say "to give somebody a ring". When we say "to wash your hands", they say "to wash up". And Englishmen start numbering from the ground floor so the first floor is the second for Americans.
【小题1】The writer went to America by  ______.