“Can I see my baby?” asked the happy new mother. When the baby was in her arms, she couldn’t believe her eyes. The baby was born without ears.
Time proved that the baby’s hearing was perfect though he had no ears. He got on well with his classmates. But one day, he said to his mother, tears in his eyes, “A big boy called me a freak(畸形物).”
The boy’s father asked the family doctor, “Could nothing be done?”
“I believe I could graft(移植)on a pair of outer ears if they could be gotten,” the doctor said. They tried to find a person who would be helpful to the boy.
One day, his father said to the son, “You’re going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have found someone who will donate the ears you need. But we must keep it a secret who the person is.”
The operation was a great success, and a new person appeared. His cleverness and hard work made him a very successful person. He married and lived a happy life.
He would ask his father, “Who gave me the ears? I could do enough for him or her.”
“I can’t tell you,” said the father. “The agreement says that you are not allowed to know…not yet.”
It was kept a secret for years, but the day did come. He stood with his father over his mother’s body. Slowly, the father raised the thick, brown hair. To his surprise, the son found his mother had no outer ears.
“Mother said she was glad she never had her hair cut,” his father said in a low voice, “and nobody ever thought Mother less beautiful, did they?”
【小题1】The mother was surprised at the first sight of her baby because the baby __________.

   Who’s the boy in the photo? Yes, he is Liu Wei, an armless pianist.

   Liu lost both arms in an accident at the age of 10, but he never gave up his dream of becoming a pianist. He couldn’t find a teacher   5   (teach) him to play the piano with his feet. So he learned it by himself. He kept practicing for 7 hours every day. Three years later, he became the champion of China’s Got Talent. And he    6   (choose) as one of the “Top Ten People Who Touched China in 2011.” He often   7    (say) “For people like me, there are only two choice: one is to give up all dream, which will lead to a quick, hopeless death. The other is to struggle without arms to live an outstanding life.”

   What can you learn from Liu Wei?

The little boy entered the house, unhappy. His mother was  31      cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she    32      but stopped when she saw his face. “Tyler,    33       happened? Is everything okay?”

“Nothing is okay, mom.” said the boy, “Today, in our science lesson, Mrs. Green was talking about the   34        .She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way, but there is  35     I can do to make a difference.”

“Let me tell you    36     .” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish covering the beach, they were pushed up by the     37    , and it was too far up for them to make their way back by    38        . The man shook his head as he walked along, ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man felt very sorry    39      those starfish. He went on walking and just at that time he was    40       to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as    41   as he could, ‘how silly you are! My     42   ,’ the man said, ‘There are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing, ‘ 43          I can’t help them all .I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.”

“Thinking for a moment, the man    44       to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the   45      person.

  1. A. drinking          B. making            C. selling          D. washing

  2.A. turned around      B. turned down        C. turned on        D. turned off

3.A. what             B. when              C. where          D. why

 4.A. air               B. land              C. water         D. environment

5.A. something         B. anything           C. everything       D. nothing

6.A. a lie              B. a joke             C. a story          D. a truth

7.A. wind             B. rain               C. waves           D. sands

8.A. himself           B. itself              C. ourselves       D. themselves

9.A of                B. for                C. from            D. forward

10.A. afraid            B. surprised            C. sad             D. angry

11.A. slow             B. fast                C. soon           D. high

12.A. father            B. mother             C. son             D. daughter

13.A. Or               B. So                 C. Because         D. Though

14.A. began            B. continued            C. forgot          D. waited

15.A shortest           B. tallest               C. smallest         D. biggest

Mr Smith had two sons.One was seven years old, and the other was five.One morning during the holiday, when Mr Smith was cleaning the car, his younger son came and asked him for some money for sweets.

‘Sweets are bad for your teeth,’ Mr Smith said.‘Take these two oranges instead, and give one to your brother.’

One orange was much bigger than the other, and as the small boy likes oranges very much, he kept the bigger one for himself, and gave his brother the smaller one.When the other boy saw that, he said, ’It’s selfish to take the bigger for yourself.If Father had given me the oranges, I’d have given you the bigger one.’

‘I know you would,’ answered his brother.‘That’s why I took it.’

1.What was Mr Smith doing one morning?

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2.What did the younger boy ask for?

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3.What did his father give him instead?

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4.Who got the bigger orange?

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5.Why did the elder boy say that his brother was selfish?

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