根据短文内容，完成下列任务。

Andy lives in Sun City with his parents. He is fourteen. He has short blonde hair. Andy’s mother is a shop assistant in a market. Andy often helps his mother after school. Some boys often play near the market. They all have nice bikes. (A) So Ben wants a bike like theirs.

Last weekend, Andy went to help his mother as usual. On the way to the market, he saw those boys run down an old man with their bikes. The old man lay on the ground and couldn’t move, but the boys ran away. (B) 安迪过去帮忙，把老人送到了医院。In the hospital, the old man gave Andy a magic book. He told Andy to take it home, open the book and make a wish. He did as the old man said.

Do you know what Andy’s wish was and do you think his wish came true?

任务一：翻译句子。

1.将划线部分（A）处翻译成汉语。

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2.将划线部分（B）处翻译成英语。

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任务二：选择填空。

3.The underlined phrase “run down” means “___________” in Chinese.

A. 推倒B. 撞到C. 摔倒D. 跌倒

任务三：回答问题。

4.Where does Andy’s mother work?

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5. What did the old man give Andy?

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There are many rules (制度) in the old libraries. For example, no photos, no drinking and no phones. But now a lot of libraries don’t have too many rules. They paint the rooms beautiful colors so readers would like to read there. There aren’t hard chairs in these libraries.

There are nice sofas in them. Some of them are open 24 hours every day. In the libraries in America,

readers can make a 1free call. That means that they don’t need to pay any money for making a call. In the kid’s library in Denmark, children can sleep there if it is too late. In some libraries in Australia, they have a kids’ “story time”. 2今天图书馆是孩子们娱乐和学习知识的好去处。

任务（一）：根据短文内容回答下列问题。

1.Why do many libraries paint their rooms beautiful colors now?

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2.In which country do some libraries have a kids’ “story time”?

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任务（二）：请写出1处下划线黑体单词“free”的汉语意思。

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任务（三）：请将文中2处划线的句子翻译成英语，每空一词。

4.Today libraries are good places for kids to ________ ________ and learn something.

任务（四）：请给短文选择一个最恰当的英文标题。

5.A. New Libraries    B. Library Rules    C. Old Libraries    D. Free Libraries

阅读短文，按要求完成短文后的各项任务。（10分）

Liu Wei is very famous in China because he can play the piano with his toes .

One day when Liu Wei was only 10 years old, he played a game with some friends. He lost both his arms because of electricity.

（1）Liu Wei was very sad when both his arms were cut off after the accident. But soon he had

to make a choice. （2）“For people like me, there were only ______ choices. One was to give up all the dreams, which would cause a quick death. The other was to work hard without _______to live an excellent life.” says Liu Wei.

Liu’s dream was to be a pianist. His excellent life included a show on China’s Got Talent(《中国达人秀》) and a wonderful performance playing the beautiful Marriage D’amour with his two feet on the piano.

Liu Wei learned to play the piano with his feet. And teaching himself to play the piano with his feet was very hard. Many times he wanted to give it up, but his parents went on encouraging him and he wanted to make his parents proud. Maybe you can not believe that Liu Wei is able to play well only with his toes. The audience were deeply moved and very excited when they watched his performance.

1.将文中（1）处划线的句子翻译成汉语。(2分)

2.在文中（2）处的句子中填入适当的词。(2分)

3.How did the audience feel when they watched Liu Wei’s performance?(2分)

4.What was hard for Liu Wei?(2分)

5.Why Liu Wei is famous in China?(2分)