A man was selling medicine at a fair(集市). At first he sold bottles of a cure(药剂) for colds for just a dollar a bottle.

Many people wanted to buy it and the man’s young assistant moved quickly through the crowd collecting money and handing out bottles of the cure.

Then, when he had a bid crowd, the man stood up, held up a very small bottle and said, “And now, ladies and gentleman, I am not going to charge you a hundred dollars a bottle for this wonderful medicine. I am not going to charge you fifty dollars a bottle. I am not going to charge you twenty-five dollars a bottle. Now, ladies and gentleman. I am not going to charge you ten dollars, and you can live forever.

Most of the people in the crowd did not believe this. One person shouted, “ If you can make you live forever, why don’t you drink it?” Then the other man cried, “ Yes, you look as if you are at least sixty years.”

“ Thank you, sir, thank you,” the man answered, “ I am so glad you said that. My real age is three hundred and twenty-nine.” The crowd laughed at this but there were still some people who wanted to believe the man. One of them spoke to the man’s assistant as he passed by, “ Is that true?” he asked. “ Is he three hundred and twenty-nine?

“ Don’t ask me, ” the assistant said, “ I have only worked for him for a hundred and fifty years.”

1.What did the man sell at first? He sold ________.

A. a cure for colds

B. bottles

C. a cure for old age

D. a medicine that made people live forever

2.The people didn’t believe that the man’s medicine could cure old age because _______.

A.the medicine was too cheap

B.the medicine was too expensive

C. he looked quite old himself

D. he didn’t look honest

3.What does the word “charge” mean in this passage?

A. 变化 B. 付钱

C. 给……钱 D. 向……要价

4.How much did the man charge for the cure for old age?

A. one dollar a bottle

B. twenty-five dollars a bottle

C. ten dollars a bottle

D. fifty dollars a bottle

5.What does this passage really mean?

A.The cure for old age is very useful and not so expensive.

B.he man is not honest, and neither is his assistant.

C.The cheaper the medicine is, the more people will buy.

D.The two men are very honest, and they’d like to help people live forever.

Happy Children’s Palace(宫)

MONDAY

19:00—20:30

English learning

Pro. G. White

Would you like to improve your English?

(2 weeks)

TUESDAY

17:30—19:00

Photography

Mr. Green

Learn to take good photos. Bring your own camera with you. This is for middle school students.

(4 weeks)

WEDNESDAY

18:00—19:00

Office 2000

Pro. Wang Lan

Learn how to use the new software(软件)

(10 weeks)

FRIDAY

19:00—20:30

Painting

Miss Yang Jing

Would you like to learn painting? It’s for beginners only

(16 weeks)

SATURDAY

15:00—16:30

Cambridge Young Learner’s English

Pro. J. Brown

This course is for the children at primary school

(20 weeks)

SUNDAY

10:00—11:00

Swimming club

Coach: Liu Xin

Want to swim as fast as a fish?

(9 weeks)

1.You can go to Happy Children’s Palace to learn some skills(技能) except(除了) ______.

A. Monday B. Thursday C. Wednesday D. Sunday

2.If you want to improve your English, you can learn from _____________.

A. Miss Yang Jing B. Pro. J. Brown

C. Pro. Wang Lan D. Pro. G. White

3.If you are interested in Painting. Miss Yang Jing can teach you ____________.

A. from 19:00 to 20:30 on Monday

B. from 17:30 to 19:00 on Tuesday

C. from 7:00 to 8:30 on Friday evening

D.from 18:00 to 19:00 on Wednesday

4. If you don’t have enough time, you want to learn a skill in two months, you can learn _______.

A. how to use the new software B. swimming

C. how to take photos D. painting

5. Which of the following statements(陈述) is right? ___________.

A. Pro.G. White gives a talk about English learning for students on Monday Morning

B. If you want to learn swimming, you should go there on Sunday afternoon

C. You can go to learn how to use Office 2000 from Pro. J. Brown

D. Pro. J. Brown teaches children English from 3:00 to 4:30 on Saturday afternoon

Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. “I got a red flower today. Could you please sign this note?” he said to mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.

Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is “OK”, but he often gets “You can do better than this.” Mum knows what it means. She tells me “You can do better than this” means “Extremely bad” in China.

In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is “Please be nicer tomorrow”. Many parents are satisfied with a B-grade for each subject.

But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spend more time on homework than I did when I was 6th grade in the US! Yet his parents and teachers didn’t think he worked hard enough.

Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.

1.Why did Ted come home with a letter last Friday?

A. Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother.

B. Because he did something wrong.

C. Because the teacher was happy with his progress.

D. Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.

2.If a student in the USA gets “OK” in his schoolwork, it means ________.

A. he gets top scores

B. he gets medium scores

C. he gets extremely bad scores

D. he gets the worst scores

3. American parents will be ________ when their children get a B-grade in their school.

A. excited B. sad C. angry D. happy

4.The underlined words “high expectations” in this passage means “________”.

A. 很高的待遇 B. 很多的自由

C. 很高的期望 D. 很多的关爱

5.The writer mainly wants to tell us ________.

A. the differences between Chinese education and American education

B. Chinese students are better than American students

C. American parents are not strict enough with their children

D. what’s the best way to educate child

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