It was Mary’s birthdayShe received(收到)a  1  from her uncle“Dear Mary,” he  2  in the letter , “Happy Birthday ! I’m sending you some chickensThey will  3  tomorrow I hope you like themUncle Toby

Mary was very  4 She liked eating eggs and chicken“ I can  5  the chickens for their eggs or eat them” she thought

When the chickens arrived the  6  day , they ere put in a boxMary was very happyShe  7  the box off the back of the truck and began to carry  8  into her garden , but the box of chickens was  9  heavy that she dropped itThe box fell  10  the ground and  11 The chickens all ran outThey ran here and thereMary spent hours  12  to finds them

A few days later her uncle cameHe asked, “Did the chickens arrive  13  ?” “Yes , but  I dropped the box It broke open and the chickens ran  14 I spent the whole morning looking for them” Mary said

“Did you find them all?” asked her uncle“I hope so ,” Mary answered , “but I only  15  eleven of them

“That’s very interestingI only sent you six ,” her uncle said with a smile

   1 A box                B present            C card           D letter

   2 A wrote             B read               C told            D spoke

   3 A get               B arrive              C come          D be

   4 A unhappy          B surprised          C kind           D pleased

   5 A keep              B grow              C buy          D sell

   6 A rainy              B first               C last          D next

   7 A left                B passed            C took          D opened

   8 A it                 B them               C that          D this

   9 A very               B too                 C such         D so

   10 A into              B to                  C off          D from

   11 A turned            B broke                  C hurt          D hit

   12 A and try           B for trying                  C to try        D in trying

   13 A safely            B angrily               C happily       D noisily

   14 A here              B there                C everywhere  Danywhere

   15 A bought            B caught              C dropped            D sent

Life in the future will be different from life todayBetween then and now many changes will happenBut what will the changes be?

     The population (人口) is growing fastThere will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now

     Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least (至少) one in every roomAnd computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools thenPeople will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelTraveling will be much cheaper and easierAnd many more people will go to other countries for holidays

     There will be changes in our food, too More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the peopleThen there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensiveMaybe no one will eat it every dayInstead they will eat more fruit and vegetablesMaybe people will be healthierWork in the future will be different, too Robots will do dangerous and hard workBecause of this, many people will not have enough work to do This will be a problem

   1In the future there will be _______

A much more fruit                          B more people

C less vegetables                              D less people

     2Every family will have at least a _____________ in the future

          A robot            B cow         C TV set                D computer

   3In the future people don’t have to __________________

          A work long hours   B work fast    C walk on foot         D eat meat

   4People may not eat _________ as much as they do today

          A fruit             B fish         C meat                D rice

   5One big problem in the future is that ___________

A many people don’t have to work

B many people will not be able to find work

          C people have to work fast      

D all the work will be done by robots

An old man lived alone in a townHe wanted to dig up his potato garden ,but it was very hard workHis only son who would have helped him was in prisonSo the old man wrote a letter to his son and said:

Dear Son,

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant potatoes in my garden this yearI’d hate to miss doing it ,because your mother always loved planting timeI’m just getting too old to dig up a gardenIf you were here ,all my troubles would be overI know you would dig up the garden for me if you weren’t in prison

Love, Dad

Soon the old man received a letter: Dad don’t dig up the garden! That’s where I buried the guns!”

At 4 am the next morning some policemen showed up and dug up the whole garden without finding any gunsThe old man was surprised and wrote another note to his son He told him what had happened and asked him what to do next

His son’s reply was: Go ahead and plant your potatoes, DadIt’s the best I could do for you from here

No matter where you are in the world, if you have decided to do something deep from your heart, you can do itIt is the thought that matters

1What was the old’s trouble?

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2How was the old man’ feeling when he was writing to his son ?

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3Could the old man plant his potatoes at last ?

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4 What do you think of the old man’ son ?

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5What is the title of this passage

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