In our town, everyone knows Mrs. Ai loves eating fish heads. When the family have meals together and there is fish in the meal, her children always give her the fish heads first. Only when she is eating outside, she often says "no" to fish heads very politely.

Not long ago, Mrs. Ai dies. Before she dies, some of her old friends come to see her and cook some fish heads for her. At that time she can’t eat anything, but she tells her friends a secret, "Thank you very much for cooking me the fish heads. But tell you the truth: I never really love eating fish heads. My family is poor. My husband and children like eating fish. If I eat some, they will eat a little less. If I don't eat any, they will feel sorry. So I have to say I love eating fish heads. In my life, I only wish I could eat the meat of the fish."

Now, if someone says he (or she) loves eating fish heads, I always want to know: Does he (or she) really love eating fish heads or just eat fish heads for love?

1.Mrs. Ai doesn’t want to eat fish heads when she is .

A. having meals with her family

B. at home

C. ill

D. eating outside

2.What do her friends do before Mrs. Ai dies?

A. They come to ask her why she likes eating fish heads,

B. They come to see her and cook some fish heads for her,

C. They come to say goodbye to her.

D. They come to give her some money.

3.Why does Mrs. Ai say she loves eating fish heads?

A. Because she loves her husband and children very much.

B. Because she wants to keep slim.

C. Because she likes eating them very much.

D. Because she is poor and only buys fish heads.

Gabriel Garqacia Marquez , who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in

1982, passed away at the age of 86 on April 17, 2014. The world paused (停顿) to

remember the cultural giant.

Garcia Marquez was born in Colombia, but he spent most of his adult life in Mexico City. As one of the most famous writers, he was widely regarded as “a giant of 20th- century literature.” Garcia Marquez wrote in a style called “ magical realism(魔幻现实主义).” In such works, people live a daily life in a certain period of time in history. But meanwhile , magical things happen to them.

Garcia Marquez is best known for his 1967 novel, One hundred years of Solitude (《百年孤独》), which has sold about 50 million copies. It tells the tale of the small and isolated town of Macondo which was separated from the outside world- of its founding and its troubled history over a hundred years. The story is a metaphor(暗喻)for the development of Colombia since the 19 century. As Colombian President Juan Manuel Santons said, Garcia Marquez wrote about “the essence(本质) of the Latin American beings.”

1.Garcia Marquez was born in _________.

A. 1914 B.1928

C.1967 D.1982

2.We can know from paragraph 2 that Garcia Marquez __________.

A. was born in Mexico City.

B. spent most of his abult life in Colombia.

C. had a writing style called “magical realism.”

D. was famous but lived a simple daily life.

3. The underlined word “ isolated “ means _________.

A.隔绝的 B. 安逸的 C. 喧嚣的 D.繁华的

4. The writer quotes (引用)from the President to __________.

A. Praise Garcia Marquez for his achievement.

B. show the deep sadness of the President.

C. explain the writing style of Garcia Marquez.

D. describe the character of Garcia Marquez.

You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABCs? Do you know there is such a thing as “a banana person”? How strange! An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside-thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside-looking like a Chinese.

Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are overseas(海外的)Chinese. These people may be citizens(公民)of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.

But they are not Chinese citizens. They are people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang(杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.

1.“ABCs” in this passage means .

A. three English letters

B. a kind of banana

C. Chinese born in America

D. Americans born in China

2.The underlined word “blood” may probably mean .

A. 洪水 B. 祖先 C. 身份 D. 血统

3.This passage mainly talks about ________.

A. different kind of bananas

B. the life story of C.N.Yang

C. the Noble Prize

D. overseas Chinese

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