Britain’s smallest school was closed down because its only pupil failed to turn up for class, a famous British newspaper reported in May.

The newspaper said the six-year-old girl’s parents were unhappy with a teacher who just got the new job to teach the only pupil.

The school had been closed for the last nine months after its former (前任的) teacher retired(退休)and the only other pupil moved on to a secondary school. The new teacher, Ms Puckey, was to start teaching the girl and reopen the school.

But the girl’s mother is keeping her daughter at home.

“I was not pleased with the new teacher,” the mother said, “I had told the old teacher as far back as last September that if Ms Puckey got the job, my children would not be going to school.”

The school lies on an island off the northeast coast of Scotland. Although there was only one pupil, the school is very good in many ways and has a headmaster, three computers, a television and an art room as well as a school house with three bedrooms.

1.The reading is about_________.

A. the smallest school that was closed down

B. the only pupil in the smallest school

C. the new teacher and her teaching

D. the old teacher who just retired

2.“turn up” in the reading means_________.

A. pass an exam B. go to school

C. pay money D. hand in homework

3.From the reading we can know that the school_____.

A. is too far for the students

B. does not have enough teachers

C. does not have many pupils

D. is new but small

4. Before the school was closed down_________.

A. the girl’s mother wanted to teach her daughter at home

B. the only pupil had to move to a secondary school

C. a famous newspaper had written something about it

D. the girl’s mother had a talk to the former teacher

5.The reading doesn’t say but we can infer (推断) that_______.

A. the girl’s mother had only one child

B. the new teacher was not kind to the girl

C. the old teacher was fit to teach the girl

D. the parents were unhappy with the school

A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow(乌鸦) was jumping around. The crow watched them with disdain(鄙视).

“You have no flying skills at all!” he said to the swans. “All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air? No, you can’t. Let’s have a flying competition. I’ll show you what real flying is!”

One of the swans, strong and young, took up the challenge. The crow flew up and began to show his skills. He showed flying tricks, and then came down and looked proudly at the swan.

Now it was the swan’s turn. He flew up, and began flying over the sea. The crow flew after him, making all kinds of comments (评价) about his flying. They flew on and on till they couldn’t see the land and there was nothing but water on all sides. The crow was making fewer and fewer comments. He was now so exhausted that he found it hard to stay in the air, and had to try to keep himself from falling into the water.

The swan pretended (假装) not to notice, and said, “Why do you keep touching the water, brother? Is that another trick?”

“No,” said the crow. He knew he had lost the competition. “I’m in trouble because I am proud! If you don’t help me, I’ll lose my life…”

The swan took pity on him, and took him on his shoulders and flew back to the beach.

1.What does the underlined word exhaustedin Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Tired. B. Excited. C. Scared. D. Amazed.

2.What can we infer (推断) from the passage?

A. Flying skills were useless.

B. The crow didn’t have a gift for flying.

C. The swan was better at long-distance flying than the crow.

D. The swan saved the crow because they were good friends.

3.What does the story tell us?

A. No pains, no gains.

B. Practice makes perfect.

C. Being proud makes you fail.

D. The early bird catches the worm.

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