A gentleman stopped his car at the door of a flower shop．He planned to order flowers and asked the shopkeeper to deliver them to his mother, who was far away in his hometown．
The gentleman saw a little girl crying on the road before he entered the shop．The gentleman asked her：“Why are you crying?”
“I want to buy a rose for my mother, but I haven't got enough money,”said the girl．
The gentleman took the girl's hand and entered the flower shop．He first ordered the bouquet(花束)for his mother and bought a rose for the girl．
When he was walking out of the shop, the gentleman asked the girl if she would like a ride home．
“Will you really drive me home?”she asked．
“Of course,”the gentleman replied．
“Then drive me to my mother．But the place where my mother lives is very far．”
The gentleman drove along the mountain road and finally came to the cemetery(墓地)．
The little girl put the flower onto a new grave(坟墓)．In order to send a rose to her mother who had died a month before, she had gone on a very long journey．
The gentleman drove the girl to her home and then returned to the flower shop．He cancelled(取消)the bouquet and bought a big bunch(束)of fresh flowers instead．He drove directly to his mother's home, a five-hour drive from here．He would send the flowers to his mother in person．
(1)
The word“deliver”in Paragraph 1 means“________”．
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A．
give
B．
take
C．
send
D．
bring
(2)
Why was the little girl crying?
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A．
Because her mother died．
B．
Because she lost her money．
C．
Because she lost her way home．
D．
Because she couldn't afford a rose．
(3)
The little girl asked the gentleman to drive her ________．
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A．
to her home
B．
to her school
C．
to a cemetery
D．
to a mountain
(4)
We can tell from the story that ________．
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A．
The little girl loves her mother very much
B．
The gentleman doesn't care about his mother
C．
The little girl's mother lives far away from her home
After spending years searching for a planet with life, scientists may have found one．In September 2010, a team of US scientists discovered an Earth-sized planet called Gliese 581 g．It has a surface temperature neither too hot nor too cold for liquid(液态)water．Scientists think there is a chance that the planet could have life．
The planet Gliese 581 g goes around a star called Gliese 581, which is about 20 light-years from Earth．That is about 194 trillion(万亿)kilometres－500 million times farther away from us than the moon．
A spacecraft traveling at a one-tenth of the speed of light would reach Gliese 581g within about 220 years．A human can’t live that long, but robotic explorers could make the job easier．However, our fastest spacecraft don’t come anywhere near that one-tenth light-speed mark．
At present, scientists don’t know what the surface might be like on Gliese 581 g．What they know is that the planet is at the sight distance from its star to have liquid water．It’s also at the right distance to have an atmosphere that could protect the water if it is on the surface．
Although spacecraft won’t be getting there anytime soon, one way to look for life on Gliese 581g is to turn our radio telescopes(望远镜)towards the planet and search for radiation(放射)．By studying the radiation, scientists would find out about the chemicals(化学物质)around the planet and discover it Gliese 581 g has an atmosphere．If it has one, studying the atmosphere would give us a good idea if the planet has life or not．But it’ll probably be many years before we can do this properly．
People have been arguing about whether there is alien life on Gliese 581 g．Any discussion about alien life is just guessing at this point, according to its discoverers．
(1)
What did scientists find in September 2010?
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A．
A planet with water．
B．
A planet similar to the earth．
C．
A planet without life．
D．
A planet near the earth．
(2)
According to the article, Gliese 581 g _________．
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A．
is at the right distance from its star
B．
moves around the earth
C．
is as far away from us as the moon
D．
can be reached in about 220 years
(3)
Paragraph 5 is mainly about _________．
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A．
the possibility of living on Gliese 581 g
B．
the kinds of chemicals around Gliese 581 g
C．
the way of looking for life on Gliese 581 g
D．
the aim of studying the radiation on Gliese 581 g
(4)
Which of the following is the best title for the passage above?
