Molly Daniels opened the door so hard that the door nearly broke it. Then she looked through the window at her neighbor across the yard. “ She is in my garden again. Those are my strawberries, not hers. Maybe I should call the police.”
Her friend, Doris, was sitting at the table with a cup of coffee in her hands. “You want to call the police because she picks your strawberries?” she asked.
“Of course,” Molly answered angrily. “What would you do if your neighbor walked into your yard without your permission and picked your strawberries?”
“I would say, better here the bees.”
“The bees don’t take my strawberries.”
“But the birds do,” Doris continued. “That old lady only picks a few strawberries every year, and the only ones she picks are those you leave to the birds. Why don’t you pick some of your good strawberries and give them to her?”
“Are you crazy? What are you thinking?’
“Don’t you remember what happened when you were in hospital last year? She went to see you and gave you a pot full of chicken soup. When you give her the strawberries you can tell her that you still remember that.”
Molly was shocked. She had almost forgotten that little kindness because she was too angry. Then she picked a basket of good strawberries and went out. Through the window, Doris could see that the anger on Molly’s face changed into a bright smile.
【小题1】Molly opened the door very hard because _____
A.she was very angry
B.she was very happy
C.she didn’t like eating strawberries
D.Doris wasn’t friendly
【小题2】The underline word “permission” in the passage means “_____” in Chinese.
A.感谢B.许可C.命令D.警告
【小题3】Which sentence is similar to the sentence “I would say, better here than the bees.”?
A.It’s better to let the neighbor pick the strawberries than to give them to the bees.
B.The bees are better than the neighbor.
C.The bees like strawberries more than the neighbor does.
D.The neighbor is good at picking strawberries.
【小题4】From the last paragraph, we can infer(推断)what Molly did at last with a basket of good strawberries.
A.She called the police to drive the neighbor away.
B.She happily gave a basket of good strawberries to the neighbor.
C.She ate up the strawberries herself.
D.She let the birds take her strawberries.

In 1638, John Harvard donated some money and about four hundred books to a new university. This was the beginning of the library at Harvard University. The gift was so important that the university was named for John Harvard.
Thomas Bray began the first free lending library in the late 1600s. He set up more than 30 or these libraries in the American colonies. However, the idea for this kind of free library ended when Bray died in 1730. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and some friends started the first subscription library in the United States. In a subscription library people pay money to become members, but they may borrow the books without paying again.
In the United States, every child had a free education. This idea soon led to free libraries. One of the first libraries that used tax money to buy books was a library in Peterborough, New Hampshire. This library was set up in 1833.
【小题1】The main idea of paragraph 2 is________.
A. Franklin started the first subscription library
B. in a subscription library people pay money to become members
C. Bray and Franklin were important in the history of public libraries
D. Bray died in 1730 and Franklin died in 1833
【小题2】The underlined word “borrow” means_______.
A.read and write with no help from another person
B.use for a short time and then return
C.like very much
D.lend
【小题3】The reading does not say it, but we can guess that_______.
A.there were free schools in the United States before there were free libraries
B.free schools and free libraries in the United States began at about the same time
C.the library in New Hampshire also had a free school in it
D.there were free libraries in the United States before there were free schools
【小题4】Harvard University began_______.
A.in 1731 B.in 1730 C.in 1833 D.in 1638
【小题5】At the library that Franklin started, ________.
A.children could use books for no money at all
B.people paid a little money in the beginning but none after that
C.people paid a lot of money in the beginning but none after that
D.both A and B

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