Ron loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the following year. As Ron was walking to the game, a car hit him so hard that he was thrown three feet into the air.
Ron woke up in a hospital room. When he learned that both his legs were broken, he realized his college basketball dreams were over. Ron did what the doctors told him, but his progress was slow. When he left the hospital, Ron was sent to a health center for physical treatment.
A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny. Sunny was a coach.His legs were hurt  paralysed(瘫痪的) from a skiing accident. Even though he couldn’t move his legs, Sunny coached of a basketball team called the Suns. Everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself.
After becoming a part of the Suns, Ron improved quickly. Basketball was like   medicine for him. And whenever Ron became depressed or angry, Sunny was there to encourage and help him. The day before Ron left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he managed to be generous and cheerful, even with his paralysis.
Sunny smiled and said, “It’s really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows(阴影) fall behind.”
【小题1】What happened to Ron on his way to a basketball game?

A.A car hit him.B.He met his coach.
C.His doctor called him.D.He fell down and cut his foot.
【小题2】 The underlined word “depressed” means ___ in Chinese.
A.懒惰的B.好奇的C.沮丧的D.激动的
【小题3】What is the most important thing we can learn from the story?
A.Basketball can teach people about life.
B.Keep smiling when you face difficulties.
C.Life is more difficult for the paralysed.
D.Skiing is more dangerous than basketball.


Here are two stories from different parts of the world. They seem strange but, believe it or not, they re all true!
John Lee was an Englishman who refused to be hanged! In 1884 the police said Lee had killed an old woman who he used to work with. There was nothing to show that Lee had killed the woman. Lee told the police he hadn’t done it, but no one believed him and he was going to be hanged. On the day of the hanging, however, the door in the floor, through which Lee’s body would fall, did not open. They tried three times but each time the door stayed closed, even though it had worked well the day before. In the end they sent Lee back to prison, where he lived for the next twenty-two years. At all times, John Lee said he hadn’t killed the woman, and he believed it was the "hand of God" that had saved him from death by hanging.
The police in Venezuela (委内瑞拉)in South America followed a man home one night. He was the thief they wanted to catch. However, half of his house was standing in Venezuela and the other half was standing in Colombia (哥伦比亚). Venezuela’s neighbor. When the police entered the house, the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia, and called his lawyer (律师). The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom. They asked the police in Colombia to help. The Colombian police refused to help because the man’s crime (罪行)was not a crime in Colombia. In the end, the Venezuelan police gave up and went back to the police station.
【小题1】The underlined(下划线) word "hanged" in this passage probably means _.

A.shut in a room »
B.questioned by the police
C.killed by putting a rope around the neck
D.kept in a place
【小题2】 What do we1 know about the door in the floor?
A.It had opened the day before the hanging.
B.It had been broken a long time.
C.After three times, it opened.
D.John Lee’s dead body fell through it.
【小题3】From the story we know that the thief’s bedroom was____.
A. in Venezuela B. in Colombia
C. in neither Venezuela nor Colombia I), in both Venezuela and Colombia
【小题4】Why didn’t the Venezuelan police go into the man’s bedroom?
A.They didn’t know where it was.
B.The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia.
C.The police in Colombia told them that (hey would help.
D.The police in Colombia told them not to go inside.
【小题5】 The police in Colombia didn’t help the police in Venezuela to catch the thief because
A.they didn’t know where he was
B.the police in Venezuela didn’t ask for help
C.the man’s lawyer told them not to help
D.the man’s crime was not a crime in Colombia

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