Mr. Dawson was an old man with a bad temper(脾气). And everyone in town knew it. Kids were afraid to go into his yard to pick apples.

One Friday, 12-year-old Janet and her friend Amy had to walk past Mr. Dawson’s house. When Janet saw him, she suggested crossing the street to the other side. But Amy said they needn’t.

When Mr. Dawson saw Amy, he smiled and said, “Hello, Amy! I see you have a new friend with you today.” Amy smiled back and told him that Janet would stay with her that night. Mr. Dawson looked friendly and gave them each a fresh apple. The girls were glad to get them.

Later Janet asked Amy, “Everyone says he is the most unwelcome person in town. Why was he so kind to us?” Amy explained that when she first walked past his house, she was also afraid of him. But she pretended(假装) there was an invisible (看不见的) smile on his face and so she always smiled back at him. It took a long time, but one day he half-smiled back at her, and then started talking to her.

“An invisible smile?” Janet was puzzled. “Yes,” answered Amy, “My grandma told me to think so. She says smiles can run around. If we keep smiling at someone, sooner or later he will really smile back.”

Remember what Amy’s grandma said, and we will find that most people can’t refuse our smile.

1. What did people feel about Mr. Dawson? (不超过10个词)

2. Who did Amy learn “an invisible smile” from? (不超过10个词)

3.What does the writer want to tell us? (不超过20个词)

What do American middle school students like to be in the future? Some students say they want to be doctors or singers. Some want to be bank clerks or office workers. But Kelly Brown, 13, wants to be a *vegetarian chef. It is a new and interesting job. Kelly Brown wants be a chef because she doesn’t eat things from animals. Now she has a problem. She can’t find any vegetarian chefs on the computer, so she says she will be the first vegetarian chef, and also the best one in the U.S.A..

Kelly Brown has a *website for herself and other people. It is www.theveggiechef.net. She makes cooking *videos. “I don’t like to cook with things from animals,” she says. “When I want one egg, I just put in water and *arrowroot. It *tastes the same as an egg.”

Now her website is very popular and it helps many people a lot. Every day about 3,000 people learn to cook a healthy meal there. To thank her for helping animals, the organization PETA (善待动物组织) calls her a “Kind Kid”. Do you want to be a vegetarian chef like Kelly Brown?

1.Kelly Brown is a 13-year-old student from ___________.

A. England B. Australia C.Canada D. the USA

2.What’s the job of a chef ?

A. Teaching. B. Driving. C. Cooking. D. Drawing.

3. Which of the following may vegetarians eat?

4. What can we know from Paragraph (段落) 2 ?

A. How Kelly doesn’t cook with things from animals.

B. What Kelly wants to be when she is old.

C. Why Kelly wants to be a vegetarian chef.

D. Why many people like to go to her website.

5.“www.theveggiechef.net” is a website for people to_____.

6. A. see Kelly’s photos B. learn to cook

C. look after animals D. be kind children

请先阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卷上将该项涂黑(每小题1分)

Most of us have three meals a day .We take food for granted(想当然)。And we don’t think about it. experts argue a food crisis(危机)is coming.This crisis is going to make us the way we think about food.

Food is in great need a growing of world population.By 1960,the population was three billion.It doubled to six billion by 1999.By 2050,this planet will need to at least nine billion people.As a result,the food prices get higher and higher.

So,what can a ,crowed world do?One suggestion is to eat less meat.Meat uses more natural resources(资源)than grains(谷物) .It requires more to produce one pound of meat than to produce one pound of grain. It also requires between 5 and 10 times more water than vegetables. So ,eating less meat will more land for farming,and it will save water.

To eats less meat,people will need to change their eating habits. That will not be easy. Americans, for example,have loved meat. In general, They eat twice as much meat as people in other countries.At the same time,in developing countries like China and Brazil,sales of meat have doubled in the last 20 years. will double again by 2050.Growing need of meat wil continue to put pressure on natural resources.

World population is increasing,resources are becoming fewer,and food prices are rising.Therefore, we need to rethink what we eat every day. For meat lovers, we don’t need to give up meat .But we need to eat more grains and less meat.

1.A.And B.But C.Or D.Until

2.A.change B.find C.get D.tell

3.A.instead of B.thanks to C.because of D.as for

4.A.help B.have C.feed D.meet

5.A.busy B.tired C.thirsty D.hungry

6.A.time B.land C.people D.place

7.A. provide B. produce C. waste D. need

8.A. never B. seldom C. hardly D. always

9.A. It B. That C. We D. They

10.A. quickly B. completely C. finally D. especially

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