Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)

This is a story about a boy called Sparky. For Sparky, school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He got a zero in physics. It made him the worst physics student in the school’s history. He didn’t do much better in sports. Although he tried to join the school’s golf team, he quickly lost the only important match.

He didn’t have friends, either. Other kids didn’t care about him. If a classmate said “hello” to Sparky outside the school, he would feel very surprised.

Sparky was a loser and everyone knew it. So he accepted it.

But one thing was important to Sparky – drawing. He was proud of his artwork. In senior high school, he sent some cartoons to the editors of the yearbook (年鉴) but got turned down. Sparky was hurt. But he didn’t lose hope because he believed in his ability. He decided to become a professional artist.

He wrote a letter to the Walt Disney Studios (工作室) after graduating high school. The studio asked him to draw some cartoons on a certain subject. Sparky spent a lot of time on the cartoons. Finally, the reply came from Disney Studios: they didn’t like his cartoons.

Was it time to stop drawing? Sparky didn’t think so. He started to put his own life in the cartoons. He created his childhood self – a little boy loser: Charlie Brown. He wasn’t good at football. But Charlie Brown would soon become famous worldwide. Sparky, the boy who used to fail school and who was rejected again and again, was Charles Schulz. He created the Peanuts comic strip and the world-famous cartoon characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy.

1.Sparky didn’t do well in physics, did he?

________, ________________________.

2.Was Sparky good at making friends with others?

_____________________________________________________________.

3.Who did he send some cartoons to in senior school?

_____________________________________________________________.

4.What did the Walt Disney Studios ask him to do?

_____________________________________________________________.

5.What was Sparky’s real name?

_____________________________________________________________.

6.Why could a little loser become a world-famous cartoonist?

_____________________________________________________________.

One day a red rose blossomed (开花) in a forest. A pine tree(松树) not far away said, “You’re so beautiful! I wish I could be lovely like you. ”

The rose said, “I am the most beautiful plant in the forest.” Then the rose looked at a cactus(仙人掌) and said, “Look at that ugly plant. It is full of thorns (刺)!”Sometimes, the red rose would look at the cactus and say, “This plant is useless. I’m sorry I am his neighbor. ”

Summer came and the plants and animals needed water, but no rain fell. One day the rose saw some birds stick their beaks(鸟喙) into the cactus and then fly away. The red rose asked what the birds were doing. The pine tree explained that the birds got water from the cactus. The pine tree told the red rose, “You can also drink from it. The birds can bring water to you if you ask the cactus for help. ”

The red rose felt ashamed, but she still asked the cactus for help. The cactus agreed kindly and the birds filled their beaks with water for the rose’s roots. Later on, the rose never gave her opinion about anyone by look again.

1.What did the rose think of the cactus at the beginning of the story?

A. He was beautiful and lovely.

B. He was ugly and useless.

C. He was kind and helpful.

D. He was unfriendly and ugly.

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the story?

A. There was no rain when summer came.

B. The pine tree could get water from the cactus.

C. The birds stuck their beaks into the pine tree.

D. The rose could bring water to the pine’s roots.

3.The underlined word “ashamed” means “______” in Chinese.

A. 骄傲的 B. 忧虑的 C. 高兴的 D. 羞愧的

4.From the passage, we know that ______.

A. the pine tree was awful

B. the cactus was helpful

C. the birds were more beautiful

D. the rose couldn’t get water in the end

5.What does the writer want to tell us?

A. Look is not everything.

B. Be careful of what you say to others.

C. The red rose is more beautiful than the cactus.

D. Don’t feel bad about having an ugly neighbor.

I was 15 months old, a happy kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. My mom found a doctor who knew that if the eye were taken away, my face would look ugly, so my scarred (有疤痕的), sightless, cloudy gray eye lived on with me.

Sometimes people asked me embarrassing questions. When kids played games, 1. I grew up imagining that everyone looked down on me.

Yet Mom would say to me: “Hold your head up high and face the world.” 2.

As a child, I thought Mom meant, “Be careful or you will fall down or knock into something because you are not looking.” As a teenager, 3. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.

In high school I even became monitor of my class, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mom and she would look at me with loving eyes and say: “Hold your head up high and face the world. 4.

When I met the man who became my husband, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he told me I was beautiful inside and out.

My mom’s love was the spark (火花) that gave me confidence. I had faced trouble, and learned not only to appreciate myself but to have deep pity for others.

“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I say it to my children. 5.

根据文章大意,请大家把下面五个句子还原到适当的位置。

A. I usually looked down to hide my shame (羞愧).

B. Let them see the beauty that is inside.

C. I was always the “monster”.

D. The gift my mom gave me lives on in my children.

E. I began to rely on(依赖) that saying.

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