It was Mary’s birthday.She received(收到)a  1  from her uncle.“Dear Mary,” he  2  in the letter , “Happy Birthday ! I’m sending you some chickens.They will  3  tomorrow. I hope you like them.Uncle Toby.”

Mary was very  4 .She liked eating eggs and chicken.“ I can  5  the chickens for their eggs or eat them.” she thought.

When the chickens arrived the  6  day , they ere put in a box.Mary was very happy.She  7  the box off the back of the truck and began to carry  8  into her garden , but the box of chickens was  9  heavy that she dropped it.The box fell  10  the ground and  11 .The chickens all ran out.They ran here and there.Mary spent hours  12  to finds them.

A few days later her uncle came.He asked, “Did the chickens arrive  13  ?” “Yes , but  I dropped the box. It broke open and the chickens ran  14 .I spent the whole morning looking for them.” Mary said.

“Did you find them all?” asked her uncle.“I hope so ,” Mary answered , “but I only  15  eleven of them.”

“That’s very interesting.I only sent you six ,” her uncle said with a smile.

(   ) 1. A. box                B. present            C. card           D. letter

(   ) 2. A. wrote             B. read               C. told            D. spoke

(   ) 3. A. get               B. arrive              C. come          D. be

(   ) 4. A. unhappy          B. surprised          C. kind           D. pleased

(   ) 5. A. keep              B. grow              C. buy          D. sell

(   ) 6. A. rainy              B. first               C. last          D. next

(   ) 7. A. left                B. passed            C. took          D. opened

(   ) 8. A. it                 B. them               C. that          D. this

(   ) 9. A. very               B. too                 C. such         D. so

(   ) 10. A. into              B. to                  C. off          D. from

(   ) 11. A. turned            B. broke                  C. hurt          D. hit

(   ) 12. A. and try           B. for trying                  C. to try        D. in trying

(   ) 13. A. safely            B. angrily               C. happily       D. noisily

(   ) 14. A. here              B. there                C. everywhere  D.anywhere

(   ) 15. A. bought            B. caught              C. dropped            D. sent

Life in the future will be different from life today.Between then and now many changes will happen.But what will the changes be?

     The population (人口) is growing fast.There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.

     Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least (至少) one in every room.And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then.People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travel.Traveling will be much cheaper and easier.And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.

     There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people.Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive.Maybe no one will eat it every day.Instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables.Maybe people will be healthier.Work in the future will be different, too. Robots will do dangerous and hard work.Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

(   )1.In the future there will be _______.

A. much more fruit                          B. more people

C. less vegetables                              D. less people

  (   ) 2.Every family will have at least a _____________ in the future.

          A. robot            B. cow         C. TV set                D. computer

(   ) 3.In the future people don’t have to __________________

          A. work long hours   B. work fast    C. walk on foot         D. eat meat

(   ) 4.People may not eat _________ as much as they do today.

          A. fruit             B. fish         C. meat                D. rice

(   ) 5.One big problem in the future is that ___________.

A many people don’t have to work

B. many people will not be able to find work

          C. people have to work fast      

D. all the work will be done by robots

An old man lived alone in a town.He wanted to dig up his potato garden ,but it was very hard work.His only son who would have helped him was in prison.So the old man wrote a letter to his son and said:

Dear Son,

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant potatoes in my garden this year.I’d hate to miss doing it ,because your mother always loved planting time.I’m just getting too old to dig up a garden.If you were here ,all my troubles would be over.I know you would dig up the garden for me if you weren’t in prison.

Love, Dad

Soon the old man received a letter: Dad don’t dig up the garden! That’s where I buried the guns!”

At 4 a.m. the next morning some policemen showed up and dug up the whole garden without finding any guns.The old man was surprised and wrote another note to his son .He told him what had happened and asked him what to do next.

His son’s reply was: Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad.It’s the best I could do for you from here.”

No matter where you are in the world, if you have decided to do something deep from your heart, you can do it.It is the thought that matters.

1.What was the old’s trouble?

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2.How was the old man’ feeling when he was writing to his son ?

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3.Could the old man plant his potatoes at last ?

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4. What do you think of the old man’ son ?

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5.What is the title of this passage?

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