A

One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I give twenty dollars.” “All right” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the elephants?” “I didn’t find the bad ears” says the young man. “Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?” asked the old man. The young man answers, “Because I never saw an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”

1                 the elephant.

A. The young man sells      B. The old man sells

C. The two men sell         D. The old man buys

2 The young man looks at the elephants. He wants to find    

A. some meat              B. some money  

C. bad ears                D. what it looks like

3 The young man looks at the elephant slowly because he     

A. wants to find something    B. likes the elephant

C. helps the old man         D. doesn’t see the elephant before

4 Hearing what the young man said, the old man will be     

A. angry     B. happy     C. dangerous     D. hungry

5 A. knows the elephant has bad ears

B. wants the elephant

C. looks after the elephants      

D. will not get any money from the old man

  B

Many young people in China know about Celine Dion (席琳•迪翁),the famous French Canadian pop singer. She sang the song “ My heart will go on” for the movie Titanic. But do you know she had already become popular before she sang this song.

Celine Dion’s hometown was in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is the youngest of the fourteen children in a musical family. Her parents and the large family formed a singing group. They traveled and played folk music. They were well known in their hometown. Celine’s mother wrote her first song for her, and she recorded it with her brother when she was twelve years old. Then a local rock manager named Rene Angelil was interested in them. He asked Mrs Dion to take her two children to come to his office. Later on he gave strong support for Celine. In 1994, they were married.

As a singing star, Celine Dion won many prizes and soon became popular all over the world. She sang at the opening of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA. In 1997, she made the whole world hit with the song “My heart will go on”.                                  

6Celine Dion was a _______.

        A. drawer   B. scientist    C. singer    D. manager

7There were _______ people in Celine’s family.

        A. 15      B. 16         C. 17       D. 18

8Celine Dion’s family were ______ in their hometown.

        A. famous   B. rich        C. poor     D. kind

9 Celine Dion recorded her first song with ______.

        A. her sister B. her mother   C. her father   D. her brother

10 In _____, Celine Dion sang at the opening of the Olympic Cames.

        A. 1999     B. 1998       C. 1997      D. 1996  

Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756 and    1    on December 5th, 1791. His father took him to many  2  countries , where he played music for lots of people.

But some people didn’t believe that a little boy could write  3  beautiful music. They asked him to stay in a room  4  for a week and somebody watched the room all the time. In the week, he finished 5 piece of music. After that, people 6 that he could write beautiful music.

Mozart died when he was  7 a young man. During his  8  life , he studied music and taught music and played music and wrote music. Even by working  9 , he couldn’t make much money. Often he had to borrow money from his friends. But  10  made him happy and for more than two hundred years his music has made other people happy, too.

1  A. died             B. dead           C. is dead              D. dying

2  A. big              B. small          C. great          D. different

3  A. such            B. light           C. this           D. strong

4  A. every day                    B. all by himself

       C. with young children           D. without doing anything

5  A. a short         B. a strange    C. a new        D. a western

6  A thought         B. said            C. believed      D. changed

7  A. also             B. even           C. really         D. still

8  A. hard            B. good          C .short         D. music

9  A .so hard                     B. for himself 

C. without music                 D. for other people

10 A. work            B. his music    C. friends     D. little money

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