Li Shizhen was born in 1518. His father was a poor doctor. Li Shizhen often saw that people fell ill. He decided to study medicine so that he could be able to help people. Li Shizhen read many books about medicine. He found many of the old medical books to be full of mistakes. So his wish was to write a new one.
He did his best to study medical science. He studied not only the herbs（草药）in his own garden, but also the wild ones. He set out many times on long journeys to collect herbs and talk with old farmers. He learned a lot from the working people.
After many years of hard work and study, Li Shizhen finished his great work “Ben Cao Gang Mu”（本草纲目）. At that time he was sixty. His book is now one of the greatest contributions（贡献）of the Chinese people to the medical science of the world.
【小题1】Li Shizhen’s father was       .

　　Mike is a factory worker. He is often very tired after a day’s work. His wife, Jenny, has no job, so she stays at home to cook the meals. Every day he can have his dinner when he gets home from his factory.
　　One day, Mike came home very late because he was very busy in the factory. He was very hungry when he got home.
　　He was not happy when he found his dinner was not ready. He was very angry with his wife. He shouted at her, “I’m going out to eat in a restaurant.” “Wait for five minutes，” said his wife. “Why? Do you think that dinner will be ready in five minutes?” asked Mike.
　　“Of course not,” she answered. “But I can be ready to go with you in five minutes.” 
【小题1】Mike works in________.

   Frank bought a new doorbell, but nobody seemed to notice it. When his friends came, they knocked heavily at the door. Frank was not happy about it.
One day a friend came to see Frank. He knocked at the door loudly. Frank came to the door, but didn’t open it. He shouted at the visitor from inside. “ I can’t hear you! Please ring the doorbell!”
【小题1】What did Frank buy?
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【小题2】Why wasn’t Frank happy?
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【小题3】Who came to see Frank one day?
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【小题4】Why didn’t Frank open the door?
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【小题5】Did Frank hear the knock?
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Mr. Smith is an Englishman. He teaches English well. His English classes are very interesting. He likes us and we like him, too.
Mr. Smith has two children---Tom and Lucy. Tom is seven and his sister Lucy is four. Tom goes to school but Lucy doesn’t. Mr. Smith likes to wear a T-shirt and Jeans. Football is his favorite sport. After school, we often have a basketball game. Sometimes Mr. Smith watches and joins us. He plays basketball just for fun.
【小题1】Mr. Smith is________.

Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21,1833,but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father ,Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then , the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father’s lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars, and keep the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.
【小题1】Alfred Nobel, ,the great Swedish inventor, was born in Stockholm on ____________ 21,1833.
【小题2】During the Crimean War, Immanuel Nobel invented _____________.
【小题3】Nobel had never been to ____________ or university.
【小题4】Nobel built up over ______________ companies in 20 different countries.
【小题5】 When Nobel was died, he was ____________ years old.

A young father was visiting an old neighbor. They were standing in the old man’s garden, and talking about children. The young man said,“How strict should parents be with their children?”
　  The old man pointed to（指着）a string (细绳) between a big strong tree and a thin young one.
　 “Please untie (解开) that string.” said the old man. “But first pull the string tight so that（以便于）the young tree is straight again.” The young man did so. He untied the string and only found that the young tree bent（弯）over to one side.
　 Then the old man said,“There, it is the same with children. You must be strict with them. But sometimes you must untie the string to see how they are getting on. If they are not yet able to stand alone，you must tie the string tight again. But when you find that they are ready to stand alone，you can take the string away.”
【小题1】The story is about ____________.
　　    A. how to take care of young trees　   
B. how strict parents should be with their children
C. how the young father should get on with his old neighbor
【小题2】 The young man untied the string ________________.
　　    A. in order to throw it away  　　
B. so that both of the trees wouldn’t grow straight
　　    C. and found that the young tree bent over to one side
【小题3】When could the string be taken away?
　　    A. When the old man left.　  　　
B. When the young man untied it next time.
　   　C. When the young tree grew strong enough.
【小题4】 At last the old man told the young man ________________.
　　    A. that he should be strict with his children if they could not 
stand alone
　　    B. that he should always be strict with his children
　　    C. that he should be hard on his children
【小题5】We learn that the big strong tree and the thin young one are like _________.
A. the young father and the old neighbor   　　
B. parents and their children
　　     C. the old neighbor and the children of young father

An old lady went to the shop last Sunday. She passed a bank and saw a car near the door. A man got out of it and went into the bank. She looked into the car. The keys were in the lock(锁).
　　The old lady took the keys and followed the man into the bank. The man took a gun（枪）out of the pocket and said to the clerk, “Give me all the money.” But the old lady didn’t see this. She went to the man and put the keys in his hand and said, “Young man, you are foolish. Never leave your keys in your car. Someone is going to steal it. ” The man looked at the old lady for a few seconds. Then he looked at the clerk. He took the keys, ran out of the bank, got into his car and drove away quickly without any money.
【小题1】 Last Sunday, an old woman ______.

Let me tell you my penfriend Ivan. He is 12 years old. He likes playing football. He usually plays football with his friends at weekends.
Ivan lives with his father and mother in a city in France. They have a home with five rooms, a swimming pool and a garden. They often have a party in the garden at weekends. They like to help their neighbours. His home is not near his school, so Ivan takes a bus for an hour and then walks for 10 minutes to school. There is a Basketball Club near his school. He likes playing basketball in the club.
Ivan’s father is a worker. He is busy. Ivan’s mother is a doctor. She is nice to the patients. Ivan wants to be a teacher when he grows up.1 want to be a teacher, too. Every month Ivan writes two letters to me. He’ll come to China next year. We’ll meet then.
【小题1】How old is Ivan now?

He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn’t smile very often. However, if you talk to him about music, he’ll have a lot to say.
This is Jay Chou, the 24-year-old Taiwanese pop king. His fans are so excited because he will sing songs in Beijing on September 12. Those songs are from his album(唱片), "Ye Huimei", and the album was released(发行) in July and was named after his mother.
Chou grew up just with his mother. He did not talk much and did badly in many
school subjects.
His mother noticed the boy’s special interest in music and sent him to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing.
Chou is not very handsome. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks. But the singer has huge crowds of fans. "He is really good at music, it makes him attractive(有魅力的) to me." said Liu Jiajun, a Junior 2 student in No. 101 Middle School in Beijing.
"He is true to himself. He never follows others." said Zhang Yujie, a Junior 1 girl at Huaibei Middle School in Sihong, Jiangsu Province.
6. From this passage, we know that Jay Chou       .
A. is very handsome            B. has a bright smile
C. often makes too much noise      D. is a pop music star
7. His fans are so excited because       .
A. he released a new album in July 
B. he will sing new songs in Beijing
C. he can play the piano very well
D. his new album was named after his mother
8. When he was a little child, he       .
A. talked a lot every day            B. did well in his study at school
C. started to like music             D. had huge crowds of fans
9. According to one of his fans, Jay         .
A. is a good student               B. has long and beautiful hair
C. is a well-known pianist          D. is very attractive to them
10. The sentence "He never follows others" in the last paragraph means       .
A. he always has his own style
B. he likes to walk alone
C. he doesn’t like other people’s songs at all
D. no one can catch up with him