Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　Birds live almost everywhere in the world. Many birds live in trees. They build their nests there. They lay their eggs in the nests. Baby birds do not have strong wings. They can't fly with their parents. They just stay at home. Some birds make their nests in the fields. Others build their homes on the roofs or in the chimneys. Chickens are birds. They usually lie in chicken houses. Ducks and turkeys are birds, too. Some ducks and turkeys live in farm yards. But others live in the woods and fields.

True or False. 判断下列句子是否符合短文内容, 符合的用 “T” 表示, 不符合的用 “F” 表示, 填入括号内.

(1) Both chickens and ducks are birds.

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(2) All birds live in farm yards.

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(3) Baby birds can fly with their parents.

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(4) Birds live almost everywhere in the world.

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(5) Many birds build their nests in the chimneys.

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Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　Mary is an American girl. She has many pen-friends around the world. She likes writing to them and receiving their letters in return. She started writing to her first pen-friend, Thomas Wright from Britain, when she was ten years old. They have been writing to each other for two years now.

　　Mary enjoys writing to people from other countries because she finds it very interesting to learn different things about those countries.

　　She hopes to visit her pen-friends some day, but she will continue writing to them and enjoying their friendship.

　　She will also try to look for pen-friends from other countries such as Japan, China and France.

True or False. 判断下列句子是否符合短文内容, 符合的用 “T” 表示, 不符合的用 “F” 表示, 填入括号内.

(1) Mary writes many letters to her pen-friends but she never gets their replies.

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(2) Mary started to write letters when she was only ten months old.

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(3) Mary enjoys writing letters because she finds it interesting.

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(4) Mary also visits many countries where her pen-friends live.

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(5) Mary doesn't want any more pen-friends because she has no time to write letters now.

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Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　Once there was a man. He could run very fast. He was proud of this and he was always ready to show people how fast he could run.

　　One day, a thief broke into his house and took some of his things. When the man saw him, the thief ran hurriedly. The man ran after the thief and shouted, “Hey, stop! Stop! Don't you know you can't get away from me?” But the thief only ran faster. The man got so angry that he ran even faster. He was soon miles away from his home. He was still rushing along when he ran into a friend. “Why are you in such a hurry?” the friend asked. “I'm trying to catch a thief,” said the man, quite out of breath (气喘吁吁). “But where is the thief?” asked his friend. “Miles and miles behind!” said the runner, smiling with pride. “He thought he could run faster than I, but you see he was quite wrong.”

True or False. 判断下列句子是否符合短文内容, 符合的用 “T” 表示, 不符合的用 “F” 表示, 填入括号内.

(1) The man was proud that he could run faster than any thief.

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(2) The man ran and shouted, but the thief was little afraid.

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(3) The man was too angry to run even faster.

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(4) The man's friend couldn't understand why the man was running so fast.

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(5) The man caught the thief at last.

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　　One morning, I met a customer (顾客) in my shop. He wanted to buy some new clothes. First, I gave him a pair of trousers. He put them on to try, then took them off and gave them back to me and said, “No, give me a coat instead.”

　　I gave him a coat and told him, “This one is worth as much as the trousers.” To my surprise, he took the coat without saying a word and walked out of the shop with it. I ran quickly after him and said, “You haven't paid for that coat!”

　　“But I gave you the trousers for the coat,” he said, “They are worth the same as the coat, aren't they?”

　　“Yes,” I said, “But you didn't pay for the trousers, either!”

　　“Of course, I didn't!” answered the man. “I did not take them. I am not foolish! Nobody gives things back and then pays for them.”

根据短文内容判断，正确的填T，错误的填F。

(1) The writer and the customer were friends, so the customer took the coat away.

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(2) The coat is worth as much as the trousers.

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(3) The writer ran after the customer because the customer paid more money for the trousers.

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(4) The customer was angry because he couldn't find the right size for himself.

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(5) The customer didn't pay any money at all.

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阅读理解：

　　　　Bill and Tom are doing some maths exercises together. "The problems（试题）are too difficult. I can't do most of them," Bill 　　says. "Neither can I, "Tom says. Just then, John comes up to them.Bill and Tom ask John, "Do you think the maths problems are difficult?"John says. "No, I don't think so. Shall I help you?" Bill and Tom say, "Yes, Thanks a lot."

　　判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示。

　　1. Bill and Tom are having a maths test. 

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　　2. The maths problems are too difficult and nobody can do them.

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　　3. Bill and Tom can't do most of the problems. 

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　　4. John is clever and he can do them. 

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　　5. John is ready to help Bill and Tom with their maths problems.

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　　Read the passages and do the following exercises(阅读并做题)

　　Mr White was a chicken farmer. He had hundreds of chickens and sold eggs and the meat and got quite a lot of money, but he lived in a very hot part of the country, and he found that his hens could hardly lay any eggs(下蛋) in the summer. So he decided to put air-conditioning(空调机) into his chicken house so that the hens would lay well all through the year and he could get more eggs and in that way get more money.

　　The owner of the air-conditioning company(公司) came to see him, and when he saw Mr White's house, he thought that he might be able to persuade (劝说) him to buy some air-conditioning for that, too.

　　“Your wife would be much happier and have a nicer house to live in then,”he said to Mr White. But Mr White was not interested.

　　“My wife doesn't lay eggs,”he said.

　　True or False

1．Mr White's hens could lay few eggs when the weather was too hot.

2．Mr White decided to buy air-conditioning for his house because he wanted to make his wife much happier.

3．The owner of the air-conditioning company hoped to put air-conditioning into both Mr White's house and his chicken house.

4．Neither Mr White nor the owner of the company wanted to get more money.

5．Mr White was too poor to buy air-conditioning for his wife.