“Sixteen,” I said. I have forgotten the math question my second-grade teacher, Joyce Cooper asked that day, but I will never forget my _1_ . As soon as the number left my mouth, the whole class started _2_ . I felt like the silliest person in the world.
Mrs. Cooper fixed them with a firm (严格的) look. Then she said: “We’re all here to _3_ .”
Another time, Mrs. Cooper asked us to write a _4_ about what we hoped to do with our lives. I wrote: “I want to be a _5_ like Mrs. Cooper.”
She wrote on my report, “You would make an outstanding(杰出的) teacher _6_ you are determined(坚定的) and you try hard.” I was to carry those _7_ in my heart for the next 27 years.
After I graduated from high school, I got married and had children.
We needed every penny just to get by. College – and teaching – was out of the question.
Then one day I thought of my _8_ of how I wanted to help children. I talked it over with my family and _9_ to attend college classes in the mornings before work. And when I got home from work, I would _10_ . Finally after seven years, my dream had been realized and I became a teacher.
Not long after I started _11_ , something happened that brought the _12_ rushing back to me. I had written a sentence with grammatical(语法的) mistakes on the blackboard. Then I asked students to come and _13_ the mistakes.
One girl got halfway through, became confused(迷乱的) and stopped. As the other children laughed, _14_ rolled down her face. I gave her a hug and told her to get a drink of water. Then, remembering Mrs. Cooper, I fixed _15_ of the class with a firm look. “We’re all here to learn,” I said.
小题1:
A.questionB.answerC.resultD.reaction
小题2:
A.talkingB.shoutingC.discussingD.laughing
小题3:
A.workB.learnC.playD.watch
小题4:
A.letterB.songC.reportD.story
小题5:
A.teacherB.friendC.reporterD.parent
小题6:
A.becauseB.unlessC.until D.before
小题7:
A.reportsB.wordsC.teachers D.classmates
小题8:
A.planB.workC.dream D.idea
小题9:
A.supposedB.promisedC.decided D.agreed
小题10:
A.sleepB.studyC.rest D.play
小题11:
A.studyingB.writingC.thinking D.teaching
小题12:
A.teacherB.lifeC.past D.feeling
小题13:
A.correctB.proveC.check D.read
小题14:
A.waterB.tearsC.sweat D.smiles
小题15:
A.half B.mostC.the whole D.the rest

Once a baby cries, the parents will go to see what happened as soon as possible. According to a new study, a baby's cry can make adults react(反应) very quickly, even if they are not related.
Oxford University researchers used the classic game whack-a-mole for the study.  Whack-a-mole(打鼹鼠游戏) requires people to hit one of nine buttons (按钮). The players must react as quickly as they can to whichever of the buttons lights up at random(随机). It is a game that requires speed and accuracy (准确度 ).
The study included 40 men and women volunteers aged 19 to 59. Some of them had sons or daughters but none had a baby at the time. They played whack-a-mole after listening to different sounds, including babies crying, the crying of adults in trouble and birdsong played at a similar pitch to the babies' cries.
The volunteers' scores were higher after listening to the sound of crying babies. Men and women had similar scores overall. The results showed that a crying baby gets special attention.
"Few sounds make people react quite like the cry of a baby," said Morten Kringelbach of Oxford's psychiatry(精神病学) department, who led the study. "For example, it's almost impossible to ignore(忽视,不理) crying babies on planes. This is true even though there are so many other noises around." 
He added that a baby's cry can increase adults' heart rate and blood pressure. This is understandable, because in the course of human evolution (进化), taking care of babies has always been an important job for adults. When a baby is hungry or feeling bored or unwell, it will cry. As a result, human brains and bodies develop a special reaction to a baby's cry.
小题1:According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.There were 80 volunteers who took part in the study.
B.The youngest volunteer was 19 and the oldest was 59.
C.Some volunteers had babies at that time in the study.
D.The volunteers were affected by the sound of a baby’s cry.
小题2:The game “whack-a-mole” shows ______.
A.a baby’s cry can get special attention from adults
B.men and women have different reaction speed and accuracy
C.adults without babies react less quickly to a baby’s cry
D.women react to a baby’s cry more quickly than men
小题3:“Whack-a-mole” requires people to hit _____ at a time.
A.one buttonB.one of nine buttons
C.nine buttonsD.ten buttons
小题4:According to the passage, a baby’s cry ______.
A.has the same pitch as birdsong
B.is the noisiest sound there is
C.can increase adults’ heart rate and blood pressure
D.is good for its health
小题5:From the last paragraph, we learn that ______.
A.taking care of the younger babies was the most important thing in the past
B.human brains and bodies have developed to take care of babies
C.baby cries are a good way make adults react quickly
D.baby cries have developed a lot during the course of human evolution

Mr. Johnson 1____ a factory. He once 2_____ on TV that animals could be taught to 3_____ some work for people if they were given 4_____ to eat. He 5______the idea. He 6_____ it would be 7______ to have a dog look after his 8_____ and an elephant do some heavy jobs 9______ his factory. He bought a dog 10 ______an elephant in the market and decided to teach them to do some work 11_____ him. Of course. he 12______bought a lot of food for them. Several 13_____ later,the dog and the elephant 14 ______fatter and fatter,but they 15_______ do any work for him. At last,Mr. Johnson had to give up.
小题1:A. have            B. had               C. work
小题2:A. saw             B. asked             C. met
小题3:A. make            B. do                C. 1et
小题4:A. someone          B. nothing           C. something
小题5:A. loved            B. disliked            C. hated
小题6:A. told              B. thought             C. talked
小题7:A. bad              B. good              C. 1ate
小题8:A. house            B. shirt              C. eyes
小题9:A. in               B. above               C. under
小题10:A. but              B. or                  C. and
小题11:A. for               B. to                  C. of
小题12:A. also              B. never               C. yet
小题13:A. years            B. hours               C. months
小题14:A. smelt            B. sounded             C. became
小题15:A. mustn’t            B. couldn’t            C. shouldn’t

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe, pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries(樱桃).
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent(弯腰) down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.”
小题1:Who picked up the horseshoe at last?
A.The son.
B.The father.
C.Both the father and the son.
D.Neither the father nor the son.
小题2:The farmer bought ______ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.
A.some breadB.some water
C.some cherriesD.some pennies
小题3:The father dropped the cherries one by one, because ______.
A.he wanted to teach his son a lesson
B.he wanted his son to do more exercise
C.he wanted his son to eat them all
D.he wanted to laugh at his son
小题4:From the story, we can learn that ______.
A.cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them
B.a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money
C.if we want to eat cherries, we must pick up a horseshoe
D.if we don’t worry about the little things we cannot do the great things

Almost all people like flowers. Some people like flowers because of their smells, shapes, colors and so on. Others like flowers because they think different flowers mean different things. Flowers have their own language. For example, red roses mean “love” and sunflowers mean “loyalty(忠诚)”. So people in more than 100 countries have chosen their own national flowers which say something about their countries’ spirit. In 1994, China talked about choosing a national flower. Some people liked the peony(牡丹) but others liked the plum blossom(梅花). They couldn’t agree with each other. So it has not been decided yet.
People like to buy different flowers in different seasons. Where do all the beautiful flowers in shops come from? They may come from far away, so their price is higher.
a. Farmers grow flowers in their fields.
b. Planes or trains or buses take the flowers to different places.
c. Flower shopkeepers buy flowers from the flower markets. They look after the flowers and throw away the broken or bad ones. They cut the flowers to make them more beautiful.
d. You go to buy the flowers in the shops. When you buy a flower, you’re paying lots of people: the farmer, the driver of the plane or train or bus, the seller in the flower market and the flower shopkeeper.
So you’d better keep your flowers from far away for a long time. But how? Why not dry them? It’s easy! Sand drying is a way. Dry, clean sand is one of the oldest things for drying flowers. And it’s one of the cheapest.
·Fill a box half-way with sand.
·Put the flowers on top of the sand.
·Put the box in a warm, dry place.
·Leave the flowers there for one to three weeks.
·Take them out and they will be dry.
小题1:The underlined words “national flowers” most probably means ______.
A.the flowers of the country
B.the flowers of the season
C.the most beautiful flowers
D.the strongest flowers
小题2:People usually choose their own “national flower” according to (根据) the flower’s ______.
A.smellB.shapeC.colorD.meaning
小题3:The Chinese national flower has not been decided yet, because ______.
A.no flower can show China’s spirit
B.China hasn’t talked to choose the national flower
C.nobody agrees to choose the national flower
D.people can’t agree to choose the same flower.
小题4:You’d better keep your flowers for a long time, because ______.
A.the flowers are easy to dry
B.the farmer will also ask you to pay
C.the flowers are expensive to buy
D.the shopkeeper has made them more beautiful
小题5:Sand drying is everything here in the following but ______.
A.easyB.cleanC.oldD.cheap
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