Nellie was a black child going to a school in Arkansas, in which the students were mostly poor African-American children．Thanks to the aid of a fund,grade one students could enjoy a special reading project：after finishing reading through a book, a child is allowed to take home a book, cassette and walkman on weekends as a reward, so that he or she will have an extra chance of study．
Friday came．Nellie, holding the reward she had won, went home happily．According to the rule, the child should bring back to school the things taken home at the weekend the next Monday．
Nellie didn’t hand them in to school on Monday．When asked why, she said “I…I…I f-o-r-got…” and then fell silent．Three weeks passed but the book, cassette and walkman still didn’t come back．
One day, however, Nellie’s mother came to school with the book, cassette and walkman．She explained to the teacher why Nellie hadn’t brought them back．
“When Nellie came back from school that day and told me that she was learning to read, I simply couldn’t believe, for, you see, before her none of my family was able to read．
“I was very young when I gave birth to Nellie, so I had to give up school．When Nellie read to me the book I was surprised．I asked her how she managed it．She said, ‘It is quite easy．I just follow the teacher in the cassette again and again until I can read myself．’In the beginning, I didn’t believe her, but I decided to have a try to see if I could also learn to read．That’s why Nellie didn’t return the reading materials．”
She paused and then asked, “May I read to you?”
So in front of her daughter this young mother began reading aloud her daughter’s book to her daughter’s teacher, tears on her face all the time．
(1)
If a child is good enough, he or she is rewarded by being allowed to keep a book, cassette and walkman ________．
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A．
for weekends
B．
for a week
C．
for ever
D．
for three weeks
(2)
Nellie didn’t bring the things back on time because ________．
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A．
she was using them
B．
she forgot to bring them back
C．
she lent them to others
D．
her mother was using them
(3)
Nellie’s mother came to school to ________．
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A．
learn something
B．
explain something
C．
report something
D．
read something
(4)
Which of the following can serve the best as the title of the passage?
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A．
“I forgot…”
B．
“May I read to you?”
C．
Nellie’s reward
D．
Special reading project
阅读理解
Collections were the inspiration(灵感)for a project at Thomas Tallis School, which formed part of the Imagine Children's Literature Festival last autumn．Each child(aged 12-13)beatified a box and wrote a story on the subject of collections to throw inside it．The boxes were spread within the Royal Festival Hall's Ballroom．Some were left empty to encourage
The subject chosen by Luren was an imaginative one．"It's a sort o f Cinderella(灰姑娘)story," she told me, inspired by a collection of letters from her cousin, ha the story these become love letters, burned by a creel stepmother．Lauren's best friend Charlotte is the stepmother．"I'm in Charlotte's story too," says Lauren, "and I get run over．" Charlotte's tale was inspired by the girls' coin collection．"We've collected foreign coins for years - since our families went on holiday to Tenerife．" she explains．"That was before the Euro, so we put pesetas in．" Lauren continues："I fred a coin in the road, go to get it and get run over．I'm in hospital and then I die．" Charlotte adds："Or she might not die．I haven't decided yet．"．www．ks5u．com
Millie Murray, who is a tea-novel author, thinks that setting the subject of collections was a useful inspiration to their creativity rather than a restriction(限制)．"In the beginning I thought, 'Will the children be able to do it?'" she says．"But it's been fruitful．Some have their own collection, some have parents who do, and some have wlstten complete stories．It's made them think about something they wouldn't have otherwise, winch can only be a good thing．"
(1)
What were the children asked to do in the project?
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A．
To meet friends at Thomas Tallis School
B．
To write stories on the subject of collections．
C．
To encourage visitors to write their own stories．
D．
To have their friends for characters in the stories．
(2)
The underlined word "pesetas" in Paragraph 2 is a kind of _________．
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A．
story
B．
collection
C．
inspiration
D．
foreign coin
(3)
From the stories by Lauren and Charlotte, we know that _________．
One warm May day, two eighteen–year–old students from San Francisco State College decided to cool off with a swim at Bakers’ Beach
．The two students were named Robert Kogler and Shirley O’Neill．They headed out to sea for a distance of 50 metres．Robert was in front．
“Suddenly, I heard him scream,” Shirley recalls
．“I looked round and saw this great grey thing going up in the air．The water seemed to be alive．”
Robert screamed again
．“It's a shark! Get out of here!”
An eye–witness, Army Sergeant Leo P
．Day was on guard at the nearby army post．He saw exactly what happened next．“I could see this boy struggling with the shark in the water,” he said．“The sea was red with blood．He was shouting and signalling someone to go back, go back．Then I saw the girl．She was swimming towards him．She completely ignored his warning．”
Shirley reached Robert, and tried to take his hand
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“When I pulled, all I could see was his arm, handing by a thread,” she said
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So she put her arm about Robert's back, and started to swim towards the shore
．She kept praying “Don't’ let it attack again!” That journey to the shore seemed to last for hours．At last, as they neared the shore, a fisherman threw them a line, and pulled them both the rest of the way．
The young man had lost a lot of blood, and died two and a half hours later, From the teeth marks, experts identified the attacker as a Great White Shark
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For what Sergeant Day called “the greatest exhibition of bravery I have ever seen,” the President of the US gave Shirley a medal for bravery
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(1)
When Albert was attacked by a shark Shirley________．
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A．
was swimming in the sea
B．
was watching him on the shore
C．
was on guard at the nearby army post
D．
was shouting and struggling with a shark, too
(2)
Choose the right time order of the following events in the story
A