Today is Saturday. It’s sunny and warm. Many children from No. 1 Middle School are at the Old People’s Home. Now, they’re helping the old people.
Look! Li Min and Zhan Ran are cleaning the windows. Ma Lan and Liu Qian are washing clothes.
What’s Li Na doing over there? Many old people are clapping their hands(鼓掌)for her. Oh,  she’s singing for them. Her song is really beautiful. And where’s the American boy, Tom? He likes helping others and he often comes here. Listen! Who’s speaking English? It’s Tom. He’s teaching two old people to speak English.
All the children and the old people are very happy. “We are happy when we help others, ” says Tom. 
【小题1】How’s the weather today?

Today is Saturday. It’s sunny and warm. Many children from No. 1 Middle School are at the Old People’s Home. Now, they’re helping the old people.
Look! Li Min and Zhan Ran are cleaning the windows. Ma Lan and Liu Qian are washing clothes.
What’s Li Na doing over there? Many old people are clapping their hands(鼓掌)for her. Oh,  she’s singing for them. Her song is really beautiful. And where’s the American boy, Tom? He likes helping others and he often comes here. Listen! Who’s speaking English? It’s Tom. He’s teaching two old people to speak English.
All the children and the old people are very happy. “We are happy when we help others, ” says Tom. 

1. 1.

   How’s the weather today?

   1. A.
      It’s snowy.
   2. B.
      It’s windy.
   3. C.
      It’s Saturday.
   4. D.
      It’s sunny and warm.
2. 2.

   How many children in the passage?

   1. A.
      Three.
   2. B.
      Four.
   3. C.
      Five.
   4. D.
      Six.
3. 3.

   The old people are clapping hands, because Li Na sings ________. 

   1. A.
      very well
   2. B.
      very badly
   3. C.
      really beautiful
   4. D.
      very good
4. 4.

   Where is Tom from?

   1. A.
      the United Kingdom
   2. B.
      the United States
   3. C.
      China.
   4. D.
      The Old People’s Home.
5. 5.

   What is Tom doing?

   1. A.
      He is singing English songs.
   2. B.
      He is teaching English.
   3. C.
      He is washing clothes.
   4. D.
      He is cleaning the windows.

Once there was a piano player in a bar. People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.
“I don’t sing,” said the man.
But the lady told the waiter, “I’m tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!”
The waiter shouted across the room, “Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!”
So he did. He had never sung in pubic before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent(天赋)he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too，have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.
【小题1】The lady asked the player to sing a song because            .