Pit-a-pat. Pit-a-pat. It’s raining. “I want to go outside and play, Mum,” Robbie says, “When can the rain stop?” His mum doesn’t know what to say. She hopes the rain can stop, too. “You can watch TV with me,” she says. “No, I just want to go outside.” “①Put on your raincoat.” “Does it stop raining?” “No, but you can go outside and play in the rain. Do you like that?” “Yes, mum.” He runs to his bedroom and puts on his red raincoat. “Here you go. Go outside and play.” Mum opens the door and says. Robbie runs into the rain. Water goes ②here and there. Robbie’s mum watches her son. He is having so much fun. “Mum, come and play with me!” Robbie calls. The door opens and his mum walks out. She is in her yellow raincoat. Mother and son are out in the rain for a long time. They play all kinds of games in the rain.
【小题1】 What does Robbie want to do on the rainy day?

Dear Editor,(编辑)

I am unhappy these days. I am a student in Grade 3 of a middle school. I want to be a policewoman in the future. (未来) But my mother doesn’t like  the job. She always says it is too dangerous for a girl to work as a policewoman. She thinks girls should work in the office. She hopes that I can work as a doctor. But I really dislike being a doctor. It’s terrible for me to work in the hospital.  When I talk with her about it, she is often angry. She always thinks she is right. I don’t know what to do. Can you help me?

Yours,

Nancy

1.Where does Nancy want to work?

2.From the passage（文章）， we know Nancy is ______

3.Nancy’s mother wants Nancy to be a________.

4.Why doesn’t Nancy’s mother like the job as a policewoman?

5.Which of the following is TURE(正确的)?

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 五位中国学生要去美国留学，他们想要找住家。请仔细阅读第56-60题中的学生的个人情况说明，并从A至F六个选项中，帮助他们选择最适合的住家（其中一项为多余选项）

    1.Zhang Chao likes Chinese food. He hopes his host family speak a little Chinese.

    2.Li Wei likes doing sports. He wants to live near a park.

    3.Liu Yong hopes to live near his school---Reading School. He prefers a bed room with a bathroom

    4.Chen Yao wants to live in a big bedroom cheaper than ￡350 a month. She can’t stand pets.

    5.Hu Mei loves pets. She would like a bedroom cheaper than ￡220 a month.

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Whenever Kate goes to the hospital, she sees many patients there. She hopes to help them, so Kate wants to be a nurse when she 1.g   ▲   up.

Last summer Kate broke her right 2.l   ▲  . The pain was serious and she could not even walk. She got to the hospital by car and the doctor said that she had to 3.s   ▲   there for about two weeks.

One afternoon a 4.n   ▲   came to Kate’s bed and said with a smile, “You are getting 5.b   ▲  . You can walk again soon, so don’t think only about bad things. Try to be happy!” The nurse was very kind and they became good 6.f   ▲  .

After Kate 7.l   ▲   the hospital, she thought a lot about the kind nurse. She now understands that the 8.w   ▲   of nurses is very important, because they often give hope to the 9.s   ▲  .

Now Kate is thinking about her own future. She often talks with her parents about it. She knows what she should do to become a good nurse, and now she is10.s   ▲   very hard at school.

Last Friday, a Tibetan(藏族的) postman became the first woman postal worker to give a speech at the World Postal Meeting in Bern, the capital of Switzerland. She was Nima Lamu, a postwoman of Yunling Post office, Yunnan Province.

    She said, “I had to cross the Lancang River along a steel wire. My younger brother nearly died in the river before. I felt so afraid when I was asked for the first time to cross the river. But when I reached the other side, I found that I was flying.”

    Her area is locked in (封闭) two snowy mountains and three big rivers. She said, “:What worries me most is the snakes on the way. Sometimes, I throw little stones toward them and I often tell my self ‘Keep going’. ”

Ten years ago, it took Nima five days to finish each week’s mail. She had to face snowstorms, floods, snakes and loneliness on her 350-kilometer journey. Nima said, “The situation has developed a lot these years. Now we have a bridge that was built across the Lancang River in 2006.”

    Nima never dreamed she would become famous one day when she first look up her job, 12 years ago. Changes have been seen in recent years as more tourists visit Nima’s hometown. But one thing remains unchanged: she is still the carrier of the villagers’ hopes and dreams.

1.Nima was invited to the meeting in Bern because she was _________.

    A. the only Tibetan postman in China            B. the first postwoman in the world

    C. doing a hard job as a postwoman          D. making her village famous overnight

2. What happened to her brother according to Nima Lamu?

    A. he once fell into the river             .    B. He was killed by a snake.

    C. He died when swimming in the river.      D. He got hurt when building the bridge.

3.Which picture is TRUE about Nima’s crossing the river ten years ago?

4.What will Nima do if she finds a snake on the way?

    A. Kill it with stones.         B. Keep it off and go on.

    C. Throw it away and leave.     D. turn around and run.

5.What is RTUE about Nima?

    A. She is building a bridge across the Lancang River.

    B. She has realized all the villagers’ dreams.

    C. She got her job as a post woman before 2000.

    D. She doesn’t need to do her work now.