One bright sunny day our class went to the schoolyard. Miss Brooks told us to look for something on
the ground that belonged to us. We looked and looked. Finally Mike cried. "I know, It's my shadow on the
ground." We saw that each girl and boy had a shadow and Miss Brooks had a bigger one. I tried some
funny tricks. When I moved, my shadow moved. When I ran, my shadow ran, too. But I could' t catch it
at all. Then Jess found a long and thin bamboo pole and stuch it in to the ground. Even the pole had a
shadow.
     All this started me thinking about shadows. I did not have a shadow the day before, when I walked in
the darkness. My shadow is never with me in my room at night when the light is out.
     I can't stop thinking about me and my shadow and about what makes shadows. I am going to look for
more shadows because they are lots of fun.

1. The story took place on a ____.

Ａ: cloudy day in the schoolyard.
Ｂ: rainy day in the schoolroom.
Ｃ: fine day in the schoolroom.
Ｄ: fine day at the schoolyard.

2. Miss Brooks told her students to look for something on the ground because ____.

3. When the children really found the things on the ground that belonged to them, they ____.

Ａ: were no longer interested in them
Ｂ: were very active in playing with them
Ｃ: began to realize that shadows were necessary for their lives
Ｄ: immediately ran to Miss Brooks and told her that they had found the thing she had asked them to find

4. From this passage, we can know that _____.

Ａ: where there is light, there exists a shadow
Ｂ: a shadow is one of your friends
Ｃ: though it had been sunny the day before, the writer of the story did not find a shadow
Ｄ: your shadow always follows you even when it is a cloudy day or when it is very dark in your room

Ａ: education is very important and necessary to small children
Ｂ: all the pupils' time must be spent in classes, studying lesson
Ｃ: children should be taught to learn something even when they are playing games
Ｄ: teachers must be strict with their pupils when they are very young

6. The phrase "belong to" means ____.

Ａ: 属于
Ｂ: 跟随
Ｃ:召唤
Ｄ: 服从

     There are eighteen boys and twenty-five girls in our class. One of the boys is English. His name is
Tom. He is thirteen. Two of the girls are American. They are twins. Their names are Jane and Joan.
They are twelve. They are my friends. All of the Chinese boys and girls are Young Pioneers (少先队
员). We all Chinese students like (喜欢) the English boy and the American girls, and they like us, too.
We help each other.

(     )1. In our class there are forty-three students.
(     )2. The twin sisters are from England.
(     )3. Joan is twelve, and Tom is thirteen.
(     )4. All the students in our class are Young Pioneers.
(     )5. We like American and English students.