Jaya is sixteen, but he doesn’t go to school. He studies medicine at New York University in a class of twenty-year-olds. Jaya was born in Madras in India but now lives in a house in New York with his mother, father and brother. They can all speak English. His father is a doctor.

Jaya was different from a very young age. He could count before he could say “Mummy” or “Daddy”. He could answer questions on calculus (微积分) when he was five and did algebra(几何) when he was eight. Now he studies from 8:15am to 4: 00am every day at the university. Then he studies at home with his father from 6:30 to 10:00 every evening. Jaya doesn’t have any friends. He thinks other children can’t understand him. He never goes out in the evenings, but he sometimes watches TV. He says, “I live for one thing — I want to be a doctor before I am nineteen.”

1.Is Jaya very clever?

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2.Where was Jaya born?

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3.Who teaches him medicine at home?

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4.What was Jaya very interested in when he was very young, math or medicine?

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5.Why doesn’t Jaya make friends?

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Ma Yan is not really a writer, but this 15-year-old girl has written a book that has moved many people around the world. Ma Yan’s diary tells us about Ma’s life. She lives in a poor village called Zhangjiashu in Tongxin, Ningxia, and she has no money to go to school. However, she is brave and wants to go to school very much.
Her mother gave her diary to a reporter, Pierre Haski when he went to Zhangjiashu in 2001. Now, Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and China.
Ma Yan is now a Junior Three student at Yuwang Middle School in Tongxin. Before this, she had to drop out of school twice. She had to stop going to school the first time, because her mum told her there was no money for her to go to school. She worked for 21 days and saved 13 yuan. With this money, she went back to school. The second time, her family told her she had to leave school while her two brothers could stay.
“I want to study,” Ma Yan wrote in her diary. “Why can boys study but girls can’t? It would be wonderful if I could stay at school forever.”
Ma Yan loves school so much because she wants to have a better life.
“My parents work hard in the fields but they are still poor. They have no knowledge(知识). Most girls in my village leave school early and get married young. I don’t want that kind of life,” Ma Yan said.
After her story became known, many students sent money to her. She hopes to go to Tsinghua University and become a reporter. “Then, I can find poor kids like me, and help them,” she said.
【小题1】Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and       .

先通读短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母填入一个合适的词。
John is going to show us a___1____ his home town. He lives in a small house w___2___ a garden and his mother g ____3____vegetables and flowers in the garden. There are lots of tall b____4_____ in his town. There is a park near the c_____5____of town. He likes going into town o____6_____ his bicycle. He sometimes goes s_____7____ in summer when it is warm and s____8_____. There are not m_____9_____ cars and they can not go into the centre of town. He t_____10_____ it is a wonderful place to visit.