Singaporean Singer Stefanie Sun (Sun Yanzi) goes to Tahoua, West Africa (西非尼日塔瓦) to visit the children who have suffered from famine(饥荒)and war. Stefanie Sun is touched by those poor kids there: “Some children are already 3 or 4 years old, but they are so skinny that you can hold them with your single（单个的）arm. You can see scare and hopelessness in their eyes. The children only wish to have food to eat, and can survive and go to school. However, these basic needs are like dreams to them.”

Stefanie Sun is deeply touched by a 4-month baby who weighs only 2.5kg! Stefanie says that the children have nothing but leaves to eat during famine. The reconstruction (重建) in that area needs enough food, education, and clean water.

1.Stefanie Sun is a singer, who is from ___________.

        A. West Africa     B. Singapore        C. China            D. Taiwan

2.The children in Tahoua, West Africa have suffered from ___________.

        A. water and food   B. illness and war  C. famine and war   D. earthquakes and typhoon

3.The 3 or 4-year-old children are so__________ that you can hold them with your single arm.

        A. thin         B. fat          C. heavy            D. light

4. “these basic needs are like dreams to them.”  Here basic needs means____________.

        A. having food to eat               B. going to school     

C. surviving                        D. all of above

5.From this passage, we can see the charity ____________ can help them.

A.          B.           C.          D.

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There's a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn't worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.

    The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn't a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost some time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.

    And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent down earlier to pick up that horseshoe. it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.

1.Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

   A. Thomas.                           B. The old father.

   C. Both the father and the son.              D. Neither the father nor the son.

2.The farmer bought _______ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.

   A. some food     B. some water           C. some cherries    D. some pennies

3.When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe, the father _______.

   A. felt very happy   B. didn't say anything  C. beat the son     D. became a little angry

4. The father dropped the cherries one by one, because _______.

   A. he wanted his son to eat them all         B. he wanted his son to do more exercise

   C. lie wanted to teach his son a lesson       D. he wanted his son to pick them up

5.From the story, we can learn that _______.

   A. cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them

   B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money

   C. if the boy wants to eat cherries, he must pick up the horseshoe

   D. if we want to do some great things, we should start with some small ones