A six-year-old British girl, Mollie Price, is opening up her third candy store. She is said to be one of Britain’s youngest bosses. Her stores are called “Mollie’s.” She sells both British and American candy. The girl would like to open more candy stores. “It might sound crazy, but believe me,” Mollie says.

“It was Mollie’s idea to open up the shop. It is Mollie who runs the candy stores,” her mother Becky, her “business partner” says.

Her mother says all the stores are put together and stocked(进货)by Mollie. Mollie works in one of the stores every Saturday, then gets up early Sunday to go to the company’s product supplier(供应商). She asks her friends to test the sweets to decide which ones are good. She’s good at smart marketing. For example, if the weather is really cold, she sells the Mr Whippy ice cream cheaper than when it’s hot outside.

“Children have the best ideas. I tell my mum what I think and she always says I have good ideas. It’s just because I know what other children like,” Mollie says.

1.What’s Mollie’s plan for the future?

A．Become Britain’s youngest boss.           B．Open more candy stores.

C．Work as a product supplier.                D．Make the best ice cream products.

2.How does Mollie know which kinds of candy are good?

A．Her mother decides it

B．She has her friends test the candy.

C．She goes to the market to research

D．She asks the company’s product supplier.

3.The prices of some ice cream products in Mollie’s stores change according to _______.

A．the number of the products               B．her friend’s idea

C．the weather                           D．the dates

4.According to the passage, what’s the key(关键)to Mollie’s success?

A．She works hard and she is good at smart marketing.

B．The company’s supplier makes good products.

C．She would like to open more candy stores.

D．Her mother always has good ideas.

5. According to the passage, Mollie is a/an________ girl.

A．kind             B．honest            C．smart             D．polite

The Aborigines (澳洲土著) have lived in Australia for about 60,000 years. They painted pictures inside caves, and these are the rock paintings that have given us so much information about Aboriginal life. For example, some of the paintings that are about 10,000 years old show men with boomerangs. From this we know that the Aborigines started using boomerangs for hunting at that time. Other pictures show kangaroos, so we know that there were kangaroos at that time.

The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.

In 1700, there were many Aboriginal groups with a population of 750,000 all over Australia, and there were probably more than 240 different Aboriginal languages. The groups did not have a leader. Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group. People from different groups often travelled hundreds of miles to meet each other.

Aboriginal life changed when an English boat arrived in Australia in 1770. Many Aborigines were killed in the wars that they had with the English. More Europeans came, and they started taking land from the Aborigines. The Europeans also brought new illnesses that killed the Aborigines. The result is that today there are only about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia.

1.The Aborigines painted pictures       .

A. on animals’ fur          B. on the land     

C. on the tree              D. on the rock

2.What do you think the Aborigines used boomerangs to do?

   A. To paint.  B. To hunt.    C. To fight. D. To play.

3.The Aborigines thought        were the most important on the earth.

   A. people       B. animals   C. spirits      D. plants

4.In an Aboriginal group        decided things.

   A. the older men     B. the leader      

    C. the English          D. the Europeans

5.The number of the Aborigines is small today       .

   A. because their living condition was very bad

   B. because the English killed a lot of them in the wars

   C. because of the new illnesses the Europeans brought them

   D. because of the wars and the new illnesses

Michael and Derek are good friends, but they like to pull each other’s leg sometimes. One day during the holidays they decided to go to London together. They went to the station and bought their tickets. When the train came in, Michael broaden in first and without knowing it, dropped his ticket in the platform as he got into the carriage（车厢）. Derek, who was close behind saw the ticket fall and quickly picked it up. Without a word to his friend, he put it in his pocket.
After they had been in the train a little while, they heard the ticket inspector coming down the corridor, shouting, “tickets, please!” Michael looked for his and of course couldn’t find it.
“Oh, dear, I can’t find my ticket, Derek,” he said.
“Have another look, Michael, it must be somewhere,” said Derek.
“No, I can’t find it anywhere. What shall I do?”
“Perhaps you had better hide under the seat, then the inspector won’t know you are here.” So Michael crawled under the seat as fast as he could and lay perfectly still. Presently the door opened and in came the inspector, “Tickers please!” he said.
Derek handed him two tickets and said, “This is mine. The other belongs to my friend, who prefers to travel under the seat.”
【小题1】Michael lost in his ticket________.

The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.

In 1700, there were many Aboriginal groups with a population of 750,000 all over Australia, and there were probably more than 240 different Aboriginal languages. The groups did not have a leader. Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group. People from different groups often travelled hundreds of miles to meet each other.

Aboriginal life changed when an English boat arrived in Australia in 1770. Many Aborigines were killed in the wars that they had with the English. More Europeans came, and they started taking land from the Aborigines. The Europeans also brought new illnesses that killed the Aborigines. The result is that today there are only about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia.

1. The Aborigines painted pictures       .

   A. on animals’ fur         B. on the land     

C. on the tree              D. on the rock

2. What do you think the Aborigines used boomerangs to do?

   A. To paint.  B. To hunt.   C. To fight. D. To play.

3.. The Aborigines thought        were the most important on the earth.

   A. people      B. animals   C. spirits      D. plants

4. In an Aboriginal group        decided things.

   A. the older men        B. the leader      

   C. the English          D. the Europeans

5.The number of the Aborigines is small today       .

   A. because their living condition was very bad

   B. because the English killed a lot of them in the wars

   C. because of the new illnesses the Europeans brought them

   D. because of the wars and the new illnesses