阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一个选项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）

    A girl went to her father to ask his advice. She was having a hard time in life, and it seemed that as soon as one problem disappeared, another one appeared in its place.

Her father is a cook.   1     _______. He poured water into three pans and put them on to boil. After the water boiled, he put some carrots into the first pan, some eggs into the second pan and coffee into the last one. He waited without saying a word.

  2       ________He took out the carrots and eggs and put them in a bowl. He poured the coffee into a cup. He asked his daughter, “Dear, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee.” She replied. “Touch the carrots,” he told her. She did and felt that the carrots were soft. She found that the egg was hard.     3    _______. She asked, “What’s the meaning, Father?”

Her father said, “As you see, each thing reacted (反应)differently to the boiling water. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after boiling.     4  ________. The coffee beans were very special, but they changed in the water, too. ” “Who are you?” asked her father. “When trouble knocks at your door, how do you react? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee? ”

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

Linda and Mary are good friends. Linda is thirteen. She comes from the U.S.A. Mary is twelve. She’s from London(伦敦). They study in the same school, but in different classes. Linda’s father teaches English in a middle school. Her mother drives a car. Mary’s mother works in an office. Her father is a doctor. Linda can speak English, French(法语) and a little Chinese. Linda’s mother likes cooking. She likes eating rice. But Linda’ s father doesn’t. He likes drinking milk and eating bread. Mary’s mother doesn’t like cooking. But she likes doing some shopping. She can make nice skirts and dresses. Mary’s father likes doing housework(家务).

1.Where does Mary come from?

2.What does Linda’s father do?

3.Where does Mary’s father work?

4.What can Linda speak?

5.What does Mary’s mother do?

词语运用（10分）
用括号中所给词的正确形式填空，将正确的词写在短文下面的横线上。
　　I have a good friend Lily. She 1              (come) from Australia. Her mother is a teacher and her father is a doctor. Now they 2             (be) in China. Her mother 3          (teach)us English. We4          (love)her because she is very nice. Lily 5          (like) eating Chinese food. Dumplings are her favorite. Lily can 6        (play)the guitar and she wants 7     (join) the music club. She 8      (have) a lot of books because she likes reading. She often 9         (help) me with my English and I 10         (help) her with her Chinese.We are very happy.

I am an American student. My name is Vicky King. I have a big family. I have two brothers. They and I are in the same school. My grandma and grandpa live with us. They are my father’s parents.

My father is from England, but my mother’s hometown is at the foot of the Great Wall of China. My brothers and I were all born in New York. Because my father works in a school in New York. He teaches English.

People often ask us, “What do you like eating?” It is not easy to answer this question! Well, let me tell you.

My grandpa has been to India, so he likes Indian food. My father likes hot dogs, potato chips and hamburgers. My mother likes rice, noodles and dumplings. She often does very nice Chinese food for us. So my brothers and I like Chinese food a lot but English food a little. We don’t like Indian food at all.

1.This is a family of_________

A．three            B．five              C．six               D．seven

2.Her grandfather is __________.

A．from England       B．from China         C．from India         D．from America

3.Her father is a ________

A．worker           B．doctor            C．teacher           D．player

4.Her mother likes Chinese food because she_________.

A．has been to China                       B．is from China

C．can do Chinese food                     D．knows her children like it

5.The three children like___________ food very much.

A．Chinese           B．English            C．Indian            D．American