One day a big cat was going into a forest to find something to eat. On his way he met his friend, the old owl(猫头鹰).  The owl greeted him, “Good morning, my dear friend. Where are you going?”  “I’m going to the forest to look for some birds to eat.” The cat answered. “But be careful not to catch any of my children.” The owl said to the cat. “OK,” the cat said. “But what do your children look like?” “Oh,” the owl said, “they are the most beautiful birds in the forest.”

“All right, I know that.” The cat said and walked on to the forest.

The cat entered the forest and saw many beautiful birds here and there. He remembered what the owl had told him and went away. Then after a long time, he saw some ugly birds in a nest. He sat down and ate them one by one. When the owl came back to her nest, she found it was empty.

1.The cat went to the forest            .

2.The old owl        the cat.

3. When the cat saw the beautiful birds, he           .

4.The old owl’s children were           .

5.The owl’s nest was           .

One day an old man is selling(出售) a horse. A young man comes to the horse and begins to look at it slowly.
Then the old man goes up to him and says in his ears, “Don’t say anything about the horse before I sell it, then I will give you some meat.”
“All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the horse, he gives the young man some meat and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the horse?”
“I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “Then why do you look at the horse?” asks the old man.
The young man answers, “Because I never saw a horse before, and I want to know what it looks like.”
【小题1】What is the old man doing?

Mr Evans works in Sydney. Last week he had a two-week holiday, but he didn't know where to go. He said to his friend Robert, "I hate the hot weather here, but I can't think of a cool place in Australia. Where shall I take my holiday?"

"That's easy," said Robert, "You can go to Moscow. Snow and ice are covering the ground there now."

Mr Evans agreed with his friend. He bought a plane ticket and soon arrived in Moscow. He was having a good time there, but one day he got into trouble（麻烦）. After lunch, he went to a park outside the city. He noticed a dog following him when he was walking past a house. It was hungry and wanted some food to eat. But Mr Evans had no food in his pockets. He tried to shoo （以嘘声吓走） it away, but it began to bark at him. Just at that moment, he saw a stone on the ground. He tried to pick it up, but he couldn't.

"How strange these Russians are!" Mr Evans said to himself, "They do not tie up （栓住） their dogs, but firmly（牢牢地）tie down the stones!"

1.Mr Evans is________.

A. American      B. Russian     C. Australian    D. Chinese

2.Mr Evans didn't like the________in Australia.

A. hot weather         B. cool weather

C. rainy weather        D. cold weather

3.Mr Evans went to Moscow________.

A. by train      B. by bus      C. by air      D. on foot

4.The word "bark" means "________".

A. 跳      B. 叫      C. 追     D. 咬

5.Mr Evans couldn't pick up the stone because________.

A. it was too cold

B. it was too heavy

C. the Russians tied their stones to the ground

D. it was not a stone