Mr. Smith works in a factory. There he drives a truck. He’s tired all the time. When he comes back, he’s always busy and doesn’t want to do any housework. His wife is a doctor and likes to keep all the things clean. So she has to do all at home. She usually goes to work from Monday to Friday and has to do all on weekends. All her friends know about it and sometimes they come to help her.

It’s Saturday today. Mrs Smith tells her husband to help her do some housework, but he says he has something to do and goes out early in the morning. He leaves a lot of dirty clothes at home. Mrs Smith doesn’t go to work but she doesn’t feel well. So she doesn’t want to do any housework. After breakfast, Jo, one of her friends, comes to see her when she’s sitting on a chair.

The girl finds the rooms are dirty and she asks, “Don’t you clean your rooms today, Mrs Smith?” “No, I don’t.”says the doctor. “Why don’t you wear your glasses?” “Then I will think the rooms are still clean.”

1.What does Mrs Smith do ?

        A. A truck driver.   B. A nurse.       C. A doctor.          D. A teacher.

2.Who usually does the housework at home, Mr Smith or Mrs Smith?

A. Mr Smith.      B. Mrs Smith.     C. Both of them.      D. Neither of them.

3.What’s Mr Smith doing when her friend Jo comes to see her ?

A. She is reading a book.           

B. B. She is watching TV.

C.  She is doing housework.         

D. She is sitting on a chair.

4.Why doesn’t Mrs Smith wear her glasses that day? Because_________.

A. she stays at home          

B. she’s sitting on the chair

C. the rooms are clean        

D. she doesn’t want to see the dirty rooms

5.After we read the story, we can know___________.

A. Mr Smith is often ill               

B. Mrs Smith is always lazy.   

C. Mr Smith is always busy after work. 

D. Sometimes Mr Smith helps Mrs Smith.    

Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed, we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from the mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience.
Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing. But as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there can you see all of the nice things, which is just like your life.”
At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got to know the meaning of hope in life. I found myself standing at the top of the mountain, and the sky was as clear as crystal.
【小题1】The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was ______ for the father and the son.