The story below is a true story that happened in September.
During the month of September, a dear friend of mine lost her husband suddenly in an accident. The tragedy was a great shock to everyone.
This accident was sudden and certainly unexpected. It made me realize the fact that you just don’t know when a loved one is no longer going to be with you. We sometimes take our loved ones for granted(当然)，and we expect that they will be with us all the time. However, as we all know, life does not work that way and sometimes we get a wake-up call that shocks us and makes us stand back and realize how short life is.
To cheer her up, I tried to imagine if I were in her shoes how I would feel. It was impossible to imagine what she was going through. What words could I say to help her?Sometimes words just can’t express our feelings. Sometimes our actions are much more meaningful than words. So I gave her a hug(拥抱)…
Life is too short, and we should treasure(珍惜) every day staying with our loved ones.
【小题1】The writer’s friend lost her husband _______.     

Wade is my good friend. We study at the same school. At weekends he usually turns on his computer. He sends and gets e-mails to and from his friends back in France. He also gets on the Internet to learn about what is going on in the world. His parents sometimes take him to some places of interest in China. Sometimes I ask him to come over to my home for a weekend. My parents say that they can’t understand what we talk about because there are two languages in our talks—Chinese and English. My mother sometimes says to him,“Can you talk to my son in Chinese only,Wade?” He always smiles and answers, “Not today. I’m going to speak good Chinese very soon.” He is not good at Chinese and I am weak at English. But we like these talks because we can learn when we are talking.

1.Who writes the passage?

A．A friend of Wade’s                     B．A Chinese teacher

C．Wade’s parents                       D．An English student.

2.From the passage we know that Wade comes from ________.

A．Australia                              B．France

C．the UK                                D．the USA

3.At weekends Wade sometimes ________.

A．takes his parents to visit cities              B．practice speaking Chinese

C．goes to see his friends                    D．reads the world news.

4.We can know from the passage that__________

A．the writer can speak English very well

B．the writer can get e-mails from Wade

C．Wade is only beginning to learn Chinese

D．Wade finds it easy to talk in Chinese

5.The text is mainly about _________

A．Wade’s Chinese friends                 B．Wade’s school life in China

C．Wade’s after-school time                D．Wade’s weekend in China.

Wade is my good friend. We study at the same school. At weekends he usually turns on his computer. He sends and gets e-mails to and from his friends back in France. He also gets on the Internet to learn about what is going on in the world. His parents sometimes take him to some places of interest in China. Sometimes I ask him to come over to my home for a weekend. My parents say that they can’t understand what we talk about because there are two languages in our talks—Chinese and English. My mother sometimes says to him,“Can you talk to my son in Chinese only,Wade?” He always smiles and answers, “Not today. I’m going to speak good Chinese very soon.” He is not good at Chinese and I am weak at English. But we like these talks because we can learn when we are talking.
【小题1】Who writes the passage?

The story below is a true story that happened in September.

During the month of September, a dear friend of mine lost her husband suddenly in an accident. The tragedy was a great shock to everyone.

This accident was sudden and certainly unexpected. It made me realize the fact that you just don’t know when a loved one is no longer going to be with you. We sometimes take our loved ones for granted(当然)，and we expect that they will be with us all the time. However, as we all know, life does not work that way and sometimes we get a wake-up call that shocks us and makes us stand back and realize how short life is.

To cheer her up, I tried to imagine if I were in her shoes how I would feel. It was impossible to imagine what she was going through. What words could I say to help her?Sometimes words just can’t express our feelings. Sometimes our actions are much more meaningful than words. So I gave her a hug(拥抱)…

Life is too short, and we should treasure(珍惜) every day staying with our loved ones.

1.The writer’s friend lost her husband _______.     

2. What does the underlined word “ tragedy” mean in Chinese?

A 机会           B. 生存        C．悲剧            D. 闹剧

3. To cheer her friend up, the writer ______.

4. In the writer’s opinion, life for us is ______.

5. According to Paragraph 3, what did the writer realize from the accident?

　　Jack put two big baskets of grapes on his donkey and went to market. At midday it was very hot, so he stopped and had a rest under a big tree. There were several men there, and all of them had grapes on their donkeys. After lunch they went to sleep. Jack waited for a while and then began to take grapes out of the other men's baskets and to put them in his own baskets. Suddenly one of the men woke up and saw Jack.“What are you doing?”he said angrily.“Oh,”said Jack,“don't worry about me. I am half mad, and I do a lot of strange things.”“Oh, really?”said the man.“Then why don't you sometimes take grapes out of your baskets and put them in others' baskets?”“You did not understand me,”said Jack,“I said that I was half mad, not completely（完全地）mad.”

A．came at him

B．saw him and got angry

C．woke his fellows up

A．he was clever

B．he was completely mad

C．he was half mad