Mary was an operator(接话员) 911 in Los Angeles. One Thursday morning, she was surprised to get a call from a little girl. She said, “Mom my ill, Mom my ill,’ again and again, Mary soon found the address of the call. She called the police. In a minute, the policemen and doctors arrived at the house. They broke the door open. They couldn’t believe their eyes. The little child was so young that she could not walk! She was sitting beside her mother and holding her mother’s hand. Tears were running down her face.

The doctors gave the women some medicine and soon she woke up. Later, she told people, “Everyone was surprised that my daughter could call 911. On Monday I tried to teach her how to call 911, but she couldn’t do it. ” Mary was surprised, too. “It’s the first time I have seen a two-year-old child call 911.”

1.What did the girl really want to say?

A. “Mom, I’m ill.”

b. “My mom is ill.”

C. “Mom and I are ill.”

2.How did the policemen feel when they got into the room?

A. Strange.            B. Normal.        C. Surprised.

3.How did the policemen get into the room?'

A. By breaking the door.

b. With the girl’s help.

C. Through the window

4.What does the underlined(下划线的) word “it” mean?

A. 911.            B. Calling 911.        C. Walking.

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The little girl was so clever that she could call 911 when she was 2.          

B. The love for her mother created the miracle(奇迹).        

C. The mother knew she had to teach the little girl how to call 911.

Having returned from her round trip (往返旅程), the angry woman stood outside the ticket office of the station. “The railway owes (应给予) me￡12,” she said to Harry Jenks, the young man working at the office, “you sold me a ticket for May 22nd, but there was no ship from Jersey that night. So my daughter and I had to stay in a hotel. It cost me ￡12.”
Harry was worried. He remembered selling the woman a return ticket. “Come into the office, madam,” he said politely, “I’ll just check the Jersey timetable for May 22nd.”
The woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, as Harry soon discovered. There was no sailing on May 22nd. How could he have made such a careless mistake? He shouldn’t have sold her a ticket for that day. Wondering what to do, he smiled at the child. “You look sunburnt,” he said to her. “Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?”
“Yes,” She answered, shyly. “The beach was lovely. And I can swim too!”
“That’s fine,” said Harry. “My little girl can’t swim a bit yet. Of course, she’s only three…”
“I’m four,” the child said proudly. “I’ll be four and a half.” Harry turned to the mother. “I remember your ticket, madam,” he said. “But you didn’t get one for your daughter, did you?”
“Err, well…” the woman looked at the child. “I mean… she hasn’t started school yet. She’s only four.”
“A four-year-old child must have a ticket, madam. A child’s return ticket to Jersey costs… let me see…￡13.50. So if the railway pays your hotel, you will owe ￡1.50. The law is the law, but since the fault was mine…”
The woman stood up, took the child’s hand and left the office.
【小题1】The woman was angry because__________.

There was once a millionaire(百万富翁).He loved money more      anything else in the world. He didn’t know exactly how       he had. So he asked a little girl to count(数)        his money for him. It        the little girl six days to count his money. When she told the millionaire       he had forty-two million dollars, he was very glad       asked, “How much pay do you want ?”He     that she was only a child, he could cheat(骗) her.

    The little girl said, “Well, I worked      six days, so I think you _    pay me for six days. Give me two pennies for the first day. Each day after that,       give me the amount(数量) you gave the day before multiplied (乘)by itself.”

    The millionaire thought that in this way he would only had to give her very few dollars. What a _    _ little girl! So he immediately(立刻) asked his lawyer to make a contract (条约). He was afraid that she would change _ ___.

On the first day, the millionaire paid her two pennies, and on the second day, __    pennies. He did what he had planned. And on the sixth day the foolish(愚蠢) millionaire      to give the clever little girl all his money.

  At last, it was more than he had .Do you know why? If you have       in it, you may try to work out this math problem..

1.A. as          B. so         C. than        D. then

2.A. many       B. much       C. often        D. far

3.A. both        B. some       C. most        D. all

4.A. cost        B. spent       C. used         D. took

5.A. that        B. what        C. how         D. if

6.A. and        B. but         C. so           D. or

7.A. asked      B. thought      C. told        D. spoke

8.A. in         B. on          C. for          D. at

9.A. had to      B. need        C. should       D. must

10.A. still       B. just         C. really       D. finally

11.A. kind       B. foolish      C. lovely       D. clever

12.A. his plan    B. her life      C. his place     D. her mind

13.A. two       B. four         C. six         D. eight

14.A. need      B. had         C. must        D. may

15.A. interest    B. interested    C. interesting    D. interests

— ________ the little girl looks!

   — That’s true. She can’t find her Teddy Bear.

A. How sad     B. What sad     C. What sadly     D. How sadly