Tom wasn't at home yesterday. He _________ to help with Jenny's physics.

A．was asking          B．is asked        C．was asked         D．was asking

    It was Tom’s birthday and he was five years old. He got quite a lot of gifts his family. His grandpa gave him a beautiful big drum.

   Of all the gifts, Tom liked his drum best. He made terrible noise with it, but his mother did not mind. His father was working in the daytime, and Tom was in bed when he got home in the evening. So he didn’t heat the noise.

   But one of the neighbors didn’t like the noise. So one morning she took a knife and went to Tom’s house when he was hitting his drum. She said to him, “Hello, Tom, do you know there is something very nice inside your drum? Here is a knife. Open the drum and let’s find it.”

1. Tom got the drum______.

A. on his birthday    B. when he was going to be five   C. in the evening    D. on Sunday

2. Tom’s ______bought the drum for him.

A. father       B. mother       C. grandpa      D. grandma

3. Tom’s father didn’t hear the noise because______.

A. Tom father drum very gently        B. his father wasn’t at home when he played

C. his father was ill              D. he never played in the day time

4. The neighbor wanted Tom to cut the drum open because ______.

A. there was something nice inside the drum    B. there was something wrong with the drum

C. she wanted to stop the terrible noise.      D. she wanted to enjoy the noise of the drum

5. Was there anything very nice in the drum really? ______.

A. No, there was      . Yes, there wasn’t      C. No, there wasn’t      D. Yes, there was

He was a single father, raising a 5-year-old boy alone. He worried about his son growing up without a mother to care for him.
One day he went away on business, leaving the child alone. He was worried about the child all the way, not knowing if he had eaten. But his child always told him not to worry. He went home quickly after finishing his work.
When he got home, the child was deep asleep. He was tired out. When he was about to sleep himself, he was surprised to find an overturned bowl of noodles under the quilt. He spanked his sleeping son angrily:"Why are you so naughty, making the quilt dirty? Who will wash it?" It was the first time that he had hit his boy after his wife's death.
"I haven't," the boy explained with tears in his eyes. "This is your supper, Daddy." In order to let his father eat dinner as soon as he got home, the boy cooked two bowls of noodles: one for himself, the other one for his father. He was afraid his father's noodles would get cold, so he placed them under the quilt to keep them hot.
Hearing this, the father hugged his boy tightly without saying a word.
【小题1】According to the passage we know the boy only had _________.