Coke is the most popular drink and many people enjoy it. But they don’t know it has many other uses.

◆  Cleaning

You can use it to clean your hands，your bathroom or your clothes. When you do some washing and you can put some Coke into the water. And Coke can make them cleaner.

◆ Cooking

Put Coke on beef or pork while it’ s cooking. And we can cook chicken with Coke，it’s very delicious(美味的).

◆Health &beauty

Coke can make you more beautiful(美丽的). Use it on your hair or your skin(皮肤)to make them brighter and smoother.

◆Housework help

Watering flowers with Coke can make them more lovely and beautiful.

So give Coke a try. If anything can do it. Coke can.

1.How many other uses of Coke are there in the passage(文章)?

A．3.               B．4.                C．5.               D．6.

2.What can we use Coke to clean?

A．Bathroom.         B．Beef.             C．Pork.             D．Flowers.

3.What will the flowers be like after watering them with Coke?

A．Cleaner.          B．Smoother.         C．Brighter.          D．More beautiful.

A king had a wonderful talent for growing flowers. He became old and didn’t want to deal with big things anymore. So he began to look for someone to take his place. But who could he trust for the job? He thought for a while and got an idea. He would let the flowers decide. He gave everyone a little seed (种子). The one who could grow the most beautiful flower from the seed would be the next leader.

    A girl called Serena was very beautiful and wanted to grow the most beautiful flower. She planted it in a nice pot and took great care of it, but nothing would grow.

    The next year she saw everyone come to the palace with pots full of beautiful flowers. She was disappointed but also went to the meeting with her empty pot. The king looked through all the flowerpots and then stopped at hers.

    “Why is your pot empty?” he asked.

    “Your Majesty (陛下), I did everything to make it grow, but I have failed,” she answered.

    “No, you didn’t,” he said.

“You see, the seeds I’ve given out were all roasted (烤过的), so nothing could come out of them. I have no idea where all these flowers come from. But you have been honest and by being so, you will become my successor (继承人).”

1.The king wanted to choose a person to _____.

A. be the next leader             B. grow beautiful flowers for him

C. be his daughter or son          D. make friends with him

2. How did the little seed show who was the right person?

A. It had some special power.

B. The king knew nothing could grow from it.

C. A special flower could grow from it.

D. Only a good person could grow beautiful flowers from it.

3.The king knew that those with pots of beautiful flowers _____.

A. worked hard          B. cheated him

C. were kind to plants     D. were good at growing flowers

4.In this passage the underlined word “given out” means ______.

A. 收到        B. 拿来         C. 分发       D. 奖励

5.From the story, we learn that _____ is a good quality.

A. Kindness     B. carefulness     C. honesty     D. politeness

Once, a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But it was incomplete, so it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with worms. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece.

         Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. The circle put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to worms. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.

         Sometimes we are perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better. He will never know someone loves him or someone is giving him something he has always wanted or never had.

         We couldn’t be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us and then we can always live a wonderful time in our lives.

1.

The circle rolled very slowly because it        .

A. spent much time talking to worms                        B. wanted to enjoy the sunshine

C. was looking for its missing piece                           D. lost a piece of its own

2.

Why did the circle stop when it rolled quickly? Because it        .

A. wanted to enjoy the world                                      B. found a different world

C. wanted to look for another missing piece            D. thought the world changed so quickly

3.

The story mainly tells us that        .

A. nobody loves us if we give nothing

B. a man who has everything is the happiest

C. losing something may not be a bad thing sometimes

D. we are not whole when we lose something