阅读短文,填空。
                                                                 Birds        
       Although (然) all birds may not look the same, all birds have certain things in common (共同点).               
       All birds are warm-blooded. This means that their body temperature always stays the same.        
       Birds breathe with lungs. 
       A bird's body is covered with feathers.        
       All birds have two wings.       
       Baby birds are hatched from eggs.          
       Birds can see very well. They can't move their eyeballs like people do, so they have to turn their heads to 
look at something.        
       Birds' ears are round holes on the sides of their heads.        
       There are about 9,000 kinds of birds in the world.  
1. There are over              kinds of birds in the            
2. Birds don't have ears like people do. Their ears are                          on the sides of their heads. 
3. Birds can't move their            so they have to turn their             to look at something 
4. Birds have hundreds of             but only two             and            wings.  
阅读理解。     
     Each team has three players. The basketball players (运动员) are running and jumping in the hot
sun. Music is all around. In just twelve minutes, the game is over. But a new one starts right away (立
刻). How exciting!……
     This is streetball. It's much like basketball. But it's faster. People play it outside and it's interesting.
Usually, children play streetball on an open (露天的) court. They use only half of the court. What they
need is a basketball goal (球框). Children love lots of things about the game. “It's very nice to be out
side in the sun. And the music is great”, said BaiXue, fourteen, a girl in Shenyang.
     Some say streetball was from Europe (欧洲), others say it came from America. But now, boys and
girls in many countries like to play it. Streetball is a game for all.
1. How many players are there in each streetball team?         
A. 1.          
B. 2.            
C. 3.            
D. 4.
2. Streetball is much like         
A. basketball    
B. tennis        
C. football      
D. badminton
3. Which one is NOT right?          
A. The game is over in twelve minutes.
B. People usually play a streetball outside.
C. Only girls like to play the game.
D. They use on1y half of the court.
4. Where was the game from?          
A. Europe.      
B. America.      
C. China.        
D. A or B
5. What's the best title (题目) of this passage?
A. Different Ball Games
B. Streetball: An Exciting Game
C. How to Play Streetball
D. Streetball and Baskethall
根据短文内容,判断句子正(T)误(F)。
Not So Stupid
      A man and a woman are sitting together in an airplane. They are on a long journey. The woman is a teacher.
The man is a farmer.
      They sit for a while, then the farmer says, " Let's do something to pass time. Let's ask each other riddles
(谜语)." " OK. If we don't know the answer to a riddle, we have to pay to each other. " says the teacher.
      The farmer thinks about this for a while, then he says, " That's not fair (公平). You're a teacher, you know 
more things than I do. So if you don't know the answer to a riddle you pay me $100. If I don't know the 
answer to a riddle, I'll pay you $50."
      The teacher thinks about this, then she says, " OK. That's fair. Who will go first? "
      " I will." the farmer says, " Here is my riddle. What has three legs when it walks, but only two legs when 
it flies? " 
      The teacher doesn't know the answer. She gives the farmer $100, then says, " Tell me the answer." 
      " I don't know, either." The farmer says, and gives the teacher $50. 
(     ) 1. There isn't anything interesting in the long journey at first.
(     ) 2. They will pay the same money if they can't answer the question. 
(     ) 3. It's not fair for the teacher and the farmer to pay the same money.  
(     ) 4. The teacher doesn't know the answer to the riddle, but the farmer knows it. 
(     ) 5. The farmer is very clever.