Now many boys wear the same(同樣的)  clothes as girls, and some of them have long hair. So
sometimes it's difficult to tell whether(是否) they are boys or girls.
        One Sunday morning,  I  go for a walk with my grandfather in the park near my house. After a
while, my grandfather is tired, so he sits down on a bench(長(zhǎng)椅)near the pool.
        "Oh," my grandfather says to the person with long curly hair next to him on the bench. "Can you
see the person with long hair on the side of the pool? Is it a boy or a girl?"
        "Which one?" asks the person with long curly hair.
        "The one who is eating a hamburger near the pool, "says my grandfather.
        "He's a boy," says the person, "he's my son, Li Yu. " "Oh," my grandfather says, "I'm sorry. I
don't know you are his mother. "
        "No,I'm not his mother, I'm his father. "

(     )1. The writer's house is near a post office.
(     )2. One Sunday morning, the writer's grandfather goes shopping.
(     )3. Li Yu's father has long curly hair.
(     )4. LiYu is eating a hamburger.
(     )5. Li Yu's father and the writer's grandfather sit on the same bench.

     One day Mr and Mrs Green drove to a shop. They stopped the car in front of the shop. An hour
later they came back to the car with a lot of things. They wanted to put the things in the car, but Mrs
Green could not open the car door. Then Mr Green gave all things to Mrs Green, he put the key into
the lock and turned it, but he couldn' t open it!
     "Oh dear," said Mr Green, "What's wrong with it? We can' t open the door!"
     "Let's ask the Policeman. "Mrs Green said.
      The policeman came and helped them. Soon he got the door open. The Greens thanked him. At
that time a man came up and shouted angrily (怒吼), "What are you doing with my car?" Mr and Mrs
Green looked at the number of the car, and their face turned red. Their car is next to the man's car!

1. The Greens went shopping ________. 

A. by bus    
B. by car      
C. on foot.

2. They were in the shop and bought a lot of things ________. 

A. for an hour      
B. more than an hour      
C. an hour later

3. ________ opened the car door very soon.

A. Mrs Green      
B. Mr Green    
C. The Policeman

4. Why was the man angry? Because ________.

A. he couldn't find his car.  
B. the policeman drove his car away.
C. other people opened his car

5. The Greens didn't open the car because ________.    

A. it wasn't their car      
B. there was something wrong with it. 
C. they had a lot of things in their hand.

      Chopin 1.____ (bear) in March, 1810 near Warsaw (華沙) in Poland. He is one of the greatest
2.____ (music) in the world. In 1831, when he went to Paris, no people but he could play the piano
very well.
      At that time, people in Paris liked the Hungarian (匈牙利) pianist Liszt (李斯特).
      One night, at a concert, Liszt went to the piano and all the people around. As all the light s in the
concert were turned off, a wonderful piano concert 3.____ (start) . The music was so good that the
listeners all greatly 4.____ (interest) it. They kept 5.____ (praise) the pianist and thought that Liszt
reached something new in playing the piano.
      Suddenly, all the lights were turned on again as the music came to an end. And there stood a young
man instead of the famous Hungarian pianist Liszt. He planned all this. As the lights went out, he left his
chair and let Chopin take his place. So with the help of Liszt and his own 6.____ (talented), Chopin
soon 7. ____ (become) famous.

                                                   A Foreign Teacher
     Mr. Brown is from New York (紐約) of America. He teaches English in our school. He wears a
white shirt and black trousers every day. He speaks English very well. He can speak some Chinese,
but not too much. He likes teaching in China very much. He often says the Chinese are very friendly.
We like his lessons very much. He is our good friend.

     Mr. Brown is an ______ (1). He is a ______ (2) of English in our school. He is ______ (3) a white
shirt and black trousers every day. He speaks very ______ (4) English. He can speak some Chinese,
______ (5), but ______ (6) ______ (7) ______ (8). He often says the Chinese ______ (9) are very
friendly. We all like him and his ______ (10).

     It's time to go home now. I am on a bus on a rainy day, and a woman with a dog gets on the bus.
It is a big dog and its feet are not clean.
     I don't want the dog to sit near me. But the woman says to the conductor(售票員). "Oh, I pay for
my dog. Can he sit here like the other people?"
     The conductor looks at the dog and says, "Yes, madam, but he must not put his feet on the chair."

1. I am going home _____ now.

A. by bike
B. by bus  
C. by car  
D. by trolley

2. What do I see?

A. A bus  
B. A girl  
C. A dog  
D. A woman with a big dog.

3. I don't want the dog to sit near me because _____.

A. the dog is big  
B. the dog is not clean  
C. the dog has no ticket  
D. the dog isn't mine

4. Why do the woman and the dog get on the bus?

A. It is a rainy day.  
B. No one is on the bus.  
C. The dog can sit.  
D. The woman is a conductor.

5. The meaning of the conductor's word is _____.

A. the dog's feet are like the other people
B. the dog must be like a man  
C. the dog must not sit on the chair   
D. the dog can sit here