Lingling is going to have a party on Saturday night. She has to shop and clean the house. She is shopping
for the food on Saturday morning. Her friends like hamburgers and ice cream. In the afternoon, she's cleaning
the living room and kitchen. She wants to go to the movies at 3:00, but she has to babysit her brother from 2:00 to 4:00. The party is at 7:00.
     Judy is coming to the party. She wants to help Lingling on Saturday, but she can't. She has a soccer game
in the morning. And in the afternoon, she's going to her uncle's house. She's coming to the party at 8:00.
     Ann isn't busy this Saturday. On Saturday morning she is going to buy a present for Lingling. In the
afternoon she is going to help Lingling with the cleaning. She wants to come to the party at 7:00.

(     )1. Lingling can go to the movies on Saturday afternoon.
(     )2. Judy is coming to the party at 8:00.               
(     )3. Judy is coming to help Lingling with the shopping. 
(     )4. Ann is busy on Saturday.                           
(     )5. Lingling’s party is on Saturday night.            

     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 because it was not complete, it could only roll (滾動) 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
was 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 fitted perfectly (完美). The circle put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole
with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. As 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 way. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better. He will never know someone is loving 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 (原諒), 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. Which of the following is true about the circle?

A. It always rolled slowly when it looked for the missing piece.
B. It talked with the flowers and the sunshine along the way.
C. The piece that it found first didn't fit.
D. It didn't find any flowers, the sunshine or the worm.

2. 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

3. 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

4. If a man owns everything, he'll be _____ in some way according to the story.

A. perfect
B. poor
C. happy
D. strong

5. 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

     Do you know Mark Twain? He was a g   1   American writer, and he was also a f   2   speaker (演講家).
He liked to tell f   3   stories to make people laugh. He also liked to play jokes on(戲弄) his friends.
     Once Mark Twain traveled with his friend b  4   train. His friend lost his money, so he asked Mark Twain
to buy a train t  5   for him.
     "But I don't have e   6   money to buy two tickets," said Mark Twain. His friend didn't know w  7   to do.
      "You can hide u  8   my seat when the conductor(檢票員) comes to check the tickets." Mark Twain said
to him.
     When the conductor came to check the tickets, Mark Twain gave him two tickets, one for himself (他自己)
and one for his friend. He said to the conductor,"My friend is a s  9   man. When he t   10   on a train, he
doesn't like to sit on the seat. He likes to lie on the floor under the seat." Everyone in the train looked at his
friend under the seat and laughed.

     Mr Henry went to a dinner party. He was wearing old clothes. He came into the room. But people in the
room didn't look at him. They didn't ask him to sit at the table.
    Mr Henry went home and put on his best clothes. He went back to the party. Everyone in the room stood
up and smiled at him. They gave him very good food to eat.
    Mr Henry took off his clothes, and put them before the food and said, "Eat, clothes!"
    The other people asked, "What are you doing?"
     He answered,"I am asking my coat to eat food. I'm wearing my old clothes. You don't look at me. You
don't ask me to sit down. Now I'm in these clothes. And you give me very good food. So I see, you give
the food to my clothes, not to me."

1. Mr Henry went to the dinner party, but people in the room didn't look at him, because ______.

A. he didn't come by car
B. he was young
C. he was wearing his old coothes
D. he was old

2. Mr Henry went to home to ______ his ______ clothes.

A. pot on; best
B. put on; old
C. take off; good
D. take off; beautiful

3. Mr Henry went back to the party, people in the room stood up and smiled at him, because ______.

A. he eas wearing his old clothes
B. he came back by a good car
C. he was wearing his good colthes
D. he was putting on his good colthes

4. Mr Henry took off his his good colthes, and ______ them ______ the good food.

A. ask; to eat
B. asked; to eat
C. let; to eat
D. asks; eat

5. Mr Henry said the good food was ______.

A. for him
B. for them
C. for his clothes
D. for his best clothes

     Once upon a time there lived a rich man and a poor tailor (裁縫) in the same house. The rich man lived
upstairs and the poor tailor lived downstairs.
     The tailor liked to sing when he made clothes. He sang one song after another. But the rich man liked to
sleep a lot, and the singing made him angry.
     One day, the rich man said,"Tailor, I will give you a bag full of money every day if you stop singing."
"Fine,"said the tailor. And so the tailor stopped singing and became richer and richer. But the more money he
got from the rich man, the unhappier he became. Because he wanted very much to sing again.
     At last he brought all his money back to the rich man."Here,"he said,"Take your money back.I won't be
happy if I can't sing."And so he gave the money back to the rich man and went away singing. He sang and
sang and was happier than ever before.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容判斷正(A)誤(B)
( )1. A rich man and a poor tailor lived in the same house.
( )2. The tailor liked to sing when he made kites.
( )3. The rich man liked to listen to the tailor's singing.
( )4. The rich man gave much money to the poor tailor to make him not sing.
( )5. The tailor liked singing better than money.