"Well, we're in our new house. Let's get a new pet to go along with it," Mrs. Brown said to her husband.
     "That sounds like a very good idea," he answered. "Do you want to see the ads in the newspaper?"
     "Let's go to the animal shelter. Many pets there need homes. Since tomorrow is Saturday, we can both
go," she said.
     The next morning the Browns met Mr. Snow at the animal shelter. "We want to be sure that the pets here
go to good homes," Mr. Snow said,"So I need to ask you some questions."
     After they talked for a while, the Browns decided to get a small dog. It wouldn't need a big house or a big
yard. A small dog would bark (吠) and warn (警告) them if someone tried to break into their house. After
Mr. Snow gave the Browns a book on pet care, they chose one and wanted to take her home right away. But
the animal doctor hadn't examined her yet. So Mr. Snow told them to return on Sunday.
     On Sunday afternoon the Browns went to the animal shelter. The animal doctor said, "Shadow has had all
of her shots (預防針). She will be healthy." The Browns thanked the doctor and took Shadow home.

1. From the reading we learn that _____.

A. the Browns have never had a pet before
B. the Browns knew about Shadow from the newspaper
C. Shadow is a small and healthy dog
D. Mr. Brown didn't quite agree with his wife

2. The word shelter in the reading means _____.

A. a place to sell small dogs
B. a place to keep homeless animals
C. a place to study animals
D. a place to sell books on pet care

3. Mr. Snow asked the Browns some questions to _____.

A. see if they had moved to a new house
B. find out how rich the Browns were
C. know where they'd keep their new pet
D. make sure they'd take good care of pets

4. The Browns think that a small dog _____.

A. doesn't need any room to keep
B. can help them watch their house
C. eats less food than a bigger one
D. usually has a beautiful name

5. It's clear that _____.

A. Shadow will not be easy to get ill
B. the Browns were not pleased with Shadow
C. Mr. Snow didn't examine Shadow at all
D. Shadow likes barking a lot

     It was just three degrees above zero. "That's cold," thought Jane as she got ready to deliver (送) her
morning papers. Jane had 50 customers (訂戶), and on cold mornings when she couldn't ride her bicycle,
it took her more than an hour to make her rounds.
     As she collected her papers and put them into a big canvas bag, Jane regretted (遺憾) that she hadn't
finished her math homework the night before. There was still time. She'd hurry with the papers and finish
the math before breakfast.
     Less than an hour later Jane was nearly finished. She had only five customers to go. She could then
bead for home to complete her math while her mom made breakfast. As she rounded the corner, she saw
a car in the middle of the street. It was Mr. Zimmerman, the elderly man who walked with a walking stick.
His car was out of gas (汽油).
     "I'd like to help Mr. Zimmerman," thought Jane, "but if I do, I won't have time to do my homework."
She hated to think what Mr. Roberts would say if she hadn't finished her papers.
     "It's his own fault (過錯) for running out of gas," Jane talked to herself. "The station is only a half mile
down the street. Surely Mr. Zimmerman can walk that far, even on a cold morning like this … can't he?"
As she walked down the street, Jane wondered what to do.

1. Jane delivers her papers _____.

A. before she goes to school
B. on cold mornings
C. with the help of Mr. Zimmerman's car
D. on the way to school

2. Mr. Zimmerman was old and _____.

A. couldn't drive well
B. would have nobody to help him
C. was not rich enough to buy enough gas
D. was not able to walk a long way

3. The best title for this reading should be _____.

A. Fifty Customers
B. There's No Easy Answer
C. No Time to Finish Homework
D. A Cold Morning for Jane

4. We know from the reading that _____.

A. Jane couldn't find any time to finish her homework
B. it took about an hour for Jane to send the papers
C. Jane would have her breakfast in the school
D. Jane liked to deliver papers on cold mornings

5. The reading doesn't say but we can infer that _____.

A. Jane bought the gas for Mr. Zimmerman
B. usually Jane would deliver papers by bike
C. Mr. Robert didn't' like Jane at school
D. Mr. Zimmerman had to leave the car for Jane

     This is a story about Geneva Emmons who got a prize for growing pumpkins.
     Geneva Emmons saw a (1)p______ of an 827-pound pumpkin in a newspaper and thought she could do
(2)b______. Nine years later, she took part in a pumpkin competition (比賽) in Oregon, USA, with a pumpkin
of 1,262 pounds!
     Geneva set the world's record for the biggest pumpkin and (3)w worldwide fame. But how did she grow
such a BIG (4)v______? Emmons said:"Good seed (種子), good soil (土壤), good (5)w______, and good
luck."
     Geneva Emmons is (6)l______ to get enough help. She had an assistant who studies the soil, a husband
who gave the technical (技術) help, and a son who (7)b______ a cart (推車) to carry the pumpkin. The
pumpkin set the record, but it was (8)c______, because two other pumpkins were as (9)h______ as 1,000
pounds.
     The pumpkin will be carved (雕刻) by some (10)a______ of an art museum for kids in Washington.

     Sally was fourteen. She studied in a middle school. She liked dancing and singing and spent a lot of time
on them. But she hated maths and even decided to give it up. Her father was anxious (焦慮) about it.
     It was Sunday. Sally's father gave a call to his sister who taught maths in another school. He hoped she
would come and tell his daughter how to learn maths. The woman came and said,"You are a clever girl, Sally.
I' m sure you will soon learn maths well if you do your best"
     "I'm afraid I can't, Aunt," said Sally. "Girls can't be good at maths."
     "I don't think so," said the woman. "I was good at it when I was a girl. You must do more exercises and
try different ways to practice doing maths problems until you work them out or at least understand them
better. Here is a maths problem. Please think it over and see if you can work it out."
     "OK," said the girl. "Let me try."
     About an hour later Sally took the exercise book to her aunt and said, "I've tried several times and worked
out the problem at last!"
     "Well done!" her aunt looked at her answer and said happily, "Now you see, maths is not as difficult as
you thought."

(     )1. Sally tried her best to learn maths but could not learn it well.
(     )2. Sally spent much more time in singing and dancing than in learning maths.
(     )3. Her aunt didn't think that girls could be good at maths.
(     )4. The father asked his sister to teach his daughter how to learn maths.
(     )5. Sally worked out the problem at last

     About five hundred years ago, an earthquake (地震) happened in a small village. Luckily for them, nothing
was destroyed (毀壞) and no one was hurt. But a huge stone fell from a nearby mountain and stopped in the
middle of the road.
     When the earthquake stopped, many people came to the road and saw the stone. Some of the strongest men
tried to lift the stone out of the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried to push it but failed. They tried to
pull it with ropes but nothing worked.?
     "Well," they said sadly, "there's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the way."
     At this time a boy about 12 years old said, "I think I can help you to move the stone away."
     "You?" they shouted. "What are you talking about?" The men all laughed at the boy.?
     The next morning, some people came into the road. One of them shouted, "The stone is gone." More people
ran out to see what had happened. It was true. The stone wasn't on the road any longer. It wasn't even near the
road.?
     The boy walked over to where the stone had been and said, "I buried it."
     The people looked rather surprised. "You see," he said, "I dug a deep hole next to the stone and I dug a small incline (斜坡) up to the stone and the stone rolled (滾) down into the hole itself. Then I covered it with earth."
     The villagers shouted, "Clever boy! Clever boy!" And some of them said, "Why didn't we think out this good
idea?"

1. Around 500 years ago, this story happened in a small _____.? 

A. town
B. village
C. city
D. country

2. After the earthquake, _____.?

A. many people in the village died
B. nothing happened
C. the whole village was covered with big stones
D. a huge stone fell down the mountain and stood in the middle of the road

3. The stone was moved out of the road by _____.?

A. an old man
B. a young man
C. a boy
D. a girl

4. In the end, the huge stone was _____.?

A. in the earth
B. in the house
C. in the river
D. on the road side

5. From the passage, we can see that _____.?

A. the boy was stronger than the villagers
B. the villagers were very foolish
C. the boy was very bright and good at thinking?
D. the villagers were all proud of the boy before the earthquake happened

     On July 23rd, 1993, Wang Jiapeng lost his legs when his plane crashed. Wang was only 12 years old.
     "I felt I was the unluckiest person in the world," says Wang."When I saw students with their schoolbags
on their backs, the sound of my wheelchair made me sick."
     Wang's mother took him to a special hospital in Beijing. She looked after him in the daytime and worked
at night to make money. But after two years, Wang was still not able to leave the hospital. Wang's mother
became too tired to go on and one day she herself became a hospital patient!
     One morning she woke up and saw her son holding breakfast for her. Wang's trip to the food shop was
his first time outside the hospital in two years. The five-minute walk took him thirty minutes. But he was
finally able to make an important decision."I didn't care how other people looked at me," he says."I had to
learn to do things myself."
     For the next few years, Wang taught himself all his middle school subjects in the hospital and, five years
after the accident, he won a chance to study in a college in Norway. Wang learned to drive, go rock climbing
and ski. He even won two gold medals for skiing in an international skiing competition.
     "You are what you think you are," says Wang. "If you think you're disabled, you are. If you don't think so,
you aren't."

1. How old was he when he lost his legs?
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2. How did he feel at first?
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3. What decision did he make finally? 
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4. How did he make such a great success?
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5. What title (標題) can you give to the passage? 
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