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Hello, dear friends! I’m Jenny. Please look at this photo. The girl in red is me. I’m 13. I have a sister and two brothers. My sister, Linda, is 15. She likes red and green. She has two red rulers and a green pencil case. She also likes sports and she has a great sports collection. She has five baseballs, three basketballs and two volleyballs. The baseballs and basketballs are under her bed. The volleyballs are under her chair. . And she is in the baseball club.
My brothers are Alan and Tom. Alan is 14 and Tom is 8.Alan likes English very much, and he is in the English club. He has many English books and English tapes. But Tom only likes watching TV. He watches it every evening.
【小題1】How old is Jenny? She is       .

A．8

B．13

C．14

D．15

【小題2】  __  has many English tapes.

A．Jenny

B．Linda

C．Tom

D．Alan

【小題3】Linda has     volleyballs.

A．one

B．two

C．three

D．five

【小題4】Tom has      .

A．two sisters and a brother

B．a(chǎn) sister and two brothers

C．three brothers

D．three sisters

【小題5】下面哪項(xiàng)陳述是正確的？

A．Linda’s pencil case is red.

B．Alan is in the baseball club.

C．Tom is the youngest（年紀(jì)最小的）of the four children.

D．Tom watches TV every afternoon.

Naim, from Turkey(土耳其), is a great Olympic weightlifting hero. He was the first weightlifter to win a gold medal in three Olympic Games. In 1996, when he won his third gold medal, he lifted a total of 335 kilograms and set a world record.

 

Patty is the world’s top aerobatic(特技) flyer in the USA. She entered her first flying competition in 1984. She became the first woman to win the title of US National Aerobatic Champion in 1991. And she did the same again in 1992 and 1993.

 

Ahmed is an Egypt’s champion. He is one of the best tennis players in the world today. In 1992 he entered the world rankings(排名). Four years later, he became an international sports superstar. Millions of people were amazed by his speed and skill.

 

Lai-Shan, Hong Kong’s greatest sports hero, started windsurfing at the age of 15. She competed in the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, but came in eleventh place. When she competed a second time in the Olympics, in 1996, she won a gold medal.

【小題1】Ahmed was famous for __________.

A．windsurfing

B．weightlifting

C．flying

D．playing tennis

【小題2】Patty was a champion in_________.

A．the USA

B．Turkey

C．China

D．Egypt

【小題3】Both Lai-Shan and Naim succeed at the Olympics _________.

A．In 1988

B．In 1992

C．In 1996

D．In 2000

Annette Kellerman was born in Australia in 1887.She had polio and could not walk easily.She had to wear metal supports on her legs to stand up on her own.To make her legs stronger,her mother took her for swimming lessons every week.Swimming made her legs so strong that when she was 15 she was able to throw away her supports.

Her family was poor so she got work acting as a mermaid.She wore a long tail and fish swam around her.People paid to come and see her.

In 1900 Annette swam in the Paris Olympics and won two gold medals. The next year she tried to swim across the Channel.She was the first woman to try to do it though she had to stop after swimming for six hours.

In 1915 Annette went to Hollywood and was the star of two films.

1.Annette Kellerman was born ________ in 1887.

A．in England                             B．In France

C．In America                            D．in Australia

2.She had to wear metal supports on her legs to stand up on her own because ______.

A．She had polio and couldn’t walk easily

B．Her family was poor

C．Her leg was hurt in an accident

D．She couldn’t swim

3.Her mother took her for swimming lessons every week ______.

A．to make her a famous swimmer

B．to make her legs stronger

C．to make her swim faster

D．to make her win gold medals

4.In 1990, Annette swam in the Paris Olympics and won two ________.

A．supports          B．fish              C．gold medals        D．films

5.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．she was successful in swimming across the Channel

B．In 1901 she tried to swim across the Channel but later she had to stop.

C．She wasn’t able to throw away her supports at the age of fifteen.

D．She swam across the Channel for only six days

 

Sudha Chandran was a dancer from India．She lost her chance to be a  1 when her right leg had to be cut off after a car accident．

Though the  2  brought her bright career to a stop，she didn’t  3 ．In the terrible months that followed，she met a doctor  4  had developed an artificial limb(假肢)．

After she was fitted with an artificial leg，she decided to go back to  5  ．

Sudha believed that she could  6   her dream come true．Then she did   7  for her

dream．

After every public show，she would ask her dad about her act．“You  8  have a long way to go．”was the answer she used to get  9  her father．

In January 2004．Sudha made an important return by  10  a public show in Bombay．She gave a show in such an amazing manner  11  it moved everyone to tears．In the end，she  12 the final prize of the show．

That evening，when she asked her dad the  13  question，he didn’t say  14  ．He just touched her feet as praise to a great artist.

When someone asked Sudha  15   she could dance again with her artificial limb，she said quite simply．“I don’t need feet to dance．”

1.                A．runner         B．player          C．star  D．moon

 

2.                A．chance         B．a(chǎn)ccident        C．dancer   D．leg

 

3.                A．give up         B．give away       C．give in    D．give out

 

4.                A．which          B．where          C．what     D．who

 

5.                A．sing           B．dance          C．cut D．stop

 

6.                A．take           B．bring           C．make     D．keep

 

7.                A．a(chǎn) lot           B．a(chǎn) few           C．a(chǎn) little    D．a(chǎn) bit

 

8.                A．still            B．only           C．just D．ever

 

9.                A．in             B．to             C．from     D．for

 

10.               A．going          B．giving          C．getting    D．watching

 

11.               A．a(chǎn)nd            B．so             C．but   D．that

 

12.               A．won           B．beat           C．had   D．told

 

13.               A．different       B．unusual        C．usual D．strange

 

14.               A．something      B．a(chǎn)nything        C．everything     D．nothirig

 

15.               A．what           B．how           C．why  D．when

 

 

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Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest. She had no family and no one to love her. So she often   1  sad and lonely.

One day, when she was walking in the forest, she found that a small   2  was trapped unluckily in a bush. The butterfly tried to fly away   3  failed. The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care. Instead of flying away, the butterfly turned   4  a beautiful fairy (仙女). The little girl was very   5 .

“Thank you for   6  me. You are so kind. I will make any of your dreams come true.” said the fairy.

The little girl thought for a moment and then said, “I want to be  7 !”

The fairy said, “Very well. I will help you.” And she said something in the little girl’s ear. Then the fairy disappeared.

As the kind little girl grew up, she was   8  ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers. No one in the village was as happy as she was. Everyone asked her the   9  of ther happiness. She always smiled and   10 , “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind   11  when I was a little girl.”

When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying, the neighbours in the   12  all gathered (聚攏) around her bed because they were   13  that her secret of happiness would die with her. They asked, “Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”

The lovely old woman still   14  and said, “She told me that everyone needed me, no matter how safe they seemed, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or   15 . She said that helping others would make me happy all my life.”

1.                A．thought        B．found          C．sounded  D．felt

 

2.                A．butterfly        B．bird            C．snake    D．squirrel

 

3.                A．so             B．or             C．but  D．a(chǎn)s

 

4.                A．on            B．up             C．into D．down

 

5.                A．surprised       B．tired           C．mad D．a(chǎn)ngry

 

6.                A．catching        B．beating         C．killing    D．saving

 

7.                A．a(chǎn)ctive          B．happy          C．energetic D．humorous

 

8.                A．a(chǎn)lways         B．never          C．seldom   D．hardly

 

9.                A．success         B．secret          C．power    D．lesson

 

10.               A．a(chǎn)sked          B．hoped         C．a(chǎn)nswered  D．refused

 

11.               A．witch          B．fairy           C．ghost D．princess

 

12.               A．village         B．town           C．city   D．world

 

13.               A．excited         B．pleased        C．glad  D．a(chǎn)fraid

 

14.               A．shouted        B．cried          C．smiled D．jumped

 

15.               A．young          B．great          C．nice  D．quiet