Dick often goes traveling when the summer holiday begins. But he was out of luck this summer.
He went to an old temple(廟)on a high mountain by himself. On his way there it suddenly began to rain heavily and he hurried to go down the mountain. When he got to the foot of the mountain, he found the wooden bridge was under the water, so he had to spend the rainy night in a broken farmhouse. He was so hungry that he hardly fell asleep.
The next morning the rain stopped and he found the bridge was damaged. He saw the river was not too deep and tried to swim across it. In the middle of the river the water nearly washed him away. Luckily , two farmers saved him, but he lost his bag. They gave him some food and dry clothes. He thanked them and went to the nearest town to call up his parents.
At the end of the street, Dick found a small hotel and went in. He asked the price for a room.
“A room on the first floor is twenty dollars, on the second floor, fifteen dollars and on the third, ten dollars,” answered the owner.
The young man had only eight dollars in all his pockets. He said thanks and was leaving. The owner asked, “Don’t you like our hotel?”
“Yes, it’s good,” said Dick, “but it’s not tall enough!”
【小題1】Dick spent the rainy night ______.

A．in the old temple	B．in a farmhouse
C．on the bridge	D．in a hotel

【小題2】Why couldn’t Dick go to sleep that rainy night?

A．Because he was afraid of the dark.

B．Because he had nothing for supper.

C．Because he felt cold.

D．Because he couldn’t call his parents.

【小題3】What did Dick do the next morning when he found the bridge was damaged?

A．He went back to the temple

B．He stayed in a farmhouse.

C．He decided to swim across the river.

D．He asked the farmers for some food.

【小題4】What do you think of Dick’s summer holiday this year?

A．Happy

B．Terrible

C．Boring

D．Exciting

【小題5】From Dick’s words in the last paragraph, we can infer(推測(cè)) that______.

A．Dick liked tall buildings

B．Dick went to borrow money from his good friends.

C．Dick went to look for a better hotel at last

D．Dick was not able to pay for a room in the hotel

There was once a young man called Paul in a village in the USA. Paul was very lazy because his father was a rich farmer and he didn’t have to work. Mr Smith, a neighbour of his, was a blacksmith (鐵匠). He used to work in his shop all day. Paul spent hours and hours watching how the blacksmith worked every day. “Young man, why don’t you try your hand to make a shoe tack (鐵釘), even it is only to pass the time?” said the blacksmith one day, “ Maybe it will be useful to you some day.” Finally, the lazy boy began to have a try. After practicing some times, he became skilled and could make very nice tacks.
Years later, Paul’s father died and he lost all the things because of a war (戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)). He had to move to another country and live by himself. It happened that there were many shoemakers paying high prices to buy tacks for the shoes, because in that part of the country there was a great need of tacks for soldiers’ shoes. Paul went to talk with them. He told them that he would make the tacks if they could help him find a workshop in the village. The shoemakers agreed. Then Paul made a lot of money by making tacks. “How funny it is!” he said to himself, “Even by making shoe tacks, one can become rich.”
【小題1】Why didn’t Paul have to work?
A. Because he couldn’t do anything.
B. Because he was too lazy.
C. Because his father was very rich.
D. B and C.
【小題2】What’s the Chinese meaning of skilled?

A．熟練的.

B．適應(yīng)的.

C．自信的.

D．巧妙的.

【小題3】What did Paul do after his father died because of the war?

A．He travelled to another country.

B．He moved to another country.

C．He learned to make shoes.

D．He started a workshop.

【小題4】How many kinds of people appeared in the story except Paul ?

A．Five.

B．Four.

C．Three.

D．Two.

【小題5】What can we learn form the story?

A．Making tacks is important.

B．Wars can make people hard-working.

C．Nothing is difficult to learn.

D．Everything you learned may be useful.

More than a hundred years ago, an American produced (創(chuàng)造) a game. He called it indoor tennis. The Americans were not interested in it at first so he sent it to his London friends and it became very popular (流行) in Britain. The game was then played across the dining-room table or on the floor with the net hung between two chairs. In the early days ，the balls were made of cork (軟木) or rubber. The bats(球拍) were made of wood.
A few years later a hollow (空心) ball like the one we use today was invented. The game then quickly spread all over the world. An Englishman once made a bat covered with rubber. He first played the game in England and called it "ping - pong". "Ping" was the sound of the bat when it hit the ball, and "pong" was the sound of the ball when it hit the table.
【小題1】Who invented the game of ping-pong?

A．A Chinese.

B．An Englishman.

C．An American.

D．We don't know.

【小題2】The game was first called ________ by its producer(創(chuàng)造者).

A．ping- pong tennis

B．table tennis

C．our-door tennis

D．indoor tennis

【小題3】What did the British think of the game?

A．Moving (感人的).

B．Interesting.

C．Terrible.

D．boring.

【小題4】In the early days，the ball was________.

A．hollow	B．covered with rubber
C．made of cork or rubber	D．made of wood

【小題5】The name of ping-pong has something to do with __________.

A．sound

B．size

C．history

D．place

Eagles are members of the bird family. More than 60 kinds live in Africa. Once there was a baby eagle living in a nest on a cliff(懸崖). The baby eagle loved his nest. It was warm, soft and comfortable. And even better, he had all the food and love that his mother could give. Whenever the baby eagle was hungry, his mother would always come just in time with delicious food he liked.
He was growing happily day after day. But suddenly his world changed. His mother stopped coming to the nest. He was full of sadness and fear. He thought he would die soon. He cried, but nobody heard him.
Two days later his mother came with some nice food. The baby eagle was wild with joy. But his mother put the food at the top of the mountain and then looked down at her baby. The baby eagle cried out, “Mom, why did you do this to me? I’m hungry. Don’t you know I will die if I have nothing to eat?”
“Here is the last meal I give you. Come and get it by yourself.” his mother said. Then she flew down and pushed the baby out of the nest.
The baby eagle fell down, faster and faster. He looked up at his mom, “Why do you abandon me?” He looked down at the earth. The ground was much closer. Then something strange happened. The air caught behind his arms and he began to fly! He wasn’t moving to the ground any more. Instead, his eyes were pointed up at the sun. “You are flying! You can make it!” His mother smiled.
【小題1】Which of the following is true about the baby eagle’s life before his mother stopped coming to the nest?

A．He lived in a nest in a tree.	B．His mother gave him nice food.
C．He was always cold and hungry.	D．He lived very happily with his friends.

【小題2】How did the eagle feel as soon as he saw his mother coming again?

A．Sad.

B．Happy.

C．Afraid.

D．Angry.

【小題3】What did the baby eagle’s mother do when she came the last time?

A．She put some food in the nest.

B．She just came to see him again.

C．She shouted at her baby eagle and flew away.

D．She pushed her baby eagle out of the nest..

【小題4】The underlined word “abandon” means _________ in Chinese.

A．拋棄

B．保護(hù)

C．歧視

D．拯救

【小題5】We can infer from the story that the baby eagle ___________.

A．lost his mother	B．fell down and died
C．could get food himself	D．was still angry with his mother

Ellie lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a few houses were washed away, but Ellie’s house was high enough to keep them safe.
Many families lost everything in the flood. And Ellie took in one of the families. She shared her home with them until the family could build their own new house. Ellie’s friends could not understand why she did so because she already had so many children to look after.
“Well,” Ellie said to her friends, “At the end of World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now.”
“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We will not be able to have much for Christmas. I am going to get just one present for us all. Now I will go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who had no parents, ‘Here is our present,’ she said to her own children.”
“The children were very excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grew up as their sisters. I was that Christmas present.”
【小題1】How many children did Ellie had in total?

A．Five.

B．Six.

C．Seven.

D．Eight.

【小題2】What happened in the winter?

A．There was a flood.

B．There was an earthquake

C．There was a rain storm.

D．There was a fire.

【小題3】What did Ellie do to help other families?

A．She gave them food.

B．She bought many Christmas present for them.

C．She took in one of the families.

D．She took in a girl.

【小題4】What did the poor woman in German bring to her children for Christmas?

A．Many beautiful presents.	B．Nothing.
C．A girl.	D．A daddy.

【小題5】What do we learn about Ellie in the passage?

A．She had no children.

B．Her husband was killed.

C．She had no parents.

D．She gave much money to others.