A boy goes to study in Japan.  He finds a part-time job in a restaurant.  Many Japanese students also
 work there.  Their job is washing dishes (餐具).  It's an easy job, but the boss (老板) says:   "You must
 wash every dish seven times. " At first, the student is careful.  The boss is happy with him.  After one
 month, the boy finds that the boss doesn't check (檢查) very often.  He thinks,"There's no difference
 between five times and seven times. " So he just washes five times.  He works very fast.  The boss is
 even happier.  One day, a Japanese student asks him why he can wash so fast.  The student tells him the
 secret.  The Japanese student is surprised (吃驚的) but doesn't say anything.
     A few days later, the boss knows about it and fires (解雇) the boy.  The boy goes to other restaurants,
  but all of them say, "Go away! You are not honest (誠(chéng)實(shí)的).  We don't need you. " The boy is sad, but
  he can do nothing now.

(     ) 1.  The boy works as a chef in a restaurant.
(     ) 2.  The boss wants the young man to wash the dishes five times.
(     ) 3.  The young man washes the dishes five times and he works very fast.
(     ) 4.  The Japanese student tells the boss about the young man's cheating.
(     ) 5.  The young man is not an honest person.

     Mrs Read lives in the countryside. She is very happy. Sometimes she is not happy. There aren't many things to
buy in the countryside. She needs to go to the city.
     One day she goes to the city. First she buys some fruits and vegetables for herself and for her friend. The she
goes into a shop. She wants to buy a pair of glasses. She tries one pair, and then another, and another, but none
of them seems to feel right.
     The shopkeeper is a nice man. After some time he says to Mrs Read, "Don't worry, madam. Everything will be
all right in the end. It isn't easy to find the right glasses."
     "No, it isn't," answers Mrs Read. " And it is even more difficult when you are shopping for a friend."

1. Why does Mrs Read go to the city ?

A.To visit a friend .
B.There aren't many things to buy in the countryside.
C.She needs to see a doctor.
D.She loves the city.

2. Mrs Read buys ____ when she gets to the city .

A. some fruits    
B. some vegetables
C. nothing      
D. fruits and vegetables

3. Then she goes into a shop to buy a pair of ______.

A. glasses      
B. shoes  
C. trousers    
D. jeans

4. It is not easy to for Mrs Read to _________.

A.find the shop  
B. try on the glasses
C.find the right glasses  
D. talk to the shopkeeper

5. The glasses are really for______. 

A. Ms Read herself  
B. her friend    
C. her son  
D. her students

     Several boys in our class prepared to run for class president. We decided to vote for the best person to be our
class president. Here are their speeches.
     The first speaker was Zhang Ming. He is very good at sports and after-class activities. He promised to make our
school life colorful by singing, dancing and playing games after school.
     The second speaker was Chen Chen. He does well in studies, especially math. He said he would help us improve
our studies.
     The last one was Wang Ming.   I saw him sit in the corner and listen to others carefully.   That boy  is quiet but
always ready to help others in their studies. He also plays basketball very well. I said to him, "Come on. It's your
turn." Wang Ming smiled and stood up. "I'm very glad to have the chance to run for monitor," he said nervously,
"I'm not good enough. However, if anyone needs me, I am ready to help. That's all."
     I want Wang Ming to be our new class president. What about you?       

1. How many students voted for class president?

A. Two.  
B. Three.  
C. Four.    
D. We don't know.

2. If Zhang Ming becomes the class president, he will _________.

A. take students to the library    
B. help students study hard  
C. hold a meeting with the students    
D. make students do different activities 

3. Wang Ming was ______ when he stood up and spoke. 

A. excited    
B. angry    
C. nervous    
D. worried 

4. The underlined word "monitor" means "__________".

A. speaker    
B. school president  
C. teacher    
D. class president 

5. What can we know from the passage?

A. The writer will vote for Wang Ming.
B. Girls can't run for class president at school.
C. Chen Chen is good at sports but not at studies.
D. Our teacher decided who was the class president.

     Komal loved playing baseball very much. She always wanted to be a baseball player in her school team. She
practiced nearly every day, even on rainy days.   Her grandfather lived in another city.   He was a great baseball
player. So she sent a postcard to him saying, "When you come here for holiday, would you like to teach me how
to play baseball better?" The next week she got his letter saying, "Sorry, I'm very busy now." Komal was so sad.
But in fact,   his grandpa decided  to  go.   He didn't tell Komal the truth (真 相) because he wanted to give her a
surprise.
     When the door bell rang on Saturday morning, Komal was so surprised to see her grandfather when she opened
the door. Grandfather brought Komal a baseball as a present.   It was the one he used in one of the Olympic Games.
Komal was very happy and put it on her bookshelf. With the grandfather's help, Komal improved a lot and became
a player of the school team in the end.   

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,回答問題.
1. What sports was Komal fond of?
     _____________________________________
2. What did Komal's grandfather do?
     _____________________________________
3. Did Komal's grandfather go to Komal's home at last?
     _____________________________________
4. Where did Komal put the present her grandfather gave her?
     _____________________________________
5. What was Komal's dream?
     _____________________________________

     We drink tea each day. But more than three hundred years ago most people in Europe (歐洲) did not
  know anything about tea. Some people heard about it , but very few of them knew what to do with it.
     There is a story about an English sailor (水手) who went to countries in the east, the west and the
 south. He had been to India (印度) and China . One day he came home and brought some tea as a
 present for her mother .She told her friends about the present and asked them to a "tea party"
     When her friends came to the "tea party" , the old woman brought out some tea-leaves and asked them
  to eat, of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves.
     At that time the sailor came in .He looked at the table and said, "Mother, what have you done with the
 tea?"" I boiled it as you said."  "And what did you do with the water?"" I threw it away, of course, "
 answered the old woman." Now you may throw away the leaves (葉子) too ,"said her son.

(     ) 1. The sailor gave his mother some tea as a present.

(     ) 2. The old woman asked her friends to a tea party.

(     ) 3. Everybody liked to eat the tea-leaves.

(     ) 4. The woman threw the water away but kept the leaves

(     ) 5. The story is about an American sailor.

     One day, I went to visit my aunt. When I was playing outside with the kids from the neighborhood, I
 saw a lovely dog. I was very happy and tried to catch it. But the dog ran away in the woods (樹林). I ran
  after it and forgot my aunt's words -not to go far.
     Finally, I caught the dog. But when I looked around, I noticed that everything around me was dark and
  strange. I felt frightened and a little hungry.
     I walked for a long time, but I still couldn't find my way home. I was very tired and sat under a tree.
 Suddenly, I found that the dog was missing again. At that moment, a policeman appeared (出現(xiàn)) in front
  of me, sitting on a motorbike with the dog. He said the dog took him there and then he drove me back to
  my aunt's house.
     I felt thankful to the dog and gave it some delicious bones. Then I set it free again. Who knows, maybe
  it would help out another little lost boy back to his family. 

1. Who did the writer play with at first?
     ______________________

2. What did the writer's aunt tell him? 
    ______________________

3. What was like in the woods?
    ______________________

4. How did the writer come back to his aunt's home?
    ______________________

5. Did the writer keep the dog at home from then on? 
    ______________________