A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a
girl in another country.
     Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who was interested in computer. One day, he was
sending an e-mail to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying "Help! Help! Help!"
The message was from Finland, thousands of kilometers way from the USA.
     "I didn't know what I should do," Dean said to a reporter. "It was really difficult to tell if the message
was real." So Dean did nothing at first. But the message kept coming.
     "By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble," Dean explained. He replied and discovered
that the sender was a 20-year-old student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was
very ill. What was worse, there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the
world was by e-mail.
     Dean got in touch with the Texas police. The police immediately realized that the situation was quite
serious. They found it necessary to call the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the university,
and soon doctors found Tarja. Luckily, she was still alive and was quickly sent to the hospital.
     "I'm glad she's OK," Dean said. "It's hard to believe, but e-mail saved her life."

(     )1.  Dean Bluey was a 14-year-old boy from Dallas, Texas, the USA.                            
(     )2.  When he was sending an e-mail, Dean heard someone calling outside.                        
(     )3.  Dean didn't know whether the message was real when he  first got it.                      
(     )4.  Tarja was a university student in the USA, thousands of  kilometers away from Dean.      
(     )5.  At that time in the library, Tarja was able to ask for help in many ways.                
(     )6.  Dean made a phone call to the police in Finland and told them about Tarja's trouble.      
(     )7.  From the story we know that the Internet played an important part in saving Tarja's life.

     Linda and her brother, John, saved money for many years. One day, Linda emptied her money
 jar. "I would like to help other people with the money," she said. John also emptied his money jar.      
     "We can do a lot for others with all the money," John said with a smile. "But who shall we help?"
 Linda asked. "Let's help our neighbors, Billy and his sister, Rose. I have found that there are some 
holes in their shoes," John said. "We could buy some new shoes for them," Linda said.      
     Linda and John told their mother their plan. She was glad and took them to a shoe store at once.
 Linda picked out a pair of shoes for Rose. John picked out a pair of shoes for Billy. They put the two
 pairs of shoes into two beautiful boxes. When it was darker, John walked to Billy and Rose's house 
quietly. He put the boxes near the door, and knocked hard, and then he ran away quickly.         
     Billy and Rose came out. "Look! There are presents for us. Someone left them here," Billy said. 
They looked around, but they couldn't find anyone. They took the boxes inside happily.        
     The next morning, when Linda and John went out, they saw Billy   and Rose playing outside. They
 were both wearing their new shoes. Linda and John were so happy because they could help others.

1. Who was Linda's brother?
    ________________________________________
2. What did Linda and John buy with their saved money?
     ________________________________________
3. Where did John put the boxes?
    ________________________________________
4. Why were Linda and John happy?
    ________________________________________
5. Were. Linda and John kind and helpful?
   ________________________________________

     Mr. White works in a factory. There are not many people in the factory. They make shoes there.
The workers go to work early in the morning. On Saturday and Sunday they don't go to work. They
stay at home.
     Mrs. White cooks for the workers in the factory. She likes cooking. In the middle of the day the
workers have lunch in the factory. They are very friendly. They like the food Mrs. White cooks.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容判斷正(T)誤(F):
(     )1. Many workers work in the shoe factory.                
(     )2. Mrs. White goes to work early in the morning.          
(     )3. Mr. and Mrs. White stay at home on Saturday and Sunday.
(     )4. The workers have their lunch in the factory.          

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下列問(wèn)題。
5. What does Mrs. White do?
     ________________.
6. Why do the workers like Mrs. White?
    ________________.
7. Are Mrs. White and her husband in the same factory?
   ________________.
8. When do the workers have a rest?
   ________________.

     Mr Henry lived in a small village with high mountains all around it. All day he worked on his farm 
and never went to the city.  Sometimes he went to the town which was not far away to buy something,
 but he always walked there and never took a bus or a train.  His wife died after his only daughter was
 born. When the girl, Ann, grew up, she left her father and went to college. Four years later Ann passed 
all her examinations and found work in a hospital in the capital.  As she was busy,  she had no time to go
 back to see her father.  But she missed her father very much. So she wrote to her father and asked him
 to come to the capital.      
     When Mr Henry heard from his daughter, he was quite happy and was soon ready to set off. The
 next day, as soon as he got to the station, he rang Ann up and told her the train he would take. At eight 
in the morning the train arrived at the Capital Station. Mr Henry had spent about sixteen hours on the 
train. As soon as he got off  he saw his daughter standing there to meet him. Ann ran up to him and 
found that her father looked pale.       
     "What's the matter with you, Dad?" Ann asked in surprise.  "Do you feel unwell?"     
     "Nothing," answered Mr Henry.   "I'm just not used to sitting backwards (背朝前)  in the train. "  
 "Oh,  dear,"  laughed the girl.  "Why didn't you exchange seats with the man opposite to you?"  
 "How can I do that?" answered Mr Henry.  "No man sat opposite to me!"

1. Mr Henry was ______.           

A. a worker      
B. a driver      
C. a farmer

2. Ann's mother died ______.           

A. before Ann was born                                
B. after Ann was born              
C. when Ann grew up

3. Mr Henry always went to the town on foot because ______.             

A. the town was near to his village             
B. he had no money to take a bus             
C. he was afraid to take a bus

4. Ann didn't go back home because  ______.             

A. she didn't want to              
B. she was too busy to go home              
C. she didn't miss her father

5. Mr Henry didn't exchange seats because ______.             

A. there was no man opposite to him             
B. he had fallen asleep on the train             
C. he hadn't known he had been able to do so

      Mr. Scott worked in a middle school. He read a lot. He taught well and could answer all the
questions his students asked. And they liked him very much. One Sunday morning, when he was
dressing his little son, Jimmy, the boy suddenly asked, "May I ask you a question, Dad?" "Of course
you can," answered Mr. Scott. "Are you sure that you can answer it?" "Certainly." "Well," said Jimmy,
"Are there any holes in your socks?" "Holes?" Mr. Scott said in surprise. "It's impossible." "Look at
them carefully, or you'll be wrong!" Mr. Scott took off his socks and looked at them carefully but
didn't find anything wrong.
     "No, there's no hole in them," said Mr. Scott. "I bought them only last week." "How can you put
your feet into them, then?" Little Jimmy said with a smile. At first Mr. Scott didn't know what to say.
After a while he began to laugh with a red face.

根據(jù)短文意思,將下列句子補(bǔ)充完整.每空一詞。

1. Mr. Scott was a _________ in a school.
2. His son was very _______, so he couldn't dress himself.
3. Mr. Scott ______ to find if there were holes in his socks.
4. In the end Mr. Scott _______that his son had played a joke on him.
5. From Jimmy's joke we can say that he was a _______ boy.

     A little girl often goes to a shop. In summer, she usually gets some ice cream. In spring winter and
autumn she asks for some chocolates (巧克力). The man in the shop knows her well. One day, it's
cold and windy. The snow is falling. The little girl goes into the shop and asks for some cigars(香煙).
The man says, "No, you can't ask for that. You are under 18. Look, a policeman is coming…

(     )1. The girl wants ice cream all the time.                          
(     )2. She doesn't like chocolates.                                    
(     )3. The man in the shop doesn't know her.                          
(     )4. One cold winter day, the girl goes to the shop for some cigars.
(     )5. The girl says the policeman is her father.