Steven Park and his wife Susan were having financial (財政) problems. One day, they each decided,
without telling the other, to buy lotto ticket (彩票). Before buying these tickets, they had never spent money
on the lotto. They both used numbers that were their anniversary (周年紀(jì)念) date and address. That night,
they were watching the news on TV, and the winning numbers were drawn. Soon after hearing the numbers,
they started jumping up and down. They were shocked (震驚) to find out that they each held a winning ticket!
The ticket won ＄450,000.

1. Why did the parks buy a lotto ticket?    
    _______________________________________     
2. What number did the Parks use?   
    _______________________________________             
3. Where did the Parks get the news that they won?
    _______________________________________
4. When did the Parks start jumping up and down? 
    _______________________________________ 
5. How much did the Parks win? 
    _______________________________________                  

     A few years ago, Dave Stirling had the idea of selling CDs over the Internet. The business he started from
his home in Ohio, the USA, now sells 500,000 CDs a year and has made him into a millionaire (百萬富翁) at
the age of 24.
     "I could see that this was the future of shopping," says Stirling. "Why should you pay $15 for a CD and
spend the time and the money getting into the store and parking your car? You can have the same CD for half
of the price by clicking (敲擊) on your computer. And we can find any CD you want and bring it to your door
in 24 hours!"
     According to Stirling, this is the only beginning, "I believe that one day we'll do our shopping over the net:
it's easier, quicker and cheaper. Shops and supermarkets will be the past."

1. Dave Stiring started his business from ________.

A. his home
B. his company
C. the office
D. the country

2. How has Stirling become so rich?

A. By making ice cream.
B. By making advertisements.
C. By selling ideas to others.
D. By selling CDs over the Internet.

3. If you pay $15 for a CD in the store, how much should you pay for it over the net?

A. $15.
B. $12.
C. $7.5.
D. $30.

4. By shopping over the net, you won't ________.

A. spend the time and the money
B. drive your car any more
C. click on your computer
D. get into the store by yourself

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A. More than half of the Americans prefer to shop over the net.
B. Shops and supermarkets will be the past in the future.
C. Some people don't like to go shopping over the Internet.
D. It's easier, quicker and more expensive to do our shopping over the net.

     Most children don't enjoy doing housework. They like playing computer games rather than cleaning
the rooms. But in Australia, Jim and Robert's mother, Mrs Black, has good and proper methods to get their
children to do housework.
     Here is an example.
     "Mum, have you worked out next week's housework? Let Jim and me choose the cards I can't wait. It's
fun!"
     When Robert shouted out, his mother had already put all the cards on their big table. On the cards, there
are some words like these, "sweep the floor, clean your bedroom, help mum cook, wash vegetables, make
beds, feed the fish, cut the wood, clean the bathroom" and many others, Jim and Robert chose two cards for
each day from Monday to Friday. Then they would hang them on the week day task board. Jim likes to clean
the bathroom, so he picked up the card "clean the bathroom". Robert loves to make the bed so he picked up
his favorite card. Jim again picked up "wash vegetables" and Robert chose"feed the fish". Soon the two boys
were happy to take away all the cards
     To help the children do housework, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of course, the
parents did the housework on the weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.

1. From the passage we know that most children like ________.

A. doing housework
B. playing computer games
C. playing cards
D. doing housework

2. Jim and Robert chose card for the weekdays from Monday to Friday.

A. two
B. four
C. eight
D. ten

3. Jim likes to ________.

A. clean the bathroom
B. make the bed
C. feel the fish
D. sweep the floor

4. The underlined phrase "came up with" probably means "________".

A. looked at
B. gave up
C. thought of
D. believed in

5. Who did the housework on the weekends?

A. Jim
B. Robert
C. The parents
D. The whole family

     Robot Vogel is a police officer in New York. One Morning, he was drinking coffee in a restaurant.
Suddenly a man ran in and shouted,"Officer! A car is going down the street, and a little kid 1________
(drive) it!"
     Officer Vogel ran out of the restaurant and saw a car 2________(go) slowly at about 25 miles an hour.
He jumped into his police car and followed it. When he was behind it, he turned on his red light and siren
(警笛), The car moved to the side of the road and stopped.
     Officer Vogel got out of his police car and looked inside. The driver was a little boy. His name was
Rocco, and he was five years old. In the back seat was his little sister who was only two year old. Both
children
3________(cry).
     "I want my mommy!" Rocco cried."But she can't get here, I have the car." Then he had an idea "Just a
minute," he told Officer Vogel."I can drive. I 4________(go) to get her."
     "No!" Officer Vogel said."You stay with me."
     Officer Vogel 5________(drive) Rocco and his sister o the police station. Then he called their mother.
Rocco told Officer Vogel and his mother that he got the car key from the refrigerator while his father was
at work and his mother was sleeping.
     Newspapers and TV station heard about Rocco, and a lot of reporters went to his house. One reporter
asked Rocco, "What do you want to be when you 6________ (grow) up?"
    Rocco smiled, "I want to be a truck driver," he said.