Thirteen-year-old Lola Walters has taken America by storm! She is nearly blind, but wowed the
crowds at the American Gymnastics Academy Long Beach Open last month.
       Lola suffers from a condition causing her to see double. She cannot see anything until she is just
five feet away. However, she competed with other young gymnasts with perfect vision. The judges
knew nothing of her condition, but they were still amazed by her perfect gymnastics skills.
       "The floor isn't any different for me," Lola says. "But the beam(平衡木) is only four inches wide,
so it's hard enough for anyone to walk on, let alone jump on. So when I start to see two beams instead
of just the one, I need to steady(穩(wěn)固) myself on my feet and really focus."
       There is a saying that goes, "One minute on the stage is worth ten years off the stage." Even for
normal people, you have to work very hard to achieve success, to say nothing of a blind girl like Lola.
Can you imagine how much pain she endured(忍受) when she was practicing? It's common for her
to fall down from the beam and her accidents are more serious than other gymnasts. But that does
not stop her from practicing gymnastics.
       Now gymnastics has become Lola's passion and she plans to be a gymnastics coach when she's
older.

1. Lola is suffering from ________.

A. seeing double
B. being a coach    
C. jumping on beam
D. more common accidents

2. It's clear that ________.

A. Lola was hit by a storm in the US
B. Lola often falls off the beam when practicing
C. Lola is a beautiful blind girl
D. Lola has become a coach

3. The judges were amazed by Lola's skills because ________.

A. they knew she couldn't see well
B. she performed perfectly
C. she was a young coach
D. they had never seen that before

4. We can learn from the reading that ________.

A. blindness is good for gymnastics
B. the judges prefer hard-working to perfect skills
C. Lola has no trouble to perform on the floor
D. normal people can achieve success easily

5. The best title for the reading is ________.

A. Fair Judges
B. Careful Gymnast
C. Nothing Impossible
D. Strange Illness

     Are only clever and good-looking students happy in the school? Best-selling Writer Xiao Nizi (Nini) doesn’t t___1___ so.
     "E___2___ has his own place in the sky." she said.  "We're all s____3___ in our own ways.”
Nini, from Hunan, writes stories about young people in the school. Her books, such as Devils Kiss<<惡魔之吻>> and Love on Midsummer’s Night, are very p__4___ with students.
In her stories, the m___5___ characters are usually common girls who are neither pretty n___6___ smart. But they always win the love of a Prince Charming(白馬王子), o___7___ become successful stars.
     "It’s not b___8___ of luck."' said Nini. ""They are only honest and they don't lie. They know what they are good at and work h___9___ to realize their dreams. "
      Nini herself is like one of the characters in her stories. She was a shy girl at school. But she thought a
lot and liked languages, and that made her decide to be a writer. She hopes her stories can m___10___
more kids happy.

    Many people do not like to stay at home during holidays.They want to go out to see something different. People from the country go to the city and people from the city go to the country for holidays. During the
holidays, buses and planes are all very busy. It is very hard to buy train or plane tickets. So many people
take cars for traveling. Last May Day my family went to the country by car for our holiday. There was too much traffic on the road. So we had to move very slowly. It took us about an hour to get out of the town. After some time, we came to a farm. It was clean and beautiful. The animals were so cute. It was a nice
place for a picnic, so we stopped and took the food, fruit and drinks out of the car. We sat down under a big green tree and began to eat. Suddenly a strong wind blew and soon it started to rain. We had to run
back to our car and had our picnic in the car. Then we drove back home. What a bad trip it was!

1. Many people don't like to stay at home during holidays because___________.

A. they have much money
B. they have no time
C. they want to see something different
D. they want to see rain

2. The family went to __________for their holiday last May Day.

A. a beautiful park
B. the country
C. the city
D. a river

3. Last May Day the family trip was _________.

A. interesting
B. relaxing
C. bad
D. exciting

4. How did they go for the trip last May Day?

A. By car.
B. By bus.
C. By train.
D. On foot.

5. What happened when the family began to eat?

A. A tiger came out.
B. The food was too dirty to eat.
C. They had a wonderful time.
D. A strong wind blew and soon it started to rain.

     Over the years, we      1        (see) musical groups with pretty strange names come and go．Few have
stranger names than this band．As the name   2 (suggest), the band has lots of energy．And they play the kind of music that I love to hear．Every song is really loud and often you can't understand the words, but
this is okay because the lyrics aren't very good．However, these are musicians who        3        (make) us
happy  even on a Monday morning!