One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “ Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I will give you twenty dollars.” “All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “ Now, can you tell me how you found the elephant’s bad ears?” “ I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “ Then why are you looking at the elephant slowly?” asks the old man. The young man answers, “Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”

(   )1. ______ the elephant.

    A. The young man sells      B. The old man sells

    C. The two men sell         D. The old man buys

(   )2. The young man is looking at the elephant slowly. He wants to find out _______.

    A. which foot of the elephant is bad    B. how heavy it is

    C. which ear of the elephant is bad     D. what it looks like

(   )3. The young man _______.

    A. knows the elephant has bad ears   B. wants to buy the elephant

     C. looks after the elephant    D. gets some money from the old man

  (   )4. The young man _______.

    A. is not interested in elephants

    B. knows what an elephant looks like

    C. has seen some elephants before

    D. has never seen an elephant before

(  )5. Hearing what the young man said, the old man will probably(可能) be ______

A. angry      B. happy      C. dangerous     D. hungry

 

Mrs. Black was a famous musician a few years ago. She   1  music at a school and her students did well in their lessons. They liked her very much. Now the old woman stays at home with her husband. The old man looks after his wife well and she   2  worries about anything. And she is very  3 .
Just like some old people, Mrs. Black finds that her memory(記憶) is falling. Sometimes she   4  what she did or will do. It often gets her in trouble. Her   5  noticed（注意到） it and asked her to see a famous doctor. He bought two tickets   6  London and told her he put  7  into her handbag while she was playing the piano. The next morning, they got to the  8  just on time to catch the plane. Mrs. Black said,“I wish we had the   9  with us.”
“Don’t be a fool, dear!”said Mr. Black,“We are not going to a concert, but to see a  10 .”
“I know，”she said，“but I left the tickets on it!”

【小題1】

A．loved B．taught C．enjoyed D．studied

【小題2】

A．a(chǎn)lways B．often C．never D．sometimes

【小題3】

A．sorry B．worried C．sad D．happy

【小題4】

A．forget B．remember C．forgets D．remembers

【小題5】

A．husband B．daughter C．son D．student

【小題6】

A．to B．in C．from D．of

【小題7】

A．it B．them C．this D．that

【小題8】

A．a(chǎn)irport B．bus stop C．station D．hospital

【小題9】

A．money B．music C．tickets D．piano

【小題10】A.doctor       B.film         C.play

 Millions years ago much of our earth was covered with blocks (塊) of ice. These ice blocks were as tall as high buildings in modern cities. Most of the ice was in the northern (北方的)part of the world.

Then the ice blocks started to move south. Cold and rain came with the ice. Animals and people had to move.

At last, the ice began to melt (融化). After half a million years, most of it had melted. More than half of the earth became covered with water. The climate became much warmer. Things began to grow. The earth began to look the way it looks today.

1.Millions of years ago our earth was very _________________.

A. warm            B. hot              C. cool             D. cold

2.What did animals and people try to do when the ice blocks moved south?

A. they tried to stop them moving.       B. They tried to melt them.

C. They tried to stay ahead of them.      D. They tried to move behind them.

3.The melting ice maybe helped to form _____________.

A. mountains and valleys              B. the sun, the moon and the earth

C. cities and countries                D. seas, lakes and rivers

4. The underlined word “climate” means _______________.

A. the freezing ice                   B. the weather of the year

C. the moving of the ice blocks         D. a plant or an animal

5. Which of these things maybe happened because the Ice Age ended?

a. Forests grew                     b. Food became harder to find

c. Fishing became easier              d. The temperature dropped.

A. a; b            B. b; d           C. c; d             D. a; c

 

In Europe many people died during the Second World War. As a result, at the end of the war there were many orphans（孤兒）there. A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help these children. His idea was simple. He wanted orphans to have a home, and he wanted them to have the care and kindness of parents. Gmeiner asked people to give him some money. With this money he built the first SOS Children’s Village at Imst, in Austria. It opened in1949. This is how the SOS stand for “Save Our Souls（靈魂）.” This means “Please help us!” An SOS Children’ village gives help to orphans.
Hermann Gmeiner’s idea for helping orphans soon spread（傳播）all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children’s Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages. Today the children from the first village have grown up. Now some of them work in other SOS Children’s Villages.
In SOS Villages orphans live in family groups. There are several houses in each village. The biggest village has 40 or 50 houses! Between seven and ten children live in a house. A woman lives with each group of children and looks after them. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks meals for them and makes comfortable, happy home for them.
Of course, the children don’t spend all their time in the village. They go to school, they go out with their friends. But the village gives them a home—sometimes for the first time in their lives.
【小題1】Which of the following came last?

A．People gave Gmeiner some money.

B．There were many orphans at the end of the war

C．Gmeiner built the first SOS Children’s Village

D．A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help the orphans

【小題2】An orphan is a child    .

A．who has no brother

B．who has no sister

C．who has no parents

D．a(chǎn)ll of the above

【小題3】We can conclude（推論）from the article that the money for helping the SOS Villages mainly comes from       .

A．governments	B．special organization
C．the orphans themselves	D．people in general（大體上）

【小題4】Which of the following can best summarize（總結(jié)） the work a woman in an SOS Village does for each group of children?

A．She gives the children a lot of love and kindness	B．She lives with each group of children
C．She cooks meals for children	D．She looks after them

Difficult times often bring out the best in people. Many well-known people come to help those who are in trouble. And this was the case for basketball player Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究員) find a medical cure. Fund-raising, or charity, is an act of goodwill(好意) towards others.
Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力盡的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (請求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌癥) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
【小題1】Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.

A．make more money	B．raise money for his basket team
C．make himself more famous	D．raise money for researchers to find a cure for SARS

【小題2】We can infer (推斷)from the passage that _____.

A．Edna may not be a rich lady but she is willing to do something for others

B．Ruth is angry because she has been asked to donate too much money

C．Ruth leads a busy life and she feels very tired

D．Yao Ming wants to be a television host

【小題3】Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Only Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna try their best to do things for charity.

B．Ruth has given a lot of support to charity although she is not very rich.

C．The writer hopes that more people can do things for charity.

D．Edna is very rich because she has her own shop.

【小題4】One morning, Ruth received a letter with a picture of a horse in it because _____.

A．she lost her horse

B．a(chǎn) charity wanted her to donate some money

C．she loved horse very much

D．she wanted to keep a horse as a pet

【小題5】The underlined(劃線) part in the last paragraph probably means that _____.

A．what impresses people deeply is what they have done for others

B．when you want to do something for others, you need stand out

C．the moment you stand out, you can do something for others

D．when you look back sometimes, you need stand out