One of Henry's feet（脚） is bigger than the other. “I can't find good shoes for my feet,” he says to his friend Dick. “Why not go to a shoemaker(鞋匠)?” Dick says. “A good one can make you the right shoes,” “Good idea!” Henry said. “But where can I find a good shoemaker?” “Oh, there is one in my town.” Dick says.
One day Henry goes to the shoemaker in Dick’s town and asks the shoemaker to make him right shoes. Henry goes to the shoemaker again a few days later and looks at the shoes. Then he says to the shoemaker angrily, “I tell you to make one bigger than the other. Why do you make one smaller than the other?”
| A．very long | B．very big |
| C．the same | D．different in size(尺码) |
| A．can make shoes | B．has longer feet |
| C．knows about a shoemaker | D．always has a good idea |
| A．in the same town | B．in the same building |
| C．in different towns | D．with their parents |
| A．the shoemaker makes the wrong shoes |
| B．Dick is not happy |
| C．he has different feet |
| D．the shoemaker doesn't make any shoes for him |
| A．Dick | B．Henry |
| C．The shoemaker | D．Henry’s friend |
Pieter Bruegel was a famous artist who lived in Europe five hundred years ago. He is well known for a painting called Children’s Games. People like this painting because it is full of fun. It shows how children in Pieter’s time enjoyed themselves in different ways. In all, there are about eighty games being played in the painting.
Children’s Games shows a busy street scene in a town long ago. The street is a wide and open space. There are no cars, so there is plenty of room to play. There are about two hundred children in the painting. Some play in groups and others play alone. They seem to be enjoying their freedom in the fresh air and their games. Some of the games are still played today.
The games in the painting do not require children to spend money on extra materials(材料). Instead, they use simple everyday objects like hats and sticks. A game might need a rope, some chalk, a hoop, a spinning top, or even a barrel. Some games are played without any toys at all. For example, one scene in the painting shows children turning somersaults(翻筋斗) inside the fence.
Even though Pieter Bruegel lived a long time ago, children today can learn an important lesson from what he painted. The painting shows us how little we need in order to enjoy ourselves. All children really need is one another. It’s not the toys or games that are found in the stores that create fun. Using our imagination can do this for us.The painting shows about ______ games.
| A．500 | B．200 | C．80 | D．60 |
The children in the painting are playing ______.
| A．in the street | B．in the house | C．on the grass | D．at the school |
From the painting we learn that ______.
| A．children today need to take more lessons |
| B．children can create fun by using imagination |
| C．children need more toys to enjoy themselves |
| D．children spend much money on everyday objects |
| John is a manager and he is very busy. He spends a lot of time traveling abroad. So he reads short stories. He likes reading stories about ordinary people and the things that happen to them in today’s world. |
| Sara is a student. She likes reading true stories. In those stories, people write about themselves. She’s especially interested in people who have had unusual or different lives. She also wants to write a story about herself one day. |
| Monica is a history teacher in London. She enjoys reading more than anything else. She likes reading about the history of people in other parts of the world. She wants to know how historical events changed people’s lives. |
| Tony loves reading so much! In fact he opened a little bookstore several years ago so he could share his interest of reading with others. His favorite books are novels. Some stories are so wonderful that he often tries to finish them fast in order to know what happens in the end. |
John is a ______.
| A．manager | B．student | C．teacher | D．writer |
Who has a bookstore?
| A．John. | B．Sara. | C．Tony. | D．Monica. |
All of them like ______.
| A．teaching | B．traveling | C．writing | D．reading |
How do you feel when you get up in the morning? Happy and active or tired and weak?
Do you often wake up with a headache(头痛)? Well, if the answer is yes, take Dr. Talbot’s advice and start feeling better.
☆ Get up and move. If you hate feeling tired and unhappy, you should start exercising, Try running, swimming or cycling. When we exercise, our body produces special chemicals (化学药品) that give us energy and make us feel happier. If you can’t stand exercising, listen to your favorite music and dance to it. That’s exercise, too.
☆ Eat healthily. You should eat three balanced (平衡的) meals every day and you shouldn’t eat too much fast food. If you need some extra (额外的) energy the whole day, make an energy drink. Mix (混和) together fresh fruit juice and low-fat milk. It tastes great!
☆ Go out and enjoy nature. The smell of flowers will make you feel happy. Even the smell of your favorite food can change the way you feel!
☆ Wake your body up. When you have a shower, change the temperature of the water----from hot to cold and back to hot again. You’ll feel the difference.
☆ Laugh! You should laugh for, at least, three minutes, three times a day. It will make you feel great!
| Problem: You feel tired and |
| Dr. Talbot’s 1. Start exercising, your body will produce special chemicals to make you 2. Listening to your favourite 3. Don’t 4. Drink the mixed fresh fruit juice to get some extra 5. Go out and 6. Changing the 7. Try to |
A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches (英尺) longer.
He went downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. “The new trousers are too long,” he said. “They need shortening（缩短）by about two inches.
Could one of you do it for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything. But when his mother finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’ s trousers. She was a kind girl,so she went quietly upstairs withoutsaying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches. The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home she,too, remembered her brothers trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and sister had done. You can imagine（想象）the look on the young man’s face when he put the trousers on the next morning. .What were the young man’s new trousers like at first?
| A．They were a bit too long. |
| B．They were just suitable. |
| C．They were too short for him. |
| D．There were about two inches shorter. |
Why didn’t the young man’s mother and sisters answer him in the kitchen?
| A．Because they were very busy. |
| B．Because they didn’t hear him. |
| C．Because they didn’t like him. |
| D．Because they couldn’t do that. |
When did his elder sister shortened the trousers?
| A．In the evening. |
| B．Before she finished the washing. |
| C．After lunch. |
| D．After she came back from the cinema. |
What did the young man find about the trousers the next morning?
He found that the trousers were ______ inches too short for him.
| A．two | B．four | C．six | D．eight |
How did the young man feel when he put the trousers on the next morning?
| A．Pleasant. | B．Thankful. | C．Surprised. | D．Bored. |
Once there was a little girl in a village. She spent summers on her grandfather’s farm. The year she was four, she knew some ducks. The ducks were white with orange feet. They lived in a little wooden house near the road. The little girl liked these ducks very much. Every day they walked down the road to the pond（池塘）. Then the ducks went into the water and the little girl sat on the bank（岸） and saw them swimming in the pond. The little girl talked to the ducks and they quacked（嘎嘎叫）back. Then one day the ducks were gone. No one would say anything about them. The little girl was afraid to ask where they were. One night everyone sat down for dinner. The food looked a little like chicken. The girl didn’t want to eat. Can you guess why?
A. eating chickenB. sitting by the pond
C. living on a farm D. ducks and a little girl The ducks were __________.
| A．yellow and orange | B．yellow and white |
| C．white with orange feet | D．white and black |
When the little girl ________ , the ducks quacked back.
| A．saw them swimming | B．sat on the bank |
| C．walked to the pond | D．talked to them |
At the end of the story, the ducks were probably _______.
| A．under the water | B．on the plate (盘子) |
| C．in the wooden house | D．swimming in the pond |
The little girl didn’t eat because _____________.
| A．she wanted nice cakes | B．the food was ducks |
| C．the food was too hot | D．the plate was empty |