阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

We have a new classmate in our class. She is thirteen years old. (3) She is a shy girl with short and brown hair.  She is not tall or short. (4)But she is a little bit heavy. Her face is round,  like an apple. She has two big black eyes and a small nose. Her mouth is big,  but her ears are small. She likes red. But today she is wearing a yellow sweater,  blue jeans and brown shoes. She dislikes getting up early,  so she is usually late for school. She doesn’t like to talk to others. She likes little animals.She has a little black dog. She and the dog are good friends.

根据短文内容及首字母提示，完成下列对话。

1. -How tall is the girl? -She is of medium h________.

2. -What color is the girl's hair? -It is b________.

把句子(3)、(4)翻译成汉语。

3. ________________________________________________________________

4. ________________________________________________________________

5. 根据上下文猜测词义。

The Chinese meaning of the black word “round” is ________.

A. 长的    
B. 方的    
C. 瓜子形的  
D. 圆的

         The nine-year-old Marc Yu is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals (踏板) of a piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, “The problem is that my legs aren't straight enough, so I have to get very close to the piano.”
         Marc's 34-year-old mother played Beethoven's CDs to him when she was pregnant (怀孕的). Marc started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing “Twinkle, twinkle, little star …”, he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, because that was the first time he'd been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance, playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university scholarship (奖学金).
        At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School. Marc says, “I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings - sadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn't.”   

根据短文内容，选择最佳选项。

1. The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from     .

A. China
B. France.
C. Canada
D. the United States

2. Marc played the piano at the age of     for the first time.

A. two        
B. five        
C. six         
 D. nine

3. According to the passage, the underlined word “astonished” means “  ” in Chinese.

A. 使……理解
B. 使……担心
C. 使……惊奇
D. 使……难过

4. At present Marc practices playing the piano   .

A. once a month
B. eight hours a day
C. in his free time            
D. only on weekends

5. What Marc says in the last paragraph tells us that   .

A. he likes challenges
B. he doesn't like challenges
C. he is afraid of challenges
D. he wants to give up music

        The outstanding woman physician (内科医生), Jerry Nielsen, spent a year at the Amundsen-Scott
South Pole Station as the only doctor in 1998 when she was 47.
        In early March 1999, she discovered that there was something wrong with her right breast (乳房).
She was sure it was cancer (癌症), but she wasn’t able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn’t leave
the station for the next seven months until the snow turned back into water. Rather than wait for the
death, Dr. Nielsen decided to fight against the cancer. But without the proper medical help, she wouldn’t
live for long. Soon a USA Air Force jet came to provide her with some help. She started her own
treatments (治疗) after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally returned home that
October. Since then, she had become helpful to cancer charities.
       Sadly, Dr. Nielsen’s cancer got worse and worse. She passed away on June 23, 2009. She once
wrote to her parents, “I understand what life really is: It is not when or how you die but how you truly
were ever alive.”

根据短文内容，完成下列任务。

1. 文中划线词组passed away的汉语意思是：                     

  ______________________________________________________________________                  

2. 将文中划线句子翻译成汉语。                                          

______________________________________________________________________

3. 从文中找出与下列句子意义相近的句子。

  Dr. Nielsen decided to fight against the cancer instead of waiting for the death.    

______________________________________________________________________

4. 根据短文内容，回答下列问题。                

How old was Dr. Jerry Nielsen when she passed away?   

______________________________________________________________________

5. 用文中两个形容词描述一下Jerry Nielsen。   

 (1) __________________________         (2)  ___________________________      

      “Lei Feng” is now part of our language. It means “helping o  1   ”.If a person is h  2  , we call him
      “Lei Feng”.“Lei Feng was a soldier in the early 1960s. He was born in 1940 in Changsha, Hunan. His family didn't have much money. When he was seven, his parents died. He became a soldier at the a   3   of 20.  He had a warm heart and a   4  helped others.
        He said, “To live is to serve the people－live to make others h   5  . ” He regarded other people a   6   his family. He gave his own money to other soldiers. He e   7   washed clothes for others.
        Lei lived a s  8   life. He didn't often buy new clothes and never wasted things. He loved to study and work.
       On August 15, 1962, a pole(杆) fell on Lei's head and took his life. He was only 22 years old.
       On March 5, 1963, Chairman Mao Zedong called on(号召)all C   9   to learn from Lei Feng.
       Today many Lei Feng groups exist in China. They try to help people in needs.
       Not only Chinese but also many f   10   people around the world follow his example.

     Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was an artist and also an art teacher. He gave
little Picasso the first lesson in drawing. The boy showed great interest in it and learned it very quickly.
Picasso drew so well that he won a prize — "Science and Charity" for his first important painting at the
age of 15. Later he studied in several cities in Spain. But no one could teach him because he had known
so much.
     When he was 19, he visited Paris. At that time, Paris was the center of the world for artists.
Everything in the painting world was new to Picasso. When he was 23, he moved to Paris to live and
spent the rest of his life in France.
     In his 80s, Pablo Picasso still worked like a young man. He kept on looking for new ideas and new
ways to work. He never stopped painting all his life.
     Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists in the world, died in 1973.

(     )1. Pablo Picasso was born in Spain.
(     )2. Pablo Picasso won a prize of  “Science and Art” at the age of 15.
(     )3. Pablo Picasso was the only son of his parents.
(     )4. Pablo Picasso lived in France for 91 years.

    The designer of the Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, was not quite successful in his early years. He was
not among the best students at school, and from time to time he got into trouble with either his schoolmates or his teachers. But he was full of new ideas, which few people saw the value of. Things remained the same when he went up to college and he dropped out halfway.
    Steve Jobs worked first as a video game designer at Atari. He worked there for only a few months and then he set out to tour India. He hoped that the trip would give him more ideas and give him a change in life for the better.
    After he returned from India, he begin to live on a farm in California. And then, in 1975, Steve Jobs set about making a new type of computer. Along with his friend Stephen Wozniak, he designed the Apple
Computer in his bedroom and built it in his garage(车库). He gave the name “Apple” because it reminded him of a happy summer he once on an orchard(果园) in Oregon.
    His Apple Computer was so successful that Steve Jobs soon became worldwide famous. But unluckily, he died of illness in 2011.

1. Steve Jobs            when he was in school.

A. was an outstanding student
B. didn’t do very well
C. was always praised by others
D. didn’t learn anything

2. The underlined word “value” means            .

A. beauty
B. chance
C. importance
D. hope

3. Steve Jobs            .

A. received excellent college education
B. didn’t go to college at all
C. studied in college for 4 years
D. didn’t finish his college education

4. Steve Jobs named his computer company “Apple” because            .

A. apple was his favorite fruit
B. he designed the computer under an apple tree
C. he wanted to remember the happy time on the orchard
D. the computer was designed on the orchard

5. Steve Job’s             would be the most important thing for his lifetime success.

A. “failure” in school
B. stay on the orchard
C. travel on India
D. new ideas

      Steven Jobs, the CEO of Apple, was not a good student when he was in school. At that time, he
 always got into trouble with his schoolmates. When he went to college, he didn't change a lot. Then
 he dropped out (退学). But he was full of new ideas.
      After that, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer in a company. He worked there only
 for a few months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas
 and a new chance to change his life.
      Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India. In 1975, he began
 to make a new type of computer. He designed the first Apple Computer with his friend in his garage.
 He chose the name "Apple" just because it reminded him of a happy summer he once  spent in an
 apple orchard.
      His first Apple Computer was a great success. Because of this, Steven Jobs soon became famous
 all over the world.

1. Steven Jobs always got into trouble with in school.

A. his schoolmates
B. his parents
C. his teachers
D. his brothers

2. Steven Jobs designed the first Apple Computer with his friend .

A. in his school
B. in his company
C. in his garage
D. at home

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Steven Jobs didn't finish his college.
B. Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer in a company for a few months.
C. Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world because of his first Apple Computer.
D. Steven Jobs chose the name"Apple"just because he liked eating apples.