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One day a great general(将军) asks his soldiers(士兵), “What is the strongest power in the world?” Four of his soldiers put up their hands. They want to answer the question.

 The general asks the first man to speak. The first man is youngerst, and he is not strong. He says, “My gun is the strongest . It can kill anyone.” “Thank you. Next, please.” The second man is very strong. He says, “I don’t think so. Soldiers use guns. So the soldier is the strongest.”

The third man says, “Soldiers use guns, but our general gives orders(下命令). So I think our general is the strongest.”

The fourth man is the oldest. He says, “Love is the strongest. For love, people don’t use guns.” The general says noting. He takes out a medal and gives it to him.

1.________ soldiers answer the general’s question.

A.  All        B.  Many of the    C.  One of the    D.  Four of the

2.The youngest man thinks _________ is the strongest power in the world.

A.  the general   B. a solider        C.  a gun        D.  love

3.The fourth man ________.

A.   doesn’t want to use his gun

B.   wants to be a general

C.   wants that all people love each other

D. wants the general to give him a medal

4.The general thinks _________ answer is the best.

A. the first man’s                 B. the second man’s

C. the third man’s                D. the fourth man’s

 

 

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How do you usually get to school? By bus? On foot? Roby Burch, 16, a US student, gets to school a little differently---he goes by horse .

Burch has been riding his white horse 4 miles to and from school since(自从)the 83 _____ of the semester. “Every morning, wearing my blue jacket and jeans, I’m on my way at 6 am. ” Burch says, “The streets are mostly 84________ at this time of morning. It’s a nice way to start the day. ”

The idea was his 85__________. His family were 86______ their vacation on their farm this summer, “My dad just said, ‘Roby, you 87__________ ride your horse to school every day. ’” says Burch. He thought it really was a good idea.

When they got back home, Burch asked for permission from the headmaster (校长), Joe Cox, and surprisingly, he got the green light. Cox 88_______  allowed（允许）Burch to keep the horse next to the headmaster’s house. Then his dad helped Burch find the best route to school. It is along back streets and has 89_________ cars than the others.

For the return trip every afternoon, Burch leaves school at 5:45 pm. Even now, as the days grow shorter and colder, he continues to ride his horse. “ I will ride my horse even in the coldest weather. ” he says.

Burch says the 90________ time he sat on a horse as a four-year-old boy he was afraid. 91__________ now, “it’s what I do best. ” It’s no surprise that he wants to be a cowboy (牛仔) when he grows up. “I love riding horses more than 92 _______ else. ” He says, “It’s really a guy thing. ”

 

Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket - anything with a round ball, I was useless,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15^th birthday that changed him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year he met John Ridgway and started to work as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of adventure（冒险） in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway’s cold-waterexploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, he decided that this would be his future.
In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition （探险）towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite（冻伤）, ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his sled up and over the rocky mountains.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.
【小题1】 What changed Saunders according to Paragraph 2?

A．A friend’s words.	B．A mountain bike.
C．His 18th birthday gift.	D．His first marathon.

【小题2】What did Saunders do in 2001?

A．He decided to build up his body.

B．He met John Ridgway in Scotland.

C．He worked as an instructor at school.

D．He took an adventure to the North Pole.

【小题3】What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders?

A．He is a success in sports.	B．He is the youngest British skier.
C．He is Ridgway’s best student.	D．He is a good instructor at school.

阅读短文，根据短文内容判断正误，正确的写A, 错误的写B。

Paul and his wife are driving down a busy street. They stop at a crossing and a car pulls up beside them and it stops too. The driver rolls down his window.

“Excuse me, sir,” he says, “But can you please tell me where the main street is?”

“Sorry, sir,” answers Paul, “But we don’t have Main Street in this city.”

The fellow looks at Paul strangely and then rolls up his window and drives away.

Paul’s wife can’t stop laughing.

“What’s so funny now?” he asks her. She says, “He doesn’t ask you where Main Street is. He wants to know the main street of the city. Every city has a main street, right? Get it?”

“Now I do. But it’s too late.”

1.Paul and his wife meet a driver at a crossing on a busy street.

2.The driver doesn’t know if there is a main street in the city.

3.Paul’s wife can’t stop laughing because her husband doesn’t know the way.

4.There is no main street in this city.

5.Paul understands the driver at last.

 

81-year-old man helped poor students
On December 2, 2009, in No.1 High School, Yaling Town, Yichuan County, Luoyang, an old man with a stick is taking 300 notebooks and 120 ball pens out of a bag. He is giving these things to more than 20 poor students one by one. Where is his money from? He gets the money by picking up and selling waste materials (废品). (1) This is not the only time; the old man keeps this kindness for 14 years.
The old man’s name is Hu Fasheng. Hu joined the Party in 1952. In 1961, he hurt his left leg and became disabled (残疾的). (2)Once he was a village officer until 1995. He felt uncomfortable when he was free. So, from 1995, he began to pick up waste materials in the village and sold them. With the money, he bought school things for children and food for the old people in the village.
Hu can get more than 100 yuan from selling waste materials every month, but he lives a simple life. He usually eats noodles for meals. There are not any expensive things in his home. Hu is old, but he says he can do more good things for society.
1.How does the old man get the money?
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2.When did Hu Fasheng begin to pick up waste materials in the village?
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3.将（1）句译成汉语。
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4.将（2）改为同义句。
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5.根据短文内容，用两个以上的形容词描述一下胡发胜这位老人。
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