Reading comprehension(阅读理解)

　　Bill and Sally White, their father and mother, and some of their friends were visiting Bill's uncle George at the seashore. Uncle George was Bill's father's brother. He had a house and a sailboat(帆船). Bill and Sally had visited him many times. They liked the seashore very much.

　　It was late in August. The air was cool, but the water was warm enough for swimming. Uncle George had invited them all to go sailing(航海) with him. They were going to sail for two or three hours and then have a picnic on one of the islands in the bay(海湾).

　　The young people were very excited, but Mrs. White was afraid of the sailboat. “I don't want to ride in the sailboat, George,” she said. “It goes too fast. Besides, I'd get wet and cold.”

　　“Well,” said Uncle George, “you don't have to go in the sailboat if you don't want to, Alice. The Thompsons are taking their motorboat, and you can go in that. You'll be dry and warm.”

　　“What do you think of the weather, George?” said Bill's father. “I see a few clouds in the sky.”

　　“Oh, it will be all right,” said Uncle George. “Anyway, if it gets cloudy, we can come back. Let's go.”

　　They all got into the boat, and Uncle George went to work. He untied(解开) the ropes and held the boat, and the boat began to move slowly. When they were about fifty yards from the shore, he raised the sail.

　　“Watch your heads!” he called out. The wind was blowing. It filled the sail, and the boat began to move fast. “Just like a bird,” Sally thought. “Oh, this is wonderful!”

True or False(判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用T表示，不符合的用F表示)

1．It was autumn. The Whites and some of their friends were going sailing with Uncle George.

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2．The air was warm and the water was cool, and there were a few clouds in the sky.

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3．Mrs. White didn't want to ride in the sailboat because she was afraid of falling into the cold water and getting wet.

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4．Uncle George thought the weather would be all right.

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5．Uncle George raised the sail as soon as they all got into the boat.

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6．Alice is Mr. White's wife.

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Reading comprehension(阅读理解)

　　My friend Alice decided to be a nurse when she was four years old. She always wanted to play as “doctor and nurse” with her playmates. When she left school last year she still wanted to be a real nurse. One day she saw an advertisement(广告) in the newspaper:

　　DO YOU WANT TO HELP PEOPLE?

　　STUDY NURSING

　　SEND THIS FORM TO US FOR MORE INFORMATION

　　Alice filled in the form with her name and address. She cut it out and posted it at once.

　　Last September she started her study in a big hospital in Newcastle. She had to work very hard. She went to classes every day and studied late into the night. The really important day came : her first day in a ward(病房). At last she was really helping sick people, not just sitting in classes or learning from books.

　　At first, student nurses do lots of small jobs in the ward. They help to serve meals, or wash the patients. They also keep the ward tidy and make the beds. They cannot give injections(注射) or help the doctors. One of Alice's first jobs was in a ward of old people. She was told to clean all the patients' false(假的) teeth. She collected all the teeth and took them to the bathroom. Instead of cleaning each set of teeth one by one she put them all into one big bowl.

　　“It'll be quicker this way,” she said to herself. “Then I can give back everyone's teeth in a few minutes.”

　　Give back everyone's teeth! Alice stood in the middle of the ward with her big bowl of teeth. She had no idea which teeth belonged to which old man! You can imagine the confusion(混乱) the next half hour when each patient had to find his own teeth.

True or False(判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用T表示，不符合的用F表示)

1．Alice will finish school soon.

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2．She decided to be a nurse as a child.

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3．She really became a nurse with the help of a newspaper advertisement.

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4．Student nurses usually do lots of small jobs and help the doctors in the ward.

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5．Alice cleaned each set of false teeth one by one very carefully.

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6．It took half an hour for Alice to return the teeth to their owners.

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