Mary Roda's parents came to New York from Australia．They lived in a tall building．A man named Donald Smith lived in the building，too．He   1   a toy company．One day Donald gave Mary，the 4-year-old girl，a new   2  ．She played with the toy and said．“This is fun!” A few weeks later Donald gave her   3   toy．She played with it．She said，“I am not  4   this toy．It doesn’t work．” She was a(n)    5    little girl．Donald liked her honesty，and they became friends．For years Donald gave Mary new toys，and she gave him very good   6    about the toys．

When Mary was thirteen years old，Donald    7    her a new ball．The ball had a balloon（气球）inside it．Mary wanted to fill the balloon with water．She wanted to paint the ball in crazy colors．She wanted to   8    rice or beans（豆子）in it to make it noisy．The company made these    9  ．Mary’s ideas were a great success! The company   10   thousands of the balls．

That Christmas Donald gave Mary a（n）  11   gift．He made her a vice-president（副董事长）of the toy company．  12    made$200，000 a year．Her job was to see   13   the new toys were fun．She took a ear from her school to her office．She worked for three or four hours a day at her job，  14    she had to do her homework．Mary was a busy teenager．She had  15 _ time to be with her family．Her parents taught her that working hard and doing her best is very important．

Today Mary works at a college．The little vice-president with bright ideas helps students think about their future．

1．A．owned                    B．found                  C．helped                 D．chose

2．A．gift                       B．book                    C．toy                        D．bag

3．A．one                       B．another                C．other                     D．the other

4．A．angry with            B．surprised at             C．tired of                  D．interested in

5．A．kind                      B．honest                 C．helpful                   D．lovely

6．A．ideas                       B．skills                    C．names                    D．facts

7．A．lent                       B．called            C．returned                 D．showed

8．A．grow                      B．eat                       C．put                        D．cook

9．A．inventions              B．rules                       C．mistakes                D．changes

10．A．sent                     B．had                      C．sold                       D．received

11．A．amazing                 B．interesting              C．beautiful                 D．boring

12．A．He                       B．She                     C．It                          D．They

13．A．that                     B．if                         C．how                             D．why

14．A．so                       B．but                      C．or                          D．then

15．A．less                     B．more                   C．much                         D．most

The London Olympic Games are coming soon. This summer, Chinese sports fans will be able to watch the exciting games in 3-D on CCTV.
When you watch 3-D movies or TV, you have to wear a special pair of glasses. The 3-D glasses make the people and the things on the screen look like they are in the room with you.
3-D, means having three *dimensions: *width, height and *depth. 3-D technology is based on the way the human brain and eye work. Because the *pupils of a person’s eyes are about 6.5cm apart, when we look at something, each eye sees it from different *angle. Our eyes send the two pictures to our brain, and the brain puts them together. The small difference between the picture from the right eye and the picture from the left eye make us see depth.
While watching 2-D films, we don’t have to wear the special glasses. We see the pictures in two dimensions, each eye get the same information. This is because there is only one way of watching it.
So the aim of 3-D technology is to get a different picture into each eye of the person. It uses two film *projectors. One *projects a left eye picture and the other projects a right eye picture. When we are in the cinema, we can see different pictures in each eye at the same time with the help of the 3-D glasses.
While watching 3-D films, we feel that we are actually in the same environment as the things we are watching. However, some people are against watching 3-D films. One of the reasons is the 3-D glasses makes the screen of the film or TV look darker. It is bad for eyes. What’s more, people with eye problems may get headaches if they spend too much time watching 3-D movies, because their brains need to work harder to “read” the pictures.  
【小题1】Paragraph 3 mainly tells us __________.

A．how we see things in 3-D	B．how we watch the Olympic Games
C．how 3-D films are made	D．where we watch 3-D films or TV

【小题2】When we watch a 2-D film, each of our eyes get ________ information.

A．no

B．different

C．dark

D．the same

【小题3】Which is the following is right according to the passage?

A．We don’t have to wear 3-D glasses if we watch games in 3-D on TV.

B．The 3-D technology is based on the way the human ear and eye work.

C．All the people can have fun watching 3-D movies or TV for a long time.

D．3-D glasses make us see different pictures in each eye at the same time.

【小题4】Why are some people against watching 3-D films? Because ____________.

A．they make them more excited or sadder

B．3-D glasses make the screen look darker

C．3-D films make all people get headaches

D．they dislike watching the Olympic Games

Barack Obama, the US President-elect, is busy choosing members of his cabinet. His daughters, Sasha and Malia, are busy, too. They are making difficult decisions about different dog breeds (品种).
“The girls asked when we got in this race that [whether] win or lose, we get a dog,” said Michelle Obama. “So we will be welcoming a four-legged friend to our house.”
No matter what type of puppy Sasha and Malia pick, it will be a part of a long story of White House pets. Everything from snakes to bears has lived at the White House with the president and his family.
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, kept a pet raccoon (浣熊). Warren Harding had turkeys. William Howard Taft parked his cow in the White House garage too.
John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, had a pet alligator (鳄鱼). But he wasn’t the only White House resident to have one. Herbert Hoover’s son had two pet alligators, and they were sometimes allowed to roam (闲逛) around the White House.
Bears have also been popular with American presidents. While Thomas Jefferson kept two grizzlies (灰熊) in a cage, Theodore Roosevelt had a black bear. Roosevelt’s interest in bears later led to the creation of the toy teddy bear.
Roosevelt and his six children loved animals, and they filled the White House with them. They had dogs, cats, squirrels (松鼠), raccoons, rabbits, guinea pigs, a badger (獾), a rat, a parrot, and a green snake.
根据上面短文的内容填空                           
1. ________ and ________ have difficulty in choosing different kinds of dogs.
2. The four-legged friend refers to ________ according to Michelle Obama’s ________.
3. ________ Adams, Herbert Hoover’s son liked keeping alligators ________ his pets
4. The ________ of the toy teddy bear ________ from Roosevelt’s interest in bears.
5. Roosevelt is the ________ of six ________.

B
Mr Smith was in trouble those days. He drove a car for Mr Black, a rich businessman. He worked hard and the shopkeeper liked him. But he couldn’t work when he drank too much.And once he almost fell into the river when he drove along the bridge. Mr Black became angry and was going to send him away. He had a big family and was afraid of it and promised(许诺) he would stop drinking at once. The man told him to wait to be dealt with(处置).
One Monday morning Mr Smith came into the office with badly burned ears.
“What happened to your ears?” asked Mr Black.
“Well”, said the man. “I went to watch a football match yesterday while my wife was ironing （熨）clothes. She had put the iron（熨斗）near the telephone before she went to cook supper.
Our team lost the game and I felt sorry for it. As soon as I went in the sitting-room ,the phone rang and I answered the iron !”
“And what happened to the other ear?”
“When I put the iron down the table ,the telephone rang again !”
【小题1】_____,so he almost drove the car into the river.

A．Mr Smith was not careful

B．Mr Smith drank too much

C．Mr Smith forget they were on the bridge

D．Mr Smith couldn’t work in the morning

【小题2】 Mr Smith went to watch the football match on _____.    
A. Monday   B. Tuesday   C. Saturday     D Sunday
【小题3】We can guess           .
A. Mr Smith drank much after the match
B. Mr Smith was very angry with his team
C. Mr Smith didn’t drink those days
D Mr Smith watched the match those days
【小题4】The ______badly burned Mr Smith’s ears.
A.telephone   B. drinking    C.iron        D irons
【小题5】What would happen to Mr Smith ?

A．He would go on driving for Mr Black

B．He would join his football team

C．He would never watch any matches

D．Mr Black would send him away