My brother and I often fight with each other over small things. One day our father said to us, “Tomorrow we will take part in the Ray Home Sports Day. Both of you must go with me. Perhaps you can learn something from those children.” My brother laughed, “Dad, Ray is a home for physically disabled children. What can we learn from them?”

   “You will see,” our father said.

   Our father works as a volunteer at Ray. The children there have problems with their hands, speech, walking or hearing. Every day, he spends hours helping them to move or exercise their legs or arms.

   The following day, he took us to Ray Home. When we got there, we found a nice place to sit down. Finally, the sports began. There was a 50-meter race to see who could run fastest. All the runners were physically disabled. As the race started, all the children moved as fast as they could. Just then, one of the girls fell over and hurt her leg. She began to cry at the top of her voice.

   All the children stopped to help the poor girl. Then they all held hands and finished the race together. My brother and I were surprised to see this: the children weren’t interested in winning the race－they were more interested in helping each other to finish the race.

1.Why did the father take the writer and his brother to Ray Home?

A. The father wanted them to do something at Ray.

B. The father asked them to help the children at Ray.

C. The father wanted them to take part in the Sports Day.

D. The father wanted them to learn something from the children.

2.What does the father often do in Ray Home?

A. He works as a teacher there.        B. He helps the children there.

C. He watches the games there.        D. He does sports with his sons.

3. Why did all the children stop in the 50-meter race stop?

A. All the children were disabled.       B. A little girl fell over and got hurt.

C. They stopped to laugh at the girl.     D. They didn’t want to finish the race.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The children there can help each other.

B. All the runners there can not run fast.

C. All the children don’t want to be winners.

D. The disabled children there were not smart enough.

We don’t know _________, maybe at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon.

A．why will we start                        B．how we will start it

C．when we will start                       D．where we will go

My sister and I are very different. When people meet us both, they are always surprised to learn that we are sisters. This is because we don’t look like each other, and we have different personalities(性格).

Are you similar to your brother or sister? My sister and I aren’t? similar to each other at all. I am tall, but she is very short. I have short dark brown hair and green eyes. She has long blond hair and blue eyes. I am strong, but she is not. I have big hands and feet; her feet and hands are very small. When we are kids, she was thin, but I was heavy. Now we’re both heavy.

We also have opposite personalities. She is always shy. I am more outgoing. She is very worried about what other people think and say about her, but I really don’t care. When she has a problem, she just worries about it, but when I have a problem, I try to fix it. She easily gets angry, especially with our mother. But I am more patient.?

1.When people meet the writer and her sister, they are always surprised to learn??????????

2.The writer and her sister are different in ??????????????????? ways.

3.The writer’s sister has?????????????????????? hair.

4.The writer’s sister is very worried about???????????? about her.

5.Do the write and her sister have the same personalities? ????????????

6.Find the topic sentence of the passage and copy it down. （找出文章的主题句并抄写下来）

7.Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. （将划线的句子翻译成中文）

8.The underlined word “heavy” in the passage means “???????????????? ”in English.

George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a   1.  （贫穷的） family. He had to start work when he was only 2.    （八）. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time  3.  （学习）about engines. And on holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece 4.  （仔细地）. Soon he became a very good worker   5.  （虽然）he could not read or write. He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked along way to have 6.    （功课） from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth   7.  （生日）, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George   8.   （发明） many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among 9. （他们）. Today when we take trains from one place to 10. （另一个）,we’ll think of this great man —George Stephenson.

根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。（每空一词）

Everyone may play a t____1._____ on others on April Fool’s Day(愚人节). And my father did last April Fool’s Day.

It was Sunday and we were all sitting at the table when my father s____2._____ smiled and said to us, “Oh, I forgot to tell you the g____3.____ news. There is a letter from you grandma. She is coming to see us this afternoon. I’m going to m____4.____ her at the station.” With these words he went out.

How happy we were! We didn’t see our grandma for nearly a year and we m____5.____ her very much. After lunch my mother and I went s____6.____. We bought a lot of food that Grandma liked. My sister cleaned the house. It was four o’clock when we finished and sat around the table, waiting for Grandma. At last the door opened and came in my father a_____7.___.

“W____8._____ is Grandma?” we asked.

Father laughed and said, “April Fools. Today is April F___9.___, April Fool’s Day.”

We were disappointed(失望) after we hear this b____10._____ we all laughed.