There was once a farmer. He lived near a road. It was not a busy road, but from time to time, cars passed the farm.
Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This road was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was not deep.
Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive out because it was too deep.
The farmer did not spend much time working on his farm. He spent most of it watching the hole.
When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with his tractor(拖拉机) and the driver gave him a lot of money for doing this.
One day, the driver of a car said to him, “You must make a lot of money by pulling cars out of this hole night and day.”
“Oh, no,” the farmer said. “I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill(填) the hole with water.”
【小题1】Many cars went into the hole because the drivers ________.

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Maybe you don’t know Walt Disney, but you must know Disneyland.   1 you don’t know Disneyland, you must know Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

Walt Disney was American. He   2  on December 5, 1901. And he died on December 15, 1966. He died of illness.

Walt Disney had three brothers and one sister. He enjoyed   3 when he was very young. He was good at drawing. When he sold his first drawing  4  his neighbours, he was only seven years old! He got   5  in 1925. And he had two daughters. Disney was very rich,   6  he was frugal（朴素的）. He spent most of his money   7  his work. In 1928, he created the famous character—Mickey Mouse, which made him famous to the world.

Walt Disney is a great person.   8  he died, people all over the world will remember him for ever. He is deeply   9  by worldwide people. He was a clever, imaginative and creative man. He   10  enjoyment and happiness to the people of every country. He is a hero of the 20th century.

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Nelson Mandela, former South African president, was born in an African royal family on July 18, 1918. His great-grandfather was a king and his f   1.  was a clan chief(部落酋长) . But Mandela chose a life path of revolution(革命) i   2.   of royalty(皇室成员). At that time, South Africa was ruled by racism(种族主义). In 1948, the government passed a law that stopped black people from l   3.    or traveling where they wanted. Black people didn’t have the right(权利) to v   4.   , either. Mandela didn’t think that was r   5.  . He organized many campaigns against it. Because of this, in 1962, he was a  6.   . He spent 27 years in prison. A   7.  he was set free in 1990, he chose to forgive his enemies. He shook hands with the people who wanted him d   8.   . He also encouraged black people to forgive whites. His efforts won himself the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and a year later, for the first time in South Africa’s history, black people stood in line with whites to vote. Mandela, at the age of 75, b   9.    the first black president of South Africa. On Dec 5, Mandela p  10.   away at the age of 95.

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【小题1】----Does your father e      every morning?
----Yes. He runs every morning.
【小题2】Mom, I’m t_________. I want to drink some orange juice.
【小题3】I’m going h_________ in the mountains next weekend.
【小题4】My parents like to live in the c       , but I like to live in the big city.
【小题5】He spent the w___________ afternoon watching TV. And he didn’t finish his homework.

George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight．When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper．He spent a lot of time learning about engines（发动机）．And on holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece carefully．Soon he became a very good worker though 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 a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday，he wrote his own name for the first time in his life．George invented（发明） many things in his life．The train was the greatest one among them．Today when we take trains from one place to another，we'll think of this great man---George Stephenson．
【小题1】In which year did George Stephenson start to help his father？________．