Sophie is a middle school student. Her mother is a dentist and her father is a writer. Sophie wants to be a cook. Sophie went to take part in（参加） a cake（蛋糕） making competition yesterday. 

Everyone began to make a cake. But Sophie hadn’t decided what kind of cake to make.

There was only half an hour left. Sophie had not even begun. So she began to panic (恐慌). Then she got an idea. She ran out and came to a cake shop. She gave fifty dollars to the shop keeper and said, “Please give me a chocolate cake.”

Then Sophie came back and put the chocolate cake on the table. But a little boy saw her do that.

When the judges (裁判员) were just about to taste Sophie’s cake, the little boy said to the judges, “Please don’t taste her cake. She didn’t make it and she bought it from a cake shop.”

The judges were angry and said, “That was terrible, Sophie.”

From that day on, Sophie never cheated.

1. Sophie wants to be a 　　　.

A. teacher                  B. writer                       C. cook                      D. dentist

2. Sophie began to panic because 　　　.

A. she was too tired                     B. she didn’t begin to make her cake

C. she didn’t have money                D. her cake tasted bad

3.Sophie spent 　　　 on the chocolate cake.

A. $5                       B. $10                               C. $15                            D. $50

4.The underlined word “cheat” means “　　　” in Chinese.

A. 作弊                  B. 前进                             C. 承诺                         D. 解决

 

A blind boy sat there with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins and dropped them into the hat .He then turned the sign around and wrote something on it. He put the sign back and walked away.
　　Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you do?”
　　The man said, “I only wrote the truth in a different way.”
　　What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
　　Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second one told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
　　The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second one told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
　　There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
　　Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
　  Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
【小题1】From the passage we know that________.

A．the boy is the man’s son.

B．the man is one of the boy’s neighbors.

C．the boy is blind and needs help.

D．the boy works for the man.

【小题2】On the sign what the man wrote was, “________”

A．Treasure what we have already had.

B．Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.

C．We are so lucky that we are not blind.

D．Try your best to help those who need your help.

【小题3】According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A．The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign.

B．The man took away all the few coins from the hat.

C．The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school.

D．Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy.

【小题4】The word “recognized” here in Chinese means________.

A．承认	B．接受
C．表扬	D．辨认出

【小题5】 The best title for this story is _________.

A．Giving makes receiving!	B．Be kind and creative!
C．Be kind to the blind!	D．Do not always get, but offer!

　　Miss Wu is a young teacher of English in China. She loves teaching very much. One day when she was giving an English lesson, she found the headmaster sitting at the back of the classroom. After class, the headmaster told her that he came to her class to find out how much English and how much Chinese she was using. The result was about half English and half Chinese. She was using Chinese when she gave instructions to her students and when she wanted to get feedback (反馈) from her students. The headmaster told her that she should use more English in her class.

　　Miss Wu made a plan like this:

　　·Talk with an Englishman every Sunday for two hours to learn more .English expressions;

　　·Write some English expressions on cards. These cards not only remind her to use English in class, but also help her remember some expressions;

　　·Have a five-minute talk in English with students before class.

　　She used body language to help her if students could not understand.

　　One year later, she found she could use English freely in class.

(1) Miss Wu ________.

[　　]

A．has a poor memory

B．is a teacher of Chinese

C．loves her job

D．is angry with the headmaster

(2) The headmaster came to Miss Wu's class to ________.

[　　]

A．write some English expressions on cards

B．help her improve her English teaching

C．give instructions to the students

D．get feedback from the students

(3) After the headmaster left, Miss Wu realized that she should ________ in her class.

[　　]

A．use more Chinese

B．use more English

C．use half English and half Chinese

D．use body language

(4) What does the underlined word “remind” mean?

[　　]

(5) What is the main idea of this passage?

[　　]

A．Use cards in English teaching.

B．Talk with English-speaking people.

C．Speak more English in English class.

D．Learn more English expressions.