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My family went to a restaurant for dinner one night. When we were walking to the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother c     1.     towards us. They asked if we had any m     2.      .My mom asked where they were l    3.     . The girl said there were six of them staying in an o    4.     black car. My mom gave them a few dollars. Then she sent me inside the restaurant w    5.     my dad and my three sisters. H    6.    ,my mom didn’t come. Later, I found out that she had gone h    7.     and put all the food in our cupboard into a few bags. Then she brought that food over to the car and gave the bags to the poor f   8.    . I wasn’t there when that part happened, yet I can i     9.    the joy on their faces. After painting this picture in my mind, I understood w    10.    my mom had done what she did that night. I will never forget this lesson in kindness from my mom.

 

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow（浅的）roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important.
So he never watered his trees. He’d planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They’re very big and strong now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for whole summer.
After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray（祈祷）that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won’t be beaten down.
【小题1】We know from the passage the doctor           .

A．didn’t know how to plant trees at all

B．wasn’t good at his own medical job

C．had his own ways of planting trees

D．had nothing to do but plant trees

【小题2】When Dr. Gibbs said “…pick out the weaker trees early on.”, he meant that          .

A．some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning

B．he would choose the weak trees to water earlier

C．the weak trees would be sent to his patients later

D．he would not plant weak trees so early anymore

【小题3】The passage tells us that the writer      .

A．should beat his trees with a rolled-up newspaper

B．didn’t often water his trees

C．didn’t have a large field

D．took too much care of his trees

【小题4】Which can be the best title of the passage?

A．Watering trees

B．Growing roots

C．Doctor and his neighbor

D．Father and his children

For many in the United States, Arab-Americans are an invisible part of the population. Though Arab-Americans as a community have made great contributions to American society in fields from literature to politics to medicine, many Americans know very little about Americans of Arab backgrounds.
Arab history in the United States goes back to the late 1800’s when large numbers of Arab immigrants first began making their journey to a land known simply as “Amreeka”.
Historians generally describe Arab immigration to America in two waves. The first wave took place between 1860 and 1924.The first wave consisted of Lebanese and Syrian, and some Egyptian immigrants. These new immigrants, who were mostly Christian, came to America in search of better opportunities. Even the doomed Titanic, which set sail for America in 1912,had close to a hundred Arab passengers aboard. The majority of Arab-Americans today are descendents of the first wave of immigrants; they are the third or more generation Americans.
The second wave of immigrants followed after World War Ⅱ,caused by political unrest in the Middle East. This second wave of immigrants consists of mainly Arab Muslims（穆斯林）and continues to this day.
Arab-Americans make up 3 million of the population in the United States, according to demographers. And quite different from popular belief, 64 percent of them are American-born. Eighty-two percent of Arab-Americans are US citizens.
Arab-Americans are beyond the national average in both education and income. Education is important among Arab-Americans; 82 percent have high school diplomas, 36 percent have bachelor’s degrees or higher, and 15 percent have graduate degrees. The-median（中位数的）average income among Arab-Americans is $39,580, which is higher than the US average.
【小题1】The first wave of immigrants took place because__________.

A．all Arabs were Christian at that time

B．Arabs wanted to gain higher income

C．the Second World War broke out

D．Arabs wanted to hunt for a better development

【小题2】The writer of this passage mentioned Titanic__________.

A．to tell us that taking ship at that time was dangerous

B．because Titanic became a well-known disaster

C．to show us there were many Arabs flocking into America at that time

D．to inform us that Arabs are brave enough

【小题3】From the last paragraph we can infer that__________.

A．Arab-Americans are much more clever than native Americans

B．the higher education you receive, the higher income you will get in America

C．Arab-Americans are hard-working people

D．The-median average income among Americans is $39,580

【小题4】Which of the following sentences is TRUE？

A．Arab-Americans have made great contributions to American society only in literature.

B．Arab history in the United States is to the early 1800’s.

C．The first Arab immigration to America took place between 1860 and 1924.

D．Few of Arab-Americans are US citizens.

【小题5】 What would be the best title for the text?

A．Arabs in America.

B．The Two Arab Immigration Waves to America.

C．Arab-Americans, Contributions to America.

D．Arab-Americans, Education and Income.

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Mo Yan, the Chinese writer, won the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature on October 11,2012. The 57-year-old writer whose r__1.___name is Guan Moye, was born in 1955 and g___2.up in Shandong Province. Mo Yan is his pen name that means “Don’t s__3.___” in Chinese. Both of his parents were f___4.___. When he was twelve years old,he l ___5.___school to work, first on the farm and l__6.___in the factory. In 1976, he joined the army and b__7.___to study literature and write.

Most of his works are set in his o__8.___hometown, Gaomi County, Shandong in northeastern China. He is the f___9.__Chinese-language writer to win the award. Millions of Chinese people were e___10.____and proud of him after they heard this. His achievements push us students to do more reading.