—What’s today?

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A．It’s Thursday                          B．It’s October,2012

C．It’s May the 12^th                       D．It’s sunny.

There are seabirds as well as land-birds. The most ordinary seabird is the seagull. It has a white body, a white head and a yellow beak. There is a very, very spot of red at the very end of the beak, underneath. All gulls have very strong wings so that they can fly far out to sea. If a gull flies out too far, so that it is too tired to fly back to the shore(岸边), it does not get frightened, for it can sit and rest upon the waves(波浪). A seagull’s wings do not get wet because all its feathers have a kind of oil over them, so that when the water gets on to the feathers, it just runs off again. Gulls can even sleep upon the waves.
Sailors(水手) know a lot about seagulls and they never kill them. When the gulls fly a long way out to sea, sailors say that it means fine weather is coming. When the gulls stay near the shore, sailors say they there will be much wind and rain, and perhaps a storm, for the gulls know more about the weather than sailors do.
【小题1】The seagull is a kind of ________.

Spring is a good season to fly kites. You can fly your kites in the park, in the field or on the play ground. There are many different kinds of kites. Some look like birds; Some look like planes and some look like butterflies. People often fly kites on a sunny and windy day. And the best month for flying kites is March. How can we fly our kites in the sky. First, we run with our kites against the wind. Then when the kite can fly in the sky, you can just stay there with your string reel(线轴) in your hand. When the kite doesn’t fly in the sky, just adjust(调整) the string reel. The string on the reel must be very strong. If you want to fly kites very well, you should practice it more with your friends. Maybe you feel a little difficult at first, but if you fly kites often you will find it very easy and interesting. Flying kites is a very good activity in spring, and a lot of people like it.

1.Where can’t you fly your kites?

2.When do people often fly kites?

3.If the kite can’t fly well in the sky, what should we do?

4.What does the underlined word “against” mean?

5.Flying kites is a good sports in         .

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building only was a few feet away from mine. They was a woman lived there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, drinking or reading.

After a few months, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself. “I wonder why that woman doesn’t clean her window. It really looks terrible.”

One sunny morning I decided to clean my house, including washing the window.

Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). Her window was clean!

It dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.

??? That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at others through the dirty window of my heart?

Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.

1. The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because __________.

A. the woman’s window was dirty????????????? ????????????? ?????????????

B. the writer’s window was dirty

C. the woman lived nearby????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ?????????????

D. the writer was near-sighted

2. The writer was surprised that _________.

A. the woman was sitting by her window?????????????

B. the woman’s window was still terrible

C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon?????????????

D. the woman’s window was clean

3. “It dawned on me” probably means “_______”.

A. I began to understand it????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. it cheered me up

C. I knew it grew light????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. it began to get dark

4. It’s clear that ________.

A. the writer had never met the woman before ?????????????

B. the writer often washed the window

C. they both worked as cleaners????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ??

D. they lived in a small town

5. From the passage, we can learn _______.

A. one shouldn’t criticize others very often

B. one should often make his windows clean

C. one must judge himself before he judges others

D. one must look at others through his dirty windows.