I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯管) near the river. I couldn’t hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.

One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap (皮带) and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.

Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no sound. I blew and blew but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn’t playing music yet.

Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I’m in the TV studio with my saxophone strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I’m always thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I’m a happy man.

1.On the bus, the writer couldn’t ________.

A．find an old man with a saxophone           B．see a river

C．hear the old man’s music                D．imagine the sound

2.The statue along the river made the writer think of ________.

A．having a saxophone

B．the old man near the river

C．having a cap and a saxophone as the boy

D．playing the saxophone on TV

3.The writer could get the saxophone to play ________.

A．as soon as he got it

B．after he read the instruction

C．after he tried many times

D．after his father taught him

4.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The magic day.                         B．My birthday present.

C．The old man and the statue.               D．My dream of playing saxophone.

I hope my dream of swimming across the English Channel will       .

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

1.Take some rest after lunch and you won’t feel ________in the afternoon.

2.When the child saw her parents waiting at the school gate, she ran ________ them.

3.After years of planning, my dream of the European tour ________ last month .

4.To protect________, scientists suggest the people stop fishing in some parts of the ocean.

5.This morning I was two minutes late for the train, but ________, I didn’t miss it as the train was late, too .

根据所给单词的首字母及中文，写出各单词的完全形式（每空限填一词）（10分）
【小题1】One h_____ is the number 100.
【小题2】I hope my dream of university will come _______(真的).
【小题3】 Mr. Wang usually gets up at six thirty.  He eats breakfast _______.(很快地)
【小题4】The pandas are very shy, please be ________.(安静的)
【小题5】Tom likes music very much, He wants to be a great ________.(音乐家)
【小题6】Look, my father is reading a _________(报纸).
【小题7】I usually __________(锻炼) from six to seven in the morning.
【小题8】Ben always wish to have grandma’s__________(可口的) Zongzi.
【小题9】Every weekend, my parents go shopping in this ________(超市).
【小题10】Be quiet! Your father is s________.