3.From what the teacher said, we know that the word “units” means ______ here.

　A. whole numbers less than 10 B. whole things

　C. groups of lessons D. the smallest numbers

2.Which of the following sentences is not true?

　A.The father had a different way to do the math problem.

　B.The father couldn’t do his daughter’s homework.

　C.The daughter couldn’t understand her father’s way.

　D.The daughter had some trouble doing the math problem.

1.The daughter wanted ______ the other day.

　A. to give her father a lesson B. to show how difficult math was

　C. her father to phone her teacher D. her father to help her with her homework

5.Mr. Flowers’ good idea was to ______.

　A.write some words on the glass　B.put up a large notice to cover his glass-houses

　C.give the boys something else to throw stones at　D.send for policemen

　Passage 47

　People often say, “Children can’t do math problem, it’s because parents can’t do their children’s homework.” Here’s an example to show what I mean.

　The other day my daughter brought home her math homework. “I have to subtract (减) 179 from 202,” she said.

　“It’s quite easy,” I said. “You put the 202 over the 179.”

　“But we need a 10 here. Where is the 10?”

　“I don’t know where the 10 is. Let’s just subtract 179 from 202. Nine from two is three. You carry one and add it to seven. Eight from zero is two. The answer is 23.”

　“We can’t do it that way. We have to use the 10.”

　“Well, I’m going to call your teacher to see how she subtracts 179 from 202.”

　Over the telephone, I said that I was having a bit of trouble with the homework she had given to my daughter. The teacher said, “In the right-hand column (栏) we have units of one. The two in that column counts for two ones. The zero in the center counts for zero tens. The two in the left-hand column counts for hundreds. Are you clear?” But I didn’t think I was clear.

　I hung up and found my way to the medicine box. My head was now hurting. I started putting pills of medicine into my mouth. “How many did you take?” my wife asked. “I took one and then I took another…I know one and one was two, but don’t ask me what it is now.”

4.Mr. Flowers had tried to ______ to protect his glass.

　A. be on watch in his free time B. ask the headmaster for help

　C. pick up all the stones around his garden D. do all the above

3.Mr. Flowers stayed in or near by his glass-houses _______.

　A.at times when school-boys were walking near them

　B.all the school day when there were no boys about

　C.where he could not be seen by the boys passing

　D.in his free time at the beginning and end of the school day

2.Boys were often tempted to ________.

　A.throw stones at Mr. Flowers’ glass-house　B.throw stones at Mr. Flowers from their school

　C.be in or near by Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses　D.play with Mr. Flowers near his glass-houses

1.It was Mr. Flowers’ hope to ________.

　A.build glass-houses in his free time　B.grow the Rose of the Year in a silver cup

　C.win a silver cup for growing a rose of a new color

　D.grow a rose with the longest name

5.This passage is mainly about ______.

　A. the names of typhoons B. typhoons in Hong King 　C. Typhoon Rose D. the typhoons

　Passage 46

　There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competitions (比赛). He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup (银杯) for the Rose of the Year.

　Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses were very near to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted (引诱) to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.

　But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to protect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster; but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden; but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away. He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found others.

　At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice (布告) made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flowers had no further trouble; the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.

4.Some big shops didn’t go inside the shelters because _______.

　A. they had more anchors 　B. it is safer outside

C. they were out at sea and they weren’t fast enough to reach the shelters

when Typhoon Rose came

　D. it was too expensive for big shops to go inside the shelters