4．Kangaroo is a kind of famous______ in Australia.　　　　　　　　　　　　 [　　 ]

　A．animals

　B．trees

　C．languages

　D．plants

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It was Sunday and Tom was staying home. After breakfast he went out into the garden and played quietly by himself. There were no kids around and he was used to(习惯于)playing alone quietly. He played with Bobby, the dog. He climbed up and down the trees. Sometimes a bird would come down to perch(停歇) on top of the doghouse. Then Tom would have the greatest fun (爱好) by throwing a stone or something at it. Though he never made it. He did like doing this kind of things.

Now Tom had been in the garden for half an hour. Suddenly a crack(碎裂声) was heard and the little boy began crying.

“What's the matter, Tom? ” his mother looked through the kitchen window.

Tom ran into the kitchen.

“Mum” he sobbed(抽泣)，“I broke Bobby's plate. I didn't know it was so fragile (易碎的)”.

His mother put her arms round him and said, “Don't feel too bad, Tom. We have other plates for Boddy. But how did you break that one? ”

“I threw this at a bird but missed, and it went straight to the plate. ”

In Tom's hand was his father's gold pocket watch(金怀表)！

3．How did they get to Budapest from Sydney?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 [　　 ]

　A．By air and by train.

　B．By ship.

　C．By air.

　D．By train.

2．The Hungarian wanted to go back to Hungary to ______.　　　　　　 [　　 ]

　A．see the kangaroos

　B．his home town

　C．visit his old friends there

　D．pay a visit to the zoo

1．The Hungarian moved to Australia ______.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 [　　 ]

　A．last year

　B．more than 50 years ago

　C．a few years ago

　D．50 years since then

5. The topic of the passage is ______.

　　　 A. How to draw a horse

　　　 B. How to write a story

　　　 C. How to make your own rules

　　　 D. Trust to your own powers

　　 Key: CDDCD

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In the last fifty years, a lot of people have left Europe and gone to live in Australia. One of them was a Hungarian man. He lived in Australia for a long time, and he had a lot of good friends there He always said to them, “Australia is beautiful, but Hungary is beautiful, too. ”Then one year he said to his friends, “I'm going to go back to Hungary to visit my home town. ”All his friends said to him, “We want to go with you, because you often said Hungary had been a beautiful country, and we want to visit it. ” The Hungarian Australian(匈籍澳大利亚人) took his friends from Sydney to Rome(罗马) in a big plane, and then they went from Rome to Budapest(布达佩斯) in a train as they wanted to see the mountains, and the villages and the town.

They stayed in Budapest nearly a week, and they liked it very much. One day they went to the zoo in Budapest and saw two kangaroos there.

There Australian were very happy because kangaroos were from their home town. They said to them, “Come here, old friends! Come and see your Australian brothers!” But the kangaroos did not move.

But then the Hungarian Australian spoke to them in Hungarian, “Come here!” he said, and both of the kangaroos ran to him.

The other Australians laughed and said, “Look at that. They're Australian, but they only know Hungarian!”

选择正确答案：

1. A friend of the writer's drew the horses ____.

　　　 A. very well 　　　 B. in the way of western rule

　　　　C. in the way of his own rule

　　　 D. all of the above 　　 2. The writer was surprised because ____.

　　　 A. the artist began to draw at the head of the horse

　　　 B. the artist began to draw at the tail of the horse

　　　 C. the artist made his own rule

　　　　D. the artist did not follow other people's rule 　　 3. You are not yet experienced because ____.

　　　 A. you don't know where to begin

　　　 B. you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail

　　　 C. you always asked question

　　　 D. you do not trust to your own powers 　　 4. When you become more experienced you will ____.

　　　 A. never ask question

　　　 B. often begin at the tail

　　　 C. should write the end of the story

　　　 D. should think of the beginning

5、When did the officers begin to realize(意识到)they had made a mistake?

　 A．Before they arrived at the church.

　 B．Before they overtook(overtake的过去式)the writer’s car.

　 C．After one of them looked at the flowers and the bookshelf carefully at the church.

　　　 D．After the writer’s family left the church.

　　　 Key: 1、D　 2、B　 3、C　 4、A　 5、C

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A friend of mine was fond of drawing horse. He drew the horses very well, but he always began the tail. Now it is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse, that is why I was surprised. It struck me that it could not really make any difference whether the artist begins at the head or the tail or the belly(肚子) or the foot of the horse, if he really knows his business. And most great artists who really know their business do not follow other people's rule. They make their own rules. Every one of them does his work in a way peculiar(奇特的) to himself; and the peculiarity means only that he finds it more easy to work in that way.

　　 Now the very same thing is true to literature(文学). And the question, "How shall I begin?" only means that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is, you are not yet experienced(有经验的) enough to trust to your own powers. When you become more experienced you will never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail --that is to say, you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning.

4、Why did the writer’s wife begin to laugh?

　 A．Because now she knew what mistake the police had made.

　 B．Because at last her husband understood why the police had driven to the church.

　 C．Because the officer was always looking at the flowers and the bookshelf.

　 D．Because the police had helped them a lot.

3、Why were the police and other drivers so kind to the writer?

　 A．Because they thought the writer liked studying very much and needed a bookshelf.

　 B．Because they didn’t think it was polite to overtake a car with a bookshelf on it.

　 C．Because they thought somebody in the writer’s family had died and he needed help.

　 D．Because they thought it was dangerous to carry a bookshelf on a car.

2、What made the writer think that carrying furniture was “a good idea”?

　 A．He could drive slowly and it was safe.

　 B．Other drivers would let him go first.

　 C．His wife could use a new bookshelf.

　 D．He could save a lot of money and time.