Three boys, Tom, Sam and Jim bought seventeen apples. Tom wanted the half (一 半). Sam wanted one-third (三分之一)，and Jim wanted one-ninth (九分之一)• But they didn’t know how to do.

Just at that time,a little boy came with an apple in his hand. The boy said to them, “Don’t worry. Let me help you” Then he put his apple into their apples, and made the number of the apples eighteen. Then he gave Tom nine apples, he gave Sam six apples,and he gave Jim two apples. He gave away seventeen apples and took his apple back.

The three boys were very happy. And they said: “How clever the boy is!”

根据短文内容，选择正确的选项。

1.There were___apples when the three boys divided(分配）them.

A. fifteen  B. sixteen C. seventeen     D. eighteen

2.What was the three boys' problem?

A. They couldn’t eat the apples.         B. They couldn’t go home.

C. They couldn’t divide the apples.    D. They wanted to borrow some apples,

3.What did the little boy do to help them?

A.      He put his apple into theirs when he divided the apples.

B.      He kept an apple to divide the apples.

C.      He got one apple from another man.

D.      He ate an apple before he divided them.

4.Which one is right?

A.      The three boys asked the little boy to divide their apples.

B.      The little boy told them how to divide their apples.

C.      The little boy wanted to help them.

D.      The little boy wanted to take away their apples.

5.The underlined sentence “How clever the boy is!” means       in Chinese.

A.这个男孩是多么地感激啊！          B.他怎么样才能聪明啊！

C.这是一个什么样的男孩啊！ D.多么聪明的男孩啊！

Three boys, Tom, Sam and Jim bought seventeen apples. Tom wanted the half (一半). Sam wanted one-third (三分之一)，and Jim wanted one-ninth (九分之一)? But they didn’t know how to do.
Just at that time,a little boy came with an apple in his hand. The boy said to them, “Don’t worry. Let me help you” Then he put his apple into their apples, and made the number of the apples eighteen. Then he gave Tom nine apples, he gave Sam six apples,and he gave Jim two apples. He gave away seventeen apples and took his apple back.
The three boys were very happy. And they said: “How clever the boy is!”
根据短文内容，选择正确的选项。

1. 1.

   There were___apples when the three boys divided(分配）them

   1. A.
      fifteen
   2. B.
      sixteen
   3. C.
      seventeen
   4. D.
      eighteen
2. 2.

   What was the three boys' problem?

   1. A.
      They couldn’t eat the apples
   2. B.
      They couldn’t go home
   3. C.
      They couldn’t divide the apples
   4. D.
      They wanted to borrow some apples,
3. 3.

   What did the little boy do to help them?

   1. A.
      He put his apple into theirs when he divided the apples
   2. B.
      He kept an apple to divide the apples
   3. C.
      He got one apple from another man
   4. D.
      He ate an apple before he divided them
4. 4.

   Which one is right?

   1. A.
      The three boys asked the little boy to divide their apples
   2. B.
      The little boy told them how to divide their apples
   3. C.
      The little boy wanted to help them
   4. D.
      The little boy wanted to take away their apples
5. 5.

   The underlined sentence “How clever the boy is!” means   in Chinese

   1. A.
      这个男孩是多么地感激啊！
   2. B.
      他怎么样才能聪明啊！
   3. C.
      这是一个什么样的男孩啊！
   4. D.
      多么聪明的男孩啊！

Sam is twenty-seven now. He’s tall and strong. He worked hard in the small field. He’s known a girl called Mabel for three years, who lives in another village. He wishes she could marry him soon, but she won’t marry him until he has built a new house. He hasn’t enough money. Of course it’s difficult for him to do so.

Winter had come and the fields were covered with thick snow. Sam had nothing to do at home. Mabel told him to find some temporary employment in the town. He thought she was right and came to Mr White’s factory, where he carried stones from the hill to the workplaces. It was hard work but he was paid more. At the end of the month Mr White paid the young man nearly two thousand dollars. He was very happy. He hurried to the post office, but it was closed. He had a look at the clock on the wall. It was half past five, and he was told to go there the next morning. He had to return to the factory. He felt hungry and went into a restaurant and ate something. He didn’t see a thief following him, and as soon as he sat at table, the man sat down next to him and asked him to drink a cup with him. He agreed and drank a lot. And when he woke up two hours later, his money was stolen. He was sad of it and cried for a long time.

The following day Mr White saw the young man’s eyes were red and asked what had happened to him. He told him about it and at last he said, “I worked for the thief last month!”

根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。

1.Mabel doesn’t marry Sam because _______.

2.Mabel asked Sam to ______.

3.The underlined word “temporary employment” means _______.

4.Sam went the post office to _____.

5.The money was stolen when ______.

Sam is twenty-seven now. He’s tall and strong. He worked hard in the small field. He’s known a girl called Mabel for three years, who lives in another village. He wishes she could marry him soon, but she won’t marry him until he has built a new house. He hasn’t enough money. Of course it’s difficult for him to do so.
Winter had come and the fields were covered with thick snow. Sam had nothing to do at home. Mabel told him to find some temporary employment in the town. He thought she was right and came to Mr White’s factory, where he carried stones from the hill to the workplaces. It was hard work but he was paid more. At the end of the month Mr White paid the young man nearly two thousand dollars. He was very happy. He hurried to the post office, but it was closed. He had a look at the clock on the wall. It was half past five, and he was told to go there the next morning. He had to return to the factory. He felt hungry and went into a restaurant and ate something. He didn’t see a thief following him, and as soon as he sat at table, the man sat down next to him and asked him to drink a cup with him. He agreed and drank a lot. And when he woke up two hours later, his money was stolen. He was sad of it and cried for a long time.
The following day Mr White saw the young man’s eyes were red and asked what had happened to him. He told him about it and at last he said, “I worked for the thief last month!”
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。
【小题1】Mabel doesn’t marry Sam because _______.

Think stars don’t move? Think again! When you look at the sky at night, the stars may appear to stay in the same place. But stars are always on the move—they are just so far away that the movement is hard to see.
But some stars move in ways that appear to be strange to be real. In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found one of these space oddities(奇特). It was located on the outer edge of the Milky Way, the galaxy(星系) we live in. The star was speeding away like nothing he’d ever seen. “It seemed unbelievable. No star in the galaxy has a speed like that,” Brown remembers. “I thought, oh my goodness, I have something kind of special here.”
No one had ever seen a star like this one. What does a scientist do when the results don’t make sense?
Brown didn’t give up. Instead, he kept looking. And he kept finding more of these strange and speedy stars, called hypervelocity stars. Hyper means “above” and velocity has to do with speed. He and his team just found six more of these “above speed” stars, bringing to the total of 16. And, he says, he’s found even more, and is just waiting for the scientific community to confirm them.
【小题1】In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found___________.