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It was December 25, 1972. Marie, a 13-year-old Australian girl, was very happy. It was    1    and Marie's mother made an unusual cake. She put four small coins (硬币) into    2    . The four small coins were for good     3   .        After dinner Marie and her    4    ate the cake. When they    5    the cake, there were three coins on the table. One coin was    6   . Marie's mother didn't notice that.        After Christmas Marie got     7   . She coughed and couldn't speak. Six weeks later she felt    8   , but she    9    couldn't speak. So Marie went to the hospital.         Doctors at the hospital   10   Marie. They took an X-ray (X光). Marie's mother asked the doctors, "Why can't Marie   11   ?" The doctor said, "We don't know. Maybe she will speak again. Maybe she won't. We're   12  , but we can't help her."        For twelve years Marie didn't speak. She   13   and got a job. But she never spoke.        One day when Marie was 25 years old, she got ill. She began to cough. She coughed up a lot of blood (血). She also coughed up   14   small and black from her throat (喉咙). What was it? Marie didn't know. She took it to the hospital. A doctor said, "This is a coin."         The doctor told Marie, "I   15   you can speak again." Soon Marie began talking.

(     )1. A. party     (     )2. A. the cake    (     )3. A. friends   (     )4. A. teacher    (     )5. A. began      (     )6. A. paid       (     )7. A. tired     (     )8. A. worse      (     )9. A. still     (     )10. A. looked for  (     )11. A. speak      (     )12. A. sure       (     )13. A. put up      (     )14. A. something   (     )15. A. sure

B. Christmas    B. her pocket      B. health           B. brother   B. finished       B. found          B. home         B. terrible       B. also           B. looked over     B. listen       B. busy          B. sent up       B. nothing       B. tell

C. holiday         C. Marie's bag     C. luck            C. daughter      C. did             C. missing       C. back          C. better        C. yet           C. looked after    C. tell           C. worried         C. grew up        C. anything      C. ask

D. winter            D. the box         D. life             D. family        D. made              D. put away       D. ill           D. lonely            D. often        D. looked up      D. hear           D. sorry              D. got up          D. everything      D. think

Last Friday, a Tibetan(藏族的) postman became the first woman postal worker to give a speech at the World Postal Meeting in Bern, the capital of Switzerland. She was Nima Lamu, a postwoman of Yunling Post office, Yunnan Province.
She said, “I had to cross the Lancang River along a steel wire. My younger brother nearly died in the river before. I felt so afraid when I was asked for the first time to cross the river. But when I reached the other side, I found that I was flying.”
Her area is locked in (封闭) two snowy mountains and three big rivers. She said, “:What worries me most is the snakes on the way. Sometimes, I throw little stones toward them and I often tell my self ‘Keep going’. ”
Ten years ago, it took Nima five days to finish each week’s mail. She had to face snowstorms, floods, snakes and loneliness on her 350-kilometer journey. Nima said, “The situation has developed a lot these years. Now we have a bridge that was built across the Lancang River in 2006.”
Nima never dreamed she would become famous one day when she first look up her job, 12 years ago. Changes have been seen in recent years as more tourists visit Nima’s hometown. But one thing remains unchanged: she is still the carrier of the villagers’ hopes and dreams.
【小题1】Nima was invited to the meeting in Bern because she was _________.

A．the only Tibetan postman in China	B．the first postwoman in the world
C．doing a hard job as a postwoman	D．making her village famous overnight

【小题2】 What happened to her brother according to Nima Lamu?

A．he once fell into the river.	B．He was killed by a snake.
C．He died when swimming in the river.	D．He got hurt when building the bridge.

【小题3】Which picture is TRUE about Nima’s crossing the river ten years ago?

【小题4】What will Nima do if she finds a snake on the way?

A．Kill it with stones.	B．Keep it off and go on.
C．Throw it away and leave.	D．turn around and run.

【小题5】What is RTUE about Nima?

A．She is building a bridge across the Lancang River.

B．She has realized all the villagers’ dreams.

C．She got her job as a post woman before 2000.

D．She doesn’t need to do her work now.

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　　I was December 25. Marie, a 13-year-old Australian girl, was happy. It was Christmas, and Marie's mother was making a special cake. She put four small coins into the cake ,and then she baked(烤) it .The four coins were for good luck. After dinner Marie and her family ate the cake. They found three coins in the cake and put them on the table. Where was the fourth coin? It was missing, but Marie's mother didn't notice.

　　After Christmas got sick. She coughed, and she couldn't speak. Marie's parents took her to hospital. Doctors at the hospital looked her over, and then said,“ We are sorry, but we can't help her.”For 12 years Marie didn't speak. She grew up, she got a job, and she got married. But she never spoke. One day, when Marie was 25 years old, she got a sore throat at work. She began to cough. She coughed up something small and black. What was it ? Marie didn't know. She took it to the hospital. A doctor at the hospital said, “This is a coin!”The doctor told Marie, “I think you can speak again.” Marie went to a special doctor, and soon she could talk.

1. What did Marie's mother make on Christmas?

　　____________________________

2.What did Marie's mother put some coins in the cake for?

　　____________________________

3. How many coins did Marie's family find after eating the Cake?

　　____________________________

4. Why did Marie's parents take her to hospital after Christmas?

　　____________________________

5.Could Marie speak at last?

　　____________________________

 

 

Mr. Carrey worked at a big company. He went to work by bus. One day when he was standing at the bus-stop, he watched cars go by. Many of the cars were new Sherry 700s, and most of them were yellow.
Mr. Carrey was a person who did not like to be different from other men. He always wore the same clothes as other men, ate the same food as other people, and did the same things after work as they did.
Two months later, Mr. Carrey bought a new yellow Sherry 700. He was very pleased with it, and drove to work in it the next morning. When he saw all the other Sherry 700s, in front, behind and on both sides of him, he was even more pleased with his car.
Mr. Carrey parked his car in a big car-park near the office building, and walked to his office. But when he came back at five o’clock, there were so many yellow Sherry 700s in the car-park that Mr. Carrey did not know which car was his. He tried his key in some of the cars, but people passing by gave him a look which he did not like. So he stopped.
Mr. Carrey could do nothing but wait nearly forty minutes until his car was the only yellow Sherry 700 left in the car-park.
【小题1】Mr. Carrey bought a new yellow Sherry 700 because__________________ .

A．he did not like taking a bus

B．he liked to be different from other men

C．he liked to do the same things as other people

D．the bus did not always come on time.

【小题2】In the car-park, “people gave him a look” because _____ .

A．he could not open the door of his car

B．he was trying to open the door of more than one car

C．he was in the wrong car-park

D．he had a new yellow car

【小题3】Mr. Carrey had to wait until _____ in the car-park.

A．there was only one car left

B．there was no one about to look at him

C．there was only one yellow Sherry 700 left

D．there were no yellow Sherry 700s left