It is April 10．It is Tuesday．Cindy gets up at 6:30 in the morning．She is in her blue skirt．She really likes that skirt．She has a new shirt to go with it, and new shoes．Then she goes into the kitchen（厨房）．She loves eggs and apples in the morning．

      Cindy’s mother is a teacher at her school．Cindy is in the second grade（年级），and her mother teaches the fourth grade．Cindy is excited about going to school today because her class has a lest（测试）．She has new pencils for the test．She wants to do a good job in the test．Cindy loves school and she likes to get good grades（成绩）．

Cindy eats her breakfast and then she and her mother go to school．Cindy goes to her classroom and her history teacher, Ms Brown is there．It is fun to be in Ms Brown’s class．She is a great teacher．Now Cindy’s classmates are all in the classroom，and they start the test．Cindy remembers（记得）everything，so she can do everything right．

      After the test，Cindy and her classmates play for a long time．Then they eat lunch．After lunch．they watch a funny movie．Then they draw picture．It is really a great day! 

1．What grade is Cindy in? 

    A．Grade One           B．Grade Two          C．Grade Three           D．Grade Four

2．What does Cindy like to eat for breakfast?

    A．Eggs and apples                                         B．Broccoli and bananas

    C．Eggs and carrots                                        D．Chicken and apples

3．Why is Cindy excited about going to school today?

    Because they have_________．

    A．a trip                   B．a party                 C．a movie               D．a test

4．What do the children do after the test?

    A．They swim          B．They draw pictures C．They play               D．They watch a movie

5．Which（哪个）is right according to the passage（根据短文）?

    A．Cindy likes the blue shirt．                       B．Cindy is a good student．

    C．Cindy’s mother is a teacher of history．              D．It’s really boring that day．

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The pig that dares to dream

The best-loved pig in Hong Kong is called McDull. His mom makes a wish that he will look like Chow Yun-fat or Tony Leung, two movie heartthrobs, but he is distinguished (区分) only by a birthmark around his right eye.

The cartoon piglet is not smart, either. Everything he tries, he f___1.____. He wants to be an Olympic champion of qiangbaoshan, but the sport doesn’t really exist, of course. He d_____2.____ of going to the Maldives (马尔代夫), but ends up on a one-day tour of a Hong Kong landmark i____3.______.

However, the slow, dumb(木讷) pig has won over Hong Kong people, often stereotyped(塑造) as eager to quick success. So far, there are five McDull movies s ___4.____ in both the mainland and Hong Kong.

The popularity of McDull sometimes makes his creator Alice Mak confused. “Maybe people see themselves and their friends in McDull," she says. Like McDull, Mak moves and speaks slowly. She describes herself a___5.___ a simple person, who does not try to draw too much meaning from the McDull stories. As a Christian, she has some simple beliefs, such as God creates h____6._____ because he loves them and wants them to be happy.

"McDull reminds people they u____7.___ to be as simple and happy as him," Mak says. "If there is a theme in all the McDull movies, it is about how a simple person keeps his or her simplicity in a complicated(复杂) world."

In one of the McDull movies, he talks to the audience: "I suddenly realize that there is s___8.___ you just cannot have. No noodles, no Maldives, no golden medal, no treasure ... it turns out that being stupid is not funny, it could mean failure. Disappointment is not funny, fat is not funny, fat does not even mean you have more strength. When I grow up, when I face the tough world that is not f____9.___, what should I do?"

"W____10.____ he has been doing in the movies is to find new dreams. Most of them keep failing him, but he always starts again with a new one," Mak says. "Maybe that`s why both children and adults find him adorable (可爱的)."

There are many different kinds of cars in the world. My aunt thinks this is because cars are ____1­  their drivers. She says, “Rich people have expensive cars, big people have large cars, and old people drive old cars.” But I don't 2 her.
　　My neighbour, Mrs. Hill, is 82 years old. She drives only on Tuesday, and she drives only to the bank. She 3   drives more than 30 kilometres an hour. Do you think Mrs. Hill has a very   ­­­­­___4   and small car? No, her car is new. It's very large, and it _5  go 200 kilometres for each hour!
My friend is 6  . He draws beautiful pictures with lots of colours. But his car is black! Mrs. Bates has a very, very old one. There is often something 7 with the car. Does she drive that kind of car because she is poor? No, she has four factories and 8   dollars in the bank. My aunt Mary has a very 9 car, though she drives to the country with her husband, her two children, her mother and their dog.
Now you have 10    my friends and their cars. Do you agree with my aunt? Maybe you have a car. Does it say anything about you?

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A little girl called Fan Yi has caught many people’s attention recently. The little writer’s ___________ (81) English story, Swordbird, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for children’s fiction.
Fan Yi was born in Beijing in 1997. She ___________ (82) her second grade of primary school in Beijing. She ___________ (83) to the US with her parents at the age of 7. She has shown ___________ (84) interests in birds since she was a little girl.
When Fan ___________(85) studying American history at school, she read many articles(文章) about the September 11 Attacks(9.11事件). She wanted all people to ___________ (86) in peace with each other. Around that time, she had a(n) ___________ (87) one night. In the dream, some birds fought with each other. Fan got an idea ___________ (88) the dream and turned it into a story. In it, she showed her idea of peace in the world.
In the future, Fan will write more ___________ (89) for the Swordbird series. Will she become another J.K Rowling? We ___________ (90) have to wait and see.