Walt Disney, the great film-maker, was born in 1901. When he was a young man, He often sat in the
family garage and draw pictures there. One day a mouse came into the garage and played on the floor. He
stopped drawing and watched the mouse. The mouse came towards him, so he gave the mouse a piece of
bread. Day after day they became good friends.
       Some years later, Disney moved to the west coast of the USA. He tried to get work as an artist, but
still he was unsuccessful. One day he remembered the mouse that used to come out in his father's garage.
He picked up his pencil and started to draw. At last he was pleased with one of his pictures of the mouse.
He called it Mickey Mouse.
       His success as a cartoon-maker had begun. He made scores of cartoons. All of them were liked very
much by children. He died in 1966. But the studios which he started are still busy today, producing more
and more interesting films.
1. Who is Walt Disney?
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2. Where did he make friends with that mouse?
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3. He thought that mouse was lovely, didn't he?
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4. How long did he live in the world?
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5. What is the main idea of this passage?
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     Do you have things that your family no longer uses? Things like old toys, clothes or TVs? In Britain,
people collect things and sell them in a garage or yard. People often hold these sales at the weekend. They
put up an ad before the day. Then on the day they put out all the old things in front of their house. Usually
these things are cheap.
     These sales are a good way for people to clean up their houses. Instead of just throwing things away,
people can make a little bit of money from them. Sometimes if the things are very old, people will give them
to charity. Some kids sell their old toys. Perhaps they played a game many times and now it bores them.
With the money they can buy a new toy!

1. In which country do people have yard sales?

A. China.
B. The United Kingdom.
C. The United States.
D. France.

2. When do they usually have the yard sale?

3. The writer thinks it's _____ to have yard sales.

A. good
B. expensive
C. difficult
D. strange

4. What do some people in Britain do with things that are too old?

A. They sell them.
B. They collect them.
C. They give them to charity.
D. They throw them away.

A. In Britain, people often sell old things in the street.
B. Selling old things is a good way for people to clean up their houses.
C. People can't make any money from selling old things.
D. When people sell old things, they don't put up ads.

     It was 3:12 a.m., when nine-year-old Glenn White awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the
crackling (噼啪声) of flames (火苗) somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at
Baldwin, Long Island.
    With his father away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother,
his sister Karen, 14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke filled house to
push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped each one through the house to the safety
of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths (呼吸) and coughing, collapsed
(倒) on the lawn (草坪).
     The nine-year-old raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother's room. He found it impossible to
wake her up. Mrs. White, a victim (受害者) of the smoke, was unconscious (失去知觉的), and there was
nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy remained calm and, as a fireman said later,"acted
with all the self-control of a trained adult."
    On the bedroom telephone, luckily still working, Glenn called his father and, leaving Mr. White to telephone
the fire brigade (消防队员) and ambulance (救护车) service, got on with the task of saving his mother.
     First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. Then,
with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden. He could hear the fire engine coming up, but
how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house where flames had almost swallowed up
the ground floor?
    Grasping (抓住) firmly a ball of string from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and dashed (猛冲)
upstairs to his mother's room. Tying (系) one end of the string to her hand he ran back, laying out (铺放)
the string as he went, through the hall and back out into the garden.
    Minutes later he was telling fire chief John Coughlan,"The string will lead you to mother." Mrs. White
was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through the bedroom floor.

1. Why did Glenn run downstairs first?

A. He wanted to save his sister and brother.
B. He went to see if his father had come back from work.
C. He wanted to find out what was happening.
D. He was worried about his mother's safety.

2. How did Glenn help the firemen to save his mother?

A. By pushing and pulling at her.
B. By tying a string to her hand.
C. By putting out the fire himself.
D. By carrying her to safety with his brother.

3. Who called the fire brigade and ambulance service?

A. Glenn's sister.
B. Glenn's neighbor.
C. Glenn.
D. Glenn's father.

4. What did Glenn do to protect himself?

A. He hid himself in the bathroom.
B. He rushed out to the lawn.
C. He put a wet cloth around his head.
D. He threw water all over himself.

5. Glenn saved his family because ______.

A. he had followed his mother's instruction
B. he had dealt with the emergency (紧急情况) calmly and wisely
C. his father had taught him to do so on the phone
D. he had learned something about first aid