Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey live in Iowa. They have a big family. Mikayla is the oldest child in the family. She is six years old. The other children are Brandon, Joe, Kelsey, Kenney, Natalie, Alexis and Nathan. They are all five years old. Why are they all the same age? ______ 1.. They are septuplets!

　　It is hard work to look after seven babies at the same time. ______ 2.. In the beginning, many people helped them. They helped to feed, clean, and dress the babies. Every week , the septuplets used about 170 diapers(尿布)!______ 3..

Now the children are older. The septuplets started school this year. But they go to school at home, like their big sister, Mikayla. When Mikayla was ready for school, Kenny and Bobbi decided to teach her at home.______ 4..Now Bobbi is the teacher for all eight of her children.

A.  They drank a lot of milk, too. B.  Because they were born together. C.  Last year, Bobbi was Mikayla’s teacher. D.  Kenny and Bobbi are interested in cooking. E.  But Kenny and Bobbi didn’t look after them alone.

 

 

Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey live in Iowa. They have a big family. Mikayla is the oldest child in the family. She is six years old. The other children are Brandon, Joe, Kelsey, Kenney, Natalie, Alexis and Nathan. They are all five years old. Why are they all the same age? ______ 【小题1】. They are septuplets!
　　It is hard work to look after seven babies at the same time. ______ 【小题2】. In the beginning, many people helped them. They helped to feed, clean, and dress the babies. Every week , the septuplets used about 170 diapers(尿布)!______ 【小题3】.
Now the children are older. The septuplets started school this year. But they go to school at home, like their big sister, Mikayla. When Mikayla was ready for school, Kenny and Bobbi decided to teach her at home.______ 【小题4】.Now Bobbi is the teacher for all eight of her children.

A．They drank a lot of milk, too. B．Because they were born together. C．Last year, Bobbi was Mikayla’s teacher. D．Kenny and Bobbi are interested in cooking. E. But Kenny and Bobbi didn’t look after them alone.

 

　　Ronaldo is one of the world's top football players. He was born on September 22,1976. He was the winner of the prize for the Best Latin-American Football Player. The Royal Madrid player said he wanted to keep on winning.

　　He showed great talent from an early age. Half year after his 17^th birthday, he became a member of the Brazilian national team. In 1996 and 1997, he won the World Footballer of the Year prize. He was the youngest ever to win it and the only one to win twice in a row（连续）。

　　But there were also some difficulties on his road to success. He hurt his right knee badly in 1998, and got a lot of troubles after that.

　　But these problems couldn't stop him. He made a successful return to football. In 2002, he help Brazil win the World Cup and did very well during the World Cup in 2006.

(1)Ronaldo is famous for ________.

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A．singing songs	B．acting movies
C．playing football	D．playing basketball

(2)Which team does he play for?

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A．Chinese team.	B．Japanese team.
C．Royal Madrid.	D．French team.

(3)When did he join the Brazilian national team?

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A．In 1976.

B．In 1997.

C．In 1996.

D．In 1994.

(4)What troubled him?

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A．He didn't like football.	B．He was too old.
C．His backache.	D．He hurt his knee badly.

(5)Which country got the championship during the World Cup in 2002

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A．Brazil

B．England.

C．America.

D．Italy.

阅读理解(Reading comprehension)

　　Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881 and died in France in 1973. He was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

　　Picasso's early paintings were realistic, but later he began to look at things in new ways. He experimented with shapes and colors. Soon the shapes and colors. became more important to him than the real things in his pictures.

　　Picasso painted many important pictures, but his most famous is a very large painting called Guernica. Guernica is a small town in Spain. It was bombed(attacked with bombs) and ruined(毁灭) in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. Many people died.

　　Picasso was angry. He wanted to show that war is terrible. The painting has only three colors－black, white, and gray. It is abstract(expressing the artist's ideas and feelings about certain things), but you can see some real things in it. On the left side are a mother and her dead baby, a bull and a horse, and a dead man with a broken sword(剑) and a flower. On the right are three people. One of them has a lamp. They are sad and helpless.

　　Along with the realistic things, there are many symbols in the painting. Symbols are things that represent(describe) ideas. No one knows what all the symbols mean. They mean different things to different people. But everyone agrees that this painting shows the horror(sth. that makes people very afraid) of war.

　　Guernica is in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

　　Complete the sentences about Picasso with the correct words.

1．Picasso was born in ________ in 1881 and died in France in________.

2. When he was young, Picasso painted realistic paintings, but he is famous for his ________ paintings.

Write down four things that the reading mentions in the painting.(except the sword)

3．________and ________

4．________and________

5．The broken sword is a symbol of________.