Everybody knows vegetables and fruit are g        for people．Many people eat some fruit each day．Mr and Mrs Smith like e         fruit very much and every day Mrs Smith goes to buy some fruit in the shop near her home. She can buy all k          of fruits there，such as apples，pears, oranges and bananas．In different time of the year the p         of each kind of fruit is not the same，s         high，sometimes low. Mrs Smith usually t       to buy cheap fruit．And b         are Mr Smith's favourite fruit．Mrs Smith buys bananas for him every week．But she always chooses the cheap ones.“Eating fruit can help to keep f      ，" said Mr Smith．“It's quite d          from snacks．Both of them can give us energy．But snacks l         cakes, chocolates and sweets are not good for our health at all," 

 

A girl complained to her father about her hard life．She didn't know what she had to do and wanted to give up．She felt tired of fighting and fighting．One problem had been finished but another came over．
Her father，a cook，took her into the kitchen．He poured water into three pans and boiled(煮沸) them．After boiling，in the first pan was put some carrots，the second was put some eggs and the last was put with coffee．
The girl waited impatiently (不耐烦的)，confused by what her father did．About 20 minutes later，her father took out the carrots and put them in a bowl．He took the eggs and put them in a bowl．After that the coffee was poured into a cup．“My sweet heart，what do you see？” he asked．
“Carrots，eggs and coffee，” she replied．
Her father told her to close her eyes and asked her to touch the carrots．She did so and felt that the carrots were soft．After that he asked her to take the eggs and break them．After peeling (剥开) them，she got the eggs，cooked and hard．The last，the father let her smell the coffee． She asked，“What did you do this for，Father？” He explained that each had the same unlucky experience—the boiling water，but each had a different result． The strong and hard carrots had become soft and weak．The fragile eggs became hard after being cooked． The coffee was very special，they could change water．“Who are you？” asked her father．“When bad luck knocks at your door，what is your decision? Are you carrots，eggs or coffee？”
【小题1】The girl complained about her hard life because she didn't ________．

A．want to give up	B．finish one problem
C．know what to do	D．get tired of fighting

【小题2】The girl's father took her to the kitchen to ________．

A．ask her how to boil eggs

B．show her how to make coffee

C．teach her how to be a cook

D．tell her how to face difficulties

【小题3】After about twenty minutes，the carrots became ________．

A．soft

B．hard

C．salty

D．sweet

【小题4】The underlined word “fragile” in the passage means “________”．

A．美味的

B．易碎的

C．特别的

D．可怜的

【小题5】What can we learn from the passage?

A．The girl's father liked to eat some kinds of food．

B．Bad luck always knocks at strong people's doors．

C．Boiled carrots，eggs and coffee had the same result．

D．People should make right decisions when in trouble．

Val is a six-year-old boy. He begins to go to school this term. He studies very hard and listens to the teachers carefully. He is polite and has many friends. They all like him very much.

It was Sunday. Val, his sister and his mother stayed at home. His mother was doing some housework, his sister was doing her homework. Val was watching TV. At ten his father came back with some apples. The boy liked apples very much and wanted to eat some of them. His mother gave him four apples and said, “Go and wash them.”

Val washed the apples and then gave them back to his mother. Mother asked, “Which apple do you want, Val?”

“The biggest one, Mum.”

“What?” said his mother, “You should be polite and want the smallest one.”

“Should I tell a lie to be polite, Mum?”

1.Why did his mother ask Val to wash the apples?

A．Because he was free.

B．Because he liked washing apples.

C．Because his mother was lazy.

D．Because he didn’t like apples.

2.Who was going to eat the biggest apple?

A．His mother.

B．His father.

C．His sister.

D．Val.

3.Which is right?

A．Val is not polite and he has no friends.

B．Mother was cooking in the kitchen.

C．His sister was doing her homework.

D．Val’s father came back for some apples.

 

In many English homes people eat four meals a day. They have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge(粥) eggs or bread and drink tea or coffee at breakfast. Lunch comes at one o’clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is about half past seven. First they have soup, then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple.

1.Many English people have ______ meals a day.

A. two           B. three         C. four  

2.People may have _______ for their breakfast according to the passage.

A. tea and eggs    B. hamburgers and tea    C. coffee and salad 

3.People have lunch at _______.

A. any time     B. one     C. five   

4.People don’t have _______ for their dinner.

A. bananas and apples   B. porridge  C. meat and fish 

5.Most Englishmen have dinner ________.

A. in the evening      B. at any time    C. at noon