Early on Saturday morning Ann brought her nephew (侄子) Sam to her friends, Bill and Kate, and asked them to look after him for the day. Sam, an independent boy of six years old, had black hair and was wearing a pair of jeans(工装裤) and a bright yellow shirt.

　　At eleven o'clock Bill took Sam into town. Sam walked along behind Bill, looking at the windows of all the shops they passed. After lunch they went to the park and walked about. The whole place was very crowded, Bill stopped to buy some chocolate. When he turned round to give some to Sam, the boy wasn't there. Bill ran round calling Sam, but he couldn't find him. About an hour later, just in front of a shop, he saw the black hair, the pair of jeans and the bright yellow shirt. The boy looked as if he was waiting for someone to come out of the shop. Bill ran across the road, took the boy by the hand and hurried off, and it was quite late. The boy began to cry and pull hard, but Bill, who didn't know much about children, couldn't understand a word the boy was saying. All the way back the boy made a lot of noise.

　　When they got home at last, Bill went straight to the kitchen, with the boy still crying. At the door Bill stopped in amazement. There, sitting at the kitchen table with Kite. was a small boy with black hair, in a pair of jeans and a bright yellow shirt.

1．“an independent boy” means a boy ________ .

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A．living alone

B．habitually taking actions or decisions alone

C．earns enough money to live on

D．not controlled by others

2．The boy in front of a shop looked as if he was waiting for ________ .

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3．Bill couldn't understand what the boy was saying because ________ .

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A．he didn't know much about children

B．the boy was crying and making noises

C．the boy was too afraid to speak clearly

D．the boy wasn't Sam

4．The small boy sitting at the kitchen table was ________ .

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5．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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A．Ann brought her nephew Sam to Bill and Kate on Saturday morning.

B．Sam disappeared when Bill stopped to buy some chocolate.

C．Sam came back by himself.

D．Sam liked Kate better than Bill.

　　阅读理解

　　One day an elephant and a monkey had a quarrel（吵架）.

　　"Look, how big and strong I am!" said the elephant. "I can pulla tree down, can you?"

　　"Look, how fast I can run and climb!" said the monkey. "Can you climb a tree?"

　　At last they went to a clever bird. They said, "Tell us which is better, to be strong or to be quick."

　　The bird said to them, "Do just as I tell you, and then I'll find out which is better. Do you see that great fruit tree across the river? Go and pick the fruit and bring it to me."

　　So the elephant and the monkey went to the river, but the water was quick. The monkey was frightened.

　　"Get on my back," said the elephant. "I'll carry you across. I'm big and strong. And I'm not afraid to swim across a quick river."

　　Soon they got to the other bank. There stood the tree. It was so tall that the fruit was high above them.

　　The elephant tried to break the tree down, but it was too strong. He tried to reach the fruit with his trunk（象鼻）, but it was too high.

　　"Wait a minute," said the monkey. "I can climb up and get the fruit." He climbed quickly up the tree, picked the fruit and threw it to the ground. The elephant picked it up and held it in his long nose.

　　Then they crossed the river back and gave the fruit to the bird."Now," they said, "Which is better, to be strong or to be quick?"

　　"Can anyone say which is better?" asked the bird. "Neither of you could get the fruit alone. It took both the elephant's strength（力量）and the monkey's quickness（敏捷）to get it".

　　（判断下列句子是否符合短文内容。符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示。）

　　1. The elephant didn't think the monkey was quick.

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　　2. The quick water made the monkey get on the elephant's back.

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　　3. The bird told them at once which is better, to be strong or to be quick. 

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　　4. The elephant carried the monkey and the monkey got the fruit.

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　　5. What the bird said was true.

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　　Long, long ago, ________ and a monkey lived in the same forest. They were good friends, but both of them were very proud (自傲). The ________ thought of himself strong and the monkey felt himself quick.

　　One day they went to ask an ________ .“Can you tell us which ________ important, strong or quick?” The old bird didn't give them the answer ________ . Instead he told them to get some bananas on ________ of the river and bring them to him.

　　So the elephant and the monkey went to the river but ________ ran so fast that the monkey was afraid.

　　“Get on ________ , Monkey,” said the elephant, “I shall take you there. I am big and strong, and I can swim in the river.”

　　Soon they got to the other side. The elephant tried hard to reach the bananas, but they were too high. “________ , please. I can ________ ” said the monkey. He quickly ran up the tree and passed ________ to the elephant.

　　Then they came ________ happily to the old bird and showed him these bananas. “Now you see, the elephant is strong. ” said the old bird with ________ ,“but he couldn't get the bananas, the monkey is quick, but he couldn't ________ . Only you two could do the work well when you helped ________ .”

　　We were going to play a team from a country school. They didn't come until the game time arrived. They looked 1 than we had though. They were wearing dirty blue jeans and looked like farm boys. We even thought that they had never seen a basketball before.

　　We all sat down. We felt that we didn't 2 any practice against a team like that.

　　It was already so late that no 3 could be given to them for a warm-up. The game began.

　　One of our boys 4 the ball and he shot a long pass to our forward. From out of nowhere a boy in a dirty T-shirt 5 the pass and with a beautiful form he shot and got two points.

　　They 6 us.

　　Then they got another 7 of points in a minute. Soon it was all over. The country team 8 us.

　　We certainly learned that even though a team is good, there is usually another 9 a little better. But the important lesson we learned was: One can't tell a man, or a team, by the 10 .

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