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Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning, and others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.

Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines (标题)of the passage。

Newspaper cam be found everywhere in the world, We get many different kinds of the newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.

Some newspapers are published(出版) twice a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many papers, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in .

Today newspapers in English have the largest numbers of readers in the world.. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such ad China Daily or 21^st Century. Also they bring us more and more informing with Internet.

1. People read newspapers in order to ____

A learn the latest news          B meet their own different needs

C read the short stories          D find the different news

2. From the passage we can see that _____ when people get newspapers

A they read them every carefully    B they just read the headlines

C not everyone reads all the pages   D they have no time to read them

3 .Newspapers have so many pages because_____

A more and more people like to read them

B people enjoy reading something different 

C newspapers become cheaper

D more pages mean more many 

4 .Newspapers _____ are the most popular in the world

A in the English     B in Chinese   C in other language   D with many pages

5 .According to the passage, beside newspapers, people also get information from ____

A magazines       B advertisements     C E-mail      D Internet

She looked older to us though her age was about the same as our mother’s. She was not pretty. But she was kind and good. Then she gave us a good meal. After our mother became ill, we never ate such a good one. My brothers and I liked her before we finished the meal.

Our family moved to Australia not long ago. It was difficult for us to live a good life in the new place. Soon our mother became ill and she was in bed.

Every morning father went out to the forest, and worked all day hard as he could. Of course, we tried to help our parents. I cleaned the house and cooked our meals. My older brother learned to grow vegetables.

My two younger brothers were too young to work. Sometimes we went to school. When father came home on that day, he was surprised. Our mother was sleeping peacefully in the bed cleaned by Jane, and there were some beautiful flowers on the table. He said to Jane, “I have no money. I’m sorry I can’t pay you.” Jane said, “Don’t mind, I’m glad to help you. I don’t take money from people who are not happy.”

1. Why was mother ill?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 

A. Life was hard.

B. The weather was bad for a long time.

C. There were too many children in the family.

D. She was always ill.

2. From the passage, we can know that there are　　    children in the family. 

A. 2　　    B. 3　　   C. 4　　　　 D. 5

3. Where did they live?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   

A. In Australia.　　　　   B. In a city in Australia.

C. They just left Australia.  D. The writer didn’t tell us.

4. Why did Jane come to the family?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 

A. To make money because she was poor.   

B. To help them.

C. She knew their mother very well.

D. To cook meals for the children.

5. We can learn the following from the passage except　　    .　　   

A. Jane was much younger than the writer’s mother

B. the writer’s family was not rich

C. Jane came to the family with some beautiful flowers

D. Jane helped the family for nothing