根据短文内容，完成下列任务。

Andy lives in Sun City with his parents. He is fourteen. He has short blonde hair. Andy’s mother is a shop assistant in a market. Andy often helps his mother after school. Some boys often play near the market. They all have nice bikes. (A) So Ben wants a bike like theirs.

Last weekend, Andy went to help his mother as usual. On the way to the market, he saw those boys run down an old man with their bikes. The old man lay on the ground and couldn’t move, but the boys ran away. (B) 安迪过去帮忙，把老人送到了医院。In the hospital, the old man gave Andy a magic book. He told Andy to take it home, open the book and make a wish. He did as the old man said.

Do you know what Andy’s wish was and do you think his wish came true?

任务一：翻译句子。

1.将划线部分（A）处翻译成汉语。

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2.将划线部分（B）处翻译成英语。

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任务二：选择填空。

3.The underlined phrase “run down” means “___________” in Chinese.

A. 推倒B. 撞到C. 摔倒D. 跌倒

任务三：回答问题。

4.Where does Andy’s mother work?

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5. What did the old man give Andy?

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There are many rules (制度) in the old libraries. For example, no photos, no drinking and no phones. But now a lot of libraries don’t have too many rules. They paint the rooms beautiful colors so readers would like to read there. There aren’t hard chairs in these libraries.

There are nice sofas in them. Some of them are open 24 hours every day. In the libraries in America,

readers can make a 1free call. That means that they don’t need to pay any money for making a call. In the kid’s library in Denmark, children can sleep there if it is too late. In some libraries in Australia, they have a kids’ “story time”. 2今天图书馆是孩子们娱乐和学习知识的好去处。

任务（一）：根据短文内容回答下列问题。

1.Why do many libraries paint their rooms beautiful colors now?

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2.In which country do some libraries have a kids’ “story time”?

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任务（二）：请写出1处下划线黑体单词“free”的汉语意思。

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任务（三）：请将文中2处划线的句子翻译成英语，每空一词。

4.Today libraries are good places for kids to ________ ________ and learn something.

任务（四）：请给短文选择一个最恰当的英文标题。

5.A. New Libraries    B. Library Rules    C. Old Libraries    D. Free Libraries