There is   1  old man in New York. He   2  children（孩子）at all.   3  he likes cats（猫）very much. He has black cats and white cats. He has   4  cats and baby cats. So children  5 come to his house（房子）. They come to play  6 the cats.
More and more（越来越多的）cats conic to the old man’s house. Soon（不久）there are too many  7 . The old man can’t give（给）them much food. So he has an idea（主意）.
“The children  8 my cats.” he thinks. So he gives each（每个）child  9 . Then he is happy. The children are happy（高兴）,   10  the cats are happy, too. Because（因为）they each have a home（家）.  

One day an old man is selling(出售) a horse. A young man comes to the horse and begins to look at it slowly.
Then the old man goes up to him and says in his ears, “Don’t say anything about the horse before I sell it, then I will give you some meat.”
“All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the horse, he gives the young man some meat and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the horse?”
“I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “Then why do you look at the horse?” asks the old man.
The young man answers, “Because I never saw a horse before, and I want to know what it looks like.”
【小题1】What is the old man doing?

One day an old man sells(出售) a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins(开始) to look at it slowly(慢慢地). The old man goes up to him and says near(在……附近) his ear.“Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it, then you can get some meat.”“All right.”says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man some meat and asks,“How can you see the bad ears of the elephant?”“I don’t see the bad ears,”says the young man.“Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?”asks the old man. The young man answers(回答),“Because(因为) I want to see what an elephant looks like.”

根据短文内容, 回答下列问题。

1.What does the old man sell?

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2.Does the young man want to buy the elephant?

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3.What does the young man get at last (最后)？

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4.Does the elephant have two bad ears?

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5.Why does the young man look at the elephant slowly?

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阅读理解

　　My respecting teacher

　　I always thought that a man who was wise (睿智的) and good would become rich, but this year I have learned that this is not always true. I learned this from my teacher. He is both wise and good, but is not rich at all, for being a teacher, he doesn't have a good income. He may be able to get more money if he gives up teaching for business. But he is so proud of being a teacher that he takes pleasure in helping young people. He stays at school from morning till late afternoon and works very hard. He always smiles at us when we go to ask him for help. He is kinder to us than anyone whom I've ever known. I think it must be easier to learn history or maths than to learn how to become such a man. He scolds (责备) us when we do something wrong, but it teaches us to try to do better. We all wish to study with him as long as possible, but that may be impossible. Some of us may become doctors, some be come businessmen, some become engineers, some become writers, but we all want one thing very much to become men like our teacher.

(1) The writer always thought that ________.

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A. a wise and good person would never become rich

B. a wise and good person would become rich

C. a wise teacher would become rich

D. a good teacher would never become rich at all

(2) The writer's teacher is the following except that ________.

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(3) What's the meaning of this sentence“He is kinder to us than anyone whom I've ever known.”?

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A. He is the kindest person I know.

B. He is kinder than many people I know.

C. I know many people who are kinder than he.

D. Only a few people are kinder than he.

(4) From this passage, we know that the writer ________.

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(5) Which is NOT TRUE according to (根据) this passage?

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A. The writer is proud of his teacher very much.

B. The writer may become a teacher in the future, too.

C. It's very easy to be a wise and good teacher.

D. The teacher may become rich if he gets down to business.

A bus stops at a small bus stop. A man is hungry and he wants to buy some cakes. It’s raining(下雨) hard. He doesn’t want to go out in the rain. He sees a boy. 'Come here, boy!' he cries. 'Do you know how much the cakes are?' The boy says yes. The man gives the boy four dollars and asks him to buy two cakes. 'One is for you and one is for me.' Three minutes later, the boy comes back. He’s eating a cake. He gives the man two dollars and says, 'Sorry, there is only one cake left.
【小题1】The man doesn’t want to go out because__________.