In the 1930s a young traveler was climbing the French Alps(法国阿尔卑斯山).He arrived at big piece of land without living things.It was ugly.It was the kind of place you hurry away from.
Then,suddenly,the young traveler stopped on the way.In the middle of this large land there was an old man.On his back was a bag of seeds.In his land was an iron pipe(铁管).
The man used the iron pipe to make a hole in the ground.Then from the bag he took a seed and put it in the hole.He did this again and again.
Later the old man told the traveler,“I’ve planted over 100,00 seeds.Perhaps only a tenth of them will grow.”
The old man’s wife and son had died,and this was how he chose to spend his final years.
“I want to do something useful,”he said.
(1)二十年以后那个年轻的游客已不再年轻。 He retutned to the place.What he saw amazed him.He could mot believe his eyes.The land was covered with a beautiful forest two miles wide and five miles long.Birds were singing,animals were playing,and wild flowers were here and there.
(2)The traveler stood there remembering the lifeless picture of the place that it once was.A beautiful forest stood there now,all because someone cared.
【小题1】Why did the ola man plant seeds?_____________________________________________
【小题2】How many seeds did the old man think could grow,all of them or only some?___________
【小题3】What amazed the young traveler when he returned to the place?______________________
【小题4】将短文中画线句子(1)翻译成英语。___________________________________________
【小题5】将短文中画线句子(2)翻译成汉语。___________________________________________

The famous Chinese mathematician(数学家) Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan County, Jiangsu province in 1910. When he was young, life was very difficult for his family. Still, the boy took great interest in math.
In the summer of 1931, he was fortunate(幸运的) enough to become an assistant in the Math Department(系) of Qinghua University, where he spent every moment he could find working and studying, and he finished his compulsory(必修的) math course all by himself in only 13 months!
Between the years of 1936 and 1938, he was further studying in Cambridge University in the U.K. In 1950, together with his family, he returned to China from the USA. He said, “I’m Chinese, and I’ll do my best for my motherland.”
So he did. He devoted(贡献) all his life to the math study and won the great fame(荣誉) for our country.
He died for heart trouble in 1985 while lecturing in Japan. People will always remember him as a great scientist.
【小题1】 Which of the following is not true?

A．Hua Luogeng is a famous Chinese mathematician.

B．Hua Luogeng died in China.

C．Hua Luogeng was born in Jingtan County.

D．Hua Luogeng comes from Jiangsu.

【小题2】 The word “assistant”in this passage means “____” in Chinese.

A．帮手

B．服务员

C．助教

D．教授

【小题3】Hua Luogeng was ____ in 1937. Which of the following cannot be chosen?

A．in China

B．abroad

C．in Cambridge

D．in England

【小题4】 From the story we can guess that Hua Luogeng was born in ____.

A．a rich family	B．a poor family
C．a mathematician family	D．a fortunate family

A Great Creator

Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn’t change a lot. Then he dropped out. But he was full of new ideas.

After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life.

Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India.

In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple Computer with his friend in his garage. He chose the name “Apple” just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent an apple tree garden.

His Apple Computer was such a great success that Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world.

1.Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he      .

A. never did his lessons     

B. was full of new ideas

C. always made troubles with his schoolmates

D. he was not clever

2.Then he dropped out.

A. drop in      B. gave up college   C. fall off    D. left out

3.Steven Jobs called his new computer “Apple” because       .

A. he likes apples too much

B. he wanted to remember the happy time in an apple tree garden

C. he always liked some new ideas

D. he wanted to change in his life

4.Steven Jobs is famous for his    all over the world.

A. new ideas               B. apple

C. Apple Computer          D. video games

5.From this passage we know      .

A. Steven Jobs didn’t finish his studies in the college because he hated his    schoolmates.

B. Steven Jobs liked traveling in India and California.

C. Steven Jobs only designed video games.

D. Steven Jobs liked trying new things and making new ideas become true.

 

Frank was clever, but he never liked to work hard. He often said to his friends, “If you work hard, you will make a lot of money, but it is not so good. I want easy work and a lot of money. That’s the most interesting thing in the world.”So he could only be a thief. But he still thought it was too much work, so he only told his friends what to do and got money from them.
One day, Frank sent one of his friends to a very large and beautiful house. He told him to get money from that rich family. It was evening, and a man and a girl were in the room. They were playing a duet（二重奏）on a piano. Then the thief came into the house.
When he returned, Frank asked him what he had got. But he said, “I didn’t take anything. That family can’t have much money. You know, two people were playing on the same piano there. They did not have money to buy another piano.”
【小题1】Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Frank and His Work	B．One Piano Only
C．The Man and the Girl	D．Easy Work and More Money

【小题2】From the story we know that Frank_______________.

A．was more clever than most of the people	B．had many clever friends
C．didn’t want to do any work	D．knew many interesting things in the world

【小题3】 The story tells us if we want to become rich, we must ______________ .

A．find an easy job	B．work hard
C．have a lot of friends	D．learn something about money

       It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted the shopkeeper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.
As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.
He asked her what was wrong and she replied, “I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.”
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地),where she placed the rose on the grave.
The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.
Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.
【小题1】The man went to the shop to        .

A．have a rest	B．help the girl
C．buy some food	D．order some flowers

【小题2】The man’s mother lived        away from him.

A．2 kilometers

B．75 miles

C．200 miles

D．200 kilometers

【小题3】The girl was crying on the road because          .

A．she was hungry	B．she got hurt
C．she couldn't afford a rose	D．she couldn’t find her way home

【小题4】After the man bought the girl a rose, they went to          together.

A．the cemetery	B．his shop
C．the girl’s home	D．his mother’s house

【小题5】 We can learn from the passage that           .

A．the girl loved flowers very much

B．the girl loved her mother very much

C．the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother

D．the man drove to his mother’s house to look after her