It was a cold day in December in New York City. A little boy about ten years old was standing

in front of a shoe store on Broadway. He was looking through the window, barefooted and shaking

with cold. A lady walked to the boy and said, "My little boy, what are you looking at?  I was

asking God to give me a pair of shoes. " was the boy's reply.

     The lady took him by the hand and went into the store. She asked the clerk to get a pair of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of hot water and a towel. The clerk quickly brought them to her. She removed her gloves, knelt down, washed the boy's little feet, and dried them with a towel. By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks. The lady put on the socks for the boy, and then bought a pair of shoes for him. She patted him on the head and said, "My little boy, do you feel more comfortable now?"

     As the lady turned to go, the boy caught her by the hand suddenly and looked up in her face.

With tears in his eyes, he asked her, "Are you God's wife?  No, I'm a mother," said the lady.

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106. The story            in New York on a            day in December.

107. The little boy ____________ in from of a shoe store and looked forward to _______ a pair of shoes.

108. The lady             the little boy by the hand and             the store.

109. The lady            the little boy            he felt more comfortable.

110. The lady was so             that she was             as "God's wife" by the little boy.

1．How long will Mr. Brown's talk be?

A．Half an hour．      B．An hour．            C．Two hours．        D．Three hours．

2．Tom is ten years old．He goes to see the film This is it with his parents．How much do they pay?

A．￥10               B．￥15                 C．￥25                D．￥40

3．What book cannot Victor find?

A．A Maths book．                             B．A comic book．

C．An English book，                          D．A story book．

4．When will there be a school activity on how to use "110" correctly?

A．On January 20．                            B．On Wednesday afternoon．

C．On November 6．                           D．On Friday afternoon．

5．Which sentence is RIGHT?

A，Victor is a student in Class 2，Grade 7．

B．Mr. Brown's talk will be in the classroom．

C．Mr. Brown can show the students how to use "110" correctly．

D．You can see the film This is it after 11．00 p．m．at Sunshine Cinema．

Where is the Great Wall? It's 110 Kilometers ________ of Beijing.

1. A.
   South-west
2. B.
   south-east
3. C.
   north-west
4. D.
   north-east

Basketball is still a young game. It’s over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. As they couldn’t play outdoors, they were unhappy, and some even got into fights from time to time.
Some of the teachers at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent（发明）a game so that the students might have something to play with. It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors , and the court（球场）was not very large.
Dr. Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score , the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet（英尺）above
the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Dr.
Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name.
【小题1】How long is it since basketball was invented?