Mr. Smith had a hotel near the railway station . A lot of foreigners stayed there for the night .Mr. Smith only knew English , so he found it wasn’t easy for him to understand the foreigners. A friend of his wanted to teach him Japanese. He was very happy and studied hard.

   Soon he found it was difficult to remember Japanese words. His friend asked him to write down the useful words in his notebook so that he could use them. He did as his friend told him . It was helpful for him to do so .

    One evening , there were a lot of people in the dining room. They were all busy eating something , but a Japanese was walking up and down there . Mr. Smith thought to himself, “The man wants to eat something but he doesn’t know English. Let me help him.”

    Because he knew only a little Japanese, he had to bring out his notebook and showed the sentence“I am hungry .”to the man .

    The Japanese had a look at it and gave him two dollars and left.

(   )71. Many foreigners stayed          for the night.

A. in the railway station         B. in the hotel                       C. in the factory     D. in the open air

(   )72. Mr. Smith learned Japanese           .

A. from one of his friends     B. over TV and the radio              C. from a teacher   D. from the newspaper

(   )73. Mr. Smith found Japanese was           to learn.

A. easy                                B. difficult                           C. simple               D. pleasant

(   )74. Mr. Smith thought the Japanese was hungry, so he         .

A. had dinner with him          B. left            C. decided to help him          D. gave him some food

(   )75. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Mr. Smith knew Japanese well .                                          B. The Japanese had dinner in the hotel.

C. The Japanese left the dining room without having dinner .     D. The story happened in the day .

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My granddaughter, 10, was very happy the day before yesterday because her mother and the mother of one of her classmates took them to a park and a Pizza Hut （比萨饼屋）to celebrate Children’s Day. For a whole day, the two girls played heartily – no homework, no extra-curricular（课外） skills training. The happy life lasted only for one day. Yesterday, everything returned to normal: doing homework till late at night and going over lessons learned at last weekend’s English and “ Olympic mathematics” （数学奥赛）　courses.

Every time I went to my daughter’s house in the evening, I saw my granddaughter sitting by the small desk in her room doing math exercises or writing a compositions given by her teacher. On the white wall behind the desk are some words she wrote. One sentence reads: “ Why is the exercise endless?”

Poor girl!

Although teachers have stopped giving after-school homework to primary school children, parents have been forcing their kids to take part in different kinds of extra-curricular training courses-learning English, painting, music instrument （乐器）, weiqi, “ Olympic mathematics” and so on, every Saturday and Sunday.

Are these extra-curricular courses really necessary in children’s education? The answer is certainly “ No”. Take the so-called “ Olympic mathematics” for example. These courses are very difficult for the children to understand. Often, they are difficult even for adults （成年人）.

（   ）1. The writer’s granddaughter celebrated her Children’s Day by _____.

           A．playing all day              B．doing nothing

           C．having a party              D．going over lessons

（   ）2. Usually at weekends the girl will _______.

A．stay at home               B．play with their classmates

C．do whatever she likes        D．go to different kinds of training courses

（   ）3. The writer thinks that her granddaughter ______.

A．lives a happy life            B．goes to bed early at weekend

C．has too much homework      D．likes to do more exercises

（   ）4. Which is true according to （根据）the passage?

A．The “Olympic Mathematics” is too difficult for kids.

B．The grandfather thinks playing is more important than learning.

C．Teachers often give students useless homework.

D．The parents don’t want their kids to do lots of homework.

（   ）5. From the last paragraph（段落）we know that the writer thinks _____.

A．only school courses are useful to kids

B．some extra-curricular courses kids learn after school are not necessary

C．some extra-curricular courses are even more difficult for adults

D．kids shouldn’t learn difficult courses