Barack Obama, the US President-elect, is busy choosing members of his cabinet. His daughters, Sasha and Malia, are busy, too. They are making difficult decisions about different dog breeds (品种).
“The girls asked when we got in this race that [whether] win or lose, we get a dog,” said Michelle Obama. “So we will be welcoming a four-legged friend to our house.”
No matter what type of puppy Sasha and Malia pick, it will be a part of a long story of White House pets. Everything from snakes to bears has lived at the White House with the president and his family.
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, kept a pet raccoon (浣熊). Warren Harding had turkeys. William Howard Taft parked his cow in the White House garage too.
John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, had a pet alligator (鳄鱼). But he wasn’t the only White House resident to have one. Herbert Hoover’s son had two pet alligators, and they were sometimes allowed to roam (闲逛) around the White House.
Bears have also been popular with American presidents. While Thomas Jefferson kept two grizzlies (灰熊) in a cage, Theodore Roosevelt had a black bear. Roosevelt’s interest in bears later led to the creation of the toy teddy bear.
Roosevelt and his six children loved animals, and they filled the White House with them. They had dogs, cats, squirrels (松鼠), raccoons, rabbits, guinea pigs, a badger (獾), a rat, a parrot, and a green snake.
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1. ________ and ________ have difficulty in choosing different kinds of dogs.
2. The four-legged friend refers to ________ according to Michelle Obama’s ________.
3. ________ Adams, Herbert Hoover’s son liked keeping alligators ________ his pets
4. The ________ of the toy teddy bear ________ from Roosevelt’s interest in bears.
5. Roosevelt is the ________ of six ________.

One spring day in 1937，Mr. Goldman put up a sign at the front of his grocery（杂货店）in Oklahoma City．He looked up just as one of his customers（顾客）walked by．“Good morning，Mrs. Hope，”he said．

Mrs. Hope just smiled．She was concentrating on the full shopping basket she was carrying．The basket was very heavy because she had put so much food in it．

That was when Goldman had a great idea：a shopping basket on wheels．Then his customers wouldn’t have to carry their groceries．Shopping would become easier, and more customers would prefer to shop at his store．

Before long Goldman had some shopping carts（手推车）made．However, on the first day none of his customers used the carts he had invented．Goldman came home looking disappointed．

Goldman didn’t give up，though．He knew he just needed a way to show his customers how easy it was to use the shopping carts，so the next day he asked a few people to come and wheel the carts around his shop and pretend to buy things．

“How did it go today?”Mrs. Goldman asked when her husband came home from work．

“Great!”he said．“When my customers saw people using the carts，they realized how much easier it would be to shop with them，so they all started using the carts．Not only that，but they filled the carts with more groceries than they ever did with their own baskets．I’m going to be a rich man soon，selling groceries and my new shopping carts，too!”

（    ）1．What did Mrs. Hope do when Mr. Goldman greeted her?

A．She smiled and said hello to him．             B．She didn’t say anything to him．

C．She shopped and talked with him．              D．She dropped her shopping basket．

（    ）2．What made Mr. Goldman want to invent the shopping cart?

A．He wanted to sell more groceries．

B．Mrs. Goldman told him to do that．

C．He wanted to save money on baskets．

D．He saw Mrs. Hope carrying a heavy basket．

（    ）3．The underlined phrase“concentrating on”has the similar meaning to“______”．

A．looking back on     B．picking up            C．paying attention to   D．looking after

（    ）4．Which word best describes Mr. Goldman?

A．Friendly．           B．Lazy．                C．Creative．              D．Serious．

（    ）5．The customers began to use the carts because______．

A．it was much easier to shop with them

B．they saw some people using them

C．they could fill the carts with more groceries

D．they got the carts for free

There was once a farmer. He lived near a road. It was not a busy road, but from time to time, cars passed the farm.
Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This road was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was not deep.
Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive out because it was too deep.
The farmer did not spend much time working on his farm. He spent most of it watching the hole.
When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with his tractor(拖拉机) and the driver gave him a lot of money for doing this.
One day, the driver of a car said to him, “You must make a lot of money by pulling cars out of this hole night and day.”
“Oh, no,” the farmer said. “I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill(填) the hole with water.”
【小题1】Many cars went into the hole because the drivers ________.

A．were going too fast to stop	B．did not see the hole
C．did not know the hole was very deep	D．liked driving through water

【小题2】The farmer ________ at night.

A．pulled cars out of the hole in the road	B．filled the hole with water
C．laughed at the drivers of the cars	D．worked on his farm

【小题3】The farmer made money from ________.

A．giving things	B．selling water
C．pulling cars out of the hole	D．filling the hole with water

【小题4】Which is the best title(标题) of the passage?

A．How to make money	B．A helpful farmer
C．To drive more carefully	D．The hole in the road

根据短文内容，完成下面表格，每空一词。
Eight Treasures of Laba

Laba Porridge  (腊八粥) is known to every Chinese. It marks a special day. Laba Festival, which falls on the 8th day of the 12th lunar (农历的) month.
People eat Laba Porridge on that day. The porridge is also called "Eight Treasures Porridge", because it usually has at least eight things. Rice, beans, dried fruits and peanuts are very popular in the porridge.
On the night before the festival, mothers are busy preparing their porridge. They cook it over a slow fire from midnight until
the next morning. When kids wake up in the morning, they smell the aroma  (香味) and rush to the kitchen to have a feast.
Another custom on Laba Festival is to prepare Laba vinegar  (醋) for dumplings on Spring Festival Eve. People peel garlic (蒜) and put it into a jar filled with vinegar. As the days go by, the garlic turns green and gains a special flavor. Some people also like to Pickle  (腌) meat on Laba Festival.
Laba Festival was a time for the ancient Chinese to pray for the harvest and good luck in the coming year  After Taba Festival  many people start to prepare for the Chinese New Year.

Lab Festival
Time	The【小题1】 ____ ___ day of the【小题2】 ____ ___lunar month．
Meaning	A time for the ancient Chinese to pray for【小题3】 ____ ___and【小题4】____ ___in the coming year．
Traditional food	【小题5】____ ___

There are few families in the United States that do not have either a radio or television set. Both of them have become a necessary part of our daily life, keeping us filled with the news of the day, teaching us in many fields of interest, and making us happy with singing, dancing and acting.
Marconl, the Italian inventor, who gave us the radio, probably didn’t know how much his great invention would have done for the world in the years to come. Radio had, perhaps done as much as any other communication tool. Things of the world can be reported to people everywhere a few seconds after they happen. Travelers in or out of–the–way places, ships at sea even astronauts round the earth are able to keep in touch with each other by radio.
Television is another important invention. It lets us see as well as hear the actor. Since its appearance, TV has done a great deal in the daily life of people everywhere. Many programs are now televised in color.
Perhaps the most modern invention is “Telstar”, a “star” moving round the earth. It makes it possible for the people all over the world to be closer than ever before. Now a family in Chicago can watch on TV a motor–car race in Italy, a table tennis competition in Beijing or a volleyball match in Japan as these events are actually happening!
【小题1】The passage tells us that __________ in the U.S.A. have no radio or television set.
A. few families   B. all the families    C. many families   D. a few families
【小题2】Who do you think the writer of the passage is?

A．An Italian.

B．A Japanese.

C．An American.

D．A Chinese.

【小题3】Why does the passage say radio and TV have become a necessary part of our daily life?

A．Because they have touched nearly everything in our life.

B．Because men would not live happily without them.

C．Because they are the only ways to spread information.

D．Because no communication means no life.

【小题4】 What is a “Telstar” used to do according to the passage?

A．To receive and store information only.

B．To move around the earth just like the moon.

C．To give light onto the earth at night.

D．To help send out radio or TV information to the world.

【小题5】 When the writer introduces Marconl in the second paragraph, he means __________.

A．he was just an Italian inventor

B．his invention has done much for the world

C．he had reported much to people all over the world

D．he helped people travel a lot around the world