An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money.

When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother，“Only a miracle （奇迹）can save him now，”the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully.

She hurried to a drugstore（药店）with the money in her hand. “And what do you want？” asked the salesman. “It’s for my little brother，” the girl answered. “He’s really，really sick and I want to buy a miracle.” “Pardon？” said the salesman. “My brother Andrew has something bad growing in-side his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost？” “We don’t sell a miracle here，child. I’m sorry，”the salesman said with a smile.

“Listen，if it isn’t enough，I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.”

A well-dressed man heard it and asked，“What kind of a miracle does your brother need？”

“I don’t know，”she answered with her eyes full of tears(眼泪). “He’s really sick and mum says he needs an operation. But my daddy can’t pay for it，so I have brought all my money.” “How much do you have？” asked the man. “$ 1.11，but I can try and get some more，” she answered.

“Well，what luck，”smiled the man. “$ 1.11，the price of a miracle for little brothers.”

He took up the girl’s hand and said， “Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let’s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.”

That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong，a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn’t long before Andrew was home again.

How much did the miracle cost？

1.In the eye of the little girl，a miracle might be ______________.

A．something interesting                    B．something beautiful

C．some wonderful medicine                 D．some good food

2.What made the miracle happen？

A．The girl’s love for her brother.            B．The girl’s money.

C．The medicine from the drugstore.           D．Nobody can tell.

3.From the passage we can infer （推断）that _______________.

A．the doctor didn’t ask for any pay

B．a miracle is sure to happen if you keep on

C．the little girl is lovely but not so generous

D．Andrew was in fact not so sick as they had thought

YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.
Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.
The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.
Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(摇摇欲坠). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.
In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.
Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.
The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.
“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”
The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.
The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.
In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.
“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”
In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.
Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve.
【小题1】When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________.

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Once there was a poor old woman. She lives by herself in a little house in a village. She didn^，t have m  【小题1】 money but she was very kind.
One day a young man named Bill came to her d  【小题2】  .He was very thin. He was very hungry and a 【小题3】 the old woman for help. The old woman said，“Come in and have dinner with me，but my dinner is only some potatoes.”They had d 【小题4】 together. After dinner，the old woman told Bill to t【小题5】 some potatoes with him. He thanked her and left.
Ten years later，Bill came b  【小题6】to the old woman^，s door again and gave her a bag of m  【小题7】  .She was surprised. Bill said，“Ten years ago you gave me some p 【小题8】.I grew some potato plants. From those plants，I grew some more plants. Now I^，m a r  【小题9】 farmer. But I never forget how k  【小题10】  you were to me.”

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My family went to a restaurant for dinner one night. When we were walking to the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother c     1.     towards us. They asked if we had any m     2.      .My mom asked where they were l    3.     . The girl said there were six of them staying in an o    4.     black car. My mom gave them a few dollars. Then she sent me inside the restaurant w    5.     my dad and my three sisters. H    6.    ,my mom didn’t come. Later, I found out that she had gone h    7.     and put all the food in our cupboard into a few bags. Then she brought that food over to the car and gave the bags to the poor f   8.    . I wasn’t there when that part happened, yet I can i     9.    the joy on their faces. After painting this picture in my mind, I understood w    10.    my mom had done what she did that night. I will never forget this lesson in kindness from my mom.