Ann's grandpa was very rich and he had some shops. The old man began to learn drawing when he was
sixty, and he loved it very much. For twelve years he drew a lot and there were many pictures in his
workroom. He was pleased with them and kept them well.
     One day, the old man was ill. He had to stay in hospital. Before he died, he said to Ann,"I want to give
my pictures to a school as presents. Then the students will remember me forever. But I don't know which
school I'm going to give them to. Can you help me?" "Well," said the little girl, "you'd better give them to a
blind school." 根

1. Ann's grandpa was a _________.

A. blind man
B. drive
C. rich man
D. teacher

2. The old man wanted to be ______.

A. a doctor
B. an artist (艺术家)
C. a farmer
D. a teacher

3. The old man loved ______ very much after he was very old.

A. drawing
B. his shops
C. money
D. writing

4. When the old man was in hospital, he was ______ years old.

A. 60
B.70
C. 78
D. 72

5. Ann thought her grandpa's pictures were ________.

A. bad
B. beautiful
C. good
D. nice

     I   1   in town yesterday. I decided to stop at the bank to see Jane. I thought she might have   2   to go for
lunch with me.
     When I   3   to the bank, they told me she had just been   4  . I asked them   5   she would be back by
10:30 or 11:45, and they told me"yes". I had some time, so I decided to wait   6   her. I walked over to take a
seat by the window. I watched everyone   7   in. It was 12:30, and I was sure she   8   come back until after
lunch. I got up, and as I   9   to walk to the door, someone called my name. I turned around and was surprised
to find  10    was Jane. She said she had not left her office all the morning.

     You may know the song Happy Birthday very well. But do you know about its writer? It was written by an
American girl. And now she 1.             (become) a very rich woman. 
     When she was a child，she was poor. Once she 2.             (invite) to her friends' birthday party. She was
very pleased but sad because she had not enough money to buy presents for them. "The party 3.             (come)
soon. Now I have little money." Tears ran down her face.
     Later that night she was in bed, thinking about the presents when the door opened and in came her grandma,
"What 4.             (happen)?" her grandma asked. Hearing the girl's story, she said, "5.             (not worry), I
think I 6.             (help) you. How about singing a song together? Happy birthday to…" What a beautiful song!
They sang and sang. Suddenly she woke up. It was a dream! She decided to write it down at once and 7.          
(sing) it to her friends at the party.
     When she sang the song at the party the next day, her little friends were very happy. "How wonderfully she
8.            (sing)! We 9.             (not hear) such a song before. Thank you for 10.             (give) us the special
present." said one of them. And they learnt to sing it together. Later the girl became well known in America.

      I love traveling in the country, but I    1    (not like) losing my way. I went on a trip recently, but it 
   2    (take) me longer than I expected.
      "I    3    (go) to Wood ford Green," I said to the conductor as I    4    (get) on the bus,"I'll tell you
where    5    (get) off," answered the conductor.
      I sat in the front of the bus     6    (get) a good view of the countryside. After some time, the bus
stopped.    7    (look) around, I realized with a shock that I was the only passenger left on the bus.
"You    8    (have) to get off here," the conductor said. "This is as far as we go." "Is this Wood ford Green?"
I asked. "Oh, dear," said the conductor suddenly, "I    9    (forget) to put you off."
      "It doesn't matter," I said, "I'll get off here." "We're going back now," said the conductor. "Well, in this
case (既然这样), I prefer    10    (stay) on the bus." I answered.
1._____ 2._____ 3._____ 4._____ 5._____ 6._____ 7._____ 8._____ 9._____ 10._____

     An 88-year-old Indian farmer, named Virmaram, becomes the father of a baby boy. 1_____ says he takes
long walks every day and has been drinking fresh camel milk since childhood. He has three wives. His third
wife is 45 years younger and gave birth to the boy twins last month, but only one boy was alive.
     Workers are showing a handmade cloth shoe. The shoe, a part of a blessing for the Beijing 2008 0lympic
Games, was made at a shoe factory in Yichang, Hubei Province. 2_____  The shoe is 2 metres in length and it
weighs 4.5 kg.
     A girl shows her painting at a pressure-control class in Beijing. 3_____  and tell a story according to the
drawing to reduce their pressure. 
     4_____ The dried noodles have become a new source of income to the villagers. They produce the fine
noodles in a traditional way.
     A man, who stole about 5 000 pairs of school shoes, was caught by the police on Wednesday. "I enjoy the
smell." 28-year-old Massashi Kamate said to the police. "5_____"

A. The teacher requires every student to paint freely
B. The rich farmer, with a white beard and an old face.
C. The smell of indoor school shoes makes me excited.
D. A man dries noodles in the open air in Yanxie Village of Lingbao city, Henan Province.
E. It took the workers 208 days to finish it.