In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist.
So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden.
That was the first photo.
     The next important date in the history of photography (摄影术) was in 1837. That year, Daguere,
another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way.
In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called
a Daguerreotype.
     Soon, other people began to use Daguere's way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all
around the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains.
     In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people and
moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines. But
this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard.
     Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. These
pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike (栩栩如生的).
     Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century.Some photos were not just
copies of the real world. They showed feelings like other kinds of art.

1. The first photo taken by Niepce was a pictures of ______.

A. his house　　　　　　
B. his garden 　　　　　
C. his window

2. The Daguerrotype was ______.

A. a kind of picture 　　
B. a kind of camera 　　
C. a photographer

3. If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840, he had to ______.

A. watch lots of films
B. buy an expensive camera
C. take lots of film and something else with him

4. Mathew Brady ______.

A. was very lifelike 　　　　　　　　　　　 　　
B. was famous for his unusual pictures
C. took many pictures of moving people

5. This passage tells us ______.

A. how photography was developed
B. how to take pictures in the world
C. how to use different cameras

    Three rich ladies met every day by the river. They sat there and talked the whole day. Once the three
ladies quarreled. One of them said, "Look, how white and beautiful my hands are!" Another one said, "My
hands are more beautiful." The third one said, "Mine are the most beautiful ones." An old beggar woman
came to them. "Beautiful ladies," she said, "I'm old and can't work. I'm hungry. Please give me something
to eat."
     But the three women gave her nothing. They only asked, "Tell me, old woman, who of us has the most
beautiful hands?"
     A peasant woman (农妇) was also sitting by the river. She was poor and her hands were rough because
of hard work. The old woman came up to her and said, "I'm hungry. Please give me something to eat." The
peasant woman took out her only cake she had and gave her half.
     The old woman ate it and drank some water. Then she took the peasant woman by the hand, brought her
before the rich ladies and said, "Now, I shall tell you whose hands are the most beautiful. The hands of the
poor peasant woman are rough because of work, but they give us food; they are far more beautiful than your
hands which have never done anything."

根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误。正确的用“A”表示，不正确的用“B”表示。
(     )1. The three ladies had a quarrel every day.
(     )2. The old woman asked for something to eat, but nobody gave anything to her.
(     )3. The peasant woman's hands were not as white as the three ladies because of the hard work she had
            done.
(     )4. The old woman said that the peasant woman's hands were more beautiful than the three ladies'
            because she liked dark hands better than white hands.
(     )5. The three ladies were rich but unkind.

     Britain's smallest school was closed down because its only pupil failed to turn up for class, a famous
British newspaper reported in May.
     The newspaper said the six-year-old girl's parents were unhappy with a teacher who just got the new
job to teach the only pupil.
     The school had been closed for the last nine months after its former (前任的) teacher retired (退休)
and the only other pupil moved on to a secondary school. The new teacher, Ms Puckey, was to start
teaching the girl and reopen the school.
     But the girl's mother is keeping her daughter at home.
     "I was not pleased with the new teacher," the mother said, "I had told the old teacher as far back as
last September that if Ms Puckey got the job, my children would not be going to school."
     The school lies on an island off the northeast coast of Scotland. Although there was only one pupil,
the school is very good in many ways and has a headmaster, three computers, a television and an art
room as well as a school house with three bedrooms.

1. The reading is about ______.

A. the smallest school that was closed down
B. the only pupil in the smallest school
C. the new teacher and her teaching
D. the old teacher who just retired

2. The phrase "turn up" in the reading means ______.

A. pass an exam
B. go to school
C. pay money
D. hand in homework

3. From the reading we can know that the school           .

A. is too far for the students
B. does not have enough teachers
C. does not have many pupils
D. is new but small

4. Before the school was closed down ______.

A. the girl's mother wanted to teach her daughter at home
B. the only pupil had to move to a secondary school
C. a famous newspaper had written something about it
D. the girl's mother had a talk to the former teacher

5. The reading doesn't say but we can infer (推断) that ______.

A. the girl's mother had only one child
B. the new teacher was not kind to the girl
C. the old teacher was fit to teach the girl
D. the parents were unhappy with the school