A long time before I was born, my grandma and grandpa moved into the house on Beechwood Avenue. They had a young family of 4 little girls. During that time, it was hard to find a job. So, on weekend grandpa and grandma cleaned the garden to grow some of their own food. They planted tomatoes, beans, cabbages, potatoes and strawberries to feed their growing family. All summer long, the family ate food from the garden.
The family grew up, and before too many years had passed, the grandchildren came to visit. Grandma and grandpa still planted their garden every spring. Everyone still enjoyed the good food from the garden and always took some home.
Then grandpa died in one summer when he was eighty-nine years old. It was a lonely winter for grandma. She sat near the window, looking out at the yard and wondering if she could plant the garden in the spring. It would be hard to care for it by herself. When spring came, she planted only a little.
One nice day in the early summer, grandma heard a noise in the front yard and looked out the window. There were thousands of bees in the air. Grandma wondered what she could do. She decided to wait and think it over. Before long, she decided the bees won't bother anyone, so she went about her business and didn't give them any other thought.
That summer, grandma’s little garden grew and grew. The neighbors all puzzled* why they grew so well. One day, grandma’s brother Frank visited her. Frank said，"In my hometown, the farmers often hired* beekeepers to set up bee houses near their fields. The bees helped them to grow." That was when Grandma realized that her bees had helped with her garden all summer.
From that Time on, grandma always believed that since grandpa couldn't be there to help her that summer, he had sent the bees to take his place and make grandma's little garden grow and grow.
【小题1】How did the grandparents feed their growing family?

A．did whatever jobs he could.

B．grow some of their own food in the garden

C．moved into the house on Beechwood

D．making a lot of money

【小题2】In the passage, “It was a lonely winter for grandma.” probably means      .

A．The winter is really long.

B．The winter is really cold.

C．Grandma couldn’t plant the garden in winter

D．Grandma really missed the grandpa.

【小题3】Who helped with the grandma’s garden?

A．Grandchildren	B．Bees
C．Frank	D．The neighbors

【小题4】What’s the best title of the passage?

A．The Garden	B．My Grandparents
C．Grandpa’s Bees	D．The Secret of Grandma

1.This pair of boots looks very ______ (时尚的).

2.Make sure that you write down all the ______ names on the list. (游客)

3.She has to be taken to hospital because she has taken lots of ______(药)

4.His sudden ______ made me very sad. (死)

5.Next Friday is my grandpa’s ______(九十九)birthday.

6.I could see her ______ (透过)the window.

7.Edison and Einstein are both great ______ (科学家).

8.______ (树叶) turn green when spring is coming.  

 

  Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station．Each time when Spring Festival comes，buying tickets of train trip would be very hard．And things seem to be getting worse and worse，although we have greatly increased the mileage(总里程) of railway network and speeded up trains．Why? It’s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family．Many people become angry with the Ministry(部)of Railways．They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station．Instead，they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers at much higher price．
The Ministry of Railways estimated(估计) that about 216 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak period(高峰期) during the 2010 Spring Festival holiday．The number of travelers will be 8％higher than that of 2009．This problem even attracted the President Hu Jintao’s attention．He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun，Minister of the Ministry of Railways，asking him to make sure of a “smooth and safe” transportation．Afterwards，officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station．
【小题1】 What does the underlined word “scalper” in the first paragraph mean?

A．代售点

B．售票员

C．票贩

D．赌徒

【小题2】 Many people can’t buy the tickets from the railway station，and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers        ．

A．expensively

B．wrongly

C．dangerously

D．hardly

【小题3】How many people took the train trip during the peak period during the 2009 Spring Festival holiday?

A．About 216 million．	B．About 172 million．
C．About 200 million．	D．About 233 million．

【小题4】What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．People go home much more easily during the Spring Festival．

B．It is very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival．

C．President Hu Jintao cares about the railway building problem．

D．The Ministry of Railways felt sorry about the problem．

Dictionaries say that “spring fever” is a lazy or restless feeling . People usually have the feeling on the first warm day of spring. Everyone has probably felt it at one time or another . people have talked about it for years.
Recently, scientists have taken a good look at spring fever. What they found is quite surprising.
In many places we live in , the winter months often seem dark and dreary. When spring comes late March , the world becomes colorful . The number of daylight hours grows with each passing day. According to many scientists, all the sunlight sets off chemicals in the brain (大脑). The chemicals make our feeling change and bring on spring fever.
【小题1】How do people who have spring fever feel ?

A．active

B．awake

C．energetic

D．restless .

【小题2】Scientists think that _________ cause(s) spring fever .

A．colors

B．sunlight

C．dark

D．illness

【小题3】 According to the passage ,the underlined word “dreary ”means“______” in Chinese.

A．沉闷的

B．暖和的

C．晴朗的

D．明亮的

【小题4】The best title for the passage is ______________ .

A．How to Get Over Spring Fever	B．Spring Fever
C．Darkness in winter	D．Spring and winter