A ten-year-old teacher

　　How young can a teacher be?  A teacher can be any age. Just ask Chrissie Mckenney. She was only 10 when she started teaching.

　　 Ｈow did Chrissie get the job It was not easy. Chrissie wanted to help children who can't hear. But the school had never had such a young helper. Could Chrissie do it

First, Chrissie learned to sign. Signing is a way of talking with your hands. Soon it was easy for Chrissie to talk to the children. So the school let her help. Now Chrissie visits the school almost every day. The children love their young teacher. She is their friend.

1.Chrissie wanted to help children who can't______.

A. hear 　　　　　　  B. See　　　　　        C. play

2.This story tells about a______.

A. special class 　　 B. young teacher      Ｃ. silly person

3.In the third part of the story, what does the word "sign" mean______

A.看　　  B. 手势         C. 听

4.The school let Chrissie help because she ____.

A. was too old         B. could sign 　　　 　C. could not hear

5.You can guess from the story that most teachers ______Chrissie.

A. are older than    　B. do not like 　     C. are just like

 

综合填空

Jack was a pupil.One day his teacher g　1　each of them a seed（种子） and ask them to plant it.So Jack went to his g　2　and wanted to dig a hole f　3　the seed.He dug and dug.After a while he f　4　a coin.He was very g　5　and put it in his pocket.A minute l　6　，he found another coin,he put it in his pocket again.The same thing happened several t　7.Jack was so happy that he thought he should c　8　how many coins he had got.He put his h　9　in his pocket.To his s　10　,he found a hole in his pocket.

 

Mary’s dime（一毛钱）

It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel   1  when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.

　　 What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly  2  the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light   3  her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.

　　  How much I  4  that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so   5  — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.

　　  I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the  6  in her old dirty dress, looking at the   7  that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt   8  and looked straight at me, just as if（似乎）nobody had spoken so   9  to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would  10 . I haven’t had anything to eat today.”

　　 Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today,   11  this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your  12 . She needs it a great deal more than you do.”

　　 I could not run away from that little girl’s sad,  13  look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How  14  the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime,  15  I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.

1.                A．disturbed       B．unhappy        C．satisfied  D．interested

 

2.                A．saw            B．remembered    C．forgot    D．described

 

3.                A．filling          B．protecting       C．attracting D．touching

 

4.                A．hated          B．loved          C．missed   D．noticed

 

5.                A．valuable        B．meaningful      C．expensive D．cheap

 

6.                A．market         B．library          C．store D．bookshop

 

7.                A．dresses         B．magazines       C．books    D．candies

 

8.                A．surprised       B．excited         C．pleased   D．worried

 

9.                A．happily         B．kindly          C．angrily   D．sadly

 

10.               A．taste           B．sound          C．feel  D．smell

 

11.               A．since          B．so             C．and  D．but

 

12.               A．apple          B．hamburger      C．dime D．candy

 

13.               A．proud          B．angry          C．calm  D．hungry

 

14.               A．grateful        B．unlucky        C．lonely D．friendly

 

15.               A．unless         B．if              C．though    D．because

 

 

【小题1】你的学习取决于你努力的程度。
Your success______　_______  how hard you work at your lessons.
【小题2】他只是为教师而不是为艺术家。
He is only a teacher _____ _______ an artist.
【小题3】要花费1400亿元建设兰新高速铁路
It will______140 billion yuan to_____ Lan zhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway.
【小题4】我们每个人都感到自豪的是首届中国亚欧博览会将于2011年9月1日在乌鲁木齐举行。
Everyone of us is proud of ourselvesbecause the first China Eurasia Expo will ______ in  Urumqi on September 1^st, 2011.
【小题5】我们确信在中国政府的帮助下新疆发展得比过去更好更快。
We______ that Xinjiang is developing better and faster than before with the help of the centralgovernment