阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

Mr. Smith is a teacher. Yesterday he did a survey of what his students did on their last day off and this is what he learned.

Linda went to see her grandparents. Her grandparents live in the countryside. They are very old. But they don’t like to live in the city. They want to have a quiet life. Tom helped his parents do some housework. He cleaned the room, took out the trash, washed all the clothes . At noon, he helped his mother cook lunch. Mary look after her little brother because her mother was ill. Her father had to look after her mother in the hospital. Mike studied history at home. He isn’t good at history. He thinks it is too difficult for him. His father helped him. Both his father and his mother hope that Mike can be good at all his subjects. They want him to study in a famous university one day.

（一）根据短文内容简要回答问题。

1.Where do Linda’s grandparents live?

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2.Why did Mary look after her little brother ?

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3.Is Mike good at history?

（二） 将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

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The doctor's Handwriting

Mrs South is excited these days. A sudden terrible disease hardly killed her son two months ago. She and her husband took the poor boy to several hospitals, but few doctors could save him. Watching their helpless son struggling for a bare subsistence(在死亡线上挣扎), the woman’s and her husband’s hearts were broken. At that moment, one of their friends introduced Mr Young who worked in a small hospital to them. Thanks to the doctor, their son was saved and he was all right and came out of hospital last week.

The woman decided to ask the doctor to dinner. The invitation was sent to him yesterday. In reply she received a letter which was impossible to read.

“I must know whether he has accepted or not.” said Mrs South.

“If I were you,” suggested her husband. “I should take it to a chemist(药剂师). He can always read doctors’ letters, however badly written.”

The chemist looked at the notepaper for a while, without waiting for Mrs South’s explanation, and handed her a bottle.

“Here you are, madam,” he said. “That will be two dollars.”

阅读短文，回答以下问题(首字母已给出)，每空一词。（每空1分，共5分）

1.Mrs South’s son hardly d________ of the sudden terrible disease two months ago.

2.Mr and Mrs South felt very s_________ when their son was ill.

3.Mrs South asked Mr Young to dinner to express her t__________.

4.It was d_____ for Mrs South to know whether Mr Young agreed to go to the dinner.

5.The chemist thought he u_______ what the doctor had written.