I am Kim, I am 15 years old. I have a little sister, Kelly. She likes to go everywhere with me. It was a Saturday afternoon in summer. It was very ____and no one wanted to stay at home. I went swimming in the _____. My sister, Kelly wanted to go with me.

  “ Take her with you, Kim, ” said my father. “she will do what you say, I think.”

  Then we ____the river quickly. Many people were ___in it. I told Kelly to play on the bank*, then I jumped into the river. About an hour later, I got a ___ in my hand. Kelly was very _____. She found a bottle and put the fish in it.

   She did _______ but watching the fish that evening. Suddenly I heard Kelly ____in the room. I ran to her and asked,” what’s wrong ____you?”

  “ The fish has died,” she said “I thought it was ______. So I took it out of the bottle and put it on the chair, I only wanted it to have a rest.”

1.A. warm B. cool       C. hot        D.cold

2.A. river         B. sea        C. pool      D. ocean

3.A. got to          B.got out   C.got on    D. got up

4.A.washing       B.running C.resting   D.swimming

5.A.dog     B.cat C. duck      D.fish

6.A. angry B. happy           C.sad       D.sorry

7.A.everything  B.something      C.nothing         D.anything  

8.A.singing      B.crying    C.smiling   D.talking

9.A.with          B.from                    C.to          D.on

10.A. hungry    B.free  C.tired       D. busy

"Mummy, I don't know what to play with." Steve stops his mother, who is talking to a friend, for the fourth time. “You've got a room full of toys!" his mother says, impatiently. In fact it is the jumble of toys which is to blame for four-year-old Steve's having no interest in his dolls, cars and animals. Each morning he pours three washing baskets of toys all over his floor, pulls out something and shortly after that, he is standing at his mother's desk or following her into the kitchen saying, "Mummy, I am bored."

A family therapist(心理医生) explains why children lose interest when they have a whole “toy shop” at home. “According to their brain development, little children are not in a position to judge the quality of different kinds of things at once. There is always just one favorite toy for the moment. All the rest are left lying about." What can parents do to stop their children from being oversupplied with toys? Simply make something disappear without the child's knowledge. If he/she takes no more notice of a toy, a parent can ask if it can be stored or given away. Of course the child will always say he/she wants it then!

Lyn is the mother of four-year-old Jessie, and we like her way. A small set of shelves in her child's room holds the toys and books that are the new favourites. When it seems to her that her daughter is tired of these toys, they put them away in a box together and select some other toys from a cupboard in another room. The box of “old” toys goes into the cupboard. When her child says she is "bored", they also get something from her cupboard -- it may be something she has had for some time but because she hasn’t seen it for a while it is almost like a new toy.

Some favourite toys stay out all the time, and there is a collection of dolls which sits in the comer, but in this way Lyn has found that she has fewer toys to put away at the end of the day and her daughter always has something “fresh” to play with.

57. Steve stops his mother several times because______.

　 A. he felt uninterested in his toys　　　　　 B. he disliked his mother's friend

　 C. he didn't have enough toys to play with D. he hoped his mother would play with him

58. According to the therapist, children often say they have nothing to play with because______.

　 A. they can't play alone for a long time

　 B. they are too young to play with so many toys

　 C. they are too lazy to pick out their favourites

　 D. they don't have the ability to value too many things at a time

59. What does the underlined word "jumble" mean in Chinese?

　 A. 单一的选择　 B．杂乱的一堆　 C．普通的外观　 D．相同的形状

60. Which is the advice given to parents in the text?

　 A. Buy fewer toys for their children.

　 B. Form good habits for their children.

　 C. Put some toys away without telling their children.

　 D. Spare some time to play with their children.

Mrs Turner’s telephone number was 3463, and the number of the cinema in town was 3464. People often made mistakes and telephoned her when they actually wanted the cinema.
One evening the telephone rang and Mrs Turner answered it. A tired man’s voice came over the phone, “At what time does your latest film begin?”
“I’m sorry”, said Mrs Turner, “but you have the wrong number. This is not the cinema.” “Oh, it began twenty minutes ago?” said the man. “ I am sorry about that. Well, good-bye.” Mrs Turner was very surprised, so she told her husband. He laughed and said, “No, that wasn’t a mistake. The man’s wife wanted to go to the cinema, but he was feeling tired, so he telephoned the cinema. His wife heard him, but she didn’t hear you. Now they will stay at home this evening, and the husband will be happy.”
【小题1】 When the tired man telephoned Mrs Turner by mistake at first, she was ____