Helen loved small animals. One morning while she was walking in the forest, she found two weak birds in the grass. She took them home and put them in a small cage. She looked after them with love and the birds both grew well. They thanked her with a wonderful song every morning.

But something happened one day. Helen left the door of the cage open. The larger bird flew from the cage. She thought that it would fly away, so she grasped it. She was very excited to catch it. Suddenly she felt strange. She opened her hand and looked sadly at the dead bird. Her great love had killed the bird!

The other bird was moving back and forth (来回地) in the cage. Helen could feel the bird want to go out. It wanted to fly into the blue sky. At once, Helen took the bird out of the cage and let it fly away. The bird circled, twice, three times…

Helen enjoyed watching the bird flying and singing happily. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her head. It sang the sweetest song that she had ever heard.

The easiest way to lose love is to hold too tight. The best way to keep love is to give it freedom.

1.What was Helen doing when she found two weak birds?

A. Singing     B. Walking

C. Dancing    D. Playing

2.The underlined word “grasped” in the second paragraph means _____________.

A. 抓住 B. 控制

C. 保护    D. 击打

3.Something happened one day, _______________ .

A. the larger bird was moving back and forth in the cage

B. the smaller bird was dead in Helen’s hand

C. Helen left the door of the cage open. The larger bird flew from the cage

D. the other bird thanked Helen with a wonderful song every morning

4. Why did Helen let the second bird fly away?

A. Because Helen hated the bird.

B. Because Helen could call the bird back again.

C. Because Helen thought the bird could fly back itself.

D. Because Helen realized the bird wanted freedom very much.

5.What is the best title for this passage?

A. How to feed birds. B. Helen’s favorite birds.

C. How to keep love. D. The story of the two birds.

Bill, Frank and Dave were three brothers. Every year they sent their mother expensive gifts on her birthday,. They liked to show her how rich they were.

The eldest brother. Bill, had a lot of money and he wanted his mother to have the most expensive gifts, but he didn’t know what to buy. So he put an ad in the newspaper. “Wanted－the greatest gift for my mother.”

About a week before his mother’s birthday a man came to his office. He brought a big bird.

“This bird.” the man said, “can speak ten languages and sing some pop songs.”

“Really?  I’d like to listen to it,” Bill said.

The man made the bird talk in French and tell a joke in Japanese. Then the bird sang a beautiful song. Bill was very happy and paid nine thousand dollars for the bird. The next day Bill sent the bird to his mother with a birthday card.

The day after his mother’s birthday he called his mother. “Well, mother” he asked, “What do you think of the bird?”

“Oh, it’s very delicious, dear.” said his mother.

1.Who is the eldest brother?

A. Dave  B. Bill   C. Jack  D. Frank

2.What did Bill put in the newspaper?

A. A show  B. A magazine  C. An ad  D. A report

3.How many languages could the bird speak?

A. Five  B. Seven  C. Fight   D. Ten

4.How much did Bill pay for the bird?

A. Nine dollars  B. Ten dollars   C. Nine thousand dollars  D. Ten thousand dollars

5.What did Bill send to his mother for her birthday?

A. A bird with a card  B. Some money  C. A joke   D. A song

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What would you think if you saw a fish walking? Would you look again i 1. you saw a fish climbing a tree? There is a fish that does b 2. of these things. It is called the tree-climbing fish.

It is believed that a traveller to India first told about the tree-climbing fish. The fish was h 3. up in a tree. What was the fish doing in that tree? How did it get there? The traveller t 4. a bird might have put it there.

The next day the traveller saw a fish come out of the w 5. . It was hard to believe, but up the road went the fish. It used its fins (鱼鳍) and tail to pull i 6. along. It stopped to eat some worms. After the fish ate, it walked slowly over to a tree. Up, up it c 7. . When it got high up in the tree, it took a rest.

The traveller was s 8. to see these things and told other people about the tree-climbing fish. The people wanted to know w 9. this fish looked like. He explained the one he saw was dark brown and about one foot long.

People can f 10. the tree-climbing fish not only in India but also in the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, and other places. At one time, people saw the fish in Florida, America. Because the weather there was too terrible, it was not able to live there any longer.

“Who did this?” asked my teacher. Thirty children tried to think about not only what they had done, but also what our teacher might have found out.
“Who did this?” she asked again. She never became angry, but she was this time. She held up a piece of broken glass and asked, “Who broke this window?”
“Oh, oh,” I thought. I was the one who broke the window. I did not do it on purpose (故意). It was caused by a bad throw of a baseball. Why did it have to be me?
If I admitted (承认) it, I would be in a lot of trouble. How would I be able to pay for a big window like that? “My father is going to get angry at me,” I thought. I didn’t want to raise (举起) my hand, but something much stronger than me pulled it up.
“I did it,” I said. Then I was silent. It was hard enough saying what I had.
My teacher went to one of our bookshelves and took down a book. She then began walking towards my desk. I had never known my teacher to strike (打) a student, but I feared she was going to start with me.
“I know how you like birds,” she said as she stood looking down at my face. “Here is the field guide about birds (鸟类野外指南) that you always check out from our school library. It is yours now. We have got a new one for the school. You will not be punished (惩罚). But remember, it’s only for your honesty.”
I couldn’t believe it! I wasn’t being punished and I was getting my own bird field guide, the one that I had been saving up all my money to buy.
【小题1】How did the writer feel when he saw his teacher walking towards him with a book from bookshelves?

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