根据短文内容,回答问题(10分)

Ayumi lived with her mother when she was a kid．She couldn't remember her father because he left the family when the girl was five and never came back．Ayumi's mother gave her much freedom to do whatever she liked，because the mother was always at work．

    Ayumi was a model when she was young．After graduating from junior high school，she left home to take entrance exams to an art school in Tokyo with her friends，but to her surprise，she was the only one that failed．

    After that，when someone offered her a chance to be a singer，Ayumi refused，because she thought she wasn't good at singing． But later，she changed her mind — she couldn't find any other jobs．

    Her first song came out in 1998 and soon attracted attention．Her first albums(唱片) A Song for ×× came out in 1999 and quickly sold over one million copies． Each of her albums has sold very well since then．She has become "the Queen of Pop" in Japan．

    根据短文内容回答下列问题。

1.Why did Ayumi's mother give her much freedom?

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2.What result did Ayumi get in her entrance exams to an art school in Tokyo?

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3.At first, why did Ayumi refuse the chance to be a singer?

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4.What's the name of Ayumi's first album?

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5.When did her first song come out?

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After my husband died, my world crashed around me. My six children were 10, nine, eight, six, three and 18 months, and I was overwhelmed with the responsibilities of earning a living, caring for the children and simply keeping my head above water.
I was fortunate to find a wonderful housekeeper to care for the children during the week, but from Friday nights to Monday mornings, the children and I were alone, and frankly I was uneasy. Every unusual noise or any late-night phone call filled me with fear. I felt incredibly alone.
One Friday evening I came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd(牧羊犬) on our doorstep. It was obvious he wanted to make the house his home. The children took an instant liking to "German" and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let him sleep in the basement until the next day. That night I slept peacefully for the first time in many weeks.
The following morning we made phone calls and checked lost-and-found ads for German’s owner, but with no results. Saturday night he was still with us. 
On Sunday I had planned to take the children on a picnic. Since I thought it best to leave German behind in case his owner came by, we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas at a local station, we were amazed to see German racing to the gas station after us. He stayed again Sunday night.  
Monday morning I let him out for a run while the children got ready for school. He didn’t come back. We thought we’d never see him again. On Friday evening, German was back again. We took him in, and again he stayed until Monday morning, when our housekeeper arrived. It went like this for almost 10 months. We looked forward to his coming each Monday morning he left home.
Each week, between German's visits, I grew a little braver, but every weekend I enjoyed his company. Then one Monday morning we patted his head and let him out for what turned out to be the last time. He never came back. 
【小题1】What does the underlined part in the first paragraph mean?

短文填空，从下面方框中选出10个词，用它们的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺(每词限用一次)。(共10小题，每小题1分；共计10分)

   I'm David. Now I spend my free time    1  with disabled children. But I never worked with them and knew little about the poor children's  2 before.

A year ago, I got the  3  from my friend. She asked me to help disabled children in a school on weekends. There were lots of disabled children living there. I found a little six-year-old girl, Tara. She couldn't see   4  or walk. So she has to sit on a special chair. I thought she must be very sad. But in fact, she often smiled and was   5  to others. I soon  6 that Tara loved to play hide-and-seek, quite a difficult game for herself.

So I took her chair to a quiet place, and then pretended(假装）I couldn't find her. She enjoyed it very much and smiled  7  . It also made me feel very happy. And I enjoyed  8  her smile happily.

Those disabled children give me a good  9 . I try to make those children's lives more  interesting. But in fact, they make my life much more intersting. They get    10   than others but they smile, and make others smile.

In an American classroom, a Chinese girl was asked to answer a question. She stood up and smiled, without making any sound. The American teacher looked at himself and didn’t see anything funny. So he asked her the question again. The girl just smiled but said nothing. The teacher was angry. He didn’t know that the girl smiled to cover her embarrassment（尴尬）because she wasn’t able to answer the question.

In a dining room in Beijing, an Englishman was careless and dropped a plate. The Chinese who had seen this began to laugh. The Englishman felt uncomfortable and even got angry. “They are laughing at me,” he thought. In fact the Chinese laughed not at the Englishman or his bad luck—whether he is a foreigner or a Chinese. The smile or laughter has several feelings: don’t take it so seriously; laugh it off, it’s nothing; such things can happen to any of us.

1.The Chinese girl smiled in an American classroom because ________________.

A. she was asked to answer a question     B. she was asked to stand up

C. she couldn’t answer the question          D. the teacher looked funny

2.Which feeling is NOT included in the laughter when the Englishman dropped a plate?

A. Don’t take it seriously.                B. Bad luck!   

C. It’s nothing.                    D. It can happen to any of us.

3.What does the writer want to tell us?

A. Smile and laughter don’t mean the same thing to different people.

B. Smile and laughter always bring happiness.

C. American people are easy to get angry.

D. Chinese students are impolite