Read “The Curious Kiwi” and answer questions 1 to 6.

　　INTRODUCTION

　　The Kiwi lives only in New Zealand. It looks a bit like a long-beaked chicken, but it has no tail and it cannot fly.

　　Its tiny wings are completely hidden among the hair-like feathers. Kiwis are shy birds that live mainly in fern-filled forests. They sleep in burrows by day and come out to feed at night. They eat worms and insects that live in the soil or among dead leaves. They also enjoy fallen fruit.

　　Survival Watch

　　Kiwis are becoming rare, largely because so many have been killed by the cats, dogs and other animals that people have taken to New Zealand.

　　Kiwi Facts

　　The kiwi is up to 45 cm long, including its beak. It gets its name from its call of ki-wee.

　　The female weighs only 4 kg, but she can lay two eggs weighing about 500 grams each.

　　That's nearly ten times as heavy as a chicken's egg.

　　The kiwi is a very strange-looking bird. Its dark coat looks more like shaggy hair than feathers.

　　The nostrils at the tip of the beak can smell worms and other food several centimetres below the ground.

1．What do kiwis eat?

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A．worms and insects

B．ferns and fallen fruit

C．ferns and forest plants

D．dead leaves and fallen fruit

2．The female kiwi can lay an egg that weighs about ________.

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3．Which of the following words from the text describes the personality of kiwis?

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4．The kiwi has been given its name because it ________.

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A．feeds at night

B．has a call that sounds like “ki-wee”

C．is able to lay two eggs

D．sleeps during the day

5．The ward closest in meaning to “several”, as it is used in the passage is ________.

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6．Kiwis are becoming rare because ________.

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A．there are not many forests left

B．they don't lay enough eggs

C．they are being killed by other animals

D．their food is hard to catch

　　The people in China don't call themselves “Chinese”. You will never hear them call their own country “China”. The Chinese word for their country means “Central Country.” Of course, they want to be called “people of the Central Country.”

　　These facts come from the book called China by Daniel Chu. What else does the book talk about? The index (索引) in the back pages of the book will tell you. A part of the book's index is shown below.

　　Use the index from the book China to answer these questions.

1．Which of these pages might describe the daily life of the “people of the Central Country”?

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2．If you want to know how big the “Central Country” is, on what page will you start to read?

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3．Which of these words give the pages that will have facts about the Chinese New Year?

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4．Which pages have photographs or pictures of farms?

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5．The words in the index are in the order of the alphabet. Therefore, families comes before farming and right after ________ .

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The following charts show the different usages (用途) of pocket money（压岁钱） in Class 4, Grade 3. Read carefully and answer the questions below.

【小题1】 How many students are there in Class 4, Grade 3 ?