George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight．When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper．He spent a lot of time learning about engines（发动机）．And on holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece carefully．Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write．He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old．Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday，he wrote his own name for the first time in his life．George invented（发明） many things in his life．The train was the greatest one among them．Today when we take trains from one place to another，we'll think of this great man---George Stephenson．
【小题1】In which year did George Stephenson start to help his father？________．

I like my Chinese teacher very much. He is a   16   man, about 25 years old. He is tall    17   black short hair. He is a very humorous(幽默的) person. He often    18  us jokes(笑话) and  19  to make our class more   20   . In class, he is a very   21   teacher. If we don’t listen to him carefully, he will give us some punishment(惩罚) by  22   us some questions. But after class, he becomes a very good    23   of us. He often talks with the girls and plays   24   with the boys. All of us really like him. He is our    25     teacher.

Once there lived a man in a small town. He often said, “If I have lots of gold, I shall be the happiest man in the world.”

One day he was traveling in North Africa. He lost his way and he was so hungry and thirsty that he couldn’t walk any more. There were only stones and sand around. Just then he saw a bag on the sand. He took it up. But when he opened it, he saw it was full of gold.

He left the bag on the sand and cried, “ What is the use of gold to a hungry man?”

1. What did the traveler love best?

A. Food           B. Drinks         C. Stones         D. Gold

2. “He lost his way” means____________________.

A.   “he didn’t know where he was and where to go

B.  “he didn’t know where he came from”

C.   “he didn’t know how to return home”  

D.  “he lost what he had on the way”

3. When he found a bag full of gold he felt______________.

A. happy           B. hungry         C. thirsty         D. sad

4. What’s the most useful to a hungry man?______________.

A. Food            B. Gold           C. Money      D. Stones

【小题1】He often playsgames after the school.                     
A       B    C          D
【小题2】-- Let’sgoing to the park today. – OK.                     
A    B    C            D
【小题3】 Mr Black teachesour English. We all like him.              
A    B          C       D
【小题4】We practiseplaying the violin onevery Tuesday.            
A     B           C  D
【小题5】Iwould likelisten tomusic.                             
A    B      C     D