The children look very ______ today. They are playing ______ in the park.

    A. happy ; happy        B. happily ; happily      C. happy ; happily D. happily ; happy

　　Jimmy lived in the country. He loved playing in the river near his house. The river is not at all deep. So there was no danger（危险）to the kids. But a few weeks ago, his father found a job in a big city, and he moved there with the other two family members: Jimmy and his mother.

　　Their new house had a garden（花园）, but the garden was very small. Jimmy wasn't happy.“Is there a river near here?”he asked his mother on the first morning. His mother smiled,“No, dear. There isn't. But I hear there is a nice park near here. And there is a swimming pool in it. The water in a swimming pool is always clean and you will meet some other children there. We are going there this afternoon.”Jimmy was happy.

　　After lunch, Jimmy and his mother went to the park. Jimmy was surprised to see that the water was very clean. He could see the bottom of the pool. Jimmy wanted to get into the water, but his mother stopped him. She told Jimmy that he should first know something about the swimming pool. She took her son to a sign. It said,“Warning: Children shouldn't swim in this pool. It is dangerous. 7 children have fallen in it.”Jimmy looks into the pool carefully. Then he asked,“Where are they? I can't see them.”

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A．his parents liked to live in big cities

B．there was a swimming pool in the park in the city

C．their new house had a nice garden

D．his father got a job there

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A．he thought he could play with water in the swimming pool

B．he wanted to play in a new place

C．he was going to see their nice garden

D．he was going to play with his mother

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A．to take care of the pool

B．not to run about near the pool

C．not to look at the pool

D．the pool is dangerous to children

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A．Jimmy likes playing in the river.

B．Jimmy's mother knew the swimming pool well.

C．7 people drowned（淹死）in the pool,

D．Surely the sign disappointed（使失望）Jimmy.

My granddaughter, 10, was very happy the day before yesterday because her mother and the mother of one of her classmates took them to a park and a Pizza Hut （比萨饼屋）to celebrate Children’s Day. For a whole day, the two girls played heartily – no homework, no extra-curricular（课外） skills training. The happy life lasted only for one day. Yesterday, everything returned to normal: doing homework till late at night and going over lessons learned at last weekend’s English and “ Olympic mathematics” （数学奥赛）　courses.

Every time I went to my daughter’s house in the evening, I saw my granddaughter sitting by the small desk in her room doing math exercises or writing a compositions given by her teacher. On the white wall behind the desk are some words she wrote. One sentence reads: “ Why is the exercise endless?”

Poor girl!

Although teachers have stopped giving after-school homework to primary school children, parents have been forcing their kids to take part in different kinds of extra-curricular training courses-learning English, painting, music instrument （乐器）, weiqi, “ Olympic mathematics” and so on, every Saturday and Sunday.

Are these extra-curricular courses really necessary in children’s education? The answer is certainly “ No”. Take the so-called “ Olympic mathematics” for example. These courses are very difficult for the children to understand. Often, they are difficult even for adults （成年人）.

（   ）1. The writer’s granddaughter celebrated her Children’s Day by _____.

           A．playing all day              B．doing nothing

           C．having a party              D．going over lessons

（   ）2. Usually at weekends the girl will _______.

A．stay at home               B．play with their classmates

C．do whatever she likes        D．go to different kinds of training courses

（   ）3. The writer thinks that her granddaughter ______.

A．lives a happy life            B．goes to bed early at weekend

C．has too much homework      D．likes to do more exercises

（   ）4. Which is true according to （根据）the passage?

A．The “Olympic Mathematics” is too difficult for kids.

B．The grandfather thinks playing is more important than learning.

C．Teachers often give students useless homework.

D．The parents don’t want their kids to do lots of homework.

（   ）5. From the last paragraph（段落）we know that the writer thinks _____.

A．only school courses are useful to kids

B．some extra-curricular courses kids learn after school are not necessary

C．some extra-curricular courses are even more difficult for adults

D．kids shouldn’t learn difficult courses