A teacher can be any age. Just ask Sandy. (1)She was ______ ten when she started ______.

How did Sandy get the job? It was not easy. She wanted to help children who cannot hear. But the school had never had such a young helper. Could Sandy do it?

First, Sandy learned to sign. Signing is a way of talking with your hands. (2)Soon it was easy for Sandy to talk to the children. So the school let her help. Now Sandy visits the school almost every day. The children love their young teacher. She is their friend.　

1.在（1）句的空白处填入两个单词，使句意完整、上下文通顺。

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2.将第（2）句译成汉语。

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3.找出与“She’d like to help the deaf (聋的)children. ”意思相近的句子。

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4.回答问题：What is “signing”?

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5.找出文章的主题句。

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Meeting the English Family

　　Rosa and her classmates were in a street in West London. The sky was dark. This was Rosa's big day, her first day in England.

　　Rosa got out of a taxi. The driver carried a very heavy bag for her. They walked through the rain to the front door of a big Victorian house.

　　A small girl opened the door. She was four years old. Her brother stood behind her. He was only two years old. One minute later, a young woman came to the door.

　　“Welcome to Wembley!” she said and she offered Rosa her hand.  “These are my two children, Elisabeth and Isaac” “Pleased to meet you, Mrs. Frost! said Rosa with a strong Spanish accent.

　　The two children ran back into the living room.

　　“Don't worry about them! They're a little shy. And please call me Diana! Now let me show you your room and then we can have a nice cup of tea. Or would you like some coffee?”

　　“I'd like to try a cup of English tea, made in England.”

　　“This is your bedroom. There's a nice view (视野) of the football stadium (露天体育场) and here's a little desk where you can study. The bathroom and toilet are just opposite your door. Now I'll go and put the kettle on.”

　　“Excuse me. What's a kettle?”

　　“In England, we use a kettle to make hot water, we can then put the hot water in a teapot or use it to make coffee.”

　　Rosa was happy with her new home, but she was a little puzzled (困惑的). Perhaps her mother Maruja was right. The British were not normal people. They did not kiss when they met and they lived in large Victorian palaces. Their favourite drink was tea and they used strange metal kettles to make the water hot. What was she going to say to Elisabeth and Isaac? How could she make friends with two shy English children? Perhaps the answer was in the big, black psychology (心理学) book.

(1) It was Rosa' s big day. She and her classmates were in

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(2) Rosa's hostess (女主人) was called

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(3) What could Rosa see through the window when she was in her bedroom?

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(4) In this passage the underlined (下划线的) word “it” means

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(5) After reading the passage, we know that

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A. Rosa had some trouble in getting on well with the hostess

B. the two children didn't like Rosa

C. Mr. Frost offered Rosa much help

D. Rosa was happy with the new family, but she couldn't understand some of their customs(习俗)

　　A well-trained teacher is not nervous, because she has the confident which comes of knowing that she is fully prepared for her work. She can help all her pupils, from the brightest to the slowest; and when she realizes, from the silence of her class when she asks a question, that they have not understood what she has explained, she is able to repeat her explanation again in different ways. Above all, she must never cause her pupils to lose confidence(信心). She must always speak to them kindly and when one of them turns red with shame at having answered a question after a long delay instead of easily, she must quickly make him or her feel at ease again. I was once sad to see a teacher being unkind to a girl who put up her hand and then answered a question with mistakes.

　　(46) A well-train teacher is never nervous because ___________.

　　A. she knows she has not got everything ready

　　B. she has enough confidence to do it ready

　　C. she never knows it is a shame

　　D. she'd like to be anything but a teacher

　　(47) The underline sentence "She can help all her pupils, from the brightest to the slowest" means that she can help____________.

　　A. neither the brightest pupils of hers nor the slowest ones

　　B. either the brightest pupils of hers or the slowest ones

　　C. not only the brightest pupils of hers but also the slowest ones

　　D. all her pupils with the white skins or dark skins

　　(48) When well-trained teacher sees the silence of her class, _______________.

　　A. she will teach them a good lesson

　　B. she would get angry

　　C. she will not explain it any more

　　D. she is sure to explain what she has explained over and over again

　　(49) When the pupils can't give her correct answers, ________________.

　　A. she will be kind and patient to them

　　B. she will let them turn red with shame

　　C. she will keep them standing for a long time

　　D. she will order them to think over the question

　　(50) Seeing a teacher was once unkind to a girl, ____________.

　　A. the writer got very unhappy

　　B. the writer put up his hand

　　C. the writer answered the question instead of the girl

　　D. the writer was asked to stand up