"Mummy, I don't know what to play with." Steve stops his mother, who is talking to a friend, for the fourth time. “You've got a room full of toys!" his mother says, impatiently. In fact it is the jumble of toys which is to blame for four-year-old Steve's having no interest in his dolls, cars and animals. Each morning he pours three washing baskets of toys all over his floor, pulls out something and shortly after that, he is standing at his mother's desk or following her into the kitchen saying, "Mummy, I am bored."

A family therapist(心理医生) explains why children lose interest when they have a whole “toy shop” at home. “According to their brain development, little children are not in a position to judge the quality of different kinds of things at once. There is always just one favorite toy for the moment. All the rest are left lying about." What can parents do to stop their children from being oversupplied with toys? Simply make something disappear without the child's knowledge. If he/she takes no more notice of a toy, a parent can ask if it can be stored or given away. Of course the child will always say he/she wants it then!

Lyn is the mother of four-year-old Jessie, and we like her way. A small set of shelves in her child's room holds the toys and books that are the new favourites. When it seems to her that her daughter is tired of these toys, they put them away in a box together and select some other toys from a cupboard in another room. The box of “old” toys goes into the cupboard. When her child says she is "bored", they also get something from her cupboard -- it may be something she has had for some time but because she hasn’t seen it for a while it is almost like a new toy.

Some favourite toys stay out all the time, and there is a collection of dolls which sits in the comer, but in this way Lyn has found that she has fewer toys to put away at the end of the day and her daughter always has something “fresh” to play with.

57. Steve stops his mother several times because______.

　 A. he felt uninterested in his toys　　　　　 B. he disliked his mother's friend

　 C. he didn't have enough toys to play with D. he hoped his mother would play with him

58. According to the therapist, children often say they have nothing to play with because______.

　 A. they can't play alone for a long time

　 B. they are too young to play with so many toys

　 C. they are too lazy to pick out their favourites

　 D. they don't have the ability to value too many things at a time

59. What does the underlined word "jumble" mean in Chinese?

　 A. 单一的选择　 B．杂乱的一堆　 C．普通的外观　 D．相同的形状

60. Which is the advice given to parents in the text?

　 A. Buy fewer toys for their children.

　 B. Form good habits for their children.

　 C. Put some toys away without telling their children.

　 D. Spare some time to play with their children.

Reading comprehension(阅读理解)

　　My friend Alice decided to be a nurse when she was four years old. She always wanted to play as “doctor and nurse” with her playmates. When she left school last year she still wanted to be a real nurse. One day she saw an advertisement(广告) in the newspaper:

　　DO YOU WANT TO HELP PEOPLE?

　　STUDY NURSING

　　SEND THIS FORM TO US FOR MORE INFORMATION

　　Alice filled in the form with her name and address. She cut it out and posted it at once.

　　Last September she started her study in a big hospital in Newcastle. She had to work very hard. She went to classes every day and studied late into the night. The really important day came : her first day in a ward(病房). At last she was really helping sick people, not just sitting in classes or learning from books.

　　At first, student nurses do lots of small jobs in the ward. They help to serve meals, or wash the patients. They also keep the ward tidy and make the beds. They cannot give injections(注射) or help the doctors. One of Alice's first jobs was in a ward of old people. She was told to clean all the patients' false(假的) teeth. She collected all the teeth and took them to the bathroom. Instead of cleaning each set of teeth one by one she put them all into one big bowl.

　　“It'll be quicker this way,” she said to herself. “Then I can give back everyone's teeth in a few minutes.”

　　Give back everyone's teeth! Alice stood in the middle of the ward with her big bowl of teeth. She had no idea which teeth belonged to which old man! You can imagine the confusion(混乱) the next half hour when each patient had to find his own teeth.

True or False(判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用T表示，不符合的用F表示)

1．Alice will finish school soon.

(　　)

2．She decided to be a nurse as a child.

(　　)

3．She really became a nurse with the help of a newspaper advertisement.

(　　)

4．Student nurses usually do lots of small jobs and help the doctors in the ward.

(　　)

5．Alice cleaned each set of false teeth one by one very carefully.

(　　)

6．It took half an hour for Alice to return the teeth to their owners.

(　　)

根据短文内容判断正(T)误(F)

　　It is 7:30 on Monday morning. It is time for Tom to go to school. Class begins（开始）at 7:40. Tom is still（仍然）in his room. His mother says, “ Hurry, Tom! You must be quick, or you will be late.” “Mum, where is my pencil-box?” cries Tom.

　　Look at Tom's room. What a mess（混乱）. His books are lying（躺着）all over the room. His football socks are on the desk, a kite and some clothes are on his bed. Tom's mother comes to help him. She asks Tom to put his books away and Tom's pencil-box is under the books on the floor.

　　“You must look after your things, Tom.” Says Mrs. Read.

(1)Tom is a school boy.

(　　)

(2)Tom can't find his book that morning.

(　　)

(3)School begins at seven thirty.

(　　)

(4)Tom can look after his things.

(　　)

(5)Tom's pencil-box is on the floor.   (　　)

　　阅读理解

　　An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough money in his pocket to buy the ticket for his trip back home. As he knew that it would take him two days to get to England, he decided he could easily do without food. So he bought a ticket and got on the ship.

　　He closed his ears to the sound of the lunch bell. When dinner time came, he refused (拒绝) to go to the dinning hall. He told others he didn't feel well. The next morning, he didn't go to breakfast and at lunch time he again stayed in the room. At dinner time he was very hungry, he said, “I'm going to eat. ”

　　At the dinner table he ate everything the waiter put in front of him.

　　“Bring me the bill,” he said.

　　“The bill, sir?” said the waiter.

　　“Yes,” answered the traveler.

　　“There isn't any bill,” he said, “On the ship meals are included (包括) in the money for the ticket. ”

A．True or False?

1．The story happened on a ship from Norway to England.

2．The English traveler got on the ship in the afternoon.

3．The Englishman refused to go the dining hall to eat at first because he didn't feel well.

4．He went to eat the next evening because he knew there wasn't any bill on the ship.

5．He knew at last the travelers on the ship had free meals.

B．Fill in the blanks.

6．The English traveler found himself with ________ money to pay for the food.

7．He was so ________ that he went to ________ at the dinner time.

8．He didn't need to pay for his ________ on the ship.