阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

On a snowy evening, a rich lady was standing by the road．She was very worried．Her      had broken down．Just then a poor man named Robert came．He was on his      back home from work as usual．

The lady wondered, “Is the man going to       me? He looks very cold and hungry．" But to her surprise,      stopped and said with a smile, “Can I help you, madam?"

After forty       , the car was at last fixed by Robert．The lady wanted to pay him．

“No, that's       , madam．” he said, “I was just helping someone in     ．If you really want to pay me back, I hope       you see someone in need, you should give him a hand．”

    A few minutes later, the lady      a very old house by the road．She remembered Robert's words, so she stopped．

    The hostess(女主人) warmly asked her      ．The lady could see that it was a       family and that they needed help．When the hostess was making tea in the kitchen, the lady       on a table 500 dollars and went away quietly．

Robert came home later than before, thinking how ____their life was. His wife was pregnant(怀孕) and the baby was to be born the next month but there was not _____money. His wife went up to him, gave him a kiss and said softly, “Don’t worry, dear! Everything’ going to be all _____. A stranger has helped us out.”

Let’s always be ready to help others because helping others is helping ourselves.

1.A．bike                             B．motorbike                     C．bus                                  D．car

2.A．step                             B．way                                 C．road                                D．life

3.A．help                                      B．save                                C．kill                                   D．find

4.A．she                                  B．he                                     C．I                              D．they

5.A．days                                      B．hours                              C．minutes                          D．years

6.A．nothing                           B．something                       C．everything                     D．anything

7.A．picture                           B．rain                                  C．need                               D．danger

8.A．whatever                   B．whenever                      C．however                        D．whichever

9.A．saw                              B．heard                             C．smelt                              D．felt

10.A．out                                     B．away                               C．in                                     D．along

11.A．terrible                        B．sad                                   C．rich                    D．poor

12.A．dropped                           B．forgot                    C．lay                                   D．left

13.A．exciting                    B．hard                                C．happy                    D．interesting

14.A．many                                  B．some                              C．enough                          D．few

15.A．right                                   B．wrong                            C．glad                                 D．Well

阅读理解

　Robert is nine years old and Joanna is seven. They live at Mount（山峰）Ebenezer.Their father has a big property. In Australia they call a farm a property.Robert and Joanna like school very much. At school they can talk to their friends but Robert and Joanna cannot see their friends. They live 100, perhaps 300 kilometres away and like Robert and Joanna, they all go to school by radio.

　　　Mount Ebenezer is in the centre（中部）of Australia. Not many people live in “The Centre”.There are no schools with desks and blackboards and no teachers in “The Centre”. School is a room at home with a two-way radio. The teacher also has a two-way radio. Every morning she calls each student on the radio. When all the students answer, lessons begin. Think of your teacher 300 kilometres away!

根据短文内容，从下列各题所给的四个选项中选择正确的一项。

1． The students in “The Centre” have their lessons at home because ________.

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A． they live too far away from each other

B． they do not like school

C． they are too young to go to school

D． their families are too poor

2．If the people in “The Centre”of Australia want to send their children to school, they must have________.

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A． a property

B． desks and blackboards

C． a school room at home

D． a two-way radio

3． The teacher in “The Centre” in Australia teaches ________.

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A． without knowing whether the students are attending

B． by speaking only and not showing anything in writing

C． without using any textbooks or pictures

D． not in a classroom but at the homes of the students

4． When the students are having a lesson, they can hear their teacher ________.

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A． but their teacher cannot hear them

B． and their teacher can hear them, too

C． but cannot hear their classmates

D． and see him or her at the same time

5． Which of the following（下面）is true?

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A． Many people live at Mount Ebenezer.

B． Robert and Joanna can see and talk to their friends every morning

C． A two-way radio can be used as either a fast car or an ordinary radio set.

D． A property in Australia is a farm.

对话应答：从下列各题所给的四个选项中，选出正确答案。

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对话应答：从下列各题所给的四个选项中，选出正确答案。

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