Matt grow the best vegetables in the village．He grows fruit too--big , sweet apples and oranges．And what else ? Well , the biggest and the prettiest flowers．Things grow in Matt' s garden all through the year．He cuts some flowers for his sitting room table ; and of course , he eats some fruit and vegetables．But he sells everything else in the market．Matt is not a poor man．

He knows a few other gardens ; but he does not have any friends．You might ask , " What is that ? Why doesn ' t he have friends ? "

I will tell you．People do not understand him．And they do not understand his garden, " Why not ? " you will ask．" It' s a very good garden , isn' t  it ? "

It is a wonderful garden．Matt plants things in spring , summer and autumn and winter ．After that he does very little work．He sits in the garden with his small radio ．And everything grows ．

People ask , " How does Matt grow these wonderful things ? He waters the plants sometimes , but he doesn' t do anything else ．He just sits under an orange tree  with his radio ．He listens to music nearly all day ! " And that is all quite true , people cannot understand it , and so they don' t like it very much ．

Matt likes music ．But what about the garden ? Who does the work ? I will tell you another true thing : the music does the work ．All plants love music ; and Matt knows that .

Do you want big vegetables and the loveliest flowers ? Well , just give your plants a  lot of  music ,

There are not only vegetables and flowers , but also ______ in Matt' s garden ．

       A．plants     B．fruit trees            C．ants        D．crops

Matt makes a living by _______.

       A．selling his vegetables , fruit and flowers

       B．growing trees in his garden

       C．working in the market

       D．helping other people growing plants

Everything in Matt' s garden grows well because _____

       A．he has a good garden

       B．he is good at growing things and likes listening to the radio

       C．music helps his plants a lot

       D．he is very hardworking

People think that ______ .

       A．Matt' s garden is better than theirs

       B．Matt works harder than they

       C．Matt knows how to grow vegetables well

       D．the radio helps Matt to grow veveything well in his garden

People don' t like Matt because ____.

       A．he doesn' t give thim any vegetables or fruit

       B．he listens to the radio too much

       C．they are jealous（嫉妒的） of him

       D．Matt doesn' t let them listen to his radio

33 Chilean miners were trapped nearly a half-mile underground after the mine accident. They had no real hope that they’d ever be found. Luckily, though, the men had Luis Urzua. They were rescued to safety on October 13, 2010.Urzua, 54, was the shift leader at the time of the disaster, and used all his wisdoms and his leadership talents to help his men stay calm and in control for the 17 terrible days it took for rescuers to make their first contact with them.
It was no surprise that Urzua was the last of the 33 miners to leave the mine.
Urzua --- after shaking hands with rescue workers ---- climbed into a capsule barely wider than a man’s shoulders at 9:46 and was hauled up (拖上来) from a narrow hole drilled through 2,000 feet of rock. He arrived at the top 11 minutes later.
“We have done what the entire world was waiting for,” he told Chilean President Sebastian Pinera immediately after his rescue. “The 69 days that we fought so hard were not in vain.” Pinera greeted Urzua, saying “You have been rescued, coming out last like a good leader… You have no idea how all Chileans share with
you your hardships, your hope, and your joy. You are an inspiration.” With Urzua by his side, the president led the crowd in singing the national anthem.Robinson Marquez once worked with Urzua in a nearby mine. He described Urzua as a calm, professional person and a born leader. “He is very protective of his men and obviously loves them. He wouldn’t have left until all of his men were safely above ground,” Marquez said.
Under Urzua’s leadership, the men stretched an emergency food supply meant to last just 48 hours over two and a half weeks, taking tiny sips of milk and bites of fish every other day.He described the difficulties of the first days, saying that it took about three hours for the dust to settle before the men could inspect where tons of collapsed rock sealed off (堵住) the main way out. When the rescuers first made contact by drilling a narrow hole into their refuge (避难处), the miners were so excited that everyone wanted to hug the drill hammer.After the collapse, Urzua was the first to speak to Pinera and to urge him not to let him and his men down. “Don’t leave us alone,” he asked the president, who assured the workers that they would not be abandoned, telling them he would do everything he could to get them back to the surface.
【小题1】The mine collapsed on ____.

One of Mark Twain’s classic novels is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is   36  in a small American town in the 19th century. The people in this town are very traditional and   37 a quiet life.The story is about a boy called Tom Sawyer, who lives with his aunt Polly. He is often in  38  with his aunt. Aunt Polly is very kind,   39  Tom thinks she is always trying to control him.
Tom is different from   40  children in the town. He loves adventure. He does a lot of bad things, but he never really   41  anyone. He tries very hard not to go to school, and often jumps   42  his bedroom window at night to meet his friends. He is very clever. One day, Aunt Polly asks him to do some painting, and he   43  to get all the boys in the town to do the work for him by inventing a new   44  game. It is these little stories   45  make readers want to keep reading the novel, but it is the adventures that   46  the most important part of the book.
Tom’s best friend is Huck Finn, a boy who has no home. In one adventure, they spend the night outside, and they see a man kill another man   47 . Later in the book, Tom, Huck and another boy decide to leave the town   48  they think that life there is too boring. They __49__ to an island in the middle of a river. They   50  fires, catch fish and sleep under the stars. They also make a   51  to travel up and down the river.   52  seeing the boys for days, the people in the town think that they have died. One day, when Tom cones back to his aunt’s house to leave a letter   53  that he is not dead, he hears his aunt talking about his funeral（葬礼）.   54  Tom has an idea. On the morning of their funeral, the boys run back into town and   55  their own funeral before telling everyone that they are still alive.

He is very ______ and well-qualified, so he should reach the top of his profession.

To Whom It May Concern:

My husband and I got married in 1965 and for the first ten years of our marriage I was very happy to stay home and raise our three children. Then four years ago, our youngest child went to school and I thought I might go back to work.

My husband was very supportive and helped me to make my decision. He emphasized all of the things I can do around the house, and said he thought I could be a great success in business.

After several weeks of job-hunting I found my present job, which is working for a small public relations firm. At first, my husband was very proud of me and would tell his friends , "My clever little wife can run that company she's working for."

But as his joking remark approached reality, my husband stopped talking to me about my job．I have received several promotions and pay increases , and I am now making more money than he is. I can buy my own clothes and a new car. Because of our combined incomes, my husband and I can do many things that we had always dreamed of doing , but we don't do these things because he is very unhappy.

We fight about little things and my husband is very critical of me in front of our friends. For the first time in our marriage, I think there is a possibility that our marriage may come to an end．

I love my husband very much, and I don't want him to feel inferior, but I also love my job．I think I can be a good wife and a working woman, but I don't know how .Can you give me some advice? Will I have to choose one or the other or can I keep both my husband and my new career?

Please help."Distressed"

The letter was most probable written ________.

       A．in 1975    B．around 1980  C．four years ago   D．in 1965

Her husband ________ when she first found her present job．

       A．was very critical of her   B．felt disappointed

       C．was proud of her     D．was happy but critical

What does the underlined word "promotion" mean?

       A．scolding   B．criticism C．prize D．advancement

As her income increased, ________.

       A．she found a gap emerged between her and her husband

       B．she bought more clothes and a house

       C．she did the many things she and her husband dreamed of

D．she felt very proud of herself