Have you ever heard of a famous charity called Operation Smile? We hope we can help you understand how we are trying to help children all over the world.

Operation Smile was started by a doctor and his wife. In 1982, together with some volunteers, they went to Philippines to help children who had holes in their lips or inside their mouths. It was very difficult for them to eat and drink. These volunteers worked very hard. But they worried that they could not carry on with the work because they were short of money. Then they decided to start a charity so that they could help these needy children. They called it Operation Smile.

    Operation Smile works in more than twenty developing countries and has cured over 10,000 children who have problems with their mouths. Operation Smile has won many prizes for its work and in 1999 they even started a special event called“The World Journey of Hope”. 5,000 children in 18 countries are cured during the event.

    On the other hand, Operation Smile trains local doctors and nurses in developing countries so that they can continue to help children when Operation Smile has left. As to the children with much more serious problems, they will send them to America for further treatment.

    So show your kindness and generosity to the needy children now. You can send your donation to Operation Smile at local banks. Many thanks from the children who can smile now will come to you.

1.Operation Smile is a famous _____, which was started by a doctor and his wife.

A. school               B. charity          C. building             D. person

2.Operation Smile helps the children by _____.

A. curing the children who have problems with their mouths      

B. helping poor children go back to school

C. helping blind children to see again     

D. offering houses to homeless children

3. Five thousand children from _____ countries are cured during the event “The World Journey of Hope”.

A. ten                  B sixteen           C. eighteen             D. twenty

4.Why did they worry that they could not carry on with the work?

Because  _____.

A.there were no more volunteers

B.they went to America for further study

C.they didn’t have enough money           

D.the doctors were too busy            

5.What does the writer ask us to do to show our kindness and generosity to the needy children?

A. To donate money at local banks.

B. To be a volunteer in Philippines.

C. To send cards to the needy children.

D. To be a doctor of Operation Smile.

 

 

In Britain you’re allowed to drive a car when you’re seventeen. You have to get a special two-year driving license before you can start. When you’re learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren’t allowed to drive the car on the road alone. You don’t have to go to a driving school --- a friend can teach you. The person with you isn’t allowed to take money for the lesson unless he’s got a teacher’s license.

Before you’re allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don’t pass the test, you’re allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her fortieth test after 212 driving lessons! When you’ve passed your test, you don’t have to take it again, and you’re allowed to go on driving as long as you like. Britain’s oldest driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.

Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn’t have to take a test until 1935. On the early days of car driving, before 1878, cars weren’t allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.

1.A person can’t take money for driving lessons unless he __________.

A. has learnt to drive in a driving school   

B. has a full driving license

C. has a full license and a teacher’s license

D. is given a special two-year driving license

2.In the driving test, one _______________________.

A. mustn’t drive his car, even though the car is fit for the road   

B. is usually asked to drive on roads for some time

C. has to be examined only in car driving skills

D. must drive around for more than an hour

3.When can I take the driving test again if I don’t pass it?

A. a few years later                               

B. right after the first test 

C. a few weeks later                           

D. never

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. There is no limit (限制)to the age of an old man who drives a car.

B. One can take a driving test again and again until he passes it.

C. There was a speed limit to cars before 1878.

D. A car driver didn’t have to get a limit license until 1935.

5.The best title for the passage is _____________.

A. Driving Licenses in Britain　　             

B. Tests for Britain People 

C. Driving Cars　　　　　　　　                

D. Young Men’s Driving Licenses

 

  Last year my dad got a new job in a small town,__51__ my family moved there. On my first __52__ at the new school I was really worried. The teachers were friendly, but the __53__ was the other students. They didn’t seem friendly. I knew nobody and I couldn’t __54__ understand what they said.

  During the break all the other students went out. I didn’t know where to go, so I ___55___ in the classroom. After a while, a ___56___ came back in and came up to me. I ___57___ what he wanted to do. He took ___58___ out of his bag and said to me,“Would you like something to ___59___?”It was an apple. Suddenly I felt really ___60___ and we began to talk.

  It was Tony who gave me the apple and now he is my best friend. I am thankful to the apple, which started our friendship.

51. A. or                   B. so                    C. but

52. A. day                  B. spring                 C. winter

53. A. project                B. custom               C. problem

54. A. hardly                B. ever                  C. even

55. A. danced               B. stayed                 C. sang

56. A. woman               B. girl                   C. boy

57. A. knew                B. wondered               C. thought

58. A. something            B. anything                C. nothing

59. A. eat                  B. drink                   C. read

60. A. shy                  B. happy                  C. lonely

Do you know that animals have love for each other and their children just like us humans? Let me tell you some moving stories of great animal parents.
Several years ago a heavy rain hit a town and made the river go up. When the rain stopped, people found that a dog swam to an island in the river twice a day for two weeks. Why did she do so? Her four children were there. The mother swam there every day to feed her babies. This true story moved many people.
Another story is about chimpanzees(猩猩). A scientist named Jane Goodall spent 4 years living with chimpanzees in Africa. She found that chimpanzees also cared for those that were hurt or got lost. “It is not only humans who have duties, animals also do,” she said.
Two birds in Chengdu also showed their parental(父母的) love. Their baby was hurt and fell on the street in the center of the city. Cars were driving past but the brave parents rushed down to the road and took the little bird away with their claws(爪子).
【小题1】 After the heavy rain, the mother dog swam to the island ________.
A. to look for food                 B. to feed her babies
C. to move some people              D. to carry things to her owner
【小题2】 The scientist found chimpanzees ________.

A．cared for the hurt or lost ones	B．often left for a far place
C．always stayed in the same place	D．didn’t care about each other

【小题3】The two birds rushed down and took the little one away because ________.

A．they didn’t like their baby	B．they were not kind enough
C．they wanted to teach their baby	D．they wanted to save their baby

【小题4】 From the passage we know ________.

A．dogs like to swim across the river in a heavy rain.

B．mother birds don’t want to save their children

C．animal parents love their children a lot

D．all animals want to move people very much

Here are two stories from different parts of the world. They seem strange but, believe it or not, they re all true!

John Lee was an Englishman who refused to be hanged! In 1884 the police said Lee had killed an old woman who he used to work with. There was nothing to show that Lee had killed the woman. Lee told the police he hadn't done it, but no one believed him and he was going to be hanged. On the day of the hanging, however, the door in the floor, through which Lee's body would fall, did not open. They tried three times but each time the door stayed closed, even though it had worked well the day before. In the end they sent Lee back to prison, where he lived for the next twenty-two years. At all times, John Lee said he hadn't killed the woman, and he believed it was the "hand of God" that had saved him from death by hanging.

The police in Venezuela (委内瑞拉) in South America followed a man home one night. He was the thief they wanted to catch. However, half of his house was standing in Venezuela and the other half was standing in Colombia (哥伦比亚). Venezuela's neighbor. When the police entered the house, the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia, and called his lawyer (律师). The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom. They asked the police in Colombia to help. The Colombian police refused to help because the man's crime (罪行 )was not a crime in Colombia. In the end, the Venezuelan police gave up and went back to the police station.

1.The underlined（下划线) word "hanged" in this passage probably means _.

A. shut in a room » 

B. questioned by the police

C. killed by putting a rope around the neck

D. kept in a place

2. What do we¹ know about the door in the floor?

A. It had opened the day before the hanging.

B. It had been broken a long time.

C. After three times, it opened.

D. John Lee's dead body fell through it.

3.From the story we know that the thief's bedroom was____.

A. in Venezuela B. in Colombia

C. in neither Venezuela nor Colombia I), in both Venezuela and Colombia

4.Why didn't the Venezuelan police go into the man's bedroom?

A. They didn't know where it was.

B. The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia.

C. The police in Colombia told them that (hey would help.

D. The police in Colombia told them not to go inside.

5. The police in Colombia didn't help the police in Venezuela to catch the thief because

A. they didn't know where he was

B. the police in Venezuela didn’t ask for help

C. the man's lawyer told them not to help

D. the man's crime was not a crime in Colombia