Mr. White looks out of the window. There is a little boy on the other side of the street. The boy  1  a piece of bread out of a bag and begins to eat it. There is a very thin dog  2  the street, too. The boy says to it, “Come on. I’m going to give you  3  bread.” The dog is very hungry and goes to him. But the boy  4  give it any bread. He kicks(踢)  5  god. It runs away, and the boy laughs.
Then Mr. White comes out of  6  home and says to the boy, “I’m going to give you a shilling(先令).” The boy is  7  and says, “Good.”
“Come here!” Mr. White says. The boy goes to him,  8  Mr. White doesn’t give him a shilling. He hits him  9  his stick(手杖).
The boy  10  and says, “Why do you hit me? I don’t ask you for any money.”
Mr. White says, “you know the god doesn’t ask you for any bread, but you kick it.”

Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs. They loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their houses.

One evening, Brownie’s family noticed that their dog hadn’t returned home. They went looking for him, but with no success. Brownie didn’t show up the next day, and by the next week he was still missing.

Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie’s house alone. He barked loudly. But busy with their own lives, Brownie’s family just ignored (忽略) their neighbor’s nervous little dog.

Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take “no” for an answer. He followed Ted, Brownie’s owner, everywhere he went. He barked, then rushed towards a nearby empty lot and back, as if to say, “ Follow me!”

Finally, Ted followed the dog across the empty lot. The dog led the man to a tree a half-mile from the house. There Ted found Brownie alive. One of his legs was crushed (夹住) in a trap. Ted wished he had taken Spotty’s earlier appeals (求助) seriously.

Then Ted noticed something amazing. In a circle around the injured dog, he saw a lot of dog food. They were the remains of lots of meals.

Spotty had been visiting Brownie every day. He had stayed with Brownie to protect him, snuggling(依偎) with him at night to keep him warm and nuzzling(用鼻子爱抚) him to keep his spirits up.

1.What can we learn from the first three paragraphs?

A．Brownie and Spotty didn’t like their owners.

B．Brownie was missing for three days.

C．Brownie’s family didn’t love him.

D．Spotty probably knew where Brownie was.

2.According to the story, which of the following is TRUE?

A．Spotty barked loudly at Ted because he was scared.

B．Ted followed Spotty because Spotty asked him to.

C．Spotty succeeded in escaping from the trap.

D．Brownie had nothing to eat that whole week.

3.The underlined phrase “keep his spirits up” in the last paragraph probably means______.

A．feed him          B．praise him         C．comfort him       D．protect him

4.What does the story aim to tell us?

A．Dog is man’s best friend.                B．Even dogs can have strong friendship.

C．Dogs are one of the cleverest animals.       D．Dogs have a special way to look for help.

Miyoke, 13

Do you want to know where I come from? Oh, please guess(猜)！ I can speak good Japanese(日语), but I can’t speak English or Chinese at all. I like white a lot, so you can see me in a white shirt at school.

Grace, 12

Am I very cool? I have long hair with two big eyes. I have an e-friend from China, but she lives in London with me now. She studies English here. I often help her study English.

Maria, 12

I like little animals very much. Dogs are my favorite. So I have two dogs at home, but my mom doesn’t like them at all. I often give some eggs and cakes to them. They like me, too, and they can help me.

Tian Jun, 13

Chinese is my mother language(语言), but I study English at school. Now I can speak a little English. I often have some emails from my friend in the USA. He tells me how to study English in his e-mails. He says he likes Beijing. He wants to visit the Great Wall very much.

1.Miyoke is from      .

2.Grace has        .

A．long hair with two small eyes

B．an e-friend from London

C．a Chinese e-friend

D．short hair with two big eyes

3.     doesn’t like dogs at her home at all.

A．Miyoke’s mom

B．Maria’s mom

C．Maria’s e-friend

D．Tian Jun’s friend

4.Tian Jun can        now.

A．only speak Chinese

B．speak Japanese

C．speak Chinese and English

D．speak Chinese and Japanese

5.Which is RIGHT according to the passage?

A．Miyoke is often in a brown shirt at school.

B．Grace lives with her e-friend in Beijing now.

C．Tian Jun’s friend wants to visit Beijing a lot.

D．Maria doesn’t have a dog at her home.

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Dogs are very popular pets all over the world.  Some people keep dogs because the dogs help them.  These dogs may __21___someone’s house.  They can also help a __22___ man by leading him to places __23__ he needs to go.  Other people keep dogs as pets __24___ they like dogs.  Almost 33 percent of the homes in the USA and England have dogs, and these dogs come in __25____ kinds of shapes and sizes.

By all accounts, the largest dog in the world is a dog named Zorba.  This dog is a mastiff that lives in London, England.  When it was 7 years old in 1989, it was 92.5 centimeters tall.  In __26___ words, it was more than half as tall as an adult man.  Some Great Danes can grow taller than 98 centimeters, but they do not grow as large as Zorba.  At its __27___ ,Zorba weighed more than a heavyweight boxer at 156 kg.

However, the __28__ dog was a Yorkshire terrier from England.  This dog was only the __29__ of a matchbox measuring 5 centimeters tall and, at most, 8 centimeters from nose to __30__.

1.A. help          B. make          C. protect         D. build

2.A. deaf          B. blind          C. disable         D. poor

3.A. that          B. which          C. where         D. who

4. A. for           B. so             C. because        D. as if

5.A. large          B. wide          C. deep           D. different

6.A. other         B. another         C. some          D. else

7.A. large         B. larger           C. largest        D. the largest

8.A. largest        B. smallest        C. least          D. most

9.A. height        B. weight          C. size          D. big

10.A. top          B. bottom          C. back          D. tail