Dou Kou, a Chinese boy, is called “the youngest writer in the world”. He has written three books till now. Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his partents started working in over 30 different cities, such as Xi’an and Shenzhen. This kind of life gave him things to think and write about. When he was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one, he could say five to six hundred words. At three, he could look up words in the dictionary. At four, his father taught him how to learn by himself. His parents like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales. At the age of 6, he wrote a novel about his life in different cities with his parents. His fairy tales are all from his life. One day, he found many mice in the house. They only ate their food but also hurt his mother’s hand. So he thought, “If we give mice the stomach of cows, they will eat grass and they will be helpful to people.” This was his first fairy tales Change Stomach for Mice. Now he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel called Eyes of Children. He says, “I am not different from other children. I just wrote several books.

1.How many books has Dou Kou written?

2.Thanks to his ________, Dou Kou could write his books.

3.Dou Kou began to use a dictionary __________.

4. The underlined(划线的) sentences show us that Dou Kou _________.

5.Which is the best title?

When I was in the third grade, I was chosen to be the princess in the school play. For “weeks my mother had helped me practise my lines. But once on the stage, every word    11  from my head. Then my teacher asked me to change my role to be a narrator (解说者) for the play.    12  I didn’t tell my mother what had happened that day, she noticed my    13  and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the garden.
It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions (蒲公英) popping (炸开)   14   the grass in bunches (束). I watched my mother bend down by one of the bunches. “I think I’ll dig up (挖光) all these weeds (野草),” she said. “From now on, we’ll   15  have roses in this garden.”
“But I like dandelions,” I protested(抗议). “All flowers are   16 —even dandelions !”
My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. “And that is   17  of people, too,” she added.
When I   18  that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the truth. “But you will be a wonderful narrator,” she said,    19  me of how much I loved to read stories’ aloud.
Thanks to my mother’s encouragement, I got to know everybody had his or her own    20  in the world. I felt proud of the role in the play.

A man was looking for things of the old times. One day he came to a village and found a blue bowl. It looked very old. The bowl was on the ground and a cat was drinking milk from it. A farmer，the owner of the cat，was sitting beside the bowl. The man did not want the farmer to know that he was interested in the bowl. So he said to him in a soft voice，“What a nice cat you have! Will you sell it to me？”
“How much will you give me for the cat？”the farmer asked.
“Thirty dollars. Would that be enough？”Later，the farmer agreed. After he paid the farmer，the man said，“This cat is used to eating with his bowl. May I take this bowl with the cat？”But the farmer said，“I'm sorry I can't give you the bowl. Thanks to(多亏了) the bowl，I have sold thirty cats.”
根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误。正确的用“A”表示，不正确的用“B”表示。
【小题1】A man was looking for old things.
【小题2】One day he found a blue bowl in a town.
【小题3】The man wanted to buy the cat because he it was very nice.
【小题4】The man thought he could easily get the bowl after he bought the cat.
【小题5】From the story we can see that the farmer wasn’t clever.

Thanks to my friends, I got a good job in the city.

                 A. Because of             B. With the help of            C. Thanks for                  D. Thanks a lot

英汉互译  阅读下面的短文，将划线部分的句子译成汉语或英语。

Thanksgiving Day was coming soon. 1.Miss Green gave her students special homework. “Please draw a picture to show your thanks.” said Ms Green.

Most students drew a turkey(火鸡) or other traditional things. But Douglas, a shy boy, drew a different thing. 2.他仅仅画了一只手。

His classmates were surprised at his picture. One child said, “It must be a farmer’s hand, because farmers keep turkeys.” Others guessed it was his father’s hand. 3.因为他家很穷, his father had to work day and night for money.

4.Miss Green asked the little boy whose hand it was. He answered, “It’s yours. You often take me by the hand to play outside and teach me how to hold a pencil.”

Oh, 5.the boy was showing his thanks to his teacher. Miss Green was moved and hugged(拥抱) the little boy.