Mary got a little white lamb（羊羔）. She tied it to a tree in her field during the day and went to take it home every evening. One evening, she found the lamb gone. Someone had cut the rope and stolen the lamb. When her husband came home, she told him what had happened. Henry at once set out to look for the thief.
It was easy to find the thief in the small village. Henry heard that his neighbor Alex got a lamb. He went to the neighbors’ house and said angrily, “Return the lamb to me, or I’ll call the police.”
Alex explained that he had bought a lamb, but it was black. Henry looked out of the window. There in the garden was a little black lamb. He felt ashamed. Then he apologized to his neighbour. While they were talking, it began to rain. He stayed in Alex’s house until the rain stopped. When he went outside, he was surprised to see the lamb changed. The lamb, which had been black half an hour before, was now almost white.
“What colour on earth is the lamb,” Henry wondered, “black or white?”
【小题1】When her husband came back Mary told him __________.

A．she had got a lamb

B．someone had stolen the lamb

C．she had tied the lamb to the tree

D．her son was gone

【小题2】Henry said to Alex, “If you ______ return the lamb to me, I’ll go to the police office.”

A．will

B．won’t

C．don’t

D．have to

【小题3】Henry didn’t leave the neighbor’s home ______.

A．until it began to rain

B．until it stopped raining

C．when it was raining

D．before it began to rain

【小题4】To his surprised, he found a _______ lamb there instead.

A．big

B．black

C．small

D．white

【小题5】Which of the sentences is right?

A．The lamb was stolen by Alex.

B．The lamb was bought by Alex.

C．The lamb could change its colour.

D．The lamb went to Alex’s house by itself.

As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods, ” with a tone(语气) of airy acceptance. It’s similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk.” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.

We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring(探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound.

Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly----tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.

It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence（青春期）. In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that were really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.

The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______.

   A. spend their free time                 B. play gold and other sports

   C. avoid doing their schoolwork         D. keep away from their parents

What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

   A. The activities in the woods were well planned.

   B. Human history is not the result of exploration.

   C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.

   D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

   A. calm      B. doubtful      C. serious        D. optimistic

How does the author feel about his childhood?

   A. Happy but short.                B. Lonely but memorable.

   C. Boring and meaningless.         D. Long and unforgettable.

The first ting we do is to put an APB and this goes to all the police stations in the country.
Next we telephone the hospitals. Often the person we are looking for has been in an accident.
Then we might try parents, friends or relatives they might be with. We try to follow their movements and to find the last person they saw in local or national papers—especially papers they might read. There are other things we can do: put posters in places where they might be, go on television.
Here in America there is a magazine in which there are photographs of missing children. This is often the last hope. Of course, with nearly two million missing children every year, we can’t do all these things for everyone. We haven’t got the time, or the money , or the people who work for it. 
【小题1】 Who do they look for?

A．Criminals.

B．The drivers who have caused accidents.

C．News reports.

D．Missing children.

【小题2】 How many ways to find the missing children are mentioned in the passage?

A．Five.

B．Six.

C．Two.

D．Seven.

【小题3】When a person is reported to be missing, they

A．might not know the exact reason	B．might find out the reason first
C．set out to look for him at once	D．first turn to the police for help

【小题4】They put photos in newspapers or put posters because they think

A．people will tell them what will happen to the missing persons

B．the missing persons might come back after reading them

C．everyone will know the missing persons

D．all the people will read them

【小题5】 According to the passage, when they are looking for a missing child, they

A．can always find him

B．couldn’t always try every way mentioned above

C．just try one way or another

D．won’t give up until they find him

____ to complete the job on time, they set out to work immediately.

A. Being determined     B. On having determined    C. Determined   D. To be determined