Saturday morning was bright and fresh. There was a song in every heart, cheer on every face, and a  spring in every step.
Tom appeared with a bucket of white paint in one hand and a brush in the other. His Aunt Polly told him to paint the fence around the garden. It was thirty yards long and nine feet high. He felt very depressed.
Then he had a wonderful idea. He picked up his brush and started to work.
Soon Ben came along the road. He was happily eating an apple. He stopped to look at Tom. Tom went on painting and pretended（假装）not to see Ben.
“I’m going swimming,” said Ben. “Do you want to go swimming, Tom? But I guess you can’t. You have to stay and work, don’t you?”
“Work?” Tom said. “This isn’t work. I’m enjoying myself. Does a boy get a chance to paint a fence like this every day?”
Ben  thought  about  this.  Tom  continued  painting  carefully. Sometimes he stopped, stood back to look at the fence like an artist, and then added a bit more paint in just the right place. Ben was watching Tom paint with great interest. He was getting more and more eager to have a try himself.
After a while, Ben asked Tom if he would let him paint a little. Tom thought about it, and said,
“No, Ben, I can’t. You see. Aunt Polly wants it to be done well. Aunt Polly said that I must paint it with great care.”
“Oh, please, Tom,” begged Ben. “I can do it. I’ll be really careful. Just let me try. I’ll give you half of my apple. Well, I’ll give you all of it!”
“Well, all right, Ben,” said Tom. “You must be very careful.”
He gave Ben his brush with worry on his face but joy in his heart. He sat down under the tree, and started to eat Ben’s apple. All day, boys came to make fun of Tom, but they ended up staying to paint. When Ben got tired, Billy was waiting. He gave Tom a kite for a chance to paint. Then Johnny offered him twelve marbles, and so on.
By late afternoon Tom had gained all sorts of toys, and the fence had gained three  coats of paint. Later Aunt Polly came to look at the painted fence. She was so pleased with Tom’s work that she gave Tom a large cake!
【小题1】Why did Tom pretend not to see Ben when he came and watched him painting?

A．He saw Ben eating an apple happily.

B．He tried to make Ben interested in it.

C．He didn’t want to go swimming with Ben at all.

D．He didn’t want Ben to share the chance to paint the fence.

【小题2】What do the underlined words “spring” and “coat” probably mean in the passage according to the given dictionary entries （词条）?
spring
1 [U,C]the season between winter and summer when plants begin to grow 春天；春季
2 [U]the  ability  of  a  spring  to  return  to  its original position 弹性；弹力
3 [C]a place where water comes naturally to the surface from under the ground 泉
4 [U]a cheerful, lively quality 活力；朝气
coat
1 [C]a piece of clothing with long sleeves that you wear over other clothes when you go outside 外套
2 [C]the fur or hair on an animal’s skin
（动物的）皮毛
3 [C]a layer of something such as paint that you put onto a surface覆盖层；涂层

A．4;3

B．4;2

C．3;3

D．1;3

【小题3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Tom gained some toys by helping his friends.

B．Tom’s friends often helped him paint the fence.

C．Tom successfully tricked his friends into painting the fence.

D．Billy was the fourth boy to have the chance to paint the fence.

【小题4】What do you think of Tom?

A．He was honest.

B．He was smart.

C．He was shy.

D．He was stubborn.

Take a look at the label(标签) on almost any bottle of milk and you may see the word PASTEURIZED. What does that mean? Let’s find out by meeting Louis Pasteur.

Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a little town in France. As he grew up, he loved to paint. He loved to look at the world around him. When he went to college in Paris, he showed interest in looking through a microscope. A microscope makes things look a lot bigger; it lets you see things you can’t see just with your eyes. Looking through a microscope, Pasteur found a living world in a drop of water. He saw and drew pictures of the small living things -- he called them “microbes” or “germs”-- that crowded in a drop of water.

One day a winemaker came into the lab, hoping that someone could help him with his problem. “Sometimes my wine tastes delicious, but sometimes terrible,” he said to Pasteur. “Can you help me find out why?”

Pasteur put some drops of the wine under the microscope. He noticed that the terrible wine had some unusual germs. If he killed these germs, maybe he could keep the wine from turning terrible. He tried with different ways to kill the germs. In the end he found heating (加热) the wine seemed to work best. The winemaker tried it, and every bottle of wine tasted good.

Pasteur’s idea worked for other people, too. When farmers heated milk, it didn’t turn bad so quickly. When breweries heated beer, it tasted better. People called it “pasteurization” ---heating a liquid to kill bad germs. Aren’t you glad that the milk you drink has been pasteurized?

1. The Chinese meaning for the word “microbes” is____.

A．病毒

B．真菌

C．支原体

D．微生物

2. Which is the right order in Pasteur’s life story?

(1). He received college education in Paris.

(2) He helped to find some unusual germs in some drops of wine.

(3) A new way of killing bad germs--pasteurization was found out.

(4)He was born in 1822 in a little town in France.

(5) Microbes were found by Louis Pasteur with the help of a microscope.

A．2; 1; 3; 5; 4

B．4; 1; 5; 2; 3

C．4; 1; 3; 5; 2

D．3; 1; 2; 5; 4

3. What do you think Louis Pasteur was like from the passage?

A．Clever, helpful and hard-working.

B．Quiet, helpful and kind-hearted.

C．Brave, careful and hard-working.

D．Clever, serious and kind-hearted.

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Germs only live in something that is bad.

B．Louis found the way to kill the unusual germs in the wine by chance (偶然).

C．Everybody knows what the word PASTEURIZED means.

D．Pasteurization is used to kill bad germs in the milk we drink.

5. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．What life Louis Pasteur lived.

B．How to make milk clean.

C．How pasteurization was invented.

D．What to do with wine.

 

Bob is six years old．He is old enough to go to school． On the first day，his teacher taught him three words，“I，you，he”．Then the teacher said，“I am your teacher．You are my student．He is your student. He is your classmate.”When school was over，Bob went home. His mother asked him，“What has your teacher taught you today?”Bob said with a smile，“Listen，Mum and Dad，I am your teacher．You are my student．He is your classmate．”His mother said，“No，dear．You’re wrong．”Then she said，“I am your mother．You’re my son．He’s your father．”The next day，Bob’s teacher asked Bob to make sentences with“I，you and he”．
Bob stood up and said，“I’m your mother．You’re my son．He is your father．”All the students in Bob’s class laughed．
【小题1】Who taught Bob new words in the school?

A．Bob’s teacher	B．Bob’s friends
C．Bob’s father	D．Bob’s mother

【小题2】How many words did the teacher teach?

A．Two．	B．One．
C．Four．	D．Three．

【小题3】Did Bob understand what his teacher taught him?

A．Yes，he did．	B．No，he didn’t．
C．No，but he understood what his mother said．	D．The writer doesn’t tell．

【小题4】What do you think of the boy?

A．He is not clever．	B．He is helpful．
C．He is polite．	D．He is kind．

【小题5】Who laughed in the class the next day?

A．Bob’s mother．	B．Bob’s classmates．
C．Bob’s teacher．	D．Bob’s father．

Dear Annie,
I have never written a letter to a newspaper before, I have just never felt the need to do such a thing. I have always felt I was quite able to do everything by myself. But now I know I was wrong.
Sometimes you really need help in life, I guess. And that’s why I’m writing this letter to you.
I have a happy family. I love my children and they love me . I’m a mother of three children. I know well how to bring up (带大)children, and two of them are already over twenty, so it is nothing new for me.
But now I have a serious problem: the Internet problem. My little son is just sixteen, and I feel he should do a lot of homework now , but he doesn’t seem to be interested in it . He can happily spend six or eight hours at a time on the Internet every day , He chats with people that he has never met before , but speaks little to us .He does lots of useless things on the Internet. And he sees red if you ask him to do his homework.
I just want him to be a good student . Now he seldom does his lessons at home. I’m afraid he will drop behind in his class soon. His father is a doctor , a very kind man . He never seems to be afraid of his father.
What can I do ?And don’t tell to talk to him. We’ve tried that and it didn’t work. But this is really a big problem in our family. I have tried everything I can think of . I
wonder how the Internet is so attractive(有吸引力的).You’re my last hope. Please tell me what I can do!
Yours,
Ellen Smith
【小题1】Mrs Snith wrote to Annie because　　　　　　　.

A．she often asked others for help

B．she thought she was a great mother

C．she didn’t know how to stop his son surfing the Internet

D．she didn’t know how the Internet was so attractive

【小题2】What might NOT Mrs Smith’s son do on the Internet?                       

A．Send e-mails to his friends	B．Prepare for his lessons
C．Chat with strange people	D．Read the news

【小题3】What does the phrase “he sees red” mean in this passage?                   

A．He feels sorry	B．He feels happy
C．He becomes frightened	D．He becomes angry

【小题4】What do you think of Mr.Smith?                   

A．An irresponsible(不负责任的)father who never taught his son

B．A very excellent doctor who was busy with his work and had no time to teach his son

C．A very kind man who loved his son

D．A man who always made his son be afraid of him but failed

根据句意，用所给词的适当形式填空
【小题1】I am __________(surprise) at the news. What about you?
【小题2】When I passed the driving test, I thought I was the__________(luck) person in the world.
【小题3】The little boy is __________(kind) to his classmates, so nobody likes him.
【小题4】What do you think about the air __________(pollute) in your hometown?
【小题5】Danny and Daniel are brothers, and their__________(wife) are sisters. That’s interesting.