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Your English teacher has introduced a play to your class. Read the play.
Characters: Benny, student, 14 years old
Peter, students, 15 years old
Susie, student, 14 years old
Grace, student, 14 years old
Time: One Sunday afternoon in autumn
Place: Sunny Park
(The four teenagers have just finished the picnic. They are tidying up.)
Benny: Wow! That was a great picnic. I'm so full that I can hardly move.
Grace: That's no excuse for not tidying up, Benny. Come over here and help me pack up the leftover food. Peter, can you put out the fire, please? And clean up the plate.
Peter: (Speaking unhappily to himself) How can I always get the dirty and difficult jobs? It's not fair.
(Peter throws a bit of water on the fire. Then he picks up the ashes (灰烬) with an old newspaper and wants to throw them into the long grass.)
Susie: (Sounding surprised) What are you doing, Peter? That's d…
Peter: Whoops…the newspaper has caught fire.
Susie: And the grass…Benny, Grace, help! Help!
(Benny and Grace come over quickly. They help put out the fire completely.)
Peter: Oh, no. What have I done?
Grace: You know that we should do everything carefully, don't you?
Peter: (With his head in his hands) Yes. What have I done? What have I done?
1.How does Peter feel about his job?
A.Dirty and difficult B.Clean an easy
C.Great and interesting D.Noisy and harmful
2.What word do you think Susie would say in the sentence "That's d…"?
A.dirty B.difficult C.dangerous D.delicious
3.Which of the following sentences is true?
A.There are five people in the play. B.Benny refuses to help others tidy up.
C.They have a picnic in the morning D.Peter's carelessness causes the fire.
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Tony, a nine-year-old kid, is sitting at his desk when suddenly he wets (尿湿) his pants. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he can't possibly know how this has happened. It has never happened before. He knows the after-effect (后果) -When the boys find out, he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives.
Tony puts his head down and say to himself, "Oh, no. What can I do? I need help now!"
He looks up and notices the teacher coming, with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.
As the teacher is walking to him, a classmate named Emily is carrying a glass that is full of water. Emily falls down in front of the teacher and drops the glass of water in Tony's pants. Tony seems to be angry, but all the while he is saying to himself, "Thank you, dear! Thank you, dear!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the person that everyone laughs at, Tony is the person of sympathy (同情). The person that everyone laughs at should be him, but now it is Emily.
She tries to help, but they tell her, "You've done enough, you stupid!"
At the end of the day, as they were waiting for the bus, Tony walks over to Emily and says in a low voice, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
Emily says back in a quiet voice, "I wet my pants, too."
1.What does Tony think the other boys will do if they find out the fact?
A.They'll never speak to him again. B.They'll tell the teacher about it.
C.They'll try to help him. D.They'll all laugh at him.
2.Which is right according to the passage?
A.Tony is really angry with Emily. B.Emily drops the water on purpose.
C.Tony and Emily don't go home by bus. D.Tony and Emily aren't classmates.
3.We know that Emily is a ________ girl from the passage?
A.careless and lazy B.quiet and bright C.kind and smart. D.stupid and helpless
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There was a kingdom long, long ago. It was ruled by a king who loved riddles. Once a year the king made a new riddle. He gave a prize to the person who could solve the riddle.
There was a baker who also lived in this kingdom. Everyone agreed that he baked the finest breads. The baker had almost everything he needed except for a horse. If the baker had a horse, he could sell his fine breads from one end of the kingdom to the other.
One year the king made a new riddle that puzzled everyone. "I will give a prize to the person who can solve my riddle, "the king said. "Whoever wins will have the pick of one of my strongest horses." He then drew a line down the middle of the courtyard. "Make this line shorter without erasing (清除) any part of it," the king challenged.
People came from far and wide. They looked at the line and squinted at it. They even put their noses to the ground and scratched their heads.
"How can you make a line shorter without erasing any part of it?" the people in the crowd asked each other. Some of them tried. The dressmaker kicked dirt (泥土) over the line to hide it. The farmer poured water over the line to make it disappear. None of these efforts worked, and the people went home disappointed. Everyone was puzzled about how to solve this new riddle.
A week passed, and nobody had any new ideas. Then one day the baker came into the courtyard with a bag of flour (面粉).
"Your Majesty," the baker said to the king, "I can make your line shorter without erasing any part of it." Then the baker opened his bag of flour. He poured out a line of flour right next to the king's line. The line the baker made was longer than the king's line.
"Now, good king," the baker smiled, "your line is shorter."
The people were amazed. The king laughed and clapped his hands. "You have won the prize. I will give you a horse of your choice."
The baker was excited. Now he could sell his breads from one end of the kingdom, to the other.
1.What was the baker's problem at the beginning of the story?
A.He couldn't make fine breads.
B.He needed money to open more stores.
C.He didn't have enough flour to make more breads.
D.He had difficulty selling breads all over the kingdom.
2.The dressmaker and the farmer failed because they both ________.
A.tried to erase the line. B.poured water over the line
C.kicked dirt over the line D.put their noses to the ground
3.The baker smiled because ________.
A.he was glad to see the king B.he wanted to make the king happy
C.he felt sure that he solved the riddle D.he sold a lot of breads to the villagers
4.This story shows that the king liked ________.
A.to be rich B.to draw a line C.to eat breads D.to have fun
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One day, while I was waiting for my father, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set free from some sort of prison (监狱).The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.
At that moment, I thought to myself, "Why aren't most adults this way?" Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don't even make a second attempt. They would be so embarrassed that they would not try again if someone saw them fall. Or, because they fall, they would find a good excuse for themselves that they're not fit for it. They would end up being too afraid to attempt again for fear of failure (失败).
However, with kids, when they fall down, they don't consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a learning experience. They try again and again until they succeed. The answer must be that they have not connected "falling down" with the word "failure". What's more, they probably think to themselves that it's quite okay to fall down and that it's not wrong to do so. In other words, they allow themselves to make mistakes, so they remain energetic.
I was deeply impressed by the boy's persistence (坚持不懈) and the manner in which he did.
1.What did the little boy do when he fell down?
A.He cried and lay on the grass. B.He asked his mother for help.
C.He got up and went on running. D.He got up and stood there crying.
2.In the writer's opinion, what might the little boy regard his falling down as?
A.A failure. B.A joke. C.An interesting game. D.A learning experience.
3.In the writer's opinion, why can't many adults succeed?
A.Because they are afraid of being embarrassed.
B.Because they can't find a good excuse.
C.Because once they fail, they won't attempt again.
D.Because they don't allow themselves to make mistakes.
4.The underlined word "attempt" in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A.facing B.doubting C.trying D.giving up .
5.What does the writer want to tell us?
A.Practice makes perfect. B.Failure is the mother of success.
C.All roads lead to Rome. D.Each coin has two sides.
