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One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the pennies he bought some grapes.
It was very hot, and there wasn’t a house or a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a grape on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another grape and once again, his son picked it up and put it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the grapes and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the grapes, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the grapes, always remember the lesson: A person who does not worry about the little things will find that he can not do the great things.”
1.The horseshoe was picked up by ______
A. the father B.the son C.nobody
2.The father bought some ______ after he sold the horseshoe.
A.pennies B.grapes C.trees
3.Thomas picked up the grapes and ate them because ______.
A. he was asked to B. he liked them C. he was thirsty
4.The father dropped the grapes one by one because he wanted ______.
A. his son to eat them all
B. to teach his son a lesson
C. to make fun of his son
5.From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A. if we want to eat grapes, we must pick up a horseshoe
B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us much money
C. we should worry about small things before we do the great things
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It is very important for us students to learn to use dictionaries. Try to find the answers to the questions in this dictionary extract（摘要）.
1.We can find these explainations（解释）in _________ dictionary.
A. an English-English B. a Chinese-English C. an English-Chinese
2.If you try to find a word similar to “proud”, you can look up the word “______”.
A. pleasure B. pride C.person
3.If you have a bad cold, you will ______ according to the extract.
A. feel proud of yourself B. lose your voice C.encourage your parents
4.The word “encourage” is a (an) ______.
A. adjective B. noun C. verb
5.In the sentence “Your parents may △ you from smoking”, △ stands for _____ according to the extract.
A. proud B. voice C. discourage
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It’s possible to do many simple tricks with numbers. Here is one trick, if you follow the instructions, you will find it’s really interesting.
First, write down your house number. For example, if your address is 73 Jin Shang Road, you would write down 73. After you write down your house address number, you double it. Then add 5 to this doubled number. For example, if your address is 73 and you double it, you will get 146. Then you add 5, you will get 151.
And then, multiply this number by 50. In our example here, you’ll get 7550. The next step is to add your age to this total. For example, if you’re 16 years old, you should add 16 to this total. In our example here, the result will be 7566.
After that, you have to add the number of days in a year, which is 365. In our example here, 365 added to 7566 is 7931.
The final step is this: Subtract 615 from the number that you have. Take away 615 from the total. In our example, 7931 minus 615 is 7316.
The result here—7316—is the trick. The first part of the number is the address and the last part of the number is the age of the person. That is, 73 is the address that we started with, and 16 is the age that we used.
Isn’t it interesting? Do you want to have a try now?
1.How many steps are there in the trick?
A. Four B. Seven C. Nine
2.The third step is ______.
A. ＋5 B. ×50 C. －615
3.Tom is 38, he lives in 89 Jin Shang Road. If he plays this trick, he will get ______ in the end.
A. 3889 B. 9150 C. 8938
4.When you play this trick, ______ is Not the number you have to use every time.
A. 50 B.73 C. 365
5.The best title of this passage is “______”.
A. A trick with numbers B. An interesting problem C. How to work out a trick
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Now more and more people in the world are getting fatter. This troubles them a lot. （1）Experts(专家) say that it has a lot to do with our eating habits.
Our eating habits are very important for good health and a strong body. Most of us like eating sweets and ice cream better than vegetables and rice. Sweets and ice cream are not bad for us if we eat them at the end of a meal. （2）If we eat them before a meal, they may take away our appetite(食欲).
It’s important for us to eat our meal in the same period each day. When we feel worried or excited, we may not want to eat. A long time ago, in England, some judges(法官) often decided whether a man was telling the truth by giving him some dry bread. If the man could not swallow(吞) the bread, it meant that he wasn’t telling the truth. Because when a man is worried about something, he will have trouble in swallowing anything dry, because he loses his appetite.
1.Are more and more people getting fatter in the world?________________________ ___
2.Do most people like eating sweets or rice?_______________________ ________
3.What may happen to people when they feel worried or excited?____ __________
4.将短文中画线句子（1）处翻译成汉语。
5.将短文中画线句子（2）处翻译成汉语。
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