An old farmer lived with his little grandson. Every day the farmer got up early to read books.
One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa! I want to read books just like you, but I don’t understand them. What are the advantages of reading?” The grandfather said, “Take this litter basket to the river and bring me back a basket of water.” the boy did, but all the water leaked out（漏出）before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, “ You’ll have to walk faster next time.”
This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. The boy said, “ See, Grandpa, it’s useless（无用的）!”
“You think it is useless?” the old man said. “ Look at the basket.”
The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he found that the basket was different. It was cleaner, inside and out.
“That’s what happens when you read books. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read them, you will be changed, inside and out.”
1.Who did the old farmer live with?
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2.What did the old farmer do every morning?
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3.Did the grandson know the advantages of reading at first?
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4.What did the grandfather ask his grandson to do?
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5.How was the basket after the grandson took water with it?
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One day, a boy fought with one of his classmates. 1. “He is really bad and I hate him.” the boy said.
The grandfather said, “Let me tell you a story. When I was a boy, I too, sometimes hated others for what they did. 2. It doesn’t hurt（伤害） your enemy (敌人) but only hurt yourself. ”
As the boy listened carefully, the grandfather went on, “There are always two tigers inside my heart. One is good and kind. He gets on well with everything around him. 3. He is full of anger （怒气）. Even the smallest thing will make him angry. He fights with everyone all the time, and for no reason. He can’t think carefully because he always hates others. 4. They both try to control (控制)me. ”
The boy looked into his grandfather’s eyes and asked, “Which tiger always controls you, grandfather?”
The old man said slowly in a serious voice, “ 5. I always feed the good and kind tiger, so I never hate others and seldom get angry now. ”
A.But the other is bad and unfriendly.
B.Then he went to his grandfather and told him his story angrily.
C.But hate will make you feel tired .
D. The one that I feed.
E(AB).It is difficult to live with these two tigers inside my heart.
Lucy Brown teaches English in a junior high school. She loves her students very much, and she works hard. She often tells them some interesting stories in class and her students like her, too.
Yesterday, Lucy found some boys always made faces（做鬼脸）in class. She didn’t want them to do that again, so she got all her students together and said, “Boys and girls, when I was young, I liked making faces in class, too. But one day, my grandmother told me not to do that again. She said, ‘If you make faces again, you will be ugly when you grow up.’ So you shouldn’t do that again.”
Some students thought she was right, but some students didn’t. One of the boys put up his hand. “Oh, Tom! What do you want to say?” asked Lucy.
The boy stood up and said, “Miss Brown, you must regret（后悔）listening to your grandmother now.”
1. Lucy is _____.
A．a Chinese teacher B．a math teacher C．an English teacher D．a history teacher
2.In her class, Lucy often _____her students.
A．sings English songs to B．performs magic tricks for
C．tells interesting stories to D．plays the piano for
3.What did Lucy find yesterday?
A．Some boys always didn’t listen to her. B．Some boys always ate snacks in class.
C．Some boys always had fights in class. D．Some boys always made faces in class.
4.How did Lucy make them not to do that again?
A. She called their parents and told them about it.
B She told her grandmother about it.
C. She made the boys stand in front of the other students.
D. She told them a story about herself.
5.From the passage, we know____.
A．Tom didn’t think Lucy was beautiful
B．Lucy will be happy after hearing Tom’s words
C．Lucy’s grandmother didn’t like Lucy
D．Lucy thought the boys in her class were very ugly
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。
1.A man was looking for old things.
2.One day he found a blue bowl in a town.
3.The man wanted to buy the cat because he it was very nice.
4.The man thought he could easily get the bowl after he bought the cat.
5.From the story we can see that the farmer wasn’t clever.
It’s so noisy. I can’t _____.
A．go to bed B．fall sleep C．fall asleeping D．fall asleep
Dogs are too _____ to take care of.
A．difficult B．more difficult C．most difficult D．the most difficult
