In America, when people say “man's best friend”, they don't mean another person. Instead, they are talking about a lovely animal—a dog! These words show the friendship between people and animals. Dogs and other pets can give joy to people's lives. Some people think of their pets as their children. Some people even leave all their money to their pets when they die!
Animals can help people, too. Dogs can be taught to be the “eyes” for a blind person (盲人) or “ears” for a deaf(耳聋) person. Scientists have found that pets help people live longer! They make people happier, too. Because of that, they bring animals into hospitals for “visits”.
Americans hold “Be Kind to Animals Week” in the first week of May. Pet shows are held during the week. Even if you don't live in America, you, too, can do this. How? First think about how animals make your life richer. If you have a pet, take more time this week to play with it. Remember to give it delicious food.
If you don't have a pet, be kind to animals around you. For example, if you see a street dog, just leave it alone, or make friends with it. If others around you do bad things to animals, try to speak up. As people, we must protect animals who can't speak for themselves.
1. “Some people even leave all their money to their pets when they die!” is used to tell us that .[
A. pets have the right(权利) to inherit(继承) money
B. money can make pets happy
C. it's the best way to spend money
D. some pets are as important to their owners as their children
2.Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Dogs can help people in
many ways.
B. Dogs can help people live happier.
C. Dogs can help people make everything.
D. Dogs can make people's lives richer.
3. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. A lot of people are interested in dogs.
B. Dogs can help people do many things.
C. Pets are lovely and need care and protection.
D. We have done a lot of things for pets.
My daughter finally lost her first tooth. She waited for this moment for more than a year.
Most of the kids in the first grade lost not only one tooth, but several. But my daughter kept waiting impatiently. Then, she finally got a loose (松的) tooth. I never saw her so happy — except on Christmas, Children’s Day or her birthday. Last Friday night, she was eating an apple, and the tooth started to become loose. Minutes later, my daughter shouted happily. The tooth was out!
I cleaned it off and put it under her pillow (枕头). When she went to bed that night, my daughter wondered, “Will the tooth fairy (牙仙) let me keep the tooth?” I told her she might and she’d have to wait and see.
The tooth fairy comes from an old story. It’s believed that when a kid loses his first tooth and puts it under his pillow, the tooth fairy will come to visit him when he is sleeping. If the tooth fairy sees the kid and loves him, she will leave some money under his pillow without taking away the tooth. If she doesn’t think the kid lovely enough, she will still leave some money but take the tooth away.
And then I put a dollar in my bag so that I’d remember to put it under my daughter’s pillow. However, I forgot. Luckily, her dear dad remembered.
1. How many of the following things make the writer’s daughter happy?
a. Christmas b. Children’s Day
c. her birthday d. the missing tooth
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
2. What do the two underlined words in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. my daughter; the tooth fairy B. my daughter; my daughter
C. the tooth fairy; my daughter D. the tooth fairy; the tooth fairy
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The daughter is a second-grader.
B. The writer is a mother.
C. The real tooth fairy in the story is the writer.
D. Several kids in the daughter’s class lost one tooth.
4.What may be the best ending of the story?
A. A new tooth grew
during my daughter’s sle
ep
that night.
B. My daughter woke up at midnight and saw the beautiful tooth fairy.
C. The next morning my daughter was glad to find the money and the tooth.
D. The other kids in the first grade laughed at my daughter because she lost a tooth.
Before Christmas Mr Smith broke his right leg and had to stay in hospital. When he was there, he always asked his doctor when he could go home. He didn’t like to spend Christmas in hospital. Though the doctor did his best, Mr Smith didn’t get better. So on Christmas Day he was still in hospital. He spent a bad day in bed thinking that he missed a lot of fun on such a happy day.
The next day the doctor told him that he might be well enough to leave hospital in time for the New Year. Mr Smith was very happy to think that he would spend New Year’s Day outside hospital. Soon Mr Smith left hospital and on New Year’s Eve he went to a party. He enjoyed himself there. But he drank too much. On his way home that night, he had a fall and broke his left leg. What an unlucky man he was！
1. Mr. Smith felt ____ on Christmas Day.
A. happy B. sad C. better D. well
2.Because ______, he drank so much on New Year’s Eve.
A. he was too happy B. both of his two legs got well
C. he had a fall D. he was in hospital
3. Mr Smith would have to spend New Year’s Day ______.
A. at home B. at a party C. in hospital D. outside hospital
Life in the 22nd century will be different from life in the 20th century, because many changes will take place in the new century, but what will the changes be?
The population is fast. There will be more and more people in the world and most of them will live than before. will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects at .
People will work fewer hou
rs
than they did in the 20th century, and they will have more free time for
sports, TV and traveling. Traveling will
be . And many more people will go to other
countries for holidays.
More land will be used for building new towns and houses. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day, , they eat more vegetables and fruit. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be , too. Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots(机器人). Because of this, many people will not have enough to do. This will be a problem.
1.A. making B. growing C. running D. doing
2.A. 1onger B. shorter C. faster D. taller
3.A. Trains B. Cars C. Computers D. Houses
4.A. factory B. hospital C. farm D. school
5.A. watching B. seeing C. 1ooking D. buying
6.A. 1ess interesting B. much easier C. more expensive D. more difficult
7.A. fruit B. milk C. meat D. bread
8.A. instead B. sometimes C. still D. however
9.A. dangerous B. difficult C. heavy D. different
10.A. job B. work C. homework D. exercise
The room is _____with lots of people.
A.
fill B.
filled
C. full 
D.
fulled
—How about the pollution in the countryside?
—Luckily, it's not as serious as _______ in the big cities.
A. that B. it C. one D. those
