It was 3:12 a. m. when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the crackling（爆裂声）of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island. With his father away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, 14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, collapsed on the lawn.
The nine-year-old raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother’s room. He found it impossible to waked her up. Mrs. Kreamer, a victim of the smoke, was unconscious, and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy remained calm and , as a fireman said later, “acted with all the self-control of a trained adult.”
On the bedroom telephone, luckily still working, Glenn called his father and, leaving Mr. Kreamer to telephone the fire brigade and ambulance service, got on with the task of saving his mother.
First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden.
He could hear the fire engine coming up, but how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house where flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor?
Grasping firmly a ball of string（线绳） from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and dashed upstairs to his mother’s room. Tying one end of the string to her hand， he ran back, laying out the string as he went, through the hall and back out into the garden.
Minutes later he was telling fire chief John Coughlan: “The string will lead you to mother.” Mrs. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.
1.Why did Glenn run downstairs first?
A．He wanted to find out what was happening.
B．He was worried about his mother’s safety.
C．He wanted to save his sister and brother.
D．He went to see if his father had come back from work.
2.How did Glenn help the firemen to save his mother?
A．By throwing water all over her and her bed.
B．By carrying her to safety with his brother.
C．By pushing and pulling at her.
D．By tying a string to her hand.
3.What did Glenn do to protect himself?
A．He put a wet cloth around his head.
B．He threw water all over himself.
C．He hid himself in the bathroom.
D．He rushed out to the lawn.
4.Glenn saved his family because___________.
A．his father had taught him to do so on the phone
B．he had learned something about first aid
C．he had dealt with the emergency calmly and wisely
D．he had followed his mother’s instruction
Suzie goes to her art class Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. She always looks forward to those days when she can do creative things all afternoon. She loves ___41___ bowls and cups out of clay. Last month she learned to put ___42___ into a hot oven, called a kiln, to make it hard and strong. After the pottery（陶器）has __43____ down from the kiln, sometimes she ___44___ it with all different colors. Bright colors are her __45____, although sometimes she likes to paint in "___46___ colors," like brown and dark green. What Suzie likes best about art is the good feeling she gets ___47___ she has finished __48____ on a piece of art. And then when she takes it home to show her parents she feels so __49____ of what she has made.
On Wednesdays Suzie does something else that she really ___50___. On Wednesday afternoons she writes articles for the school newspaper. When she first ___51___ to her school, she wrote an article about how it feels to be a new student in a new school. Her second article in the newspaper was about a teacher at her school who had just finished writing a book. On the day the newspaper comes ___52___, the first thing Suzie does is to ___53___ where her article is in the newspaper. And at the beginning of her article, are the words: By Suzanne Jefferson.
On the way home from school yesterday, Suzie ___54___ to thinking about how __55____ art and writing are the same. In art class she thinks of __56____ things to make, and then spends a lot of time making it look just right. And when she writes articles for the school newspaper, she thinks of creative things to __57____, and then spends a lot of time making it __58____ just right. And when she has finished writing a really good sentence, she feels almost as if she has made a beautiful piece of art.
Suzie __59____ home so she could write something short before dinner. She already had lots of ideas for next month's newspaper. And she wanted to make sure that none of her creative ideas ___60___ away before she wrote them down permanently on paper.
1.A. using B. painting C. drawing D. making
2.A. bowls B. pottery C. cups D. clay
3.A. dropped B. cooled C. come D. fallen
4.A. rubs B. cleans C. brushes D. paints
5.A. bests B. friends C. favorites D. fears
6.A. bright B. earth C. black D. deep
7. A. before B. when C. that D. until
8.A. working B. painting C. putting D. taking
9.A. worried B. anxious C. happy D. proud
10.A. promises B. wants C. hates D. enjoys
11.A. got B. sent C. moved D. returned
12.A. up B. in C. out D. about
13.A. read B. search C. overlook D. check
14.A. began B. went C. got D. started
15.A. soon B. much C. long D. far
16. A. relative B. creative C. productive D. active
17.A. tell B. talk C. speak D. say
18.A. feel B. look C. sound D. appear
19. A. rushed B. walked C. got D. went
20. A. left B. forgot C. floated D. kept
——Will you require anything else?
——Yes, I like a whisky.
A. will B. shall C. should D. might
What worried the child most was ______ to visit his brother n hospital.
A. his not being allowed B. his not allowing
C. his being not allowed D. having not been allowed
Free medical treatment in this country covers sickness of mind as well as ________ sickness.
A. normal B. average C. regular D. ordinary
Mrs Read went to the market and bought several ______ eggs.
A. dozen of B. dozens C. dozen D. dozens of
