Don't You Like Any Colours?
         Mrs. Green was seventy, but she had a small car, and she always drove to the shops in it on Saturday
and bought her food.
         She did not drive fast, because she was old, but she drove well and never hit anything. Sometimes her
grandchildren said to her, "Please don't drive your car, Grandmother. We can take you to the shops." But she
always said, "No, I like driving. I've driven for fifty years, and I'm not going to stop now."
         Last Saturday she stopped her car at some traffic-lights because they were red, and then it did not start
again. The lights were green, then yellow, then green again, but her car did not start.
       "What am I going to do now?" she said. 
        But then a policeman came and said to her kindly, "Good morning. Don't you like any of our colours
today?"

1. Mrs. Green was ______.

A. young
B. old
C. busy
D. clever

2. Her grandchildren asked her not to ______.

3. She stopped her car at the traffic-lights because ______.

A. the lights were green
B. the lights were yellow
C. the lights were red
D. she liked the light's colour

4. The policeman said "…don't you like any of our colours today?" He meant he asked her _____.

A. if she liked the colour
B. to stay here.
C. what colour she liked best
D. to leave right now

5. Which of the followings is NOT TRUE ?

A. Grandmother drove very well.
B. The traffic-lights didn't work.
C. Grandmother's car was broken.
D. Grandchildren cared for their grandma.

      A meteorite (隕石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettiffer in Britain when he was
working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.
      The meteorite weighed (重) one kilo, and might be over four thousand million (百萬) years old.
"I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and I saw the tops of the trees coming and going," he said.
"I didn't know what it was."
      Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on the
earth every year, but only very few are found.
      Mr Pettiffer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War. Mr Pettiffer is glad.
"When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange."
(     )1. The meteorite was far from Mr Pettiffer when it fell down.
(     )2. The meteorite was already 4,000,000,000 years old.
(     )3. Mr Pettiffer found the tops of the trees coming and going because the moving was made by wind.
(     )4. Quite a few people see a meteorite fall on the earth although they visit the earth often each other.
(     )5. Mr Pettiffer was happy to see the falling the meteorite.

       One year there was a heavy rain in a small town. For a week it rained every day. The river was in flood.
       Most people got away from the flood in boats. But a religious (敬畏神靈的) old man refused to go with
them. He sat on top of his house and waited for the water to go down.
      The water rose higher and higher. Soon it reached the top of the old man's house. Then two men in a boat
came up. Saving. "Come with us. The water is rising."
      The old man shook his head. "No." he said. "God, will save me."
      The men could do nothing to help him. They went away by boat. 
      Then a helicopter arrived. It flew above the old man's head. "The water is still rising." the pilot (飛行員)
shouted. "Climb up or you will drown (淹死)." But the old man refused to leave his house again."God will
save me." He cried. And the helicopter flew away.
      The next day, the old man was drowned. God was waiting at the door. The old man was very angry
with him. "I believe in you," he shouted. "I told everybody you would save me. And what happened? You
let me drown."    
      "I did not. What about the boat I sent?" God answered. "And the helicopter?"

1. The old man thought _______.

A. he would die in the flood
B. it would go on raining
C. a helicopter would come to save him
D. God would save him

2. During the flood. The old man              .

3. In the first sentence (句子)of Paragraph (段落) 4 "shook" means              in Chinese.

A. 拍打
B. 搖晃
C. 抓撓
D. 撫摸

4. In the end             .

A. the old man died in the water
B. two men took the old man to a safe place
C. God saved the old man's life
D. the old man agreed to leave with the pilot

A. It kept raining for about seven days.
B. God said he had tried to help the old man.
C. The old man went to heaven (天堂) by helicopter.
D. Most people got away with the help of boats.

      Yesterday morning an old woman (1)             a lot of things in a shop. She put them in a
big (2)            . She was going to carry it to the car, but the box was heavy and the car wasn't
(3)            . At that time Li Ping and Han Mei were (4)             by the car and talking. When
they (5)             the old woman and the big box beside her, they went to (6)             her. They
lifted the heavy box and (7)             it to the car. Suddenly the box (8)             down and one of
Li Ping's feet was (9)             hurt. He had to lie in bed in the hospital for several days. He became
worried about his lessons. But his friend Han Mei said," (10)             worry about your lessons. I
will come to help you with your lessons after class every afternoon."

       One morning, Jim Reed checked his e-mail. He found a strange message on the e-mail. It was from a
woman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had talked to her on e-mail many times in the last ten days. All the
other messages were fun and interesting to read, but this message was different.
       The message said, "Good-bye loved kowihn yu I amj leaving."
       Mr. Reed was frightened by the message. He tried to understand the words that were not spelled right.
He quickly wrote a message to his new friend. 
      "What do you mean by the message you just sent me?"
       He waited but did not get an answer. He wrote back, "Please talk to me."
       Finally, she wrote, "I am fallg asleep waht it say gildgye ti ny friends." Mr. Reed thought hard about
this message. "Is she going to kill herself?" he thought.
       "What is your phone number?" he typed. The woman sent a phone number. Mr. Reed called. At first the
phone was busy. Then it just rang and rang. He called directory assistance in Pittsburgh. They connected him
with the police. Reed told his story. Then he faxed them what his friend wrote.
        The police and paramedics quickly went to the woman's house. When she didn't answer the doorbell,
they broke in. They found her on the floor near the computer. She told them, "I took 60 pills." The paramedics
rushed her to the hospital.
        "Mr. Reed did a great job of saving this woman," the police captain said. "If he hadn't guessed at the
e-message, she would be dead now." The woman is fine now, and she thanks Mr. Reed for saving her life.

1. Mr Reed ___________.

A. met his new friend by telephone
B. saw his new friend somewhere before
C. wrote e-mail to his new friend for ten days
D. talked with his new friend about strange things

2. The e-message he found was strange ___________.

3. It was the woman's ___________ that saved her life.

A. computer
B. friend
C. message
D. teleghone

4. We can infer（推斷）that ___________.

A. the woman will be Mr Reed's wife
B. the police will punish the woman for her foolishness
C. Mr Reed will be a policeman to save more people
D. the public will think highly of Mr Reed

      Tracy sat at the kitchen table daydreaming. She was thinking about the used bike she planned to buy.
She was making a list of things she wanted to do to fix up the bike. On her list, Tracy had written new
seat, paint, and bell. Then she thought, "I want to make sure drivers see me on my bike. I'll add reflectors
(反光鏡)
to my list."
       Tracy's dad walked into the kitchen. "What are you doing?" he asked.
       "Oh, I'm just thinking about the bike I want to buy", Tracy said. "I had hoped to earn enough on my
paper route the first week to buy it, but I only made fifteen dollars. I hope the bike is still there after I get
paid next week."
        "Well, if you would like to earn the money tomorrow, you can help me," Tracy's dad said.
        "Doing what?" Tracy asked eagerly.
        "I'm washing windows in the morning," her dad said. "I could use five dollars' worth of help."
         Even though it was a Saturday, Tracy got up quite early. She washed the inside of all of the windows.
By twelve o'clock, she finished and had the money in her hand. Just as she was ready to leave, her mom
called to her, "Tracy, did you make your bed?" Tracy rushed to her bedroom and made her bed. Finally, she
headed for the door. She raced down the street to where the bike was for sale. Luckily, It was still there. The
owner noticed Tracy looking at the bike. "Would you like to buy it?" asked the owner.
        "I sure would! I have twenty dollars," Tracy answered, pulling the money out of her pocket. 
         Within minutes Tracy rode away wearing a huge smile. She circled the block several times. She wanted
her friends to see her on her new bike.

A. sleeping in bed
B. making a list
C. buying a bike
D. making bed

2. Tracy washed the windows in order to _______.

A. welcome her friends
B. make her mum happy
C. see the street clearly
D. earn some money

3. Tracy felt worried because _______.

4. We can know from the passage that _______.

A. Tracy's mother didn't work hard
B. Tracy's father didn't love her
C. Tracy's family was very poor
D. Tracy had a very good father

       Last September I decided to fly from my hometown, Phoenix, to visit my sister in Seattle. I wanted to
take my dog Rosie with me, so I spoke to my vet (獸醫(yī)) before I booked the tickets. Rosie would have to
travel in a large wooden box, and I wanted to check that she would be OK. The vet said that Rosie would be
fine because it was only a short flight.
       When the plane landed in Seattle at five o'clock, I asked the flight attendant if I could stay in my seat
until Rosie was taken off the plane. The flight attendant told me to get off the plane immediately, and that I
should wait for Rosie at the baggage claim area (行李認(rèn)領(lǐng)處). So I went to the baggage claim area and
waited until all the baggage had been taken off the plane. Soon I was the only person waiting and there was
still no sign of Rosie.
      After forty-five minutes, I asked a woman who worked for the airline if she could find out where my
dog was. After I'd waited another thirty minutes, she told me that the plane was now flying to Los Angeles.
Rosie was still on the plane! It wasn't until eleven thirty that night that the airline found Rosie in Los Angeles.
There were no more flights that night so she had to spend the night in her box at Los Angeles airport.
      I got Rosie back the next morning, but by this time she had been in her box for over eighteen hours.
Poor Rosie!

A. pick up her dog
B. visit her sister
C. travel around
D. book the tickets

2. Rosie spent the night _______.

A. in Phoenix
B. on the plane
C. in Ruth's house
D. at Los Angeles airport

3. The vet told Ruth that _______.

A. she could take Rosie with her on the plane
B. her sister should prepare a big wooden box
C. Rosie should spend a night in the box
D. she could be in her seat to wait for Rosie

4. Ruth waited at the baggage claim area for _______.

A. forty-five minutes
B. thirty minutes
C. more than an hour
D. eighteen hours

5. From the passage we can know that _______.

A. the box with Rosie in was taken away by others
B. Rosie wasn't taken off the plane in Seattle
C. it was not allowed to take pets on the plane
D. the attendant was not very polite