Ever think you might have an adopted twin somewhere? It's fairly common childhood   fantasy.  But for
two little girls adopted from China two years ago, the fantasy turned out to be true。 Their new moms,
who live in minois and Florida,  met on an Internet site for parents who have adopted  in China. When
they  realized that their daughters, now 3, had come from the same orphanage,  they  began comparing
photos and other information. That led to genetic tests that confirmed their suspicion :The girls are twins.  
What's more, they were both named Mia by their new parents. " It's a miracle , " said  Holly Funk , one
of the moms.  " In the sea of humanity,the two kids found each other. " The girls had been abandoned on
a sidewalk in Yangzhou about a week apart. When they were reunited in Illinois two weeks ago, they
shyly eyed each other,then reached for the other's hand. About 120, 000 kids are adopted in the United
Stastes each year. Nearly 8 ,000 Chinese children were adopted by Americans in 2005 , according to
the US officials.

1. Which of the following can possibly be the title of the passage?___________    

A. Two American Moms    
B. Children Adopted by Americans    
C. Haven't I Seen You Before?    
D. Abandoned Chinese Twins

2. The moms did all the following EXCEPT__________.    

A. compared photos and other information    
B. did genetic tests    
C. met on the Internet    
D. got the twins reunited in Illinois

3. The underlined word  "That"  refers to_____________.    

A. childhood    
B. the moms' suspicion    
C. an Internet site    
D. the comparison of photos and other information

4. Which of the following statements in NOT TRUE?

   A. The twins will pay more visits to each other in the coming years.    
B. It's quite by chance that the two girls found each other.    
C. Nearly 7%  of all the kids adopted in the US are from China.    
D. The two girls were adopted two years ago.

     Almost every body in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart (購(gòu)物手車(chē)) .
They  will , in  a  lifetime , push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even
think to ask-who it was that invented them. Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At
that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging (吃力地?cái)y帶)
groceries  around  in baskets they had to carry.    
     One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would
make shopping much easier for his customers , and would help to attract more business.On June 4,1937 ,
Goldman's first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of the day
as customers began arriving.He couldn't wait to seethem using his invention.But Goldmanwas disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look , but hardly  anybody would  give them a try.  After a while.
Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren't using his carts. " Don't you think this arm is strong
enough to carry a shopping basket?" one shopper replied.But Goldman wasn't beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try.
     To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were
shopping! Seeing this, the real customers  gradually  began  copying the phony(假冒的) customers. As
Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come-those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets , customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before. Today's shopping carts are five
times larger than Goldman's original model. Perhaps that's one reason Americans today spend more than
five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before the coming of the shopping
cart.

1. The underlined words"chrome-plated contraptions" in Paragraph  refer to
_____________. ( No more than 3 words. )

2. What was the purpose of Goldman's invention?  ( No more than 10 words. )
___________________________________________________________________

3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first?  ( No more than 10 words. )
___________________________________________________________________

4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market?  ( No more than 10 words. )
__________________________________________________________________

5. What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. ( No more than 20 words)
_____________________________________________________________

     My dad loved pennies, especially those with the elegant stalk(莖) of wheat curving around each side
of the ONE CENT on the back. Those were the pennies he grew up with during the Depression(大蕭條). 
     As a kid, I would go for walks with Dad, spying coins along the way-a penny here, a dime(一角硬幣) there. Whenever I picked up a penny, he'd ask, "Is it a wheat?" It always thrilled him when we found one
of t  hose special coins produced between 1909 and 1958, the year of my birth.
     One gray Sunday morning in winter, not long after my father's death in 2002, I was walking down Fifth Avenue, feeling bereft. I found myself in front of the church where Dad once worked. I was warmly shown in and led to a seat. Hearing Dad's favorite "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God", I burst into tears. We'd sung
that at his funeral.
     After the service, I shook the pastor's(牧師) hand and stepped onto the sidewalk-and there was a
penny. I bent to pick it up, turned it over, and sure enough, it was a wheat. A 1944, a year my father was
serving on a ship in the South Pacific.
     That_started_it. Suddenly wheat pennies began turning up on the sidewalks of New York everywhere. I got most of the important years: his birth year, my mom's birth year, the year he graduated from college,
the year he met my mom, the year they got married, the year my sister was born. But alas, no 1958 wheat penny-my year, the last year they were made.
     The next Sunday, after the service, I was walking up Fifth Avenue and spotted a penny in the middle
of a crossing. Oh, no, it was a busy street；cabs were speeding by-should I risk it? I just had to get it.
     A wheat! But the penny was worn, and I couldn't read the date. On arriving home, I took out my
glasses and took it to the light. There was my birthday!
     I found 21 wheat pennies on the streets of Manhattan in the year after my father died, and I don't think that's a coincidence.


1. The writer's father loved pennies with wheat because ________.
A. when he first saw it, he began to love it
B. when he saw the wheat, he thought of his time during the Depression
C. when he was young, he had a lot of pennies with wheat
D. when he was a child, he never got a coin with wheat

2. The underlined word "bereft"(in Para.3) means ________.
A. alone  
B. disappointed
C. upset  
D. discouraged

3. Which of the following statements about the author is NOT true?
A. He was born in 1958.
B. He went to church because of his father.
C. He once worked in a church.
D. He knew the church well.

4. The underlined sentence (in Para.5) suggests ________.
A. the author's father began to serve on a ship
B. the author picked up many wheat pennies since then
C. the author began to love wheat pennies since then
D. the author started to look for wheat pennies with 1958

5. The best title for the passage would probably be ________.
A. Pennies from Heaven  
B. My father's life story
C. My father's hobby  
D. Living in New York