What will the weather be like? Some people say they can know what the weather will be like from birds. When they see birds fly high out to the sea, they know it is a nice day, because birds don't like to fly out if it rains. When the weather is bad, the birds will come back to the beach. A big wind may come with a rain. Birds do not like to fly in a big wind. They may sit in a tree when rain is coming. Other animals can also tell the weather. It is a cloudy day. The rain is coming. Chickens are not quiet, and they are running here and there. Frogs are making big noise in the pool. If it is a nice day, the frogs will come out of the water.

1.How many kinds of animals can we find in the passage?

2.We can go and play beach volleyball when birds __________.

3.When there is rain, frogs are _________.

4.What does the underlined(劃線的)  word ‘’tell” mean in the article?

5.What does the article mean?

Mr. Black was working in a factory in a big town. He liked 　1　 very much, and was very good　2　 it. When he was free, he　3　 down to a small river behind the factory and tried 　4　 some fish, but there were very few there, 　5　 the water wasn’t clean. One summer he went to the seaside during his holiday and stayed at a small cheap hotel.

“I have never fished in the 　6　 before.” He thought. “It will be more interesting than fishing in our river.”

　7　 first he caught a lot of fish and was very 　8　 . He gave them to the hotel and they cooked them for guests, and he enjoyed himself very much. After　9　, he did this every day. But 　10　 he got his bill(賬單) at the end of the week, he saw it, “For oil（油） to cook fish(7 days), 70 dollars（美元）.”

The Olympic Games have changed a lot since they were first held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. At that time, winners got silver medals instead of gold ones. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? People thought silver was better than gold．No women competed in the first Olympics, and only 14 countries took part.

   In the early years of the Olympics, there weren’t many sports. In the first Greek Games, event usually took place in the Panathenaic Stadium（雅典體育場(chǎng)），and you can still see it today. Players did not wear their countries’ clothes in 1896.They traveled to Athens by themselves and had to use their own money to take part.

New sports have been put into the Olympics over time, like badminton and table tennis, Some older games are no longer played, like tug-of-war（拔河）.

   Swimming was different in 1896. There was a 1200-metre race in the sea．A boat took swimmers out into the sea and they had to swim back to land．The first person to win that race was Alfred Hajos. He seemed happy just to finish. “I just wanted to live. That’s more important than winning,” he said．

1．In the first Olympics, winners were given____.

A．gold medals   B．silver and gold medals   C．much money  D．silver medals

2．In the early years of the Olympics__

A．there weren’t many sports 

B．players wore the sports clothes that people wear today 

C．people from about 200 countries took part

D．events usually took place in modern Olympics.

3．_____is no longer played in the modern Olympics.

A．Running       B．Tug-of-war       C．Table tennis        D．Swimming

4．The underlined sentence in the text really means______

A．he was happy because he would finish it

B．he seemed happy just because he finished it

C．he was happy because he gave up at last

D．he seemed happy because he still lived

5．Swimming took place in the ____ in 1896.

A．river           B．lake          C．swimming pool        D．sea