When I was 14, I decided to make some pocket money by mowing lawns (修剪草坪) in summer. I worked hard because that was my first part-time job. After working for one week, Mr Miller said that he had no money for me. Oh, dear! He wouldn’t pay for my work! That surprised me greatly. I argued with him, and then I went back home.
My parents told me not to complain about Mr Miller. He was in difficulties. Then my mother call up Mr Miller and they talked about something on the phone. A few days later, my mother asked me to return to Mr Miller’s garden, because he was too weak to look after it.
When I came back, Mr Miller said, “Sorry, I have no money, but I can do something for you.” He played CD for me. Hearing the beautiful music, I was so interested in it that I forgot the money and did the work with pleasure. At last, Mr Miller gave me a ticket to a concert.
After that, I became very interested in music. And now, I have been a popular musician. I should thank Mr Miller greatly.
【小題1】Why did the author argue with Mr Miller?

Once a circle missed a wedge(楔子). The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly.  It admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with grasses. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. It put the found piece into itself and began to roll. Now it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice the flowers or to talk to the grasses. When it rolled so quickly, it realized how different the world seemed. Then it stopped, left the found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.
The lesson of the story , I suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything isn’t in some ways a whole man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn(渴望), to hope, to come true the dream of something better.
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷句子正（T）誤(F)。 （共5小題，每小題2分，滿分10分）
【小題1】 At first, the circle couldn’t roll fast, because it wanted to chat with the grasses.
【小題2】 The circle didn’t find the missing piece at last.
【小題3】 When it was a perfect circle, it rolled too fast to notice the flowers or to talk to the grasses.
【小題4】 The circle stopped by the side of the road and enjoyed the sunshine.
【小題5】 In some days, a man still will be perfect even if he misses something.

In many English homes, people eat four meals a day; breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner．People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning．They eat porridge, eggs or bread．English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast．Lunch comes at one o' clock．Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is about half past seven．First they have soup, then they have meat or fish with vegetables．After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges．But not all English people eat like that．Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day．Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple．

1．Many English people have            meals a day．

A．two                   B．three                   C．four                    D．three or four

2．People may have           for their breakfast．

A．tea and eggs                             B．porridge, eggs, bread, tea or coffee

C．tea and coffee                                 D．bread and eggs

3．People have lunch at           ．

A．a(chǎn)ny time             B．nine                     C．five                  D．one

4．People don't have           for their dinner．

A． porridge           B．bananas and apples C．soup and meat       D．meat and fish

5．In some English homes dinner can come          ．

    A．a(chǎn)t one o'clock        B．a(chǎn)t any time            C．a(chǎn)t noon              D．in the evening

We all enjoy the beautiful show of colours as leaves change each autumn. But did you ever wonder how and why this happens?

Leaves are nature’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots and take carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into glucose (葡萄糖). Glucose is a kind of sugar, which plants use as food for energy and growing.

The way plants turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar is called photosynthesis that means “ putting together with light”. A chemical called chlorophyll helps photosynthesis. It gives plants their green colour. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter, and trees “know” to begin getting ready for winter.

During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. Trees rest during this time and live on the food they store during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories.

As the green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves, we begin to see yellow and orange leaves. Small amounts of these colours have been in the leaves all along. We just can’t see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.

The bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in autumn. In some trees, like maples (楓樹), glucose is caught in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn this glucose into a red colour. The brown colour of trees like oaks (橡樹) is made from waste left in the leaves.

It is the mixture of all these things that makes the beautiful colours we enjoy during autumn.

1.The word “chlorophyll” in the third paragraph means _______ in Chinese.

A．葉綠素           B．氧氣             C．胡蘿卜素         D．蛋白質(zhì)

2.The leaves of the trees in autumn turn yellow because of the short of _____.

A．water and carbon dioxide

B．glucose and energy

C．sunlight and water

D．sunlight and carbon dioxide

3.The way that _______________________ is called Photosynthesis .

A．plants change water and carbon dioxide into sugar

B．plants turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar with the help of sunlight

C．plants use glucose as food for energy and growing

D．chlorophyll is a great help

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A．When autumn and winter come, the days get shorter and shorter.

B．During winter trees rest and live on the food they store during the summer.

C．During winter small amounts of yellow and orange colours are kept in the leaves all the time.

D．Trees begin to stop making food in summer.

5.This passage tells us __________________.

A．a(chǎn)ll the plants can grow well with the strong sunlight

B．there are all kinds of plants on the earth

C．a(chǎn)ll the colours of the leaves aren’t made from chlorophyll

D．maples and oaks have the same reason as other trees for the change of colours