This was the first real task I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. As I searched the name, I found that there were two famous people having the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts（花生）, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice; let the coin decide. I flipped(擲) a coin and Ah! Tails (背面)! My report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.
Weeks later, I stood in front of the classroom and proudly read my homework. But things started to get strange. I looked around the room, only to find my classmates with big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes and my stone-faced teacher. I was completely lost. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?”
Oh well, I dropped the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American War of Independence.” The whole world became quiet! How could I know that my teacher meant that George Washington?
Of course, my subject result was awful. Sad but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to the headmaster Miss Lancelot, but she said firmly: No re-dos; no new score. I felt that it was not fair, and I believed I deserved a second chance. So I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, I sat in the headmaster’s office again, but this time a completely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the terrible moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster told me I was good enough to skip(跳過) the 6th grade and started the 7th grade next term.
小題1:The task I received was to find information about ________.
| A．uses for peanuts | B．American War of Independence |
| C．George Washington | D．my headmaster Miss Lancelot |
小題2:________ helped me decide what my report would be about.
| A．The Internet | B．My classmates | C．My grandpa | D．A coin |
小題3:People in the class acted strangely because ________.
| A．I was too proud of my homework |
| B．I mistook what the homework was about |
| C．the whole world suddenly became quiet |
| D．the teacher’s face turned to a stone |
小題4:I ________ after I failed the subject.
| A．worked harder to prove my ability |
| B．started to study from the 7th grade |
| C．was so frightened at the awful result |
| D．was given a second chance to redo the work |
小題5:We can infer(推斷) from the passage that ________.
| A．the headmaster didn’t like the writer at all |
| B．the writer’s classmates felt sad at his mistake |
| C．the writer knew little about American history |
| D．the writer’s grandpa was a very wise man |
小題6:Which of the following proverbs can best describe the main idea of this story?
| A．Seeing is believing. |
| B．Where there is a will, there is a way. |
| C．One is never too old to learn. |
| D．A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
With that, he thanked me happily and started off on his bike. I 44 heard him singing as he rode away. I got a warm 45 inside. I now understand what it 46 by the saying “Giving is getting”.