Each day a red cock flaps his wings and sings,“Get up. It's time to get out of bed.”All of the animals jump out of bed. They love to hear the cock's voice and the cock loves to sing.

　　“He sings so well,”the hens say. The cock nods and feels very happy when he hears this.

　　One day a fox is out and looks for food for lunch. He sees that the cock flaps his wings and sings to the hens.“I am going to catch this big fat cock,”says the fox.

　　When the hens see the fox, they run away at once.“We will not be the fox's food,” they say. “Don't run, Mr Cock,”says the fox.“I only want to listen to your songs. I think you are the best singer in the world, and you are the champion.”The cock is very happy. He thinks he sings best, too. But suddenly the fox grabs（抓取，抓住）him and says,“Let me take you home for lunch.”

　　The other animals notice that the fox is taking the cock away and they run to the fox. The fox can't run very fast because the cock is big and fat. “If I run with you, we can get away,”says the cock. “Run with me then,”orders the fox, and he lets the cock go.

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(2)“You are the champion”is the same as “________”.

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A．You are the last

B．You are the second

C．You are the best

D．You are right

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A．has a red tail

B．has wings

C．can sing in the morning to wake up others

D．can jump

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A．He makes the cock feel very happy.

B．He runs faster than the cock.

C．He becomes the cock's friend.

D．He sings for the cock.

To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasant voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he doesn’t sit still before his class; he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings.

There are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s.

The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand(預(yù)先).What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage. A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience take an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand anything, they say so. The teacher can’t learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who are fine actors in class but are unable to take part in a stage-play because they can’t keep strictly to what another has written.

1. What does the underlined word “gifts” mean?

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

3.The skills of a good teacher are        .

4.From the passage, we know        .

5.The title of the passage is         .

閱讀理解

　　Do you know what couch-potato means? Well, in America, the word is now often used. The American couch-potato becomes maybe even a part of the American tradition! You see, in America, many people often spend their free time sitting on a couch watching TV. As there are many channels to choose, the TV can be quite interesting and very addictive (上癮的). One may sit and watch TV for hours and hours without stop! Well, these people who do nothing all day except watching TV are called couch-potatoes.

　　In America, when one watches TV, one is most often sitting on a couch. While watching TV, most of these people look so frozen that they almost, look like dead things! Everyone is sitting still with eyes looking right into the same black box. Also because these people are addictive to TV, they don't take exercise and usually get very fat. So, in many ways, these people look like real potatoes! Well, because they look so still and fat, and watch TV on a couch, they are all called couch-potatoes. Now that you know what a couch-potato means, the next time if you see someone watching TV too long, just say, “What a couch-potato!”

1．The word “couch-potato” is often used ________.

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2．A couch-potato ________ in his free time.

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A．only watches TV

B．takes exercise

C．gets fat

D．does nothing but sit on a couch

3．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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A．The writer wants to advise us not to watch TV too long.

B．There are many different kinds of TV programs.

C．Watching TV by standing there is better for health.

D．Most persons who like watching too much TV get fat.

4．A couch-potato looks like a real potato because ________.

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5．From the passage, you may know many Americans at that time were having a/ an ________ life.

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