Max is a clever boy. He lives with his mom and sister. He has many dreams and always wants to have adventures(冒險).  One day he leaves home and goes on a trip.    
     Max finds a small boat and sets sail(啟航).He arrives at a strange island. There are monsters(怪物)
living on the island. They find Max and want to eat him.    
     Max tells them that in the place where he comes from, he is aking. The monsters believe him. Carol is
one of the monsters. He gets mad easily. But he is kind. He makes Max King of the Island.They become
good friends and decide to build a'big fort(堡壘) on the island. But as they build, there are disagreements(不一致) among the group.  Also, Max has to be careful not to let Carol find out he is not really a king.  
     Will Max and his monster friends be able to build the fort? WillCarol find out Max's secret? Leam the
answers in the movie Where theWild Things Are (《野獸家園》).  The  film  will  hit  Chinese cinemasnext month.

(     )1. This is an ad for a movie.
(     )2. Max always wants to have adventures, so he asks his parents to sail with him.
(     )3. Max finds a small island and the monsters on the island are very kind to him.
(     )4. Carol is the king of the island.
(     )5. Carol always believes Max is a king.

       Eleven-year-old Anna got a serious illness. All the doctors in the hospital thought she would spend
the rest of her life in the wheelchair. But Anna never gave up the hope of becoming healthy. Lying in her
bed in the hospital, she told everyone that she would walk again someday.
       All the doctors in the hospital were moved by her. They taught her to imagine(想象)seeing herself
walking.  And Anna worked hard to imagine that she was still moving, moving and moving!
       One day, while she was imagining her legs moving again, suddenly, the bed moved! It began to move around the room! She shouted out," Look at what I'm doing!  Look! I can move!"Actually,  that was only an earthquake. But Anna didn't think so. She thought that she could do it．
       Now, she comes back to school again. Many people couldn't believe it. We all know in all things it
is better to hope than to despair.

(     )1. Anna would die soon because she got a serious illness.

(     )2. She didn't think she would spend the rest of her life in the wheelchair.

(     )3. Many doctors saw Anna moving in the hospital every day.

(     )4. On that day, the bed moved and she could move again.

(     )5. We can learn from the passage that we should not despair in all things.

     
     People usually hate(憎恨)  mice,  but one mouse has won the hearts of the people all over the world
--the famous Mickey Mouse.
     Fifty years ago most movies were silent(無聲的). A man called Walt Disney made a cartoon mouse
that could talk in his movies. He named his mouse Mickey Mouse. Both young and old people were very
excited at the talking mouse. Children loved to see him, because he brought joy and laughter to them.
     Mickey was a clean mouse right from the beginning. Perhaps this is one reason why pepole love him.
In his early life Mickey made some mistakes. People were angry. They wrote to Disney and said that they
did not want Mickey to do silly(愚蠢的) things. So Disney made a new animal named Donald Duck.  He
also made a dog called Pluto. This dog does silly things and makes mistakes wherever he goes.  Now our
Mickey Mouse is not only clean but also important. He appears as a beautiful and clever star. He has his
friends in almost every country.

(     )1. The famous Mickey Mouse has won the hearts of the people all over the world.
(     )2. Most movies are not silent fifty years ago.                                  
(     )3. Walt Disney made the famous Mickey Mouse.                                    
(     )4. Mickey did silly things before.                                              
(     )5. Mickey isn't a beautiful and clever star.

       One afternoon Bob and Jane walked in a long quiet street. Then they heard a big noise from the
street corner. They ran there and found a small car knocked(敲)into the side of a truck. Both the car
driver and the truck driver were hurt.
       "Bob," said Jane, "Run back down the road to Mrs Day's house. Ask her to call the police and the
ambulance(救護車)．Hurry up! I'll stay here."
       Bob went off as fast as he could. Jane could do nothing but wait. She knew that when people were
hurt in an accident, we should not move them.
       It wasn't long before the police car and the ambulance arrived. The policemen got the car door open
and moved the man out. Then they got the trunk driver out. Luckily, the men weren't badly hurt, and the
ambulance took them to the hospital. The policemen thanked Bob and Jane, "You were very good to act
so quickly when you saw the accident:  Thank you for all your help."

(     )1. The accident happened in a quiet street one afternoon.    

(     )2. Bob, Jane, Mrs Day and the policeman heard the noise.    

(     )3. Both of the drivers were hurt in the accident.  

(     )4. Jane asked Bob to call the police.                    

(     )5. It was a long time before the policemen arrived.          

    In Europe many people died during the Second World War. As a result, at the end of the war there
wcrc manv orphans(孤兒)there.A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help these children. His idea
was simple. He wanted orphans to have a home, and he wanted them to have the care ancl kindness of
parents.  Gmeiner asked people to give him some money.  With this money he built the first SOS Children's Village at Imst, in Austria.  It opened in 1949. This is how the SOS Children's Village started. The
letters SOS stand for "Save Our Souls(靈魂)".This means "Please help us!".An SOS Children's Village
giVeS help to orphans.
    Hermann Gmeiner's idea for helping orphans soon spread(傳播)all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children's Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages.Today the children from the first village are grown up. Now some of them work in other SOS Children's Villages.
    In SOS Villages orphans live in family groups. There are several houses in each village. The biggest
villages have 40 0r 50 houses! Between seven and ten children live in a house.  A woman lives with each
groul, of children and looks after them.  She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks for
them and makes comfortable(舒適的),happy home for them.
    Of' course, the children don't spend all their time in the village. They go. to school, they go out with
their friends and they go into town. But the village gives them a home-sometimes for the first time in heir
lives.

(     )l.  An orphan is a child who has no parents; no brother and no sister.
(     )2. Gmeiner built the first SOS Children's Village with his own money,
(     )3. Some of the children who are grown up work in other SOS Children's Villages.
(     )4. There are about 30 houses in the biggest SOS Children's Villages.
(     )5. We can conclude(推論)from the article that the money for helping the SOS Villages mainly comes from people in general.

     Mr. White was a chicken farmer. He had hundreds of chickens, and sold the eggs and the meat and got
quite a lot of money from them, but he lived a very hot part of the country, and he found that his hens could
hardly lay any eggs in the summer. He decided to put air-conditioning (空調(diào)) into his chicken-house so that
the hens would lay well all through the year and he could get more eggs and in that way get more money.
     The owner of the air-conditioning company came to see him, and when he saw Mr. White house, he
thought that he might be able to persuade (勸說) him to buy some air-conditioning for that too.
      "Your wife would be much happier and have a nice house to live in then," he said to Mr. White. But
Mr. White was not interested.
     "My wife doesn't lay eggs."

(     )1. Mr. White hens could lay few eggs when the weather was too hot.
(     )2. Mr. White decided to buy air-conditioning for his house because he wanted to make his wife much
            happier.
(     )3. The owner of the company hoped to put air-conditioning into both Mr. White's house and his
            chicken-house.
(     )4. Air-conditioning in Mr. White's house would not bring him more money.
(     )5. Neither Mr. White nor the owner of the company wanted to get more money.

      A meteorite (隕石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettiffer in Britain when he was
working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.
      The meteorite weighed (重) one kilo, and might be over four thousand million (百萬) years old.
"I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and I saw the tops of the trees coming and going," he said.
"I didn't know what it was."
      Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on the
earth every year, but only very few are found.
      Mr Pettiffer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War. Mr Pettiffer is glad.
"When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange."
(     )1. The meteorite was far from Mr Pettiffer when it fell down.
(     )2. The meteorite was already 4,000,000,000 years old.
(     )3. Mr Pettiffer found the tops of the trees coming and going because the moving was made by wind.
(     )4. Quite a few people see a meteorite fall on the earth although they visit the earth often each other.
(     )5. Mr Pettiffer was happy to see the falling the meteorite.

     Round eyes, round head, round ears, round body! What is this lovely animal?
     He looks like a bear, but he is not a bear. He's a koala(考拉). There are about 100.000 koalas in
Australia.
     People in Australia love koalas and look after them well. They have good places for them to live
safely. No one can kill them for their pretty fur. When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he is very
small. The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into this warm pocket.
There he stays for six months.
     Koalar, could not live without a special kind of tree. The trees give them both home and food. For
most of the days they sleep in the trees.
     At night koalas look for food. They may go kilometers to find the special leaves of these trees. They
don't eat anything else. And they eat more than one kilo each night!
(     )l. There are about one million koalas in Australia.
(     )2. People in Australia are not allowed to kill koalas for their fur.
(     )3. Baby koalas stay in their mothers' pockets for half a year.
(     )4. Koalas sleep at night and look for food in the daytime.
(     )5. Koalas like eating small animals.

     Basketball stars are usually tall.  The stars of other sports are sometimes short.Some of the best football players are not very tall. Short people often have better balance than tall people, so they do not fall over very often.In some sports the players must have good balance. For example, table tennis and running.You do not need long legs to run fast!Some of the fastest players in the world are not very tall.Some people are tall and some people are short。There is no medicine to make people grow taller or make people shorter.The tallest woman in the world is Sandy Allen.She is 2.31 meters tall and lives in the United States.The shortest person in the world is Gaul Mohammed from India.  He is only 57 centimeters tall.  Today young people in many countries grow taller than their parents.  This is because they eat better today.   Good food can help children grow.  

(    )1. All the stars are very tall.    
(    )2. Short people often have better balance than tall people.    
(    )3. If you want to run fast, you must have long legs.    
(    )4. There is a lot of medicine to make people grow taller.    
(    )5. Some young people grow taller than their parents because they eat better.

     Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700 London had no policemen at all. Only a few old
men protected (保護) the city streets at night.
     About 300 years ago, London started to get bigger. The city was very dirty and many people were
poor.  There were many thieves (小偷) in the streets. People had to stay in their homes as much as
possible.
     In 1750, Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen.
Fifty years later, there was a police force with 3,000 0fficers in London.  Most of them worked on foot,
but a few rode horses.
     Today, some policemen still ride horses. And the pay for them is even better than it is for other
policemen.
(     )1. People could find a policeman in London in 1700.
(     )2. About 300 years ago, London became a bigger city.       .
(     )3. People had to stay at home as much as possible because they were poor.
(     )4. In 1800, there were 3,000 policemen in London.
(     )5. The passage tells us the history of the London police.