（十三）
Mr Smith was old, so it was often difficult for him to remember things. However（可是）,he still liked traveling very much, so he and his wife went to Spain（西班牙） every year. One summer when they were there, they went to visit their friends, the Tarners. They had two young daughters. One afternoon Mr Smith was talking to one of the girls in the garden after lunch. "You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year, weren't you?" he said to her.
"Yes, we were," answered the girl. "We were very ill."
The old man said nothing for a moment, because he was thinking. Then at last he said, “Oh, yes, I remember now! One of you died（死）.Which one of you was it, you or your sister?"
The girl answered, "It was me."
"Oh? I'm very sorry to hear it," said the old man.
( ) 1. The old man had a good memory.
( ) 2. What the old man said was true.
( ) 3. The girl was very ill and died.
( ) 4. The girl didn't die last year.
( ) 5. The girl and her sister were both very ill
（十四）
Everyone has his own birthday. People in different countries celebrate （庆祝）their birthdays in different ways. Here are four people from different countries. They will tell us how they celebrate their birthdays in their countries.
Sandy Morrison comes from Madrid(马德里). He says happily, “My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday, and I m going to go out with some friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they are going to pull（拉，扯） on my ear twenty-one times, once for each year. It is an old custom（风俗）. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional.”
Mr. and Mrs. Sato are from Tokyo. Mr. Sato is going to be sixty tomorrow. In Japan, the sixtieth birthday is called Kanreki---it s the beginning of a new life. The