he was bored[2]there and tried to do as little work as possible. His father and mother were both doctors and they hoped that he would become one, too, when he grew up. But one day John said to his mother, “When I finish school, I want to become a garbage collector[3].”
“A garbage collector?”his mother asked .She was very surprised.“That?s not a pleasant
job. Why do you want to become a garbage collector?”
“Because then I’d only have to work one day a week,”John answered. “Only one day a week?”his mother said,“What do you mean?”
“Well,”John answered,“I know that the ones who come to our house only work on
Wednesday, because I only saw them on that day.”
Notes:[1]lazy/leIzI/adj.懒的 [2]bored/bd/adj.厌烦 [3]garbage collector 垃圾工 1.John______at school.
A.didn?t do any work B.did much work
C.did very little work D.tried to finish his work 2.John?s parents wanted him to become_______. A.a garbage collector B.a doctor C.a teacher D.a worker
3.John hoped to be a garbage collector because______. A.he knew it was an important and necessary job B.he thought he would work only one day a week
C.he often saw some garbage collectors come to his house D.the garbage collectors really work only one day a week
4.John thought that the garbage collectors only work one day a week because . A.it was a rule B.some garbage collectors told him so C.his parents told him so
D.he saw them work only on Wednesday
参考答案：1.C 2.B 3.B 4.D
阅读理解（8）
Bill and Fred studied at a university and they were friends. They didn?t have much
money, so when it was time for their holidays, Fred said, “Let?s take our holidays in a trailer[1], Bill. It?s cheaper than a hotel. I can borrow my father?s trailer.”
Fred was very happy. So they got into the trailer and began their holidays. They wanted
to get up early the next day to go fishing, but they didn?t have an alarm[1] clock.
“That?s all right, Bill,\“I?ll put these pieces of bread on the roof[3] of the
trailer tonight and they?ll wake us up in the morning.\he didn?t say anything.
Fred was right. As soon as it began to get light, small birds came down to eat the bread,
and their noise on the roof of the trailer woke Bill and Fred up very quickly.
Notes:[1]trailer/`treIl/ n. 活动房屋式的拖车 [2]alarm/`la:m/ n. 警报 alarm clock 闹
参考答案：1.students 2.traveling 3.save 4.afraid 5.idea 6.why 7.eat 8.birds 9.food 10.clever
阅读理解（9）
Some children think writers are great and they can tell people a lot. So they also wish to
be writers some day. They mean that they want to write stories or books which many persons will read. I would like to remind[1] them that they will need to be good readers and to read a lot in order to[2] be good writers.
Nearly all great writers read too long before they started to school, and read for hours
and hours every day since they became good readers. Instead of watching TV in the evening, they spend much of their spare[3] time reading books.
If you are a good reader, it won?t take you long to do the reading homework your
teacher asks you to do. Then you will have time to read other books for fun. Because you read so well, you keep looking for more books to read.
While making up your mind[4] to become a good writer, you had better say to yourself,
“I must read more and more if I am really to become a good writer.\
Notes:[1]remind/rI`maInd/v. 提醒 [2]in order to 为了 [3]spare /spe/adj. 多余的
[4]make up one?s mind 下决心
1.Some of the children like the g_____ writers.
2.The writer told the children to read m_______ before they hope to be writers. 3.A lot of writers l a lot from other writers' books and stories.
4.For a student, he or she should do the reading homework well f______. 5.Doing much good reading can h you to be a good writer. 参考答案：1.great 2.more 3.learned 4.first 5.help
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Australia is one of the greatest islands in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is
in the south of the earth. So when there is hot summer in our country, it is cold winter in Australia.
钟 [3]roof/ru：f/ n. 顶；房顶
1.Bill and Fred were both university s______.
2.The two young men decided to go t during their summer holidays. 3.The two young men tried to s_______some money,so they borrowed a trailer.
4.The two young men wanted to get up, but they were a_______to wake up too late the
next morning.
5.Fred had a good i____.
6.Bill didn?t know w_______ his friend put some bread on the top of the trailer. 7.The next morning, the birds found the bread and flew to e____ it. 8.In fact, the b_____ woke the two young men up.
9.The birds began to look for f____ as soon as it got light. 10.Fred was very c_____.
Australia is big, but the population[1] has small. The population of Australia is the
same as that of Shanghai, a city in China.
Australia is famous for its sheep and kangaroos[2].After a short drive from any town,
you will find yourself in the middle of white sheep, sheep, sheep, everywhere are sheep. Have you seen a kangaroo? It has a “bag” in its body. The mother kangaroo keeps its baby kangaroo in the “bag”. It is very interesting, isn?t it?
Notes:[1]population /、ppjuleIn/n.人口 [2]kangaros /、kg`ru:/n.袋鼠
根据短文内容判断正(√)、误(×)。 1.China is larger than Australia. 2.Australia is an island country.
3.The population of Australia is as large as that of China.
4.Kangaroos are small animals like mouse(老鼠) in our house. 5.Kangaroos always carry bags on their backs.
参考答案：1.√ 2.√ 3.× 4.× 5.×
阅读理解(11)
Summer holiday began and Richard left California and went traveling in Africa[1]. He
lost his wallet in a hotel and he had a little money left. He had to go to a city where one of his friends worked. There he was going to borrow some money so that he could fly back to his country. He got on a bus and the conductor held out to him a yellow ticket. “You had better buy a yellow ticket,\the conductor. “It?s ten dollars. I have two other kinds. The red one is five dollars and the green one is three dollars.\
It took them two days to get to the city. The passengers had to stay for a night when
they were halfway[2]. Richard had to pay[3] five dollars for the hotel and food. He thought for a while and then said, “Green, please.\
The bus started. Now it was getting dark[4] and the bus began to go up a hill. It was
very steep[5] and soon the bus stopped as usual.
“Yellow ticket passengers,\“Stay in the bus, please. Red ticket
passengers, get out and walk. Green ticket passengers, get out, close the door and push the bus!\
Notes:[1]Africa/`frIk/n. 非洲 [2]halfway/`ha:f`weI/ adv. 半路 [3]pay/peI/ v.付（款）
[4]dark/da:k/ adj. 黑暗的 [5]steep/sti:p/ adj.陡峭的
1.Where did Richard come from?
2.How much did Richard have after he lost his wallet? 3.What did Richard go to the city for?
4. How was Richard going back to his country?
5.Why did Richard buy the green ticket?
6.What did Richard have to do when the bus went up the hill? 参考答案：1.He came from America / California. 2.He had 8 dollars left.
3.He went there to borrow some money from his friend. 4.He was going back by plane.
5.Because he wanted to save some money for the hotel and food. 6.He had to get off the bus and push it when it went up the hill.
阅读理解（12）
Many years ago, there was a family named Franklin. They lived in Boston. There were
five girls and six boys in the family. On a January day in 1706 another baby was born. The boy's mother and her husband gave the boy a name—Benjamin[1].
Benjamin was the cleverest of all the children. He could read when he was five and he
could write when he was seven. The next year his parents sent[2] him to school.
In school Benjamin was good at reading and writing, but not good at maths. He read all
of his father's books. And when he had money, he always went to buy books. He liked books. They told him how to do something. The boy liked to use his head and tried to find ways to help people enjoy life more. For example, he tried to know if there was some way to swim farther, maybe with something on his hands or feet. Slowly a picture of swimming shoes, or paddles[3], grew in his mind[4]. The paddles must be neither too big nor too small. And they must be neither too heavy nor light. At last he invented the paddle for swimming.
Notes:[1]Benjamin/`bendmIn/n. 本杰明（男子名） Benjamin Franklin 本杰明?富兰
克林(1706—1790)美国杰出的科学家和政治家 [2]send/send/v.送 [3]paddle/`pdl/n.浆形工具 [4]mind/maInd/n. 头脑
1.How many children did Mr. Franklin have? 2.Why was it said Benjamin was clever? 3.When did Benjamin begin to go to school? 4.Why did Benjamin like books?
5.What did Benjamin invent the paddles for?
参考答案：1.He had twelve children.
2.Because he could read and write when he was very young. 3.He began to go to school when he was eight. 4.Because he could learn a lot from the books. 5.He invented them to help people swim farther.
阅读理解（13）
When a light passenger plane flew off course[1] some time ago, something was wrong
with it and it crashed[2] in the mountains and its pilot[3] was killed. The only
passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt. It was the middle of winter. Snow lay thick on the ground. The woman knew that the nearest village was kilometres away. She couldn?t find anything in the snow but a suit-case[4]. When it grew dark, she turned the suit-case into a bed and put the children inside it, covering[5] them with all the clothes she could find. During the night, it got terribly cold. The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself, but it was too small. Early next morning, she heard planes flying above and wanted to know how she could send a signal[6]. Then she had an idea. She wrote the letters ?SOS? in the snow. Luckily, a pilot saw the signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town. It was not long before a group of people arrived and they took the woman and her daughters to hospital at once.
Notes:[1]course/ks/n.跑道 [2]crash/kr/v.坠毁 [3]pilot/`paIlt/n.飞行员 [4]suit-case/`sju：tkeIs/n.行李箱 [5]cover/`kv/ v. 盖 [6]signal/`sIgnl/n.信号
1.Where was something wrong with the plane?
2.How many people were in the light passenger plane before it crashed? 3.What did the woman make the suit-case into a bed for? 4.What did the plane fly over the mountain for? 5.Why did the woman write “SOS\
6.What did the group of people go to the mountains for?
参考答案：1.It was above the mountains. 2.There were four people in it.
3.She did it to put her daughters in it. 4.It flew there to look for them.
5.She wrote the letters to ask for help. 6.They went there to save them.
阅读理解(14)
There would be a history exam and Phillip looked more and more worried. He hasn?t
thought the subject important since they began to study it this term. In class he always thought of the football matches between Class Three and Class Two and tried to find out a way to beat Class Two. Of course he didn?t hear what Mr. Beckman said. His friend Sally could help him with his homework and hint[1] how he answered Mr. Beckman. But bad luck! The girl was ill in hospital and nobody would help him next Monday!
Phillip thought hard and at last he found a way. He copied all the main points[2] on his
wristbands[3] and then went to play football with his friends. It was Sunday yesterday. Even he didn?t open his students? book! He was sure he would pass the