What is the sky(天空)? Where is it? How high is it? What lies above it? These questions are hard to answer, aren’t they?

    Is the sky blue? The sky has no color. We know that there is air around the world. When planes fly, they need air to lift their wings(翼) . Planes cannot fly very high because when they go high, the air gets thinner. If we go up about 1,200 kilometers from the earth, we find there is no air.

    Perhaps(也許) we can answer some of our questions now. The sky is space(空間). In this space there is only the sun, the moon and all the stars.

6.What is the sky?

A. It’s the clouds       B. It’s space.     C It’s air      D It’s nothing

7. The sky _____

A. is blue        B. is white        C. is black     D. has no color

8. Planes cannot fly very high because _________.

A. the air becomes thinner                         B. the flying machine is not good       

C. people will be afraid if the planes fly too high      D. it is not necessary for planes to fly so high

9 If we go up about 1,200 kilometers from the earth, we find ___________.

A. there is more air   B. there is less air   C .there is nothing but air   D there is no air

10. In space there is _________.

A. nothing       B. air everywhere       C. everything       D. only the sun , the moon and all the stars

 

In the tenth grade, I began volunteering at a vet hospital in order to get experience for what I thought would be my future job. As it turned out, the experience I got at the hospital taught me the opposite: my future was not in vet medicine. However, there is one particular Saturday morning that taught me something maybe more important.

The hospital was in the middle of one of the poorer sections of the city and we often had people come in who could just only pay for the most basic treatments. This Saturday a man and his young son, who was probably about 7 years old, walked in with a small cat in a cardboard box. I remember the cat had an eye infection (感染) but the man could not afford to pay for the cost of the medicine in addition to the exam. When he asked where the nearest the animal shelter（庇護(hù)所） was, his son cried and started to argue with his father. Out of the blue, an older woman who was sitting in the waiting room stood up, walked up to the counter, and told the man that she would pay for anything that he could not afford. The man thanked her and the son got to keep a healthy cat.

I had always thought it was the right thing to help out a needy person, but it was only seen on TV or in movies. The woman in the vet’s office taught me that these things do happen in real life, and should happen more often. When I am hesitant (猶豫) to help someone who is in need, I remember that woman, and have the courage to do it. Sometimes other people follow.

1.Why did the writer work at the vet hospital?

A．He thought he would work there in the future.

B．He wanted to get some skills of treating animals.

C．He wanted to get some money for his schooling.

D．He wanted to get some experience for his future work.

2.What is the most important according to the writer?

A．How to be a kind person who helps others.

B．The practical experience of the vet job.

C．How to deal with the owners of pets.

D．The knowledge of vet medicine.

3.What does the underlined phrase “out of the blue”?

A．Out of order.       B．All of a sudden .     C．Now and then.      D．First of all.

4.________ made the writer have the courage to help someone in need.

A．The officer        B．The boy           C．The woman        D．The father

 

My Favorite Sweater
My favorite sweater grew too small.
I loved that sweater best of all.
My grandma made it when I was three.
She made that sweater just for me.
I picked the yarn（紗線）, a special blue.
The color of bluebells（風(fēng)鈴草）.wet with dew(霧).
When I was three I was very small,
But now I’m five and much too tall.
I have a new jacket now that’s green,
So I gave my sweater to our cat Queen.
Queen just had babies out in the shed（棚）.
My favorite sweater is now in their bed.
【小題1】What is the most likely reason that the writer likes the sweater?

A．The girl’s grandma made it.

B．The girl got it at the age of three.

C．The yarn is the color of bluebells.

D．The mother cat uses it for the babies now.

【小題2】 What does the underlined sentence mean?

A．The girl liked small sweaters.

B．The girl became too big for the sweater.

C．The girl’s grandma made a small sweater.

D．The girl’s sweater became smaller than before.

【小題3】We can read the passage in a book about ______.

A．a(chǎn)nimals

B．history

C．time

D．poetry

My Favorite Sweater
My favorite sweater grew too small.
I loved that sweater best of all.
My grandma made it when I was three.
She made that sweater just for me.
I picked the yarn（紗線）, a special blue.
The color of bluebells（風(fēng)鈴草）.wet with dew(霧).
When I was three I was very small,
But now I'm five and much too tall.
I have a new jacket now that's green,
So I gave my sweater to our cat Queen.
Queen just had babies out in the shed（棚）.
My favorite sweater is now in their bed.
【小題1】What is the most likely reason that the writer likes the sweater?

A．The girl's grandma made it.

B．The girl got it at the age of three.

C．The yarn is the color of bluebells.

D．The mother cat uses it for the babies now.

【小題2】 What does the underlined sentence mean?

A．The girl liked small sweaters.

B．The girl became too big for the sweater.

C．The girl's grandma made a small sweater.

D．The girl's sweater became smaller than before.

【小題3】We can read the passage in a book about ______.

A．a(chǎn)nimals

B．history

C．time

D．poetry