阅读短文，根据文章的内容选择最佳答案。 Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, the two astronauts on Chin
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 Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, the two astronauts on China"s second manned space mission, are both selected air force pilots (飞行员), like the first astronaut Yang Liwei. Fei, 40, is from Kunshan, East China"s Jiangsu Province. He was selected as one of the five astronaut candidates (候选人) for China"s first manned space flight, Shenzhou V. |
 Nie, 41, is from Zaoyang, Central China"s Hubei Province. He was selected as one of the three finalists for Shenzhou V. The other two were Yang Liwei and Zhai Zhigang. |
 Hong Kong Disney Park is now open and many people are going there. Thousands of fans of Mickey, Minnie, and the other Disney characters (人物) came together to celebrate its opening day. There are a lot of toys and funny games in the park. They are bringing smiles to kids and adults (成年人). On its opening day, there were about 30,000 visitors. Most of them went with their family. |
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| Cheng Long is a famous action star of Hong Kong. He took part in the fourth Chinese Children"s Charity Day. At the meeting he also 1 (give) his collection of World Leaders Stamps to the China Children and Teenagers" Fund (少年基金会). He 2 (say) everyone should show their love to poor children. On June 22, 2005 in Beijing, Cheng Long 3 (invite) to have an important meeting by the Charity. The Charity 4 (collect) money for poor children. Because the children 5 (leave) their schools already. The Charity wants to help them return to their schools again. |
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| Marie Curie (居里) was a great woman scientist. She was the 1______ (young) child in the family. Her mother died of illness when Marie was 11 years old. In 1883, Marie graduated from a middle school. How she wanted to go to college! But her family was so poor 2______ she could not continue to go to college. She had to work as a 3______ (teach) in a private family. In 1892, she saved enough money to continue her study. So she left for Paris and entered Paris University. In her college days, she 4______ (live) a simple life. Every evening she would study in the University library until it closed, then she would go back 5______ her room and work until late at night. |
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| O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen (偷) it, so he was sent to prison (监狱). During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised. |
| 1. _______ was the real name of the famous American writer. |
| A. O. Henry B. William Sydney Porter C. Carolina D. Texas |
| 2. O. Henry was sent to prison because _______. |
| A. people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper. B. People thought he had stolen money from the bank. C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners. D. he broke the law (法律) by not using his own name |
| 3. Which of the following is true? |
| A. O. Henry was from a rich family B. O. Henry was in school for a long time C. O. Henry learned everything he needed by himself. D. O. Henry liked writing stories when he was a little boy. |
| 4. O. Henry got most materials for his stories from _______. |
| A. his happy life as a boy B. New York and the poor of the city C. the newspaper D. his life in prison |
| 5. People enjoyed reading O. Henry"s stories because _______. |
| A. they had surprising endings B. they were easy to understand C. they showed love for the poor D. they were about New York |
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| Dou Kou, a Chinese boy, is called "the youngest writer in the world". He has written three books till now. Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started working in over 30 different cities, such as Xi"an and Shenzhen. This kind of life gave him things to think and write about. When he was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one, he could say five to six hundred words. At three, he could look up words in the dictionary. At four, his father taught him how to learn by himself. His parents like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales. At the age of 6, he wrote a novel about his life in different cities with his parents. His fairy tales are all from his life. One day, he found many mice in the house. They not only ate their food but also hurt his mother"s hand. So he thought, "If we give mice the stomach of cows, they will eat grass and they will be helpful to people." This was his first fairy tales Change Stomach for Mice. Now he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel called Eyes of Children. He says, " I am not different from other children. I just wrote several books. " |
| 1. How many books has Dou Kou written? |
| A. Three. B. Four. C. Five D. Six |
| 2. Thanks to his _____, Dou Kou could write his books. |
| A. mother B. father C. school life D. life in different cities |
| 3. Dou Kou began to use a dictionary _____. |
| A. when he wrote fairy tales B. before his father taught him how to learn something C. after he went to school D. after his mother taught him how to learn something |
| 4. The underlined (画线的) sentences show us that Dou Kou _____. |
| A. is different from other children B. doesn"t tell the truth C. is the same as other children D. likes his books |
| 5. Which is the best title? |
| A. Three Books by a child B. How to Write a Fairy Tales C. How Clever the Boy is D. Dou Kou, the Youngest Writer |
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| George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father"s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write. He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher. On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man ------George Stephenson. |