Pa age 1 Here’s a story about Ming’s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r 1 in china. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once been on l 2 ,but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In face（实际上）,he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f 3 ,he just swims acro to their boats or asks them to v 4 him. Ming’s father is a fishman,but he never u 5 a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings（圈）have been put around the birds’ n 6 so that they ca ot eat the fish they catch. They have been t 7 to bring the fish to people. And then people reward（奖励）them with a fine big fish as soon sa their work is f 8 . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s 9 with his mother. The sho , of course, are boats very like his o 10 . 1. r 2. l 3. f 4. v 5. u 6. n 7. t 8. f 9. s 10. o

Pa age 2

Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained（训练）to do a number of simple jo i 1 of people. They say that at a circus（杂技场）,for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q 2 killful（熟练的）things. Perha you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that the trainer（驯兽员）always g 3 the animal some sugar o 4 a piece of fruit as a reward（报酬）. The scientists say that many d 5 animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward f 6 doing that. Of course, as we know, dogs can be trained to look after a house, and soldiers in both old and modern t 7 have u 8 geese to give warning（警报）by m 9 a lot of noise when an enemy comes near. And also it may be po ible to train animals to work in families or f 10 . 1. i 2. q 3. g 4. o 5. d 6. f 7. t 8. u 9. m 10. f

Pa age 3

In recent years, playing kite—board seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game has w 1 the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but a little d 2 . One needs to play it very c 3 . A kite—board is in fact a skateboard（滑雪板）drawn（拉）by a few big flying kites. The old game was p 4 y some young people in Holand and ain as e 5 as the last century. Since the board was hard to control（控制）,f 6 eople dared（敢）to play it. With the development of the design（设计）of kite and skateboard, many people can l 7 How to play it. A kite board may go as f 8 as about 50 kilometres an hour. If you haven’t had any practice, you’d better not play it. It is not s 9 . It is said that the game can exercise not only your b 10 , but also the se itivity of your brain（大脑的敏捷）. 1. w 2. d 3. c 4. p 5. e 6. f 7. l 8. f 9.s 10. b

Pa age 4

British Milkman Steve Leech saved some sho and flats with milk and won a National Bravery Award（国家勇敢奖）. Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u 1 along Pine Street, he s 2 heard a loud, strange sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Cornwall, southern England. “That must be a fire, I t 3 ,” Leech said. “Then I quickly d 4 to do something. So I p 5 the door in and then I s 6 for the people i ide. Then I started pouring milk e 7 .” He used 320 pints of milk to stop the fire. When firefighters r 8 the shop, the fire was under control（得到控制）. Leech helped save the l 9 of eight people in the flats above the sho . “It was hard work o 10 all those bottles. But it was even harder trying to tell my bo where all the milk had gone,” Leech said jokingly. 1. u 2. s 3. t 4. d 5. p 6. s 7. e 8. r 9. l 10. o

Pa age 5

While t 1 in Ru ia, Ed Jackson ran short of（缺少）money. So he wrote to his brother, asking for ＄500. “Send the m 2 by telegram（电报）to the bank（银行）here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began v 3 the bank. He s 4 his pa ort（护照）to the bank clerk（职员）. “Nothing has come for you, Mr. Jackson,” he was told. This went o 5 for three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very w 6 . He then phoned his brother, asking w 7 the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks b 8 . That evening Ed Jackson was arrested（被捕）for failing to p 9 his hotel bill（账单）. He tried to tell the police what his problem was, but no one would believe him. At last he was s 10 to the police station for fifteen days. 1. t 2. m 3. v 4. s 5. o 6. w 7. w 8. b 9. p 10. s