Poor Alice was very unhappy. "What a wonderful garden!" she said to herself. "I'd like to be out there - not in this dark room. Why can't I get smaller?" It was already a very strange day. and Alice was beginning to think that anything was possible.
After a while she locked the door again, got up and went back to the glass table. She put the key down and she saw a little bottle on the table. Round the neck of the bottle was a piece of paper with the words DRINK ME in large letters.
But Alice was a careful girl. "It can be dangerous to drink out of strange bottles," she said. "What will it do to me?" She drank a little bit very slowly. The taste was very nice. like chocolate and oranges and hot sweet coffee. and very soon Alice finished the bottle.
"What a strange feeling!" said Alice. "I think I' m getting smaller and smaller every second."
And she was. A few minutes later she was only 25 centimeters high. "And now," she said happily,
"I can get through the little door into that beautiful garden."
She ran at once to the door. When she got there. she remembered that the little gold key was back on the glass table. She ran back to the table for it, but of course, she was now much too small! There was the key, high above her, on top of the table. She tried very hard to climb up the table leg, but she could not do it.
At last, tired and unhappy, Alice sat down on the floor and cried. But after a while she spoke to herself angrily.
"Come now," she said, "Stop crying at once. What's the use of crying?" She was a strange child, and often talked to herself like this.
Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor. She opened it and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it.
Nothing could surprise Alice now. "Well, I'II eat it," she said. "If I get taller, I can take the key off the table. And if I get smaller, I can get under the door. One way or another. I'll get into the garden. So it doesn't matter what happens!" She went on eating, but nothing happened.
1. Why couldn't Alice get into the beautiful garden?
A. She couldn't find the key to the door.
B. She was too small to get the key to the door.
C. She didn't know how to get through the door.
D. She was not allowed to go into the garden.
2. What made Alice become smaller?
A. Some hot sweet coffee.
B. A piece of chocolate.
C. Something in a little bottle.
D. Some orange juice.
3. The underlined sentence "One way or another" probably means "_______ ".
A. Whether I get smaller or taller
B. I can eat it in this way or another
C. If I get taller and taller
D. If I get smaller and smaller
4. What's the main idea of this passage?
A. Alice drank something that made her smaller.
B. Alice was excited to become small.
C. Alice ate a small cake and became bigger.
D. Alice met with some strange things.
My Favorite Sweater
by Bonnie Highsmith Taylor
My favorite sweater grew too small.
I love that sweater best of all.
My grandma made it when I was three.
She made that sweater just for me.
I picked the yam（纱线）, a special blue.
The color of bluebells, wet with dew(露珠).
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 kittens out in the shed (小屋).
My favorite sweater is now their bed.
1.The girl in this poem is_______ years old now.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
2. What do we know from the poem?
A. The girl doesn't like the sweater any more.
B. The sweater is too small for the girl now.
C. The girl has got a new blue jacket now.
D. The girl's grandma loves blue very much.
3. The word "kitten" in this poem means_______.
A. a kind of food B. a baby cat
C. a kind of drink D. a bed for a baby
I got out of the train station with my father. A woman came to him and said that her money had been stolen(偷). She asked if he could her some money to go back home. My father gave her what she asked for and told her not to worry about paying it back. I was . How could my father be so silly? Anyone could see that she was telling a lie(谎言), staying at the station all day long for money.
"She was lying!" I said." did you give her the money?"
My father looked at me. He was a bit angry. "And what would you like me to do?" he said.
"Should I tell her that I am a college professor and I can see through her scam(骗局）？" I did not his meaning at all, and then he told me something that I have forgotten. "First, she would not do this she didn't need the money. Second, I made her day, because now she thinks that she's than me. It is more important to than the money. but I don't mind this."
A week later, we were at the same station, and the same woman came to my father with the same story. "Not this time," my father told her. "In your business, you should learn to recognize(认出) people. Try another on me next week."
1.A. borrow B. keep C. lend D. pay
2.A. excited B. angry C. sad D. surprised
3.A. asking B. looking C. waiting D. going
4.A. Where B. When C. Why D. How
5.A. find B. know C. hear D. believe
6.A. never B. sometimesC. always D. usually
7.A. because B. until C. as D. if
8.A. smarter B. younger C. taller D. better
9.A. them B. her C. you D. me
10.A. coat B. story C. station D. man
I felt very tired when I got home, so I_______ straight to bed.
A. go B. went
C. will go D. am going
- I learned about elephants the day before yesterday. There are no bones in the back of their feet.
-_______.
A. Good idea B. That's OK
C. That's amazing D. No problem
My bike is broken. Could you help me to_______?
A. fix it up B. pick it up
C. look it up D. put it up
