One morning it took me an hour to watch a small ant carry a huge feather across my back porch (走廊). Several times it met objects on its path and after a short time it would go around them.
At one point the ant had to deal with a crack (裂縫) about 10mm wide. After a short time of thought, the ant laid the feather over the crack, walked across it and picked it up on the other side then continued on its way.
I was attracted by the cleverness of this ant, one of God’s smallest creatures (生物). It was an example of the wonder of creation. Here was an insect, tiny, yet given a brain (大腦) to think, explore, discover and beat difficulties. But this ant, just like people, also shares human weaknesses.
After some time the ant finally reached its home — a flower bed at the end of the porch and a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home. And it was here that the ant finally faced the problem. How could that large feather possibly fit down the small hole?
Of course it couldn’t. So the ant, after all this trouble and using much creativity, beating difficulties all along the way, just left the feather behind and went home.
The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its brave journey and in the end the feather was nothing more than a heavy weight.
Isn’t our life like that?
We worry about how much money we have, we worry about work, about where we live, about all kinds of things. These worries are heavy things, and they make an already difficult life even more difficult. Worrying will do nothing good for us. When we get to where we want to be in life, we will understand that worrying can only bring us down.
65. Did the writer show a great interest in the ant at first?
66. How did the ant cross the crack?
67. Did the ant take the feather into the hole or give it up?
68. What do you think of the ant?
69. What does the writer want to tell us?
65. Yes, he did.
66. By laying a feather over the crack. / It laid a feather over the crack.
67. It gave up the feather.
68. Clever, creative and brave to face difficulties, but not thoughtful enough.
69. Worrying too much is not good for us and we shouldn’t worry too many things in our life.
互動課堂系列答案科目：初中英語 來源：2011-2012學年北京市四中初二下學期期中考試英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解
When I was 14, I left school with learning disabilities and decided to surf the biggest waves in the world, first in California and then in Hawaii. One morning, I met an old man, a bum（流浪漢）, on the street comer. He asked me if I was running away from home. I told him, “Not exactly, sir. ”
After talking a while, he told me that he had something to show me and share with me. We walked several blocks until we came upon the downtown Public Library.
The bum asked me to sit down and wait a moment. Later he returned with some books, and then said, “I want to teach you two things. Number one is never to judge a book by its cover, for a cover fools you. I’ll bet you think I’m a bum, don’t you?”
I said, “I guess so, sir.”
“Well, young man, I've got a little surprise for you. I am one of the wealthiest（富有的）men in the world. But a year ago, when my wife passed away, I realized there were certain things I had not yet experienced in life, one of which was what it would be like to live like a bum on the streets. For the past year I have been going from city to city doing just that. Number two is to learn how to read, for there is only one thing that people can’t take away from you, and that is your wisdom（智慧）. ”At that moment, he gave me the books he’d pulled from the shelves. His parting request（請求）was for me to never forget what he taught me. I have remembered until today.
【小題1】The boy when he was 14.
| A．liked running | B．left school |
| C．did well in study | D．traveled around the world |
| A．The old man took the boy home. |
| B．The old man was homeless and poor. |
| C．The old man was friendly to the boy. |
| D．The old man and his wife went from city to city. |
| A．love people | B．become wise |
| C．choose friends | D．experience the bum’s life |
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Mrs. Brown had a small garden behind her house and in the spring she planted some vegetables in it. She looked after them very carefully, and when the summer came, they looked very nice. One evening Mrs. Brown looked at her vegetables and said, “Tomorrow I am going to pick them and we can eat them.” But early the next morning, her son ran into the kitchen and shouted, “Mother, mother! Come quickly! Our neighbor’s ducks are in the garden and they are eating our vegetables!” Mrs. Brown ran out, but it was too late. All the vegetables are finished! Mrs. Brown cried, and her neighbor was very sorry, but that was the end of the vegetables. Then a few days before Christmas, the neighbor brought Mrs. Brown a beautiful fat duck. And on it was a piece of paper with the words, “ENJOY YOUR VEGETABLES!”
1.Mrs. Brown had a _________ behind her house.
A. shed B. small garden
C. an apple orchard D
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small house
2.In _________ she planted some vegetables in the garden.
A. the summer B. the winter C. the autumn D. the spring
3.When _________ came, the vegetables looked very nice.
A. the summer B. the winter C. the autumn D. the spring
4.Early the next __________ her son ran into the kitchen and shouted.
A. morning B. afternoon C. evening D. night
5.One morning __________ were eating vegetables in the garden.
A. monkeys B. ducks C. pigs D. chickens
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A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maiyuwa, a small village. They lived with the man’s big family－his parents, his brothers, their wives and husbands and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.
Three months later, having quarreled with her husband, the woman went back to her parents’ home. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heartbroken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.
It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved by the act of the animal .So she went back to her husband’s home.
1.The woman left her new home ______.
A. to visit her own parents in Maiyuwa
B. to see if the elephant would follow her
C. because she was angry with her husband
D. because she was tired of the large family
2.The word “disappeared” in the reading means “______”.
A. ran away B. lost C. hid D. remained
3.After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant______.
A. returned to the forest B. was sad because it missed her
C. went to look for a new home D. was sick because nobody fed it
4.How did the elephant express its feeling when it saw the young woman?
A. It waved its trunk and smiled. B. It touched her with its trunk.
C. It touched her and cried. D. It waved its trunk and ran around her.
5.The writer wrote the story in order to______.
A. show that elephants are very clever
B. tell how a woman trained a wild animal
C. show that women care more for animals than men do
D. tell how an animal got a husband and a wife together again
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One morning, a blind boy sat beside a building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, “I am blind. Please help me.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognizedhis footsteps and asked, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”
What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beautiful day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
1.From the article we know that________.
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A．the boy always has a hat on his head |
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B．the man is one of his neighbors |
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C．the boy is blind and needs help |
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D．the boy works for the man |
2.On the sign what the man wrote was, “ .”
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A．Treasure what we have already had |
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B．Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it |
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C．We are so lucky that we are not blind |
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D．Try your best to help those who need your help. |
3.According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?
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A．The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign. |
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B．The man took away all the few coins from the hat. |
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C．The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school. |
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D．Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy. |
4.The word “recognized” here in Chinese means _______.
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A．承認 |
B．接受 |
C．表揚 |
D．認出 |
5._______ is the best title (題目) for this story.
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A．Be careful not to be blind. |
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B．Be creative. There is always a better way! |
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C．Be kind to the blind! |
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D．Don’t always get, but offer! |
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One morning, Wu Liang discovered (發現) that her classroom changed. She found that the desks were no longer in rows, but pushed together to make eight bigger desks. She was too excited about it for the first two days and she couldn’t listen to the teachers carefully. But soon she and her classmates got used to this new classroom arrangement (安排). “Now our class is quieter,” said Wu. “What’s more, we can come up with our own ideas and learn more through discussion. It’s a better way to study.”
Li Yu liked it, too. He said, “Group members first discuss, and then show ourselves in front of the whole class. It makes us believe in ourselves.” It was part of a reform (改革) at Li’s school. The school made this reform because they wanted to provide (提供) students with easier ways to study and more chances to discuss. “Our school hopes it can improve students’ abilities(能力) to study by themselves and work in groups,” said Zhang Ming, an English teacher.
However, the reform has demanded (要求) more from teachers. Now they have only 15 minutes to give the lesson which should be taught in 45 minutes before. It is difficult to teach in such a short time. The teachers have to find better ways to teach more effectively.
“The reform demands more, but I’m sure it is helpful,” added Zhang Ming.
1.After the new classroom arrangement , it was easier for Wu Liang and her classmates to ________ in class.
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A．discuss with each other |
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B．sit in the classroom |
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C．push desks together |
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D．teach a lesson |
2.The school made the reform in order to provide students with ___________ to study.
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A．noisier classes |
B．easier ways |
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C．more seats |
D．fewer chances |
3.The Chinese meaning of the word “effectively” in this passage is ___________.
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A．簡單的 |
B．明確的 |
C．有效的 |
D．認真的 |
4.The best title of this passage may be “____________”.
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A．Students’ Friendship |
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B．Teachers’ Hope |
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C．Discussion in Class |
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D．New Look in Class |
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