(C)

Kelly is an African elephant. Now she is 19 years old. She lives in the zoo. Kelly has produced more than 100 paintings since last year. She has made over $ 3,500 for the zoo. Zoo leaders say Kelly first showed the art ability about 5 years ago. Zoo workers watched her make the marks in the sand with her trunk(象鼻). She rubbed out(抹去) the marks, then made the new ones. The zoo workers gave her brushes and paints. Soon Kelly was painting pictures. Newspaper reporters wrote about Kelly, and then people went to buy her pictures. And in this way she made a lot of money for the zoo by painting.

This is how Kelly does the painting. A zoo worker holds different color paints and Kelly touches the colors she wants. Then the worker gives her the chosen colors to the brushes in her trunk and Kelly begins to paint.

51. We most probably read this story in????? .

A. a magazine???? B. a newspaper????? C. a history textbook

52. Kelly first learned to draw pictures?????? .

A. in the sand with her trunk????? B. to make money

C. when she was 5 years old

53. People asked for Kelly's pictures because?????? .

A. they just wanted to have fun

B. the zoo leaders asked them to do so

C. the zoo workers asked them to do so

54. Kelly rubbed out the marks she had made in order to???????? .

A. make other ones??????? B. clean her trunk?????? C. ask for more brushes and paints

55. From the story we can know that???????

A. Kelly can draw nice pictures all by herself

B. Kelly doesn't like to draw pictures at all

C. Kelly can draw pictures with the help of the zoo workers

【主旨大意】你相信大象會畫畫嗎？但這是真的。這只名叫Kelly 19歲的非洲大象從去年開始已經(jīng)畫了100多幅畫，為動物園產(chǎn)生了3500多美元的效益。報紙爭相報道，人們也開始買它做的畫。

51. B 推理判斷題。從文章來看，這是一篇新聞報道，所以應該是從報紙上看到到的。

52. A 細節(jié)理解題。從文中“Zoo workers watched her make the marks in the sand with her trunk”可知。

53. A 推理判斷題。動物能畫畫這是一個很大的新聞，讓人們感到很好玩。

54. A 細節(jié)理解題。從文中“She rubbed out the marks, then made the new ones.“可知。

55. C 細節(jié)理解題。從文中的最后一段可知，Kelly畫畫需要在工作人員的幫助下才能完成。

C) 回答問題

? 閱讀下面的短文，然后根據(jù)短文內容回答問題。

(D)

Once upon a time there lived a poor farmer called Smith. He didn't like to share things with others. Smith had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apples he grew.

One day, his friend gave Smith a young apple tree and told him to take it home and planted. The farmer was pleased with the gift, but when he got home, he did not know where to plant

He thought and thought. Finally at night he planted the tree in his wood where no one could see it. But without sunlight and good soil, the tree soon died.

Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a poor place.

"What's the difference?" the farmer said angrily. "If I had planted it near the road, strangers would have stolen the fruit. If I had planted it in one of my fields, my neighbors would have come at night and stolen some of the apples. If I had planted it near my house, my own children would have taken the fruit,"

"Yes," said the friend, "but at least someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have got nothing, but also you have destroyed a good apple tree."

56. Was Smith happy about the gift?

Yes, he is.

57. When did he plant the apple tree?

At night.

58. Where did Smith plant the apple tree in the end?

In his wood.

59. Why did the apple tree soon die?

Because there was no sunlight or good soil.

60. What would probably happen if the farmer had planted the tree near his house?

His own children would have taken the fruit

【主旨大意】自私的史密斯不喜歡跟別人分享東西。有一天，他的朋友給了他一棵蘋果樹讓他回家種上。史密斯擔心別人會偷走，想啊想啊，最后決定在晚上的時候把樹種在他的小樹林里，這樣別人就看不到了。由于沒有陽光，土質也不好，小樹很快就死了。后來朋友問起緣由時，他反而非常生氣，振振有詞說出自己堂而皇之的理由。