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　　Mr Johnson wanted a car for a long time. His home is far from his factory. His wife has to get up earlier. When breakfast is ready, she wakes him up. Then he hurries to catch the early bus.

　　One day, something was wrong with the clock and he was late for work. At the gate of the shop, he met the boss. Since then he always went to the car shops and watched the cars carefully. He always wears old clothes and his wife often buys the cheapest food. They never travel in the cities. He hopes to have his own car.

　　Now, after three years, Mr Johnson had enough money to buy a car. He went to the shop happily, and chose a cheaper but beautiful one. He handed the money to the man in the shop. The man counted it carefully and then said, “Sorry, Sir. They're four thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars. ”

　　At that moment Mr Johnson remembered he bought a lottery tick（彩票）for some money. He went out and met with his friend Mr Hunt and wanted to borrow some.

　　“Certainly,” said the man. “What do you borrow five dollars for?”

　　“To buy a car.”“Here's ten dollars -buy one for me as well.”

1．Mrs Johnson gets up earlier to ________.

[　　]

A．go to work

B．buy something in the market

C．cook breakfast

D．wake her hundred up

2．Mr Johnson goes to his factory________.

[　　]

3．Mr and Mrs Johnson try their best to save some money to ________.

[　　]

4．The car is ________ dollars

[　　]

5．Mr Hunt wanted to buy a car because ________.

[　　]

A．he thought it was five dollars

B．he had enough money

C．he lent 5 dollars to his friend

D．he was rich enough

Ron loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the following year. As Ron was walking to the game, a car hit him so hard that he was thrown three feet into the air.
Ron woke up in a hospital room. When he learned that both his legs were broken, he realized his college basketball dreams were over. Ron did what the doctors told him, but his progress was slow. When he left the hospital, Ron was sent to a health center for physical treatment.
A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny. Sunny was a coach．His legs were hurt  paralysed(癱瘓的) from a skiing accident. Even though he couldn’t move his legs, Sunny coached of a basketball team called the Suns. Everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself．
After becoming a part of the Suns, Ron improved quickly. Basketball was like   medicine for him. And whenever Ron became depressed or angry, Sunny was there to encourage and help him. The day before Ron left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he managed to be generous and cheerful, even with his paralysis.
Sunny smiled and said, “It’s really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows(陰影) fall behind.”

1. 1.

   What happened to Ron on his way to a basketball game?

   1. A.
      A car hit him
   2. B.
      He met his coach
   3. C.
      His doctor called him
   4. D.
      He fell down and cut his foot
2. 2.

   The underlined word “depressed” means ___ in Chinese

   1. A.
      懶惰的
   2. B.
      好奇的
   3. C.
      沮喪的
   4. D.
      激動的
3. 3.

   What is the most important thing we can learn from the story?

   1. A.
      Basketball can teach people about life
   2. B.
      Keep smiling when you face difficulties
   3. C.
      Life is more difficult for the paralysed
   4. D.
      Skiing is more dangerous than basketball

根據短文內容，從A、B、C、D四個選項中選擇一個最佳答案。（共15分，每小題1分）
Music can spread across everywhere and narrow the distance (縮短距離 ) between people of different countries.  1 . NBA star Kobe Bryant worked with music super-star Jay Chou to create a song 2 .The Heaven and Earth Challenge{(天地之斗)}. The song is used in the recent advertisement  3  the soft drinks company Sprite, and the two superstars shot ( 拍攝 ) the advertisement  4  on TV.
The song was written by Jay, whose favorite 5 is basketball. It expresses the love for basketball and  6  encourages young people to be more confident（信心 ) about them selves. Jay  7  that he learned a lot from Kobe’s sports spirit 8  creating the song. He does most of the singing part while Kobe  9 the role as a rapper ( 說唱歌手 ). The basketball star is very confident with his play.  "I love  10  … My part is talk, it's very relaxing and I did a  11  job, it must be A﹡.''Kobe was very happy to 12  with Jay. "1 fell in love with Jay's music since first  13 his songs," Kobe added.
People can download the ring tone (下載鈴聲) of the song from the Internet. All  14  from the downloads will go to Project Hope, a charity (慈善 ) that helps improve educational facilities (設備) in 15 areas in China.