三、阅读理解(共13小题;每小题2分，满分26分)

A

One day a mother camel and her son walked through a desert. They were looking for water and grass.

The son asked, “What do water and grass look like, Mum?” His mother answered, “Water looks like the sky, blue and clear. While grass is green, fresh and nice.” After they walked for a day and a night, the son suddenly cried, “Look! Mum, there is water and grass over there!”

“What a foolish talk, my boy!”

The water and grass were on the left, while the desert was on the right. But because the mother camel was blind( 瞎的  )in her left eye, she could only see a sea of yellow sand with her right eye. So she didn’t believe what the young camel said.

The next day they went on walking, the young camel found a second oasis ,but his mother still did not believe him. She said angrily , “No, that’s not an oasis, but a desert. I have more knowledge and experience than you. You are wrong again. You should listen to me.”

This time the young camel was angry with his mother, too. So when he saw an oasis for the third time, he left his mother without telling her. He ran to the grass and ate his fill. But his poor mother was still walking on and she was still hungry and thirsty.

(   ) 21.At first the young camel didn’t know __________    .

A. how to go through the desert       B. what they wanted to do

C. where they wanted to go          D. what water and grass looked like

(   ) 22.How many times did the young camel find the  oasis in total( 总共 )?。

A.   Once    B. Twice    C. Three times    D. Four times

(   ) 23.What’s the Chinese meaning of the word “oasis”?

A. 大海   B . 绿洲  C.陆地   D. 草地

(   ) 24.What can you learn from the passage?

A. We should believe the mother camel.

B. We should always believe the one with more experience.

C. We should believe others when they are right

D. We don’t need to be polite to our mothers.

B

Dear editor,

My name is Henry J. Coll. I am writing to you because I had a very unusual experience (经历) yesterday. Here is the story:

It was cloudy. Early in the morning, it rained heavily at first, but later everything was calm and we could find a little bit of sunshine through the clouds sometimes. My cousin and I were sitting in the sitting room, watching TV and talking. My father was surfing the Internet in the study (书房) and my mother was cooking in the kitchen. At about 12 o’clock at noon, my cousin and I got up from the sofa and walked to the kitchen to find something to eat. Suddenly a ball of fire, as big as a soccer ball, came through the kitchen window. It was making a very loud noise and it hit one of the kitchen walls. The bricks (砖) of the wall chattered (碎裂) everywhere. But there was a big hole (洞) in the wall and we smelt (嗅到) something burned (烧焦). We went back to the living room to check computer, we found it was burned and we also found the TV smoking and burned too. All of us stood there, looking at each other. We had a great loss (损失) and we felt upset. What a bad day!

Yours

Henry