One day, a farmer took a bag of wheat（小麦） to town. He didn't know what to do when the bag fell off his horse. The bag was too heavy for him to lift. He hoped that someone would come and help him.

    Before long a man came over. But the farmer's heart sank when he saw the man, because he was the famous judge（法官） in town. The farmer was afraid to ask him for help.

    As soon as he came up to the farmer, the judge got off his horse and said, “You need my help, don't you? Let me help you，” Then he took one end of the bag, the farmer took the other. They lifted the bag of wheat onto the horse.

    “Sir” asked the farmer, “how can I pay you?”

    “Well,” the judge replied, “if you see anyone in need of help, do the same for him,”

    Have you heard of Zhou Yang? She is now well known 1 an excellent short track speed skater (短道速滑运动员).

    Zhou Yang is not an overnight 2. She was born in a poor family in Changchun on June 9th, 1991 and started 3at the age of 8.She fell in love with the 4at once when she put on her skates to train for the first time. Soon her talent (天赋) for short track speed skating was 5. Zhou Yang trained hard and made her way into the national team 6^.

    In the world championships (锦标赛) in 2008, Zhou Yang set a world record in the 1, 500m event. Zhou Yang 7herself again in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her performance gave China the 8gold medal in the women's 1, 500 meters in the Winter Olympics — China had never won the event before.

    "Winning the event is my dream, 9I still have one more dream, winning the relay (接力赛)," Zhou Yang said.

    Her "one more dream" 10when she and her teammates won the women's 3, 000m short track relay with a new world record. 

    George Mallory was an English school teacher who loved 1 . In 1924, Mallory and a team of British climbers tried 2 the top of Mount Qomolangma, the highest mountain in the world. No one had ever done it before.

    Mallory had already tried to 3 the top of Mount Qomolangma in 1921 and 1922, 4 he didn't succeed both times. In 1924, he started to climb again. On June 8th, 1924, he and 5 climber, Andrew Irvine, were only a few hundred meters 6 the top of the mountain. The other members of their climbing team watched 7 Mallory and Irvine climbed slowly up towards the top. However, the weather 8 was terrible, and soon the two men disappeared(消失). They never returned.

    In 1953, Edmund Hillary from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal, 9 reached the top of Mount Qomolangma. Most people thought that they were the 10 men to do this, but some people 11 whether Mallory and Irvine had got there first.

    Many years 12, in 1999, Mallory's body was found on Mount Qomolangma, about 13 from the top of it. However, it is still unknown if he and Irvine 14 reached the top of the mountain.

    Someone had once asked Mallory why he wanted to climb the most 15 mountain in the world. "Because it's there, "he answered.

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出一个最佳答案.

    There was a tree in my garden. One day, two birds came to the tree and built a house for their1 newborn babies.

    One morning, I was getting up when I 2the sound of the little birds. I ran out of my bedroom and found two babies eating food on the ground in the 3I thought they dropped off their house, so I decided to help them get back to their house. At that time, the 4bird and the mother bird came back. They brought some food for the third baby. They put it on the ground. 5 their third baby. To get the food, she had to fly to it. Although she was6, she was afraid of getting out of the house to eat it.

    To my 7. her parents just stood there and did nothing.

    After about ten8 the third baby bird didn't have any other choice. She slowly went to the border(边缘)of the house and began to9, She flew down from the house. Finally, she landed safely on the ground and found the food soon.

These birds taught us a lesson: If we want our food, we will have to learn to fly on 10.

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Hello, I'm Cindy. My English is good.

What's this in English?It is a jacket.What colour is it?It's purple.It's my jacket.And what's that?It's a map.It's not my map.It's Simon's.A white ruler is on the map.What's that in English?It's a key.I can spell it.K-E-Y,key.The key is on the quilt.Can you see a cup?It's a white cup.