Like many other families in 1870， Katie Olson and her family had come to the grassy plains of Kansas? Katie liked the prairie and their new sold house? But with no friends to play with， she was very lonely? Besides her mother and father， she had only her little brother， Matt， for company? She missed their old home in Wisconsir? Then one day her father had exciting news? Some settlers had bought the farm near the Olson's land? Katie became so excited on hearing the news that she thought she might burst? She begged her father to let her ride over with him to greet their new neighbors? The two rode across the prairie? They found Mr? and Mrs Laski were hard at working building their sod home? Katie was disappointed? She had hoped there would be some children to play with? But soon Mr Laski called out?" Anna， and Carl, come out of the wagon?" A boy and a girl? jumped down and came over to Katie? Katie didn't believe it? Her wish had come true?
1? Who was the most important person in the story?
A? Matt B? Katie C? Mr Laski D? Anna and Carl
2? What was Katie's problem in the story?
A? She had no friend. B? She didn't like Kansas.
C? She couldn't ride a horse. D? She didn't like Anna and Carl.
People sometimes change their way of doing business? In a village in Africa， people are using money for the first time? They're doing business with the world? Before this tribe (部落) used money， people came to the market in the village to trade (交易) things they had for things they needed? Now people must use money to buy what they want? Before using money， people helped one another? Their father who was head of the family， gave food， and clothing to his sons and their families? In return， the sons worked for their father? Now people no longer work for one another free? Instead， they are paid for the work they do? When a new road was needed. Everyone in the village helped build it, Now people must pay money to the village chief (首领) for roads and schools? The chief hires workers to build these new projects? More and better roads and schools are being built?It is not easy for people to change a way of doing business? To change from trading goods to using money takes time?
① The story doesn't say so， but it makes you think that ____________.
A? family members often quarrel (争吵) about money
B? Africans do not change their way of doing business
C? Africans refuse to use money
D? families do not help one another in the same way now
例：… on Saturday afternoon they began with the back of the house? The next Saturday Tom went to a football match while his wife painted the front of the house? The next day they found they couldn't open any of the front windows? They get them open at last， but they broke three of the seven and they were very expensive to repair
①? They lasted for about ______ days?
A? two B? three
C? more than seven D? Less than seven
［答案］ A.
②? They had to get someone to make repair for ______ windows?
例： Man has a big brain? He can think， learn and speak… …but no animal learns when we speak? Scientists do not really know? They only know that man can speak because he has a big brain?
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