This is my the smallest gift.（改错）

Jockeys(职业赛马骑师) are the smallest athletes. They are rarely over five feet six, or 120 pounds. The lighter the weight on the horse, the faster it can go.
Riding fast horses on the track is tough on the small jockeys. The jockey doesn’t“sit”on the horse. He leans forward on his legs. The strain is on his thighs(大腿) and calf(小腿) muscles. As jockeys age, their legs“go”first. Jockeys also need arm strength. It’s a strain holding a 1000-pound racehorse.
On muddy days, jockeys get a pounding of mud. The mud comes flying off the hooves(蹄) of the horses in front. “It feels like someone is punching you all over,”says one rider.
And a jockey can be hurt. A jockey can have a leg jammed between two horses. Or it can get caught between horse and the rail. The worst accidents are from falls. A horse may fall on his rider. Or horses behind may trample if he hits the track. In one year about 240 riders are hurt badly. That’s one out of six jockeys.
But the jockeys are well-paid. A jockey keeps about ten percent of the money his horses win. Jacinto Vasquez, a five-foot-three comer, has ridden horses to ＄7,000,000 in wins in the last eight years, which means he does almost ＄100,000 a year.
Why do some jockeys do better than others? “It isn’t the way a boy sits on a horse or uses the reins or the whip,”says Conn McCreary. McCreary was a top jockey of the 1950’s. He rode two Kentucky Derby winners. “Most jockeys do this the same. It’s the ‘feel’ he has for the horses.”
“When you come right down to it, it just seems that horses run better for some riders,” McCreary says. “A real good jockey doesn’t lose with the best horse. And sometimes he’ll win with the second or third best.”
Many Latin-American riders, like Jacinto, seem to have the knack . “Maybe it’s because we grew up with horses,”says Jacinto. “Maybe it’s because we like to ride. There was a strike at Aqueduct last year. We, Jorge Velasquez, and Angel Cordero (two other top Latin riders) went to a park. We rented horses, and rode around the bridle path(骑马专用道)!”
小题1:The main idea of Paragraph 1 is about ______________.

A．the size of jockeys.	B．the age of jockeys
C．the size of the horse	D．the speed of the horse

小题2:When a jockey is riding a fast horse, he doesn’t __________.

A．really sit on the horse	B．lean forward on his legs
C．use much arm strength	D．get any mud on wet track

小题3: The most dangerous problem for a jockey arises __________________.

A．when his leg is jammed between two horses

B．when his clothes are splashed over with mud.

C．when the jockey’s horse falls on the jockey

D．when the jockey is not well paid

小题4:A really good jockey can often win a race ____________.

A．only when he rides on the best horse

B．even when he rides the second best horse

C．when he rides on a rented horse

D．if the horse is just a Kentucky Herby

小题5: The underlined word “ Knack ” in the last paragraph probably means__________________.

A．special skill	B．dangerous hobby
C．riding culture	D．excellent horses.

Australia is the smallest continent in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is on the Southern Hemisphere of the earth. Australia is big, but its population is small. The population of Australia is nearly as large as that of Shanghai.
Enough laws have been made to fight against pollution. The cities in Australia have little air or water pollution. The sky is blue and the water is clean. You can clearly see fish in the rivers. Plants grow very well.
Last month we visited Perth, the biggest city in Western Australia, and went to a wild flower exhibition . There we saw large numbers of wild flowers on show, most of which we had never seen before. We had a wonderful time. Perth is famous for its beautiful wild flowers. Every year in spring Perth has a wild flower exhibition. After visiting Perth, we spent a day in the countryside. We sat down and had a rest near a path at the foot of a hill. It was quiet and we enjoyed ourselves very much. When we heard bells ringing at the top of the hills, we looked up, but what we saw made us pick up all our things and run back to our car as quickly as we could. There were about three hundred sheep coming towards us along the path.
Australia is famous for its sheep and kangaroos（袋鼠）. After a short drive from any town, you will find yourself among the white sheep. Sheep, sheep, everywhere you can see sheep.
小题1:Which country is the writer most possibly from?

A．Japan

B．Canada

C．China

D．America

小题2:We can learn from the passage that _________.

A．Australia is the smallest country in the world

B．Australia is the same size of Shanghai.

C．Australia is in the northern part of the earth.

D．The people in Australia are as many as those in Shanghai.

小题3:Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Australia has enough laws to fight against pollution.

B．Perth is the biggest city in Australia.

C．The wild flowers in Perth must be different from what the author sees in his/her country.

D．The author enjoyed his/her visit in the country.

小题4:The underlined word “exhibition” in the third paragraph means _________.

A．a public show for people to visit

B．a market where you can buy all kinds of flowers

C．a place where all kinds of flowers are grown

D．a field where there are flowers and animal

Britain’s smallest school was closed down because its only pupil failed to turn up for class, a famous Britain newspaper reported in May.
The newspaper said the six-year-old girl’s parents were unhappy with a teacher who just got the new job to teach the only pupil.
The school had been closed for the last nine months after its former（前任的）teacher retired and the only other pupil moved on to a secondary（中等的）school. The new teacher, Ms. Puckey was to start teaching the girl and reopen（再次打开）the school.
But the girl’s mother is keeping her daughter at home.
“I was not pleased with the new teacher,”the mother said. “I had told the old teacher as far back as last September that if Ms. Puckey got the job, my child would not be going to school.”
The school lies on an island off the northeast of Scotland. Although there was only one pupil, the school is very good in many ways and has a headmaster, three computers, a television, and an art room as well as a school house with three bedrooms.
小题1:The reading is about .

A．the smallest school that was closed down

B．the only pupil in the smallest school

C．the new teacher and her teaching

D．the old teacher who just retired

小题2:“Turn up”in the reading means “”。

A．pass an exam	B．go to school
C．pay money	D．hand in homework

小题3:From the reading we can know that the school .

A．is too far for the students

B．does not have enough teachers

C．does not have many pupils

D．is new but small

小题4:Before the school was closed down, .

A．the girl’s mother wanted to teach her daughter at home

B．the only pupil had to move to a secondary school

C．a famous newspaper had written something about it

D．the girl’s mother had a talk with the former teacher

小题5:The reading does not say but we can infer .

A．the girl’s mother had only one child

B．the new teacher was not kind to the girl

C．the old teacher was fit to teach the girl

D．the parents were unhappy with the school

Australia is the smallest continent(洲) in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is near the south of the equator(赤道).So when it is summer in our country, it is winter in Australia.
Australia has a small population (人口).The population of Australia is nearly the same as that of Shanghai, a city in China.
Australia is famous for its sheep and kangaroos. After driving for a short time from any town, you will find yourself in the middle of white sheep. Sheep are everywhere. Have you seen a kangaroo? It has a “bag” below its breast(胸). The mother kangaroo keeps its baby kangaroo in the “bag”. It is very strange, isn’t it?
小题1:China is __________than Australia.

A．larger

B．large

C．small

D．smaller

小题2:It is ________in Australia when it is summer in our country.

A．autumn

B．spring

C．winter

D．summer

小题3:Australia is famous for its _________.

A．kangaroos

B．deer

C．elephants

D．birds