1.One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me. She had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed something more difficult for him to do. “Could you help me in the library?” she asked. I said, “Send him along.”
Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. “Do you have a job for me?” he asked. I told him about a system for sorting books. He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards for some unreturned books that I thought had been returned but not recorded. Maybe some books were put on wrong places. He said, “Is it a kind of a detective（侦探）job?” I answered yes, and then began his work.
He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and said, “Time for rest!” he argued for finishing the finding job, but the teacher won.
The next morning, he arrived early, “I want to finish these books,” he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to work with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.
After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boy’s home. At the end of a pleasant evening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to another school. Her son’s first concern, she said, was leaving the library. “Who will find the lost books?” he asked. When the time came, it was hard to say goodbye. Though at the beginning he had seemed an ordinary boy, his strong feeling of interest had made him different.
Do you know who he is? This boy became a great man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.
(1).Why did the teacher go to the library to find a job for Bill Gates?
A.Because the teacher found the librarian quite busy.
B.Because Bill Gates wanted to find a job.
C.Because Bill Gates finished his study quickly and had more free time than the others.
D.Because the library needed a new worker.
(2).What do you know from the passage?
A.Library work was very difficult for Bill Gates.
B.Bill Gates did his job without any difficulty.
C.The librarian was too busy to have a rest.
D.His mother hoped that Bill Gates would stay for his job.
(3).The sentence “He picked up the idea immediately” means that ______.
A.he learned that system quickly
B.he collected that system quickly
C.he lifted up that system quickly
D.he improved that system quickly
(4).What was Bill Gates expected to do in the library?
A.Finding the lost cards.
B.Learning the system.
C.Helping the worker with everything in the library.
D.Finding books with wrong cards.
(5).How did Bill Gates feel when his family would move to another school area?
A.Sad.
B.Pleasant.
C.Worried.
D.Interested.
2.Down the entrance hall of the school walk four eighth-grade students. Each one is carrying a small basket with a single egg inside. Soon more students join them-each one of them is also carrying a basket with an egg. The eggs in a basket are part of a new school program that helps young people understand that having a baby is a great duty.
At the beginning of the program, the teacher puts the students in pairs-one girl and one boy. Each pair gets an egg, which they must take care of for two weeks. For those fourteen days, the students have to take care of the eggs as though they were real babies. Students whose eggs get broken have to start the two weeks all over again with a new egg.
One person in each pair must have the egg with him or her at all times-twenty-four hours a day. At no time can they let the egg be out of sight. “If a teacher catches you without your egg,” said one student, “she makes you go get it. They are really strict.” The teachers also make the students spend half an hour each day sitting with the egg and just watching it. That can get pretty boring. But it’s also something that parents spend a lot of time doing.
