三、阅读理解(共10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项.

A

My Favorite Sweater

by Bonnie Highsmith Taylor

My favorite sweater grew too small.

I love that sweater best of all.

My grandma made it when I was t hree.

She made that sweater just for me.

I picked the yam(纱线), a special blu e.

The color of bluebells, wet with dew(露珠).

When I was three I was very small.

But now I'm five and much too tall.

I have a new jacket now that's green.

So I gave my sweater to our cat Queen.

Queen just had kittens out in the shed (小屋).

My favorite sweater is now their bed.

41. The girl in this poem is_______ years old now.

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

42. What do we know from the poem?

A. The girl doesn't like the sweater any more.

B. The sweater is too small for the girl now.

C. The girl has got a new blue jacket now.

D. The girl's grandma loves blue very much.

43. The word "kitten" in this poem means_______.

A. a kind of food B. a baby cat

C. a kind of drink D. a bed for a baby

B

Poor Alice was very unhappy. "What a wonderful garden!" she said to herself. "I'd like to be out there - not in this dark room. Why can't I get smaller?" It was already a very strange day. and Alice was beginning to think that anything was possible.

After a while she locked the door again, got up and went back to the glass table. She put the key down and she saw a little bottle on the tabl e. Round the neck of the bottle was a piece of paper with the words DRINK ME in large letters.

But Alice was a careful girl. "It can be dangerous to drink out of strange bottles," she said. "What will it do to me?" She drank a little bit very slowly. The taste was very nice. like chocolate and oranges and hot sweet coffee. and very soon Alice finished the bottle.

"What a strange feeling!" said Alice. "I think I' m getting smaller and smaller every second."

And she was. A few minutes later she was only 25 centimeters high. "And now," she said happily,

"I can get through the little door into that beautiful garden."

She ran at once to the door. When she got there. she remembered that the little gold key was back on the glass table. She ran back to the table for it, but of course, she was now much too small! There was the key, high above her, on top of the table. She tried very hard to climb up the table leg, but she could not do it.

At last, tired and unhappy, Alice sat down on the floor and cried. But after a while she spoke to herself angrily.

"Come now," she said, "Stop crying at once . What's the use of crying?" She was a strange child, and often talked to herself like this.

Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor. She opened it and found a very small cake with the words EATME on it.

Nothing could surprise Alice now. "Well, I'II eat it," she said. "If I get taller, I can take the key off the table. And if I get smaller, I can get under the door. One way or another. I'll get into the garden. So it doesn't matter what happens!" She went on eating, but nothing happened.

44. Why couldn't Alice get into the beautiful garden?

A. She couldn't find the key to the door.

B. She was too small to get the k ey to the door.

C. She didn't know how to get through the door.

D. She was not allowed to go into the garden.

45. What made Alice become smaller?

A. Some hot sweet coffee. B. A piece of chocolate.

C. Something in a little bottle. D. Some orange juice.

46. The underlined sentence "One way or another" probably means "_______ ".

A. Whether I get smaller or taller B. I can eat it in this way or another

C. If I get taller and taller D. If I get smaller and smaller

47. What's the main idea of this passage?

A. Alice drank something that made her smaller.

B. Alice was excited to become small.

C. Alice ate a small cake and became bigger.

D. Alice met with some strange things.

C

Game: Describe and guess

In Describe and guess, players take turns choosing(选)a Word Brick and then describing(描述) one of the words on the brick without saying the actual word. The goal is to get the other players to guess the word.