Ma Yan is not really a writer, but this 15-year-old girl has written a book that has moved many people around the world. Ma Yan’s diary tells us about Ma’s life. She lives in a poor village called Zhangjiashu in Tongxin, Ningxia, and she has no money to go to school. However, she is brave and wants to go to school very much.
Her mother gave her diary to a reporter, Pierre Haski when he went to Zhangjiashu in 2001. Now, Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and China.
Ma Yan is now a Junior Three student at Yuwang Middle School in Tongxin. Before this, she had to drop out of school twice. She had to stop going to school the first time, because her mum told her there was no money for her to go to school. She worked for 21 days and saved 13 yuan. With this money, she went back to school. The second time, her family told her she had to leave school while her two brothers could stay.
“I want to study,” Ma Yan wrote in her diary. “Why can boys study but girls can’t? It would be wonderful if I could stay at school forever.”
Ma Yan loves school so much because she wants to have a better life.
“My parents work hard in the fields but they are still poor. They have no knowledge(知識(shí)). Most girls in my village leave school early and get married young. I don’t want that kind of life,” Ma Yan said.
After her story became known, many students sent money to her. She hopes to go to Tsinghua University and become a reporter. “Then, I can find poor kids like me, and help them,” she said.
【小題1】Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and       .

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A．sad                      B．history                 C．funny                    D．detective

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A．Skinny Bones．                                       B．Nancy Drew．

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A．Judy Blume．                                         B．Barbara Park．

C．Chitra Bangerjee Divakaruni．               D．Lurlene McDaniel．

4．The best name of the 4th book is                 ．

A．My Secret                                               B．Growing Trouble

C．Three Friends                                            D．Alice Learns a Lesson

5．Which is TRUE about Nancy Drew?

A．It doesn't have a common ending like other books．

B．It's based on real things that happened to the author．

C．It's about a 12-year-old girl who tries to save her father．

D．Both the reader and the reader's grandma love this book．

　　Mr. Grey had a nice shop in the busy street of a small town. He sold jewelry (珠寶), watches, clocks and some other things. All went well for some years, and then his shop was broken into at night twice in one month. Three weeks had passed, yet the police had not done much to catch the thief, so Mr. Grey decided to do something about it himself. He bought a good camera (照相機(jī)) and fixed it up in his shop, and put some cheap jewelry in front of it for the thief, so that it could take a photo of anyone who stole the jewelry .

　　A few nights later, the thief did come, but he was clever enough not to touch any of the cheap jewelry that Mr. Grey had put there for him. He took only the camera, which was worth about five hundred pounds.

1．Mr. Grey was ________.

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2．At first things were going on ________.

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3．What did Mr. Grey do at first in order to catch the thief?

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4．Mr. Grey bought a good camera ________.

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A．to make his shop look more beautiful

B．to take photos for his family

C．to stop the shop from being broken into

D．because he hoped to find out the thief with its help

5．The end of the story tells us that the thief ________.

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A．was found out and put into prison

B．stole the expensive camera

C．took the cheap jewelry

D．stole both the jewelry and the good camera