C

Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can heat water, warm your houses, give light, and cook food. But fire can burn things too. It can burn trees, houses, animals, or people. Sometimes big fires can burn forests.

Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting, old stories about the first time a man or woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man a very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope and brought fire down.

Today people know how to make a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can burn a piece of paper, and then it might

burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire very fast.

Fires kill many people every year. So you must he careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they die. There is oxygen in the air. Cover a fire with water, sand, or in an emergency, with your coat or something else.This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it.

Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it will burn you.

63. According to the passage which of the following is true?

A. Where there is oxygen there is fire.

B. It is an Australian who started a fire.

C. We are not sure how people started to use fire.

D. Nobody knows how to make a fire.

64. The reason why children mustn’t play with matches is that ________.

A. they don’t know how to make a fire with matches

B. it is not interesting

C. matches can be dangerous

D. matches burn paper

65. If you are going to put out a fire, you________.

A. must be careful with matches                 B. have to know fires kill many people every year

C. have to cover it with water only             D. should keep air away from it

66. We must be careful with fire, or it ________.

A. can die                                                 B. warms our houses

C. might burn us                                       D. will help us

67. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Fire can help people in many ways.         B. Fire can be both helpful and harmful.

C. Fire can burn things and people.             D. We must be careful with matches.

D

I once knew an old man whose bad memory made him famous. John Smith was so forgetful that he sometimes forgot what he was talking about in the middle of a sentence. His wife had to constantly remind him about his meetings, his classes — even his meals. Once he forgot he ate breakfast twice, at home and at school. His wife liked to remind her neighbors, “If John didn’t have his head tied on, he would forget that too!” Since Smith was a professor at a well known university, his forgetfulness was often an embarrassment. It wasn’t that he was not clever, as some critical people tended to say, just very, very absent minded. One hot summer day, Professor Smith decided to take his children to a seaside town about a three- hour train ride away. To make the trip more interesting for his young children, he kept the name of the town a secret. However, by the time they arrived at the station, Smith forgot the name of the town he was planning to visit. Luckily, a friend of his happened to be in the station. He offered to take care of the children while Smith hurried back home to find out where he was going.

The professor’s wife was surprised to see him again so soon. “Oh, my dear, I forgot the name of the town.” “What? You forgot the name? May be one day you will forget my name! Now I’ll write the name of that town on a piece of paper, and you put it in your pocket and please, please don’t forget where you put it.”

Satisfied that she had solved the problem, she sent her husband off again. Ten minutes later she was astonished to see him outside the house for the third time.

“What is the matter now?”

“As you told me, I didn’t forget where I put the name of that town, but I forgot where I left our children!”

68. In the opinion of the writer of this passage, the professor is ________.

A. careless                                               B. absent minded

C. foolish                                                D. forgetful

69. The underlined word “embarrassment” in the first paragraph may mean ________.

A. amusement        B. satisfaction             C. fun                     D. discomfort

70. From the end of the story, we know Mrs Smith would probably be very________.

A. satisfied             B. sorry                     C. angry                   D. funny

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