The little boy entered the house，unhappy．His mother was making cakes in the kitchen．She smiled as she turned around, but
when she saw his face, “Tyler,
happened? Is everything okay?”
“Nothing is okay, Mom.” said the boy, “Today in our science lesson, Mrs Green was talking about the
．She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are
．She wants us to think of something we can do to help them．I thought all the way home．But there is nothing I can do to make a difference.”
“ Let me tell you a story,” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach，there he saw
dying starfish covering the beach，they were pushed up by the waves and it was too far up for them to make their way back by themselves. The man shook his head as he walked along. ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man felt very
for those starfish．He went on walking and just at that time he was
to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as
as he could．‘How silly you are! My son,’ the man said, ‘there are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing. ‘Though I can’t help them all, I can help this one，and this one, and this one.’ said the boy. Thinking for a moment, the man
to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the
person.’”
| 小题1: | | A．shouted | B．stopped | C．asked | D．cried |
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| 小题3: | | A．air | B．land | C．water | D．environment |
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| 小题4: | | A．dying | B．death | C．dead | D．die |
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| 小题5: | | A．two thousands | B．thousands of | C．thousand | D．two thousands of |
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| 小题6: | | A．happy | B．angry | C．sorry | D．tired |
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| 小题7: | | A．afraid | B．surprised | C．sad | D．happy |
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| 小题9: | | A．began | B．continued | C．forgot | D．remembered |
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| 小题10: | | A．happiest | B．smallest | C．kindest | D．smartest |
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