一、完形填空
An old man lived with his young grandson. Every morning, he read his Bhagavad Gita—a classic work of poetry. One day, his grandson asked, “Grandpa, I to read the Bhagavad Gita like you, but I can’t understand it. I forget what I read as soon as I close the . What should I do?”
The grandfather didn’t answer, but said, “Take this coal(煤) basket down to the and bring me a basket of water.”
The boy did as the old man told him. But all the water leaked(漏) out before he home. “You’ll have to move faster,” the grandfather laughed. So the boy ran more , but again the basket was empty. He tried for a third time, and still . “See, Grandpa, it’s useless!” he said.
“So you think it is useless?” the grandfather said, “ the basket!” For the first time, the boy found the coal basket became clean.
“My boy, that’s what happens when you read the Bhagavad Gita. You may not understand remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, both inside and out. It’s the of classics,” the grandfather added.
()1. A. agree B. allow C. try
()2. A. book B. door C. window
()3. A. forest B. hill C. river
()4. A. left B. returned C. passed
()5. A. secretly B. proudly C. quickly
()6. A. failed B. poured C. reduced
()7. A. Fill out B. Look at C. Pick up
()8. A. ugly B. silly C. dirty
()9. A. as B. but C. or
()10. A. cost B. power C. tradition

1. C 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. B
8. C 9. C 10. B

二、阅读下面短文，根据短文内容回答问题或翻译画线部分
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas（《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》）is a novel by Irish author John Boyne. This book describes World War Ⅱ from a child's eyes. A nine-year-old German boy, Bruno, grows up in Berlin. He loves his peaceful
life, with his parents, sister and three best friends.
But after a visit from Adolf Hitler, Bruno's father, Ralf, becomes the head of the death camp Auschwitz. Bruno and his family have to move there. He sees the wire fence（电线围栏）around the death camp, and the prisoners'（犯人）uniforms—“striped pyjamas”. In the camp, he meets a Jewish boy from Poland named Shmuel. The two become good friends.
It turns out that they share the same age and birthday. If you look deeper, the boys actually mirror each other. They are both naive（天真的）children, unaware of（未察觉）the bad times they live in.
At the end of the book Bruno dresses in “striped pyjamas” and sneaks（偷偷地走）into the camp to help Shmuel find his missing father.
After searching for a while and not finding anything, Bruno gets ready to sneak back home when the soldiers start gathering Jews for a “march”. They all enter a gas chamber（毒气室）and are never heard from again.
This story tells us that people aren't born bad or evil, and we are all more alike than different. The two boy wanted nothing more than a friendship, but because of the terrible world, even that was just a dream.
1. Who is the writer of the book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?

2. What is the book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas about?

3. What do the two boys have in common?（列出三点）

4. If Bruno and Shmuel could meet in a peaceful world, what simple activity do you think they would do together first? And why?

5. 将短文中画线部分翻译成中文。

1. John Boyne.
2. This book describes World War Ⅱ from a child's eyes.
3. They share the same age and birthday. They are both naive.
4.  I think they would play games like football or other casual outdoor games together first. Because in the original story they can only talk across the wire fence and never get the chance to play freely like common friends, and in a peaceful world without the restriction of the fence and the shadow of the war, they would want to enjoy the ordinary happy time that normal little boys can have to make up for their regret in the war.
5. 这两个男孩所求的不过是一份友谊，但因为那糟糕的世界，就连这也只能是奢望。