四、新趋势 寓言故事 阅读《刻舟求剑》的故事，选择正确的答案。
One day, a man was crossing a river with his sword by boat. He showed it to his friend. But he carelessly dropped his sword into the river. His friend said, “Jump and get your sword back.” He smiled and took out a small knife, then made a mark(标记) on the side of the boat. His friend asked him, “ ① Why do you make this mark there?” He pointed to the mark and said, “Don’t worry. My sword fell into the river at this marked place.” When the boat got to the other bank(岸), he said, “ ② Now, I will jump down from here to take my sword back.” Then he quickly jumped into the river to look for his sword. But he couldn’t find it. His friend said, “ ③ The boat moved but the sword didn’t.”
()1. 新趋势 事件排序 The correct order of the pictures is .

A. a—b—c
B. c—b—a
C. b—a—c
()2. What does the underlined word “it” refer to(指代)?
A. the boat
B. the sword
C. the mark
()3. Where should we put the sentence “Why don’t you jump into the river?”
A. ①
B. ②
C. ③

1. C 解析 通读全文可知，故事发生的顺序是：剑落入水里（图 b）→在船上刻标记（图 a）→到岸后下水寻找（图 c），故选 C。
2. B
3. A 解析 由“Jump and get your sword back”可知，剑刚落水时，朋友就建议男人立即跳入河中寻找，在看到他没有下水而是在船上刻标记后，才发出疑问“你为什么不跳入河中（寻找）？”将这句话放在①处最符合语境，故选 A。

五、(2025·常州天宁区月考)阅读松树换叶子的故事，补全表格信息。(每空一词)
In the forest, there was a pine tree. Its green needles(针叶) were shiny in the sun, but it didn’t like its needles. It wanted to have big leaves like many other trees.
One day, a fairy came. When she heard the pine tree’s wish, she said, “That’s easy. I can turn your needles into big leaves.” The pine tree was happy to get new big green leaves. They were the most beautiful leaves in the world. The next day, some deer came and saw the pine tree. “How nice the leaves are! They must be very yummy.” “Yes. Let’s eat them.” “They taste so good.” Soon the pine tree had no leaves left. It only had bare(光秃秃的) branches.

1. big 2. helped 3. got 4. ate 5. became/were