Ⅰ. 课文再现
阅读短文，根据首字母、音标、汉语提示或括号内所给单词填入适当的单词，使短文意思连贯、完整。
Once upon a time, there was a mother duck. She had six little ducklings. Five of the ducklings were small and yellow, but the last duckling was big and grey. “He 1. (not look) like us! What an ugly duckling!” the other 2. (duckling) said. “That's not nice!” said Mother Duck. “He's still a duck like us!”
At the river, the ugly duckling swam well, just like all the other ducklings. But the other ducklings still 3. l at him and told him to go 4. a. It made the poor duckling very sad, so he decided to 5. /sɜːtʃ/ for a new home. He met many other birds, but all of them thought that he was ugly too. They did not want him to live with them.
One day, the duckling met a cat and a 6. (母鸡). “May I stay with you?” he asked 7. (有希望地). But the two animals said no. They did not like him because he could not purr or 8. /leɪ/ eggs!
Some days later, the ugly duckling came to a lake. There, he saw three beautiful swans with long necks and white 9. (feather). “I wish I looked like you!” he cried. “My friend, you do look like us! Look in the water!” one of the swans said. The duckling looked down, and to his 10. s, he saw that he was a beautiful white swan too!

1. doesn't look 2. ducklings 3. laughed 4. away 5. search 6. hen 7. hopefully 8. lay 9. feathers 10. surprise

Ⅱ. 任务型阅读理解
Once upon a time, there was a very old man called Yu Gong.
There were two mountains near his house. They were so high and big that it took a long time to walk to the other side. Yu Gong told his family that they should all help him to move the mountains. And he said they could put the earth and stone into the sea because it's big enough to hold everything. So they all started digging the next day. Yu Gong and his family began to move some of the earth and stone to the sea.
One day a man saw Yu Gong and his children when they were working on moving the mountains. He told Yu Gong that he could never do it because he was old and weak. As soon as the man finished talking, Yu Gong said that his family could continue to move the mountains after he died. His family would live and grow, but the mountains could not get bigger. So Yu Gong and his family kept on digging day after day and year after year. Finally a god was so moved that he sent two gods to move the mountains away.
This story reminds us that you can never know what's possible unless you try to make it happen.
【词海拾贝】
1. put the earth and stone into... 把泥土和石头放入……
2. as soon as 一……就……
3. continue v. 继续
4. dig v. 掘(地)；凿(洞)；挖(土)
5. remind v. 提醒
6. unless conj. 除非；如果不
【问题探究】
1. What is the old man's name?

2. How many mountains were there near his house?

3. Why could they put the earth and stone into the sea?

4. What did a man see Yu Gong and his children do one day?

5. What can you learn from the story?

【素养提升】
You must have known about many ancient stories. Which story do you like best? Please introduce your favourite story to us in English.

1. Yu Gong. 2. Two/2. 3. Because the sea is big enough to hold everything. 4. He saw them working on moving the mountains./Working on moving the mountains. 5. We/I can never know what's possible unless we try to make it happen.（开放性问答，言之有理即可。）
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