Practice

Ⅰ. Read for comprehension

1. When the students get on the school bus, Janie usually________.

A. listens to music

B. talks about her own worry

C. sits on her seat without words

D. meets them with a smile

2. After she learned Janie's story, the writer thought of________.

A. her father's death

B. her mother's pain

C. the ache of her own heart

D. the pain of Janie's parents

3. The writer feel selfish because________.

A. she had never had Janie as anything except a driver

B. she had made only a few friends in the school

C. she had hardly thought of herself

D. she had never listened to others

4. From the reading, we can know that________.

A. Janie often tells stories to the kids on the bus

B. Janie's father had died

C. the writer doesn't want to talk about her mother's father

D. the writer will listen to Janie carefully later while she is talking

5. In this passage the writer tries to tell us that________.

A. losing parents makes people sad and helpless

B. understanding the people around us takes time

C. we should try to care for the people around us and understand them

D. it's not right to judge the people around us by their clothes

Ⅱ. Read for writing

How to understand a person? List the ways you know.

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