三、阅读理解(28分)
A
Many teenagers like detective stories. They enjoy going behind the scenes with the main character — a detective. Here are three detective stories for teens. Which do you want to buy?
||Nate the Great (Book 1 of 26)
Nate has a new case! His friend Annie has lost an expensive picture. She wants Nate to help her find it. Nate must get all the facts, ask the right questions and find out the list of suspects. Join the great detective as he solves the mystery, will you?
Paperback (平装书): $5.39 E - book: $4.99|
||Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (Book 1 of 28)
Encyclopedia Brown is Idaville Neighbourhood’s ten - year - old star detective. He solves mysteries for the neighbourhood kids. His dad is an officer of the Idaville Police Station. Every night, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most difficult cases. There are ten cases in each book.
Paperback: $4.99 E - book: $2.49|
||The 100 - Year - Old Secret: The Sherlock Files (Book 1 of 4)
Xena and Xander Holmes have just found they’re the great - great - grandchildren of Sherlock Holmes. They are given Sherlock’s unsolved casebook. The two start to solve the cases. Can two 21st - century kids succeed where Sherlock could not?
Paperback: $7.79 E - book: $5.67|
()1. In Nate the Great, Nate’s friend Annie asks him to ______.
A. paint a picture B. find a lost picture
C. take a picture of her D. look at her new picture
()2. The 100 - Year - Old Secret: The Sherlock Files tells the story about ______.
A. when Annie got all the facts
B. where Nate the Great found an expensive picture
C. how the two 21st - century kids solve the cases
D. who are Sherlock Holmes’ great - great - grandchildren
()3. The main characters of the three books are all ______.
A. children B. police officers C. famous detectives D. adults

B
The sound from Miranda’s alarm clock (闹钟) would not stop. Miranda reached over and stopped the noise ringing in her room. The action brought her a few minutes of peace and quietness.
On a usual day, Miranda jumped out of bed even before the alarm clock could ring. She did not mind getting up early. She loved morning because she could complete her two - mile run before most of her family members got up. She ran every morning so that she would realize her dream of being the best runner in the school. However, this morning was different. She would go and find out whether the pain in her leg was something that could be easily treated or would stop her from doing something she loved most: running with the school track team (田径队).
As the alarm clock rang out again, ▲. She cut off the annoying (讨厌的) noise and rose from her bed. She could hear the sound from the kitchen where her mother was making her favourite breakfast of pancakes and bacon. Her mother always made her favourites whenever Miranda was facing a problem or in a bad situation, but she’d never faced anything like this before.
Sighing (叹气) deeply in the quiet room, she tried to stand up. She could feel the pain in her right leg. It was serious but not unbearable. Surely, Miranda thought, it would not be as bad as she had imagined.
She shook her head to clear her thought and got ready to join her mother. As she walked into the kitchen, her mother gave her a big smile. Immediately, Miranda felt comforted. If nothing else, she at least knew one thing was certain. She was not alone in this and that would make all the differences, no matter what the day would bring.
( )4. Which of the following sentences can be put in the “▲” in Paragraph 3?
A. Miranda jumped out of bed B. her mother came into her room
C. Miranda knew she had to get up D. the telephone rang at the same time
( )5. What did the smile on her mother’s face mean to Miranda?
A. Suggestion. B. Encouragement. C. Instruction. D. Agreement.
( )6. What would Miranda probably do after breakfast?
A. She would go to see the doctor. B. She would go to bed and have a rest.
C. She would join her team members. D. She would join her mother in the kitchen.