john is a famous writer now. But he said he was not a good student when he was young. He was often late for class and didn’t like doing his homework. Sometimes he slept in cJohn lass while the teacher was teaching. He didn’t understand much, but he always thought he understood everything. One day the teacher asked the students a question, “When John was ten years old, his brother was twenty. John is fifteen now and how old is his brother? ”Jack answered, “That’s easy. His brother is twice as old as John, so he is now thirty. ” Another time, the teacher in a science class asked, “When it thunders （打雷）, why do we always see the light before we hear the sound? ”“But, Miss White, ”said Jack quickly, “can’t you see our eyes are in front of our ears? ”

约翰现在是一名著名作家。但他说他不是个好学生他年轻时。他经常上课而不喜欢做功课了。有时他睡在cjohn姑娘当老师的教学。他还知道的不多，但他总是认为自己什么都明白了。一天，老师问学生问题，”约翰十岁时，他的哥哥是二十。约翰现在十五岁和他的弟弟多大了？杰克回答说，“那是容易的。他的弟弟约翰是两倍一样大，所以他现在是三十。“另一个时间，在科学课上老师问，“打雷的时候（打雷），为什么我们总是在我们听到看到光明吗？“但是，白小姐，”杰克说的很快，“你看不到我们的眼睛在耳朵前面吗？




Mr Ellis is very old. He has seen many changes in his hometown.
He knows that things are different now. But he never forgets the old days. He often talks about his favorite birds, the robins(一种小鸟— 知更鸟). “When I was a boy, these houses were not here. These were wild fields and tall trees. Every spring the robins would come. Thousands of them would fly up to the south. They spent the winter in the south. Some would build their nests(巢)in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees, and they built more houses. The robins stopped coming. They couldn’t build their nests near our houses because there were no trees.”
“Now there are too many houses and too many roads. There are no places for the robins. They do not come any more.”
( )11. Mr Ellis often talks about .
A. his old house . B. the old days C. his life now D his family
( )12. The birds, the robins spent the winter in .
A. the south B. the west C. the north D. the east
( )13. built the nests in the trees.
A. Mr Ellis B. Some people C. The robins D. Some dogs
( )14. Then people trees because they wanted to build some houses.
A. cut down B. planted C. bought D. watered
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15. From the passage we can know that .
A. Mr Ellis likes his new life now
B. there were many houses there in the old days
C. the robi