Jaya is sixteen, but he doesn’t go to school. He studies medicine at New York University in a class of twenty-year-olds. Jaya was born in Madras in India but now lives in a house in New York with his mother, father and brother. They can all speak English. His father is a doctor.

Jaya was different from a very young age. He could count before he could say “Mummy” or “Daddy”. He could answer questions on calculus (微積分) when he was five and did algebra(幾何) when he was eight. Now he studies from 8:15am to 4: 00am every day at the university. Then he studies at home with his father from 6:30 to 10:00 every evening. Jaya doesn’t have any friends. He thinks other children can’t understand him. He never goes out in the evenings, but he sometimes watches TV. He says, “I live for one thing — I want to be a doctor before I am nineteen.”

1.Is Jaya very clever?

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2.Where was Jaya born?

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3.Who teaches him medicine at home?

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4.What was Jaya very interested in when he was very young, math or medicine?

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5.Why doesn’t Jaya make friends?

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Mr. White looks out of the window. There is a little boy on the other side of the street. The boy  1  a piece of bread out of a bag and begins to eat it. There is a very thin dog  2  the street, too. The boy says to it, “Come on. I’m going to give you  3  bread.” The dog is very hungry and goes to him. But the boy  4  give it any bread. He kicks(踢)  5  god. It runs away, and the boy laughs.
Then Mr. White comes out of  6  home and says to the boy, “I’m going to give you a shilling(先令).” The boy is  7  and says, “Good.”
“Come here!” Mr. White says. The boy goes to him,  8  Mr. White doesn’t give him a shilling. He hits him  9  his stick(手杖).
The boy  10  and says, “Why do you hit me? I don’t ask you for any money.”
Mr. White says, “you know the god doesn’t ask you for any bread, but you kick it.”

Mr Smith works in a factory in the middle of the city. The factory is not far from his home. It is about 800 meters away. So Mr Smith doesn’t go to work by bus. He usually goes there by bike, sometimes he walks to work. It takes(花費) him 10 minutes to get there by bike or 20 minutes on foot. He usually leaves home at ten minutes to eight. Today something is wrong with his bike. He wants to walk there. His work starts at half past eight in the morning and finishes at a quarter(一刻鐘) to five in the afternoon.

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1. What does Uncle Wang do?

2. Why doesn’t Mr Smith go to work by bus?

3. How long does it take Mr Smith to walk to work?

4. What time does Mr Smith usually leave home?

5. Mr Smith usually goes home from work at ______ in the afternoon.