六年级小升初英语专项复习讲与练-[第48讲] 阅读步步高（九） 人教版（word版，含答案）.docx

阅读步步高
One afternoon, Mary and her five-year-old brother Tom were playing hide-and-seek in the street just outside a post office.
Mary had shut her eyes and was counting up to ten when Tom found that the small door of a letter box was left open. The postman had just taken all the letters out and gone into the post office. Tom climbed into the letter box and pulled the door from the inside so hard that it locked. When he knew what he had done, he became very frightened and started crying.
At the same time Mary was looking for him everywhere but could not find him. Then she happened to stop outside the letter box and heard her brother crying in it. She ran to tell the postman at once. The man hurried out to unlock the door. Tom was free, but he couldn’t help crying.
A man goes to church and starts talking to God. He says “God, what is a million dollars to you?” and God says “A penny”. Then the man says “God, what is a million years to you?” God says “a second”. Then the man says “God, can I have a penny?” And God says “In a second”.
Sudoku
The 200-Year-Old Puzzle
Sudoku, the popular puzzle that uses the numbers 1-9, might not be very new. According to some websites, Sudoku is based on the work of Leonard Euler, an 18th-century Swiss mathematician. Euler created “Latin Squares”, a grid in which every number or symbol appears once in each row or column.
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