阅读理解;阅读A、B两篇短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。
Millie is a little girl who is at the age of nine. She is a pupil in a primary school. She works hard at her subjects. In class, she takes an active part in all kinds of activities. She looks smarter than her classmates.
One day, she was doing her homework after supper as usual. Her father was not in. Her mother was taking a shower in the bathroom. After she finished her homework, Millie asked her mother to check it for
her, but her mother didn’t answer her. A few minutes later, her mother was still in the bathroom. Millie felt strange. She knocked at the door. But her mother had no answer. She pushed the door open and found her mother lying on the floor. At the same time, she smelled something terrible. It was the gas. She quickly opened the window, turned off the gas and called 120 and 110 for help. Soon some doctors and policemen came and sent her mother to the nearest hospital. Her mother was saved at last.
Why did the little girl know how to do that? That was because she had learned how to save herself and others in danger in school.
1. Although Millie is ______, we should learn from her.
A. a primary school pupil B. a college student
C. a nineteen-year-old girl D. a mi
ddle school student
2. What was her mother doing while Millie was doing her homework?
A. She was shopping. B. She was working.
C. She was taking a shower. D. She was watching TV.
3. Why didn’t her mother answer her?
A. Because she was angry.
B. Because there’s something wrong with her mother.
C. Because she wasn’t at home.
D. Because she is busy doing the housework.
4. The accident happened ______.
A. in Millie’s home B. in the cinema
C. in a hospital D. in a school
5. We should be ______ like Millie when we are in danger.
A. brave and calm B. shy and afraid
C. worried and frightened D. kind and strange