五、阅读短文，选择正确的答案。
Two hundred ( 百 )years ago, there were no telephones or mobile phones in China. People wrote letters to their families and friends. Once there was an old woman. She lived alone in a town. Her son was working in the city.
One night, she missed her son. She could not sleep. She wanted to write a letter to him. But she could not read or write. Then, she got up and knocked on her neighbour’s door. “Mr Sun, could you please write a letter to my son for me?” she asked. It was the middle of the night and Mr Sun wanted to sleep. He didn’t get up or open the door. He said loudly to the woman, “I wish I could help you, but I have a problem. My handwriting is very bad at night. Only I can read it. If I write the letter now, I’ll have to visit your son and read the letter to him. Maybe you should come back tomorrow morning.”
() 1. The story is about .
A. the past B. the present C. the future
() 2. The old woman asked her neighbour to .
A. write a letter for her
B. read a letter for her
C. teach her how to write a letter
() 3. Mr Sun was not with the old woman.
A. sad B. angry C. honest
() 4. The underlined word “handwriting” means “” in this story.
A. 绘画 B. 字迹 C. 视力
() 5. Why didn’t Mr Sun help the old woman at night?
A. His handwriting was really terrible.
B. He was too sleepy and didn’t want to get up.
C. He couldn’t read or write letters.