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horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag." Thomas said , "It isn"t worth the trouble. " His father said
nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold
the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn"t a house
or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father
dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father
dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost some time in picking it up and putting it in his
mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When
Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent down earlier
to pick up that horseshoe. it would not have be
en necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not worry about the little things will find
that he cannot do the great things.
B. The old father.
C. Both the father and the son.
D. Neither the father nor the son.
B. some water
C. some cherries
D. some pennies
B. didn"t say anything
C. beat the son
D. became a little angry
B. he wanted his son to do more exercise
C. lie wanted to teach his son a lesson
D. he wanted his son to pick them up
B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money
C. if the boy wants to eat cherries, he must pick up the horseshoe
D. if we want to do some great things, we should start with some small ones
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试题【阅读理解。 One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The fa】；主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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It all started when he asked me if he 4 my homework. I asked him 5 he wanted to do that and
he said that he 6 to do it. I said I 7 it was a good idea for him to copy 8 , because it would
start a bad habit. He should do his own homework. He got really mad at me and said he didn"t want to
be my best friend 9 . I said that was OK. And I was sure he would 10 it. And he did. Yesterday
he told me he was very sorry for that.
( )2. A. large
( )3. A. her
( )4. A. would copy
( )5. A. why
( )6. A. forgotten
( )7. A think
( )8. A. me
( )9. A. any more
( )10.A. get over
B. big
B. she
B. will copy
B. when
B. forget
B. didn"t think
B. mine
B. no more
B. got over
C. small
C. him
C. could copy
C. how
C. forgets
C. don"t think
C. my
C. not anymore
C. get to
D. little
D. he
D. can copy
D. what
D. forgot
D. not to think
D. I
D. no longer
D. get up
singers and song writers. He is a country boy by birth and still prefers the mountains of Colorado to the
big cities he has visited in his many travels. He was born as Henry John in Roswell, New Mexico on
December 31, 1943. He later changed his name to the simpler John Denver after his favourite big city,
Denver Colorado.
When he was a student, he knew he wanted to be a folk singer and sang in coffee houses at night.
Later he became famous. His song Goodbye Again expresses his feelings about travelling and being
away from home.
B. traveling
C. writing books
D. creating(创作) songs
B. a singer
C. a city
D. a country boy
B. changed his name after its name
C. hated city life
D. felt sorry not to live there
Roswell(R)?
B. A>R>N
C. N>A>R
D. R>N>A
B. his opinion about life
C. his love for music
D. his feelings on leaving home
Several days ago, some students from the US visited our school. When we talked, I discovered __1__
differences in school life between the US and China. For example, each class __2__ fifty minutes in the
US. It is a little __3__ than that in China. We usually have forty of forty-five minutes in each class. Another
difference is that they have less break time between __4__. Besides, although (虽然) most schools in both
countries finish their __5__ classes at 12 o"clock, the students in the US only have an hour-long break, so
they __6__eat lunch quickly. Their afternoon classes begin at 1: 00 p.m. and school is over __7__ 3 : 00
p.m. Then they take part in club activities or play sports.
Many Chinese students don"t work during their high school years, while the US students like to find a
part-time 
job in __8__ free time. They don"t have a dream job in mind. They think __9__ is no difference
between jobs. Working is a useful experience for them and they can make money at the same time. Some
of them even take one-year full-time jobs __10__ they leave high school and then go to college.
| ( )1. A. no ( )2. A. lasts ( )3. A. shorter ( )4. A. schools ( )5. A. day ( )6. A. can"t ( )7. A. in ( )8. A. my ( )9. A. it ( )10. A. after | B. few B. finishes B. longer B. classes B. night B. mustn"t B. for B. his B. there B. with | C. little C. starts C. earlier C. meals C. morning C. need to C. during C. their C. that C. while | D. some D. stays D. later D. students D. afternoon D. are able to D. around D. your D. this D. during |
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| When I was 13 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a smile. It was the early autumn of my first year at a junior high school, and my old school was far away. As a result, no one knew who I was. I was very lonely, and afraid to make friends with anyone. Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart break. I couldn"t talk to anyone about my problem, and I didn"t want my parents to worry about me. Then one day, my classmates talked happily with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual. At that moment, a boy entered the classroom. I didn"t know who he was. He passed me and then turned back. He looked at me and, without a word, smiled. Suddenly, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel happy, lively and warm. That smile changed my life. I started to ta  lk with the other students and made friends. Day by day, I became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now. One day, I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn"t remember smiling at me! It doesn"t matter because all the dark days have g  one. Now I believe that the world is what you think it is.If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back. | |||
| 1. Why was the smile an important gift? | |||
| A. The writer"s old school was far away. B. It made the writer feel happy  , lively and warm.C. The writer didn"t know who the boy was. D. The smile didn"t mean anything to the writer. | |||
| 2. Why do you think the boy smiled? | |||
| A. He was happy to see his friends. B. He saw the writer was unhappy. C. He really liked the writer. D. He was a very friendly boy and smiled at everyone. | |||
| 3. How did the smile change her life? | |||
| A. She began to make new friends. B. She became best friends with the boy. C. Her parents didn"t worry about her any more. D. She realized that it"s important to smile at people. | |||
| 4. Where does she now think her feeling of unhappiness came from? | |||
| A. From her old school. B. From herself. C. From other people in the world. D. From the children at the new school. | |||
| 主观性阅读。 | |||
| Toto was a baby elephant. Her trunk was only one meter long. When she heard her father making a noise, Toto raised her trunk, too. The only noise that she could make was very very little, like a toy whistle ( 啸叫 ). (2 ) Toto saw her mother pulling leaves from the top of a tree to eat them. She tried to reach the lowest ( 3 ) branch, but she couldn"t. So her father and mother had to help her to break the branch and it fell down to the ground. Toto was happy that she could eat the leaves. As it was a hot day, flies ( 苍蝇 ) sat in the corners of her eyes. She shook ( 摇 ) her head, but the flies stayed there. She saw her mother pulling some grass with her trunk to drive off the flies. ( 4 ) Toto 发觉这一点都不难.When the elephant walked to a river, her father would help her have a bath. He put the water in his trunk and poured it onto Toto"s back. She was very happy and cool. | |||
| 1. 回答问题:How long is the baby elephant"s trunk? ___________________________________ 2. 译成汉语: 3. 猜测词义:___________________________________________________________________ 4. 译成英语: 5．回答问题:How did the father help the baby elephant to have a bath? ____________________________________________________________________________ |