For many people the subject(主题)of hiccups is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fif-teen-year-old
schoolboy from Birmingham , it was something quite different.
His hiccups began one Sunday lunchtime and continued(继续)day and night for two weeks. After the first week , Harry"s parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure(治愈)his attack(发作).
Harry described(描述)what happened to him.
"When I began to hiccup,I drank a glass of water. but that didn"t do any good. That evening I had
hiccups every four seconds(秒). We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me, a shock but that didn"t work , either. "
After a week of sleepless(无眠的)nights,he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray(射线)of
his chest but they couldn"t find anything wrong.
"They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down,but it was another week before the me
dicine worked completely(完全地)and my hiccups stopped. "
Harry was very lucky, The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Smith , who
hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.
B. fourteen days
C. twenty-eight days
D. one month
B. drank a glass of water
C. finished his homework
D. ate an Indian meal
B. hiccupped at night
C. held his breath
D. hiccupped for four seconds
B. gave him a shock
C. took an X-ray of -his chest
D. gave him some medicine
B. 休克
C. 喷嚏
D. 震惊
the hotel,so she asked a policeman standing at the station gate. She spoke slowly and clearly. But to her
surprise, he didn"t understand her at all. She asked the same question again and again and then the
policeman understood at last. He answered her,but she didn"t know what he was saying, Her teacher
never spoke English like that " I"m a Japanese. I"m new here. "the girl said. The policeman spoke more
slowly than before,and she listened very carefully. but still she couldn"t understand him. They looked at
each other and smiled. Then he said something she understood. "You"11 soon learn English !" Then she
knew that the English she had learned was quite different from the English people speak !
B. For two years
C. For a halt year.
D. For two years and a half.
B. By ship.
C. by plane.
D. By car.
B . Because she wanted to know the way to the hotel.
C. Because she lost her things.
D. Because she was afraid in a new place.
B. She couldn"t speak English freely.
C. The policeman under-stood her at last.
D. She asked the same question again and again.
B. The policeman didn"t know the way to the hotel.
C. The girl"s English was not good enough.
D. "There are no good teachers in Japan.
One day a rich woman lost her purse with a lot of money in it. So she made a 1 , “If anybody finds
my purse and 2 it to me, I"11 give half the money to him.”
A poor man 3 the purse near a shop. He sent it back to the woman , but the rich
woman 4 .“"There was an expensive ring in my purse besides money,"said the woman, “I won’ t give
you half the money in my purse until you return it to me. ” “But I’ve never seen an expensive ring in 5
purse, ”said the man.
They began to quarrel(争吵).The man became 6 and took her to a judge(法官). 7 the judge
heard what had happened to them, he said to the woman, “I"m sure that you have lost a purse, and there is
an expensive ring in it.But there is 8 a lot of money in this purse. So I don"t think it"s yours. 9
sometime. Maybe somebody will give your purse back. "
Then the judge 10 to the man and said , “Take the purse home. If the owner doesn"t come to get it
back in two days, it" will be yours. ”
( ) 2. A. gets
( ) 3. A. had
( ) 4. A. kept her word
( ) 5. A. your
( ) 6. A. sad
( ) 7. A. Before
( ) 8. A. only
( ) 9. A. Wait for
( ) 10.A. ran
B. shows
B. knew
B. changed her mind
B. her
B. angry
B. Though
B. truly
B. Listen to
B. came
C. points
C. heard
C. tried her best
C. his.
C. excited
C. After
C. nearly
C. Look after
C. went
D. returns
D. found
D. pulled her down
D. my
D. worried
D. If
D. really
D. Talk about
D. turned
His name was David. He was carrying his books. As I was walking, I saw a group of kids running
towards him, knocking all his books out of his arms. And then they ran away. David fell down
and his glasses went flying. He looked up and I saw sadness in his eyes. I helped him to look for
his glasses and said, "The kids with bad manners should be punished. " There was a big smile that
showed real gratitude (感激) on his face.
From then on we became friends. The more I got to know David,the more I liked him. Over
the next four years, we always studied, played together and had a happy time.
On the graduation (毕业) day, I could see that he was nervous about his speech. So I said,
"Hey, you will be the best!" Then he began, "Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you
succeed through those difficult years. Our parents, our teachers, but mostly our friends. Being a
friend to someone is the best gift you can give them. I"ll tell you a story ..." I just looked at the
handsome popular boy in amazement as he told the story of the first day we met.
Everyone was surprised to hear all about his hardest moment. I saw his mom and dad looking
at me and smiling that same thankful smile. Not until that moment did I realize its deep meaning.
Never underestimate (低估) the power of your actions. With one small action, you can change
a person"s life. As you can see, "Friends are angels (天使) to make us rise when our wings (翅膀)
have problems flying. "
( )2. The kids with bad manners were punished by the writer when they knocked David down.
( )3. Everyone was surprised to hear all about David"s hardest moment.
( )4. The writer realized that one small action could change a person"s life before hearing David"s
speech.
( )5. The underlined sentence at the end of the passage means "A friend in need is a friend indeed
(真正地)."
girl in another country.
Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who was interested in computer. One day, he was
sending an e-mail to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying "Help! Help! Help!"
The message was from Finland, thousands of kilometers way from the USA.
"I didn"t know what I should do," Dean said to a reporter. "It was really difficult to tell if the message
was real." So Dean did nothing at first. But the message kept coming.
"By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble," Dean explained. He replied and discovered
that the sender was a 20-year-old student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was
very ill. What was worse, there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the
world was by e-mail.
Dean got in touch with the Texas police. The police immediately realized that the situation was quite
serious. They found it necessary to call the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the university,
and soon doctors found Tarja. Luckily, she was still alive and was quickly sent to the hospital.
"I"m glad she"s OK," Dean said. "It"s hard to believe, but e-mail saved her life."
( )2. When he was sending an e-mail, Dean heard someone calling outside.
( )3. Dean didn"t know whether the message was real when he first got it.
( )4. Tarja was a university student in the USA, thousands of kilometers away from Dean.
( )5. At that time in the library, Tarja was able to ask for help in many ways.
( )6. Dean made a phone call to the police in Finland and told them about Tarja"s trouble.
( )7. From the story we know that the Internet played an important part in saving Tarja"s life.
jar. "I would like to help other people with the money," she said. John also emptied his money jar.
"We can do a lot for others with all the money," John said with a smile. "But who shall we help?"
Linda asked. "Let"s help our neighbors, Billy and his sister, Rose. I have found that there are some
holes in their shoes," John said. "We could buy some new shoes for them," Linda said.
Linda and John told their mother their plan. She was glad and took them to a shoe store at once.
Linda picked out a pair of shoes for Rose. John picked out a pair of shoes for Billy. They put the two
pairs of shoes into two beautiful boxes. When it was darker, John walked to Billy and Rose"s house
quietly. He put the boxes near the door, and knocked hard, and then he ran away quickly.
Billy and Rose came out. "Look! There are presents for us. Someone left them here," Billy said.
They looked around, but they couldn"t find anyone. They took the boxes inside happily.
The next morning, when Linda and John went out, they saw Billy and Rose playing outside. They
were both wearing their new shoes. Linda and John were so happy because they could help others.
________________________________________
2. What did Linda and John buy with their saved money?
________________________________________
3. Where did John put the boxes?
________________________________________
4. Why were Linda and John happy?
________________________________________
5. Were. Linda and John kind and helpful?
________________________________________
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