There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the
younger one, Ben, 1 he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him
because he seemed so 2 .
The mother 3 that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them
to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a 4 a week and do a report about it for her.
One day, in Ben"s 5 , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his
hand and the teacher let him 6 . "Why did Ben raise his hand?" they wondered. "He 7 said anything;
what could he possibly want to say?"
Well, Ben not only 8 the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even
knew 9 the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were 10 . Ben had learned all this from
doing one of his book 11 .
Ben later went on to the 12 of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University
and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.
After Ben had grown up, he 13 something about his mother that he did not know as a 14 .
She, herself, had never learned how to 15 .
( )2. A. clever
( )3. A. asked
( )4. A. notice
( )5. A. class
( )6. A. think
( )7. A. always
( )8. A. found
( )9. A. whether
( )10 A. afraid
( )11. A. pictures
( )12. A. top
( )13. A. learnt
( )14. A. doctor
( )15. A. read
B. hard
B. decided
B. message
B. room
B. leave
B. even
B. played
B. when
B. surprised
B. exercises
B. end
B. remembered
B. child
B. work
C. slow
C. forgot
C. book
C. office
C. stand
C. quickly
C. knew
C. where
C. worried
C. shops
C. back
C. understood
C. student
C. teach
D. quick
D. heard
D. question
D. lab
D. speak
D. never
D. threw
D. why
D. unhappy
D. reports
D. behind
D. guessed
D. teacher
D. slow
shopping. She got on a bus and sat down next to an old lady. After a while,Mrs. Wilson noticed that the old lady"s bag was open. She saw a ten-pound not inside the handbag which was just like the one her
husband had given her. So she quickly looked into her own bag:the ten-pound note had gone!
Mrs. Wilson was sure that the old lady had stolen it. She thought for a while and she was sure that she
should call the police. But as she disliked getting people into trouble, she decided to take back the money
from the old lady"s handbag and say nothing more about it. She looked around to make sure that nobody was watching, then she carefully put her hand into the old lady"s hand bag, took the note and put it carefully into her own bag.When Mrs. Wilson got home that evening,she showed her husband the beautiful skirt
she had bought. “How did you pay for it?”he said.“With the money for my birthday, of course.” she
replied.“Oh?What"s that then?”he asked as he pointed to a piece of ten-pound note on the table.
beautiful 4 with it. But when she got home in the evening, she knew that she was 5 to think about the old lady stealing her money.
1.____________ 2.____________ 3.____________4.____________ 5.____________
B. A note.
C. Twenty pounds.
D. A dress.
B. She shouted for help,
C. She took back the money herself.
D. She argued with the old lady.
B. answered
C. said
D. talked
An old friend was going to spend a few days with me. He called from the airport to tell me he had
arrived. I was not able to 1 the office, but I had prepared for his arrival. After telling him my new 2
address,I told him that I had 3 the key under the doormat (门前的擦鞋垫). I knew it would be
quite late 4 I could get back. He could make 5 at home and eat any food that was in the
refrigerator.
Two hours later he 6 me from the house. At the moment, he said he was listening to
some of my 7 after having a nice meal. He had found the 8 and cooked some fish and had also
helped himself 9 some juice. He hoped I would 10 him soon. I asked him if he had any difficulty
in finding the house. He answered the 11 problem was that he couldn"t find the key under the doormat, but 12 , the living-room window by the apple tree was 13 and he had climbed in through the
window. I listened to all this in great 14 .There are no apple trees outside my windows, but there 15 only one by my neighbor"s house !
( ) 2. A. office
( ) 3. A. forgot
( ) 4. A. as
( ) 5. A. him
( ) 6. A. visited
( ) 7. A. books
( ) 8. A. pan
( ) 9. A. by
( ) 10. A. see
( ) 11. A. terrible
( ) 12. A. luckily
( ) 13. A. awake
( ) 14. A. interest
( ) 15. A. is
B. house
B. left
B. while
B. myself
B. asked
B. records
B. sugar
B. for
B. agree
B. only
B. luck
B. open
B. pleasure
B. are
C. work
C. missed
C. before
C. me
C. wanted
C. sound
C. fork
C. at
C. join
C. most
C. badly
C. alone
C. safety
C. was
D. email
D. shut
D. if
D. himself
D. phoned
D. calls
D. food
D. to
D. protect
D. one
D. bad
D. tidy
D. surprise
D. were
Shelooked after them very carefully, and when summer came, they looked very nice.
One evening Mrs. Brown looked at her vegetables and said, "Tomorrow I am. Going to pick them,
and then we can eat them." But early the next morning, her son ran into the kitchen(厨房) and shouted,"
Mother,Mother! Come quickly! Our neighbor"s(邻居的) ducks are in the garden and they are eating our
vegetables ! "Mrs. Brown ran out, but it was too late ! A11 the vegetables were finished ! Mrs. Brown
cried, and her neighbor was very sorry, but that was the end of the vegetables.
Then a few days before Christmas, the neighbor brought Mrs. Brown a parcel(包裹). In it was a
beautiful, fat duck, and on it was a piece of paper with the words"Enjoy your vegetables!"
B. Because the neighbor often helped to pick and eat them.
C. Because the weather was nice and they could grow well.
D. Because the garden was near her house and nobody knew it.
B. The neighbor"s ducks were eating the vegetables.
C. Mrs. Brown ran out and killed all the ducks angrily.
D. Nothing happened but her son was playing in the garden.
B. The neighbor felt so sorry that he cried.
C. Mrs. Brown cried and the neighbor said sorry to her.
D. They said nothing but had to plant the vegetables again.
B. Mrs. Brown liked ducks better than vegetables.
C. The neighbor brought a tat duck to Mrs. Brown.
D. The neighbor enjoyed the vegetables and ducks first.
B. A few days before Christmas.
C. On a spring morning.
D. Early the next morning.
The story is told about two people named David and Rosy Jackson. Both
of them had very bad memory. For example, Rosy would forget to cook
dinner,or David would go to work on Sunday,thinking it was Monday.
One winter they were to take a long plane trip. When they arrived at the
airport, there was ten minutes left.In that situation(情况) anyone would get
into the plane right away.But Mr. and Mrs Jackson didn’t do so. They went
to buy the travel first. After they put a two-pound note into a machine , their
insurance policy came out."Who would get the money if the plane crashed,
I wonder?" asked Rosy."My mother,of course. " her husband replied.
"We"ll post the policy to her. " Now be quick give me a stamp,will you?"
He said. "The plane is going to take off in a minute. " David put the stamp
on the envelope, dropped it into a postbox. And suddenly he let out a cry.
What do you think happened to him? He had posted their plane tickets to
his mother.
A. were always short of time
B. always did everything in a great hurry
C. were very forgetlul
D. usually worked on Sunday
2. According to the passage, what does the "insurance"
mean in Chinese?
A. 飞机票
B. 保险
C. 饮料
D. 纪念物
3. David wanted to post his mother .
A. the travel insurance policy
B. a two-pound note
C. two plane tickets
D. an empty envelope
4. Mr Jackson made such a foolish mistake because .
A. he was worried about his mother
B. he had forgotten to bring a stamp
C. he was worried about this flight
D. his memory was poor and he was in a hurry
“Well,”said Freud,”we take the sick out of their trouble and return them to the common suffering.”
As a devoted(忠实的)son,Freud often visited his old mother. His mother usually spent her summers
in a small mountain town in Austria(奥地利). The King Josef usually spent his summers there,too. One day
in the summer,a band(乐队)was playing a lively tune (曲子)when Freud’s mother was sitting at the
window and watching the people singing and dancing on Main Street. The old woman had a poor memory.
She heard the band playing,but forgot it was the King’s birthday. Freud was visiting his motlier on her 95th
birthday. He told his mother,”Mama,the band is playing for your birthday. “She believed him and had a
wonderful day.
B. general; Vienna
C. King; Austria
D. doctor; Australia
B. a sick man
C. a devoted man
D. a man full of humor
B. the King Josef"s birthday
C. his mother"s birthday
D. for his holiday
B. Freud"’s mother’s birthday and the King"s birthday were on the same day.
C. F.reud"s mother was so old that her memory was very bad.
D. Freud’s mother knew that the band was playing for the King.
B. the people of the town came out to celebrate her birthday
C. she believed that the band was playring for her birthday
D. she heard the band playing a lively tune
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