完形填空。     There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger
one, Ben, because he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed
so   1  .The mother   2   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 book a week and do a book report for her. One day, in Ben"s   3  , the
teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him   4  . "Why did
Ben put up his hand? his classmates wondered." He   5   said anything What could he possibly want to say?
"Well, Ben not only   6   the rock, but also said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even
knew   7   the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were   8  . Ben had learned all this from doing
one of his book   9  ."
     Ben later went on to the  10  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.

(     )1. A. clever   (     )2. A. seemed   (     )3. A. class    (     )4. A. think    (     )5. A. always   (     )6. A. found    (     )7. A. whether  (     )8. A. afraid   (     )9. A. pictures (     )10. A. top	B. hard      B. decided   B. room      B. leave     B. ever      B. played    B. what      B. surprised B. exercises     B. end	C. slow      C. wondered                      C. office    C. answer    C. never     C. knew      C. where     C. worried   C. reports   C. back
1-5 CBACC  6-10 CCBCA
阅读理解。
"Ordinary" was the worst word my mother could find for anything. I remember her taking me shopping and taking no notice of the shop assistants when they suggested that some dress or pair of shoes was very popular- "We"ve sold fifty already this week". That was all she needed to hear. "No", she would say, "We"re not interested in that. Haven"t you got something a little more unusual?" And then the assistant would bring out all the strange colors no one else would buy. And later she and I would argue because I wanted to be ordinary but my mother wanted to be unusual. "I can" t stand that haircut," she said, when I went to the hairdresser with my friend and came back with a boy haircut, "It"s so terribly ordinary." Not ugly, not unsuitable. But ordinary. "Couldn"t you please wear something else?" I asked one day when she was dressing for Parents" Day in tight-fitting bullfighter"s pants and a bright pink sweater. "What"s wrong with what I"m wearing? What wasn"t wrong with it!" "It"s just that I wish you"d wear something ordinary," I said "something that people won"t laugh at. "She looked at me angrily and then said, "Are you ashamed of your own mother? If you are, Isadora, I feel sorry for you. I really do."
1. What did the shop assistants expect Isadora"s mother to buy?
A. Something very popular. B. Styles they had sold out. C. Clothes that were cheap.
2. When Isadora had her hair cut in a boy hairstyle, her mother _____.
A. felt happy with it B. surely disliked it C. told her to change it
3. Why did Isadora ask her mother to change her clothes on Parents" Day?
A. Because her mother"s clothes were out of style. B. Because she didn"t like a pink sweater at all. C. Because she didn"t like her mother to dress that way
4. According to the passage, we know that Isadora"s mother must be very _____.
A. popular B. interesting C. confident
5. The underlined word "It" in this passage most likely means _____.
A. the hairdo B. the dresser C. the boy
阅读短文，回答下列问题。
John Brown, an office worker, lives in Washington. He inherited his father"s $1,000,000 when he was 23. He didn"t feel happy at all. His college friends were looking for their first jobs, but he didn"t have to. John decided to keep living a simple life like everyone else. He didn"t tell any of his friends and gave $100.000 of his money to a charity that helped poor children live better lives. Today he is 36,and he still wears cheap shoes and clothes and owns a small car only, but he is much happier. Up to now John has helped 15 children from poor countries all over the world, $200 a month for each. The child does not receive the money in cash (现金).The money pays for the child"s school expenses, food, medicine care and clothes. John receives a re- port each year, but usually the children do not speak English. When John first heard about these children, he wanted to help the m. "It was not anything special," he said. "Until I had the chance to go to these countries and meet the children I was helping, I did not know anything about their type of life they had." Once John went to meet a little girl in Africa. He said that the meeting was very exciting. "When I met her, I felt very, very happy," he said. "I saw the money was used for a very good plan. It brought me closer to the children in a way that giving money alone can-not." "I want to do everything I can I will go on helping these children in need," he added.
1. What kind of life is John living?     _______________________________________________________________________ 2. What"s the Chinese meaning of the word "inherited"?     _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Did John want to find a job or stay at home after he got the money?     _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Does John only help the poor children in Africa?      _______________________________________________________________________ 5. How do you like John Brown?      _______________________________________________________________________
读短文，用所给动词的适当形式填空。
James wrote a play for television about a family who came to England from India, and the play was very interesting. It 1_____ (buy) by an American TV company. James 2_____ (invite) to go to New York to help them. He lived in Washington, which is an hour away from New York by air. The plane 3_____ (take) off at 8:30 in the morning. So he had to be at the airport at about 7:30. He ordered a taxi for 6:30 and went to sleep. He forgot to wind the clock, so he was late for the plane. He was just 4_____ (prepare) his coffee when the radio sent out another news, "Reports are coming in of a plane crash (飞机坠落) near Washington airport. A Boeing 707 fly to New York crashed shortly after taking off this morning. Plane number 2234..." James suddenly turned pale (苍白). "My plane," he said aloud. "If I haven"t 5_____ (be) late, I"d have been on the plane!"
阅读理解。
The old name for films was "moving pictures" in America. They still call them "movies" and they say "Shall we go to the movies?" When we would say "Shall we go to the cinema?"      Then one day, a boy said to his friend, "Do you like moving pictures?"The friend thought that the boy was going to invite him to go to the cinema,so he said, "Yes. please. I like moving pictures very much."      "Good,"said the first boy. "My father has a picture shop. He sells pictures. This evening I have to move fifty heavy boxes of pictures from one place to another. You like moving pictures, so I"m sure you enjoy moving the pictures with me."
1. "Moving pictures" was the old name _____.
A. for cinema B. for films C. for America D. for carrying movies
2. _____  still call films "movies" today.
A. The boys B. The British C. The Americans D. Young people
3. When the boy said to his friend, "Do you like moving pictures?", he meant _____.
A. Do you like to go to the cinema with me? B. Do you like to see the films? C. Do you like to help me move the pictures? D. Do you like old films?
4. The boy"s friend _____.
A. liked seeing films very much B. liked to move pictures very much C. was always ready to help others D. liked to help people move something
5. The job of the boy"s father was to _____.
A. show films B. make films C. sell pictures D. draw pictures
判断正“T”误“F”。
How Much Is It      Mrs Wilson likes to ask her husband to go shopping with her on Sundays. Her husband pays for the things that she buys. Now they are in a shop.      "Look, Andy. Is it a fancy hair clip?" Mrs Wilson asks her husband.      "All right. And how much is it?" he answers and gives money to the shop assistant. When Mrs Wilson asks him about something good or bad,he often says "All right. And how much is it?" to her.     At about 8 o"clock pm, Andy is tired and thirsty, and he wants to have a drink. Suddenly (突然地) his wife looks up at the moon and says, "Look, Andy. Is the moon so beautiful?"      "All right. And how much is it?" her husband answers quickly.
(     )1. Mrs Wilson likes to go 8hopping on Sundays.      (     )2. Andy is Mrs Wilson"s husband.                    (     )3. Mrs Wilson pays for all the things that she buys. (     )4. Andy is hungry and wants to buy some food.       (     )5. Mrs Wilson wants Andy to buy the moon.