When my grandfather died, I discovered that he had left me some money in his ______.

My grandfather was a very interesting man. He died when I was 11, but 1 remember he used to tell me stories about his early life. He told me one about how he used to race dogs. They raced greyhound , a very fast type of dog. My grandfather had a dog that was very fast and usually won the races. The men used to bet on the dogs and try to win money. One day before a race, a friend of my grandfather' s suggested that they bet on a different dog and make my grandfather' s dog lose the race. My grandfather had no job , so this seemed an easy way to make money. On the day of the race, my grandfather and his friend fed the dog lots of cakes 50 it wouldn't want to run. Then they took it for a long walk so it was tired. They bet on another dog , but when the race was run , my grandfather's dog won anyway , so they lost a11 their money and didn't win anything!

26. The author's grandfather doesn't tell stories now.()

27. His dog usually was a loser in races.()

28. The author' s grandfather didn't want to win money from dog race.()

29. The author' s grandfather and his friend fed the dog cakes to make it strong.()

30. The author' s grandfather and his friend bet on a dog which didn't win.()

A.passed off

B.passed away

C.passed by

D.passed over

(1). My grandfather used to ().

A、drink a lot

B、work very hard

C、be the manager

(2). He was () when he came home.

A、 very pleasant

B、excited

C、easy to get angry

(3). When I was a child, I ().

A、 liked him very much

B、I hated him

C、was afraid of him

(4). Doctors asked him to ()after he had a stroke.

A、 stop working

B、change his attitude

C、work less

(5). When he died, he ().

A、 was feeling worried

B、was irritable

C、was a happy man

Grandpa My Hero

My grandfather had only one child and that was my mother. He always wanted a son but it never happened.__26__When my mom got pregnant, he thought he finally had a boy in the family, but it turned out that her first child was my older sister. When I was born, Grandpa was very happy.

He was the first person to give me a baseball glove and to play baseball with me. My first glove was as small as my whole hand is now. When Grandpa gave me that glove, I was very excited.__27__It was my pride and joy.

When I was five, I played on my first baseball team and Grandpa was the coach. He wanted me to play one position, but I wanted to play another. __28__I tried so hard that I made good progress. Grandpa was very proud of me. Ever since then, he has worked with me to make me a better player.

Grandpa has helped me become not only a better player,but a better person.__29__Today Grandpa does not play baseball with me so often, but he still comes to every practice and game. He sits and watches my practices through rain and shine. __30__I love him and hope he will be around for many more years to support me and baseball.

Many people invest in the stock market hoping to find the next Microsoft and Dell. However, I know 【C1】______ personal experience how difficult this really is. For more than a year, I was 【C2】______ hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day in investing in the market. It seemed so easy, I dreamed of 【C3】______ my job at the end of the year, of buying a small apartment in Paris, of traveling around the world. But these dreams 【C4】______ to a sudden and dramatic end when a stock I 【C5】______ , Texas cellular pone wholesaler, fell by more than 75 per cent 【C6】______ a one year period. On the 【C7】______ day, it plunged by more than $15 a share. There was a rumor the company was 【C8】______ sales figures. That was when I learned how quickly Wall Street 【C9】______ companies that, in one way or another, misrepresent the 【C10】______ .

In a 【C11】______ , I sold all my stocks in the company, 【C12】______ margin debt with' cash advances from my 【C13】______ card. Because I owned so many shares, I 【C14】______ a small fortune, haft of it from money I borrowed from the brokerage company. One month, I am a 【C15】______ , the next, a loser. This one big loss was my first lesson in the market.

My father was a stockbroker, as was my grandfather 【C16】______ him. (In fact, he founded one of Chicago's earliest brokerage firms.) But like so many things in life, we don't learn anything until we 【C17】______ it for ourselves. The only way to really understand the inner 【C18】______ of the stock market is to invest your own hard-earned money. When all your stocks are doing 【C19】______ and you feel like a winner, you learn very little. It's when all are losing and everyone is questioning your stock picking 【C20】______ . that you find out if you have what it takes to invest in the market.

【C1】

A．at

B．in

C．from

D．by

My grandfather often______me interesting stories in my childhood.

A、tells

B、told

C、tell

D、telled

A.that

B.which

C.what

D.it

A.wrote

B.write

C.writes

D.writing