One day when I was 15 years old, I had some friends over to hang out. While we were ma

or personal purposes.

A、when

B、why

C、If

to have a rest. At last, he couldn't go to sleep. Every night, when he went to bed, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. “I just can't go to sleep at night. What should I do？” “I have a suggestion,” said the doctor. “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you'll be asleep. I am sure of it.”

The next day the man reached the doctor's office. “Well,” said the doctor, “how are you today？ Did you try my suggestion？”

The man still looked tired. “Yes,” he said, “I tried counting one, two, three...up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some tea so that I could go on counting up to one thousand, but then I still couldn't fall asleep.”

6.The young man couldn’t go to sleep because he had worked too hard and became ill.

A.T

B.F

7.The doctor asked the young man to count numbers while he was lying in bed.

A.T

B.F

8.The young man returned to the doctor’s office the next day because he wanted to thank the doctor.

A.T

B.F

9.The young man counted from 1 to 569 and got up to drink some tea.

A.T

B.F

10.The young man in fact was not able to count numbers.

A.T

B.F

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.()

One day a bookseller(书商)let a big box of books fall on his foot. "Go to see the doctor," said his wife. "No, "he said. "I'll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I'll ask him about my foot. If I go to see him, I'll have to pay him."

On the next day the doctor came into the shop for some books. When the bookseller was getting them ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it.

"You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it," said the doctor.

He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. "Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night," he said.

"Thank you," said the bookseller. "And now, sir, here are your books."

"How much？" said the doctor.

"Two pounds."

"Good," said the doctor. "I shall not have to pay you anything."

"Why？" asked the bookseller.

"I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds. And I came here, didn't I？"

1)、What happened to the bookseller one day？

A.He lost a box of books.

B.His foot was wounded by a box of books.

C.He lent the doctor a box of books.

D.He sold out all his books.

2)、The bookseller's wife asked him ______.

A.to go out for some medicine

B.to send somebody for a doctor

C.to go to see the doctor

D.to wait for the doctor to come

3)、The bookseller didn't take his wife's advice because ______.

A.he was afraid of the doctor

B.he didn't like to take medicine

C.he couldn't walk by himself

D.he didn't want to pay the doctor

4)、The doctor paid ______ for the books.

A.one pound

B.two pounds

C.nothing

D.something

5)、The bookseller paid ______ money for seeing the doctor in the end.

A.more

B.less

C.the same amount of

D.no

Manners (礼貌) are much more than just saying“Please” and “Thank you”. They are ways of showing kindness.

My husband，Bob，is a pilot，and one day we were invited to a potluck (百味餐) at his flying squadron(飞行中队). The noisy room was filled with mouthy kids and their chatting moms and dads. Our son，Daniel, was only two years old. We let him play with the other kids because it was a safe environment.

After a while，he came back with a package of peanut butter crackers and proudly held them out to us. A pilot who asked “Do you know whose this little boy is？”followed him.

“He is mine,” I answered, wondering what Daniel might have done.

“Well,” replied the pilot, “I've been passing out crackers to the kids for almost two hours，and your son is one of the youngest guys I gave them to. He's the only one who said 'Thank you'. What he did makes me pleased.”

Daniel smiled and proudly repeated，“Thank you.”

1)、Pilots and their family were invited to the potluck.

A.T

B.F

2)、Daniel felt very excited when he showed his crackers to his parents.

A.T

B.F

3)、For nearly two hours at least, the pilot served at the party when he found Daniel.

A.T

B.F

4)、Only one kid said “Thank you” to the man when he gave the kids crackers.

A.T

B.F

5)、The pilot felt surprised when he heard the boy said “Thank you”.

A.T

B.F

on he became rich.

One day the weather was fine. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and the sun was very warm. The landlord was walking along a river with his friends, when, all of a sudden, he slipped and fell into it. He cried, “Help! Help!” One of his friends held out his hand and said, “Give me your hand and I will pull you out.” The landlord's head went under the water and then came up again, but he did not give his hand to his friends. Then another of his friends tried but the same thing happened.

Just then a farmer came over and saw all this. He knew the landlord very well. He said to the others, “Let me try.” He held out his hand and said to the landlord, “Take my hand and I will pull you out.” Hearing this, the landlord took the farmer's hand, and in a minute the farmer pulled the landlord out of the water.

All the others got very surprised at this and asked the farmer, “Why did he give his hand to you but not to us？” The farmer said, “You don't know your friend very well, When you say 'give' to him, he does nothing, but when you say 'take' he takes.”

1)、Smith was a farmer.

A.T

B.F

2)、Smith became very rich, because he never gave anything to anybody.

A.T

B.F

3)、One day Smith was walking along a lake with his friends.

A.T

B.F

4)、The rich man held out his hand when he heard “Take my hand.”

A.T

B.F

5)、His friends knew the rich man very well.

A.T

B.F

than a car and you don't have to worry about parking. You leave it anywhere. As it has a seat at the back and a basket at the front, I can take my little daughter to school, to the library, to the shops, to anywhere.

I use it most in summer when the weather is warm and dry. It can be very unpleasant in winter when it is cold and the rain is heavy.

You must, of course, be careful on a bicycle. Accidents are not the only problem, though. One day I went shopping and came back to find my front wheel missing. It was a long walk to the bicycle shop. Now I have three strong locks.

My husband uses my bicycle sometimes for short journeys. He says it is better than waiting for a bus. He still uses his car for longer journeys, but I think that all day's sitting down is making him fat and lazy. On my bicycle I get a lot of exercises and fresh air, and this makes me feel a lot younger.

1)、The writer's husband bought her a new car two years ago.

A.T

B.F

2)、A bike is better than a car because it is much cheaper.

A.T

B.F

3)、The writer often uses her bike in summer.

A.T

B.F

4)、You must be careful when you ride a bike, for there are some problems.

A.T

B.F

5)、Riding a bike is a good exercise and it can make you feel younger.

A.T

B.F

is house.“Thieves，”he thought. Jumping out of bed，he took his gun and hurried to the bedroom window. The room was not shining and the night was rather dark. But he could see a white shape. It looked like a man in the garden. He pointed his gun at it，fired and went back to bed. Early in the morning，he went down to the garden. His shirt was hanging from a tree. He had washed it the day before and hung it on the tree do dry. It had a hole right through the middle. Mr. Robinson was really frightened out of his life when he saw it and began to tremble(颤抖)。 His neighbour arrived at that moment.“How are you today，Mr，Robinson？”he asked in an anxious voice. “You don’t look well.”

“I’m all right，thank you，”said Mr. Robinson. “But I’m lucky to be alive. You see that shirt there？”

“Yes？”said the neighbour.

“If I’d been wearing that shirt last night，”said Mr. Robinson，“I’d be a dead man now.”

1、When Mr. Robinson jumped out of his bed and went to the window，he saw ________ in the garden.

A、a thief

B、something like a man

C、a white shirt on a tree

D、nothing

2、Who had hung the shirt on the tree the day before________

A、A thief.

B、Mr. Robinson himself.

C、Mr. Robinson’s neighbour

D、Mr. Robinson’s wife.

3、After firing the gun，Mr. Robinson________

A、went back to bed

B、went to the garden to see what it was

C、felt no longer afraid

D、looked for the shirt he had washed the day before

4、The next morning Mr. Robinson’s neighbour came and saw him looking________

A、surprised

B、unhappy

C、sick

D、angry.

5、The title“A Narrow Escape”suggests that one has________

A、succeeded in escaping to escape

B、failed.

C、run away

D、only just avoided death

rtisement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theatre box in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9:00 to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theatre was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theatre is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for the bus. By the time I saw one come around the comer, there was not enough time left to make the trip. So I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again the next day. On Thursday, my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi, it was expensive, but I felt it would be worth it to hear the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, however, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.

1、The man learned () that there would be a concert last Friday.

A、 from his friends

B、form. one of his workmates

C、over the radio

D、from the newspaper

2、He tried to go to the theatre every day but managed to get there only ().

A、once

B、 twice

C、 three times

D、 four times

3、One day the man took () to get to the theatre by bus.

A、forty-five minutes

B、 fifteen minutes

C、 just twenty minutes

D、 over an hour

4、The underlined word "relieved" may best be replaced by "()".

A、surprised

B、please

C、puzzled

D、sorry

5、The story is mainly about ().

A、a good concert

B、 the bad bus service in this city

C、the difficulty of getting a ticket for a concert in a city

D、someone''s disappointment at missing a concert

Mrs Sharp, a large, red-faced woman in her late sixties, has lived in Greenleas, a 'new town' in the countryside outside London, since 1958. Before that she lived in Bethnal Green, an area of inner London. She was moved to Greenleas by the local authorities when her old house was demolished (拆除).

She came from a large family with six girls and two boys, and she grew up among brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins. When she married her boyfriend from school at eighteen, they went on living with her parents, and her first child was brought up more by her mother than by herself, because she always worked.

As the family grew, they moved out of their parents' house to a flat. It was in the next street, and their life was still that of the extended family. "All my family used to live around Denby Street," said Mrs Sharp, "and we were always in and out of each other's houses." When she went to the shops, she used to call in on her mother to see if she wanted anything. Every day she would visit one sister or another and see a nephew or niece at the corner shop or in the market.

"You always knew 90% of the people you saw in the street every day, either they were related to you or you were at school with them," she said.

When her babies were born (she had two sons and a daughter), she said, "All my sisters and neighbours would help - they used to come and make a cup of tea, or help in some other way." And every Saturday night there was a family party. It was at Mrs Sharp's mother's house. "Of course we all know each other very well. You have to learn to get on with each other. I had one neighbour who was always poking(管闲事) her nose into our business. She was forever asking questions and gossiping (拨弄是非). But you had to put up with everyone, whatever they were like."

1)、Mrs. Sharp had to move to Greenleas because she had to work there.

A.T

B.F

2)、When she got married, she lived together with her parents all the time.

A.T

B.F

3)、She knew so many people because they were either her relatives or schoolmates.

A.T

B.F

4)、The sentence "I had one neighbour who was always poking her nose into our business." in the last Para. means I had one neighbour who always showed her interests in our private affairs.

A.T

B.F

5)、This passage mainly deals with what the extended family is like.

A.T

B.F