He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good-natured and a great talker. He was d

A.glorious

B.funny

C.generous

D.homesick

A、little, funny, the red insect

B、the funny, little, red insect

C、the red, little, funny insect

D、the red, funny, little insect

A.have I heard

B.I have heard

C.did I listen

D.I listened

A.I don't think Bob has chosen the right suit.

B.I love the way Bob dresses. He always looks so smart.

C.How funny Bob looks in that jacket.

D.Bob's new coat looks very expensiv.

light colors don't really suit him.

A．I don't think Bob has chosen the right suit.

B．I love the way Bob dresses. He always looks so smart.

C．How funny Bob looks in that jaeket!

D．Boh's new coat looks very expensive.

Happy Therapy (诊疗)

Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his work and traveling.

Then, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Russia, Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the limit of its strength on the trip, a chemical change began to take place inside him. The material between his bones became weak.

In less than one week after his return, he could not stand. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to sleep at night.

The doctors told Mr. Cousins that they did not know how to cure his problems and he might never get over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up hope.

Mr. Cousins thought that unhappy thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.

He began to experiment on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that ten minutes of real laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.

Deciding that the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could continue his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping whenever he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for exercise.

After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to health.

第 41 题 Mr. Cousins got sick after returning from

A．a busy trip to the US．

B．a tiring trip to Russia．

C．a trip around the world．

D．a trip to Puerto Rico.

from the waste basket. Walt looked at it and saw a family of mice eating pieces of bread in it. For many nights, they played there. And Walt began to like them.

Walt liked one little mouse better than any of the others. This little animal gave him some new ideas for his drawing. He began to draw it. But in the picture, it did not look like a mouse, but more like a funny man. He showed it to his wife and she liked it very much, too.

Walt named this little mouse "Mickey Mouse". He hoped his Mickey Mouse would be different from the other pictures of his. He wanted to make Mickey talk. He put his fingers on his nose and made a strange sound. Then he recorded the voice this way. Later he sold his sound pictures to a cinema. When the film was shown, many people went to see it. Mickey Mouse in the film sang and danced and did all kinds of fun ny things. People couldn't help laughing when they saw it. It's a great success. Ever since then, Walt's Mickey Mouse has been one of the most famous film stars in the world.

Walt was ______ when be heard the strange sound.

A．reading

B．singing

C．drawing

D．playing

in a clothes shop once. It was strange. The man was hiding a yellow sweater inside his coat. I thought he had stolen it, so I caught him. We found later that his wife gave him the sweater for his birthday, but he hated it. He just wanted to return it to the shop for money, but he didn’t want his wife to see him! We soon let him go. Another day, a man called Bob went into a bank on Sixth Street. He wrote on the back of an envelope, “Give me the money! Or I’ll kill you. ” and gave it to the bank clerk. She gave him $100,000 and the man ran away. Then we received a phone call from the bank clerk. She told us to go to the man’s house in Candy Town and get him. We caught him as soon as he got out of the elevator. He couldn’t believe that we found him so quickly. We told him that the front of the envelope he used had his name and address on it!

小题1:What does Mr. Smith do？

A. A bank clerk

B. A policeman

C. A thief

小题2:Mr. Smith caught the man in the clothes shop ___________.

A. by exchange

B. by mistake

C. by accident

小题3:Why did the man return the sweater to the shop？

A. Because he didn’t want his wife to see it

B. Because he liked money more than the sweater

C. Because he hated it and wanted to get the money back

小题4:Bob was caught so quickly because ___________.

A. his address was found on the envelope he used

B. he received a phone call from the bank clerk

C. the police waited for him outside the elevator

小题5:What do you think of Bob？

A. He is brave

B. He is careful

C. He is careless

rly from cold and hunger, he decided to go shooting in a wood near his cottage(小屋，村舍). The wood belonged to Lord Northwood, a rich gentleman, and Pat had no right to go there, but in it there were swarms of rabbits and flocks of birds that were good to eat, and Pat determined to take the risk. Suddenly he saw the owner, with a group of friends, coming towards him in the wood. There was a look of anger on Lord Northwood’s face as he caught sight of the gun in Pat’s hands. Pat’s heart sank with fear, but he saw there was no hope of escape, so he walked boldly up to the company and said to Lord Northwood, “Good morning, sir, and what has brought you out so early this morning？” Lord Northwood, rather surprised, said he and his friends were taking a little exercise to get an appetite for their breakfast. Then, looking at Pat with suspicion, he said, “But why are you out so early in the morning？” “Well, sir,” said Pat, “I just came out to see if I could get a breakfast for my appetite.” The whole crowd burst into laughter at Pat’s ready wit, and with a smile Lord Northwood walked on, leaving Pat to try his luck with the rabbits.

(1).This is a story about().

A、a rich man who owned a big wood.

B、 a poor Irishman who lived all by himself.

C、 a clever man who tried to get something to eat for his breakfast.

D、 an Irish hunter with a large family.

(2). There was a look of anger on Lord Northwood’s face. Why？()

A、 He was not expecting Pat at this early hour.

B、 He knew Pat was coming for shooting.

C、 He didn’t like the poor Irishman at all.

D、 Pat had not told him he would come.

(3). Why was Lord Northwood surprised？()

A、 He had not expected such a bold question from Pat.

B、 He wondered why Pat didn’t run away.

C、 Pat wasn’t afraid of him.

D、 Pat had a gun in his hands.

(4).Pat’s _______ made the whole crowd burst into laughter.()

A、 funny looks

B、 interesting remarks

C、 quick and witty response

D、 promise to leave right away

(5).It was because of his _________ that Pat was left to try his luck.

A、 boldness

B、 calmness

C、 quickness of mind

D、 obedience (服从, 顺从)

as described by his student, the great philosopher Plato, as “the best and most just and wisest man”. Yet this same man was condemned to death for his beliefs.

The man was the Greek philosopher, Socrates, and he was condemned for not believing in the recognized gods and for corrupting young people. The second charge stemmed from his association with numerous young men who came to Athens from all over the civilized world to study under him.

Socrates’ method of teaching was to ask questions and, by pretending not to know the answers, to press his students into thinking for themselves. His teaching had unsurpassed influence on all the great Greek and Roman schools of philosophy. Yet, for all his fame and influence, Socrates himself never wrote a word.

(40)Socrates encouraged new ideas and free thinking in the young, and this was frightening to the conservative people. They wanted him silenced. Yet many were probably surprised that he accepted death so readily.

Socrates had the right to ask for a lesser penalty, and he probably could have won over enough of the people who had previously condemned him. But Socrates, as a firm believer in law, reasoned that it was proper to submit to the death sentence. So, he calmly accepted his fate and drank a cup of poison hemlock in the presence of his grief-stricken friends and students.

11. In the first paragraph, the word “yet” is used to introduce______.

A. contrast

B. a sequence

C. emphasis

D. an example

12. Socrates was condemned to death because he ________.

A. believed in law

B. was a philosopher

C. published radical philosophical articles

D. advocated original opinions

13. The word “unsurpassed” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to_______.

A. untold

B. unequalled

C. unnoticed

D. unexpected

14. By mentioning that Socrates himself never wrote anything, the writer implies that ________.

A. it was surprising that Socrates was so famous

B. Socrates was

C. Socrates used to work of his students in teaching

D. the authorities refused to publish Socrates’ works

15. Socrates accepted the death penalty to show ________.

A. his belief in his students

B. his contempt for conservatives

C. his recognition of the legal system

D. that he was not afraid of death