Dick often goes traveling when the summer holiday begins. But he was out of luck this summer.
He went to an old temple(庙)on a high mountain by himself. On his way there it suddenly began to rain heavily and he hurried to go down the mountain. When he got to the foot of the mountain, he found the wooden bridge was under the water, so he had to spend the rainy night in a broken farmhouse. He was so hungry that he hardly fell asleep.
The next morning the rain stopped and he found the bridge was damaged. He saw the river was not too deep and tried to swim across it. In the middle of the river the water nearly washed him away. Luckily , two farmers saved him, but he lost his bag. They gave him some food and dry clothes. He thanked them and went to the nearest town to call up his parents.
At the end of the street, Dick found a small hotel and went in. He asked the price for a room.
“A room on the first floor is twenty dollars, on the second floor, fifteen dollars and on the third, ten dollars,” answered the owner.
The young man had only eight dollars in all his pockets. He said thanks and was leaving. The owner asked, “Don’t you like our hotel?”
“Yes, it’s good,” said Dick, “but it’s not tall enough!”
【小题1】Dick spent the rainy night ______.

A.in the old templeB.in a farmhouse
C.on the bridgeD.in a hotel
【小题2】Why couldn’t Dick go to sleep that rainy night?
A.Because he was afraid of the dark.
B.Because he had nothing for supper.
C.Because he felt cold.
D.Because he couldn’t call his parents.
【小题3】What did Dick do the next morning when he found the bridge was damaged?
A.He went back to the temple
B.He stayed in a farmhouse.
C.He decided to swim across the river.
D.He asked the farmers for some food.
【小题4】What do you think of Dick’s summer holiday this year?
A.HappyB.TerribleC.BoringD.Exciting
【小题5】From Dick’s words in the last paragraph, we can infer(推测) that______.
A.Dick liked tall buildings
B.Dick went to borrow money from his good friends.
C.Dick went to look for a better hotel at last
D.Dick was not able to pay for a room in the hotel


Idioms are phrases and sentences that do not mean exactly what they say. Even if you know the meaning of each word you see or hear, you may not understand the idiom because you don’t understand the culture behind it.
For example, if an American boy asks his mother what’s for dinner tomorrow, she may say “I’ll play it by ear”, that means she doesn’t have plans for dinner and she will decide later. "Play by ear" used to mean playing music using the sheet music, but now people often use it when they’re not talking about music.
There’re many idioms in English. If you learn to use them, your English will be more vivid and colorful. English idioms are more common in spoken English. They can be difficult to remember sometimes. Next time when you hear somebody saying to you, "Give me a hand", you don’t necessarily stretch out your hand to him/her, but you do need to be helpful. And when the situation is out of hand, you usually can do very little to manage all that. What about a green hand? It’s not about the color of your hand! You’re a green hand when you are very new at your work and don’t have much experience. If you and your partner always work together hand in glove, you two definitely work together very well.
Can you guess the meanings of some common English idioms to do with parts of your body?
【小题1】What is an idiom ?
【小题2】What does “ Can you give me a hand “ mean ?
【小题3】Are English idioms more common in written English or spoken English ?

The earth is our home. We must take care of it. Life today is easier than it was        years ago, but it has brought some new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution(污染). We can see it, smell it, drink it and even       it. Man has polluted the        . The more people, the more pollution.Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so       people. When the land was used up (用光), the river was not clean in a place,man went to       place. Now man is slowly polluting the whole world       pollution is still the most serious, it’s bad for       things in the world.Many countries don’t le t people burn       for air in houses and factories in the city. Pollution by SO2 is now the most dangerous kind of       pollution. It’s caused by heavy traffic. People say it’s       to ride bikes. When you are       , there is no pollution. But even in developed countries, most people don’t go to work by bike. It’s not      bikes are expen sive or people are tired if they ride to work. It’s because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger. So more people       their bikes and go to work by cars,  then things are getting       . We should have special roads only for bikes and make it       difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bikes. 

1.A. hundred       B. hundreds of      C. hundred of      D. hundreds 

2.A. listen         B. listen to         C. hear of        D. hear 

3.A. moon          B. star               C. earth             D. sun 

4.A. lot            B. little             C. many             D. much  

5.A. others        B. the others       C. the other        D. another  

6.A. Air           B. Food              C. Water            D. Noise  

7.A. life           B. live              C. living            D. lives 

8.A. something bad              B. bad something  

C. something good              D. good something 

9.A. water           B. air             C. noise          D. white 

10.A. least           B. best            C. most             D. worst 

11.A. driving       B. biked           C. riding           D. ridden 

12.A. why             B. because          C. what              D. how 

13.A. put on          B. look at         C. put away        D. look up 

14.A. better and better              B. more and more  

C. worse and worse                     D. bigger and bigger 

15.A. quite            B. such              C. very               D. so

 

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