Billy had a nice shop in the main street of a small town.He sold jewellery(珠宝),watches, clocks and so on.All went well some years, and then a thief(贼)stole a lot of jewellery from his shop twice in one month at night.Three weeks passed, yet the police still didn’t catch the thief.So Billy decided to try to do something about it himself.He bought a good camera and fixed it up in his shop and put some cheap jewellery in front of it for the thief, so that it could take a photo of anyone who stole the jewellery.
A few nights later the thief came, but he did not stole(偷)any of the cheap jewellery that Billy had put out for him.He took the camera, which was worth 1500 dollars.
(1)
Within one month ________.
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A.
Billy began to sell cameras
B.
Billy sold all the things in his shop
C.
a thief stole all the things in Billy’s shop
D.
a thief stole much of Billy’s jewellery
(2)
Billy bought a camera because he wanted to ________.
As Sam slowly woke, he got a funny feeling in his stomach.He knew he would have to do something that he had been afraid to do for a long time.
The school bus came on time, and he sat with his friend, Billy.They chatted about baseball.It was a great way to get his mind off what he had to do later.As they got close to the school, he could feel his heart beating.His hands were starting to sweat.He hated this!
He entered Mrs.Owen’s class.She was smiling, and saying hello to all her students as she did every morning.
“Hi, Sam!” she said as he walked in.
“Hi,” he said and quickly sat in his seat.Then the class began to take their spelling test.He looked at the clock.The time was near.He hoped he was not first! Mrs.Owens said it was time to begin their special day.
“Sam, you’ll be first.” Mrs.Owens said to the class, “Sam has worked very hard on his report on Hawaii, and I know it is very interesting.”
Sam nervously greeted his class.Then, he thought about the fun things he had read about surfing, volcanoes, and pineapples in Hawaii, and he started to talk.He talked in front of the whole class, and it was fun.The class clapped as he finished and Mrs.Owens was smiling.It wasn’t terrible at all and he knew he would do better the next time.
(1)
How did Sam feel after he woke?
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A.
Excited.
B.
Nervous.
C.
Happy.
D.
Hungry.
(2)
What did Sam have to do that day?
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A.
To have a baseball match.
B.
To take a reading test.
C.
To go to a new class.
D.
To do something special.
(3)
What does the underlined word “sweat” probably mean?
One day as a teacher was walking into the classroom, he heard a low voice,“Here is the teacher.I’m sure the unfair fellow is going to talk about putting in commas.”It was Billy’s voice.He was talking with the boy next to him.
The teacher didn’t get angry.He said nothing about it, but began to talk about putting in commas.And then he wrote on the blackboard the sentence,“Billy says the teacher is an unfair fellow.”
The class laughed and Billy’s face turned red.
“Now,”said the teacher,“I’ll show you how important commas are.”
He put two commas into the sentence and then read,“Billy,”says the teacher, is an unfair fellow.
(1)
The story happened ________.
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A.
in a classroom
B.
to some little boys
C.
on the playground
D.
in a shop
(2)
Billy’s face turned red because ________.
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A.
he didn’t know how important commas are
B.
he found the teacher looked unhappy
C.
the teacher looked unhappy
D.
his classmates laughed at him
(3)
When the teacher put two commas into the sentence, it meant that ________.