The lady with the white fence(篱笆)taught me to leave the gale to life open.. .
My husband died in an accident and I became very angry. I hated being alone. One day, as I was   43   down a busy street, I suddenly noticed a new fence around a house. I pulled off to really watch it. It was such a good   44   that I was deeply touched. I could not send   45 away. The fence still smelled of fresh paint.
“Hello!" I came up and said to a lady in the back garden, “I came to see the fence. It's so beautiful!"
“Oh! The fence is not there for me," the lady explained to me in a calm voice, “I live alone. _ 46_so many people pass by every day, and I think they may be pleased to see something really attractive.     47   stop like you and come up to have a chat. "
"But weren't you sad when they expanded (拓宽) the road and everything changed so much?"
"Change is part of life and takes part in    48   us who we are. When something we do not
like happens to us, we have two choices—to become a    49   person or to become a better person."
Her reply changed my life. I carefully left the gate open and drove on   50   a new feeling inside me. I could not tell  51  it was, but I could feel the thick stone wall around my angry heart breaking off. And  52   a pretty white fence was built. I decided that I would keep the gate open for everything and everyone that came my way.

【小题1】
A.walkingB.ridingC.drivingD.running
【小题2】
A.streetB.paintC.houseD.job
【小题3】
A.itB.themC.myselfD.her
【小题4】
A.ButB.ThusC.AndD.As
【小题5】
A.FewB.A fewC.EveryoneD.None
【小题6】
A.findingB.tellingC.catchingD.making
【小题7】
A.fitterB.bitterC.smarterD.sweeter
【小题8】
A.withB.forC.toD.by
【小题9】
A.whenB.whereC.whoD.what
【小题10】
A.beyondB.onceC.insteadD.though

A man came home from work late, tired, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.
“Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?”
“If you must know, I make $20 an hour,”
“Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down. He thought for a moment, looked up and said, “Daddy, could you lend me $10?”
The father was furious, “If you asked for the money to buy a toy or some other rubbish, then go straight to your room and think about why you are being so selfish(自私的)!”
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. After about an hour or so, the father calmed down, and started to think, “Maybe he really needs to buy something and he didn’t really ask for money very often.” So he went to the little boy’s room.
“Sorry! Maybe I was too hard on you just now.” said the man, “Here’s $10.”
“Oh, thank you, Daddy!” he said happily. Then, the boy took out some coins. When the father found that the boy already had money, he got angry again.
“Why do you want more money since you already have some?” The father shouted angrily.
“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do.” the little boy replied, “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”
【小题1】How much does the boy’s father make an hour?

A.$10B.$20C.$30D.$40
【小题2】The underlined word “furious” in Para.5 means ______.
A.very angryB.quite happy
C.very strange D.a little nervous
【小题3】At first, the father refused to give the boy any money because ______.
A.he thought the boy was too selfish
B.he did not have enough money at that moment
C.he thought the boy would buy something of no use
D.the boy always asked for money from him
【小题4】The boy wanted to buy ______ with the twenty dollars.
A.a new book for himselfB.a nice present for his father
C.a toy for his own birthdayD.an hour of his father’s time
【小题5】 From the passage, we can infer(推断)that the boy’s father ______.
A.often played with his sonB.spent little time with his son
C.didn’t love his son at allD.often came back home early

A farmer had a cow. He took very good care of this cow and one day when it was ill. He was very worried. He telephoned the vet (兽医).
“What’s the problem?” The vet asked him when he arrived.
“My cow is ill.” the farmer said. “I don’t know what’s the matter with her. She’s lying down and won’t eat. She’s making a strange noise.”
The vet looked over the cow. “She’s certainly ill, ” he said, “and she needs to take some very strong medicine.”
He took a bottle out of his box, put two pills into his hand and said, “The pills should make her better.”
“How should I give them to her?” the farmer asked.
The vet gave him a tube (管子) and said,“Put this tube in her mouth, then put the pills in the tube and blow. That’ll make it.”
The next day the vet came to the farm again. The farmer was sitting outside his house and looked more worried.
“How’s your cow?” the vet asked.
“No change,” the farmer said. “and I’m feeling very strange myself.”
“Oh?” the vet said. “Why?”
“I did what you said,” the farmer answered. “I put the tube in the cow’s mouth and then put two pills down it.”
“And?” the vet asked.
“The cow blew first.” the farmer said.
【小题1】The farmer asked the vet for help when his cow ________.

A.couldn’t make any noiseB.didn’t eat the pills
C.was illD.couldn’t lie down
【小题2】The vet taught the farmer how ________.
A.to blow the tubeB.to make the cow take the pills
C.to take the medicineD.to put the tube in his mouth
【小题3】Which of the following is true?
A.The farmer ate the pills himself.
B.The cow got better after taking the medicine.
C.The vet came to help farmer change the cow the next day.
D.The farmer waited for the vet outside his house the next day.

The owner of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly,” said Mrs. Brown, a 56-year-old woman. Mrs. Brown lives by herself in a trailer park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her 7-year-old cat, didn’t come home for dinner more than a month ago. The next morning he didn’t appear for breakfast either. After Clyde missed an extra-special lunch, she called the police.
When the policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was seven years old and completely white. She then told the officer that Clyde was about a foot high.
A bell went off. “Is Clyde your child or your pet?” the officer suspiciously asked. “Well, he’s my cat, of course,” Mrs. Brown replied. “Lady, you’re supposed to report missing PERSONS, not missing CATS,” said the sppeadeotoned policeman. “Well, who can I report this to?” she asked. “You can’t. You have to ask around your neighborhood or put up flyers,” replied the officer.
Mrs. Brown figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 8”x11” piece of paper on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just off the interstate(州际公路) highway. The billboard had a phone number on it. She called that number, and they told her they could blow up a picture of Clyde (from Mrs. Brown’s family album) and put it on the billboard for all to see.
“But how can people see it when they whiz(快速移动) by on the interstate?” she asked. “Oh, don’t worry, ma’am, they only whiz by between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The rest of the day, the interstate is so full of commuters that no one moves.” They told her it would cost only $3,000 a month. So she took most of the money out of her savings account and rented the billboard for a month.
The month has passed, but Clyde has not appeared. Because she has almost no money in savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her rent the billboard for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one has stepped forward.
【小题1】How long has the cat been missing?

A.More than a monthB.More than two months
C.More than three monthsD.It’s been back.
【小题2】Who did the old lady finally turn to for help?
A.A billboard companyB.The police
C.The phone companyD.The interstate telephone line
【小题3】How is the old lady like?
A.StupidB.LovingC.SmartD.Decisive(有决断力的)
【小题4】The underlined word was mistyped(打错了). But we can still guess it’s most probable meaning:____________.
A.angryB.surprisedC.happyD.excited
【小题5】What’s the best title for this passage?
A.An advertisementB.A missing cat
C.A pet’s storyD.Life without cat

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