Charles Meryman is a doctor．But he is not a doctor who helps sick people．He helps fish．
People who live in Charles' town call him“The Fish Doctor．”If their pet fish get sick, they call him on the telephone．Charles drives his truck to the people's houses．In the truck, he has medicine to help the sick fish get better．
Sometimes, Charles is called by a pet store when there are sick fish．Wherever he goes,“The Fish Doctor”is always welcome．
Some people have very good memories and can easily learn quite long poems 1 heart． 2 people have poor memories and can only remember things when they have said them 3 and over again．
The famous English writer, Charles Dickens, said that he could walk down any long street in 4 and then told you the names of the shops he had 5 ．Many great men of the world have wonderful memories．
A good memory is 6 great help in learning a language．Everybody learns 7 own language by remembering what he hears when he was a small child．Some children like those who live in foreign countries with their parents, seem to learn two languages as 8 as they do one．In school it is not so easy for pupils to learn 9 second language because they have very 10 time for it．
As we all know, Charles Dickens is considered to be a great English writer．He's very famous not only in Britain, but also in many other 1 in the world．He was born in 1812 and he lived in London．He wrote lots of books, and he also liked 2 ．He was an actor．
Maybe it's interesting to hear that and that's 3 his books were so good．He gave public readings of his stories that were very popular．His stories first appeared in a magazine, in parts．People always wanted 4 part．He wrote a lot, and most of them are popular．There are films and plays of them 5 ：Oliver Twist became a famous musical play, and Great Expectations was a wonderful 6 ．Dickens' early life was very hard．His family was poor, and his mother sent him out to work in a factory when he was 12．He 7 it, but he used his experiences in his writing．He married Catherine Hogarth and they had a big family．He continued to write 8 he died．When he died in 1870, he was 9 a story．But what a pity! We'll never know 10 it ended．
(1)
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A．
cities
B．
countries
C．
towns
D．
villages
(2)
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A．
reading
B．
writing
C．
acting
D．
playing
(3)
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A．
what
B．
how
C．
when
D．
why
(4)
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A．
the next
B．
next
C．
next to
D．
next time
(5)
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A．
too
B．
as well
C．
as well as
D．
also
(6)
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A．
book
B．
story
C．
play
D．
film
(7)
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A．
hated
B．
enjoyed
C．
wanted
D．
shamed
(8)
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A．
as
B．
while
C．
until
D．
since
(9)
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A．
drawing
B．
singing
C．
writing
D．
making
(10)
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A．
what
B．
how
C．
who
D．
which
Harry Mendis, a 15-year-old British schoolboy, had a long hiccup(～TP～)at the end of last month．
His hiccups began one Sunday lunchtime and continued day and night for two weeks．After the first week, Harry’s parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure(治愈)him．
Harry．, who is now back at school, is talking about his hiccups．
“When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water, but that didn’t work．That evening I had hiccups every four seconds．1 tried many ways to stop them．I held my breath and drank cold drinks．My father even tried to give me a shock, but that didn’t work, either．After a week of sleepless nights, I went to hospital．The doctors couldn’t find anything wrong．They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed, down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped．”
Harry was very lucky．The world record holders is the American farmer Charles Smith, who hiccuped for 69 years and 5 months．He stopped hiccups in 1990 at last, but nobody knew why．
(1)
Harry hiccuped for ________．
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A．
a week
B．
fourteen days
C．
twenty-eight days
D．
one month
(2)
Harry’s hiccups started after he ________．
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A．
drank a glass of milk
B．
went to hospital
C．
finished his homework
D．
ate lunch
(3)
Harry’s parents decided to take him to hospital when he ________．
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A．
hiccuped for four seconds
B．
held his breath
C．
hiccuped at night
D．
couldn’t stop hiccupping
(4)
What does “shock” in this passage mean in Chinese?
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A．
咳嗽
B．
惊吓
C．
喷嚏
D．
哈欠
(5)
Harry’s hiccups stopped one week after the doctor ________．
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