阅读理解。
     There was once a farmer. He lived near a road.
     It was not a busy road, but from time to time cars passed the farm. Near the farm gate, there was a
large hole in the road.
     The hole was always full of water, and the drives of the cars could not see how deep the hole was.
They thought that it was not deep.
     Then when they drove their cars into the hole they could not drove out of it because it was so deep.
     The farm didn't spend much time working on his farm. He spent most of it watching the hole.
     When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with his tractor and asked the driver a lot of money for
doing this.
     One day, the driver of a car said to him, "You must make a lot of money by pulling cars out of this
hole day and night." "Oh, no," said the farmer. "I don't pull cars out of the hole at night. At night, I fill the
hole with water."
1. There was a farmer ______.
A. at the gate  
B. beside the hole  
C. in the road  
D. near the road
2. Many cars went into the hole because the drivers ______.
A. were going too fast to stop  
B. didn't see the hole
C. didn't know the hole was very deep  
D. like driving through water
3. What did the farmer usually do every day?
A. He pulled the cars out of the hole.  
B. He filled the hole with water
C. He worked on his farm    
D. both A and B.
4. How did the farmer make money ? He made it by ______.
A. growing things on his farm  
B. selling water to the drivers
C. pulling cars out of the hole    
D. mending the cars
5. From the story, we know ______.
A. the farmer liked to help others    
B. the farmer was a hard-working man
C. the farmer was a good man      
D. the farmer wasn't honest
阅读理解。
     A young man once went to buy a pair of pants. When he got home, he went upstairs (上楼) to his
bedroom and put them on. He found that they were two inches (英寸) long.
     Then he came out of his room to see his mother and his two sisters. They were washing something in
the kitchen. "These new pants are too long, they need to be shortened (缩短) about two inches. Would
one  of you  like to do this for me, please?" His  mother  and  sisters  were  busy and none of them said
anything. The mother went upstairs after she had finished washing and shortened the pants two inches.
But she didn't tell her daughters about it.
     Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother's pants. So she went upstairs without
saying to anyone, and shortened the pants two inches.
    The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came back, she also remembered what her
brother had said. So she ran upstairs, and took two inches off the legs of the new pants.
1. The new pants were _______.      
A. too long for the young man      
B. two inches long
C. six inches long                
D. too short for the young man    
2. The young man asked ______to shorten his pants.
A. his mother and his two sisters      
B. his mother and one of his sister
C. his mother                
D. his mother or one of his two sisters
3. ______, his elder sister shorten his pants.
A. After supper            
B. After the mother finished washing
C. After the young man went upstairs
D. After the younger sister went to the cinema
4. How many inches were the legs of the new pants shortened by at last?
A. Two.  
B. Four.  
C. Six.  
D. Eight.
5. When the young man put on the pants, he would _______.
A. feel happy  
B. be very sad  
C. thank his family  
D. be very excited
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