The shopkeeper of a store is going around the store. He finds a young man by the table. The young man
is not working, but smoking. The shopkeeper asks, "How much do you get a week?" "Sixty dollars a week."
The young man is looking at him. The shopkeeper gives sixty dollars to the young man.
     "Here is your money. Don't come back here." The young man takes the money and goes away. He looks
happy.
     The shopkeeper talks to the manager, "Why do you have that young man here? He doesn't work, and always
smokes."
     The manager says, "He doesn't work in this store. He is here to shop. He is waiting for his sister."

(     )1. The shopkeeper finds a young man by the table.
(     )2. The young man gives the money back.
(     )3. The young man works in this store.
(     )4. The young man is waiting for his sister.
(     )5. The shopkeeper must be unhappy at last.

     Last Sunday the Greens went to the movies. They got home very late. Father opened the front door
and went into the house. It was very dark, so mother turned on the light. On the way to their bedroom,
mother said, "Listen, John! I can hear someone in the bedroom. " They all stood quietly outside the
bedroom. They could hear some voices (声音) in the room.
     "You are right. " father said, "There are two men in it. They are talking. " Then he shouted, "Who's
there?" But no one answered. Father opened the door quickly and turned on the light. The room was
empty. Then father found something and laughed. "The TV is still on (开着的). I forgot to turn it off (关)
this morning!" father said.

(     )1. The Greens got home very early.                                  
(     )2. On the way to their bedroom, mother heard someone in the bedroom.
(     )3. They all stood quietly in the bedroom.                          
(     )4. There were really two men talking in the room.                  
(     )5. Father opened the door slowly and turned on the light.          

     Mr. Hunt came from a poor family. He had three brothers and two sisters. His father worked
hard but wasn't paid much. And his mother did all the housework at home. They were both able
but they couldn't get enough money for their family.
     Mr. Hunt was in school for only three years and he had to stop to help his parents though he
was good at his lessons. When he was sixteen, he came to the city and began to work in a small
factory. He learned from an old worker and became a skilled worker. The old worker liked him
and married his daughter to him. The young man did not have his own house and had to live with his
parents-in-law. His mother-in-law always thought he was poor and often chattered. So the young
man tried to save everything and hoped to have his own house.
      It was one fine Sunday. The old woman wanted to have a picnic on the top of the hill. She told
Mr. Hunt to drive her car. But sometimes she told him to turn left and sometimes to turn right. The
young man had to listen to her. At a crossing the lights were red but she made him turn left. The
policeman stopped them and told the young man to give his license to him.
     "If I did wrong, sir," said Mr. Hunt, "It was my mother-in-law's fault (过错). She was driving the
car though she sat behind me!"

1. The Hunts were poor because ____.

A. they were lazy
B. they were too weak to work
C. they couldn't make enough money
D. they weren't able enough

2. Mr. Hunt left the school because ____.

A. he didn't like studying
B. his family was poor
C. he wasn't clever
D. he hoped to stay at home

3. ____, so the old man married his daughter to him.

A. Mr. Hunt became a skilled worker
B. Mr. Hunt was friendly to him
C. Mr. Hunt was paid much in the factory
D. Mr. Hunt worked for six years there

4. The old woman was ____ to Mr. Hunt.

A. good
B. bad
C. friendly
D. useless

5. Which of the following is wrong?

A. The old woman herself drove the car that day.
B. It was the old woman's fault.
C. Mr. Hunt hated his mother-in-law.
D. The old woman told Mr. Hunt to run the red lights.

     Mrs. Black is sixty-nine years old. She only has a daughter named Sandra. Mr. Black died twelve
years ago. Mrs. Black was very sad and lived in her house alone. Two years ago her daughter had a
baby. The young woman was busy all the time and had no time to look after her son James. She asked
her mother to live with them.
     The old woman had to sell her house and moved there. She was strong and could do all the
housework. And the family liked her.
      Last autumn Mrs. Black went to do some shopping. A car hit her and her leg was hurt. She had to
be in hospital for three months. She couldn't do anything after she came back. At first her daughter was
kind to her, but soon she began to be tired of (讨厌) her. The old woman wanted to leave, but she had
no money to buy a house and nobody could take care of her. She didn't know what to do.
      One morning Mrs. Black broke a plate. It made her daughter angry. She told James to buy a
wooden (木制的) plate for his grandma. That afternoon James came back with two wooden plates. She
was surprised and asked, "Why did you buy two plates, son?"
     "One is for grandma," answered the boy, "the other is for you! You will also have to use a wooden
plate when you're old, I think."
      The woman heard this and was sad. She cried for long. Now she is kind to her mother as she was
before.

1. Sandra asked her mother to live with them because ______.

A. the old woman lived alone
B. she needed her help
C. the old woman couldn't look after herself
D. the old woman could give her much money

2. The family liked Mrs. Black at first because ______.

A. she was very rich
B. she could watch their door
C. she could do all the housework for them
D. she was friendly to them all

3. Mrs. Black was afraid that ______, so she couldn't leave her daughter's house.

A. she had no house to live in
B. she couldn't look after herself
C. Sandra couldn't go to see her any more
D. A and B

4. James bought a wooden plate for his mother because ______.

A. he didn't love her
B. he liked it
C. he hoped she would be kind to his grandma
D. she often broke the plates at home

5. Sandra is friendly to her mother again because ______.

A. she knows she did wrong
B. she was afraid of her son
C. the old woman is poor
D. it's her duty

     Doctor Clark was a very busy man. He always worked hard. He often forgot his family's birthday.
He loved his wife. He wanted to give her a present. On his way home from his hospital he bough some
beautiful flowers in a shop. When Doctor Clark got home, he gave his wife the flowers and said "Happy
birthday to you, dear! It's September26 today, I remembered your birthday this year." Mrs. Clark
laughed and said, "My birthday was the day before yesterday. But thank you all the same. Better late
than never!"

1. What did Clark buy when it was his wife's birthday?

A. Some flowers  
B. Nothing  
C. Some food  
D. Some drinks

2. Where did Clark work?

A. In a shop  
B. In a family  
C. In a hospital  
D. In a store

3. What day is Clark's wife's birthday?

A. The day before yesterday    
B. Today
C. September            
D. September24

4. Why did he forget his family's birthdays? Because ______.

A. he is too old      
B. he is a doctor  
C. he is not busy    
D .he works very hard

     Mrs. Miller doesn't like sports. She doesn't do (1) ______, either. She even doesn't like to
 (2) ______ them on TV. She has a lot of housework to (3) ______at home. This afternoon her sister
 is coming and she goes to the bus station to (4) ______ her. When she passes her son's school, she
 (5) ______ at her watch. It's too early. So she goes to the (6) ______to see her son, Barry. Her son
 isn't (7) ______the classroom. She goes to the playground. She sees some boys playing soccer there.
Her son is there, (8) ______.She watches them playing (9) ______she is not happy. "Go home with me,
Barry," she says, "Don't play (10) ______ them. I can buy a nice ball for you .Then you don't need to
scramble (抢夺) for the ball."

     Four girls were at the same school. They were good friends, so they often studied and played
together. They went to school every day by taxi.
     One day one of the girls said, "There is a test this morning. Let's go to school late. Then we won't
have to take the test." "What can we tell the teacher?" One of the girls said. "He'll be angry. We'll need
a good excuse."
     The girls thought for several moments, then one of them said, "Let's tell him that our taxi had a flat
tire (爆胎)." "That's a good idea," the other girls said. "We'll tell him that."
    They arrived at school an hour later. The test was finished.
    "Why are you late?" the teacher asked. "You miss the test." "Our taxi had a flat tire," one of the girls
said.
     The teacher thought for a moment, then he said, "Sit down, one of you in each corner of the room."
The four girls did this. Then the teacher said, "Write the answer to this question on a piece of paper:
Which tire was flat?"

1. The four girls went to school every day by ______.

A. bus
B. taxi
C. subway

2. There was ______ that morning.

A. a test
B. no classes
C. a trip

3. One day the four girls were late for school because ______.

A. they didn't like the teacher
B. there was a car accident
C. they planned to miss the test

4. We can know from the passage that the teacher ______.

A. thought they were good students
B. didn't believe what they said
C. gave his students too many tests

5. The four girls sat down as the teacher said like Picture ______.

  
      A              B              C

     Ted had a very unusual experience on Sunday. He wanted to visit his grandmother that morning. 
While he was 1._____  the street, a UFO landed in front of him. An alien 2_____  the UFO and went 
into a shop. The alien is red and looks like a robot. No one saw it except Ted. While the alien was
 looking at the souvenirs, the shop assistant 3_____. But before the police arrived, the alien left the
 shop and went back to the UFO. After one minute, the UFO took off. But Ted took photos of the
 aliens, he gave them to the reporter, he was sure it was a shocking news (爆炸性新闻).