Dear Sir,

Mr. Smith wrote to your newspaper to complain that his telephone was out of order for more than a week.

We received a complaint from Mr. Smith at 2:30 p.m. on May 6. The next day we sent workmen to Mr. Smith’s house to repair his telephone. The men discovered that there was something wrong with the underground cable. They dug up 15 feet of the cable and saw many white ants. These ants had attacked the cable and damaged it badly.

On May 8~10, our workmen dug up another 30 feet of the cable and found that it was also damaged. On May 11~13 the men took out the useless cable and replaced it with a new one. To do this they had to connect more than 4 000 wires and the work was not easy.

On May 14, the cable was completely repaired and Mr. Smith’s telephone was working properly. He did not have to pay for the work.

Yours faithfully,

B.Jones

Manager of Telephone Company

1.Mr. Jones wrote to a newspaper because he wanted to ______.

A. explain why his telephone did not work properly

B.complain about his telephone

C.explain why Mr. Smith’s telephone was out of order for several days

D.complain that the Telephone Company was slow to repair his telephone

2.The workmen spent ______ days in repairing the cable.

A. eight              B.three             C.four           D.six

3.The workmen had to join thousands of wires when they ______ the old cable.

A. damaged          B.repaired           C.replaced            D.put in

4.The ______ to the cable were paid by the Telephone Company.

A. damage            B.damages            C.repairs            D.replacement

5.The word “discovered” means ______.

A. were learned       B.were seeing         C.find out           D.found out

 

My school makes students take one religion (宗教) class every year. But religion is really hard, especially with Mr Frank Smith for a teacher.
Mr Smith is 55 years old, with grey hair and a moustache (胡子). He always wears a blue school T-shirt, shorts and tennis shoes with long white socks. My friends say he looks like a cat.
In his class, we did yoga (瑜珈) and meditation (冥想) (actually most of the children in my class lay on the ground sleeping), tasted some strange tea, had classes outside in the garden, and watched videos and movies about Tibetan Buddhism (藏传佛教), God, and so on.
It was fun sometimes. However, the course (课程) was quite hard when it came to tests. The girls often worked until one or two o'clock in the morning on nights before the tests, but they still got bad scores.
When our test scores were bad, he would give us some makeup assignments (补考作业). Once I got a B, which I thought was bad, so I asked Mr Smith for an assignment to bring up my grades.
As a matter of fact, his assignments were often worse than the tests. The tests were just a lot of multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blanks, or short essays (文章). But his assignments usually included a speech in class.
I was not afraid of public speaking, yet it took me three days to collect the information, two days to write the speech, one day to make a PowerPoint and several hours to prepare. I knew my presentation (课堂展示) was good, because I saw Mr Smith's big smile when he listened to me. He gave me an A at last.
After finishing the course, I may not remember how hard it was or the meaning of some vocabulary. But through Mr Smith, I learned a lesson that will be with me my whole life. That is: no matter what we do, we need to put our hearts into it, and then our work will pay off.
【小题1】The religion class is hard because Mr Smith _______.

A.uses strange ways to teach in his class.
B.never gives good scores, however hard you try.
C.gives difficult tests and make-up assignments.
D.likes students to make good presentations.
【小题2】 How could students get good scores in Mr. Smith’s class?
A.Work hard by studying late into the night.
B.Remember all of the vocabulary.
C.Pay attention and take notes in class.
D.Do well on the make-up assignment.
【小题3】From the course, the writer learned that ____.
A.people should always be given a second chance
B.people should always put their hearts into their work
C.it is good to do yoga and meditation
D.it is good to choose strict teacher

When Mr Smith retired(退休), he bought a small 41  in a village near the sea. He 42   it and hoped to live a quiet life in this house.

    But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most  43   building in the village. From morning to night there were  44  outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and  45  of them even went into Mr Smith’s garden. This was too much for Mr Smith. He decided to ask the visitors to  46   . So he put a notice on the window. The notice said, “If you want 47  your curiosity(好奇心),come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr Smith was sure that the visitors would 48  coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr Smith had to 49   every day showing them around his house.“I came here to   50  not to work as a guide(导游),”he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

1.A. garden     B. shop         C. house            D. school

2. A. liked      B. hated          C. sold         D. built

3. A. big       B. interesting      C. small        D. clean

4.A. children       B. students     C. parents      D. tourists

5. A. no            B. none         C. many         D. much

6. A. come      B. leave            C. stay         D. play

7. A. to satisfy    B. satisfy  C. to satisfying    D. satisfying

8. A. go on     B. stop         C. continue     D. not

9. A. take      B. cost         C. spend            D. pay

10. A. play     B. work         C. watch            D. retire

 

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