The clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light, I looked sadly before a huge pile of troublesome stuff they call “books”.

I was going to have my examination the next day. "When can I go to bed?" I asked myself. I didn’t answer, in fact I dared not.

    The clock struck 12."Oh, dear!" I cried, "ten more books to read before I can go to bed!” We pupils are the most wretched creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy."

    The clock struck one. I was quite hopeless now. I forgot all I had learnt. I was too tired to go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, “Oh, God, Please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen.” My eyes were heavy, so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my head on the desk, I fell asleep.

When the author was going over his lessons, all the others in the house were_____ .

   A. asleep                  B. working in bed 

 C. outside                 D. quietly laughing at him

 Reviewing his lessons didn’t help him because ________.    .

A. it was too late at night    

B. he was very tired

    C. his eyes lids were so heavy that he couldn’t keep them open

D. he hadn’t studied hard before the examination

What do you suppose happened to the author?

A. He went to a church to pray again

 B. He passed the exam by luck

 C. He failed in the exam           

D. He was punished by his teacher

The best title for the passage would be __________ .

 A. The Night Before the Examination     B. Working Far into the Night

C. A Slow Student                    D. Going Over My Lessons

A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to   1   , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

    “Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t   2  , as I knew, but all the time   3   his foot against mine.

    My   4   raced back more than thirty years to the   5   days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The   6   was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

      7   wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   8   each other very well. Frank West   9   me because he wasn’t   10  , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had   11   of a mind than a baby has. His “  12  ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and   13   more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank   14   on her entirely. He needed all the   15   of a baby.

    One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She   16   nearly everything she owned.

    When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the   17   ones. So before we   18   that morning, I stood beside Frank and   19   my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his   20   to me was always the same.

1.A.work         B.stay   C.live   D.expect

2.A.answer       B.speak C.smile        D.laugh

3.A.covering     B.moving     C.fighting    D.pressing

4.A.minds        B.memories  C.thoughts   D.brains

5.A.better         B.dark  C.younger          D.old

6.A.cave          B.place C.sight         D.scene

7.A.Discussing        B.Solving    C.Sharing           D.Suffering

8.A.learn from        B.talk to      C.help         D.know

9.A.needed      B.recognized       C.interested        D.encouraged

10.A.normal           B.common   C.unusual           D.quick

11.A.more       B.worse       C.fewer       D.less

12.A.word       B.speech      C.sentence          D.language

13.A.not          B.no     C.something       D.nothing

14.A.fed          B.kept  C.lived        D.depended

15.A.attention         B.control     C.treatment        D.management

16.A.lost         B.needed      C.destroyed        D.left

17.A.troublesome     B.unlucky    C.angry       D.unpopular

18.A.separated        B.went  C.reunited          D.returned

19.A.pushed     B.tried  C.showed           D.measured

20.A.nodding          B.greeting    C.meeting          D.acting

A man was driving at 70 miles in a 40-mile zone(区域), when a   36   came behind him. Right away the man started thinking of   37   to give.

       As the policeman came to him, he said, “Hi, officer, I guess you   38   me a little bit over the speed limit(限制). I was in a rush to get   39  , to be with my wife and kids. You know my younger son wasn’t feeling too   40   when I left home this morning. I’m afraid he’s ill.”

       The policeman said, “Well, I guess so,” and started   41   something in his notebook. As minutes went by, he could see from the side view mirror, the policeman was   42   writing. When the man was wondering why he hadn’t asked for his driving   43   so far, the policeman came to his window,   44   him a piece of paper, and returned to his car without saying a single word. The man wondered: how much was this   45   going to be? However, the man was   46   it was not a ticket at all and he began to   47  :

       “I had a daughter who was   48   by a speeding car at the age of six by a speeding driver. He got a fine, a few months in   49  , and then was free, free to hug(拥抱) his two daughters. I only had one, and now I have to   50   until I get to heaven before I can hug her again. I have tried to   51   that man a thousand times, and I thought I had. Maybe I really did forgive (原谅) him. So pray (祈祷) for me, and be   52   when you drive again. My son is all I have been left with.”

       The man was completely   53   and could not move for the next few minutes. When finally he did, he drove   54  , even a few miles   55   the speed limit, praying for forgiveness.

A. truck              B. mail car             C. police car                 D. taxi

A. excuses      B. information        C. advice                D. views

A. remembered         B. recognized         C. mistook                     D. caught

A. to school        B. home             C. out                 D. to hospital

A. well            B. happy             C. free                      D. healthy

A. writing           B. looking for         C. listing                D. looking up

A. even              B. really              C. still                 D. never

A. insurance      B. license            C. journal                D. route

A. sent              B. handed               C. rewarded            D. pushed

A. paper            B. note               C. ticket                    D. notice

A. excited         B. upset               C. angry                     D. surprised

A. laugh            B. smile              C. read                        D. think

A. hit              B. knocked             C. trapped              D. killed

A. fear             B. trouble                   C. prison               D. danger

A. wait             B. stay                   C. remain                   D. escape

A. attack           B. forgive               C. educate              D. support

A. honest          B. thankful            C. patient                 D. careful

A. disappointed B. nervous            C. shocked           D. frightened

A. quickly     B. slowly             C. fortunately          D. rapidly

A. under       B. over               C. to                D. with

It was the afternoon of December 24, the day before Christmas; and as the newest doctor in our office, I had to work. The only thing that brightened my day was the beautifully decorated Christmas tree in our waiting room and a gift sent to me by a fellow I was dating — a dozen long-stemmed red roses.

    As I was cleaning my office, I was told a lady urgently needed to speak with me. As I stepped out, I noticed a young, tired-looking woman with a baby in her arms. Nervously, she explained that her husband — a prisoner in a nearby prison — was my next patient. She told me she wasn’t allowed to visit her husband in prison and that he had never seen his son. Her request was for me to let the boy’s father sit in the waiting room with her as long as possible before I called him for his appointment. Since my schedule wasn’t full, I agreed. After all, it was Christmas Eve.

    A short time later, her husband arrived — with chains on his feet and hands, and two armed guards as bodyguards. The woman’s tired face lit up like our little Christmas tree when her husband took a seat beside her. I kept glancing out to watch them laugh, cry and share their child. After almost an hour, I called the prisoner back to my office. The patient seemed like a gentle and modest man. I wondered what he possibly could have done to be held under such conditions. I tried to make him as comfortable as possible.

    At the end of the appointment, I wished him a Merry Christmas----a difficult thing to say to a man headed back to prison. He smiled and thanked me. He also said he felt saddened by the fact he hadn’t been able to get his wife anything for Christmas. On hearing this, I was inspired with a wonderful idea.

    I’ll never forget the look on both their faces as the prisoner gave his wife the beautiful, long-stemmed roses. I’m not sure who experienced the most joy — the husband in giving, the wife in receiving, or myself in having the opportunity to share in this special moment.

1.What can be inferred from the first paragraph?

A. The writer was a newcomer to her office.

B. A fellow sent her a dozen red roses as Christmas present.

C. She was in low spirits because she had to work before Christmas.

D. She was at work with a light heart.

2.The young woman came to the writer’s office for the purpose of __________.

A. having her baby examined   

B. giving her husband a chance to make his escape

C. having her husband examined

D. getting a chance for her family to get together

3.The underlined part in paragraph 3 most probably means “__________”.

A. to be sent to hospital                       B. to be separated from his family

C. to be comfortable                             D. to become a prisoner

4.What does the writer learn from the story?

A. The wife experienced the most joy in receiving.

B. An act of kindness can mean a lot.

C. The prisoner was treated with mercy.

D. Whoever breaks the law should be punished.

 

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