At two o’clock a bank robber stole in.“This is a holdup,” the man said loudly. He took a gun from under his jacket, pointing to George.“Hand it over!” George reached into his money-box and took all the bills from the top part-close to six thousand dollars. The robber took them and turned to leave.
  Then, while everyone watched the robber, George calmly lifted the top part of the money-box, took bills from the bottom part and put them into his own pocket secretly.
  The door was shut and the bank robber was gone. George fainted(晕倒).
  As soon as he was safely behind his bedroom door, George counted the money. He had eight thousand dollars. He was very happy.
  The next morning, while the others were examining the bank's records, George was called into Mr Burrow's office and was introduced to Mr. Carruthers, who used to be president of the bank.
  “Good morning, George, I was sorry to give you a hard time yesterday, but with all the banks being robbed these days I thought it would be a good idea to prove that our little bank can be robbed too. I have retired(退休), but I’m always thinking of our bank. That's why I played my little game yesterday, just to keep everyone on his toes(趾). Now, I have put the money back in your money-box all six thousand.”
【小题1】This passage tells us ______.

A.a serious caseB.one part of a play
C.a humorous storyD.a meaningful story
【小题2】 Which of the following do you think is true?
A.George wanted to protect the money for the bank.
B.George had been thinking of taking money away.
C.This bank had been robbed several times.
D.Nobody knew the bank would be robbed that day.
【小题3】 Why was George called into Mr. Burrow’s office?
A.His stealing money was disclosed.
B.Mr. Burrow wanted to say sorry to him.
C.Mr. Carruthers wanted to explain the whole thing to him.
D.Mr. Burrow wanted to tell him the money had been put back.
【小题4】 In this article “to keep everyone on his toes” means “______”.
A.to make everyone work hard
B.to keep everyone standing straight
C.to make everyone do a kind of exercise
D.to keep everyone paying attention to the coming danger
【小题5】 Which sentence can be used to end the story?
A.George turned cold with fear.B.George turned red with anger.
C.George was pleased with the end.D.George was disappointed with the end.

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For over one hundred and fifty years,Americans of all social classes have worn blue jeans.【小题1】  Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today.Strauss’ invention continues to be popular not only among Americans but also among people around the world.
Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829.【小题2】 He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New York in 1847.?Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853,Strauss worked in his brother’s dry goods business.This gave him a chance to produce his famous invention. After the gold rush of 1949,Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortunes.
Strauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals.Instead,he knew he could make a good living by selling supplies to the miners.At first,he planned to sell sewing supplies and cloth.【小题3】 When he heard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets during mining,he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the miners.These pants proved so popular that he quickly ran out of materials to make more.
In 1873,Strauss received a letter from a Jewish tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of connecting pockets with copper rivets(铆钉).This made the pants last a long time.Because Davis did not have the money to patent his idea,he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent.    【小题4】  .
By the time Strauss died in 1902,he had made a great contribution to American fashion.
 【小题5】 The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss’ company is now one of the largest clothing companies in the world.

A.As a young boy,he moved with his family to the United States.
B.Nobody knew what kind of material was suitable.
C.He did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever since.
D.However,he did not get much business for those products.
E.He also made a great contribution to America’s clothing industry.
F.Since they were invented by Levi Strauss,they have ?become? a symbol of American consumer culture.
G.As the business grew,Strauss got much money from it.

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Richard’s father died when he was five. Later on he lost his mother. An old woman felt sorry for the poor boy and often helped him. Of course he had no money to go to school. He had to work for a rich farmer. The man paid him nothing except food and clothes.__ 1._ He found some old books near the school and taught himself to read and write.

_2.__It connected the village and the town. One morning people found there was a big stone on it. It stopped them from going to town. They had to move it away, or they had to cross the mountain if they had something to do in the town. But the stone weighed thirty tons at least and the strongest young men couldn’t do that.  _3.__

Richard looked at it carefully for a while and said, “I have a way to move it away.” But few men believed him. __4.__ Night fell and people went home. Only the boy stayed there. To their surprise, the villagers found the stone was gone the next morning. They didn’t know which spirit had moved it away.__ 5.__

“How could he?” the rich farmer called out. “He’s only fifteen! He couldn’t move it at all!”

“He dug a big hole beside the stone”, said the old woman, “And then he could easily push it into the hole!”

Looking at each other, the farmers couldn’t say a word.

A. The old woman said Richard had done it all.

B. There seemed to be nothing strange in village.

C. There was a narrow path between two mountains.

D. They discussed for a long time, but nobody knew what to do.

E. The boy hoped he could do something for the villagers some day.

F. Some farmers even laughed at the boy.

G. But the boy didn’t lose heart.

 

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