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— Did his performance _________ you?
— No, I didn’t like his performing style.

A.
appeal to
B.
deal with
C.
adapt to
D.
make up

A
appeal to意为“有吸引力；引起兴趣”；deal with意为“解决；处理”；adapt to意为“适合”；make up意为“弥补”。

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Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, "I'm going to fly to New York next week because I've got some work there." "Where are you going to stay there?" his wife asked. "I don't know yet." Dick answered. "Please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报)," his wife said. "All right," Dick answered.

He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.

In the evening he didn't have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and said, "Now I'm going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner."

He found a taxi (出租车) and the driver said, "Where do you want to go?" But Dick didn't remember the name and address of his hotel.

"Which hotel are my things in?" he said, "And what am I going to do tonight?" But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, "Please send me my address at this post office."

Dick flew to New York because ___.

A. he went there for a holiday

B. he had work there

C. he went there for sightseeing (观光)

D. his home was there

Why did his wife want a telegram from him?

A. Because she didn't know his address yet

B. Because she wanted to go to New York, too

C. Because she might send him another telegram

D. Because she couldn't leave her husband by himself in New York

Where did Dick stay in New York?

A. In the center of the city. B. In a hotel.

C. In a restaurant. D. At his friend's house.

Who would send him the name and address of his hotel?

A. The manager (经理) of his hotel. B. The police office.

C. The taxi driver. D. His wife.

Which of the following is not true?

A. Dick stayed at a nice hotel in the center of the city.

B. Dick didn't work on the first night of his arrival.

C. Dick forgot to send his wife a telegram.

D. Dick wanted to go back to his hotel in a taxi.

A young man applied for a job as a farmhand. When the farmer asked for his qualifications(资历), he said, “I can sleep when the wind blows.”

This puzzled the farmer. But he liked the young man, and hired him.

A few days later, the farmer and his wife were awakened in the night by a violent storm. They quickly began to check things out to see if all was safe from damage. They found that the doors of the farmhouse had been safely fastened, and a lot of wood had been set next to the fireplace.

The young man slept soundly.

The farmer and his wife then looked at their property (财产) carefully. They found that the farm tools had been placed in the storage room, safe from the bad weather. The tractor had been moved into the garage. The barn was properly locked. Even the animals were calm. All was well.

The farmer then understood the meaning of the young man’s words, “I can sleep when the wind blows.”

The farmhand did his work loyally. When the sky was clear, he had prepared for the storm in case it broke. So when the wind blew, there was no need for him to be afraid. He could sleep in peace.

The underlined word “fastened” in Para. 3 can be replaced by ______.

A. closed B. damaged C. taken D. moved

From the passage, we can learn that ______.

A. at first the farmer understood his words well

B. the young man was awakened in the night by a violent storm

C. the young man had prepared for the storm before it came

D. the young man was too sleepy to wake up in the night

The best title for this passage is ______.

A. Sleeping in peace through the storm B. A violent storm

C. A young man and his dream D. A clever farmer

Which of the following proverbs can best explain the story?

A. Lookers-on see more than players

B. Two heads are better than one

C. A stitch（针）in time saves nine

D. No man can do two things at a time

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Most funny stories are based on comic situations．In spite of national differences, certain funny situations have a worldwide request．No matter where you live, you would find it difficult not to laugh at, say ,Charlie Chaplin’s early films．However, a new type of humour, which stems largely from America, has recently come into fashion．It is called “sick humour”．Comedians base their jokes on tragic situations like violent (cause by force)death or serious accidents．Many people find this sort of joke distasteful．The following example of “sick humour” will enable you to judge for yourself．

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Whether you find “sick humour” funny or not will depend on ________．

A．your having been brought up in America

B．the joke being related to a really comic situation

C．your ability to see the funny side of an unpleasant event

D．your ability to laugh until you cry

The man spent Christmas day feeling miserable because ________．

A．the doctor had failed to cure him

B．he was not able to be with his friends

C．being unable to walk, he did not enjoy the celebrations at the hospital

D．he thought he might also miss the New Year’s Eve celebration

The point of the joke taken to explain “sick humour” is that ________．

A．no sooner was the out of hospital than he had to go back in again．

B．the man should not have said how much he hated hospitals

C．the man would be unable to walk for the rest of his life

D．the man had not got a leg to stand on

What can you learn from this story ?

A．On New Year’s Eve, the man was able to walk properly to the party．

B．At the party , he enjoyed himself but only drank a little．

C．He had to go to hospital again though he hated it．

D．The man got well soon because the doctor took good care of him．

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Tyler wasn’t willing to give up one single moment of his childhood to this deadly disease．It was not unusual to find him playing and racing around his backyard, wearing his medicine - laden backpack and dragging his tank of oxygen behind him in his little wagon．All of us who knew Tyler marveled at his pure joy in being alive and the energy it gave him．Tyler’s mom often teased him by telling him that he moved so fast she needed to dress him in red．That way, when she peered through the window to check on him playing in the yard, she could quickly spot him．

This dreaded（可怕的） disease eventually wore down even the likes of a little dynamo like Tyler．He grew quite ill and, unfortunately, so did his HIV - infected mother．When it became apparent that he wasn’t going to survive, Tyler’s mom talked to him about death．She comforted him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him soon in heaven．

A few days before his death, Tyler beckoned me over to his hospital bed and whispered, " I might die soon．I’m not scared．When I die, please dress me in red．Mom promised she’s coming to heaven, too．I’ll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me．"

his HIV - infected mother．When it became apparent that he wasn’t going to survive, Tyler’s mom talked to him about death．She comforted him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him soon in heaven．

What is the boy Tyler's attitude towards death?

A．pessimistic（悲观的）． B．optimistic． C．sorrowful． D．fearful．

Tyler requested the writer to dress him in red when he died simply because___________．

A．red is a lucky color B．red might help to cure him

C．his mom could spot him easily D．he could find more mates by wearing red

Which of the following might serve as a possible title for this passage?

A．My unusual profession． B．A caring mother．

C．Mother and son． D．Dying in red．

The underlined word dynamo in the fourth paragraph here means ________________．

A．a promising and helpful youth

B．an extremely energetic person

C．a rare and beautiful flower

D．a magic and understanding superstar

There was once, in a little market-town not far from Upsala (瑞典一城市), a peasant who lived there with his family, digging the earth during the week and singing in the choir on Sundays. This peasant had a little daughter to whom he taught the musical alphabet before she knew how to read. Daae was a great musician, perhaps without knowing it. Not a violinist in Scandinavia played as he did. His reputation was widespread and he was always invited to set the couples dancing at weddings and other festivals. His wife died when Christine was entering upon her sixth year. Then the father, who cared only for his daughter and his music, sold his land and went to Upsala in search of fame and fortune. He found nothing but poverty.

He returned to the country, wandering from fair to fair, playing his Scandinavian music pieces, while his child, who never left his side, listened to him in delight or sang to his playing. One day, at Ljimby Fair, Professor Valerius heard them and took them to Gothenburg. He insisted that the father was the first violinist in the world and that the daughter had the making of a great artist. Her education and instruction were provided for. She made rapid progress and charmed everybody with her prettiness, her grace of manner and her real eagerness to please.

When Valerius and his wife went to settle in France, they took Daae and Christine with them. "Mamma" Valerius treated Christine as her daughter. As for Daae, he became ill with homesickness. He never went out of doors in Paris, but lived in a sort of dream which he kept up with his violin. For hours at a time, he remained locked up in his bedroom with his daughter, playing and singing, very, very softly.

Daae seemed not to recover his strength until the summer, when the whole family went to stay at Perros-Guirec, in a far-away corner of Brittany, where the sea was of the same color as in his own country. Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them. And then he persuaded Mamma Valerius to allow him to leave for a while. At the time of the "pardons," the village festivals and dances, he went off with his violin, as in the old days, and was allowed to take his daughter with him for a week. They gave the smallest villages music to last them for a year and slept at night in a barn, refusing a bed at the inn, lying close together on the straw, as when they were so poor in Sweden. At the same time, they were very neatly dressed, refused the halfpence offered to them; and the people around could not understand the behaviour of this country violinist, who walked heavily on the roads with that pretty child who sang like an angel from Heaven. They followed them from village to village.

When he was in the countryside, Daae did NOT __________.

A. work on his land B. sing in the choir on Sundays

C. make a fortune at weddings and festivals D. teach his daughter how to sing

The 3rd sentence “He insisted …” in the 2nd paragraph showed Professor Valerius’ ______.

A. hope for Daae and Christine B. appreciation of Daae and Christine

C. sympathy for Daae and Christine D. love for Daae and Christine

While Daae was in Paris, he never went out of doors because he was ________.

A. always sleepy B. so homesick that he fell ill

C. too busy teaching his daughter D. willing to be locked up with his daughter

What made people curious about the father and daughter was that _______.

A. the father made very good music

B. the daughter sang like an angel from Heaven

C. the father walked strangely with his daughter

D. they appeared to be badly off but refused money offered

— Did his performance _________ you? — No, I didn’t like his performing style.

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— Did his performance _________ you?
— No, I didn’t like his performing style.