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　　Read the following humorous stories．

　　Story 1：

　　Kate：Mom, do you know what I'm going to give you for your birthday??

　　Mom：No, Honey, what?

　　Kate：A nice teapot．

　　Mom：But I've got a nice teapot．

　　Kate：No, you haven't．I've just dropped it．

　　Story 2：

　　One day, when snow was falling, the king of the Scythians(锡西厄国王)asked a man, who was braving it unclad(赤身裸体的), whether he felt cold．The man asked in return, whether his majesty felt cold in his face．"Certainly not!" said the king．"Then, "replied the man, "neither do I feel the cold, for I am all face．"

　　Story 3：

　　Mr．And Mrs．Shaw were on safari(旅行)in Africa．Walking through the jungle．Suddenly a huge lion

sprang out of the bushes and seized Mrs．Shaw, dragging her off．"Shoot!" she screamed to her husband,“Shoot!”“I can't!”he shouted back, "I've run out of film!"

(1)

What does "dropped" mean in the 1st story?It means " ________ "

[　　]

A．

lost

B．

broken

C．

qhidden

D．

stopped

(2)

According to the underlined sentence in the 2nd story, the man says "I didn't feel cold", because ________．

[　　]

A．

he has only my face left

B．

he wants to save face(留面子)for himself

C．

he has nothing to wear

D．

his face doesn't feel cold

(3)

What does "shoot" mean in the 3rd story?．Mr．Shaw thinks his wife wants him to ________．

[　　]

A．

fire the gun at the lion

B．

hunt the lion

C．

take photos of the lion

D．

fire arrows at the lion

答案：1．B;2．C;3．C;
解析：

(1)

动词drop的基本意思是“摔，摔坏”，应该它放在这则外国幽默故事中(语境中)体会。女儿摔坏旧茶壶，赠新的给母亲，她的出发点带着稚气，行为也很可爱。而母亲很可能因为没了旧茶壶而不开心啊，或为女儿出于好意的做法哭笑不得。瞧，幽默之处就在于此啊。

(2)

上文提到了这个人是unclad(赤身裸体的)。be all face的表面意思是“全身是脸”，而真实意思却是“裸体的，一丝不挂的”。这则幽默采用be all face，表面上给人造成理解的分歧，来达到深层的幽默效果，讽刺国王的统治也是外国文化的一次体现。可见，学英语再也不是单单掌握语法和词组就万事大吉了，还应对外国文化有一定的认识和了解。

(3)

狮子来了，依据人的本能反应，shoot应表示“开枪或射箭”。而shoot还有“拍照”的意思。戏剧性的是丈夫理解错了妻子的话，文中有个句子“I've run out of film!”暗示读者，即这里的film指“胶卷”。丈夫大喊“胶卷用光了!”。很滑稽的一个笑话!可见答案是C。


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　　I gave my housekeeper(管家)an old pair of trousers to wash and went into the study to rea　 D.My housekeeper usually examined my pockets before she washed any thing,but for some reason she failed to do so this time.As I was reading I suddenly remembered that there was a ten-pound note in the back pocket of the trousers I had given her to wash.I dropped my book right away and rushed to the bathroom.But it was too late.My housekeeper told me that my trousers had been in the washing-machine for ten minutes!I had the machine stop working at once and pulled my trousers as quickly as I coul　 D.I nearly burnt my fingers when I tried to unbutton(解开钮扣)my back pocket.To my great disappointment(失望),I discovered that it had already become a piece of white paper.I stood there,glaring(盯着看)at my housekeeper in silence(沉默)until she began to cry,begging me to pardon her and not to drive her off.

1.The writer of this passage usually ______.

［　　］

　 A.did the housekeeper for himself

　 B.had the housework done by his housekeeper

　 C.had the housework done by a family robot

　 D.had to do the housekeeper like a housewife

2.The housekeeper ______ her master’s clothes______.

［　　］

　 A.had…washed by another servant

　 B.washed…by hand

　 C.got…washed by a washing-machine

　 D.washed…in a basin

3.While reading,the writer suddenly remembered ______ a ten-pound note in a pocket of the trousers.

［　　］

　 A.to leave

　 B.that he would leave

　 C.have left

　 D.that he had left

4.After unbuttoning the back pocket,the writer found that ______.

［　　］

　 A.the ten-pound note became pieces of paper

　 B.it had turned into a piece of white paper

　 C.nothing had happened to the ten-pound note

　 D.the ten-pound note remained the same as before

5.From the passage we may conclude(推断)that the writer was ______ the housekeeper.

［　　］

　 A.very pleased with

　 B.very kind to

　 C.getting along well with

　 D.not kind enough to

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　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?

[　　]

A．

Weekly allowance．

B．

Her earning s by picking crop s．

C．

Share s left by grandma．

D．

Money earned from selling share s．

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．

[　　]

A．

she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s

B．

enough money had been earned for her car

C．

the work wa s too hard for children like her

D．

she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．

[　　]

A．

16

B．

17

C．

18

D．

19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．

[　　]

A．

give the author freedom

B．

be unwilling to buy the author a car

C．

teach the author to learn self－reliance

D．

give the author a big surpri se

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