题目内容
B. cared
C. devoted
D. affected
It was not a good day today. Everything went wrong. First, I slept late and Mom shouted at me to wake up. When I went to the kitchen for breakfast, there was no cereal. I decided to have some toast instead, but I burned it. I had to eat it anyway because there was no more bread. There was no juice, either. I just had a glass of water.
When I was almost at the bus stop, I realized that I had forgotten my wallet, so I had to go back home and get it. Of course, I missed the bus and had to wait for the next bus.
I was late for school and the teacher told me to stay in the classroom at lunchtime to catch up on(弥补)the schoolwork I had missed.
After lunch, it was the time to give the teacher our homework. I reached into my bag to get it but it wasn’t there. I had left it at home. I was in trouble again.
When I got home, I went straight to my room to catch up on my homework. Mom cooked fish for dinner. She knows I don’t like fish, but she thinks it is good for her son. It was a horrible day. I hope tomorrow will be better.
1.What happened to the writer on this bad day?
A.The writer argued with his parents. |
B.The writer heard some terrible news. |
C.Many small things went wrong. |
D.Part of the writer’s house was on fire. |
2.When did the writer’s bad day begin?
A.At night |
B.In the morning. |
C.At lunchtime. |
D.In the afternoon. |
3.What did the writer do after he went home?
A.He did some homework. |
B.He made a telephone call. |
C.He made fun with his friend. |
D.He was tired, so he went to bed. |
4. When you “burn” something, you ___________________.
A.give it away |
B.eat it too fast |
C.cook it too long |
D.make it very well |
5.According to the passage, we can know _______________.
A.the writer fell off from his bike |
B.the writer went to school |
C.the writer got up early in the morning |
D.the writer doesn’t like eating fish |
On the day of a big event, many people came to Big Bend Mountain to watch. John Henry and the salesman stood side by side. Even early in the day, the sun was burning hot.
The competition began. John Henry kissed his hammer and started working. At first, the steam-powered drill worked two times faster than he did. Then, he started working with a hammer in each hand. He worked faster and faster. In the mountain, the heat and dust were so thick that most men would have had trouble breathing. The crowd shouted as clouds of dust came from inside the mountain.
The salesman was afraid when he heard what sounded like the mountain breaking. However, it was only the sound of John Henry at work. Polly Ann and her son cheered when the machine was pulled from the tunnel of the mountain. It had broken down. Polly Ann urged John Henry to come out. But he kept working, faster and faster. He dug deep into the darkness, hitting the steel so hard that his body began to fail him. He became weak, and his heart burst.
John Henry fell to the ground. There was a terrible silence. Polly Ann did not move because she knew what had happened. John Henry’s blood spilled over the ground. But he still held one of the hammers. “I beat them,” he said. His wife cried out, “Don’t go, John Henry.”“Bring me a cool drink of water,”he said. Then he took his last breath.
His friends carried his body from the mountain. They buried him near the house where he was born. Crowds went there after they heard about John Henry’s death.
Soon, the steam drill and other machines replaced the steel-drivers. Many laborers left their families to look for work. They took the only jobs they could find. As they worked, some sang about John Henry.
1.What does the big event mentioned in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A.John Henry’s work on a machine. |
B.A competition between John Henry and a salesman. |
C.John Henry’s work with his hammer and the steel. |
D.A competition between John Henry and a drill. |
2.The underlined word “tunnel ”in Paragraph 3 probably means “ ”.
A.flat ground |
B.big rock |
C.underground passage |
D.hard metal |
3. What happened to John Henry when he fell to the ground?
A.He was tired and had to have a rest. |
B.He had heart trouble and was dying. |
C.He was thirsty and wanted to drink some water. |
D.He was injured slightly and was bleeding. |
4.What do we know about John Henry?
A.He won the competition finally. |
B.He was buried under the mountain. |
C.He loved his work very much. |
D.He said nothing before his death. |
5.What can we infer from the passage?
A.Humans can never beat machines. |
B.John Henry was regarded as a hero. |
C.Laborers hated machines very much. |
D.It was easy for laborers to find work. |
The TV shows a baby’s pram (婴儿车) rolling off a train platform as the mother makes a mad rush to save her son, but she is too late and it falls onto the rails in front of an incoming train. This heart-stopping scene happened yesterday at Ashburton station in Melbourne, Australia. But the story has a happy ending: the six-month-old baby survived with just a cut on his forehead, although the pram was dragged about 35 metres by the braking train. The nurse Jon Wright said the boy just “needed a feed and a sleep” and didn’t need to stay in hospital.
“Luckily, he was strapped (绑) into his pram at the time, which probably saved his life. I think the child is extremely lucky, ” Wright told the Herald Sun newspaper after the baby was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Fortunately the train was already slowing down to stop at the station so it stopped quickly when the driver put on the brakes as soon as he saw the pram fall in front of him. Rail firm Connex is to look into how the pram rolled off the platform. The accident came one day after Connex started a child safety awareness activity warning parents to keep babies strapped into their prams at all times while on platforms.
The accident happened at the same time as the “balloon boy ”story in the US, in which a six-year-old Colorado boy was reported to be trapped in a flyaway balloon. However, he was later found hiding in the family’s garage. Many people believe that it had all been a publicity stunt by the parents. No such doubts surround the baby on the train platform.
1.In the accident, the baby .
A.almost fell onto the rails |
B.needed to stay in hospital |
C.was badly injured by the train |
D.was pulled a long distance in the pram by the train |
2.The child was not killed most probably because .
A.the mother strapped him into his pram |
B.the platform is not very high |
C.he was well fed and asleep |
D.the mother rushed to save him |
3.Why could the train stop quickly?
A.Because it had just begun to move. |
B.Because it was moving slowly at that time. |
C.Because the mother took measures quickly. |
D.Because the driver saw the pram fall. |
4.The underlined word “stunt” in the last paragraph probably means .
A.something silly |
B.something funny |
C.something done to attract attention |
D.something done to avoid bad luck |
Years after throwing a bottle-up note into a lake for a class project and just one year after his death, a man’s childhood message was found and returned to his mother.
Eleven years ago, a then 10-year-old boy, Joshua Baker, wrote the message, folded and put it in an empty container, his mother, Maggie Holbrook said. He died last February in a motor vehicle accident in California. He had recently returned after a serving in the Middle East as a US marine.
“ I think he was just letting us know he was OK and keep doing what we are doing ,” Holbrook said.
The message surfaced in White Lake in late April, just days after the 11th anniversary of its being thrown into the lake. It was found by one of Baker’s closest friends, Steve Lieder, she said. Lieder and two friends were chatting near the lake when Lieder looked down and saw the bottle. He broke it open and found the note inside.
“My name is Joshua Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95.”
They immediately took it to Holbrook, who said she is now having the note preserved and will display it in her home.
She can remember when her son wrote the message for the school project. She said she always wondered why he didn’t put it in the nearby Wolf River, which has a much stronger current(水流).
“I still remember the day he wrote it,” Holbrook said. “ I couldn’t understand why he threw it in the lake. No one would never see it again. Now I know.”
1. What was Joshua Baker when he died in motor vehicle accident in California?
A.An official |
B.A soldier |
C.A worker |
D.A teacher |
2. Who found the bottle according to the passage?
A.Joshua Baker’s mother |
B.A fisherman |
C.Joshua Baker’s friend |
D.Joshua Baker’s mother’s friend |
3.What does the underlined sentence mean?
A.The mother believes his son is still living with her in the house. |
B.The mother thinks his son will come to see her one day |
C.The mother thinks it’s foolish to throw the note in the lake |
D.The mother thinks the bottle is her son’s gift only left to her after his death |
4.Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage?
A.The man threw the bottle into the lake without any purpose. |
B.The man didn’t put the bottle into the nearby river because it had a strong current. |
C.Not until recently did his mother understand why he put the bottle into the lake instead of the nearby river. |
D.The man made the bottle-up note so as to let his parents know he was OK. |
5.The best title for this passage would be ____.
A.A man’s Bottle Message Found After His Death |
B.A Ridiculous and Unbelivable Bottle Message |
C.A Strange Bottle-up Note Appearing In a Lake |
D.An Important Childhood Message 11 Years After His Death |