I can still remember the first day when I met my best friend. I hid behind my mother and she hid behind her grandmother,   1  to look at each other. But we soon lost the  2   and started playing with each other. In the 7th grade, I first lost touch with her. She was   3   family problems and I deserted her to be with the “cooler people”.   4  of my new friends like her as much as I did  5  they knew she had “problems”. However, every summer we would   6   sit at each other’s house and watch soap operas and talk about everything we liked.

It was last year when I   7    the problem. I guessed I was just too busy to catch up in high school to realize she   8   someone there for her. Well, she made a new “best friend” and so did I. Then I didn’t know why, but she started cutting herself!

She was diagnosed with clinical depression(抑郁症). I was very  9   at first, but with the late night calls, we still stayed in   10  . I wanted to be there for her since her new best friend   11   deserted her, since people were calling her   12  , and I knew I still   13 her like a sister.

Yesterday she came   14  me and said this, “I never knew what a best friend was   15  you were the only person that would stop me from cutting; the only person that ever made me feel better about myself and my  16  . You don’t know this but I was trying to kill myself one night when you   17  me and I was crying. I   18   you so much, and you didn’t even know you were   19  me.”

We both cried. And I guess a kind of lesson from my life so far is to never   20   your friends.

1.A.pleased       B.excited     C.afraid       D.disappointed

2.A.happiness   B.kindness   C.shyness     D.sadness

3.A.working out       B.answering for C.helping with  D .going through

4.A.All            B.None   C.No   D.Every

5.A.because      B.though      C.while D.yet

6.A.sometimes  B.seldom     C.just   D.always

7.A.solved B.noticed     C.faced D.understood

8.A.asked         B.needed      C.had   D.left

9.A.mad           B.cardless    C.hopeful     D.upset

10.A.touch              B.bed   C.hospital    D.love

11.A.luckily     B.successfully      C.basically   D.calmly

12.A.selfish      B.crazy C.brave      D.lonely

13.A.believed in       B.waited for   C.cared about     D.replied to

14.A.with         B.after     C.upon   D.to

15.A.until         B.when    C.since   D.if

16.A.mistakes   B.parents        C.friends         D.problems

17.A.visited      B.encouraged    C.called      D.prevented

18.A.tell           B.owe       C.give  D.show

19.A.helping     B.reminding     C.cheating   D.praising

20.A.give up on       B.look back at   C.drop in at   D.look down on

Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was impolite and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold underground room. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren't always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very kind farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, "How could this happen? Why did you not watch out for the cow? The first man had everything, yet you watched over his house," she accused. "The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you did not help."
"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we stayed in the underground room , I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune, I asked God if I could seal the wall so he couldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead. You see, things aren't always what they seem. "
【小题1】Why did the older angel repair the hole for the rich family?

A.Because she didn't like the greedy owner.
B.Because she wanted to save the gold for the poor.
C.Because the underground room was too cold to stay in.
D.Because she believed that one should always be ready to offer help.
【小题2】The younger angel was very angry because ________.
A.the older angel killed the farmer's cow
B.the older angel treated the two families differently
C.the wealthy man gave them a bad place to live in
D.the angel of death took the cow away
【小题3】Why did the older angel let the farmer's cow die?
A.Because God wanted the older angel to take the cow.
B.Because she wanted to teach the younger angel a lesson.
C.Because she wanted to save the farmer's wife.
D.Because she was sympathetic to the rich.
【小题4】The story tries to tell readers that ________.
A.angels are always ready to help the poor
B.sometimes things are not what they seem
C.angels are always ready to help the rich
D.the young should always learn from the old

That summer an army of crickets(蟋蟀) started a war with my father. Dad didn’t care for insects much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to support her point she wouldn’t go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father’s cigarettes and paced between the sofa and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed poison from a jug. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it.

  For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that we’d all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn’t like because he scratched for no reason.

  However, soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upset because she thought they were the dead crickets coming back, but Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the basement again.

  A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.

  While we ate supper that evening, the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower’s(割草机) fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn’t much anyone could do.

  After the fire trucks left, Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail’s. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didn’t talk much, while all around the noise of crickets broke our silence.

1.What do we know about the author’s mother?

A. She didn’t like insects at all.

 B. She liked insects more than his father.

 C. She cared for insects very much.

 D. She could only tolerate a few insects.

2.The author’s father drove to the store to buy _______.

A. cigarettes for himself                                                   B. some poison

C. more coffee for his wife                                              D. some gasoline

3.The author’s father burned the old newspapers and magazines because he thought ______.

A. they were no longer useful

B. the crickets were afraid of fires

C. they became the home of crickets

D. the dead crickets came back to life

4.We learn from the last paragraph that ________.

A. the author’s family lost their battle against the crickets

B. the author’s parents learned to put up with insects

C. the author’s family didn’t suffer much in the fire

D. the author’s parents got divorced

 

My friend Robert started a new job this week and he’s been in the training class for two days. The employer has a very strict dress code—dark blue shirts and pants.

On the first day, an older gentleman in his class did not have the proper clothes and he was strictly told that he would be fired if he didn’t have the right clothes the next day. He explained, “Sir, I had been told about this, but because of my larger size, it’s sometimes difficult to find the right clothing for a price I can afford.”

Last night, Robert and I decided that this old man shouldn’t lose the chance of work simply because he couldn’t afford the clothes. I had some cash on hand and Robert took it with him this morning just in case it was needed.

When training started this morning, the trainer was ready to fire the older gentleman. “You have 10 minutes to be in proper clothes,” he was told. At this point, Robert spoke up and asked if he could have 10 minutes to get him the clothes. He then ran out to the store and bought the proper-sized pants and a shirt; he returned with both and gave them to the older man.

The older gentleman began to cry and told him that he couldn’t accept such a gift from a stranger. Robert told him he had to because he had lost the receipt(收据) and couldn’t return them—a little white lie. The pants were a perfect fit, the shirt was a bit tight but he was able to keep his job.

“My wife and I tried to gather together some money last night, but we didn’t have enough to buy the clothes,” he told Robert. “It’s unbelievable to me that a person would do such a thing for only knowing me a day!”

More unbelievable is how good it has made Robert and me feel to do this.

1.If the older man did not have the proper clothes, he would _____.

A. be punished  B. be offered another job   C. put off the training class   D. lose his job

2.The money which was paid for the clothes was _____.

A. the trainer’s   B. the older man’s          C. the writer’s           D. Robert’s

3. How did Robert persuade the older man to accept the clothes?

A. He told the older man that he would lose his job if he did not take them.

B. He told a lie that the clothes didn’t fit himself.

C. He told the older man that he could save money and return it later.

D. He told the older man that he had no way to send them back.

4.What might be the best title for the passage?

A. Proper clothes for a stranger            B. Fight against strict rules

C. A strange employer                   D. An unbelievable thing

 

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