题目内容
--- I think George doesn't really care for TV plays.
--- Right, ____ he still watches the program.
A.and B.so C.but D.for
C
Dad came in the midnight. We heard every sound, but we pretended to be asleep.
Next morning he looked weak and thin, sitting in a chair by the kitchen fire. The light of the fire shone through his long empty sleeve. Everything went as usual. Grandma found something to do in the bedroom. Grandpa went out for some water. Mother, with her back to us, was getting the cakes ready for breakfast.
But nothing was right. When grandma came out of the bedroom, she walked on tiptoe. When grandpa came back, he said nothing about the weather. At breakfast Mother passed us the fruit and said something, but her voice was too high.
At last my sister, Lou, pushed back her chair. “It’s your turn to wash the dishes.” But I had washed the dishes the night before. I said nothing because it was not right to quarrel in front of Dad just home with the empty sleeve.
“It is your turn,” Lou said again. I looked at her in surprise.
“It is not,” I said because I suddenly remembered Mother had told us to go on as usual.
“Children, children,” Mother said in a quiet, glad kind of voice.
And Dad was smiling because he felt at home at last.
【小题1】What do you know happened to Dad in the story?
A.He was badly ill. | B.He had a long journey. |
C.He drank too much. | D.He lost one of his arms. |
A.was too surprised to do anything | B.felt sad and cried a lot |
C.tried not to show their feelings | D.showed no worry at all |
A.the two sisters often quarreled about who should wash the dishes |
B.the family liked seeing the two sisters quarrelling after breakfast |
C.Dad loved the two sisters very much though they often quarreled |
D.Mother told the two sisters to quarrel with each other the night before |
A.The Quarrelling Sisters | B.Dad Was Back |
C.After the Accident | D.An Empty Sleeve |
“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped outside the house. There was full of thick smoke.
I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see fire all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.
I saw a doorway in fire, then I put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terrible, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly.
She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.
【小题1】When the fire arose in the middle of the night, the author was _______.
A.at home | B.sleeping | C.sitting in bed | D.both A and B |
A.because he was very brave. | B.because he liked the baby very much. |
C.but he just happened to save it. | D.because it was the Mayor’s baby. |
A.was a stranger there | B.could see nothing |
C.was not completely awake | D.Both A and C |
A.save the baby | B.call for help | C.protect his face | D.run quickly |
A.old and wooden house, a bundle | B.crashed to, fell down |
C.terrible, half-awake | D.bare feet, a borrowed man’s coat |