It was Sunday afternoon. My brother and I were alone at home. My parents went for a party and asked me to look after my brother. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Ding-Dong! My brother thought that it was our parents, so he opened the ________soon.

 A tall man wearing a black raincoat stood outside. He said that he came to sell books and asked politely__________ our parents were at home.

Without thinking, my brother said,“No.” Then the man asked if we would like to ______some story books. I refused him. When I wanted to close the door, he suddenly pushed the door very _______and came into our house. He took out a ________and ordered me to tie up my brother’s hands with a rope. I tied up his hands in a special way so my brother could untie ______easily. The man then tied my hands up and locked _______of us in the kitchen. Soon, he went upstairs to _________money. I taught my brother to untie the rope on his ______. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police, ______the line was dead. The doors were all locked from the outside. It was lucky that the man ______to lock the kitchen window. We got out of the house through the kitchen window and went to the _______ pay phone to call the police

Soon _______came to our house and the man was caught. By that time, my parents had come home. We told them the whole story. My parents were ______that we were not hurt. They told me that I should stop my brother from _______the door to strangers. I learned a lesson on safety.

1.A. window        B. door           C. book             D. fridge

2.A. if             B. why           C. when             D. how

3.A. lend           B. borrow         C. sell              D. buy

4.A. politely        B. slowly          C. hard.             D. quietly

5.A. book          B. knife           C. gift              D. pen

6.A. himself        B. myself          C. herself           D. themselves

7.A. none          B. neither          C. both             D. all

8.A. look at        B.look after       C. look like          D. look for

9.A. feet           B. hands           C. neck             D. legs

10.A. and           B. so             C. or               D. but

11.A. wanted        B. remembered     C. forgot            D. tried

12.A. farthest        B. nearest         C. largest           D. smallest

13.A. my friends      B. the police      C. the neighbors      D. my parents

14.A. glad           B. angry         C. sad               D. sorry

15.A. cleaning        B. closing        C. locking           D. opening

Passage 4

 Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."

"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.

Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.

The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, “Where is your father?” The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, “No more.”

The man was very surprised. He asked, “No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?”

"Burnt yesterday evening."

1. Mr Brown told his son that _____.

A. he would be away from home for four days

B. he would be back in seven days

C. he would be back in a month

D. he liked a cup of tea

2. Mr Brown wrote the words down on ________.

A. the wall    B. the door    C. a piece of paper    D. his son's pocket

3. A man came to visit the boy's father on ________.

A. the second day   B. the third day   C. the fourth day   D. the fifth day

4. The man was very surprised because _________.

A. he thought the child's father was dead

B. the child didn't ask him to sit down

C. the child gave him a cup of tea

D. he couldn't find that piece of paper

5.What was burnt? ___________.

A. The piece of paper B. Mr Smith C. The visitor D. The boy

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in New York on January 30, 1882. He went to a famous high school in Massachusetts, and studied history in Harvard    1. three years, Roosevelt next    2. law(法律)and then worked in a famous New York City law firm. He entered  politics (政治) in 1910. For him, the future looked bright.    3., in the summer of 1921,while having a holiday in Canada, he suddenly fell seriously ill and after that he became disabled. He was unable to walk any    4.. Not yet 40,he seemed finished in politics. But Roosevelt was not beaten down. Instead of    5. at home, he was still active in politics. He became president of the United States in 1933. He once said   6. his speech“The only thing we have to fear is fear    7..”

Roosevelt was a man of unusual charm(魅力) , great optimism and strong will. He served  8.than any other president of the United States, and     9. the people of the United States through the hard times of the 1930s. He was in office from 1933 until his death in 1945, at the    10. 0f his fourth term (任期).

①"I will think of it."It is easy to say this, but do you know what great things have come from thinking? Though we can not see, or hear, or feel our thoughts, they have great power (力量) !
②Isaac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer evening when he saw an apple fall from a tree. He began to think, and tried to find out why the apple fell. Then he discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars are kept in their places.
③James Ferguson once saw the inside of his father's watch, and he wondered, "Why should I not make a watch?" This set him thinking and it led to a wooden clock which kept good time.
④Walt Disney, the famous American film-maker, was often thinking of new ideas. One day, when he was in a meeting, he suddenly stopped talking, deep in thought. He looked and looked at a place high up in the room. This continued for a long time, end then he got an idea for a new cartoon.
⑤Ideas come at any time, end the important thing is to think. When you meet with any difficulty, don't lose heart. Try to think of it before asking someone to help you. Think and by thinking you will learn how to think creatively.
【小题1】Newton wanted to find out  ______.