One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe, pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries(樱桃).
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent(弯腰) down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.”
【小题1】Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

Mr. Evans lived in a city. He was a bus driver in a company three years ago. He drove well and the people in the company all liked him. But a terrible accident changed（改变）his life. One spring he drove his bus with twenty- four workers to visit a place of interest. They had a good time there. But on their way back home, their bus was hit by a truck（卡车）because the truck driver was drunk（醉）. Four workers were killed and half of the rest of the workers got badly injured. Mr. Evans was also injured. After he came out of hospital, he left the company and became a traffic policeman. He tried his best to stop the drivers from breaking the traffic riles. He worked hard and was strict with the drivers, especially the drivers that were drunk. So they were afraid of him. But the people liked him, for he was a good policeman.

1.How did the accident happen?

     A. The truck hit the bus.      B. The bus hit the truck.  C. The bus hit a big tree.

2.How many people were injured in the accident?

     A. Four.                      B. Ten               C. Eleven.

3.What did Mr. Evans do after he left hospital?

      A. He was a bus driver.

B. He was a policeman.

C. He was a truck driver.

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In most countries, people usually eat traditional food 1.____ special holidays. A special day 2.___ the United States is Thanksgiving. It is always on the 3.___ Thursday in November, and is a time 4.__ thanks for food in the autumn. At this time, people also remember the first 5.___ from England6._ came to live in America about 400 years ago. They had a long, hard winter, and 7.___of them died. In the next autumn, they gave thanks for life and food in their new home. These days, most 8.___? still celebrate this idea of giving thanks 9.___ having a big meal at home with their family. The main 10.__ of this meal is almost always turkey, a large bird.