One day a rich（有钱的）man met Sam. The rich man asked, “I hear you are very clever and nothing is difficult to you. Can you tell me why you are so clever?”

Sam answered with a smile, “ Oh, I am not clever. Instead you are too foolish（愚蠢的）.” The rich man became very angry.

1.One day____ met Sam.

A. a rich man         B. a poor man       C. a young man       D. an old man

2.The rich man became angry because_______.

A. Sam said he was clever            B. Sam said he was foolish.

C. Sam was foolish.                 D. Sam wasn’t clever

3.Sam thinks he asked the rich man ________question.

A. an easy        B. a difficult       C. an interesting     D. a good

4.Two groups of sheep put together is________.

A. one group      B. two groups      C. Many groups     D. Many sheep

5.Sam is ________.

A. foolish        B. rich             C. clever          D. Not rich

A

One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I give twenty dollars.” “All right” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the elephants?” “I didn’t find the bad ears” says the young man. “Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?” asked the old man. The young man answers, “Because I never saw an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”

1                 the elephant.

A. The young man sells      B. The old man sells

C. The two men sell         D. The old man buys

2 The young man looks at the elephants. He wants to find    

A. some meat              B. some money  

C. bad ears                D. what it looks like

3 The young man looks at the elephant slowly because he     

A. wants to find something    B. likes the elephant

C. helps the old man         D. doesn’t see the elephant before

4 Hearing what the young man said, the old man will be     

A. angry     B. happy     C. dangerous     D. hungry

5 A. knows the elephant has bad ears

B. wants the elephant

C. looks after the elephants      

D. will not get any money from the old man

  B

Many young people in China know about Celine Dion （席琳•迪翁），the famous French Canadian pop singer. She sang the song “ My heart will go on” for the movie Titanic. But do you know she had already become popular before she sang this song.

Celine Dion’s hometown was in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is the youngest of the fourteen children in a musical family. Her parents and the large family formed a singing group. They traveled and played folk music. They were well known in their hometown. Celine’s mother wrote her first song for her, and she recorded it with her brother when she was twelve years old. Then a local rock manager named Rene Angelil was interested in them. He asked Mrs Dion to take her two children to come to his office. Later on he gave strong support for Celine. In 1994, they were married.

As a singing star, Celine Dion won many prizes and soon became popular all over the world. She sang at the opening of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA. In 1997, she made the whole world hit with the song “My heart will go on”.　                                 

6Celine Dion was a _______.

        A. drawer   B. scientist    C. singer    D. manager

7There were _______ people in Celine’s family.

        A. 15      B. 16         C. 17       D. 18

8Celine Dion’s family were ______ in their hometown.

        A. famous   B. rich        C. poor     D. kind

9 Celine Dion recorded her first song with ______.

        A. her sister B. her mother   C. her father   D. her brother

10 In _____, Celine Dion sang at the opening of the Olympic Cames.

        A. 1999     B. 1998       C. 1997      D. 1996  

In a New York street, a small truck hit a big tree. The truck was full of glasses and they were all broken. The driver came out of the truck and looked at the broken glasses. He was very sad and people in the street felt sorry for him. Then an old man walked over to the driver. He looked at him for a few minutes and said, “My poor boy! I think you must pay a lot for this.” “Yes,” was the sad answer.

“Well, well,” said the old man, “hold out your hat—here’s some money for you, and I can say that some of these people will give you a helping hand, too.” Then he walked away.

The driver held out his hat and over a hundred people came and put their money in it. At last, the driver took out a bag and put all the money in it. Then he looked at the people and said, “Well, thank you very much. But you didn’t know that the old man is the owner of the truck. I’m driving and making money for him.”

(　 )46. What did the truck hit?

　　 A. An old man.　　 B. A big tree.　　 C. Some glasses.　 D. A big hat.

(　 )47. How did the driver feel when he looked at the broken glasses?

　　 A. Afraid and excited.　　 　　　　　　　　　 B. Pleased and frightened.　

　 　 C. Unhappy and worried.　 　　　　　　　　　 C. Surprised and happy.

(　 )48. Why did people give the driver money?

　　 A. Because they felt sorry for him.　　　　　 B. Because the knew the old man.

　　 C. Because they wanted to help the old man.　 D. Because they were the driver’s friends

(　 )49. From the passage we know that 　　　　　 .

　　 A. The old gave the young man a hat 　　　　

B. The old man was the driver’s father

C. The driver became rich　　　　 　　　

D. The driver had to give the money to the old man