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When we are unfamiliar with something, we may feel nervous and fearful. The help of others is a good  35 to help us pull through.

  I write for a big newspaper, and I wanted to 36 a story about parachute jumping(跳伞). To make it a realistic as well as exciting story, I decided that I had to make a jump myself  37 . Unluckily, I’m not good at any sport, let alone(更不用说)parachute jumping.

  My friend Mr. Smith was willing to give me a  38 . He took me to a ground school. The first day’s  39 included several hours of instruction but not my first drop from an airplane. For this, I had to wait until the following morning.

  The next morning, I was taken to the airfield. There, a heavy parachute was put on my back. Then I was asked to make my way to a small plane which had just stopped slowly on the runway. Once on board, the plane was soon  40 . I began to feel nervous. As we reached one thousand meters, Harry, my teacher, hooked(钩)a  41 from my parachute to a steel(钢制品)ring inside the plane. The line was to pull my parachute 42 after I jumped.

  “Get ready, Henry,” Harry said. I moved carefully to the door. I wanted to cry, “NO, no, no!” But no word came.

  “Jump!” Harry called loudly. “Jump!”

Away from the plane, and down, down I fell, arms stretched. It worked! All at once I was very happy. Then I felt a quick  43 . My big parachute had opened! It was the best

44 I ever had. I looked down. There were rivers, trees, fields and houses. I heard the soft sound of the air. This was fun.

35. A. way          B. chance              C. idea            D. value

36. A. tell         B. write         C. read           D. copy

37. A. secretly      B. instead          C. finally          D. first

38. A. try         B. hand          C. gift          D. suggestion

39. A. jumping      B. journey         C. training          D. entertainment

40. A. slowing       B. climbing        C. landing          D. filling

41. A. bag        B. steel          C. line           D. seat

42. A. light         B. broken             C. fixed          D. open

43. A. comfort       B. wind         C. pull          D. push

44. A. failure       B. experience        C. competition       D. danger

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        Who on Earth Did Wrong

Mr and Mrs Smith got married when he was twenty – three and she was twenty. Twenty years later, they had a big party and asked a photographer to came and take some photographs of them.

Then the photographer gave Mrs Smith a card and said, “They will be ready next Wednesday. You can get them from studio.”

“No.”Mrs Smith said, “Please send them to us.”

The photographs arrived a week later, but Mrs Smith was not happy when she saw them. She got into his car and drove to the photographer’s studio. She went inside and said angrily. “You took some photographs of me and my hushand last week, but I’m not going to pay for them.”

“Oh, why not?” the photographer asked.

“Because my husband looks like a money.” Mrs Smith said.

“Well,” the photographer answered. “That isn’t our fault. Why didn’t you think of that before you married him?”

  (  )11.Mr Smith was _______ years older than his wife.

     A.two  B.three  C.four   D.five

  (  )12.When they had the big party Mrs Smith was_______.

    A.twenty – three     B.twenty

    C.forty – three      D.forty

(  )13.They had a big party _______.

A. in a restaurant

B. in the photographer’s studio

C. in their house

D. in the photographer’s house

(  )14.When Mrs Smith saw the photos, she was ______.

    A.angry  B.satisfied  C.happy  D.worried

(  )15.Which of the following is ture according to the passage?

A.Mr Smith was a monkey.

B.Mr Smith liked the photos very much.

C.Mrs Smith paid for photos.

D.Mr Smith had a big party in his forty-three.

          

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  One day Tom went out to look for work.He went from place to place, b  1   could not find a job.In the afternoon he came to a f  2  .He went into the office building and o  3   the door of a big room.There he s  4   a fat man sitting at a desk.

  “What do you want?” the man asked.“I am looking for work,” answered Tom.“What kind of work?” the man asked.“Any kind of work, please.I am strong, you see,” Tom said.

  The man looked at Tom f  5   a while and then he said, “We have got enough workers in our factory.We want no more.Get out.”

  Tom turned around.When he was going to the d  6  , the fat man said, “Look!Can you see the man over there?” He p  7   to a man outside the window.“I give him f  8   dollars a day.Do you want his job?He is getting old.Of course, I won’t give you five dollars a day.I can only give you four dollars a day.”

  For some minutes Tom said n  9  .He thought of his wife and children.But that worker had wife and children, t  10  .Finally Tom said, “No, I don’t want the job!”

  Tom was right.He didn’t want to take the bread out of another worker’s mouth.

1.________ 2.________ 3.________ 4.________ 5.________

6.________ 7.________ 8.________ 9.________ 10.________

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