Last month the manager of a jewelry shop (珠宝店) received a letter. As he was very busy then, the letter lay on his desk till tea-time. He opened it and a 10-pound note(票) fell out onto the desk. Within the note was a letter which said:

Dear sir:

In 1935 I got engaged(订婚). But unfortunately I lost my job. At the time a lot of people were out of work. Six months later I got a job again, but of course I was very short of money. I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring(婚戒). The assistant took out some rings for me to look at, but she was called away for a moment, and I put one of the rings in my pocket. When she came back, I said I didn’t know the size of my girl’s finger. So I left the shop without buying a ring. My wife died a short while ago and the fact that I never paid for the ring has been heavy in my heart all these years. At that time, the ring cost 2 pounds so I think it is 10 pounds at today’s price and I’m sending 10 pounds.

Yours truly,

A customer (顾客)

1.When did the manager open the letter?

2.The customer didn’t write the letter until_____.

3.What happened in 1935?

4.Which of the following is Not true?

5.What do you think of the customer?

---You were out when I went to your house this morning.

---Oh, I _______ for a friend from England at the airport.

A．was waiting                            B．waited

C．am waiting                             D．have waited

Mom:    Daniel, I need to talk to you about your behavior. Dad and I realize there is probably an explanation for why the house is so dirty, but you shouldn’t have run out of the room and closed the door so hard like that.

Daniel:     Mom, I’m sorry, but I was so angry! You want me to act like an adult but you and dad treat me like a child. Why didn’t you just ask me what had happened?

Mom:    Well, I know that grown-ups are supposed to make good decisions but sometimes we make mistakes. We were angry too. None of us stopped to think and we should have. Can you explain to me now why the house was a mess and what you did with the money we left?

Daniel: Spot was sick, Mom. Eric and I didn’t want to call you and dad on your vacation, so I used the money you left and some of my own to take him to the vet. We stayed there and waited for him all day. That is why we didn’t have time to clean the house.

1. Who is Spot?

2. Where were Daniel’s parents when Spot was sick?

3. Why did Daniel’s mother talk with him?

Mr. Smith lived in a village. He had ___36__ farms and about twenty people working for him. He often told them _37_ hard and be honest. (诚实的).

One day he went to a farm and worked with the workers there. Soon it was time __38___ lunch. He put ___39___ nice bread on the table and ___40___. A few minutes later he came back again but he ___41____ find the bread.

‘Who ate ___42__ on the table?’ he shouted.

Some of the workers answered, ‘We ___43___.’

The others said, ‘We saw nothing.’

‘Well,’ said Mr. Smith, ‘__44___ are a lot of mice in the rooms, you know. So I ___45___ some poison in the bread. ___46___ they eat, they must die. Then I can kill them.’

As soon as he finished, four workers began to cry. ‘Oh, dear!’

‘___47___?’ asked Mr. Smith.

‘We ate the bread when you were out. We are going to die.’ One of them cried.

‘___48___,’ Mr. Smith said _49___ a smile, ‘I only ____50_____ you. Use your head.’