Jim and Tom were eating at a restaurant（饭店）. On the table there was a cup of hot (辣

的)mustard（芥末）. Jim thought it was sweet and took a spoonful（汤匙） of it into his mouth. Tears (眼泪) ran down from his eyes. However, he wished Tom to do the same thing. So he said nothing. Tom saw Jim crying (哭), and asked,“What for, my friend?”

“I’m thinking of (想起) my father, he was hanged (被绞死)20 years ago,Jim said.Soon after Tom took a spoonful of mustard and when tears began to run down from his eyes, Jim asked “Why are you crying, then?”“I am thinking why you were not hanged 20 years ago.”

1.Where were Jim and Tom?

2.How was the mustard? It was.

3.How was Jim after he took a spoonful of hot mustard?

4.Tom also took a spoonful of hot mustard because

5.After Tom took a spoonful of mustard, he was.

Mary’s dime（一毛钱）

It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel   1  when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.

　　 What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly  2  the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light   3  her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.

　　  How much I  4  that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so   5  — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.

　　  I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the  6  in her old dirty dress, looking at the   7  that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt   8  and looked straight at me, just as if（似乎）nobody had spoken so   9  to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would  10 . I haven’t had anything to eat today.”

　　 Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today,   11  this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your  12 . She needs it a great deal more than you do.”

　　 I could not run away from that little girl’s sad,  13  look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How  14  the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime,  15  I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.

1.                A．disturbed       B．unhappy        C．satisfied  D．interested

2.                A．saw            B．remembered    C．forgot    D．described

3.                A．filling          B．protecting       C．attracting D．touching

4.                A．hated          B．loved          C．missed   D．noticed

5.                A．valuable        B．meaningful      C．expensive D．cheap

6.                A．market         B．library          C．store D．bookshop

7.                A．dresses         B．magazines       C．books    D．candies

8.                A．surprised       B．excited         C．pleased   D．worried

9.                A．happily         B．kindly          C．angrily   D．sadly

10.               A．taste           B．sound          C．feel  D．smell

11.               A．since          B．so             C．and  D．but

12.               A．apple          B．hamburger      C．dime D．candy

13.               A．proud          B．angry          C．calm  D．hungry

14.               A．grateful        B．unlucky        C．lonely D．friendly

15.               A．unless         B．if              C．though    D．because

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Three men came to London  1 hoidays. They came to a very large hotel and lived in a fifty –fifth floor. One day .they went to see a film and came back to the hotel very late. “ I’m very _2_ said the waiter of the hotel,”but our lift doesn’t work tonight.” One of them said to his two friends ,”We have to walk up to our room It’s very___3_.I think I know how to make it easier .__4__our way to the room,I shall _5_you some jokes; then you,Jhon will sing us _6___songs; then you Peter ,will tell us some interesting stories . So they began to _7__their room.Tom told them many jokes.Jhon sang some songs. At last ,they came to the room.They were _8__and decided to have a rest . “Well,”Peter,”said Tom ,”will you tell us a ___9__story with a sad end .”

“I shall tell you a sad story,” said Peter.”It is short but it is _10__ I left our key in the car just now .What shall we do?”

1.                A．for            B．to             C．with D．from

2.                A．tired           B．angry          C．sorry D．glad

3.                A．careful         B．difficult         C．helpful   D．early

4.                A．In             B．By             C．At   D．on

5.                A．tell            B．talk            C．speak    D．say

6.                A．a lot           B．much          C．a little    D．some

7.                A．jump           B．walk           C．run  D．fly

8.                A．tired           B．hungry         C．happy    D．worried

9.                A．difficult         B．true           C．fast  D．easy

10.               A．sad            B．happy          C．interesting D．boring