It was a Saturday afternoon. Mr. Green was reading a newspaper when he heard his wife crying in the next room. He hurried to the room and asked, "What happened to you, my dear?"

    "Oh, dear!" the woman called out. "My head hurts! Send for a doctor! Hurry up!"

    Their two children were both out at the moment and something was wrong with the telephone. Mr. Green had to go to a hospital himself. Bad luck! That day all the hospitals in the town were closed. Mr. Green didn't know where to go. Just then a friend of his saw him and asked, "What's the matter?"

    Mr. Green told his friend his trouble. The man said, "Why not go to Mr. Black? Maybe he can help you."

     Mr. Green remembered his friend, Mr. Black, was a good doctor and he decided to go to him for help. When he got there, Mr. and Mrs Black were having their evening meal. The doctor asked Mr. Green to drink with him. He was happy and sat at table. After that they began to chat. It was getting dark. Mrs Black turned on the lights and asked, "How is Mrs Green?"

    "She's fine, thank…" Mr. Green stopped at once -- he remembered his wife was waiting for a doctor at home.

1. There were at least          rooms in the Greens' house.

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

2. Mrs Green asked her husband to         .

     A. send her to a hospital                       B. get a doctor in

     C. buy some medicine for her                   D. find a friend

3. Mr. Green couldn't find a doctor from a hospital because        .

     A. their children were not at home               B. he didn't go to the hospitals

     C. something was wrong with their telephone      D. no hospitals were open then

4.         helped him think of Dr Black.

     A. Mr. Green himself                         B. Mrs Green

     C. Mrs  Black                              D. A friend of Mr. Green's

5. Which of the following is true?

     A. Mr. Green was forgetful.                      B. Mr. Green didn't care for his wife.

     C. Mr. Green was lazy.                          D. Mr. Green was a busy man.

He didn’t do any housework. He sat down and read today’s newspaper, he told his wife to cook. After a short moment his wife came in with a bowl of food in her hand, and asked Mr Black to eat it.

  Mr Black was very surprised to see that his wife had cooked so quickly.“You haven’t cooked for me for many years, but how did you cook so quickly?” he said to his wife. Then he threw the newspaper onto the leg, and began to eat it.

  The food was too terrible to eat, and Mr Black got very angry. He gave it to his wife and said,“I think the food is delicious only for you, but I don’t like it at all!”

His wife smiled and said, “A hungry man likes to eat anything. Perhaps you aren’t hungry. Look, my cat hasn’t eaten anything today. He would like to eat the food.”

With these words, he gave it to the cat.

1.Why didn’t Mr Black cook the food last Thursday evening? 

A. Because he didn’t like to do it this time.

B. Because he was very tired and very hungry.

C. Because his wife could do it very well.

D. Because he liked his wife to cook it.

2.Did his wife cook very slowly?

A. Yes, she did.

B. No, she wasn’t.

C. No. She cooked the food well.

D. No, she didn’t.

3.How did Mr Black like the food ?

A. He liked it very much.

B. He was pleased after he ate the food.

C. He said the food was very delicious.

D. He said the food was too terrible to eat.

4. Mrs Black said to Mr Black, “Perhaps you aren’t hungry.” That was because___ .

A. She thought a hungry man liked to eat anything.

B. She thought her food was very delicious.

C. She thought her husband liked her food.

D. She thought she cooked the food well.

5.Who ate the food at last?

A. Mr Black.

B. A dog.

C. Mrs Black.

D. Mrs Black’s cat.

阅读理解

　　Mrs Black is sixty-nine years old. She has only a daughter named Sandra. Mr Black died twelve years ago. She was very sad and lived in her house alone. Two years later her daughter had a baby. The woman was busy all the time and had no time to look after her son James. She asked her mother to live with them.

　　The old woman had to sell her house and moved here. She was strong and could do all the housework. And the family liked her.

　　Last autumn Mrs Black went to do some shopping. A car hit her and her leg was hurt. She had to be in hospital for three months. She can't do anything after she came back. At first her daughter was kind to her, but soon she began to be tired of(讨厌) her. The old woman wanted to leave, but she had no money to buy a house and nobody could take care of her. She didn't know what to do.

　　One morning Mrs Black broke a plate. It made her daughter angry. She told James to buy a wooden(木制的) plate for his grandma. That afternoon James came back with two wooden plates. She was surprised(惊讶的) and asked, “Why did you buy two plates, son?”

　　“One is for grandma,” answered the boy. “The other is for you! You'll also have to use a wooden plate when you're old, I think.”

　　The woman heard this and was sad. She cried for long. Now she's kind to her mother as she did before.

1．Sandra asked her mother to live with them because ________.

[　　]

A．the old woman lived alone

B．she needed her help

C．the old woman couldn't look after herself

D．the old woman could give her much money.

2．The family liked Mrs Black because ________.

[　　]

A．she was very rich

B．she could watch their door

C．she could do all the housework for them

D．she was friendly to them all

3．Mrs Black was afraid ________, so she couldn't leave her daughter's house.

[　　]

A．she bad no house to live in

B．she couldn't look after herself

C．Sandra couldn't go to see her any more

D．A and B

4．Sandra was afraid ________, so she told her son to buy a wooden plate for her.

[　　]

A．her mother could break another plate

B．her mother didn't want to leave

C．her husband could be tired of her mother

D．her mother couldn't do anything at home

5．James bought a wooden plate for his mother because ________.

[　　]

A．he didn't love her

B．she liked it

C．he hoped she was kind to his grandma

D．she often broke the plates at home

6．Sandra is friendly to her mother because ________.

[　　]

A．she knows she did wrong

B．she was afraid of her son

C．the old woman is poor

D．it's her duty

Mrs. Black lives in a small village. Her husband is dead. Her son, Jack, lived with her. He worked in a shop in the village, but then he found a job in town named Green Sea. He went to live there. Mrs. Black was very angry. She got on a train and went to see her son. Then she said to him, "Jack, why do you never telephone me?"
Jack laughed, "But, mother, you haven’t got a telephone. "No." She answered, "I haven’t, but you have got one. "
（ ）1. The old Black ______.
A. is dead          B. lives with his wife
C. went to a small village            D. worked in a shop
（ ）2. Jack lived with his mother ______he worked in the village.
A. before        B. when              C. after     D. so
（ ）3. Green Sea is _________.
A. a big city    B. a small village    C. a town    D. a man’s name
（ ）4. Jack didn’t phone his mother because ______.
A. he had no phone                     B. he was very busy
C. his mother had no phone             D. he went home every day
（ ）5. Jack’s mother was very angry because ______.
A. Jack didn’t want to ring her up
B. Jack had a telephone but she hadn’t
C. she didn’t know how to make a telephone
D. she didn’t know she couldn’t be called