Two thieves came to a house to steal something.They dug a hole in the wall of the house.

There lived many mice in the house.The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl（爬行）into the house.“Look！In comes one，”she said to the man in the house.The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside，“She found me when I was just in.” But the thief outside didn’t believe him，so he said，“Let us two try to crawl into the house together.”At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house，too.The woman saw the mice and shouted，“In come two，catch them！” The two thieves were terribly frightened.The man in the house said，“You saw them come in but where are they？ I will catch them tonight.”The two thieves started running away at once.

The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before.The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house.The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields.The rein（缰绳）broke and the woman came home for a rope.She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some.She picked out two which looked like mice.At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up.The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said，“How they look like the two of last night.”The man said，“I asked you to fetch a rope，why don’t you hurry for it？”The two thieves ran away quickly without their sweet potatoes.

The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because______.?

A.they were found out

B.they were frightened by what they had heard in the house

C.they didn’t work together well with each other

D.mice stopped them from doing so

From the last paragraph，we know that ______.

A.the two thieves were famous selling sweet potatoes

B.the woman recognized the two thieves

C.the woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and made fun of them

D.the two thieves didn’t know that they were not found at all

“______”is the best title for this passage.

A.Two Clever Thieves                                       B.Terrible Mice

C.Hit the Mark by a Fluke（歪打正着）            D.A Clever Couple

Which of the following statements is false？

A.The two thieves not only failed to steal things but also lost their sweet potatoes.

B.Whenever they found mice，the people in the house would try to catch them.

C.The two thieves ran away at once，because they thought the woman had seen them.

D.The man let the woman go home for a rope，which would be used for catching the thieves.

Everywhere you will always find “the white—haired boy”, sometimes called “the fair-haired boy” He gets special treatment, as if he were above everybody else. You will find him in school, in college, at home, or where you work.

  In school, he is the teacher’s pet, her darling who can do nothing wrong. Sometimes she lets him do little jobs for her. He comes to class in the morning, all shiny and clean, He is always raising his hand, ready with an answer to the teacher’s questions. And he knows all the answers. He “gets into your hair”, especially if you are at the bottom of the class and the teacher thinks you are stupid. How you hate the white-haired boy!

  In college, he walks—more often strides—across the school grounds as if he owned them. Sometimes he wears a colorful football or basketball shirt or sweater, with a bright red, or green or yellow college letter proudly worn on the front of it—as a big B, for Bullfinch University. What broad shoulders, what muscles he has! He makes the girls happy by just smiling at them. He has the mark of success on him.

  At home, “the fair-haired boy” is mother’s choice, her favorite. Sometimes, he is the oldest son—at times, the youngest. If you are in between, you are out of luck.

  On the job, you might meet another of these “white-haired boys”; you cannot escape him. For some strange reason, he is the man who always moves ahead. He gets better and better jobs, with more and more money. But you stand still, wondering why, and trying to explain to your-self why you hate him so much.

  Then, you discover that there are others who share your feelings, ready to “let their hair down” —to tell you their private thoughts. One of them asks: “What does he have that I haven’t got?” You ask yourself the same question.

  Finally, there comes a day when you decide to stop hating him. Is it perhaps because he has been made boss and you find yourself working for him?

From the passage we can know that “the white-haired boy” refers to      

A. a child who is mother’s favorite   B. a student who is hated by everybody

C. a pet who is hated by everybody    D. a person who is lucky all the time

What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean?

A. He sets a shining example to you    B. He makes you a little angry.

C. He cuts your hair too short.       D. He does up your hair.

In the author’s opinion, the reason why you finally stop hating the white-haired boy is that   

A. you have no choice but to face the facts  B. you decide to try your best to be better than him

C. you have been made boss by him       D. you are beginning to admire him

Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Try to Be Attractive             B. Let Your Hair Down

C. The White-haired Boy           D. The Top Student

Find Which Direction Is South  

Do you have a good sense of direction? If not, please take with you a compass. But if you forget to take a compass, you can still find your way.   

It’s never a good idea to imagine that the family member who was entrusted（委托）with the job of map-reading actually knows where the family is. You can tell by the slightly confused load on their faces that nothing on the ground seems to match the map. Never mind. The shu is shining and it’s still morning. If you don’t know the exact time, you can still find out where south is, but you’ll need to be patient.   

①Find a straight sick and put it in the ground in a place where you can mark its shadow.  

②Try to position the stick as vertically（垂直）as you can. You can check this by making a simple plumb line （铅锤线）with a piece of string and weight. You haven’t got any string? OK, use a thread from your clothes with a button tied at the end to act as a weight.   

③Mark the end of the shadow cast by the stick.   

④Wait approximately half an hour and mark the end of the shadow again.   

⑤Keep doing this until you have made several marks.   

⑥The mark nearest the stick will represent the shortest shadow, which is cast at midday, when the sun is highest in the sky and pointing to the exact south.   

⑦Pick a point in the distance along the line between the shortest shadow and the stick.   

⑧That point is south of where you are.   

⑨Now you can turn the map, like you did before, and find which way you should be travelling.  

68. To find the direction, we ought to be patient probably because  

A. it is not easy to find a proper stick      B. it is not easy to position the stick  

C. it takes hours to make the marks        D. it takes about half an hour to make the marks

69. The passage would probably be most helpful to       .   

A. those who draw maps           B. those who get lost  

C. those who make compasses       D. those who do experiments  

70. Which of the following pictures best shows the way of finding the direction of south?  

71. The author presents this passage by       .   

A. telling an interesting story        B. describing an activity in a lively way  

C. testing an idea by reasoning       D. introducing a practical method  

　　"Mark Twain" was the name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) when he wrote books. His father was a lawyer, but a poor one, who lived at Florida, Missouri. The family was so poor that Samuel did not receive much teaching. He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met. His father died when he was very young, and then there was even less money than before.
　　Many of the men in this part of America worked in the ships on the great River Mississippi, and he did this himself at one time (1857).
　　Where did he find the name "Mark Twain"? It came from the great river itself. It was part of one of the cries used by men who worked in the ships. When a man called "By the mark twain!"  he meant that the river was "two marks deep" there, that is to say, six feet deep ( "Twain" is an old form of the work "Two".) Samuel Clemens often heard these words when he was young, and he used them as a penname all his life.
　　During his work on the Mississippi he met travelers of all kinds, and this helped him a great deal when he started to write. But the number of travelers became smaller when war started in America in 1861. Many of the great ships on the river stopped work. Samuel left then and went to Nevada with his brother, who was at that time Governor of Nevada. There, near the town of Carson, Samuel became a gold miner, but he never made much money at the time. He soon saw that life in the gold mines was not for him. He also tried writing for the newspapers in Nevada, and this seemed more hopeful. He found that he could write.
　　He went to Europe in 1867 and visited France and Italy. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon, and two years later he was spending nearly all his time writing. Among his books is his own story (1908).
　　He is now always known as Mark Twain, and many people do not even know that his family name was Clemens. He traveled in America and in England, and went to Oxford in 1907. He was one of  the great American writers of the time, and could make his readers laugh – a thing which few writers can do. He died in 1910.
【小题1】"Mark Twain" was _________.

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【小题1】 Xie Lei told me that when I saw her waiting in a queue at a student        (食堂) between lectures.
【小题2】 When I miss my family, it is a great comfort to have a      (替代) family to be with.
【小题3】 I was       (麻木的) with shock when I saw the mark E on my paper.
【小题4】 More importantly, I am now a more        (自主的) learner.
【小题5】By the time California       (选择) to become the thirty-first federal state of the USA in 1850, it was already a multicultural society.
【小题6】      (意大利人) mainly fishermen but also wine makers, arrived in California in the late 19^th century.
【小题7】 The conductor could not control the situation and the tram      (滑动) down the hill dragging the horses with it.
【小题8】 Cloning plants is       (简单的) while cloning animals is very complicated.
【小题9】 So the chance of dinosaurs ever returning to the earth is       (仅仅) a dream.
【小题10】 It is a difficult task to      (从事)
【小题11】        （在他看来），what other people thought was not the most important thing.
【小题12】The customs and languages of the immigrants        (继续存在) in their new home.
【小题13】 There is a fascinating drive       (划出) for tourists.
【小题14】 But at last the determination and patience of the scientists       (回报) in 1996 with a breakthrough — the cloning of Dolly the sheep.
【小题15】 From time to time people suggest that extinct animal like dinosaurs, can possibly be       (重生) through cloning.