King Midas used to love gold. One day he met a fairy who allowed him to make a wish for something. The king replied at once, ‘‘I love gold. I want everything I touch to change into gold”. ‘‘Very well, tomorrow morning, everything you touch will turn into gold.” Saying this, the fairy disappeared.

The king waited excitedly till the next morning. To his joy, everything he touched changed immediately into gold. ‘‘I’m the richest man in the world now.” He shouted.

Soon Midas became hungry. He sat down at his table. All the foods and drinks turned into gold in his hand. ‘‘I’m dying of hunger.” He cried.

Just then his daughter came running in. ‘‘Why are you so sad, dad?” she asked, putting her arms around him. There and then she became a golden statue. The king loved his daughter very much. Seeing this, he began to cry. He looked up and suddenly saw the fairy before him. ‘‘Don’t you like the golden touch?” asked the fairy. ‘‘Please take it away.” begged the king, ‘‘Give me back my daughter.” ‘‘Well, you have learned your lesson. Go and wash in the river. Then the golden touch will be gone.”

The king ran quickly to the nearby river.

1.The fairy allowed the king to make a wish because _____.

A．she hoped to make the king the richest in the world.

B．she loved gold too.

C．she wanted to teach the king a lesson.

D．she wanted to turn the king’s daughter into gold.

2.The king’s daughter became a golden statue when _____

A．she saw her father                      B．the king went to meet her

C．she put her arms around her father         D．the king loved her very much

3.Which of the following might have happened afterwards?

A．The king’s daughter changed back from gold to a lovely girl.

B．The king died in the river.

C．All the things the king had touched changed back into real ones.

D．Both A and C

4.What do you think the story tries to tell us?

A．Gold makes people unhappy.

B．More gold, more happiness.

C．Gold is not the thing that makes life happy.

D．People feel happy if they have not gold.

“You can't catch me!”Janet shouted, ________ away.

1. A.
   run
2. B.
   running
3. C.
   to run
4. D.
   ran

1.He told me this was the first time they ______ (see) a film in the cinema together as a family.

2.Henry has come in his raincoat and boots, __________(prepare) for rain.

3.Most students’ attitude towards fashion are reported _________(change) nowadays in a recent survey.

4.Many students prefer working hard to _______(equip) with knowledge.

5.Thank you very much for the trouble you have taken ______ (help) me with my English.

6.The professor spoke very clearly to make his speech easy________(understand).

7.Jack looked at Mary, tears filling his eyes and shouted at the words _____ (hide) in his heart for years.

8.____(devote) to caring for the poor, Mother Teresa is greatly respected throughout the world.

9.Is there any possibility of their team ________(defeat) in the coming competition?

10.The teacher had a talk with Bob. What the teacher said set him ________(think).

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 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.

1.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

2.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

3.“______”is the best title for this passage.

A．Two Clever Thieves                      B．Terrible Mice

C．Hit the Mark by a Fluke                   D．A Clever Couple

4.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.