He made a c______about the bad road.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful bird, which was very curious about hell. When she was little, her mother always told her that if she didn’t master the flying skills, she would go to hell. She was so curious about hell that she always asked others what hell looked like, but no one was sure, because none of them had ever been there. Some said hell was a place full of water, and others told her that hell was full of burning fire. However, the bird knew they were lying. She wanted to find out what hell was.

When other birds were learning flying skills, she always hid herself and watched them. She thought in this way she could go to hell and see what hell looked like. However, she spent so little time learning flying skills that one day she was caught by a little boy. The little boy gave her to his grandpa in the countryside as a gift. The old man liked her very much. He made a delicate cage and put her in it. The bird was very worried because she thought she couldn’t find out what hell was like staying in this small cage. However, she couldn’t escape. Day after day, she just stayed in the cage, watching other birds flying. She lost her freedom and she became sadder and sadder. At last, she became ill. The old man finally opened the cage, but she was too weak to fly. Lying no the ground, she thought of the question that she ever asked all the time.

“What does hell look like?”

“Hell is a small well-decorated cage.” Before she closed her eyes forever, she finally answered that question herself.

What does the underlined word “master” in the first paragraph mean?

  A. Miss.      B. Finish.          C. Follow.          D. Learn well.

Why did the bird hide herself when other birds were learning flying skills?

  A. Because she was lazy.

  B. Because she didn’t like learning flying skills.

  C. Because she thought she could go to hell by doing this.

  D. Because she thought she didn’t have to learn flying skills.

According to the passage, the bird at last found that      .

A. hell was a place full of water.          B. hell was a place full of burning fire

C. there was no hell                        D. hell was a small well-decorated cage

Today Mr. Johnson, a member of the International Olympic Committee(国际奥委会), visited a high school in Beijing. He made a speech there. In his 36._____, he talked about the history and significance of 37._____. He described the 38._____ Olympic Games. He said that athletes at the ancient games could only be men who spoke Greek, 39._____ today, both men and 40._____from around the world can compete. The modern games, first held in 1896, were designed (设计) to make it possible for countries and people to live 41._____ together.

Mr. Johnson also talked about some famous 42._____. One example is Michael Jordan who  43._____ his second Olympic gold medal after a long break. He 44._____ mentioned (提到) Deng Yaping who won many gold medals. Mr. Johnson 45._____ his speech by wishing the Olympic movement a successful future. The audience really enjoyed his speech.

1. A. speech            B. book         C. newspaper        D. magazine

2. A. Asian Games       B. the Olympic Games  C. European Games    D. African Games

3. A. late           B. new            C. ancient            D. modern

4.A. but            B. and             C. or                D. so

5. A. boys          B. teenagers          C. adults             D. women

6. A. angrily           B. quietly            C. peacefully        D. sadly

7. A. dancers      B. actors               C. singers            D. athletes

8. A. lost              B. won                  C. brought         D. missed

9. A. only          B. just             C. never                D. also

10. A. started          B. ended            C. wrote             D. found

Switzerland is famous for its watches. However, this country didn’t  26  the

watch.   It was the British   27  did it.Here is a story of  28  the

watch was  29  to Switzerland.

Many years ago, an Englishman was  30   to Italy   31   his way he stopped in a small town in south Switzerland. This Englishman travelled in a      carriage inside    32  there was a carriage watch. This was the  33  kind of  watch. A native shop assistant   34  to see the watch. He  35  what it was  and asked the Englishman   36  it.“Itis a carriage watch. ”said the man. “ This  machine    37  the time but now it

isn’t working.”

At once the shop assistant    38   to try to repair it. So the traveller  39  him the watch. The assistant was a very wise man. So it  was not  40  that he managed to repair it. He  41  remembered how it was made. As soon as the traveller had  42  on his journey, he made a watch of  43  the same type.

  44  the watch-making was   45  in Switzerland. Today Swiss watches are sold in stores all over the world.

1.                A．make          B．invent          C．produce  D．develop

2.                A．which          B．who           C．where    D．they

3.                A．why           B．that            C．how D．when

4.                A．carried         B．sold            C．sailed    D．brought

5.                A．travelling       B．riding          C．walking   D．running

6.                A．On            B．In             C．At   D．From

7.                A．which          B．that            C．it    D．whom

8.                A．proper         B．smallest         C．earliest   D．biggest

9.                A．wanted         B．seemed         C．happened D．discovered

10.               A．wondered      B．thought        C．understood D．discovered

11.               A．on            B．about          C．of    D．with

12.               A．gives          B．tells           C．strikes D．counts

13.               A．failed          B．helped         C．insisted   D．offered

14.               A．served         B．shared         C．showed   D．handed

15.               A．surprise        B．surprised       C．surprising  D．surprises

16.               A．however       B．besides         C．but   D．even

17.               A．gone          B．done          C．come D．spent

18.               A．correctly       B．specially        C．exactly    D．naturally

19.               A．Thus           B．So             C．Otherwise D．However

20.               A．opened        B．started         C．done D．returned

While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an unbelievable sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of courage.
The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left only one to compete. It would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race against, even though the time on the clock is important.
I watched the man dive off the block and knew right away that something was wrong. I’m not an expert swimmer, but I can tell a good dive from a poor one, and this was not exactly medal quality. When he resurfaced, it was evident that the man was not out for gold – his arms were waving in an attempt at freestyle. The crowd started to laugh. Clearly this man was not a medal competitor.
I listened to the crowd begin to laugh at this poor man who was clearly having a hard time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few desperate strokes and you could tell he was worn out.
But in those few awful strokes, the crowd had changed.
No longer were they laughing, but beginning to cheer. Some even began to stand and shout “Come on, you can do it!” and he did.
A clear minute past the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his race. The crowd went wild. You would have thought that he had won the gold, and he should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other competitors.
Just a short year ago, he had never even swum, let alone race. His country had been invited to Sydney.
In a competition where athletes remove their silver medals feeling they have somehow been cheated out of gold, or when they act so proudly in front of their competitors, it is nice to watch an underdog.
【小题1】From the passage we can learn that the young man         .