阅读下面短文，据上下文意义和所给单词首字母，写出每小题适当单词的完全正确形式，每空一词。

     Mr Jackson works in a college. He likes reading and often b  1   some books from the library. He keep l   2   to the radio every morning and reading n   3   after dinner. So he knows much and t  4    well. His s   5  worship(崇拜) his very much. Mike, Mr Jackson's little son is only nine. He a   6   likes reading books. And he often asks his father some questions. Mr Jackson always think he is too y   7  to understand him, so he chooses easy ones to answer. Of course the boy is not satisfied(对…满意) with it.

     One day Mike read s   8  about the electric lights and was i   9   in it. When his father t   10  him to do housework, he w   11  on thinking o   12   it. He asked him a

f  13  questions, and his father answered all. Then his father said p  14   , "Fathers always know m  15  than s  16  !"Then boy t  17  for a while and said, "I don't think so!" "Oh? Why?" Mike didn't answer and asked i  18   . "Who i  19  the electric lights? " "Thomas Edison ," answered Mr Jackson "Why didn't his father invent them then" Mike asked again.

     Looking at his son. Mr Jackson didn't know w  20__to answer.

—Why didn’t you go to play football with us yesterday afternoon?

—I _____my mother with the housework then.

A. helped 　　　　　 B. was helping 　　 C. had helped 　　 D. have been helping

It was Mother’s Day. John was so busy with his work that he couldn’t go back home. When he walked by a flower shop in the evening, an idea came to his mind. “I’ll send Mum some roses (玫瑰).”
While John was picking his flowers, a young man went inside. “How many roses can I get for only five dollars, Madam?” he asked. The shop assistant told him that roses were as expensive as forty dollars a dozen (一打). Maybe he would be happy with carnations(康乃馨). She told him they were a lot cheaper than roses.
“No, I have to have red roses,” he said, “My mum was badly ill last year and I didn’t get to spend much time with her. Now I want to get something special, it has to be roses, as the rose is her favorite.”
After hearing this, John said he would pay the rest of the money for the young man. Moved by both of them, the shop assistant said, “Well, lovely young men, thirty dollars a dozen, only for you two.” Taking the roses, the young man almost jumped into the air. He thanked John, and ran out of the shop. It was well worth twenty-five dollars John paid to see the exciting moment. Then John paid for his dozen of roses and told the shop assistant to send them to his mother.
As he walked out, he felt nice. Suddenly he saw the young man crossing the street and going into a park. But soon he realized it was not a park but a cemetery (墓地). Crying, the young man carefully laid the roses, “Mum, oh, Mum, why didn’t I tell you how much I loved you? God, please help me find my mum and tell her I love her.”
Seeing this, John turned and quickly walked back to the shop. He would take the flowers home himself.
【小题1】The shop assistant tried to ask the young man to buy carnations instead of roses because _____.

根据语篇内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、连贯。方框中有两个词为多余项。

Linda and Betty were both nineteen years old. In June, after a school year was over, they   1   to take a vacation in the countryside. They went to several towns and villages, visited some places of interest, saw and heard a lot of interesting things. They enjoyed   2   very much.

One afternoon, they   3   going to stay overnight in a small town. It was too hot to go   4   and they wished they could find a river and swim in the cool water. They were driving the car   5   while they were looking around. Suddenly Linda saw a lake not far away. They drove there   6   and stopped the car by the lake. They looked around and found a woman sitting on a stone and   7   there. After they took off their clothes and were going to jump into the water, the woman came up to them and shouted,

“Sorry, madams.  Swimming is not   8   in the lake!”

“Why didn’t you tell us about it before we took off our clothes?” Betty said   9   .

“But it isn’t forbidden to take off clothes by the lake,”   10  the woman.

Once there lived a very clever man whose name was Aesop (伊索). One day as he was taking a walk, he came across a traveler. The traveler stopped him and asked, “Excuse me,, can you tell me how

soon I’ll get to town?”

“Go.” Aesop answered.

“I know I must go.” said the traveler, “but I want to know how soon I’ll get to town.”

“Go!~ ”Aesop said again angrily.

“This man must be mad(疯的),” the traveler thought and went on.

After the traveler had gone some distance(一段距离), Aesop shouted after him, “You’ll get to town in two hours.”

The traveler was greatly surprised. He turned back and asked, “Why didn’t you tell me that before?”

“How could I tell you that before?” Aesop answered, “I didn’t know how fast you could walk.”

1.One day Aesop ____________ a traveler while he was walking.

2.The traveler asked Aesop______________.

3.Why didn't Aesop give the traveler the answer at first? Because he__________.

4.When did Aesop give the traveler the answer?