A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin(顽童) was walking around the shining car. “Is this your car, sir?” he asked. Paul answered, “Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was surprised. “You mean your brother gave it to you and it did cost you nothing? Sir, I wish…” He hesitated(犹豫). Paul thought of course he knew what the boy wanted, but what the boy said surprised him greatly. “I wish,” the boy went on, “that I could be a brother like that.” Paul looked at the boy in surprise, and then he said again,“Would you like to take a ride in my car?” “Oh yes, I’d love to,” the boy answered.
After a short ride, the boy said and with his eyes shining, “Sir, would you mind driving in front of my house?” Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the boy wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. “Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked. He ran up to the steps.
Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled(残疾的) brother. He sat down on the step and pointed to the car.
“There he is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And some day I’m going to give you one just like it…then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas windows that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”
Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed elder brother climbed in beside him and the three began an unforgettable holiday ride.
【小题1】The street urchin was very surprised when _______.

When Jack was very young, he played a lot of football and he was very   1   at it. But then he went and worked in a town and there was no team for him, so he stopped    2   .Then he began to get rather    3   . So he thought, “ I’ve stopped playing football, and now I’m getting fat.     4   am I going to do?” He thought about it for    5     . And then he said to himself,” I know , I’ll play tennis.”
He had a few lessons and then played for a few months. He met a nice girl ___6___ the tennis club one day, and they played a game of tennis against ___7___ young man and woman. Jack played very badly and was very   8    with himself.” I’ve never played as badly as this before,” he said to the girl, “Oh, ” she said ,” you    9     how to play tennis?” After that the girl taught him how to play tennis when she was free. And Jack ___10___ in love with her day by day. Now she becomes Jack’s wife. How amazing it is!

The Bermuda Triangle(百慕大三角)is in the Atlantic Ocean, near Florida in the USA. During the past 60 years, more than 1,000 seamen in ships and pilots in planes have lost their lives. It is known as “The Triangle of Death”for its strange seawater and sudden storms. What's the strangest is the light of the seawater, which looks so bright that it can be seen even from an outer spaceship.

　　At 2:00p.m. on Dec. 5, 1945, five planes took off in fine weather from the airport of Florida, on a training task. Two hours later, the leader in the sky radioed that he was “completely lost”. Then there was silence. Another plane was sent to look for them and also disappeared.

　　One of the largest ship that had disappeared in the triangle was an American coal ship, 500meters long. The weather was good, and there were no messages for help before it was “gone”. No broken ships or dead bodies have been found so far.

　　No one is able to tell how all these accidents have happened. A group of Japanese scientists were there to see what it was really like in 1995, but nothing has been heard of them ever since.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

　　A. How the Bermuda Triangle ate up the planes and ships.           

　　B. Why many of the planes and ships have disappeared.

　　C. Strange accidents happened in the Bermuda Triangle, no one can tell why     

　　D. When the Bermuda Triangle was formed very strangely.

2. How many planes had lost in December 1945?

　　A. Five. 　　　　B. Six. 　　　　C. Seven.　　　　 D. Eight.

3. What does the underline word “radioed” mean?

　　A. Wrote sound message using a radio.

　　B. Listened to sound message using a radio.

　　C. Sent sound message using a radio.

　　D. Received sound message using a radio.

4. Why was the leader in the plane lost?

　　A. He met with terrible weather.                       

　　B. He was losing the right direction.

　　C. Airport didn't give him an answer.                  

　　D. The reasons are still unknown.

5. What about the group of Japanese scientists who went to Bermuda?

　　A. They have also disappeared very strangely.

　　B. They have not heard of anything important.

　　C. They are still working hard in Bermuda.

　　D. They've come back, knowing nothing about it.

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Mr. Jenkins lives in a town. He works in a m_1._ . There are a lot of old wonderful things in it. He likes his work and often goes to his office on time.

One day he left his office at twelve. He went to have l__2.___ . As soon as he went out of the gate. He met an old friend of h__3.__ . They hadn’t seen each other for about five years. Of course they were very h___4.__ . His friend asked him to d___5.__ . He agreed with him, and they went into a restaurant. There they drank a lot. Then his friend said, “Perhaps you’re drunk (喝醉了) now. Let me help you to your o___6.___.”

“No, no,” said Mr. Jenkins. “My office is only two minutes’ walk. I can go there by myself.” When his friend left. It was d___7.___ for him to stand. He was afraid to be l___8.____ and stopped a taxi. When he got on. The driver asked, “Where are you going, sir?”

“To the Park street.”

“Oh! Sorry, sir, ”the driver said in a h__9.___ . “It’s just the Park Street.”

“OK!” Mr. Jenkins said and got off the taxi. He brought out some m___10.___ and threw it to the driver. He shouted, “But don’t drive so fast next time!”