完形填空

根据上下文情景，在短文空白处填上合适的单词，使短文意思通顺，结构完整。该词首字母已给出。

　　There was a big garden near John's house, and it had a lot of f 1 trees in it. One day John saw some beautiful apples o 2 one of them. He went home and got a ladder, put it a 3 the high wall of the garden and climbed up. Then he pulled the ladder up, and put it down on the o 4 side, and climbed down into the garden. Just then a gardener came r 5 a corner and saw him.

　　“What are you doing?” he s 6 .

　　John thought quickly and said, “I'm selling my ladder.”

　　“Selling your ladder? In somebody's garden! Do you think I believe s 7 a foolish story?” said the gardener and came to John w 8 a stick.

　　“It's my ladder,” said John, “and I can sell it w 9 I like. You needn't buy it if you don't want to.” And he took his ladder and climbed over the wall a 10 .

1阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的动词，并用其适当形式填空。有的需要加助动词或不定式符号。

An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly (1) ______________ all the money, so that  soon he had (2)_______________ left. Of course, when that happened, all his friends disappeared. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man and often helped people when they had trouble.

"My money has been used up and my friends (3) _______________,” said the young man. "What should I do now?"

"Don't worry, young man," answered Nasreddin. "Everything (4) ______________ all right soon again. Wait and you will feel much happier."

The young man was very glad. "Am I going to get rich again then? " he asked Nasreddin.

"No, I didn't mean that," said the old man. "I meant that you would soon get used to being poor and (5) _______________ no friends."

阅读理解

An expensive car speeding down the main street of a small town was soon over-taken by a young motorcycle policeman. As he started to take out the ticket, the woman in the car said proudly. “Before you go any further, young man, I think you should know that the mayor of this city is a good friend of mine.”

The officer did not say a word, but kept writing.

“I am also a friend of Chief of Police Barnes,” continued the woman, getting angrier each moment.

Still he kept on writing.

“Young man,” she said, “I know Judge Lawson and State Senator Patton.”

Handing the ticket to the woman, the officer asked pleasantly. “Tell me, do you know Bill Bronson?”

“No. Why?” she replied.

“Well, this is the man you should have known,” he said, going back to his motorcycle, “I am Bill Bronson.”

1. The policeman stopped the car because          .

2. The woman was getting angrier each moment because          .

3. The woman driving the expensive car          .

4. The policeman was          .

5. The policeman          .