When this story happened, they were working around a very large house. Their job was to do the cleaning. It was not a difficult job, but sometimes it was a little dangerous, because they had to walk below where workmen were working. Often these workmen dropped something from the top of the house many meters high to the ground.

One morning Joe was working near the house with a cigarette behind one of his ears. Suddenly somebody on the top shouted, "Look out!" But Joe did not "look out". He looked up. And as he did so, a long knife missed Joe's head, but it cut off one of his ears. At once he put his hand to one side of his head and cried out, "I've lost an ear. Help! Help!"

Jeff ran up to help his friend. "Look for my ear," Joe told him. "It must be on the ground somewhere." Jeff looked everywhere for the missing ear. At last he found an ear on the ground. He picked it up and carried it to Joe. "Here you are," he said, "I've found it." Joe looked at it. "No, that's not my ear." he said, "Mine had a cigarette behind it."

1.What were Joe and Jeff?

A. Soldiers.                 B. Drivers.          C. Farmers.        D. Cleaners.

2.How did Joe lose his ear?

A. He cut it off by himself.          B. Jeff cut it off with a knife.

C. A falling knife cut it off.           D. A cigarette burned it up.

3. From the passage, we know Joe  was not _______.

A. strong            B. kind                C. foolish    D. clever

4.Which is the most possible title for this passage?

A. A Lost Ear              B. A Busy Cleaner

C. A Falling Knife          D. A forgetful Man

Foolish(silly) Freddie lived in a small village. The people of the village laughed at him. They liked to show visitors how silly Freddie was. They thought this was a funny thing to do.

    One day, a visitor came to the village.

    "Watch this", a villager said, and called to Freddie. "Come and play a game, Freddie, " he shouted. Freddie walked slowly towards him, a silly smile on his face.

"Look! Freddie, "the villager said, "I've got something for you." He showed Freddie a dollar coin and a much larger 50-cent coin."Which would you like?" he asked Freddie.

Freddie took the 50-cent coin at once.

The villager laughed."See how foolish he is," he said."He always does that. He's too silly to learn anything." He walked away, leaving Freddie with the visitor.

The visitor felt sorry for Freddie and said to him, "Although the 50-cent coin is bigger than the＄1 coin, the＄1 coin is worth(值) much more.Two times as much."

"I know that," Freddie said."But once I take the＄1coin, they'll stop playing the game."

1.People laughed at Freddie because__________.

A.he often made up jokes   B.he didn't like money

C.he looked very funny    D.they thought he was a fool

2.The villagers wanted to show the visitors___________.

A.how silly Freddie was     B.how clever Freddie was

C.How kind people were to Freddie  D.that Freddie had much money

3.The visitor felt sorry for Freddie because he though_________.

A.Freddie did not know money was useful

B.the villager was not kind enough to the boy

C.Freddie did not get along well with the villagers

D.Freddie did not know the dollar coin was worth more

4.From the story we know that Freddie was__________.

A.poor       B. kind     C.clever  D.silly

5.The best title for the passage should be __________.

A.Clever Villagers       B."Foolish" Freddie    

C.Freddie and a Visitor  D.A Visitor and the Villagers

My 4-year-old daughter Maddie once taught me a good lesson.

One day, we were taking a walk in the park. Then we   31   some kids (小孩) around an old lady, laughing at her. A little boy said, "Look at this funny lady! She is    32   and she is crying!"

    Maddie walked to the woman. I wanted to    33   her away from the woman. But Maddie sat   34    the woman and held her hand. The woman looked down at Maddie and a    35   appeared on her face. Maddie gave the woman a hug（拥抱） and then left.

    On the way home, I asked her, "Maddie,    36    did you go up to that woman for and hold her hand? All the other kids were either laughing at her or     37     her?"

    Maddie looked at me and said, "I did that to tell her God (上帝)    38    her. It can make her feel better!" I was    39   . A 4-year-old little girl showed me what love   40   means. What a kind girl!

1. A. heard           B. saw          C. asked         D. met

2. A. hungry          B. shy          C. dirty          D. ill

3. A. bring           B. send          C. carry         D. take

4. A. beside          B. behind        C. next          D. between

5. A. question        B. change        C. smile         D. pity

6. A. what           B. how          C. why          D. which

7. A. worried about    B. crazy about    C. afraid of       D. tired of

8. A. loves           B. follows       C. needs         D. knows

9. A. glad            B. strange       C. excited        D. surprised

10. A. usually          B. really        C. certainly       D. finally

请仔细阅读下列短文,然后根据短文内容判断下列各句正(T)、误(F)。

How Much Is It

Mrs Wilson likes to ask his husband to go shopping with her on Sundays. Her husband pays for the things that she buys. Now they are in a shop.

"Look, Andy. Is it a fancy hair clip?" Mrs Wilson asks his husband.

"All right. And how much is it?"  he answers and gives money to the shop assistant.       When Mrs Wilson asks him about something good or bad,  he often says "All right. And how much is it?"    to her.

At about 8 o'clock p.m., Andy is tired and thirsty, and he wants to have a drink. Suddenly (突然地) his wife looks up at moon and says, "Look, Andy. Is the moon so beautiful?"

"All right. And how much is it?" his husband answers quickly.

1. Mrs Wilson likes to go shopping on Sundays.

2. Andy is Mrs Wilson's husband.

3. Mrs Wilson pays for all the thing she buys.

4. Andy is hungry and wants to buy some food.

5. Mrs Wilson wants Andy to buy the moon.

Three rich ladies met every day by the river. They sat there and talked the w   71    day. Once, they quarreled. One of them said, "Look, how white and beautiful my hands are!" A   72    one said, "My hands are more beautiful." The third one said. “Mine a   73    the most beautiful." Just then, an old woman beggar（乞丐） came up to them. "Beautiful ladies," she said, "I'm old and can't work. I'm hungry.  Please give me something to eat."

But the t   74    ladies gave her nothing. They only asked her to tell them who h   75   the most beautiful hands.

A peasant woman (农妇) was also sitting by the river. She was poor and her hands were rough（粗糙） because of h   76    work. The old woman beggar came up to her and said, "I'm hungry. Please give me something to eat." The peasant woman took out her only cake she had and gave the beggar a h   77   .

The old woman beggar ate it and drank some water. Then she took the peasant woman by the hand, brought her b   78    the rich ladies and said, "Now, I shall tell you whose hands are the most beautiful. The hands of the poor peasant woman are rough because of work, but they give us food; they are m    79    more beautiful than your hands which have never d 80    anything."