Peter Fern was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the  1  of his life. Church towers，seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains，anything “If it is there” , he used to say, “then I want to climb it.”

So the news of his marriage gave me a   2  . I’d never known him to take much interest in   3  . Well，Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't  4  it. I  5  whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky   6  .

She was French perhaps--from that place   7  he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix，wasn’t it? From Chamonix he'd climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French，from a mountaineering family. No  8  . No other explanation.

A month later I met them  9  in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the   10．

“I have   11  climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Peter has his   12  , and I’ve got mine. No   13  ”. “None at all，”Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your   14  ?” I askeD．Somewhere far  15  theatres and mountains，was it? “We had a week's holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful  16  !” Peter said, “I didn’t want to   17  the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north   18  of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great   19  , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I’ll show you the   20  we took one day.”

1．  A．purpose    B．love C．answer      D．even

2．  A．joy    B．thought     C．lesson       D．shock

3．  A．mountains B．churches   C．faces D．girls

4．  A．accept      B．understand       C．bear  D．tell

5．  A．believed   B．knew C．wondered  D．realized

6．  A．jobs         B．words       C．adventures       D．deeds

7．  A．where       B．when C．which       D．how

8．  A．one   B．reason      C．sign   D．doubt

9．  A．all         B．two   C．both  D．double

10．A．family　  B．mountain  C．theatre      D．holiday

11．A．ever  B．even  C．never D．almost

12．A．interests    B．life    C．room D．car

13．A．wonder         B．way   C．time  D．problems

14．A．days  B．honeymoon      C．childhood D．rest of life

15．A．away B．as      C．by     D．from

16．A．show B．sight  C．scene D．game

17．A．miss  B．escape      C．break D．forget

18．A．position    B．face   C．point D．line

19．A．programme      B．progress    C．fun    D．invention

20．A．photographs     B．roles  C．sports       D．pains

In the middle of the night, Peter's wife suddenly fell ill. She couldn’t help crying,“Oh, my stomach (胃)! Get the      !”

   Peter, awaking from a deep sleep, thought his wife was only having a       dream.

“Stop that noise.” he said to her. He turned over and tried to go to        again, but his wife still cried out, “Oh, help! Help! I'm sure I'm       !”

    Peter got out of bed and started       , but he could not find him any clothes.

   “Where is my shirt?” he asked. His wife was       ill to tell him, and she could only cry, “Oh, my        stomach!”

   As soon as he had put his clothes       , he said, “Now, my dear, are you quite 44that you need the doctor? Surely you can wait       morning, can't you?”

“No, I can't. Go, go, go.” his wife shouted,“       you will find me dead       the morning.”

   So Peter went out into the dark street. He had only gone a few meters      he heard his wife calling him again.

   “I'm       again now, and I shall not want the doctor.” she said softly.

   Hearing this, he started running as       as he could towards the doctor's. When he arrived there, he knocked at the door loudly enough to wake       around.

   The doctor put his sleepy head out of the bedroom window and said, “Er? Who's there?”

   “Oh, Doctor.”Peter said to him, “I've very       news for you. My wife       ill with a terrible stomachache (胃疼). I was on my way to bring you to her, but she called me back to say the trouble had suddenly       her. So you need not come. Go back to       now, and sleep well!”

1.A. driver   B. nurse        C. doctor         D. child

2.A. terrible   B. interesting    C. Surprising   D. wonderful

3.A. bed      B. sleep       C. dream        D. hospital

4.A. walking   B. dying      C. aching       D. sleeping

5.A. dressing   B. wearing    C. raising       D. working

6.A. very      B. so         C. too         D. quite

7.A. good      B. bad        C. wrong      D. poor

8.A. down     B. off        C. on         D. up

9.A. surprised   B. afraid     C. certain     D. worried

10.A. before     B. for        C. to        D. until

11.A. And      B. But        C. So        D. Or

12.A. after      B. in        C. before      D. until

13.A. after     B. when      C. before      D. while

14.A. good     B. wrong      C. all right    D. right

15.A. fast        B. slowly      C. hurriedly    D. happily

16.A. everyone   B. someone     C. no one     D. doctors

17.A. good      B. bad         C. necessary    D. ill

18.A. fell       B. stayed      C. grew        D. failed

19.A. gone     B. missed      C. disappeared   D. left

20.A. your home  B. your bedroom C. your dream         D. bed

It was a cold December, and Mrs. Bell wanted to do a lot of shopping. She waited until it was Saturday, when her husband was free, and she took him to the shops with her to pay for everything and to carry for her what she had bought. They went to a lot of shops, and Mrs. Bell bought everything she could think of.

She often stopped and said, “Look, Peter! Isn’t that beautiful?”

“All right, my dear. How much is it?” answered Mr. Bell, and then he took money out to buy it for her.

It was almost dark when they came out of the last shop, and Mr. Bell was tired. He was thinking about a nice drink by the side of a warm fire home. Suddenly his wife looked up at the sky and said, “Look at that beautiful moon, Peter!”

Without stopping, Mr. Bell answered at once. “All right, dear. How much is it?” Then he took his wallet out of his pocket.

1.Mrs. Bell did shopping ________.

A．alone                                B．together with her husband

C．every day                             D．in the morning

2.Mrs. Bell took her husband to the shops because ________.

A．he liked beautiful things                  B．he liked to do shopping too.

C．she wanted him to pay money              D．he was always free

3.Mrs. Bell bought ________ in the shops.

A．nothing                               B．a drink

C．the most beautiful thing                  D．a number of things

4.Mr. Bell _______ shopping.

A．was addicted to                         B．was thinking about

C．was tired of                            D．was very interested in

5.According to the last paragraph, we know Mr. Bell _______.

A．wanted to buy the moon

B．did not really know what his wife was saying

C．was a millionaire

D．did not like the idea of buying the moon

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At midnight Peter was awakened by heavy knocks on the door. He rolled over and look to his  21  , and it was half past one. “I’m not getting  22  at this time,” he  23  to himself, and rolled over.
Then, a  24  knock followed. “Aren’t you going to  25  it?” said his wife.
So he dragged himself out of bed and went downstairs. He opened the door and there was a man   26  at the door. It didn’t take long to  27  the man was drunk.
“Hi, there,”slurred(嘟囔) the stranger, “Can you give me a push?”
“No, get lost. It’s half past one. I was  28  ,”Peter said and slammed the door. He went back   29  to bed and told his wife what had happened.
She said, “That wasn’t very  30  of you. Remember that night we had a  31  in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up and you had to  32  that man’s door to get our car  33  again? What would have happened if he’ d told  34  to get lost?”
“But the guy was  35  ,” said Peter.
“It doesn’t matter,”said the wife. “He needs help  36  it would be the Christian thing to help him.”
So Peter went out of bed again, got dressed, and went downstairs. He opened the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere, he shouted, “Hey, do you still want a  37 ?”
And he heard a  38  ,“Yeah, please.”
So, still being unable to see the stranger, he shouted, “ 39 are you?”
The drunk replied, “Over here, on the  40  .”
21．A．door   B．clock  C．wife   D．window
22．A．out of bed  B．out of the house         C．down to work    D．into trouble
23．A．complained        B．explained   C．replied        D．thought
24．A．weaker       B．louder         C．longer         D．angrier
25．A．stand B．stop   C．answer       D．refuse
26．A．standing    B．lying   C．knocking    D．looking
27．A．remember B．show C．realize        D．doubt
28．A．in bed         B．in surprise C．at home     D．at work
29．A．down B．up       C．inside          D．home
30．A．nice    B．foolish        C．typical        D．generous
31．A．hard time  B．quarrel       C．fight   D．breakdown
32．A．drive to      B．pass by       C．knock on   D．drop into
33．A．started       B．refreshed  C．united         D．delighted
34．A．us       B．them C．the man     D．others
35．A．mad   B．drunk C．different    D．dangerous
36．A．but     B．though       C．and    D．because
37．A．rest    B．push  C．room D．lift
38．A．lady    B．gentleman          C．drunk D．voice
39．A．What B．How   C．Who   D．Where
40．A．roof    B．bed    C．swing        D．ground

Peter joined the army when he was eighteen, and    31  several months he    32  how to be a good soldier. He   33 everything except shooting. One day,   34 officer   35  the young soldiers how to shoot. He asked each soldier to shoot ten times,  36  all of them    37  quite well except Peter. After he had shot    38 the target nine times and had not   39  it once, the officer    40 and said. "You are quite hopeless, Peter! Don't    41   your last bullet too! Go behind that    42 and shoot yourself with it !"
Peter did not say    43  and went behind the wall. A few    44   later, the officer and the other young soldiers   45   the sound of a shot.
"Heavens!" the officer said, "   46   that foolish man really shot  47  ?"
He ran behind the wall   48  , but Peter was   49 . "I'm  sorry, sir,"  he said,  "but I 50 again."