When chatting with her on the mobile phone, the battery _      dead suddenly.

A．went         B．came         C．remained          D．changed

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21～40各题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

The subway train moved back and forth, its wheels producing more loud sounds than ever against the tracks. Outside the window was just the  21  cold of winter. The carriage was filled with frozen self-centered, bored  22 .

Suddenly a little boy  23  his way in between grown-up legs.  24  his father stayed by the door, the boy sat next to the window, surrounded by  25 , half-awake adults. What a brave child, I thought. As the train entered a tunnel (隧洞), something totally  26  happened. The little boy slid down from his seat and put his  27  on my knee. For a moment, I thought that he wanted to go  28  me and returned to his father, so I moved a bit. But instead of moving on, the boy held his  29  up towards me. He wanted to tell me something, I thought. I  30   to listen to what he had to say. Wrong  31 ! He kissed me softly on the cheek.

Then he returned to his  32 , settled down and cheerfully started looking out of the window. But I was  33. What happened? A kid kissing an unknown grown-up on the train? To my amazement, the kid  34  to kiss all my neighbors. 

Nervous and puzzled, we looked questioningly at his father. “He’s so happy to be  35 .” the father said. “He’s been very sick.”

The train stopped and the father and son got down and  36  into the crowd. The doors closed. On my cheek I could still  37  the child’s kiss -- a kiss that had caused  38  soul-searching. How many grown-ups go around kissing each other  39  the joy of being alive? How many even give much thought to the privilege of living? What would happen  40  we all just started being ourselves?

The little boy has given us a sweet but serious lesson: Don’t let yourself die before your heart stops!

A. great               B. freezing     C. strong       D. strange

A. drivers        B. boys        C. adults        D. passengers

A. pushed        B. left         C. got         D. felt

A. As            B. Since        C. If               D. While

A. polite          B. unfriendly  C. rude        D. strange

A. interesting      B. nervous      C. unexpected D. exciting

A. hand           B. face        C. finger       D. mouth

A. before         B. beyond       C. with        D. past

A. hand           B. luggage      C. head        D. ticket

A. got off         B. bent down  C. fell down   D. stood up

A. again           B. too         C. even        D. more

A. father          B. carriage      C. home        D. seat

A. frightened       B. excited       C. shocked      D. worried

A. kept on        B. went on      C. moved on   D. tried on

A. alive           B. active       C. young       D. awake

A. lost            B. joined       C. disappeared       D. rushed

A. get            B. find        C. know      D. feel

A. some           B. any         C. every        D. no

A. for           B. from       C. at           D. by

A. after           B. unless       C. if           D. when

An 80-year-old man was sitting in his house beside his 45-year-old son. Suddenly a crow(乌鸦) landed in front of the window. The father___21___ son, "What is that?" The son replied, "It is a crow." ___22___ few minutes, the father asked his son a second time, "What is that?" The son said "I just ___23___ you that it’s a crow." After a little __24____ , the father again asked his son, "What is that?" That time a(n) __25____ tone could be heard in the son’s __26____ . "It’s a crow, a crow!"

A little later, the father went to his room and __27____ with an old diary which he had __28____ for many years. After opening the right page, he asked his son to ___29___  it. When the son read it, tears came to his eyes." Today my __30____ was sitting with me on the sofa.When a crow was__31____ by the window, my son asked me 23 times what it was, and I __32____ to him all 23 times that it was a crow. I hugged him __33____each time he asked me the same question. I did not feel__34____ answering the same question."

If your __35____ become old, don’t treat them or look __36____ them as a burden(累赘). Instead be warm and__37____ to them. From today on say this to yourself, "I want to ___38___  my parents happy forever, for they have __39____ for me ever since I was born, and they have always showed their ___40___love to me."

1.                A．demanded      B．asked          C．commanded   D．tested

2.                A．Before         B．During          C．After D．Within

3.                A．told           B．reminded       C．called    D．consulted

4.                A．sigh           B．doubt          C．breath   D．while

5.                A．sad            B．angry          C．pitiful    D．gentle

6.                A．face           B．mind           C．voice D．pace

7.                A．came up        B．came out        C．came back D．came on

8.                A．kept           B．gathered        C．collected D．searched

9.                A．tear           B．read           C．write D．recite

10.               A．son            B．daughter       C．brother   D．father

11.               A．lying           B．wiping         C．sitting D．spying

12.               A．required       B．repeated       C．recalled   D．replied

13.               A．lovingly        B．carefully        C．deeply    D．lightly

14.               A．puzzled        B．worried        C．Amazed   D．annoyed

15.               A．parents        B．relatives        C．families   D．teachers

16.               A．up            B．upon          C．down D．into

17.               A．wise           B．kind           C．strict D．generous

18.               A．send           B．pray           C．own  D．see

19.               A．frightened      B．hunted         C．cared D．waited

20.               A．pleasant        B．limited         C．useful D．selfless

An 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old son. Suddenly a crow (乌鸦) landed on their window.

The father asked his son, “What is that?”

The son replied, “That is a crow.”

After a few minutes, the father asked his son for the second time, “What is this?”

The son said, “Father, I told you just now. It’s a crow.”

After a little while, the father asked his son the same question for the third time, “What is this?”

This time, the son said to his father in a low and cold tone, “It’s a crow, a crow.”

After a moment, the father yet again asked his son for the fourth time, “What is this?”

This time his son shouted at his father, “Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? I have told you already, ‘ITIS A CROW’. Are you not able to understand this?”

A minute later the father went to his room and came back with a diary, which he had kept since his son was born. On opening a page, he asked his son to read that page.

Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa when a crow suddenly landed on the window edge. My son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied him 23 times that it was a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question. I didn’t at all feel angry, but instead felt affection for my son.

If your parents reach old age, do not look at them as a burden（负担）, but speak to them gently, and be kind to them. From today say this aloud, “I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered me with love. I will take care of my old parents in the best way no matter how they behave.”

1.The old man brought out the diary, which he had kept since his son was born, because ______.

A．he forgot what had happened

B．he would like his son to read it

C．it could remind himself of the past

D．he wanted to find what a crow was

2.The underlined word “affection” (last but one Para.) probably means______.

A．puzzle            B．hatred(恨)         C．worry            D．love

3.The writer mainly intends to ______ .

A．tell us the function (作用) of a diary         B．call on us to love our parents

C．teach us what a crow is                   D．introduce a pair of son and father

   Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had looked into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of the book,” thought Alice, “without pictures and conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain(雏菊花环) would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; but when the rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit- hole under the bush.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? “I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think. I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. ‘Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?’ And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask.”
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, when suddenly, thump! thump! Down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
【小题1】What kind of books do you think will interest Alice most?