–I’d like to buy a new CD player.     –Well, we have several models ________.

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the sad eyes of a little boy.

“Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies." 

"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat of the back of his neck, “these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money."

The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. "I've got thirty- nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?”  

"Sure," said the farmer.

And with that he let out a whistle. "Here, Dolly!" he called.

Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight.

As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared; this one noticeably smaller.

Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner, the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up....

"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt.

The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would."

With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, "You see sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands."

With tears in his eyes, the farmer reached down and picked up the little pup. Holding it carefully he handed it to the little boy.

"How much?" asked the little boy.

"No charge," answered the farmer, "There's no charge for love."

The world is full of people who need someone who understands. It's National Friendship Week.

1.How many baby pups did the farmer have for sale?

  A. 3                                B. 4                             C. 5                             D. 6

2.Why did the farmer agree to sell the boy one of the puppies?

  A. The boy had the money to buy one.   

  B. There were few people wanting to buy a dog.

  C. The farmer felt sorry for the boy.             

  D. The farmer wanted to get rid of the dogs quickly.

3. Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the underlined word “ hobbling”?

  A. strolling.                     B. crawling.                       C. limping.                 D. running.

4.Why did the boy finally choose the “ hobbling” pup?

  A. He feared the farmer would kill it.           

  B. He thought no one else would buy that pup.

  C. He believed it was the cutest of the pups.          

D. He could identify with this pup.

5.What would be the most suitable title for this passage?

  A. Man’s Best Friend                                        B. Puppy For Sale.       

  C. Perfect Match.                                                 D. Love at First Sight.

Advertisement is the difficult business of bringing information to great numbers of people.The purpose of an advertisement is to make people respond to make them react to an idea，such as helping prevent forest fires，or to make them want to buy a certain product or service.At the beginning of the 20th century，advertisement was described as“salesmanship in print”.If this definition were expanded to include radio and television，it would still stand today.The most effective way to sell something is through person-to-person contact.But the cost of person-to-person selling is high because it takes a great deal of time，and it increases the cost of the product or service.Advertising distributes the selling message to many people at one time.The first printed advertisement in the English language appeared in 1278，more than a century before Shakespeare’s first play was produced.This early advertisement was the work of William Caxton，England’s first printer，who used it to advertise religious books from his own workshop Caxton posted small printed notices along London’s main streets．Besides advertising his product，he identified his shop with a red-striped shield(盾形徽章)so that customers could find it easily．

This same sort of simple informational advertising is still used.Examples are the roadside signs that tell travelers that they can buy fresh corn just down the road or that there is a restaurant in the next town.

The Industrial Revolution，in the 18th and 19th centuries，brought a new kind of advertising.Large factories took the place of small workshops and goods were produced in large quantities.

Manufacturers used the newly built railroads to distribute(递送)their products over wide areas.They had to find many thousands of customers in order to stay in business.They couldn’t simply tell people where shoes or cloth or tea could be bought---they had to learn how to make people want to buy a specific product. Thus modern advertising was born．

Advertising created new markets and helped to raise standards of living as people came to feel that they had a right to new and better products.

1.The passage mainly talks about       .

A、the development of advertisement

B、the first advertisement in the world

C、the difficulty in advertising

D、the advantages of advertisements

2.Why is advertisement accepted by people?

A、Because it can help to prevent forest fires.

B、Because it cand make people want to buy a certain product or service.

C、Because it can bring information to great numbers of people.

D、Because it can help people live longer.

3.Modern advertisement was born as a result of         .

A、the Industrial Revolution

B、the newly built railroads

C、the appearance of the first printer advertisement

D、people’s need

4.We can conclude from the passage that         .

A、red-striped shield is the best thing to use in advertising

B、main streets and television are used in advertising

C、person-to-person selling is the best way in advertising

D、people show little interest in advertisement

阅读下面文章，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文

With the development of information industry, our personal information has become more easily exposed in public．As some celebrities are worried about their telephone number, ID number and home address being put on the Internet, ordinary people like us can't escape from the doom either．

A recent report from Xinhua reveals over twenty telephone-salespeople have been caught cheating customers by revealing their private information to local community of Beijing．

The report says the salespeople would call their potential customers trying to earn their trust by correctly revealing their personal information such as their name, telephone number, home address and even previous purchases．

They would then try to persuade the customer to buy a gold cellphone by mail．If the customer became suspicious, they would use another person's identity to prove their authenticity．

写作内容：

你在某英文报刊看到这则报导后，准备就我们学生该“ How can we keep our personal information off the Internet?”写一篇文章给该报编辑部，题目是“How can we keep our personal information off the Internet?”。

内容要点包括： 

1．以约30词简要概括新闻内容；                 

2．然后以约120词谈谈你的观点，内容包括：

（1）在信息时代,想让个人信息完全与世隔绝是不可能的,但可尽量减少;

（2）你为解决信息泄露所采取的一些措施:

A．到有安全保障的网站买东西;

B．只向能确保你个人信息安全的网站提供个人信息;

C．其它一些你认为有效的措施．

写作要求： 

1．可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3．文章开头己给出，不计入单词总数。

评分标准：概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1. 每次错误以及修改均限一词；文中共有8处语言错误,

2. 只允许修改8处, 多者从第九处起不计分。

This morning I went to the railway station buy a ticket for my mother.

 At the station, I was told that an old lady had all her money stole and was

 unable to buy a ticket to go home. I felt sorry for her , and I took out my

money and give it to her. I was happy that I had helped person in trouble,       

and I had no more money to buy a ticket for Mother. On my way home,

I wondered what I should say to Mother. When I got home, I told

her what happened . To my great joy, Mother didn’t get anger at all.

Instead, she praised me for that I had done.