Joe Brown had a shop. He sold(卖) meat in his shop . One Thursday a woman came into his shop at five to one . “I’m sorry I’m late,” she said. “I need some more meat for my dinner tonight.” Joe had only one piece of meat in his shop. He took it out of the fridge and said, “This is＄6.50.”  “That piece is too small.” the woman said, “haven’t you for anything bigger?” Joe went into the room behind his shop, put the piece of meat into the fridge, took it out again and closed the door with lots of noise. Then he brought the piece of meat to the woman and said, “This piece of meat is bigger and more expensive. It’s ＄8.75.” “Good,” the woman said with a smile,“give me both of them.”
(   )1.Joe Brown was_______________.
A. a waiter                            B. a runner       
C. an actor                            D. a shopkeeper
(   )2.When did the woman come to Joe’s shop?
A. Early in the morning.         B. Early in the afternoon.
C. Late in the morning.          D. At about one o’clock at night.
(   )3.Why didn’t the woman want that piece of meat?
A. Because she had no money.       B. Because it was bad.
C. Because it wasn’t big enough.     D. Because it was too big
(   )4.How many pieces of meat were kept in the fridge?
A. Only one piece of meat.            B. Two pieces of meat.
C. Several pieces of meat.            D. Many pieces of meat.
(   )5. Could Joe give the woman both pieces of meat?
A. Of course not.                          B. Certainly.     
C. He would try his best.                    D. Yes, he could.

A woman repeated a bit of gossip (流言) about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole neighborhood knew the story. The neighbor was deeply hurt. Later the woman learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old man to find out what she could do to repair the harm.
“Go to the market,” he said, “and buy a chicken, and have it killed, then on your way home, pick its feathers(毛) and drop them one by one along the road.” Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.
The next day the wise man said, “Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me.”
The woman followed the same road, but she was so discouraged when she found the wind had blown all the feathers away. After looking for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.
“You see,” said the old man, “it’s easy to drop them, but it’s impossible to get them back. So it is with gossip. It doesn’t take much to spread（散布） a gossip, but once you do, you can never completely undo（弥补） the wrong.”
【小题1】Why did the woman feel sorry?

When a light passenger plane flew off course[跑道] some time ago, something was wrong with it and it crashed[坠毁] in the mountains and its pilot was killed. The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt. It was the middle of winter. Snow lay thick on the ground. The woman knew that the nearest village was kilometers away. She couldn’t find anything in the snow but a suit-case[行李箱]. When it grew dark, she turned the suit-case into a bed and put the children inside it, covering[盖] them with all the clothes she could find. During the night, it got terribly cold. The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself, but it was too small. Early next morning, she heard planes flying above and wanted to know how she could send a signal[信号Then she had an idea. She wrote the letters ‘SOS’ in the snow. Luckily, a pilot saw the signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town. It was not long before a group of people arrived and they took the woman and her daughters to hospital at once.

1.Where was something wrong with the plane?

2.How many people were in the light passenger plane before it crashed?

3.What did the woman make the suit-case into a bed for?

4.What did the woman do to ask for help?

5.Were the woman and her children saved?