1. Which is right?

A. Peter often goes to school late.
B. Sometimes Peter hands in his homework late.
C. Peter never goes to school late or hands in his homework late.

2. Fred asked Peter and some other friends              .

A. to play
B. to have supper
C. to have lunch

A. didn't get up late
B. got up early
C. got up late

4. Peter saw               in the classroom.

A. some students
B. no one
C. all of them

5. Fred's birthday was on              .

A. Friday
B. Saturday
C. Sunday

1.Which is right?

A.Peter often goes to school late.
B.Sometimes Peter hands in his homework late.
C.Peter never goes to school late or hands in his homework late.

2.Fred asked Peter and some other friends            .

A.to play
B.to have supper
C.to have lunch

3.Peter             the next morning.

A.didn't get up late
B.got up early
C.got up late

4.Peter saw            in the classroom.

A.some students
B.no one
C.all of them

5.Fred's birthday was on           .

A.Friday
B.Saturday
C.Sunday

     Excuses!  Excuses !
     Harry was often late for school, and when the teacher asked him why he was late
he always had an excuse. " My alarm clock didn't go off,"  he said one morning. "The bus broke down, "he told her another morning. Usually he just didn't want to get out
of bed!
     When he didn't hand in his homework he had an excuse for this as well. "The dog ate it,"was one reason that he had forgotten to do it, or left it until he was too tired. He always thought of someone or something to blame for his mistakes.
     "Why are your grades so bad, Harry?" his mother asked him one afternoon.
      "It's not my fault (错误) , Mom,"Harry replied.
     "My teacher isn't very good. "
     "Then I will phone the school and talk to your headmaster, " his mother said.
      "No , no. " Harry said quickly. "That won't help. He doesn't like me."
      "Then we'll have to send you to a different school, " his father said, " You won't
see your friends anymore but your grades are more important. "
      Harry thought about this for a minute. He didn't want to change schools. Then he said, "I probably could try harder to get to school on time. "
      "That would help, " his  mother replied. "But what  about your homework?"
        "Well, "he said. "I suppose l could work harder to keep up with my homework
as well. I think I'll  go and do today's homework right now. "
     When Harry left the room, his father said to his mother , " That  wasn't  too  
difficult , was  it? "   

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Harry's mom and dad thought Harry should change schools.
B. Harry's mom and dad thought Harry should try harder at school.
C. Harry decided to stop making excuses and work harder at school.
D. Harry decided to do his homework.

Complete the following sentences with the words or phrases in the passage.

2. You shouldn't        other people for your mistakes.
3. If you can't        your work you should ask your teacher for help.
4. Bill's          for forgetting his mom's birthday was that he lost his diary.
5. We had to         our homework to the teacher.

          When I was at university I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just
enough to pass exams. Others didn't do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking
in the Students' Union than working in the library.
          Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred
questions. Beside each question we had to write "True" or "False". While I was studying in my room the night
before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night
he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan.
          "It's very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I'll take a
coin into the examination room. I haven't studied a chemistry book for months, so I'll just toss the coin. (throw
the coin into the air.) That way, I'm sure I'll get half the questions right."
          The next day, Fred came happily into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he
marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
         The next day, he saw the chemistry professor at the gate.
        "Oh good,"he said,"Have you got the results of the test?"
         The professor looked at him and smiled.
         "Ah, it's you, Baines. Just a minute."
          Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and
looked at it.
          "I'm terribly sorry, Baines," he said, "You failed!"

1. Fred Baines usually _____ exams.

Ａ: didn't do
Ｂ: passed
Ｃ: did just enough to pass
Ｄ: failed in

2. Before the chemistry test Fred was ____ Calm.

3. He was going to toss a coin _____ he answered each question.

Ａ: before
Ｂ: if
Ｃ: after
Ｄ: because

4. The rest of the class_____.

Ａ: answered the questions in half an hour
Ｂ: left half an hour earlier
Ｃ: needed an extra hour
Ｄ: worked for an hour

5. The chemistry professor_____.

Ａ: didn't mark the test papers correctly
Ｂ: tossed a coin when he marked test papers
Ｃ: knew about Fred's method (方法)
Ｄ: thought Fred's method was good

　　Mr. Clark was a very busy man. He always worked hard. He often forgot
his family's birthdays.
　　Yesterday afternoon, he remembered it was Mrs. Clark, his wife's birthday.
He loved his wife. He w anted to give her a present(礼物).On his way home his
hospital he bought some nice flowers in shop.
　　When Mr. Clark got home, he gave his wife the flowers and said"happy
birthday to you, dear! It's September 28th today. I remembered your birthday this
year." Mrs Clark laughed and said, "My birthday was the day before yesterday.
But thank you all the same. Better late than never!"

1.Why did Mr Clark often forget his family's birthdays ? Because _____.

A. he didn't like them          
B. he was very busy
C. they didn't tell him        
D. he didn't want to remember them

2. He bought _____for his wife's birthday this time.

A. some books    
B. a nice dress    
C. some nice flowers    
D. a lot of fruit

3. Mrs Clark _____when she got the present.

A. was happy
B. wasn't happy
C. was busy cooking
D. was at cook

4. Mr Clark was _____.

A. a teacher
B. a farmer
C. an officer worker
D. a doctor

5. Mrs Clark's birthday was on _____.

A. September 26th    
B. September 28th    
C. September 29th    
D. September20th