——What _______ bowl of noodles would you like?

——Oh, a small bowl, please.

Nasreddin woke up in the middle of the night and saw something white in his garden. It seemed to be moving towards the house.
That is a thief(小偷)! He thought, and he took his gun and shot(开枪) at him. Then he went back to bed, because he was too frightened害怕) to go out of the house in the dark.
The next morning Nasreddin went out and saw one of his white shirts hanging on the clothes-line in the garden, his wife had washed it the day before and hung it out to dry. Now it had a bullet- hole right through middle of it.
My God, said Nasreddin, I was lucky last night. If I had been wearing that shirt, the bullet would have killed me! And he called his neighbours together and asked them to thank God for saving him.
【小题1】. At midnight, Nasreddin saw _____in his garden.

The old man should be treated with         .

A．kind             B．kindness          C．kindly            D．kinder

“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of my life. It has brought me   16  . I learned the law from my father’s   17  story.

My father was  18  in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then   19  in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework   20  midnight. Life was hard, because they had no   21  !

At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where   22  people can become rich.

“   23   don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.

So , my father came to America. “ I had thought it was easy to   24  money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire（雇佣） me because I spoke   25  English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables,  26  dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was   27  for the first few years. I worked from 10a.m to 11p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t  28   the schooling(学费).

My father   29  working hard, and reached his goal.

“Alan,” he often says to me, “If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come   30  in life.” That is what I learned from my father.

1.                A．disaster        B．loss            C．success   D．pity

2.                A．life            B．fashion         C．danger   D．history

3.                A．famous         B．lucky           C．rich  D．born

4.                A．taught          B．worked         C．studied   D．slept

5.                A．until           B．towards         C．for D．during

6.                A．experience      B．energy         C．time D．money

7.                A．kind           B．poor           C．strong    D．lazy

8.                A．What          B．How           C．Why D．When

9.                A．discover        B．make           C．collect   D．spend

10.               A．little           B．good           C．much D．excellent

11.               A．giving          B．running        C．washing   D．receiving

12.               A．comfortable     B．cheerful        C．nice  D．hard

13.               A．borrow         B．need          C．afford D．pay

14.               A．kept           B．finished        C．minded   D．stopped

15.               A．really          B．easily          C．quietly    D．slowly

"Here's the advance payment(预期款) of 10,000 dollars. You will get the other half when we get those papers," the agent told Mike. "But sir, Mr. Smith has been very suspicious (怀疑) since last week," Mike replied.

    "In that case, be careful and don't worry. You are very clever," the agent said." Take 5,000 dollars more," Mike looked around uneasily but took the money.

    Mike was a clerk in a large company. A few years ago he started to get very worried because it was very hard for him to support his family. He wanted to give his child an excellent education and a bright future, but the future looked rather hopeless.

    One day some agents called him. They were his company's competitors. At first he refused their offers. But when he thought his dream could come true, he agreed to their offers and began giving them information.

   However, his spy work started to get more and more difficult because his owner had become suspicious, since a lot of important information was leaking out.

   One night when Mike was on one of his spying tasks, he met Alim, the night watchman." What are you doing here, Mike?" shouted Alim.

  "Oh, I had just forgotten some documents here, Alim, "Mike replied, trying to look comfortable." I just came to get them."

    "Is that true?" Alim said." We’ll see what Mr. Smith says."

    Alim called Mr. Smith and told him to come right away. Mr. Smith looked at Mike and said. "So you are the thief! I believed in you, Mike."

   "Call the police, Alim. We have finally caught the spy," Mr. Smith said. "And by the way, Mike ,no man can serve two masters. You should have left if you did not work with us any longer."   

1.Why did Mike take the job as a spy? Because ______________.

A、he didn't want to work for his company any longer.

B、some agents forced him to do so.

C、he wanted to give his child an excellent education and bright future.

D、Mr. Smith did not give treat him very well.

2.What did the agents ask Mike to do?  

A、To give them some important information of his company.

B、To follow his boss secretly.

C、To serve his master very honestly.

D、To leave his company and join them.

3.Mr. Smith thought Mike was______ before he knew that Mike was a spy.

A、kind          B、clever        C、honest          D、dishonest

4.What's the meaning of the phrase "leak out" in the passage?___________.

A、land on        B、cross out     C、become known     D、come out

5.What can you learn from the passage?______________.

A、We should be careful at work.       B、We should be honest at work.

C、We should work hard.             D、We should serve the masters.