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  Some people believe that dreams can tell them what will happen in the future.   1    knows why this is so, but there are many stories about people who had dreams that__2__. One of these people was a man ___3_ John Chapman, who lived in Swaffham in England many years ago.

  John Chapman dreamt that he _4___ on London Bridge and a man told him how to become rich. John Chapman was a poor man and he needed __5__, so the next day he decided to left for London. ___6__ was 100 miles from Swaffham to London. He walked for few days and at last he __7__ London Bridge. There were many people on the bridge, but they weren’t ___8_ in John Chapman. No one __9___ him. After three days, John Chapman decided to go home, __10__ before he could do this, a shopkeeper came up to him.

“I’ve been watching you,” he said “Are you __11__ someone?”

“Yes,” said John. “I had a dream about a man here. He would help me to get much money.”

“Oh,” said the shopkeeper. “You shouldn’t believe in dreams. __12_ I believe in dreams, I’d be in Swaffham right now. I had a dream a few days ago about a man called John Chapman from Swaffham. He had __13__ in his garden, near an old apple tree.”

John Chapman was __14__ by what the shopkeeper said At once he went home and dug near an old apple tree. He soon found many pieces of gold He was so happy __15__ he gave some of the gold to his church. For the rest of his life, he was a rich man.

1. A Nobody         B Anybody           C Somebody         D Everybody

2. A came out        B came up           C came true         D came to

3. A call             B to call             C calling             D called

4. A is standing       B was standing        C will stand          D stands

5. A dream           B future             C money             D apple

6. A This            BIt                  C That              D Its

7. A reached        B arrived             C got                       D went

8. A interest         B interests            C interesting          D interested

9. A listened to       B talked to           C said to              D needed to

10. A as            B and               C but                 D or

11. A waiting for   B asking for          C caring for           D looking for

12. A When         B Where             C If                  D How

13. A money        B apple              C tree                D gold

14. A angry         B surprised          C happy               D amazed

15. A which       B that               C until                D unless

   Mr. Brown’s house was less than two miles from his office, so he could drive home every day for lunch. Every time he drove home at noon, he found many cars outside his house and there was no room for his own car. He had to drive somewhere else to park his car. Then he walked back home. This made him very angry.

He put up a board in the garden facing the roadThe board said, “No Parking”. But nobody noticed it. People seemed to obey only a police notice with white letters on a blue board:

POLICE NOTICE

NO PARKING

Mrs. Brown asked his husband to steal a police notice but he was afraid to do so. Then she asked him to make one just like a police notice. Mr. Brown said he was not the police and couldn’t use the word “police”. Several days later, Mr. Brown made a blue board with white letters.

POLICE NOTICE

NO PARKING

“Oh!” Mrs. Brown said“You told me you weren’t going to use the word ‘police’, but why do you use it now?” “Really?” he asked

“Look again,” she started to laugh. “You are really clever”.

1. Mr. Brown’s office was ______ his house.

Anext to     Bnot far from     C2 hours’ drive from      D5 miles from

2. Mr. Brown was angry because ______.

Ahe found no room to park his car outside his house

Bhe had nothing to eat for lunch at home

Che lost the way when he drove back home one day

Dhe couldn’t make a police notice outside his house

3. Mr. Brown made ______ notice board s altogether (总共)。

Aone                   Btwo             Cthree            Dno

4.In the end, Mr. Brown made a notice board and it _____.

Awas just the same as a police notice

Bwas different in color from a police notice

Cjust looked like a police notice

Dsaid “POLICE NOTICE, NO PARKING”

5. We can infer(推断) that ______ after he put up the blue board

Amore people will park their cars outside his house

Bmore policemen will park their cars outside his house

Cfewer people will park their cars outside his house

Dfewer people will visit him at noon later on

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