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 road. The 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.

A. next to B. not far from

C. 2 hours’ drive from D. 5 miles from

2.Mr. Brown was angry because ______.

A. he found no room to park his car outside his house

B. he had nothing to eat for lunch at home

C. he lost the way when he drove back home one day

D. he couldn’t make a police notice outside his house

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

A. one B. two C. three D. no

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

A. was just the same as a police notice

B. was different in color from a police notice

C. just looked like a police notice

D. said “POLICE NOTICE, NO PARKING”

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

A. more people will park their cars outside his house

B. more policemen will park their cars outside his house

C. fewer people will park their cars outside his house

D. fewer people will visit him at noon later on

Three rich ladies met every day by the river. They sat there and talked the whole day. Once the three ladies quarreled(争吵). One of them said. “Look, how white and beautiful my hands are!” Another one said, “My hands are more beautiful.” The third one said, “Mine are the most beautiful ones.” An old beggar(乞丐) woman came up to them. “Beautiful ladies,” she said, “I’m hungry. Please give me something to eat.”

But the three ladies gave her nothing. They only asked, “Tell me, old woman, which one of us has the most beautiful hands?”

A peasant(农民)woman was also sitting by the river. She was poor and her hands were rough(粗糙的)because of hard work. The old woman came up to her and said, “I’m hungry. Please give me something to eat.” The peasant woman took out her only cake she had and gave her a half.

The old woman ate it and drank some water. Then she took the peasant woman by the hand, brought her before the rich ladies and said, “Now, I shall tell you whose hands are the most beautiful. The hands of the poor peasant woman are rough because of work, but they give us food; they are far more beautiful than your hands which have done nothing.”

1.The three ladies ___________.

A. had a quarrel every day

B. were rich but unkind

C. had a talk about their hands every day

D. lived by the side of the river

2.The old woman asked for something to eat, ___________.

A. but none of the three rich ladies gave anything to her

B. but only one of the three ladies gave her half a cake

C. because she wanted to know whose hands were beautiful

D. because she wanted to know which lady was the richest

3.The peasant woman’s hands were not so white as the three ladies’ ___________.

A. because of the hard work she had done

B. but she was stronger than any of them

C. so she didn’t quarrel with the three ladies

D. but she was more beautiful than any of them

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