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It was Sunday afternoon. My younger brother and I were alone at home. My parents went for a party and asked me to look after my brother. I was doing my homework while my brother was watching TV. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Ding-Dong! My brother thought that it was our parents, so he opened the ______ quickly.

A tall man wearing a black raincoat stood outside. He said that he came to sell books and he______ politely, “Are your parents at home? ”

Without thinking, my brother said, “No. ”Then the man asked, “Would you like to______some storybooks? ”I told him we didn’t want to buy. When I wanted to close the door, he suddenly pushed(推)the door very heavily and came into our house. He took out a______ and ordered me to tie(绑)up my brother’s hands with a rope(绳子). I tied up his hands in a special way so my brother could untie ______ easily. The man then tied my hands up and locked______ of us in the kitchen. Soon, he went upstairs to ______money. I taught my brother to untie the rope on his hands. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police, ______the line was dead. The doors were all locked from the outside. It was lucky that the man ______ to lock the kitchen window. So we got out of the house through the kitchen window and went to the______ pay phone to call the police.

Soon the police came to our house and the man was caught by the police. By that time, my parents had come home. We told them the whole story. My parents were happy that we were not hurt. They told me that we shouldn’t open the door to strangers. I learnt a lesson on safety.

1.A. window B. door C. book D. TV

2.A. asked B. ask C. answered D. answer

3.A. lend B. borrow C. sell D. buy

4.A. kiss B. knife C. gift D. pen

5.A. himself B. Itself C. herself D. themselves

6.A. most B. some C. both D. all

7.A. look at B. look after C. look like D. look for

8.A. and B. so C. or D. but

9.A. wanted B. liked C. forgot D. tried

10.A. farthest B. nearest C. largest D. smallest

Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.

Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格)。They felt unhappy and returned to their village.

"I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day.

"The tractor was too small " Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on a truck next time!"

"I agree!" said Uncle Li. "How foolish (傻的) we were !"

1.Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because __________.

A. they hope to save money

B. they're both poor

C. their farms are at the foot of the mountain

D. they're not far from their farms

2.The two farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because ________.

A. theirs weren't as good as the others'

B. theirs were much less than the others'

C. a lot of apples had been already carried to the city

D. they forgot to carry them on a truck

3.Which of the following is true?

A. The two farmers found out why they were poor.

B. The two farmers will soon get rich.

C. Neither of the farmers is clever.

D. The two farmers decided to buy a truck.

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