The wind tried pushing Colin to the ground. It felt as if Colin’s news-bag was full of potatoes.

Maybe it had to do with the news Dad read before Colin left. The morning headlines(标题)were full of the usual sad stories.

“No good news again!” Dad said.

Car accidents! House burns! Storm damage(损害)!

Colin moved quickly from house to house leaving papers in the mailbox. He wished he could bring only good news to his family, also to his friendly neighbours. “How could I make things better for everyone?” he wondered.

Colin noticed Alice coming. She only had one real eye. The other was made of glass. He liked Alice even if many others laughed at her. He didn’t realize how much it helped her, having a friend like Colin.

Each time Colin left a paper by a customer’s door, he thought, “How could I make some good news?”

Colin gave his usual cheerful “Hi” to everyone on his way. His smile was like the rising sun.

Someone was crying and he ran to where a little boy had fallen and hurt his leg. Colin calmed him down until the boy’s mother arrived.

“I’m glad you’re my paperboy,” she told Colin.

He continued on his way, but he didn’t feel tired. It was fun doing what he usually did—helping others.

He raced up the street to his last customer. Mrs. Williams saw Colin coming and had peanut butter cookies as a treat for her favourite paperboy. She wondered why such a lively boy always had time to chat with an old lady.

Colin’s own treat for his customers came from his heart. He did have much good news to share, even if he didn’t realize it. His smile and polite manners brought cheering-up news to all his customers.

1.What was Colin’s trouble?

A. His news-bag was too heavy.

B. He had heard of many sad stories.

C. His dad didn’t like his job as a paperboy.

D. He couldn’t bring good news to his customers.

2.Why did Mrs. Williams think Colin was her favourite boy?

A. Because he would always like to chat with her.

B. Because he liked her peanut butter cookies.

C. Because he didn’t bring bad news to her.

D. Because he always sent papers to her as fast as he could.

3.What was Colin’s treat for his customers?

A. His smile and polite manners. B. His papers full of good news.

C. His honesty and happiness. D. His confidence and friendship.

4.What’s the best title of this passage?

A. No news is good news

B. How paperboys work

C. The boring job as a paperboy

D. A sunny paperboy

Levi Strauss—a name that is now famous—was the man ____invented jeans. Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829, but went to the USA as _____young man. At first he lived in New York, ____in 1853 he moved to San Francisco, where he worked with his brother. They worked in a shop selling clothes to men who ____for gold in the California Gold Rush. The men were working very______in difficult conditions, and they needed very strong trousers.

Strauss was the first man to begin producing special, strong trousers______working men. He made these trousers from a tough fabric( 结实的织物) called "denim"(牛仔布)probably from a town ___Nimes in France. Many people now think the English word "denim" ____from the French words "de Nimes", which means "from Nimes". Later, Strauss added special metal buttons to the trousers to make them even _____and they immediately became very popular.

In the early part of the 20th century, only working men wore jeans in workplaces like factories. But after the Second World War, teenage boys and young men at college started to wear__to go out. These boys called the trousers "jeans". In the 1960s, more young Americans started__them as informal, casual clothes outside the workplace and denim jeans became fashionable.

At that time, jeans were usually flared( 向外展开的), but today, ____many different styles of jeans: straight, baggy, flared, low-waisted—almost any style you can __.

Today, _____people wear jeans to go to work in offices, as well as to go out. Jeans are as ____today as they ever were, but there is one thing no one is really sure about—why are they called "jeans"?

1.A. what B. where C. who D. which

2.A. a B. an C. the D. /

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

4.A. work B. were working C. are working D. have worked

5.A. hard B. hardly C. harder D. more hardly

6.A. to B. at C. for D. by

7.A. call B. called C. calling D. to call

8.A. comes B. come C. came D. has come

9.A. good B. better C. best D. the best

10.A. it B. its C. they D. them

11.A. wear B. wearing C. wore D. worn

12.A. have B. has C. there are D. there is

13.A. imagine B. imagined C. imagining D. to imagine

14.A. million B. millions C. million of D. millions of

15.A. popular B. popularly C. more popular D. more popularly

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