题目内容
B. then
C. while
D. because
"Oh, sorry, sir," the boss said in a hurry, "I'm afraid I can't. I won't be able to get up so early."
The student was disappointed (失望). When he began to return to his room, be stopped and asked, "Have you got an alarm-clock (闹钟)? Maybe it can help me."
"Wait a minute, then." The boss said and brought out an alarm-clock. "Here you are, sir."
"Thank you very much." The student said happily. But he found it was rusty (锈的) when he had a look at it. And it sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. He asked, "Will it ring in time?"
"I don't know, either." said the boss, "But it doesn't matter. You just give it a good shake at a quarter to five. And it will ring on time."
【小题1】 The student stayed at the inn because ____.
| A.it was in the cool mountain village he was going to |
| B.the boss of the inn was kind to him |
| C.the boss could wake him up at the right time |
| D.it was near the railway station |
| A.the boss had the habit (习惯) of getting up early |
| B.the boss had promised (答应) to help him in every possible way (千方百计地) |
| C.he was afraid he would not wake up in time to catch the train |
| D.it would take him a long time to walk to the railway station |
| A.five o'clock | B.a quarter to five |
| C.half past four | D.a quarter to six |
| A.he had to buy an alarm-clock |
| B.the boss refused to wake him up |
| C.he would take another train |
| D.he had to go to the village on foot |
| A.clock would wake the student up in time |
| B.student certainly missed his train the next morning |
| C.alarm-clock was no use for the student |
| D.student had the alarm-clock repaired (修理) |
There was a little boy with a bad temper(脾气).His father gave him some nails(钉子)to drive into the fence (栅栏)when he lost his temper .The first day the boy drove 37 nails into the fence .Then it began to become less . He found it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence .
Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all . He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out one nail for each day that he held his temper .The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone .
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence .He said , “You have done well ,my son ,but you look at the fence . It will never be the same .When you say things in anger ,they leave a scar(痕迹)just like this one .You can put a knife in a man and draw it out . It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry ,the wound (伤口)is still there .A verbal (言语)wound is as bad as a physical(肉体)one.
【小题1】Who was in a bad temper ?
the boy’s father B.the boy’s friend
C. the little boy D. a man
【小题2】 The word “it” in “it began to become less”refers to (指) ________ .
| A.the first day | B.the fence |
| C.the nails | D.the boy’s temper |
make one’s temper less
make one hold one’s temper
leave a scar on somsone
hurt someone .
【小题4】 The boy thought that _______
it was easy for him to drive the nails into the fence .
driving nails into the fence is easier than holding his temper .
holding his temper is easier than driving nails into the fence .
it was easy for him to lose his temper after driving nails .
【小题5】We learn from the reading that _______ .
A. the father was a man with bad temper .
it took a long time for the boy’s temper to become less.
the father was good at helping one who is easy to lose temper .
the boy was good at driving nails into the fence .