People often like collecting things. Collecting stamps, books, pictures and pens are some common hobbies. I know many kinds of collections. but do you know the collection of clocks? My friend Mr. Clock, a short man, has the hobby. He has one thousand five hundred clocks.

There are clocks here and there in his house. You can see lots of clocks on shelves. As there is not enough room for so many clocks, the man has to put clocks into some boxes under the beds in his house.

Mr. Clock likes his large collection of clocks, but his wife,Mrs. Clock does not enjoy them at all. She complains(抱怨)every day because she has to do much work,for it is not easy to clean hundreds of clocks. She also complains about the noise. Each clock keeps a different time. So she can hear the chimes almost any time day and night. There is something even worse. With so many clocks around, she is never able to know the correct time!

1.Mr. Clock likes collecting ________.

A.stamps B.pictures

C.watches D.clocks

2.Mr. Clock collected about ________ clocks.

A.1,050 B.1,500

C.1,550 D.5,010

3.Mrs. Clock complains every day because ______.

A.she has to clean many clocks

B.she can hear the chimes any time at home

C.she can’t know the correct time

D.A, B and C

4.From the passing we know ______.

A.all the clocks in Mr. Clock’s home tell the same time

B.Mr. Clock enjoys collecting the clocks, but Mrs. Clock doesn’t like it at all

C.no clock works well in their house

D.Mr. Clock only put the clocks on the shelves

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Tom and Jack are good friends. Once, they were walking through the desert. During the journey they had a(n) _________ . They didn’t agree with each other. Tom was so _________ that he hit Jack in the face badly. Jack was hurt, but he didn’t say anything. After a while, he wrote some words in the sand, “Today my best _________hit me in the face.”

They kept on _________ until they found an oasis (绿洲), where they decided to get some water. Suddenly, Jack_________ into the deep mud and started to sink. Luckily, Tom _________ caught his hand and saved him. After Jack was saved, he wrote on a stone, “Today my best friend saved my _________ .”

After Jack finished his writing, Tom was very_________ and asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone, why?” Jack replied with a smile, “When someone _________ us, we should write it down in the sand where winds of forgiveness (原谅) can carry it away. But when someone does something _________ for us, we must write it on a stone where no wind can move it.”

Learn to write your hurts in the sand, and write benefits on a stone.

1.A. exam B. quarrel C. dream D. party

2.A. angry B. happy C. excited D. interested

3.A. teacher B. father C. friend D. mother

4.A. walking B. fighting C. driving D. swimming

5.A. broke B. failed C. threw D. fell

6.A. slowly B. quickly C. happily D. sadly

7.A. book B. money C. life D. house

8.A. surprised B. nervous C. worried D. sad

9.A. meets B. catches C. hurts D. chooses

10.A. new B. old C. bad D. Good

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