【题目】阅读下面短文,根据短文内容回答问题或完成句子。

There is a “murderer” among us. You may wonder what is happening. Let me tell you!

If you get on the Murder Mystery Lunch Train from London’s Victoria Stationyou will surely have such an “experience”. Passengers take part in a detective(侦探)game and find out the “murderer” on their way to Kent.

Before the passengers get on the traina gentleman named Gray will greet them in front of the train. He is dressed in grey with a cat in his arms. Gray will be the first actor to meet the passengers. He will have a chat with them and drop some clues(线索).

As soon as train leaves Victoria Stationa woman will run into the carriage(车厢)and cry“I have been stabbed(刺伤)!” Then a young man called Matt will rush into the carriage and shout“There’s been a ‘murder’!“ Then passengers will have time to question the charactersincluding a detectivea newspaper reporter and a policemanabout what’s going on.

After the mealall the passengers will sit together and put forward their own ideas of the “murderer”. Those who are able to solve the case can get a bottle of champagne(香槟)as a reward(奖励).

One ticket for the Murder Mystery Lunch Train costs about $310. The price includes a five-course lunch with champagne and wine. The game doesn’t sound very expensivebut the question is that it is difficult to book a ticket because the train is now very popular. After allmany people have a detective dreamdon’t they?

1The Murder Mystery Lunch Train leaves from London’s Victoria Stationdoesn’t it?

2Who will passengers meet first after they get to on the train?

3After the mealthe passengers will deal with the “murder” case by _________.

4Those who are able to solve the murder case can get __________.

5According to the passagehow many actors and actresses are?

【题目】 I’ve never been the kind of person to say“It’s the thought counts”(贵在心意)when it comes to gifts. That was until a couple of weeks ago when my kids gave me a present that blew me away.

For years now. I’ve been wanting to sell our homethe place where my husband and I raised our kids. But to methis house is much more than just building.

In the front roomthere is a wall that has hundreds of pencil linesmarking the progress of my children’s growth. Every growth stage is marked in greywith each child’s name and the date on which they were measured. Of all the objects and all the memoriesIt’s this one thing that’s the hardest to leave behind. Friends I know have returned home after work only to discover their wall of heights that has been freshly painted over. A new paint job wouldn’t normally be greeted by tearsbut erasing that evidence(证据)of motherhood hurts more than it should. Our kids grow in so many waysbut the wall is a piece of physical evidence of their progressright there for everyone to see.

Over the yearsI’ve talked about how much I would hate leaving that wall behind when I movedeven thought the last marks were made ten years ago when my kids stopped growing.

So one daymy children decided to do something about it.

They hired Jacquie Manninga professional photographer whose work is about capturing(拍摄)the beautiful things in lifefrom clear lakes and skies to diamonds and ball gowns. She came to our house while I was at workand over several hourstook photos of the hundreds of drawings and lineslittle grey fingerprints and old marks. Somehowshe managed to photograph all those years of memories perfectly. Afterwardsshe put all the photos together into one image(影像),turning them into a beautiful history of my family.

Three weeks latermy children’s wonderful gift made its way to mea life-size-photo of the pencil lines and fingerprints that represents(代表)love and growth.

1What was the hardest thing to leave behind when the author planned to move?

A.The presents friends gave her.B.Some expensive objects.

C.Some old photos.D.The pencil lines and fingerprints on a wall.

2Who came up with the idea of the photo gift?

A.A professional photographer.B.The author herself.

C.The author’s children.D.The author’s friends.

3We can include from the article that the author .

A.was strongly against selling her home

B.was not happy with the gift from her family

C.measures her children’s heights every Christmas

D.put great love and care in raising her children

4The author used the example of her friendsin paragraph 4to .

A.persuade her family to leave the wall as it was

B.stress the meaning of keeping good memories

C.explain why her house needed a new paint job

D.share her memory of being a mother with her readers

5The main purpose of the article is to .

A.give advice on picking gifts for parents

B.introduce effective ways of communicating with children

C.explain why memories of love and growth are important

D.recommend a unique way of recording family history

【题目】 I’m Jenny. I was moved by a _______ last summer. When I went to a friend’s house as a guestI found a wooden sign hung on the door. It reads“Before enteringplease put down your _________. When returningbring back your happiness.”

After entering the houseI saw the wife and the husband were both harmonious(和睦的),two children were _______ and polite and warmth filled the house.

I naturally asked them about the wooden sign. The wife _______ the husband with a smile“You tell the story.” The husband then looked back at the wife“You should say though it was your creativity.”

_________the wife said softly and slowly“Once when I got homeI was _________ to see a sleepy and tired face in the elevator(电梯)mirrorwith the worried eyes. _______ I thought when y children and husband faced this worried facewhat would they feel? If I also faced such a facewhat would I feel? Then I could _________ my children’s silence and my husbands indifference(冷淡)at the dinner table. The next dayI wrote a wooden sign and hung it on the door to remind _______.

As a result. the sign reminded myself and the whole family. __________ surprising happened in this way. Not only our family but also the guests to our house always become happy.

1A.bookB.storyC.movieD.job

2A.bagB.moneyC.workD.trouble

3A.friendlyB.naughtyC.seriousD.sleepy

4A.pointed atB.looked forC.looked atD.shouted at

5A.QuicklyB.NearlyC.SuddenlyD.Finally

6A.excitedB.relaxedC.surprisedD.interested

7A.AndB.SoC.ButD.Or

8A.imagineB.thinkC.knowD.believe

9A.yourselfB.himselfC.herselfD.myself

10A.NothingB.EverythingC.SomethingD.Anything

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