Dear grandma,

   How is it going? I hope that grandpa is (1) now. I was sorry to hear that he had a (2) last week. I hope you are in good health.

   Things are fine now. I finished my end-of-year exams last week and got my (3) card today. I always get (4) when I see the envelope from school in the mail, but (5) I did OK this time. I had a really hard (6) with science this semester, and I wasn't surprised to find that my worst report was from my science teacher. She said I was lazy, which isn't (7). It's just that I find science really difficult. (8) disappointing result was in history. My history teacher said I could do better. The good (9) is that my math teacher said I was hard-working. And my Spanish teacher said my listening was good.

   Well, that's about all the news I have for now. Dad and Mom (10) their love.

Love  Alan 

1. A. well              B. rich                  C. busy                D. kind

2. A. rest              B. dream               C. game                D. cold

3. A. report                  B. ID                    C. phone               D. library

4. A. excited          B. sad                   C. nervous            D. tired

5. A. carefully              B. luckily              C. suddenly           D. quickly

6. A. business               B. question            C. problem            D. time

7. A. important             B. true                  C. boring              D. enough

8. A. Each                    B. Some                      C. Another            D. Other

9. A. meaning               B. notice               C. news                D. letter

10. A. have                  B. send                 C. provide             D. show

   This story happened in a small mountain village. One day there was an earthquake (地震). Nothing was destroyed and(1)was hurt. But a huge rock fell from a nearby mountain and stopped in the middle of the road.

   When the earthquake (2), many people came to the road and saw the huge rock. Some of the strongest men tried to lift the rock (3)the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried to push it but failed. They tried to(4)it with ropes but nothing worked.

   "Well," they all agreed, "There's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the(5). "At this time a boy of 12 years old said, "I think I can help you to move the rock."

   "You?" they shouted, "What are you talking about?" The men all(6)at the boy.

   The next morning some people came into the street. One of them shouted, "The rock is (7)!” More people ran out to see. It was true. The rock wasn't in the road any more. It wasn't(8)near the road.

   "This is (9)," they said, "Where did it go?"

   The boy stood in the street, (10), "I told you I could move it last night."

   The boy walked over to where the (11) had been and uncovered some earth. "I buried it," he said.

   The people looked (12). "You see," he said, " I dug a deep hole next to the rock and I dug a small incline (斜坡) up to the rock and the rock (13) down into the hole by itself. I covered it with earth."

   The crowds shouted, "What a (14) boy!" And some of them said, "Why haven't we thought of this good (15)?"

1. A. somebody            B. nobody              C. anybody           D. everybody

2. A. stopped         B. started              C. happened          D. appeared

3. A. over                    B. into                  C. off                   D. onto

4. A. push                    B. lift                    C. change                     D. pull

5. A. road                    B. stone                C. rope                 D. village

6. A. looked                 B. laughed             C. called               D. pointed

7. A. gone                    B. missed              C. broken             D. stolen

8. A. very                    B. quite                 C. even                 D. still

9. A. heavy                  B. dangerous         C. special              D. impossible

10. A. crying                B. smiling             C. thinking            D. lying

11. A. street                 B. town                C. rock                 D. mountain

12. A. surprised            B. sad                   C. happy               D. relaxed

13. A. lay                     B. dropped            C. walked             D. ran

14. A. clever                B. strong              C. brave                      D. poor

15. A. boy                    B. hole                  C. story                D. way

   One day when Jack was walking in the park, he saw a woman, who lived a few miles away, sitting on a bench with a dog beside her. The dog was looking up at the woman.

   Jack walked up to the woman and said, "Hello, Sue, how are you? May I sit and talk with you for a while?" "Of course, please sit down," Sue said. Jack sat down next to Sue on the bench, and they talked quietly together. The dog continued to look up at Sue, as if waiting to be fed.

   "That's a nice dog, isn't he?" Jack said, pointing at the animal.

   "Yes, he is. He's handsome. He's a bit of a mixture, but that's not a bad thing. He's strong and healthy."

   "And hungry, "Jack said." He hasn't taken his eyes off you. He thinks you've got some food for him."

   "That's true, "Sue said." But I haven't."

   They both laughed and then Jack said, "Does your dog bite?"

   "No, "Sue said, "He's never bitten anyone. He's always gentle and friendly."

   Hearing this, Jack decided to hold out his hand and touched the animal's head. Suddenly it jumped up and bit him.

   "Hey!" Jack shouted." You said your dog didn't bite."

   Sue replied in surprise, "Yeah, I did. But this is not my dog. My dog's at home."

1. The dog looked at the woman because ___.

   A. the woman wanted to feed him         B. the woman was friendly

   C. he was strong and healthy                D. he was hungry

2. Jack and Sue were ___.

   A. friends               B. next-door neighbors          C. strangers          D. in the same family

3. Jack touched the dog because he believed ___.

   A. the dog was handsome                    B. Sue's dog was unfriendly

  C. the dog belonged to Sue                            D. Sue's dog was at home

4. We can infer form the passage that ___.

   A. Sue gave a wrong answer                 B. Jack made a mistake

   C. the dog wasn't dangerous                 D. both Jack and Sue liked the dog

5. Which of the Following can be the best title of the passage?

A. A Wrong Question    B. Sue's Dog          C. A pleasant Meeting    D. Sue's Friend

   Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.

   After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, "I wonder why that woman doesn't wash her window. It really looks terrible."

   One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.

   Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!

   Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.

   That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?

   Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, "Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?"

   Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.

1. The writer couldn't see everything clearly through the window because_____.

   A. the woman's window was dirty                B. the writer's window was dirty

   C. the woman lived nearby                        D. the writer was near-sighted

2. The writer was surprised that_____.

   A. the woman was sitting by her window             B. the woman's window was clean

   C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon    D. the woman's window was still terrible

3. "It dawned on me" probably means "____".

   A. I began to understand it                          B. it cheered me up

   C. I knew it grew light                                D. it began to get dark

4. It's clear that _____.

   A. the writer had never met the woman before

   B. the writer often washed the window

   C. they both worked as cleaners

   D. they lived in a small town

5. From the passage, we can learn ______.

   A. one shouldn't criticize others very often

   B. one should often make his windows clean

   C. one must judge himself before he judges others

   D. one must look at others through his dirty windows

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