阅读理解（共5小题，每小题2分）
Tom saw an advertisement（广告）in a newspaper for a beautiful bicycle. It cost 55 pounds so he went to the shop and asked to see one of the wonderful bicycles. The owner of the shop was happy to show one to Tom. Tom examined it carefully and then turned to the owner and said, ‘There isn’t a lamp(灯)on this bicycle, but there was one on the bicycle in your advertisement.” “Yes, sir” answered the man, “but the lamp isn’t included(包括)in the price of the bicycle.” “Not included in the price of the bicycle?” Tom said angrily, “But that’s not honest. If the lamp is in the advertisement, it should be included in the price.” “Well, sir” answered the shop owner coldly. “There is also a girl on the bicycle in the advertisement, but we can not give you a girl with the bicycle, either.”
【小题1】In the advertisement, there was a     and a  on the bicycle.
A. lamp, girl         B. newspaper, shop owner        C. lamp, man
【小题2】After he read the advertisement. Tom decided to    .
A.see and buy the lamp    B. ask the owner   C. see and buy the bike 
【小题3】Tom  after he looked at the bike carefully
A. returned the bike to the shop owner
B. didn’t find a lamp on the bicycle
C. showed the bike to the shop owner
【小题4】Tom thought it was  for the shop owner to sell the bike without a lamp while there was one in the advertisement.
A. wrong    B. honest    C. necessary
【小题5】The text gives us a lesson that   .
A. we must read a newspaper carefully
B. bicycle must be examined carefully before they are bought
C. sometimes we can’t completely(完全地)believe an  advertisement

Most people make their living with their hands. But Tom makes his living(谋生）with his feet. A very good living it is, too.
　　Tom’s story began in a very small city in England. His parents were very poor. Seven people lived in their small house. Tom had no place to play in but in the street.
　　Tom’s father often played football, and little Tom wanted to play football, too. So his father made a nice ball for him to play. The little boy played it every day.
　　At last Tom learned to play a real football, and after a few years he could play football very well.
　　Now Tom is one of the best football players.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案（10分）
【小题1】Tom made his living with his______.
A、hands                B、head                 C、feet
【小题2】Tom’s parents lived in a_____city in English.
A、small                B、big                  C、new
【小题3】Tom’s father____a football for him to play.
A、bought              B、borrowed             C、Made
【小题4】A few years later, Tom was_____at playing football.
A、well                 B、good                 C、bad
【小题5】Tom plays football_____ than many other players.
A、harder               B、worse                C、better

Nigel is our new next-door neighbour. He’s a pilot(飞行员). He was in the R.F.A. He will fly to New York next month. The month after next he’ll fly to Tokyo. At the moment, he’s in Madrid. He flew to Spain a week ago. He’ll return to London the week after next . He’s only forty-one years old, and he has already been to nearly every country in the world. Nigel is a very lucky (幸运的)man. But his wife isn’t very lucky. She usually stays at home!
【小题1】 Nigel’s job is a ________.

One day a rich man meets Tom. The rich man asks, “People say you are very clever(聪明的) and nothing is difficult(困难的) for you. Can you tell my why you are so clever? ” Tom answers with a smile, “Oh, I’m not clever. Instead(反而) , you are too foolish.” The rich man becomes very very angry.
Tom says, “Sir, please don’t be angry. If you don’t believe me, now let me ask you a very easy question: If you have a group（群）of sheep(绵羊), I send you another group. Then, you say, how many groups of sheep do you have?”
“Why! That’s the easiest question in the world. One and one is two. Anybody knows that. I have two groups of sheep , of course.”
Tom laughs and says, “You are wrong , Sir. Two groups of sheep put together is still one group. That’s the easiest question in the world , isn’t it?”
【小题1】People say Tom_____________.

Hellen Keller was born in 1880 in the USA. When she was about 19 months old, she got very ill. After many weeks, the doctor told her parents, “Your daughter is better, but now she can’t see and she can’t hear.” Her mother and her father were very sad. After a few years , things got worse. There was no way for Helen to speak to other people. She heard nothing. She didn’t understand anything.
Then one day a teacher came. Her name was Anne Sullivan. She lived with Helen and her family. The teacher helped Helen learn words. Helen was a very bright child and soon she learned to spell her first word. When she was older, she went to college(大学).
Helen was a very old woman when she died. The world remembers her today as a brave and wonderful person. She was blind and deaf, but she found a way to see and hear. It helped many people in the world.
【小题1】Where was Helen Keller from?

Feeding a crowd of hundreds doesn’t make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous.
In fact, he thrives in the kitchen. He’s in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes.
By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school at Hickory Grove, North Carolina, US, he had become vice president of his school’s cooking club. He also opened his own food company, called Modern Fusion.
Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering (饮食业) business herself. Kenny helped them both in order to remember their tips: how long to cook chicken so it stays wet, and the right amount of tomatoes to add to a spaghetti dish.
At the age of 5, he cooked his first dish of shrimp and broccoli. Taking it for his school lunch, he warmed it up in the school’s microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches.
“I love to eat, and it started to become more fun to cook than to use a microwave,” he said.
Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients into common dishes. “It started with a passion (热情) and I wanted to know more,” he said. He began to watch the Food Network and read chef blogs.
Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater his uncle’s wedding. While she cooked traditional dishes, Kenny wanted to add new to the expected flavors (风味).
Now Kenny spends his weekends catering his own events: weddings, birthday parties, baby showers. Kenny’s dishes are always a hit.
Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny’s success comes from his ability to multitask in the kitchen. Hicks said he has asked Kenny to cook with him on jobs three times now, and he presents Kenny as a positive example of a passionate chef to the students in his cooking classes.
“He’s so vigorous (精神饱满的) about cooking that he doesn’t let anything stop him,” Hicks said. “I knew in the first five minutes of working with the kid that he is something special.”
【小题1】How is Kenny different from other students?

Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work, ” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
【小题1】Edison was______________.

Mr. Carrey worked at a big company. He went to work by bus. One day when he was standing at the bus-stop, he watched cars go by. Many of the cars were new Sherry 700s, and most of them were yellow.
Mr. Carrey was a person who did not like to be different from other men. He always wore the same clothes as other men, ate the same food as other people, and did the same things after work as they did.
Two months later, Mr. Carrey bought a new yellow Sherry 700. He was very pleased with it, and drove to work in it the next morning. When he saw all the other Sherry 700s, in front, behind and on both sides of him, he was even more pleased with his car.
Mr. Carrey parked his car in a big car-park near the office building, and walked to his office. But when he came back at five o’clock, there were so many yellow Sherry 700s in the car-park that Mr. Carrey did not know which car was his. He tried his key in some of the cars, but people passing by gave him a look which he did not like. So he stopped.
Mr. Carrey could do nothing but wait nearly forty minutes until his car was the only yellow Sherry 700 left in the car-park.
【小题1】Mr. Carrey bought a new yellow Sherry 700 because__________________ .

完形填空 （共12分，每小题1分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
Once a young man was traveling by train. It was a long and boring journey. As the train was moving through a wilderness(荒野), the passengers looked out of the windows 1  . When the train reached a bend(弯道)，it slowed down and then a simple house 2  . It was so easy to notice that everybody on the train turned to “enjoy” with eyes wide open. Some passengers even began a discussion about it. The young man was also 3  by the scenery. On his return he 4  the train at the nearest station and found his way to the house. Its owner said that he was troubled by the 5  of the train. He wanted to sell the house, but 6   would buy it.
7   the young man spent 30,000 dollars on the house. He thought it was a good place for 8   because it was facing the railway bend. When the train moved slowly past, the tired passengers would 9   the house.
He tried to 10  some big companies and told them that could be used for advertisement. At last the Coca-Cola Company took it to put up their 11  . To everyone’s surprise, the young man was afforded 180,000 dollars for a three-year rent.
This is a true story. It tells us that discovery is very 12 . Many people have got new ideas from it.

I found out that sometimes doing someone a favor could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me said something to me, but I didn’t understand. So I got closer to her and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers could not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.
Later, after the test paper had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the classroom when all the other students were out. Then she began to talk to me about honesty and emphasized(重点强调) the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had talked to me about all those things.
The next day, I realized that the teacher thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but she said it seemed very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen when she talked to me after the test. She continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案（10分）
【小题1】The story took place exactly      .
A、in the teacher’s office
B、in the classroom
C、in the playground
【小题2】Why did the boy get close to his classmate during the test?
A、Because he wanted to borrow a pen from his classmate.
B、Because he wanted to copy his classmate’s answers.
C、Because his classmate wanted to borrow a pen.
【小题3】When the teacher saw all this, she asked the boy        .
A、to go on writing his paper
B、to stop taking the exam
C、to stay in the classroom
【小题4】The underlined word “cheated” means “       ” in Chinese.
A、睡觉                     B、玩耍               C、作弊
【小题5】The boy realized the teacher made a mistake      .
A、the next day
B、when the teacher talked to him
C、on th e day of the test