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A．Doctor Bethune worked in China for 2 years.

B．Mark Twain died at the age of 75.

C．Celine Dion stopped singing in 1997.

D．Bill Gates made 1,000 inventions.

　　Christmas was coming. Mr Smith had no money to buy presents for his children. His wife was ill and he spent （花费） a lot of money on her medicine. And the harvest （收成） was bad. And all his family were going to be hungry the next spring. He was quite worried about it. “We had only a cock,”said Mrs Smith one day. “You'd better take it to the town. Sell it there and buy some cakes and sweets for our children.” “It's a good idea! “The man said and caught the cock the next morning and put it into a box. It was difficult to walk on the road covered with thick snow. Two hours later he was very tired and wanted to have a rest. He put the box to the ground and sat down .The air in the box must be close （闷的）. The man said to himself “I'd better let the cock walk outside for a while, or it'll die. “So he put the cock to the ground. When he started again, he couldn't catch it any longer. “How foolish （傻的） you are!” Mr Smith called out angrily, “You can herald （宣布） the break of day （报晓） at the right time but can't find the way to the town in the daytime!”

A．They would have little food to eat

B．His children would be sad on Christmas

C．They had no money to buy any Christmas presents

D．They would die in the cold weather

(4) The word“cock”in the story means

A．there was much snow on the road

B．something was wrong with him

C．the box was very heavy

D．he lost his way

A．the cock could go to town itself

B．the cock must die in the box

C．the cock had to have a rest too

D．the cock could return to the box itself

(7) In fact （事实上）,____ was foolish.

　　Nat lived in a small town in England. He always stayed in England for his holidays, but last year he thought, “I've never been to other countries. All my friends go to Spain （西班牙）, and they like it very much,so this year I'm going there, too.” First he went to the capital, Madrid （马德里）, and stayed in a hotel for a few days. On the first morning he went out for a walk. In England people drive on the left （左） , but in Spain they drive on the right （右）. Nat forgot about this , and while he was crossing a busy street, a bicycle knocked （撞） him down.

　　Nat lay （躺） on the ground for a few seconds and then he sat up and said, “Where am I ?”

　　On a freezing and raining day, an old man was walking in a street with his horse. The old an was cold because he was walking in the rain. He wanted to stay in a restaurant. It was a quarter past three in the afternoon. The old man got to a small restaurant. There were a lot of people in it. The old man couldn't come near the fire. He thought and thought. At last he said to the waiters,“Take some fish to my horse.”The waiter and the people in the restaurant were very surprised. The waiter said,“A horse doesn't eat fish.”The old man told the waiter,“This horse is very interesting. It can sing, dance and do all kinds of things. It can eat fish, too.”So the waiter brought the horse some fish. All the people in the restaurant ran out to see the horse eat fish except the old man. Now the old man sat beside the fire. After a while the waiter came back and said,“Your horse didn't eat any fish.”The old man said,“It may be not hungry. It doesn't matter. Take the fish back and put it on the table. I'll eat it.”

A．it was a cloudy and windy day

B．it snowed

C．it was cold and rainy

A．they wanted to see the old man

B．they wanted to see the horse eating fish

C．they had been told there came the horse

A．walk nor speak nor eat

B．sing nor dance nor sleep

C．sing nor dance nor eat fish

A．to see the horse eat fish except the old man

B．to watch the horse play games except the waiter

C．to look for the horse except the old man

A．Because his horse liked eating fish.

B．Because he was cold.

C．Because he wanted to sit by the fire, but he wasn't able to do so at first.

　　My best friend loved drawing horse. He drew the horses very well, but he always began the tail. Now it is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse, that is why I was surprised. It struck me that it could not really make any difference whether the artist begins at the head or the tail or the belly（肚子）or the foot of the horse, if he really knows his business. And most great artists who really know their business do not follow other people's rule. They make their own rules. Every one of them does his work in a way peculiar（奇特的）to himself; and the peculiarity means only that he finds it more easy to work in that way.

　　Now the very same thing is true to literature（文学）. And the question“How shall I begin?”only means that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is, you are not yet experienced（有经验的）enough to trust your own powers. When you become more experienced you will never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail, that is to say, you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning.

A．very well

B．in the way of Western rule

C．in the way of his own rule

A．the artist began to draw at the head of the horse

B．the artist began to draw at the foot of the horse

C．the artist did not follow other people's rule

A．you do not trust to your own powers

B．you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail

C．you always asked question

A．never ask question

B．often begin at the tail

C．write the end of the story before you have even thought of the begining

A．how to draw a horse

B．trust your own powers

C．how to make your own rules

　　One morning, he went out to the market with his son to sell the horse before it died. The father and the son walked, because the farmer did not want the horse to be too tired. They met two men on the road who said,“Why are you walking, Farmer? You have a horse. It's a long way to the market.”The farmer knew that this was true, so he rode on the horse, while his son walked. Then they met two old women,“What are you doing up there, Farmer? Can't you see how tired the boy is?”So the farmer got down, and let his son ride instead. Next, three old men stopped them, and one said,“Why are you walking, Farmer? Get up. It's too hot for an old man like you to walk today.”So the farmer got up behind his son, and they rode on. Some time later, a young woman passed them,“Why aren't you walking?”she asked,“It isn't far to the market. Let your poor horse have a rest?”So the farmer and his son got down once again. It is a fact that you cannot please all the people all the time.

A．before it was dead

B．before it become too tired

C．before the market was over

A．asked how far it was to the market

B．said they thought the horse looked very tired

C．asked why the farmer was not riding on his horse

A．the farmer to ride such a tired horse

B．only one person to ride such a long way

C．the farmer to ride while his young son walked

A．the old man said it was too hot for him to walk

B．the three old men stopped them on the road

C．he did not know why he was walking

A．for the old man

B．for the farmer's young son

C．for the horse

　　Mr and Mrs Wilson lived in a big crowded（拥挤的）city, and one summer they had holidays in a small town.

　　They enjoyed it very much, because it was a quiet（安静的）, clean place and very different from the city.

　　One day they went for a walk early in the morning and met an old man. He lived on a farm and he was sitting alone in the warm sun outside his front door. Mr Wilson asked him, “Do you like living in such a quiet place?”The old man said, “Yes, I do.”Mr Wilson said, “What are the good things about it?”

　　The old man answered, “Well, everybody knows everybody else. People often come and visit me. and I often go and visit them. And there are also lots of children here.”

　　Mr Wilson said,“That’s interesting. And what are the bad things?”The old man thought for a minute and then said,“Well, the same things, really.”

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A．the old man was very glad to see them

B．people were friendly to him and his wife

C．there were a lot of children in the city

D．the old man’s words were interesting

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A．Mr and Mrs Wilson wanted to live in the small town

B．the small town didn’t have any good things

C．the old man liked living there because he was alone

D．the old man knew everyone in the small town

　　Once an American was in Africa. He wanted to go to a small village in the hills. He got on a bus and the driver said, “The yellow ticket is one dollar. I have two other tickets. The red one is fifty cents（每分）, and the green, ten cents.”

　　“A green one, please,”said the man.

　　The bus started to go up a hill. Suddenly it stopped. “Red ticket passengers, get out and walk. Green ticket passengers, get out, close the door, and push the bus,”shouted the driver.

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A．it looked better than the others

B．he had too much money

C．the driver didn't give him the other tickets

D．it was the cheapest

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A．No one bought yellow tickets.

B．The yellow ticket passengers had to get off the bus and walk.

C．The bus stopped because had to get off the bus and walk.

D．The red ticket passengers walked to the top of the hill.

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A．help to push the bus up the road

B．run up the road

C．drive the bus himself

D．buy a yellow ticket

　　It was November. It was getting cold. Betty Smith was walking in the street of a city in the USA. She was looking for a job. But jobs were hard to get.

　　She stopped before a shop window. There were coats, jackets and shirts in the window. There were also beautiful shoes. Betty looked at her own feet. She was wearing a pair of old shoes. They were full of holes.

　　She looked into the shop. A fat woman was buying a coat for her dog! A few mi nutes later the manager saw the fat woman getting in her car outside. He told one of his workers to send the things to her house at once

　　Betty was very angry.

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　　Last Monday Charlie and his wife moved to the new rooms. Their friends came to help them. After dinner they began to dance, play the classical music and sing. They were very happy. At eleven the telephone rang and Helen went to answer it. After that she said to her husband, “The old man downstairs called us. He said the noise in our rooms made him not go to sleep. Luckily we live upstairs!”

A．Charlie was very busy

B．Charlie got much money

C．Charlie hoped to live on the first floor

D．Charlie hoped the rooms with little noise

A．there was a garden near the house

B．it was difficult for him to go upstairs

C．he could walk near the garden

D．he could dance in them

(3) The word “move”in the story is ____.

A．before they moved in the new rooms

B．when they danced and sang in the rooms

C．after they moved in the new rooms

D．after the old man downstairs called them

A．they had to finish dancing upstairs

B．they were lucky to live upstairs

C．they did wrong that evening

D．she had to say sorry to the old man