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One day a dentist was starting his morning work. Suddenly a man ran in. His face was red and he could only say “Quick! Quick!” The dentist thought he must be very ill. His assistant helped to make the poor man sit in a chair. The dentist gave the man some medicine to make him sleep. Then, he looked into the man’s mouth and pulled out all the bad teeth. As soon as the man woke up, he said in a low voice, “Quick, doctor, quick.”
“It’s all right now,” the dentist told him. “It’s over.”
“You don’t understand,” said the man, “I came to tell you your house is on fire.”
根据短文内容,判断下列句子正（T）误（F）。
(    )1.The story took place (发生) in the afternoon.
(    )2.When the man ran in, the dentist thought he must be ill.
(    )3.The man went to sleep after he took some medicine.
(    )4.The dentist pulled all the teeth out of the man’s mouth.
(    )5.The man ran in to tell the dentist that his house was on fire.

Once there was an old man in a town. He always forgot a lot of things. So his wife always had to say to him, "Don’t forget this ! "
One day he went on a long trip alone. Before he left home, his wife said, "Now you have all these things. They are what you need for your trip. Take care of your things during the trip." He went to the station, bought a ticket and got on the train with it.
About half an hour later, the conductor began to see the tickets. He came to the old man and said, "Will you please show me your ticket?" The old man looked for his ticket in all his pockets, but he could not find it. He was very worried. “I can’t find my ticket. I really bought a ticket before I got on the train." said the old man.
“I believe you bought a ticket. All right, you don’t have to buy another one," said the conductor kindly. "But how can I know where I’m going? ---I can’t remember my station!" the old man said sadly.
小题1:Where is the ticket?_______.

A．The old man forgot to buy it.	B．The old man could not remember where it was.
C．The old man showed it to the conductor.	D．The old man’s wife took the ticket away.

小题2:The old man was sad because_______.

A．he had to buy another ticket.	B．he lost all the things his wife gave him.
C．he did not know where he was.	D．he did not know where he should get off.

White bridge was a small village and old people came and lived there. Some of them had lots of old furniture, some of which they didn’t want to   41   .This was   42  there was no enough place to put it. Every Saturday morning they    43   what they didn’t need and other people came and took it away if they wanted to have it.
Mr. and Mrs. Morton’s children had grown up. The old couple moved to this small village    44  the other old people did. The  45   were busy forever. All the old in this small village were   46   to meet their children.
Every Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Morton put out a very ugly old bear’s head at the side of their gate, but  47   wanted it. Last Saturday they wrote "I’m very  48 here." on a piece of paper and put it near the bear’s head.
After a while, they found there was another bear’s head put beside 49 ,with another piece of paper. It   50 , “I am lonely, too."

D．disappointed

Yao Ming was born in China in 1980. Now the big name from China is playing for the Houston Rockets in the NBA. He is the son of two basketball players and he learned how to play basketball when he was young. Now, as one of the stars in the NBA, he is working hard to show the world that Chinese basketball players can do well in this game, too!
Pele was a famous football player. He was born in Brazil in 1940. He started playing for Santos when he was only 16 and he didn’t retire（退役） until 1977. He played for Brazil 111 times and he scored 97 international goals. Pele came from a poor family. He started playing football in the streets. He played for Santos and quickly became an international star.
Steffi Graf was born in Germany in 1969. She won the tennis semi-final（半决赛） at Wimbledon in 1985 when she was only 16, but she lost the final to another great tennis player, Martina Navratilova. People were ’surprised at the strength and power of her game. She soon became a famous tennis player and won most of the main matches.
小题1:Who is the youngest player in the passage?

C．Steffi Graft.

小题2: __________ comes from South America.

C．Steffi Graft

小题3:Yao Ming began to learn to play basketball __________.

A．when he was 15	B．when he was young
C．when he was tall enough	D．when he was strong enough

小题4:From the passage, we learn __________.

A．Steffi Graf was born in 1985 in Wimbledon

B．Martina Navratilova was also a tennis player

C．Steffi Graf won few of the main matches

D．Steffi Graf won the tennis final when she was 16

Peter and James were brothers. One afternoon ___1____ the lessons were over, they stayed in school to help their teacher. They___ 2__ for an hour. Then the teacher said, “Thank you, boys. We will finish the work tomorrow. Now you must go home.”
When the boys ___3_____ home, it was seven o’clock. There was light inside their house and the door was ____4____. They could see a man inside, too.
“Who can it be?” thought Peter. “Father and Mother have gone shopping. They won’t be home ____5____ eight o’clock.”
When the _____6____ man saw Peter, he smiled and said, “Come in! You don’t know me, but I’m your ______7______ friend. He asked me to fetch （取）some money for him.” The man did not see James.
Peter went inside and began talking to the man but James did not. He quietly but quickly ran off to call the police. He soon found a policeman and _____8____ him back to their home. The man was still there, but when he saw the policeman, he tried to run off. The policeman _____9____ him and held his arm.
Just then Mr. and Mrs. Baker, the boys’ parents ______10______.
“No!” said Baker. “I don’t know him. He must be a thief. I am glad you have caught him.”
(   )1. A. if          B. when         C. before           D. until
(   )2. A. studied     B. worked        C. stayed           D. watched
(   )3. A. arrived in   B. went to        C. got to            D. reached
(   )4. A. open       B. opened        C. opening          D. close
(   )5. A. at          B. since         C. until             D. after
(   )6. A. away      B. out           C. outside           D. inside
(   )7. A. father       B. fathers        C. father’s          D. brother’s
(   )8. A. brought     B. bring          C. take             D. caught
(   )9. A. stoped      B. stopped        C. catch           D. saw
(   )10. A. returned    B. come          C. arrive           D. reached

Miss Evans taught physics in a London school. Last month she was explaining to her class about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her work. She said to them, Now, I have a sister in Washington. If I was calling her on the telephone, and at the same time you were 20 meters away and listened to me from the other side of the street, who could hear what I said earlier, my sister or you? And why?
The cleverest boy at once answered, “Your sister, Miss Evans, because electricity (电)travels faster than sound waves(波).” That’s very good, Miss Evans answered, but then one of the girls put up her hand, and Miss Evans said, Yes, Betty?
“I don’t think so. Betty said, Your sister would hear you earlier because when it’s eleven o’clock here, it’s only six o’clock in Washington.”
(   )6. Miss Evans was teaching her class __________.
A. about sound                       B. to hear some strange sound
C. about electricity                    D. how to say time
(   )7. She wanted to make her students know__________.
A. whether she could hear her sister in Washington
B. whether her students could hear her from 20 meters away
C. which was faster, London or Washington
D. electricity travels faster than sound waves
(   )8. The cleverest boy thought that___________.
A. sound waves travel faster than electricity
B. they would hear her sister in Washington first
C. Miss Evans’s question wasn’t right
D. Miss Evans’s sister would hear her earlier
(   ) 9. Miss Evans________.
A. thought Betty’s answer was much better
B. thought the cleverest boy’s answer wasn’t so good
C. was satisfied with what the girl had said
D. was satisfied with(对...感到满意) what the cleverest boy had said
(   )10. Betty thought the cleverest boy was wrong, because_____________.
A. clocks in Washington showed a different time from those in London
B. electricity was slower than sound waves
C. they were only 20 meters away from the telephone
D. electricity travels as fast as sound waves

Kate is my good   1 . She is 2  Canada. She is eleven   3 old. She has a round   4 , big blue eyes and a small   5 . She 6   tall. She   7 long hair. She is   8 a purple skirt. Her sister is a   9 . She teaches(教) English. They are in   10 now. They like China.
(      )1. A. friends           B. friend         C. father
(    )2. A. in               B. from        C. on
(     )3. A. years         B.year’s         C. years’
(     )4. A. eyes         B. ears              C. face
(     ) 5.A. mouth         B. ears           C. arm
(     )6. A. am           B. is         C. are
(     )7. A. have         B. is             C. has
(     )8. A. on           B. in        C. with
(     )9. A. teacher     B. doctor         C. student
(     )10. A. Canada      B. China          C. Japan

Once there was an old man in a town. He always forgot a lot of things. So his wife always had to say to him, “Don’t forget this!”
One day he went on a long trip alone. Before he left home, his wife said, “Now you have all these things. They are what you need for your trip. Take care of your things during the trip.” He went to the station, bought a ticket and got on the train with it.
About half an hour later, the conductor began to see the tickets. He came to the old man and said, “Will you please show me your ticket?” The old man looked for his ticket in all his pockets, but he could not find it. He was very worried. “I can’t find my ticket. I really bought a ticket before I got on the train.”said the old man.
“I believe you bought a ticket. All right, you don’t have to buy another one,”said the conductor kindly. “But how can I know where I’m going? I can’t remember my station!”the old man said sadly.
(    )1.The old man in the story was very___________.
A. kind      B. poor     C. forgetful   D. sad
(    )2.Where is the ticket?
A. The old man forgot go buy it.
B. The old man could not remember where it was.
C. The old man showed it to the conductor.
D. The old man’s wife took the ticket away.
(    )3.The old man bought the ticket ________ he got on the train.
A. after       B. before       C. as        D. when
(    )4.The conductor __________ the old man.
A. didn’t believe  B. laughed at   C. believed    D. felt sorry for
(    )5. The old man was sad because
A. he had to buy another ticket.
B. he lost all the things his wife gave him.
C. he did not know where he was.
D. He did not know where he should get off.

One day an old man is selling (卖) a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I will give you twenty dollars.”“All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you found the elephant’s bad ears?”“I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “Then why are you looking at the elephant slowly?” asked the old man. The young man answers, “Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”
根据短文选择正确的答案
(　 )11. ________ the elephant.
　　　 A. The young man sells     B. The old man sells
　　　 C. The two men sell        D. The old man buys
(　 )12. The young man is looking at the elephant slowly.
He wants to find out ___________.
　　　 A. which foot of the elephant is bad B. how heavy it is
　　　 C. which ear of the elephant is bad D. what it looks like
(　 )13. The young man   ______________.
　　　 A. knows the elephant has bad ears B. wants to buy the elephant
　　　 C. looks after the elephant D. gets some money from the old man
(　 )14. The young man ______________.
　　　 A. is not interested in elephants B. knows what an elephant looks like
　　　 C. has seen some elephants before D. has never seen an elephant before
(　 )15. Hearing what the young man said, the old man will probably(很可能)be ____________.
　　　 A. angry （生气）      B. happy     C. dangerous      D. hungry

In a nice house there lived an old man. Behind the house there was a big garden. He planted many plants there. He took care of his   41  all the time, watering and fertilizing (施肥) them.
One day a young man went by the   42 . He looked at the beautiful flowers, imagining how happy he could be   43  he lived in such a beautiful place. Then, suddenly he found the old gardener was   44 . He was very surprised about this and asked, “You can’t see these flowers.   45  are you busy taking care of them every day?”
The old man smiled and said, “I can tell you four   46 . First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. Second,   47  I can’t see these flowers, I can touch them.   48 , I can smell the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that’s   49 .”
“Me? But you don’t know me,” said the young man.
“Yeah, it’s   50  that I don’t know you. But I know that flowers are angels that everybody   51 . We enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us.”
The blind man’s work opened our eyes and   52  our heart, which also made his life   53 . It was just like Beethoven, who became deaf in his later life and wrote many great musical words. Beethoven himself couldn’t   54  his wonderful music, but his music has   55  millions of people to face their difficulties bravely. Isn’t it one kind of happiness?

D．conclusions

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