A father asked his son, "How many letters are there in the Alphabet (字母表)?" "I'm sorry, I don't know."
answered his son.
     The father was very angry. He said to his son, "You don't know? You are in school for many years and
you don't know how many letters there are in the Alphabet?"
     "No." answered his son, "But let me ask you a question, Dad. You often go to the post office. Now please
tell me how many letters there are in the post office."

(     )1. The son didn't know the meaning of the word "Alphabet".
(     )2. The father was angry because his son was not polite to him.
(     )3. The son was too young to go to school, so he couldn't answer his father's question.
(     )4. The father couldn't give the right answer to his son's question.
(     )5. The word "letter" has two meanings in English.

     About three years ago, I felt very lonely. I didn't like may classmates, my parents or anyone else. My
classmates didn't want to talk 1_______ me and my parents were always saying that other kids were better
than me. I thought I was the 2_______  unlucky person in the world.
     One day I had a big fight with one of my classmates. I was so angry 3_______  I hit him in the face.
Just at that moment, a boy stood up and 4_______ the fight. He was the monitor of our class.
     After that, he often helped me we became good 5_______. Whenever I got angry or sad, he would help
6_______  to calm down. My life began to change because of the boy, my best friend. We spent a lot of
interesting days together. As 7_______  goes by, I become happier with people and things. And it 8_______
that people around me changed, too. My parents don't shout at me 9_______ more and my classmates become
friendly to me.
     But now I can't see my best friend because he is seriously 10_______ and is staying in hospital. How I
miss the days when we were together! I hope he will be all right and come back to school soon.

     In England nobody under eighteen years old is allowed to drink in a bar.
     Mr. Thompson often went to a bar near his house. But he never took his son-Tom, because he was too
young. Then Tom had his eighteenth birthday, Mr. Thompson took him to his usual bar for the first time.
They drank for an hour. Tom drank a bit. Then Mr. Thompson said to his son, "Now, Tom, I want to teach
you a useful lesson. How do you know when you've had enough? Well, I'll tell you. Do you see those two
lights at the end of the bar? When they seem to become four, you've had enough and should go home."
     "But, Dad." said Tom," I can only see one light at the end of the bar."

1. Young people _____ allowed to drink in a bar until eighteen.

A. is
B. is not
C. are
D. are not 

2. When Tom was a child, his father often went to a nearby bar _____ taking him.

A. in
B. with
C. without
D. by

3. On Tom's eighteenth birthday, he drank together with his father in that bar for _____.

A. the second time
B. the first time
C. many times
D. the last time

4. Father wanted to tell his son _____.

A. something about himself
B. when to stop drinking
C. something about the bar
D. the time to drink

5. In fact, there _____ at the end of the bar.

A. was one light
B. were two lights
C. were three lights
D. were four lights

     My elder sister is an airhostess (飞机服务员). Yesterday morning my sister was at the back of the plane.
She was going to take food and drinks to the passengers. A little old woman, who took on the plane for the
first time, came up to her and said, "Could you tell me where the Ladies' Room is?"
     "Certainly, Madam," answered my sister. "It is right at the other end of the plane in the front." The old
woman went too far. She walked all the way to the front of the plane, opened the door in front of her and
saw the captain (机长) and his workmates in the small room. They were all busy with their work and didn't
see her. She went out again and came back to my sister. "Oh, did you find it?" asked my sister. "Yes, I did,"
said the little old woman."But there were four men in the Ladies' Room watching TV!"

1. What does the writer's elder sister do?

A. She is a worker.
B. She is a teacher.
C. She is an airhostess.
D. She is a student.

2. Who does she take food and drinks to?

A. Her brother.
B. The passengers.
C. The captain.
D. The madam.

3. Why didn't the old woman know where the Ladies' Room was?

A. Because she travelled by air for the first time.
B. Because she wanted to walk with my sister.
C. Because she was very old.
D. Because there weren't any toilets in the plane.

4. Where did the old woman go? 

A. Bedroom.
B. Men's room.
C. Control cabin (控制舱).
D. Sitting room.

5. What did the old woman think?

A. My sister fooled her.
B. My sister fooled the four men.
C. The old woman thought she went to the wrong place.
D. The four men watched TV in the Ladies' Room.

     We drink tea every day. But more than 400 years ago, most people in Europe (欧洲) did not know anything
about tea. Some had heard about it,but very few knew what to do with it.
     Here is a story about an English sailor (水手)who went to countries all over the world. He had been to China
and India. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about
the present and invited them to a "tea party".When her friends came to the "tea party", the old woman gave them
brown tea leaves. Her friends began to eat them of course, nobody liked the tea leaves. At that moment the sailor
came in, he looked at the table and said, "Mother, what have you done with the tea?"
     "I boiled it, as you said."
     "And what have you done with the water?"
     "I poured it out, of course." answered the mother.
     "Now you may throw away the leaves." said the sailor.

1. The mother _____.

A. boiled the tea and threw the leaves away
B. boiled the tea and poured the water out
C. knew more about tea than others
D. enjoyed herself very much

2. At the "tea party"_____.

A. everybody enjoyed the brown tea leaves
B. some of her friends enjoyed the brown tea leaves
C. nobody enjoyed the brown tea leaves
D. the old woman enjoyed the brown tea leaves

3. The son asked his mother to throw away the leaves, because _____.

A. his mother had treated (招待) her friends with the wrong thing
B. the tea his mother has made was too strong
C. he didn't like his mother's friends
D. he himself didn't like the tea leaves

4. Where does the sailor come from?

A. America
B. Canada
C. Thailand
D. England

5. He had been to _____.

A. China and Australia
B. Brazil and Chile
C. China and Brazil
D. India and China