Once upon a time, in the garden of the Chinese Emperor(皇帝) there lived a nightingale(夜莺).She sang 1 .And one day the Emperor was so moved when he 2 the bird sing that tears came into his eyes. He then had the  3  kept in a beautiful cage in his palace and listened to her every day. Before long the Emperor received a gift of a 4      nightingale from Japan. It could 5 some of the songs the real bird sang. Now the toy bird gave the Emperor much 6 .And it was able to sing three-and-?thirty times without being tired. 7 ?being killed, the living nightingale had flown out of the ? 8 ?,back to her green woods. But one evening, when the toy bird was singing its best, something 9  the bird went out of order. No one could repair it. No 10 of any nightingale was heard. Many years passed, and the Emperor felt so 11 that he lay ill and, it was said, was going to 12 .He wanted very much to hear the 13 song again. All at once there came the beautiful 14 of a nightingale through the window. The living nightingale came to sing for the 15 again. And life began to return to the Emperor.“16 ,little bird,” said the Emperor. “I didn't treat you well before, 17 you have given me life again. How can I reward you?”

“You have done that already,” said the nightingale. “I brought 18 to your eyes the first time I sang; I shall never forget that.” The Emperor felt  19 and got well again. The nightingale often came to sit in a tree of the palace garden and sing something to 20  the Emperor happy.

1. A. beautifully      B. badly    C. terribly     D. carelessly

2. A. saw       B. heard     C. watched     D. looked at

3. A. machine      B. pianist     C. bird       D. girl

4. A. true       B. real      C. living      D. toy

5. A. read        B. write     C. dance      D. sing

6. A. praise       B. luck      C. pleasure     D. sadness

7. A. Without       B. With      C. For       D. At

8. A. cage        B. box      C. forest       D. square

9. A. inside       B. outside     C. next to     D. far away from

10. A. singing      B. crying      C. chime      D. carol

11. A. happy       B. pleased     C. sorry      D. glad

12. A. marry       B. fade      C. leave      D. die

13. A. chemist's     B. musician's     C. toy's      D. nightingale's

14. A. song       B. throat      C. talk      D. noise

15. A. woman      B. prisoner     C. tourist     D. Emperor

16. A. Thank you     B. Sorry      C. Pardon     D. Goodbye

17. A. and so       B. and yet     C. for      D. because

18. A. glasses       B. favours     C. tears      D. waters

19. A. strong       B. weak      C. foolish     D. ill

20. A. let        B. make      C. have      D. ask

Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her ___1___ concert. She had been waiting for this ___2___ for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “How beautiful her ___3___ is.”

The song made her ___4___ to the days when she was Lauren’s ___5___. As a young ___6___, Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied ___7___ in France, Italy and in the United States. “You can become a fine ___8___ in the future,” her teachers told her. “But you must be ___9___ to study hard and work for many years. There will be ___10___ time for anything but music in your life.”

Dorothy was ___11___ at that time and she was ___12___ that music was all she wanted or needed to ___13___ her life. For almost a year Dorothy ___14___ of nothing else. Then she ___15___ David, a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in ___16___. David asked her to be his ___17___. Dorothy also wanted to marry David. But she loved ___18___, too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer. He said, “If you want to be a singer, you must forget about getting married. You can’t ___19___ do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return. 

Now Lauren became a singer instead of her, which was her ___20___.

1. A. sorry               B. successful            C. first           D. wonderful

2. A. dance               B. moment               C. show            D. party

3. A. voice               B. face                    C. dress            D. life

4. A. think of                   B. bring back             C. go back          D. come back

5. A. age                       B. friend                 C. mother                  D. teacher

6. A. musician           B. pop star                 C. lady                    D. girl

7. A. French              B. music                  C. piano              D. dance

8. A. actress               B. student                 C. singer           D. dancer

9. A. prepared           B. learning               C. driven           D. waiting

10. A. some               B. any                      C. no              D. enough

11. A. eight                B. eighteen                C. eighty           D. eighty-eight

12. A. lucky               B. sure                    C. afraid          D. fond

13. A. fill                      B. live                    C. lead            D. take

14. A. heard            B. knew                  C. talked            D. thought

15. A. saw off           B. learned from         C. heard of        D. met with

16. A. love               B. feeling                 C. music          D. touch

17. A. assistant          B. teacher                 C. wife            D. student

18. A. him               B. engineering           C. herself         D. music

19. A. certainly          B. possibly                C. only            D. mainly

20. A. thought           B. hope                 C. purpose        D. will

Would you believe that the first outstanding deaf teacher in America was a Frenchman? His name was Laurent Clerc. He became a friend of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and together they founded America's first school for the deaf.
Laurent Clerc was born in a small village near Lyons, France, on December 26, 1785. When he was one year old, he fell into a fire, losing both his hearing and his sense of smell.
At 12, Laurent entered the Royal Institution for the Deaf in Paris where he did well in his studies. After he graduated, the school asked him to stay on as an assistant teacher.
Meanwhile, in America, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was studying to be a minister. He was very concerned about the lack of educational opportunities for the deaf. Therefore, in 1815, Gallaudet sailed to London, England to seek ideas on how to teach deaf people. While he was there, he met a French educator of the deaf who invited him to go to Paris to spend three months learning at the Royal Institution for the Deaf, the school where Laurent Clerc was teaching. Gallaudet accepted the offer. The two worked and studied well together. When the time came for Gallaudet to return, he asked Clerc to come with him. Clerc accepted on one condition: that he would stay in America only a short time.
The two men set sail on June 18, 1816. The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean took 52 days; however, Clerc and Gallaudet put the time to good use. Clerc studied English, and Gallaudet studied sign language. They discussed the school for the deaf which they planned to open. On the long trip, they had many conversations about education and deafness. The year after they arrived, they founded a school for the deaf in Harford, Connecticut.
At the school, Clerc led a busy life. He taught signs to Principal Gallaudet; he taught the pupils; and he taught hearing men who came to the school to study deaf education.
In 1819, Clerc married Eliza Crocker Boardman, one of his pupils. They had six children. He retired from teaching in 1858. Although he had intended to return to France, he never did. He died on July 18, 1869 in the United States.
【小题1】Why did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet sail to London?

A.He needed to finish his studies to become a minister.
B.It was the easiest way to get to France.
C.He wanted to study their system of deaf education.
D.He wanted to marry Alice Cogswell.
【小题2】On their trip from Paris to America, Clerc and Gallaudet ___________.
A.played cards and socialized
B.studied and discussed their plans for a deaf school
C.founded a school for the deaf
D.Gallaudet studied English and Clerc studied Sign Language
【小题3】Which is the right order of the things Clerc did?
A.met Gallaudet, moved to America, got married, went to school in Paris.
B.met Gallaudet, went to school in Paris, moved to America, got married.
C.went to school in Paris, met Gallaudet, moved to America, got married.
D.got married, went to school in Paris, met Gallaudet, moved to America.
【小题4】The main idea of this passage could best be stated as_________.
A.Clerc managed his time well, and was able to teach a lot of information in a short period of time
B.Thomas Gallaudet was grateful to Clerc for all that he taught him
C.Clerc preferred teaching deaf students to hearing students
D.Clerc, an educated Frenchman, had a great impact on American Deaf Education

Hilary Smith belonged to a good family.But by the age of twenty, he had spent all the money the good old family had.He then had some trouble with the bank and was put in prison.He escaped from the prison and ran to Australia without delay.

Hilary did not like Australia. What he could do seemed to be one of two things: die or work.Then he remembered that he was not alone in the world.He had an aunt.

She was his father's only sister, but his father used to say she brought no glory to the family.Hilary, of course, tried to discover what she had done.It seemed that she had failed to marry a nobleman.Instead, she had chosen a husband who was connected with "trade".Of course as soon as she became "Mrs Parks" ,her brother considered her dead.Later on, Mr Parks died and left her a lot of money; but that did not bring her back to life in her brother's opinion.

Hilary discovered his aunt's address.Fortunately she remained faithful and honest to him even after she fell ill.So Hilary's star shone again, and soon he moved into her house and lived as comfortably as a sailor who had just reached harbour.He had only about a six pence in his pocket.

One thing was soon clear: his aunt was seriously ill, and nothing could cure her illness.Hilary was very worried.Fate had found a home for him, and was now going to throw him out of it.There was only one thing that could save him: her will.

"Will?" she said, "yes, I have made one.That was when I was a girl and had not much money.I left all my money to some religious people."

"Didn't you make another will when you were married?" Hilary asked.

His aunt shook her head."No," she said in a low voice, "There was no need.When I finally had a lot of money I found I had no relations."

On the next day he went to the public library and examined a book of law.It told him what he already believed.When a woman is married, an earlier will lose its value.A new will must be made.If no new will is made, the money goes to the nearest relation.Hilary knew that he was his aunt's only relation.His future was safe.

After a few months had passed, Hilary's problems became serious.He badly needed money.He had expensive tastes, and owed a lot of money to shopkeepers.They trusted him because his aunt was rich; but the debt was terrible.

Unfortunately his aunt did not want to discuss money matters at all.In the end they had a quarrel about the small amount of ten pounds.Hilary was not very angry.He began to wonder about a new problem.Was it kind to want his aunt to live.any longer? Was it not better for her to die now? While he was considering what to do, his aunt told him that she was going to send for her lawyer.So she was going to make a new will, Hilary thought.She might leave all her money to someone else.Soon he reached a clear decision.He must do a great kindness to the poor old woman.

One night when the old servant who had been nursing his aunt went off, he doubled the amount of some medicine.The total amount was too great and it could just put her to sleep forever.

"Thank you," his aunt took the glass from his hand with a grateful look."I want more than anything to sleep, and never to wake up again.Is that what you wish, Hilary? Don't blame me if I have some doubts about what you intended to do.Sick people get these ideas, you know.One thing I ought to explain to you.Mr Parks never married me.He already had a wife and couldn't marry again.That made your foolish father very angry with me...Well, if I am alive tomorrow I shall make another will in your favour.If I die tonight, you'll get nothing...No, Hilary, don't try to take the glass away.If you do that, I shall know and I don't want to know.Goodnight, Hilary."

Then, very carefully, she raised the glass to her mouth and drank.

1.From the story ,we learn that Hilary's aunt was ______.

A.bad-tempered and lonely                 B.kind-hearted and wise

C.careless about money                    D.cruel to her nephew

2.Why did Hilary's father consider his aunt dead?

A.Because they lost contact with each other after her marriage.

B.Because she married a businessman with a wife against his will.

C.Because she broke away from the family for a better life.

D.Because he thought she was a shame to the family

3.The underlined sentence "He must do a great kindness to the poor old woman" in paragraph 11 suggests that Hilary Smith ______.

A.was determined to put his aunt's life to an end

B.decided to do his aunt a favor to call in a lawyer

C.made up his mind to take good care of his aunt

D.would help his aunt to donate all her money to religious people

4.Which of the following is the focus of the story?

A.Hilary's aunt's money.                  B.Hilary Smith's debts.

C.The intended murder.                  D.Hilary's aunt's marriage.

5.According to the law book,_____.

A.Hilary's aunt is not allowed to make a new will.

B.the money will go to Hilary after his aunt dies without a new will.

C.Hilary's aunt must leave the money to the religious people after she dies.

D.Hilary must look after his aunt till her death because he is the only relation.

6.Which detail from the story is the climax(高潮)of the story?

A.Hilary escaped from the prison.

B.Hilary quarelled with is aunt about ten pounds.

C.Hilary's aunt drank the medicine her nephew prepared for her.

D.Hilary's aunt made a will to leave all her money to someone else.

 

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