July 21st, 2007 was a typical English summer’s day — it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was amiss. By the time I lift work at 5 pm, however, the road into our village was flooded. Our house bad never been flooded but, as I opened the front door, a wave of water greeted me. Thank God the kids weren’t with me, because the house was 5 feet deep in water. We lost everything downstairs. And the plaster had to be torn off the walls, ceilings pulled down.

 At first we tried to push on through. We didn’t want to move the children out of home, so we camped upstairs. we put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we felt very sick, so we moved to a wooden house in a park. The house was small, but at first we were all just delighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10 months. The life there was inconvenient. What surprised me most was how much I missed being part of a community(社区).We had lived in a friendly village with good neighbours, and I’d never thought how much I’d miss that.

 Although-our situation was very bad, it’s difficult to feel too sorry for yourself when you look at what’s happening elsewhere. I watched a news report about floods in Northern India and thought , “We didn’t have a straw hut(茅草房)that was swept away , and our house is still sanding . We’re lucky .”

 We moved back home in August. With December coming, there’s reconstruction work to be done, so it’s difficult to prepare for Christmas. But I can’t wait — I’m going to throw a party for our friends in the village to say thanks for their support. This year , I won’t need any gifts — living away from home for months has made me realize how little we actually need or miss all our possessions . Although we are replacing things, there’s really no rush — we have our home back, and that’s the main thing.

What does the underlined word “amiss” in the first paragraph mean?

A. Wrong.   B. Missing.   C. Right.    D. Found.

It can be inferred from the text that the author                    .

A. was sick of staying upstairs

B. cared much about her children

C. could not stand living a wooden house

D. did not deal well with her family affairs during the flood

Why does author say that they were lucky in the third paragraph?

A. Because her situation was not serious.

B. Because many other places were flooded.

C. Because she had been to Northern India.

D. Because some others suffered even more.

What does the author mainly want to express by telling her story?

A. She valued human feelings more than before.

B. She realized she almost didn’t need possessions.

C. She found Christmas gifts no longer badly needed.

D. She thought her own home was the most important.


It was a dark and cold night. The car driver didn’t have even one passenger all day. When he went by the railway station, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he quickly opened the door of the car and asked, “Where do you want to go, sir?”
“To the Star Hotel,” the young man answered. When the car driver heard that, he didn’t feel happy. The young man would give him only three dollars because the hotel was not far from the railway station. But suddenly, he had an idea. He took the passenger through many streets of the big city.
After a long time, the car finally arrived at the hotel. “You should pay me fifteen dollars,” the car driver said to the young man. “What! Fifteen dollars? Do you think I’m a fool? Only last week I took a car from the railway station to this same hotel and I only gave the driver thirteen dollars. I know how much I have to pay for the trip. I won’t pay you one dollar more than I paid to the other car driver last week.”
【小题1】          Which of the following is true? ____________

A.The young man went past the railway station.
B.The young man was working in the railway station
C.The young man had just got off a train.
D.The young man was waiting for his friend there.
【小题2】          What do you think of the car driver?__________
A.He was a nice and clever man.B.He liked to work very hard.
C.He was good at drivingD.He was not an honest person.
【小题3】           The driver felt very _________ when he saw the young man coming out of the railway station.
A.sadB.sorryC.happyD.worried
【小题4】          From the passage we know that the young man__________.
A.knew clearly how far it was from the station to the hotel.
B.had been to the hotel several times.
C.didn’t want to stay in this city.
D.Must be a stranger and didn’t know the city very well.
【小题5】          The young man should have paid the driver_____
A 15 dollars    B.13dollars   C.3 dollars   D. 8dollars

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I’ve really got to do something to lose weight because
I’m getting much too fat.I wasn’t worried about until I went        80 .______
to see the doctor.He told me that I’d probably had a heart           81. ______
attack while I started eating less.When you’re on a diet you          82. ______
have to stop eat too much even though you are always hungry.           83_____
They may be very hard to do and you certainly need a lot                84. ______
of will-power to succeed.So I will stay on a health farm for a             85______.
month that I won’t be able to eat much so as to stick  to my           86. ______
diet.I’ll also do plenty of exercise,which won’t give me                87. ______
any harm too.Both the diet and the exercise will                  88. _____
help me to lose weight and feel more better.                      89. ______

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