Mr. and Mrs. Wu were fed up with their neighbor. He was always borrowing things from them.
“It’s not right.” Mr. Wu said to his wife one evening. “At some time or another that man has borrowed nearly everything we have. Almost every day he comes over to borrow something.”
“You are quite right,” his wife replied, “and most of the things he’s never returned.”
“What I want to know,” her husband said, “is why he can’t buy the things he needs like everyone else.”
“Because people like us are foolish enough to lend him what he needs.” she replied. “As long as we are willing to lend, he’ll keep on borrowing.”
“Then we’ll never lend him anything again.” Mr. Wu said. “The next time he asks to borrow something, I’ll say no.”
“We must have a good reason for saying no,” his wire said, “and we must always try to be polite to him. We don’t want to make an enemy of the man.”
It was not long before their decision not to lend their neighbor anything ever again was put to the test.
The next morning there was a knock on the door.
Mr. Wu went to answer it.
Their neighbor was standing there. Mr. Wu knew he was going to ask to borrow something, and was ready to refuse him politely.
“Good morning,” their neighbor said, “I’m sorry to trouble you, but I wonder if I could borrow your garden scissors.”
“I’m sorry,” Mr. Wu said, “but I’m afraid my wife and I will be using them today. We’ll be spending all day working in the garden.”
“Oh, ! see.” the neighbor said, “In that case, may I borrow your golf clubs? You won’t be needing them if you are working in the garden all day, will you?”
【小题1】What did the neighbor do with most of the things he had borrowed?

A.He hid them.
B.He never returned them.
C.He lent them to others.
D.He broke them.
【小题2】Mr. and Mrs. Wu’s decision to treat their neighbor was
A.not to lend anything more
B.to be impolite to him in order to show their dislike
C.to give him anything he would ask
D.to keep on lending
【小题3】When did the neighbor want to borrow again?
A.The next day.
B.A week later.
C.The morning after the following month.
D.A few days later.
【小题4】How did the neighbor manage to get what he really wanted?
A.He first asked for something else.
B.He asked for it earnestly (诚挚地).
C.He worked for them.
D.He spoke highly of Mr. Wu.

第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2,满分40分)

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When he thought of the past,my grandfather would sometimes show us photographs of himself at school. They were brown and faded,and it was hard to believe that the blurred figure of the little boy in the short trousers and socks could ever have been Grandfather. Besides,he wore a cap---andthe boys in the photographs wore caps pulled so far forward that half of their faces were obscured. When Grandfather asked us to pick him out from the group,we would surely point to the wrong boy.

On one such occasion my younger sister,aged six,burst into tears when Grandfather proudly guided her finger to the right boy. "How could that boy be you?"she cried. "He should have a beard.” We were,of course,all convinced that grandfathers should have beards ,preferably white and bushy,like  our owngrandfather's.

"I wasa good scholar ,”Grandfather would say,wagging his beard over the photographs."I should have been top of the c1ass if I hadn't had to get up at six every morning to milk the cows and chop the wood,and again when I came home from school.”

"But Saturdays?What did you do on Saturdays?"

"Saturdays,if it was fine, I’d be out all day in the fields with the men,"replied Grandfather."And if it was wet,I’d be helping my mother with odd jobs round the house.There wasn't much time for studying."

We all tried hard to imagine what it would have been like to have been Grandfather getting up at crack of dawn and never,obviously,having amoment for himself.It seemed we had learnt something from what Grandfather had said about his childhood.

56.In the first paragraph of this passage,what theauthor really tells us is that_______.

A.his grandfather used to wear short trousers,socks and a cap as well

B.it was difficult to tell which of the boys inthe photographs was Grandfather

C.he didn't believe Grandfather wore a cap pulled forward when he was at school

D.it was fun to watch boys in the photographs wearing caps pulled forward

57. The author's sister burst into tears because________.

A.she did not get a chance to pick outGrandfather in the photographs

B.she was told which was the right boybefore she herself could pick him out

C.other children did not agree with her thatGrandfather should have had a beard

D.she found Grandfather in the photographsdid not have a beard

58.When Grandfather said,"I should have been topof the class….",he meant________.

A if he had had more time for studying,hewould have been the best in his class

B.he should have spent more time studyingrather than playing ballgames

C.his school days should not have been so hard and miserable

D.he could have never been the best studenteven if he had studied still harder

59. In the last paragraph the author said,"We all tried hard to imagine…"because________.

A. the figures of the boys in the photographswere small and blurred

B. the children had never experiencedlife like that of Grandfather

C.the photographs Grandfather showed them were brown and faded

D.Grandfather failed to tell them about his childhood in detail

 

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     Bill White's father is a lawyer. In his   1   time, he likes to get out in the country and take some   2   of
animals.
     For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his   3  . But his father didn't take Bill along
with him   4   he was fifteen.
     He and Bill drove to the farm which   5   to his uncle in the afternoon. They   6   the night there, so that they
could   7   out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out
with them.
     It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm   9   the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early.
He couldn't remember   9   he was. He turned over  10  and looked at the clock. It was 5 o'clock. Then he  11 
 that he was at the  12  and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got
  13  quickly.
     He ran downstairs. The others were already in the  14 . Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was
a pot of coffee on the stove. It  15  good.
     They ate breakfast quickly. They didn't talk  16 , because they didn't want to  17  up the other people in the
house. They filled a thermos bottle  18  hot coffee and took some sandwiches  19  Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve's
wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera  20  and started out.
(     )1.A. busy       
(     )2.A. foods      
(     )3.A. trips      
(     )4.A. after      
(     )5.A. led        
(     )6.A. cost       
(     )7.A. start      
(     )8.A. telephone  
(     )9.A. where      
(     )10.A. quickly    
(     )11.A. imagined   
(     )12.A. mountain   
(     )13.A. dressed    
(     )14.A. bathroom   
(     )15.A. seemed     
(     )16.A. many       
(     )17.A. wake       
(     )18.A. of         
(     )19.A. that       
(     )20.A. cover    
B. spare     
B. drawings  
B. buses     
B. when      
B. stuck     
B. spent     
B. begin     
B. machine   
B. how       
B. sleepily  
B. pronounced    
B. town      
B. ordered   
B. kitchen   
B. felt      
B. soundly   
B. go        
B. with      
B. what      
B. supply    
C. enough      
C. paintings   
C. holidays    
C. until       
C. got         
C. slept       
C. walk        
C. bell        
C. who         
C. quietly     
C. forgot      
C. farm        
C. eaten       
C. dining-room    
C. tasted      
C. much        
C. put         
C. in          
C. after       
C. operator    
D. limited          
D. pictures         
D. mountains        
D. unless           
D. belonged         
D. took             
D. step             
D. clock            
D. what             
D. suddenly         
D. remembered                       
D. station          
D. prepared         
D. sitting-room     
D. smelled          
D. highly           
D. come             
D. by               
D. before           
D. equipment