An old woman went suddenly blind. She promised a doctor a lot of money if he could make her see again. “If you fail”, she said , “ you will get nothing,” The doctor agreed with her.

The doctor soon discovered what was wrong with her, but he decided not to cure her right away. Instead, each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things. When he had taken everything that he wanted, he cured her blindness and sent her a large bill. Now when the old woman could see again she noticed that all her things had gone and she refused to pay the bill. So the doctor took her before a judge.

“What the doctor says is true.” she said to the judge. “But I say I’m not cured, because I still can’t see any of the things in my house.”

The old woman won her case and the doctor went away unhappily without getting his pay.

 

64. The doctor didn’t cure the old woman right away because __________.

A. He didn’t know how to cure her                B. He wanted to get a lot of money

C. He wanted to take the woman’s things       D The woman refused to pay him

65. The woman was _______ .

A. clever       B. greedy        C. cruel               D. dishonest

66. The doctor was ________.

A. honest       B. a cheat       C. a kind man      D. ready to help others

67. Which sentence is right according to the passage?

A. The judge didn’t believe the old woman    

B. The doctor cured the woman’s blindness in a short time.

C. The woman got back all her things taken by the doctor.

D. The doctor failed to get his pay.

 Shundagarh is a village on India’s east-facing coast. It is a village of simple mud and grass houses built on the beach just above the waterline. The Khadra Hills rise immediately behind the village, to a height of one hundred and fifty meters. A simple, good-hearted old man, whose name was Jalpur, farmed two small fields on the very edge of these hills. From his fields he could see the fishing boats that travelled up and down the coast. He could see the children playing on the sands; their mothers washing clothes on the flat stones where the Shiva River flowed into the sea; and their fathers landing the latest catch or repairing nets and telling stories that had no end.
    All Jalpur owned in the world were the clothes he wore day in and day out, the miserable(蹩脚的) hut that he slept in at night, a few tools and cooking pots ― and his fields. The corn that he grew was all that made life possible. If the weather was kind and the harvest was good, Jalpur could live happily enough ― not well, but happily. When the sun was fierce,and there was little or no rain, then he came close to the line between life and death.
    Last year the weather had been so kind, and the harvest promised to be so good, that Jalpur had been wondering whether he could sell all that he had and live with his son farther up the coast. He had been thinking about doing this for some years. It was his dearest wish to spend his last days with his son and his wife. But he would go only if he could give;he would not go if it meant taking food out of the mouths of his grandchildren. He would rather die hungry than do this.
    On the day when Jalpur decided that he would harvest his corn,sell it, and move up the coast, he looked out to sea and saw a huge wave, several kilometers out,advancing on the coast and on the village of Shundagarh. Within ten minutes everyone in Shundagarh would be drowned. Jalpur would have shouted,but the people were too far away to hear. He would have run down the hill, but he was too old to run. He was prepared to do anything to save the people of Shundagarh, so he did the only thing that he could do: he set fire to his corn. In a matter of seconds the flames were rising high and smoke was rising higher. Within a minute the people of Shundagarh were racing up the hill to see what had happened. There, in the middle of his blackened cornfield, they found Jalpur; and there they buried him.
    On his grave,they wrote the words:Here lies Jalpur, a man who gave, living: a man who died, giving.


56. Which of the following could Jalpur NOT see from his Fields?
   A. Mothers washing clothes.                B. Fathers taking their corn to market.
   C. Fishing boats traveling on the sea.     D. Children playing on the sands.

57. Why didn’t Jalpur live well?
   A. He didn’t work hard.         

   B. He had too many children to feed.
   C. He only depended on good weather and harvest for survival.
   D. The villagers kept taking his corn.
58. Jalpur’s dearest wish was to _____.
   A. move away from his son         

   B. take a vacation up the coast
   C. make a great deal of money in order to live an easy life
   D. spend his last days with his son and his wife
59. What did Jalpur do when he saw the huge wave?
   A. He set his corn on fire so the people of Shundagarh would leave the beach.
   B. He screamed loudly to get the villagers’ attention.
   C. He ran down the hill to tell the people.
   D. He stood still, not knowing what to do.
60. The villagers were thankful to Jalpur because he had_____.
   A. given his life in order to save theirs
   B. saved their village from being drowned by the wave
   C. given them many things during his life
   D. given them his corn in order to save them from hunger

Nobody likes to travel as  36   as I do, On business or for pleasure, 37   foot or by boat, I am ready to go 38   any time, But recently I was sitting in a railway station and complaining about the day 39   I left home.

       The  40   was simple, I had just found out that my train would be three hours  41  . I love traveling  42   I hate waiting!

       Suddenly I had  43  . Why  44   take a bus instead? I was about to hurry out of the train station  45   a well-dressed old man took me  46   the arm.

       “Young lady,” said the gentleman, “47   you find out the timetable before you rush to catch the  48   ?”

       I stared at 49   with my mouth open. 50   did he read my mind? Before I could say 51   , he smiled and added, “You are  52   how I knew about your plan? You see, my train is 53   running late, The same idea came to me.. But I have learned that it is not good for you to be  54   clever when you are traveling, shall I 55   you how I learned my lesson? By the time you know it, your train will be here.”

       “Okay,” I sat down.

 

36.

A. much

B. may

C. fast

D. well

37.

A. on

B. in

C. for

D. with

38.

A. places

B. where

C. any place

D. anywhere

39.

A. which

B. when

C. where

D. why

40.

A. reason

B. anger

C. idea

D. case

41.

A. late

B. later

C. early

D. earlier

42.

A. and

B. so

C. but

D. though

43.

A. an idea

B. a suggestion

C. a head

D. a thought

44.

A. no

B. not

C. nor

D. neither

45.

A. that

B. since

C. because

D. when

46.

A. in

B. round

C. by

D. with

47.

A. must

B. need

C. can’t

D. shouldn’t

48.

A. bus

B. train

C. plane

D. ship

49.

A. it

B. them

C. him

D. us

50.

A. Why

B. How

C. When

D. Where

51.

A. a question

B. a word

C. why

D. this

52.

A. thinking

B. wondering

C. asking

D. saying

53.

A. again

B. either

C. not

D. also

54.

A. very

B. too

C. much

D. such

55.

A. say

B. tell

C. speak

D. talk

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