(C)A Different Roast Every Day Alan worked in an office in the city. He worked very hard and really ——青夏教育精英家教网—

A．he got disappointed with his first class	B．he had prepared the topic before class
C．he wanted to calm down the students	D．he thought it was an easy topic

Joe wanted a bike. He asked his parents for the money and they had said he must 1 it.
But how? He thought about this 2 he walked home. Not many people wanted to ask kids to work for
3 . Maybe he could clear away snow for the neighbors. 4 this was summer. He’d have to
5 a long time for that. He couldn’t cut grass for their gardens 6 he had no tools to do the work with.
Then Joe saw one of his 7 , Dick, delivering 8 . I could do
that, he 9 . Maybe I could get the bike right 10 . I could pay
for it
11 each week. He ran to catch up
12 Dick．Joe asked 13 questions about having a paper route. He learned that 14 was possible to earn twenty-five dollars each week. He learned
15 the job took about three 16 each night. Dick gave him the
17 of the newspaper manager.
Joe almost flew home. After he had 18 his plan, his mother smiled. “I think it’s a great idea.” she said. “I’ll call the newspaper.”
“Wait Mom,” Joe said. “I’ll19 . After all, I’m going to be a businessman now.”
Joe’s mother smiled 20.

小题1:

A．buy

When I was a college student, I did a lot of traveling abroad. That was because a professor   小题1:  me to do so. She said, “Now it is the time for you to travel around the world,   小题2:  your knowledge through actual experiences and have fun?” I   小题3:  her.
Since I started to work for a   小题4:  company, however, I have done most of my traveling through the Internet. By using the Internet, I have seen the 小题5: of many cities on my computer screen. And I have really made business   小题6:, too. With the help of the Internet, I have also got   小题7:  about food in different countries.
Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were   小题8:  necessary when I happened to read a famous chef's (厨师) comment on the Internet. He said, “It is very difficult to have real Italian food in a foreign country, because we enjoy food and the
小题9:  around us at the same time. So why don't you fly over to Italy and enjoy real Italian   小题10:? “Those words reminded me of my 小题11: advice. As information technology   小题12: , you might be able to do without making some real trips. But this also means that you will miss the various   小题13:  you can get from traveling.
Today there are people who   小题14:  direct communication with others and spend much of their time on the Internet. It is not surprising to see a group of people 小题15: not with each other but into their micro phones. It seems as if such people are 小题16: by an invisible wall. They seem to be losing out on a good chance to 小题17:  and talk with other people. I do not think that they are taking good advantage of information technology. We should use information technology as a tool to make our daily   小题18:  more fruitful. However, we should never let it   小题19:  our time for face to -face communication. Let's make use of information technology more   小题20: , and have great fun in experiencing the actual world.

Dine with General St. Amour
General St. Amour was famous for his bravery, but he was born into the family of a poor peasant. Even when he became a general, he never   小题1:  his humble origin（卑微的出身）.
While his   小题2:  was stationed in his hometown, he invited some of his principal officers to a dinner party at a   小题3: . They had just sat down at the table when his father   小题4:  to drop in on him. When the guard   小题5:  it to the general, he   小题6:  rose and told his guests that his father had   小题7: .
He said that he knew the   小题8:  he owed to them, but at the same time he hoped they would excuse him   小题9:  he withdrew (退出) because he would like to   小题10:  with his father in another room.
Hearing what he said, all the guests present   小题11:  that the father should be introduced to them, 小题12:  that they would be very pleased to see one who was so closely   小题13:  to him. But to their 小题14: , General St. Amour replied, “Ah, no, gentleman. You are   小题15:  wrong. I mean my father would find himself so   小题16:  in company with so many people who are unsuited to his rank.   小题17: , it would deprive(剥夺) us both of the only pleasure of the   小题18:  ——the natural intercourse(交流) of a parent and his son.”
He then   小题19:  himself from the table and spent the evening dining with his father.
The moral of the story is: you can’t give people   小题20: , but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people keep their pride.

One morning, Charley, a little green frog, was sitting in a pond by the side of the road.
Wanda, the neighborhood witch(女巫), was walking along the road. She was a good witch and dreamt to become a fairy godmother who can save people from trouble with magic powers. Wanda had been learning fairy godmother magic for 103 years. That morning, she decided to try the magic she had learned and bring happiness to others.
Seeing Wanda, Charley cried, “Hi, Wanda.”
“Hi, Charley,” replied Wanda, “I have a surprise for you.”
Then, Wanda waved her wand(魔杖), said a magic word, and Charley turned into a prince!
When Charley-turned-prince looked at himself in the water, he cried, “Hey! You turned me into a prince! It’s a surprise all right, but I don’t want to be a prince! Change me back right now!”
“Oh, dear,” Wanda said. “You shouted so loud that I forgot the way to change you back. But who wouldn’t rather be a prince?”
“I wouldn’t!” cried Charley. “I want to be a frog!” He stuck out his tongue, missing a bug (虫子)flying by the end of his nose. “Look at that, Wanda! I was a good fly catcher. But now, this tongue is too short! Please change me back!”
“I can’t, Charley. But you’ll learn to be happy as a prince.” She waved her wand, and suddenly a castle appeared. Out of the castle dozens of musicians were playing various instruments. “Charley! You’ll have servants, eat delicious foods, and you can sing and dance and snap fingers(弹响指).”
“No!” Charley interrupted, “I don’t want all these! I want bugs!” Charley cried. “I don’t want to sing and dance! And why would I do something as silly as snapping my fingers?”
“Snapping fingers!” cried out Wanda. “That’s what I forgot!” She snapped her fingers, cried “Upsi-doodle!” and the castle and musicians disappeared and the prince became a little green frog.”
Charley looked at himself in the water. “ You did it, Wanda. Oh, happy day! I’m a frog.”
“I must apologize, Charley,” Wanda said, “You are a happy frog. I should know this a moment ago.”
小题1:Wanda turned Charley from a frog into a prince .

A．of her own will	B．to play a joke on him
C．at the request of charley	D．to teach Charley a lesson

小题2:After the little green frog became a prince, he . .

A．was grateful to Wanda	B．wanted a great palace
C．couldn’t recognize Wanda	D．became angry with Wanda

小题3:At the end of the story, Wanda probably felt . .

小题4:According to the passage, which of the following conclusions can we get?

A．Just be yourself	B．Do nothing by halves
C．Helping others is a virtue	D．Where there is a will, there is a way

He’s an old cobbler(修鞋匠) with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me, “I haven’t time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street. He’ll fix them for you right away.”
But I had my eyes on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman(手艺人). “No.” I replied, “The other fellow can’t do it well.”
“The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys — without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap(鞋带), you might as well just throw away the pair.
My man saw I wouldn't give in, and he smiled. He wiped hands on his blue apron(围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back in a week.”
I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.
“See what I can do?” he said with pride. “Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work.”
When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange dusty felt hat, his funny accent and his pride in his craft.
These are times when nothing is important but the bottom line, when you can do things any old way as long as it “pays”, when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption rather than a way to realize their abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.
小题1:Which of the following is true about the old cobbler?

A．He was equipped with the best repairing tools.

B．He was the only cobbler in the Marais.

C．He was proud of his skills.

D．He was a native Parisian.

小题2:The sentence “He was something out of an ancient legend” implies that ______.

A．nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him

B．it was difficult to communicate with this man

C．the man was very strange

D．the man was too old

小题3:According to the author, many people work just to ______.

A．realize their abilities	B．gain happiness
C．make money	D．gain respect

小题4:This story wants to tell us that ______.

A．craftsmen make a lot of money	B．whatever you do, do it well
C．craftsmen need self-respect	D．people are born equal

Very far away from the city lived a poor farmer and his wife. In front of their house was a small dirt road. Very few cars drove on this road because it was so far from the city. On the dirt road, there was a big hole filled with water. The hole was very deep, but drivers on the road didn't know just how deep. Drivers always drove into the hole, but they never drove out.
One day, a man in a new car was driving down the road. He saw the hole with the water, but he didn't think it was very deep. He drove into the hole, but he couldn't drive out. The man saw the farmer on his tractor working in the field, and he signaled to the farmer. The farmer drove over to the man in the new car.
“Is there a problem?”asked the farmer.
“Yes,”said the man.“My car is stuck in this hole. Can you help me?”
“Maybe,”said the farmer.“But I'm very busy.”
“lf you help me, I'll pay you,” said the man.
“OK,”said the farmer. The farmer pulled the car out of the hole with his tractor, and the man paid him a lot of money. The man looked at the farmer and said,“You must. make a lot of money pulling cars out of this hole day and night.”
“Actually, no,”said the farmer.
“Why not?”asked the man.
“The hole is very deep, and a lot of people get stuck and ask for help. But I don't make money day and night because I don't pull cars out at night.”
“At night I'm busy filling the hole with water,” answered the farmer.
小题1:The reason why few cars drove on the small dirt road was that __________ .

A．there was a big and deep hole	B．the couple was not polite enough
C．it had a long distance from the city	D．drivers were afraid of being in the hole

小题2:According to paragraph 2, we can know about the man in a new car __________ .

A．he just learned to drive a car	B．it was the first time that he passed there
C．he knew how deep the hole was	D．he knew the farmer in the field

小题3:What did the farmer usually do at night?

A．He helped pull out cars.	B．He made money.
C．He filled water to the hole	D．He slept at home.

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