One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking a  1   how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very s  2   , gently shaking his head and saying “You don’t say!” I was puzzled, and I thought “P  3   this is not the right thing to talk about. So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?”

“Certainly! Everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without s  4   it. The Great Wall is wonderful.” “Yes, it is one of the wonders in the w  5   . And people of many countries have come to visit it.” As I went on telling him m  6   about it, he stopped me again “You don’t say!”

I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?”

“Well, I didn’t ask you to do so,” he answered, gently surprised.

“Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say!’?” I asked again.

Hearing this, the foreigner laughed l  7   . He began to e  8   , “ ‘You don’t say!’ means ‘Really!’. Perhaps you know l  9   about English idioms（惯用语）.”

Wow! How f  10   I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.

You can probably all ride a bike well，I’m an exception（例外）．

   When I was 5 my cousin gave me a beautiful pink bike At the time，my parents were too__1__ to teach me how to ride，it．So I __2__ learn by myself．

  I practiced hard. Gradually（逐渐地）I learned how to ride, __3__I sill didn’t know how to make turns.

  One summer vacation, I borrowed an old bike and rode it with my friends on a country road we sang and practiced our __4__ skills, Suddenly, a small boy ran into the road, I was shocked （震惊的）and I couldn’t __5__the bike. My bike crashed into the boy and he fell, Luckily he wasn’t seriously hurt, But the __6__scared me I no longer dared（敢）to ride a bike

  Then, last year, Hangzhou started to _7__free bikes. My mother encouraged me to ride After practicing in the yard for two days, I tried to ride on the road. The traffic__8__me so nervous that I had to ride really __9__

  But I’m not going to give up. One day, believe me, you’d see me riding a bike __10__a professional bike rider in a small alley or big street

（   ）1．A．tired              B．busy           C．old              D．excited

（   ）2．A．might               B．needed         C．could            D．had to

（   ）3．A．although             B．and            C．or              D．instead

（   ）4．Driving              B．playing         C．riding           D．singing

（   ）5．A．help              B．ride           C．stop             D．see

（   ）6．A．opportunity        B．event          C．lessons          D．experience

（   ）7．A．offer             B．give           C．borrow         D．sell

（   ）8．A．got              B．had            C．brought        D．made

（   ）9．A．fast             B．careful        C．slowly         D．differently

（   ）10．A．with           B．like           C．as             D．for

1. 我今天值日,必须早到校。

I’m                         today, and I must get to school early.

2. 你能尽快把它还给我吗?

     Could you please           it.            to me as soon as possible?

3. 他经常梦想到那所著名的大学去进一步深造。

     He often                        entering that famous university for further study.

4. 他不小心跌倒并摔断了左腿。

     He was not careful. He                         and broke his left leg.    .

5. 恐怕普通人买不起这么贵的房子。

I’m         that ordinary people can’t           to buy         an expensive house.

6. 到目前为止,盖茨夫妇已捐赠了240亿美元帮助穷人。

          , the Gates have                        twenty-four billion dollars to help the pool people.

7. 必须采取措施防止此类事故再次发生。

    Something must               to     his kind of accident                  again.

Mrs. Ball has a son. His name is Mick. She __1__ him very much and as he is not a __2 __ child, she is always __3__ that he may be ill, __4__ she takes him to see the best __5__ in the town four times a year and the doctor always looks him over__6__.

During one of these __7__, the doctor gives Mick all kinds of tests and then says to him, “Do you have any __8__ with your nose or ears these days?” Mick __9__ for a second and then answers, “Yes, I __10__.”

Mrs. Ball is very __11__. “But I’m sure you don’t tell me about__12__, Mick!” She says worriedly. “Oh, really?” Says the doctor seriously(严肃地). “And what trouble do you have __13__ your nose and ears, my boy?”“Well,” answers Mick, “I always have trouble with them when I’m __14__ my sweater off, because the __15__ is very tight（紧）.”