Jim is an American boy. He likes __41__football matches, __42 __he hasn't enough (足够的) money to buy tickets. He has to watch the matches __43__TV at home when he has __44__homework. He must go to school from Monday to Friday, so he missed (错过) a lot of important football matches.

A big football match would be held (举行) in the afternoon the next day. __ 45 __wanted to watch it very much. But he couldn't. He would have a physics (物理) test in __46___afternoon.

"Can we have a video, mom?" Jim asked his mother __47___he went to school. "Then from our TV set you can record (录像) the match for me."

"I'm __48___we can't afford (买得起) one," said his mother. The next morning Jim went home with a smile, __49___a new video. "But where did you get the money, Jim?" His mother asked in surprise.

"That's __50 __, mom. I sold our TV set."

缺词填空（共10空；每空1分，计10分）

根据短文内容和首字母提示,在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整.（每空一词）

A woman was eating in a restaurant. She asked the waiter do many t  1   for her. Now she was g  2   the waiter a lot of trouble. F  3  , she asked the waiter to turn on the air conditioner because she f   1  too hot. Then she asked him to turn it o   2  because she was too cold. This went on and on for n   6  half an hour.

But the waiter was very kind and h   7 . He did everything the woman asked h  8  to do without getting angry. F 9 , someone else in the restaurant asked why the w  10   didn’t just throw the woman out. “Oh, I don’t care.” The waiter said. “We don’t even have an air conditioner.”

在下列各句的空格内填上一个适当的完整的单词，该词的首字母已给出。
【小题1】Don’t be afraid of m_________ mistakes when you speak English.
【小题2】He h       doing the chores because he thinks they’re boring.
【小题3】He will do better if you give him one more  c       .
【小题4】Thursday is the f________ day of a week, not the fourth.
【小题5】Jim is h         than Paul . That is to say，Paul is thinner than Jim.

Jim and Tom were eating at a restaurant（饭店）. On the table there was a cup of hot (辣

的)mustard（芥末）. Jim thought it was sweet and took a spoonful（汤匙） of it into his mouth. Tears (眼泪) ran down from his eyes. However, he wished Tom to do the same thing. So he said nothing. Tom saw Jim crying (哭), and asked,“What for, my friend?”

“I’m thinking of (想起) my father, he was hanged (被绞死)20 years ago,Jim said.Soon after Tom took a spoonful of mustard and when tears began to run down from his eyes, Jim asked “Why are you crying, then?”“I am thinking why you were not hanged 20 years ago.”

1.Where were Jim and Tom?

2.How was the mustard? It was.

3.How was Jim after he took a spoonful of hot mustard?

4.Tom also took a spoonful of hot mustard because

5.After Tom took a spoonful of mustard, he was.