Do you always understand the instructions on a bottle of medicine? Here’s one for John. John is twelve years old. He had a cold and coughed day and night. He went to a doctor and was given some cough medicine. Please read the following instructions and see if you can understand them.

1.John should take _____ a day.

A. 2 teaspoonfuls                B. 3 teaspoonfuls                C. 4 teaspoonfuls                D. 1 teaspoonful

2.The medicine should be kept in _____.

A. a fridge                                      B. hot water                         C. any place                         D. the sun

3.John should _____ before he takes it.

A. shake the medicine well                                             B. eat nothing

C. do some exercise                                                         D. drink a cup of tea

4.When people are ______ years old, they cannot take this medicine.

A. eighty                               B. thirty                                 C. two                                    D. twelve

5.John will _____ the medicine when it is left after December 1^st, 2006.

A. throw away                                                                    B. begin to take         

C. take once                                                                       D. take more than three times

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Mr. Black works in an office. His memory is very poor and often _1 something. One day his son had a cold and he had to __2___ him to hospital. When they got there, he remembered that he left his __3__ at home. He ran to the telephone box ___4__ and was going to ask his wife to take the money to him. But there was a woman in it. She was looking

up something in the telephone book. He had to stand outside to __5____. About ten minutes passed, she was still in it. His son began to cry on a chair in the waiting room. He was __6__. Another ten minutes passed, the woman didn’t __7__. Hw was more worried. He thought for a while and knocked at the door. The door ___8___and he went in.

“May I help you to look for the telephone number, madam?” asked Mr. Black.

“Thank you, sir,” said the woman, “ I don’t _9___ anybody up. I had a baby last moth and I’m only looking for a good ___10____ for her in the telephone book.

1 A. finds      B. fails      C. forgets      D. sees

2 A. throw     B. take       C. lift         D. help

3 A. wife       B. book     C. son         D. money

4 A. slowly     B. carefully  C. quickly      D. quietly 

5 A wait       B. sleep      C. sing        D. read

6 A. excited     B. relaxed   C. interested   D. worried

7 A. come out   B. come in   C. sit down     D. stand up

8 A. closed     B. opened    C. stopped     D. dropped

9 A. call       B. gave       C. wake       D. pick

10A. address   B. age        C. name       D. birthday

A: Hi, Li Jun. You were not at school yesterday.    56  

B: Oh, I had a headache and I had to ask for a sick leave.

A: Sorry to hear that.      57 

B: Yes, my mother took me to the hospital.

A:    58   

B: The doctor checked me over and said I had a cold.

A    59   

B: Yes, a little. The doctor told me to take the medicine three times a day and have plenty of water.

A:     60     

B: Yeh. Thank you.

A; You’re welcome.