We were going to play against a team from a country school.They didn’t come until the last minute. They looked worse than we had thought. They were wearing dirty blue trousers and looked like farm boys.We sat down for a rest. We felt that we didn’t need any practice against a team like that.

The game began. One of us got the ball and he shot a long pass to our forward （前锋）. From out of nowhere a boy in an old T-shirt stopped the ball and with beautiful style, he shot and got two points. Then another two points in a minute. Soon the game was all over. We were beaten by the country team.  

After that, we thought a lot. We certainly learned that even though your team is very good, you can’t look down upon the others and still need to do you best. And the most important lesson we learned was: One can’t judge (判断) a person or a team only by their clothes.

1. The team from the country were in old clothes so the writer’s team _______.

A．looked down upon them

B．couldn’t win

C．didn’t like the city boy

D．were afraid of them

2.The country team arrived so late that _________.

A．nobody saw them

B．the writer’s team were angry

C．they had no time to warm up（热身）

D．they looked worse

3. The team from the country won because _________.

A．they were in old clothes

B．they didn’t practice before the game

C．they practiced before the game

D．the team was better than the writer’s

4.From the text, we can guess the writer’s team is _________.

A．a basketball from a country school

B．a football team from a school in the city

C．a basketball team from a school in the city

D．a football team from the country

5. The writer’s team learned a lot from the game. They got to know how to ______.

A．do better from then on

B．fight against the country boys

C．play against a weak team

D．judge a man or a team by clothes

动词填空 （本大题共8分，每小题1分）
【小题1】You had better ____________ ( not laugh ) at others because everybody makes mistakes.
【小题2】All the rules must ___________ (explain) to the players clearly before the game starts.
【小题3】---- It seems that you know a lot about the story.
---- Well. We _____________ (read) it many times.
【小题4】It is said that he devoted much of his time to _____________ (write) his new novel.
【小题5】Boys and girls, please read the guidebook carefully, or you ___________ (get) lost during the visit.
【小题6】Fifty students have entered the writing competition since it ___________ (hold) for the first time.
【小题7】He promised us that she ____________ (tell) him about the event at the proper time, but actually(事实上) she didn’t.
【小题8】Before our teacher reminded us, we ______________ (send) the e-mails.