He thought hard and then had ______.

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　　A. a piece of idea    B. an idea

　　Fred liked playing tricks on others. One afternoon he went to a shop and bought some bread. On his way home he saw Johnson, an old man of about sixty, was riding a donkey(驴). The boy walked to the old man and decided to play a trick on him. He thought for a while and then be had an idea.

　　“Hello, my friend,” Fred said in a loud voice. “Please come and have a piece of bread.”

　　“Thank you very much,” Johnson got off the donkey and said gladly. “But I have already had lunch.”

　　“I'm sorry, I'm talking to your donkey, not to you.” Fred said with a smile.

　　He became angry, but he didn't show his anger. He just turned quickly to his donkey, held up the lash（鞭子）and hit it on the back.

　　“Before we set off, I asked if you had friends in the town. You said again and again that you hadn't. Can you explain why the young man asked you to have the bread, then?”

　　The more the old man said, the less he could hide his anger. He finally shouted, “I'll beat you to death if you dare fool me again!”

A．beat his donkey to death in the end

B．thought the boy was talking to him

C．wanted to eat the bread

D．was angry to meet the boy

A．The old man didn't beat the donkey to death.

B．The old man taught Fred a lesson.

C．The old man beat the donkey to death.

D．The man played a trick on the boy in return.

(4) The best title（题目）for the article should be ________.

单项选择：按要求选出与下列加粗词意思最接近的词。

We didn't know how to find the sheep, at last Mr Li came up with an idea.

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　　One day a snake was s 1 in the sun at the foot of a m 2 . Suddenly a big stone rolled(滚) down off and fell on the snake. The stone was so h 3 that the snake could not m 4 . Just then a hare came by, he saw the snake I 5 under the stone. He helped the snake out of d 6 .

　　But the snake was so bad that he wanted to eat the hare i 7 .

　　When the clever deer knew w 8 happened. He thought for a few seconds and had an idea:

　　“Tell and s 9 me where you were, Mr Snake,” said the deer. “Then I'll tell who is right and who is wrong.”

　　阅读理解

　　Two women on a train were arguing (争论) . At last one of them called the conductor (列车员) . She said, “If this window is open, I will catch cold. And I'll probably (可能) die.”

　　The other woman said, “But if this window is shut, I will die. I will feel difficulty in breathing (呼吸困难).”

　　The conductor didn't know what to do . A man had been listening all the time . He said he had an idea .

　　“First open the window . That will kill (杀死) one,” he said . “Next shut it. That will kill the other, Then we can have peace.”

1．How did a man help the conductor?

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A．He told the conductor to open the window.

B．He told the conductor to shut the window.

C．He told the conductor to drive out (赶走)the two arguing women.

D．He told the conductor to first open the window and then shut it so that the two arguing women would die.

2．What did the man really mean?

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A．He really meant to kill the two woman.

B．He was really making fun of (取笑) the two women.

C．He was really making a fool of the conductor.

D．He wanted to show that he was cleverer than the conductor.

3．This story happened ________.

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4．Which one is not right?

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A．One woman wanted to open the window.

B．One woman wanted to shut the window.

C．Either open the window or shut the window, and one of the two women would die.

D．The conductor didn't know how to stop the argue.

5．This story tells us that ________.

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A．we should open the windows on a train.

B．we should shut the windows on a train.

C．we should help the conductor on a train.

D．we should be polite and peaceful on a train.