After a long walk, Mary felt very ___1___ She wanted ___2___ something very much. Suddenly she saw an old house in front of her, so she went into the house. But she could find ___3___.“Is ___4___ in?”she cried. She couldn't hear ___5___. Then she seemed to hear something.“Is there anybody in the house?”she said to ___6___ . She ___7___ carefully again. But she could hear ___8___.

　　“Is there ___9___ with my ears?”she thought and felt afraid. She hurried off the house as ___10___ as she could.

One of Jack’s friends loves money very much, and he never gives anything to __35__. Soon he becomes very rich.

One day, while he was walking near a river__36__ his friends, he slipped（ 滑倒）and fell into the river. His friends ran to help him, and one of __37__ kneeled（跪）on the ground, held out his hand and said, “Give me your __38__, and I will pull you out!” The rich man’s head went under the __39__ and then came up again, but he didn’t give his hand. Again another one tried, but again __40__ thing happened.

Then Jack said，“__41__ my hand and I will pull you out!” The rich man took his hand, and Jack pulled him out of the water.

“You don’t know our __42__ very well,” he said to __43__, “when you say “Give’ to him, he does nothing, but when you say ‘Take’, he does what you tell him__44__.”

8.A. friends    B. friend          C. hand         D hands

    One day，the son，an American schoolboy，came home after school．He was very   1  ．He didn't pass the math exam．The father was very  2  with the son，so  the son was quite afraid(害怕)of him．Now the son went up to his father and said．

    “I'm  3  ，Father，but...”

    The father was  4  a newspaper．Now he stopped reading and looked at the  son，“What is the matter?" he asked．

    “I didn't pass the exam，”the son said．

    “What? You didn't  5  ?”the father shouted(喊叫)at the son．He was  6   .Then he asked，“You know  7  about Thomas Edison，don't you?”

    “Yes，answered the son，he was a great  8  inventor(发明家)．”

    “Right．He Was an inventor at your age，you know．”

    “But Father，I think you  9  something about Abraham Lincoln．”said the son．

    “Of course．Everybody knows him．”

    “Right，said the son．He was president(总统)of our   10  at your age，you know．”

    1．A．sad                   B．happy              C．hungry

    2．A．pleased              B．friendly            C．strict

    3．A．sick                  B．sorry              C．glad

    4．A．reading             B．writing            C．looking for

    5．A．again                 B．either               C．more

    6．A．angry                B．happy             C．sad

    7．A．anything          B．something    C．nothing

    8．A．Canadian           B．French             C．American

    9．A．don't know       B．want to know C．know

    10．A．city                B. town                C．country