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A young man works hard on his lessons. He is very busy studying. He doesn’t have __1__ to rest. After sometime, he falls ill.

Every night, when he goes to bed, he __2__ his eyes and tries to sleep. But he can’t. He thinks, “I must go to __3__ the doctor.”

He tells the doctor, “I can’t go to sleep at night.”

“Try counting(数) __4__ . When you reach 1,000,  you’ll be asleep,” says the doctor.

The next day the man goes back to the doctor’s office.

“Well,” says the doctor, “__5__ are you today?”

“Well,” the man says, “I tried counting one, two, three … up to 1,000. __6__ when I reached 569, I began __7__ feel sleepy(犯困的). I had to __8__ and __9__ some tea. Then I went on counting up to 1,000 again. But I __10__   couldn’t fall asleep.”

1.                A．water          B．food           C．time D．money

2.                A．closes          B．opens          C．washes   D．cleans

3.                A．look           B．call            C．see  D．listen

4.                A．colors          B．numbers        C．ages D．time

5.                A．where         B．when          C．which    D．how

6.                A．So             B．But            C．Then D．For

7.                A．to             B．of             C．at   D．out

8.                A．get up          B．get out         C．get in D．get to

9.                A．eat            B．drink           C．take D．drinks

10.               A．still            B．already         C．again D．Hardly

Mr. Jackson was on duty that evening. It was 1 and there was thick snow outside. So few people came to the hospital and he could  2 on the bed in his office and soon he went to sleep . Suddenly someone knocked at the door and it woke him up. He got up and opened the door. In went an old man. His wife was ill and he asked the doctor to go to look her over.

　It was still 3 when Mr. Jackson came out. The old farmer walked fast and he hardly catch up with him. It was 4 for him to walk on the snowy roads. When he got to the man’s house, he was very  5  . He looked over the old woman and found she had a bad cold. He gave her some 6 and began to return to the hospital. The wind was blowing strongly and he couldn’t walk too 7 .

　And when he was near the hospital, he had a pain in his foot.

　He walked slowly and at last he went into his office, He took 8 his shoe and looked at his foot. There was much blood on it. He  9 he stepped on a broken glass. He looked at his shoe carefully and said to  10 “Luckily, it didn’t prick my shoe!” 

1.                A．hot            B．warm          C．cool D．cold

2.                A．get down       B．put down       C．lie down  D．sit down

3.                A．snowing        B．shining         C．raining   D．singing

4.                A．happy          B．difficult         C．easy D．sad

5.                A．sorry          B．afraid          C．strange   D．tired

6.                A．medicine       B．food           C．water    D．sugar

7.                A．quickly         B．carefully        C．noisily    D．heavily

8.                A．off            B．up             C．on   D．away

9.                A．forgot          B．remembered    C．understood    D．told

10.               A．him           B．her            C．them D．himself

Mr. Johnson lives outside the town. He works in a post office. His wife is often ill and six children __26____ at school. He works hard but he is often short of __27____. In the end of every month his family are always__28____.

One afternoon, on his way home, it suddenly began to __29____. When he got home, he was wet through. He hurried to go __30____ after supper and his wife washed the clothes and shoes for him. __31____ she went to bed, she brought the clothes into the room but __32____ the shoes. The next morning Mr. Johnson couldn’t find his shoes. His wife found a pair of __33____ shoes under the bed for him. Then he went to __34____ and told the policeman about it.

“I __35____ ten dollars for my shoes, sir,” said the man. “Look! I have to __36____ such a pair of worn-out shoes!”

Several days later the police __37____ a thief and found the shoes. They were as worn-out as the __38____ which Mr. Johnson was wearing.

“You’ve fooled us, Mr. Johnson,” said a policeman. “The shopkeeper told me a pair of new shoes like them __39____ only seven dollars!”

“You’re right, ,sir,” said Mr. Johnson. “I’ve __40____ them for five years and I had them mended six times. And I paid three dollars to the shoemaker for mending them!”

Food is very important. Everyone needs to   36  well if he or she wants to have a strong body. Our minds also need a kind of food. This kind of food is   37  . We begin to get knowledge(知识) even when we are very young. Small children are  38  in everything around them. They learn  39   when they are watching and listening. When they are getting older, they begin to 40  story books, science books and anything they like. When they find something new, they love to ask questions and __41  to find out the answers.

What is the best  42  to get knowledge? If we learn by ourselves（自学）, we will__43 _the most knowledge. If we are  44  getting answers from others and do not ask why, we will not learn well. When we study in the right way, we will learn __45  and understand better.