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　　Once, there was a good doctor called Mr Blake. He was generous (慷慨的), kind - hearted and hard - working. He not only helped people with his medical care but also gave money to the poor people. In all kinds of weather and at any time his patients(病人) needed him, he would go to them immediately, so they loved him and trusted him very much.

　　But now he was growing old and weak (虚弱的) . He could not hear clearly and remember things well. When people noticed this, they did not go to him for medical advice any more, for they were afraid that the doctor might give them the wrong medicine.

　　He was very surprised to find that his patients were getting fewer and fewer.

　　He went everywhere to ask the people the reason. People did not want to hurt (伤害)this good man, so they all told him that he had cured (治愈) all the patients. No one was sick. The poor doctor believed their words and went home happily .

根据短文内容，判断正误，正确的填“Ｔ”，错误的填“Ｆ”

(1) People loved Mr Blake and trusted him very much because he was generous, kind - hearted and hard - working .

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(2) Though Mr Blake was growing old and weak, he could still hear clearly and remember things well.

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(3) People did not go to him for medical advice any more because they were afraid of getting the wrong medicine.

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(4) People did not tell him the truth (实话) because they had no money to pay him.

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(5) Mr Blake went home happily because he believed the words of the people.

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　　Mark Twain, as you know, was famous in his day as a public speaker. In his public speeches he always liked to tell funny (可笑的) stories. He also liked to listen to funny stories and to play jokes on his friends. One day one of his friends lost his wallet and asked Mark Twain to pay his train fare(费用)for him.

　　“But I don't have enough money to pay both your fare and mine.”Mark Twain said. The friend did not know what to do.

　　“We can do this.” said Mark Twain, “We can get on the train and when the conductor comes to check the tickets, you can hide under my seat. ”

　　Later, however, when the conductor came to check the tickets, Mark Twain gave him two tickets - one for his friend and one for himself. Then he explained in a loud voice.

　　“My friend here is a strange man. When he travels on a train, he doesn't like to sit on the seat. He prefers to lie on the floor under the seat.” Of course everyone on the train looked at the poor friend and laughed at him loudly.

(1) The friend asked Mark Twain to buy a ticket for him because ________.

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A．his wallet was stolen

B．his money was lost

C．he was too poor to buy one

(2) Mark Twain told his friend he couldn't buy him a ticket because ________.

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A．he wanted to play a joke on him

B．he didn't have enough money

C．he didn't find his wallet, either

(3) When the conductor came to check the tickets, the friend ________.

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(4) Mark Twin spoke in a loud voice because ________.

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A．he wanted all the people in his car to know there was a man under the seat

B．the conductor was standing far away

C．he enjoyed doing so

(5) Which of the following sentences is true? ________.

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A．The friend didn't know Mark Twain had bought a ticket for him

B．Both Mark Twain and his friend got on the train without a ticket

C．The conductor didn't check their tickets

阅读下面这张飞机航班表，回答问题。

(1) What does 2045 mean? It means ________

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A．twenty forty-five in the evening.

B．eight forty-five in the morning.

C．a quarter past eight in the evening.

D．a quarter to nine in the evening.

(2) What is the flight number Beijing to Abu Dhabi?

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(3) How long does it take to fly from Beijing to Doha?

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(4) On what days can one fly from Beijing to Dubai leaving and arriving in the morning?

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A．Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

B．Monday, Thursday and Wednesday.

C．Wednesday.

D．Friday.

(5) When is it possible for one to fly from Beijing to Abu Dhabi and then to Bahrain on the same day?

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A．Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

B．Monday.

C．Wednesday.

D．It's not possible.

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　　Mr Smith moved to another town, and soon he needed a new doctor, so he went to see one. He sat down in the waiting room and looked around. The doctor's degrees (学位证书) were on the wall. Suddenly Mr Smith remembered: there had been a classmate with the same name in his class at the school, and he had become a doctor!

　　As he went in to see the doctor, he remembered a young, handsome (英俊的) student, and was sad to see how old and heavy(迟钝的) and grey (头发灰白的) this man looked. He said to him, “Good morning, Doctor. Did you go to King High School.?”

　　The doctor answered, “Yes, I did.”

　　“Were you there from 1942 to 1946?”

Mr Smith asked.

　　“Yes, I was. ” the doctor answered, “How did you know?”

　　Mr Smith laughed and said, “You were in my class !”

　　“Oh?” the doctor said and looked at him carefully for a few moments.

　　“What were you teaching?”

根据短文内容，从各小题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中选择正确答案。

(1) Mr Smith ________ , so he needed a new doctor.

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A．visited a town

B．went to live in another town

C．went away from a town

D．arrived in a town

(2) Mr Smith saw the doctor's degrees ________.

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A．on the wall of the doctor' s office

B．on the doctor's desk

C．on the wall of the waiting room

D．on the desk in the waiting room

(3) Mr Smith suddenly found the doctor's name was the same as one of his ________.

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(4) When Mr Smith met the doctor, he asked him if he once ________.

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A．visited King High School

B．studied in King High School

C．taught in King High School

D．worked in King High School

(5) Who were in King High School from 1942 to 1946?

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A．Only the doctor.

B．Only Mr Smith.

C．Both Mr Smith and the doctor.

D．Neither of them.

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　　Mr Green was a dance teacher. He was a nice man and always had a lot of students. They came to his class every week. One year, he moved to a new town, and was soon teaching a lot of students in the dance school there, but then he decided to move again to a big city. He said that he would have more work there.

　　A woman came to his classes quite often. When the woman heard that he was going to leave, she said, “A new teacher will take your place, won't he? But I do not think he will be as good as you are. ”

　　Mr Green was happy when he heard this, but he said, “Oh, no! I'm sure he'll be as good I am ________ even better. ”

　　The woman said, “No, five teachers have come and gone while I've been here, and each new one was worse than the last. ”

(1) Mr Green taught dancing ________.

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(2) His students came to his classes ________.

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(3) Mr Green moved to a big city because

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A．he wanted to do more work

B．he wanted to teach the woman

C．a better teacher will take his place

D．he was worse than the last

(4) The woman thought that ________.

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A．Mr Green wouldn't be as good as the next teacher

B．Mr Green was the best teacher of all the teachers

C．Mr Green was not a good teacher

D．Mr Green would be better than the next one but is worse than the last one

(5) From the story we know that Mr Green was the ________ dance teacher.

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　　Smith is one of my friends. He can run very fast. He is proud of this and he is always ready to show people how fast he can run.

　　One day a thief broke into his house, took some of his things and ran out of the house as fast as he could. Smith ran after him, shouting, “Hey! stop! Don't you know you can't get away from me?”

　　But the thief only ran faster. Smith got angry. He tried his best to run. He was soon several miles away from his home. He was still rushing along when he knocked into me. “Why are you in such a hurry?” I asked. “I'm trying to catch a thief, ” said Smith. “But where is the thief ? ” I asked. “Miles and miles behind, ” said Smith with a smile. “He thought he could run faster than I, but you see he's wrong. ”

(1) Smith is always proud of ________.

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(2) What happened to Smith one day?

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A．A thief stole some of his things.

B．His friend broke into his house.

C．A thief broke into his friend's house.

D．He stole some things of his friends.

(3) Smith got angry because ________.

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(4) Did Smith catch the thief at last?

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(5) Who do you think is foolish?

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　　A young man who did not have much money was coming home by train one day. He gave his last few coins to a beggar, but then he saw another one, and forgot that he didn't have any money about him. He asked the beggar to have lunch with him, and the beggar agreed. So they went into a small hotel and had a good meal. In the end, the man could not pay. Of course the beggar had to do so.

　　The young man was very sorry for this, so he said to the beggar, “Come home with me in a taxi, my friend, and I'll gave you back the money for lunch. ”“Oh, no!”the beggar answered quickly. “I have to pay for your taxi home too!”

(1)From the passage we can guess that “coin” is a kind of ________.

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(2)That day the young man had his lunch ________.

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(3)The beggar didn't want to go to the man's home by taxi because ________.

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A．he had no money to pay for the taxi

B．he didn't want to pay for the taxi

C．he didn't want to get back the money for lunch

D．he didn't want to give the man any trouble

(4)What kind of person would you think the young man was?

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阅读短文，根据其内容选择正确答案。

　　“Dreams(梦) may be more important than sleep . Some people don't need much sleep. But we all need to dream,” scientists say.

　　Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time . People have several dreams each night . Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are like old films. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.

　　Some people get new ides about their work from dreams . They could have been thinking (想过) about their work all day . These thoughts can carry over into dreams .

　　Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can't remember the dream. Dreams can disappear(消失) quickly from memory (记忆) .

　　Too much dreaming can be harmful (有害的) . The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream . That is why we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired .

(1) It may be less important to sleep than to ________ .

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(2) Dreams and films are usually ________ .

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(3) Why do the people often dream about their work? Because ________ .

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A．they are tired in the daytime

B．they are not interested in their work

C．they may be thinking about their work all day

D．they have too much work to do

(4) The main idea of the story is that ________ .

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A．people need to dream

B．people like to sleep

C．dreams are like films

D．we always remember dreams

(5) The title (标题) for the story is ________ .

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On Friday evening, we went to the Town Hall. It was the last day of the year and a lot of people were under the Town Hall clock. It would strike twelve in twenty minutes' time, Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minute hand didn't move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Suddenly some one shouted, “It's two minutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!” I looked at my watch, it was true. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment, everybody began to laugh and sing.

(1) We went to the Town Hall ________.

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(2) There were ________ people under the big clock.

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(3) How soon would the clock strike twelve?

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(4) The big clock stopped at ________.

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(5) The big clock ________ to welcome the New Year.

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(6) The people there began to ________ then.

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　　The worst tourist (旅行者) in the world is Nicholas Scotti of San Francisco. Once he flew from the U . S . to his hometown in Italy to see someone at home . The plane made a one-hour stop to get oil at Kennedy Airport of New York . As he thought he had arrived home, Mr. Scotti got off the plane . He thought he was in Rome .

　　When nobody was there to meet him, Mr. Scotti thought maybe they were held up (阻拦) by heavy traffic . While looking for their addresses, Mr. Scotti found that the old “Rome” had changed a lot. Many old buildings were replaced by high modern ones.

　　He also found that many people spoke English instead of Italian and that many street signs were written in English .

　　Mr. Scotti knew very little English, so he asked a policeman (in Italian) the way to the bus station . He happened to meet a policeman who was also born in Italy and answered him in the same language .

　　After twelve hours'travelling round on a bus, the driver handed him over to a second policemen . He asked the policeman why the Rome police employed (雇佣) so many people as policemen speaking English instead of Italian .

　　Mr. Scotti didn't believe he was in New York when he was told so .

　　To get him on a plane back to San Francisco, he was sent to the airport in a police car with sirens (警报) on. “Look,” said Scotti to his interpreter (翻译) , “I know I'm in Italy . That' s how they drive . ”

(1) When Mr. Scotti arrived at the airport, nobody met him because ________.

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A．he was in New York

B．he wanted to leave the U. S.

C．policemen could help him

D．both A and B

(2) In what direction (方向) did the plane fly when Mr. Scotti went to Italy from the U. S. ?

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(3) Why was Mr. Scotti so sure that he was in Rome?

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A．Because he traveled a lot.

B．Because he knew little about the U. S.

C．Because he knew little about Italy.

D．Because he didn 't travel much.

(4) At last, Mr. Scotti ________.

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A．knew he did something wrong

B．still thought he was in Rome

C．knew he was wrong

D．knew he was at home

(5) How many people do the same things as Mr. Scotti did?

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A．Nobody but Mr. Scotti made this kind of mistake .

B．Many people make this kind of mistake .

C．Few people make this kind of mistake.

D．50% of people will make the same mistake .