Ali, who was working a long way from home wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read
nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At
last he found the house of a letter writer whose name was Nasreddin.
     Nasreddin was already in bed. It is late, he said. What do you want? I want you to write a letter to my wife,
said Ali, Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, Has the letter got to go far?
What does that matter? answered Ali. Well, my writing is so strange that only I can read it, and if I have to
travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it will cost you a lot of money. Ali went away quickly.

1. Ali wanted to ____ to his wife.

A. get something
B. have a letter written
C. bring a flower
D. say good-bye

2. At last he found the house of ____.

A.a writer
B.a seller
C.an old man
D.a letter-writer

3. When Ali told what he wanted to do Nasreddin was ____.

A.not pleased
B.pleased
C.excited
D.angry

4. Nasreddin said that his writing was ____.

A.easy for anyone to read
B.strange for anyone to read
C. too strange for anyone to write
D.difficult for anyone to read

5. This story tells us ____.

A.not to ask anybody for help
B.not to trouble others at night
C.not to ask for help without money
D.not to trust others

     An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly
spent all the money, so that soon he had nothing left. Of course, when that happened, all his friends left him.
When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man and often
helped people when they had troubles.
     My money has finished and my friends have gone, said the young man. What will happen to me now?
     Don't worry, young man, answered Nasreddin. Everything will soon be all right again. Wait, and you will
soon feel much happier.
     The young man was very glad. Am I going to get rich again then? He asked Nasreddin. No, I didn't mean
that, said the old man. I meant that you would soon get used to being poor and to having no friends.

1. An old man died and left his son ______.

A.nothing
B.some gold
C.much money
D.only a house

2. When the son was ______, he went to see Nasreddin.

A.short of money
B.quite poor and sick
C.in trouble
D.quite poor and alone

3. The young man was very glad because Nasreddin said that ______.

A.he would become rich again
B.he would soon feel much happier
C.he would become clever
D.he would have more friends

4.Nasreddin meant the young man ______.

A.would get rich again
B. would get used to having nothing
C.would get used to being in trouble
D.would get out of poorness

5. What this story tells us is ______.

A.that money is everything
B.that money makes the mare go
C.to save each penny
D.that misfortune tests the sincerity of friends

　Once Einstein gave a lecture in many places in America. His driver always listened to him and knew the lecture
so well that he was sure be could give it himself. So Einstein agreed that the driver gave the lecture him. 
    As nobody knew Einstein there, the driver gave the lecture for Einstein that evening. At first he was a bit
afraid, but Einstein's smile made him feel better. He gave a good lecture and the people were quite pleased. 
    Then the driver started to leave and Einstein followed him without a word. When they got to the door, a man
asked the driver a difficult question.
    The driver said that the question was very easy, and told the man to ask his driver behind to answer it.

    根据短文内容填空，每空限填一词。
    Einstein gave the (1) ______ lecture again and again. His driver (2) ______ to his lecture so many times
(3) ______ he wanted to give it (4) ______. When Einstein knew it, he let the driver (5) ______ the lecture for
him that night. The driver gave a (6) ______ lecture and the great scientist was quite pleased. 
    When they were (7) ______ the lecture room, a man asked the driver a question. To show (8) ______ easy
the question was, the driver asked Einstein who followed him (9) ______ to answer it (10) ______ of him.

     A man was travelling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and went shopping. When he came
back, its roof was badly damaged.
     Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to a
circus which was near there. The owner of the elephant said, I am very sorry! My elephant has a big, round,
red chair. He thought that your car was his chair, and he sat on it!
     Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that he was sorry and that he would pay for all the damage.
     When the man got back to his own country, the customs officers would not believe his story. They said,
You sold your new car while you were abroad and bought this old one! It was only when the man showed
them the letter from the circus man that believed him.

1.A man was travelling abroad ______.

A.in a big bus
B.in a green jeep
C.in a red car
D.in a red taxi

2.The car was damaged because ______.

A.there was a traffic accident
B.the circus man broke it
C.it rushed into a shop
D.the elephant sat on it

3.The circus man said that ______.

A.he would pay for part of the damage
B.he would pay for all of the damage
C.he wouldn't pay for the damage
D.he would buy a new car

4.When the man got back to his country, the customs officers ______.

A.would check his new car
B.only checked his car
C.searched him
D.wouldn't believe what he had said,

5.It was only ______ that made the officers believe him.

A.the letter from the circus man
B.a newspaper from the country
C.the certificate of his
D.the letter from the government

    It was half-past eight in the morning. The telephone bell rang and Mary went to answer it. It's me-Peter.
Hello, who's that? she asked.
    Peter was a friend of Mary's eight-year-old brother, Johnny.
    Oh hello, Peter. What do you want? said Mary.
    Can I speak to Johnny?
     No, said Mary, you can't speak to him now. He is busy. He is getting ready for school. He is eating his
breakfast. Grandmother is combing his hair. Sister is under the table, putting his shoes on. Mother is getting
his books and putting them in his school bag. Goodbye, I've got to go now. I have to hold the door open.
The school bus is coming.

1.Who went to answer it when the teltphone bell rang?

A.Johnny's sister
B.Peter
C.Johnny
D.Johnny's mother

2.Whom did Peter want to speak to?

A.Mary's brother
B.Mary's sister
C.Mary's grandmother
D.Johnny's mother

3.Johnny couldn't speak to Peter because Johnny ______.

A.was combing his hair
B.was putting his shoes on
C.was getting his books
D.was busy eating his hreakfast

4.How do you say to a stranger who is answering your telephone?

A.Who are you?
B.Anything to say?
C.Who is it?
D.Please

5.From this story we know that Johnny was _____.

A.a lazy boy
B.a clever boy
C.a busy boy
D.a hungry boy

    Farmer John and Farmer Bob were neighbours. For more than 30 years, they had been getting along very
well.
    Then their good relationship broke. It began with a small thing, then bitter words, and then weeks of silence.
One morning Farmer John woke up to find a stream between the two farms."It must be Bob," John thought.
    Then one day there was a knock on John's door. He opened it to find a carpenter (木匠) standing at the door
way.
    "I'm looking for a few days' work," the carpenter said.
    "I do have a job for you," John said."Look across the stream at that farm. That's my neighbour Bob. He dug
a stream between the two farms. I want you to build a fence-an 8-foot fence. I don't want to see his place or his
face any more. I don't have such a neighbour!"
    The carpenter said,"I think I know what to do, sir, and I'll be able to do a job that pleases you."
    Farmer John helped the carpenter get the materials(材料) ready and then he was off for the day.
    About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job. The farmer's eyes opened
wide. There was no fence there at all!
    It was a bridge! And the neighbour, Bob, was coming across, with his hand outstretched (伸出). "Hi, John!
You're quite a fellow to build this bridge!"
    Then they met in the middle, taking each other's hands."I'm terribly sorry for what I have said and done. We
should be good to each other." said Farmer Bob.
    Then they turned to see the carpenter, who was ready to go."No, wait! Stay a few days. I have a lot of other
jobs for you," said Farmer John."I'd love to stay," the carpenter said,"but I have more bridges to build."

1. Just before the carpenter came, John and Bob              each other.

A. didn't speak to
B. were friendly to
C. often fought with
D. never had bitter words with

2. Farmer John asked the carpenter to build a fence because              .

A. he wanted to protect his farm
B. he didn't want to do it himself
C. he wouldn't like to see Bob
D. he wanted to find him something to do

3. What does the sentence "You're quite a fellow to build this bridge!" mean?

A. John was great to build this bridge.
B. John was not good at building bridges.
C. John was foolish to build such a bridge.
D. John should build the bridge earlier.

4. What do you think of the carpenter?

A. Shy.
B. Wise.
C. Proud.
D. Careless.

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A. What a Big Fence!
B. A Strong Bridge
C. Three Kind Men
D. A Fence or a Bridge?

    A judge was working in his room one day when a neighbour ran in and said, If one man's cow kills
another's, is the owner of the first cow responsible?
    It depends, answered the judge. Well, said the man, your cow has killed mine.
    Oh, answered the judge. Everyone knows that a cow cannot think like a man, so a cow is not responsible,
and that means that its owner is not responsible either.
    I am sorry, Judge, said the man. I made a mistake. I meant that my cow killed yours.
    The judge thought for a few seconds and then said, When I think about it more carefully, this case is not
as easy as I thought at first. And then he turned to his clerk and said, Please bring me that big blackbook
from the shelf behind you.

1.The neighbour asked the judge ______.

A.whether the first cow was responsible
B.whether the owner of the first cow was responsible
C.whether both cows were responsible
D.whether both the owners were responsible

2.When the neighbour reported that the judge's cow had killed his, the judge answered that ______.

A.a cow was reponsible
B. its owner was not responsible
C.neither a cow nor its owner was responsible
D.his cow was responsible

3.When the neighbour heard this, he told the judge that ______.

A.there was nothing happened
B. his cow had been killed
C.it was his cow that had killed the judge's
D.both cows had been killed

4.When the judge heard that his cow had died, he ______.

A.got angry
B.said nothing
C.put his neighbor into prison
D.changed what he had said at first

5.In this story the judge was ______.

A. a clever judge
B.a humorist
C.unfair
D.foolish

     Uncle Wang works in a book shop in the middle of the city. The shop is not far from his home. It is about
one kilometre away. So Uncle Wang seldom (很少) goes to work by bus. He usually goes there by bike,
sometimes on foot. It takes (花费) him twenty minutes to get there by bike and forty minutes on foot. Today
his bike is broken. He wants to walk there. Now he is having breakfast. He leaves home at ten minutes to eight
and he walks to work twenty minutes earlier. His work starts at half past eight in the morning and finishes at a
quarter to five in the afternoon.

1. What does Uncle Wang do?

A. He sells books.
B. He grows flowers.
C. He makes shoes.
D. He works in a hospital.

2. Why does he seldom go to work by bus? Because           . 

A. there is no bus
B. his shop is not far from his home
C. he likes riding a bike
D. his shop isn't in the middle of the city

3. How long does it take him to walk to his book shop?

A. Twenty minutes
B. Forty minutes
C. Ten minutes
D. Half an hour

4. What time does he usually leave home by bike?

A. At ten minutes to eight
B. At half past eight
C. At ten minutes past eight
D. At twenty minutes past eight

5. He usually gets back home from work at            in the afternoon.

A. 4:45
B. 5:15
C. 4:55
D. 5:05

    Once a small boy lived on the farm which seemed so far away from everywhere.
    He needed to get up before sunrise every morning to help his father on the farm. During sunrise he would take
a break and climb up on the fence along the side of the farm. He could see a house with a golden windows. "If
they could afford golden windows, then there must be other nice things inside the house." He imagined how
great it would be to live there. Then he promised himself, "Some day I will go there and see this wonderful
place". 
    One morning his father would go to the town and told him to stay at home for a rest. Knowing that this was
his chance, he took a sandwich and headed across the field towards the house with the golden windows.
    As the afternoon went on, he began to realize how wrong he was. The house was much father than he had
expected. As he went near the house, he saw no golden widows but instead a place in bad need of painting. A
small girl very close to his age came out of the poor house and stood be the broken fence. He asked her if she
had seen the house with the golden windows. The girl said, "Sure, I know," and invited her to sit on the porch
(门廊). As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came. There he saw the sunset (夕阳) turned the
windows of his house to gold! Now he understood that everyone had his own house with golden windows.

1. During his break every morning, the small boy would_______.

A. fix the fence
B. eat sandwiches
C. climb up on the fence
D. walk around the farm

2. One morning, when knowing he would stay alone, the boy thought it was a chance for him to _______.

A. go to the town
B. play on the field
C. go to see the house
D. make the golden windows

3. What did the boy find when he got there?

A. Nobody lived in the poor house.
B. No golden windows were in the house
C. The house was as old as he expected.
D. The house was nearer than he thought.

4. The story tells us that people sometimes may have the thought "_________."

A. Like father, like son
B. Love me, love my dog
C. Every dog has its day
D. The grass is greener somewhere else

5. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Golden Windows.
B. Father and Son.
C. A Wonderful Place.
D. A boy's Promise.

     Mr. Smith had a hotel near the biggest train station in London. A lot of foreigners stayed there for the
night. Mr. Smith only knew English, so he found it not easy for him to understand the people from other
countries such as Russia, France and Japan. He thought Russian was boring but Japanese was interesting.
So he asked a friend of his who knew Japanese to teach him. He studied hard and happily. At first he learned
some, but soon he found that it wasn't easy to remember Japanese words. His friend asked him to write
down the useful words on his notebook so that he could use them. He did as he was told. He found it
helpful for him to do so.
     One evening, there were a lot of people in the dinning room of his hotel. They were all busy eating
something, but a Japanese was walking up and down there. He seemed to be waiting for someone. Mr. Smith
thought to himself, "Maybe the man is hungry and wants to eat something, but he doesn't know any English.
I'll try to help him."
     Because Mr. Smith knew only a little Japanese, he had to take out his notebook and showed the sentence
"I am very hungry" to the Japanese.
    To his surprise, the Japanese took a look at it and gave him two dollars, and then left the hotel.

1. In this passage, Mr. Smith learned ______ from one of his friends.

A. Russian
B. French
C. English
D. Japanese

2. After a few days, Mr. Smith found it ______ to learn Japanese.

A. interesting
B. difficult
C. boring
D. easy

3. Mr. Smith decided to help the man because he ______.

A. thought the man was hungry
B. found the man was really upset
C. could practice Japanese with the man
D. knew who the man was waiting for

4. If Mr. Smith knew more about the Japanese language, the Japanese would ______.

A. go to walking up and down
B. teach him more useful words
C. stay in the dinning room for dinner
D. help him serve other foreigners

5. Which of the following is WRONG?

A. Mr. Smith knew three foreign languages.
B. The Japanese thought Mr. Smith was a man asking for money.
C. The Japanese might be waiting for someone to have supper together.
D. The Japanese might be worried because nobody could understand him.