One day Harvey's wife was cleaning out a cupboard.
     "Look at all these umbrellas," Harvey's wife said to him. "There are eight and they all (1)b            ." 
     "I'll take them all to the umbrella shop and have them repaired," Harvey said. "They are too good to
(2)t             away."
     Harvey took the eight umbrellas to the shop and (3)l             them there. The shopkeeper said, "They'll
be (4)r             tomorrow."
     That evening Harvey went home from the office by bus as he (5)u             did. He sat next to an old
woman. She had an umbrella on the floor between the (6)s            . When the bus reached his stop, he
picked up her umbrella and stood up.
     "Hey!" the woman said,"That umbrella (7)b             to me."
     "I'm so sorry." Harvey said, giving it to her. "Please excuse me for taking your umbrella by (8)m            ."
     The next day he collected the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on the bus. As he sat down, a
(9)v             behind said, "You have certainly had a (10)s             day!" He turned around and saw the
woman whose umbrella he had almost taken the day before.

     A man was walking along the street when he saw a woman carrying a large box. It was half in and half
out of her car. So the man went up and said, "The box looks very heavy. Let me give you a hand."
     "That's very kind of you," the woman said, "I'm having a lot of trouble with it. Maybe it stuck (卡住)
in the car door."
     "Together we'll soon move it," the man said. "I'll get in and take the other end." And he got in the car.
     "Right," the man said. "I'm ready," and he began to push the box hard.
      For several minutes, the man and the woman tried to move the box. Soon they felt very tired. 
     They rested for a moment. Then the woman said, "Let's try again. One, two, three!" They went on
moving the box.
     At last, when they were exhausted, the man said, "I'm sorry, but I don't think there's any way to get it
out of your car."
     "Get it out?" the woman cried. "I'm trying to get it in! You know?"

1. Where did this story happen?

A. At a bank.
B. In a shop.
C. In the street.
D. In the woman's car.

2. Who got in the car to move the box?

3. The underlined word "exhausted" means "______" in Chinese.

A. 精疲力竭的
B. 激动的
C. 充满希望的
D. 沮丧的

4. Which of the following is TRUE about the story?

A. The man stuck in the car door.
B. The woman asked the man for help.
C. The man refused to help the woman.
D. The woman tried to get the box into the car.

A. He is a helpful man.
B. He looks very strong.
C. He is funny and stupid.
D. He likes to play jokes on others.

     When my brother and I returned home from school the other day, my mother and my sister were waiting
for us there. I could see by their faces that they were really excited about something. But I could not guess
what it was. Then they told us my father had rung from the office to say that there was a tennis match in
town and that he would take us all there as soon as he finished work. "Isn't that a surprise?" said my mother.
"We don't have to cook the dinner now. Your father says that we can have a meal when we get there."
     "That's a good idea!" said my brother. Then we began to tell each other to hurry up and get ready.

根据短文内容判断正（T）误（F）。
(     )1. The mother and the sister were waiting for them to return.
(     )2. The father works at home.
(     )3. The four of them would go to watch a match in town.
(     )4. The family would have supper in town.
(     )5. The whole family enjoyed going out.

      A speaker was giving a talk on the difference between man and woman. He said:"Man is like the thumb
(大拇指), and woman is like the little finger."
      He opened his left hand when he was stopped by some great noise. All the women in the hall became
angry. Some of them shouted loudly at him and some even rushed to him. But the speaker wasn't worried.
He smiled and went on with his talk. 
     "Thumb stands for (代表) 'strength (力量)' while little finger is 'slimness'. I'm sure every man wishes
that he could be strong, and woman wants to be slim. Am I right?"
      What happened? The women were all quiet at once.

1. The speaker gave a talk about            .

A. man and woman
B. son and daughter
C. father and mother
D. children and parents

2. What made the women all angry?

3. When the women were all angry, the speaker            .

A. stopped his talk at once
B. kept quiet
C. went on with his talk
D. left the hall

4. The women were all quiet because            .

5. From the passage we can see the speaker was _______.

A. good at speech (演讲)
B. easy to get on with others
C. easy to change his mind
D. kind to others

     One day, I was driving along a country road at 80 miles an hour. Suddenly a chicken came along. It ran
faster than my car. I was surprised. I drove faster and ran after the chicken, but it was out of sight. Soon I
got to a farm house.
     The farmer was standing by the door and looking down the road. I stopped my car, got out and walked
up to the farmer. "I have just seen a chicken running at 80 miles an hour or more. I can't believe it."
     "Ah, that was one of mine," the farmer said.
     "One of yours! But how can a chicken run that fast?" I asked.
      "Well, it's like this. People around here like to eat chicken legs. I wanted to make more money, so I
decided to breed (饲养) chickens with three legs. Everything went well. Soon I was breeding a lot of
three-legged chickens. It's that extra (额外的) leg that makes them run so fast." 
      "That's interesting," I said, "And what do these three-legged chickens taste like?" 
      "I don't know," the farmer said, "Because I have never been able to catch one."

1. The chicken usually runs            a car.

A. as fast as
B. a little faster than
C. much slower than
D. as slow as

2. I didn't catch the chicken because            .

3. The farmer thought            .

A. three-legged chickens would bring him more money
B. three-legged chickens ran faster than two-legged ones
C. all the people liked to eat chicken legs
D. I would buy his chickens

4. The three-legged chickens            .

A. tasted better than two-legged ones
B. were very delicious
C. looked terrible
D. could run faster than a car

A. The farmer kept one three-legged chicken.
B. The three-legged chicken made the farmer rich.
C. The farmer couldn't run fast enough to catch the three-legged chickens.
D. All the three legs made the chicken run faster than a car.