Tell a lie (谎言) just to be polite?
     Tony is seven years old. He begins to go to school this term. He works very hard. He is polite and has
lots of friends. They all like him very much.
     It is Saturday today. Tony, his sister Kate and their mother are at home. His mother does some
housework and he watches TV. Kate does her homework. At ten o'clock, his father comes back with a
bag of apples for the family. Tony likes apples very much and wants to eat one. His mother gives four
apples and says, "Go and wash them."
    Tony washes the apples and then gives them back to his mother. His mother asks him, "Which apple do
you want, Tony?" "The biggest one," Tony answers quickly. "What?" says his mother, "You should want
the smallest one, Tony. You should be a polite boy!"
    "Should I tell a lie just to be polite, Mum?"

1. Tony begins to go to school when he is ______ years old.

A. five
B. six
C. seven
D. eight

2. Tony's sister Kate is a            .

3. Tony's mother gives him four apples to wash because ______.

A. she doesn't want Tony to eat too many apples
B. Tony cannot carry more apples
C. Tony can eat four apples
D. there are four people in his family

4. Tony wants to eat            .

A. the biggest apple
B. the smallest apple
C. the biggest and the smallest apples
D. the four apples

A. friendly
B. helpful
C. polite
D. honest

     A man went to see his doctor one day because he was suffering (遭受…痛苦) from pains in his stomach.
After the doctor had examined him carefully, he said to him. "Well, there's nothing really wrong with you, I'm
glad to say. Your only trouble is that you worry too much. Do you know, I had a man with the same trouble
as you in here a few weeks ago, and I gave him the same advice as I'm going to give you. He was worried
because he couldn't pay his tailor's bills. I told him not to worry about the bills any more. He followed my
advice, and when he came to see me again two days ago, he told me that he now feels quite all right again."
    "Yes, I know all about that," answered the patient sadly."You see, I'm that man's tailor."

根据短文内容判断正(T)误(F)。
(     ) 1. The man's pains in the stomach was caused by too much worry.
(     ) 2. The doctor's earlier patient had made some clothes for the new one.
(     ) 3. The earlier patient wasn't worried any more, because he had paid for the tailor.
(     ) 4. The tailor was worried that the man whom he made clothes for would not give the money to him.
(     ) 5. The doctor wasn't a doctor, but a thief.

     Peter is thirteen years old. He is in Grade Two this year. He likes to play football and watch football
matches. And he often reads newspapers. He does his best to know when and where there is going to
be a football match. Now Peter is having lunch. He is listening to the radio, too. He is very happy because
there is going to be a nice football match on TV at four this afternoon. He wants to watch it very much.
But he is going to have English and Chinese lessons. He thinks hard and finds a way.
     "Hello, Mrs Black," Peter says to his teacher on the telephone. "Peter is ill in bed. He wants to ask for
half a day's leave (请半天假).
     "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," says Mrs Black."But who is that?" 
     "It's my father, Mrs Black."

1. Peter is a ______.

A. middle school student
B. Young Pioneer
C. worker
D. teacher

2. Peter will be in ______ next year.

3. Peter often reads newspapers because ______.

A. he likes to read news
B. he likes to read stories
C. he wants to know when and where a football match will be
D. his father wants him to read them

4. Peter wants to ask for half a day's leave because ______.

A. his father is ill in bed
B. he wants to watch the football match
C. he doesn't want to have English or Chinese lessons
D. he is ill in bed

A. Mrs Black is going to take Peter to see a doctor.
B. Peter likes to watch TV at five in the afternoon.
C. Peter is a stupid (愚笨的) teacher.
D. Peter is not an honest (诚实的) boy.

     Tom went to see his grandparents with his father. In the train Tom often put his head out of the
window. His father said, "Tom, don't put your head out of the window." But Tom went on putting
his head out of the window. His father took Tom's hat quietly and hid it behind his back and said to
Tom, "You see your hat is gone." Tom was afraid.
     His father said, "Well, whistle (吹口哨) once. Maybe your hat will come back." Tom whistled. His
father put his hat on Tom's head quickly. "Oh! It's wonderful!" Tom laughed and said. He quickly took
his father's hat and threw it out of the window. "Now it's your turn to whistle, Dad!" he said happily.

1. Tom went to see his grandparents with his father ______.

A. by bus
B. by train
C. by plane
D. by ship

2. Tom often put ______ out of the window.

3. ______ and his hat was on his head.

A. Tom whistled
B. His father whistled
C. Both of them whistled
D. The conductor (售票员) whistled

4. Tom took his father's hat and ______.

A. hid behind his back
B. threw it out of the window
C. put in under his seat
D. put it on his own head

A. was on Tom's head
B. was on his father's head
C. would come back
D. was gone

      One day, Mr. Smith went to a dinner party. He was wearing very old clothes. He came into the room.
But people in the room didn't look at him. They didn't ask him to sit at the table. He wasn't happy. But he
said nothing.? 
      Mr. Smith went home quickly and put on (穿上) his best clothes. He went back to the
party. Everyone in the room stood up and looked at him. They gave him good food to eat.?
      Mr. Smith took off his coat, and put it on the food and said, "Eat, coat!"?
     The other people were surprised and asked, "What are you doing? Why do you do that?" 
      Mr. Smith answered, "I am asking my coat to eat food. When I wore old clothes, you didn't look at
me. You didn't ask me to sit down. Now I am wearing these nice clothes. And you give me good food.
Now I see, you give the food to my coat, not to me."?

1. One day, Mr. Smith went to______.?

A. a birthday party
B. a dinner party
C. an English party
D. a movie

2. When he came into the room, the people didn't look at him. Why??

3. Why did he go home quickly?

A. Because he didn't want to stay here.
B. Because he went home for his best clothes.
C. Because the people there asked him to leave.
D. Because he didn't like the food there.

4. What's the meaning of "surprised" in Chinese?

A. 高兴的
B. 不满的
C. 感到奇怪的
D. 生气的

A. A person in good clothes should eat good food.
B. A good coat should eat good food.
C. We can't judge (判断) a man by his clothes.
D. Mr. Smith is stupid (愚蠢的).

     There is a house near the river. There lives a man in the house and there are a lot of fish in the river.
There are some trees by the river. There are some apple trees and some banana trees. There often stay
some monkeys.
      The monkeys often go there and eat some fruit. The man often fishes (钓鱼) in the river. When the
man fishes, the monkeys throw some apples and bananas in the river. So the fish run away so that the
man fishes no fish. In order to catch a fish, the man often keeps the monkeys away while he is fishing.

1. Is there a bridge over the river?

A. Yes, there is.
B. No, there isn't.
C. The story doesn't tell us.
D. No, there is.

2. Why do the monkeys often go there?

3. Does the man like the monkeys to go there?

A. Yes, he does.
B. No, he doesn't.
C. He likes them very much.
D. No, he don't.

4. Why can't the man catch any fish?

A. Because the river is not deep.
B. Because fish doesn't like his food.
C. Because there is no fish in the river.
D. Because the monkeys throw something in the river.

A. The man doesn't fish any more.
B. The man goes to another river to fish.
C. The man kills some monkeys.
D. The man drives the monkeys away.

     Mr Knott was a teacher. He taught in a big school in London. He lived a long way from the school, so
he was usually quite tired when he got home. At nine o'clock one evening when he was in bed, the telephone
bell rang in the hall, so he went downstairs, picked up the telephone and said,
" Hello! Who's speaking, please?"
"Watt" a man answered.
"What's your name, please?" said Mr Knott.
"Watt's my name." was the answer.
"Yes, I asked you that what's your name?" Mr Knott said again.
"I told you. Watt's my name." said the other man, " Are you Jack Smith?"
"No, I'm Knott." Answered Mr Knott.
Both Mr Watt and Mr Knott put their telephones down angrily and thought,"What a rude, foolish man!"

1. Mr Knott was usually tired in the evening because ______.

A. he was a teacher.
B. he worked very hard in a school
C. he lived a long way from school
D. he taught too many students.

2. Mr Knott went downstairs at nine one evening ______.

3. Mr Watt wanted to speak to ______.

A. his wife
B. Mr Knott
C. Jack Smith
D. Mrs Knott

4. "Watt's my name" means ______.

A. What's my name?
B. My name is What.
C. Are you asking my name?
D. My name is Watt.

A. he was a foolish teacher.
B. he had bad ears.
C. Mr Watt didn't speak loudly enough.
D. The "a" in "Watt" is pronounced (发音) as the "a" in "what"

     Susan is a little girl. She is five years old. She doesn't go to school and doesn't know how to read and
write. But her sister Mary is a school girl. She is ten.
     One day, Susan sits at the table with a pen in her hand and a piece of paper in front of her. "What are
you doing, Susan?" Mary asks.
     "I'm writing a letter to my friend, Rose." Susan says.
     "But you can't." Her sister says. "You don't know how to write." 
     "Well," Susan says. "Rose is only four. She doesn't know how to read."

(     )1. Susan is a maths teacher. She is a good girl.
(     )2. Mary knows how to read and write.
(     )3. Susan doesn't know how to read and write.
(     )4. Rose studies very hard.
(     )5. Rose is over five years old.