Mr King lived with six hundred wild animals on the Greek Island of Kyklos. Ever since he left school, he
had traveled all over the world collecting animals for his own zoo. He hoped to collect two examples of every
kind of animal on his island. But he was afraid that people would find him someday.
    He wrote books about his travels and about his animals that he collected. The money from the books helped
to pay for all the food that these animals ate. 
    One day, when Mr King was out looking for drinking water, her found oil. He needed money for his travels
and for his zoo, and a little oil would buy enough water for what he needed all his life, but he knew what if he
told anyone else about it, it would be the end if his zoo and his life's work. So he decided not to tell anyone else
about what he had found, because oil and water couldn't mix.

1. Mr King traveled all over the world for collecting _____.

A. oil
B. water
C. animals
D. money

2. Mr king was afraid that people would find him someday because _____.

A. he hadn't got enough money for them
B. that would be the end of his zoo
C. he hadn't got enough water and oil
D. they would buy his animals

3. Mr King wrote books to _____.

A. tell people about his story
B. tell people how to find oil
C. get enough money for his animals
D. make money for his travels

4. In the passage, "oil and water couldn't mix" means that "_____".

A. Mr King needed not only water but also oil
B. oil and water were rather difficult to be mixed together
C. Mr King's animals only needed water, not oil
D. if be told the others he found oil, his life's work would be stopped

    Mrs. Young was eighty. Her husband died when she was fifty-three and he left her an old car he had had
for six years. She learned to drive and loved it very much. She liked driving very fast, and was proud of the
fact that she had never been caught for a driving offense.
    Then one day she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her and the policeman in it saw her pass a
red light without stopping and she was taken before a judge. The man looked at her and said that she was too
old to drive a car, and the reason why she hadn't stopped at the red light was most probably that her eyes had
become weak because of her old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
    When the judge had finished what he was saying, Mrs. Young opened her handbag she was carrying and
took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she chose a needle (针) with a very small eye, and threaded (穿
线) it at her first try.
    When she had finished it, she took the thread out of the needle and handed both the needle and the thread
to the judge, saying, "Now it's your turn. I suppose you drive a car, and that your eyesight is good."
    The judge took the needle and he tried to thread it. After trying six times, he had still not done it. At last he
had to set the old woman free and her record remained unbroken.

1. Mrs. Young's car was _____ years old.

A.16
B. 33
C. 40
D. 53

2. As _____, she was taken before a judge.

A. Mrs. Young's car was too old.
B. Mrs. Young hadn't made way for the police car
C. Mrs. Young was rude to the policeman.
D. Mrs. Young hadn't stopped at the red light

3. Mrs. Young threaded before the judge in order to _____.

A. prove that her eyesight was still good
B. get the man into trouble
C. do some sewing
D. wait for the man's judgment

4. The judge set Mrs. Young free because _____.

A. she was very old
B. she could thread
C. he thought her sight good
D. he admired her

     My younger sister Joy was fighting her final battle against cancer. I wanted Joy to go into a nursing home
(疗养院), but she didn't want to spend her final days there. I couldn't be with her all the time, and she had no
other family. God, who would watch over her?
     Joy and I had come from a medical family. Mom died when my sister was four. Dad was a small-town
general doctor in Glenview. His concern for his patients was wholehearted. Sometimes Joy and I had felt
overlooked, expecting the attention he seemed to reserve (保留) for his patients. But no matter how busy he'd
been all week, Dad would stand on the stairs every Sunday morning, polishing (擦亮) his shoes for church.
    I called Dr. Croghan, Joy's doctor, hoping she could persuade (劝说) Joy to move into the nursing home.
"Your father also called," she said. The signal of her phone went off, and the doctor suddenly hung up before
I could correct her.
    Three days later, Joy died at home. I called Dr. Croghan to thank her for all she'd done. Then I mentioned
the phone call. "It had to be someone else who called you," I said.
     "He said he was Joy's father clearly," Dr. Croghan insisted. "He talked about her case and understood all
the medical details."
    Who could it be? My dad died three years ago; it couldn't have been him. Maybe it was one of the
neighbours or my father's former patients, many of whom were grateful to my father. Who could it be?
I wonder.

1. Why did the author want Joy to go to a nursing home?

A. Because Joy didn't want to stay at home.
B. Because Joy's doctor advised her to do so.
C. Because no one looked after her at home.
D. Because it was Joy's father's advice.

2. From the passage, we can learn that the writer's father _____.

A. was generous (大方的) and popular in Illinois
B. worked hard and cared about his patients
C. didn't go to church when he was very busy
D. was a famous doctor and cured many patients

3. Sometimes the writer and his/her sister felt as if their father _____.

A. had forgotten them
B. was cold-hearted
C. didn't like them at all
D. never looked after them

4. If the doctor hadn't hung up, the writer would have told her _____.

A. to save his/her sister as soon as possible
B. the man who called her wasn't his/her father
C. his/her father would need to be watched over
D. to persuade his/her sister to go to hospital