Mary’s dime（一毛钱）

It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel   1  when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.

　　 What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly  2  the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light   3  her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.

　　  How much I  4  that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so   5  — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.

　　  I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the  6  in her old dirty dress, looking at the   7  that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt   8  and looked straight at me, just as if（似乎）nobody had spoken so   9  to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would  10 . I haven’t had anything to eat today.”

　　 Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today,   11  this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your  12 . She needs it a great deal more than you do.”

　　 I could not run away from that little girl’s sad,  13  look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How  14  the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime,  15  I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.

1.                A．disturbed       B．unhappy        C．satisfied  D．interested

 

2.                A．saw            B．remembered    C．forgot    D．described

 

3.                A．filling          B．protecting       C．attracting D．touching

 

4.                A．hated          B．loved          C．missed   D．noticed

 

5.                A．valuable        B．meaningful      C．expensive D．cheap

 

6.                A．market         B．library          C．store D．bookshop

 

7.                A．dresses         B．magazines       C．books    D．candies

 

8.                A．surprised       B．excited         C．pleased   D．worried

 

9.                A．happily         B．kindly          C．angrily   D．sadly

 

10.               A．taste           B．sound          C．feel  D．smell

 

11.               A．since          B．so             C．and  D．but

 

12.               A．apple          B．hamburger      C．dime D．candy

 

13.               A．proud          B．angry          C．calm  D．hungry

 

14.               A．grateful        B．unlucky        C．lonely D．friendly

 

15.               A．unless         B．if              C．though    D．because

 

 

 A farmer had a cow. He took very good care of this cow and one day when it was ill, he was very worried. He telephoned the vet.

“What’s the problem?” The vet asked him when he arrived.

 “My cow's ill,” the farmer said. “I don’t know what's the matter with her. She’s lying down and won’t eat. She's making a strange noise.”

The vet looked over the cow. "She's certainly ill," he said, "and she needs to take some very strong medicine."

 He took a bottle out of his box, put two pills into his hand and said, "Give her these. The pills should make her better."

　 “How should I give them to her?” the farmer asked.

The vet gave him a tube (管子)and said, "Put this tube in her mouth, then put the pills in the tube and blow. That'll make it."

The next day the vet came to the farm again. The farmer was sitting outside his house and looked more worried.

“How's your cow?” the vet asked.

 “No change,” the farmer said, “and I’m feeling very strange myself.”

 “Oh?” the vet said, "Why?"

 “I did what you said,” the farmer answered. “I put the tube in the cow's mouth and then put two pills down it.”　　“And?” the vet asked.

 “The cow blew first,” the farmer said.

1.In the story, the vet must be _________.

A. the farmer's friend     B. a milk factory     

C. a hospital for cows     D. a doctor for animals

2.The farmer asked the vet for help when his cow _______

A. couldn't lie down     B. didn't eat the pills 　

C. couldn't make any noise   D. was ill

3.What medicine did the vet give the farmer?

A. Bottle of pills.        B. A long tube.       C. Two pills.        D. A small box.

4.The vet taught the farmer how _________.

A. to blow the tube          

B. to make the cow take the pills

C. to take the medicine       

D. to put the tube in his mouth

5.Which of the following is true?

A. The farmer ate the pills himself.     

B. The cow got better after taking the medicine.

C. The vet came to help farmer change the cow the next day.

D. The farmer waited for the vet outside his house the next day.

 

完成句子（每空0.5分，共15分）

1.小男孩做鬼脸以吸引妈妈的注意（眼球）。

The boy made faces to _________ __________ __________ __________ .

2.让他们在 60 秒内跑完400米是不可能的。

__________ __________ __________ _________ to run 400 metres in 60 seconds.

3. 西蒙工作太入神了，以至于我进来他都没有注意到。

Simon __________ __________ __________ __________ his work that he didn’t even notice me come in.

4. 我还没有打定主意去哪儿。

　 I haven’t __________ _________ __________ __________ where to go yet.

5. 从那天起，人们就再也没有见到他。

_________ _________ _________ _________, he has never been seen again.

6.天气真糟糕！这次聚会由于天气原因被推迟了。

_________　_________　the weather is! The party has been put off _________ _________ the weather.

7.读了这么多遍课文，他早就背熟了里面的生单词了。

　After reading the text for many times, he has surely _________ the new words _________ _________.

8.从广州开车到清远需要多长时间？

　How long __________ __________ __________ to drive from Guangzhou to Qingyuan?

 

A farmer had a cow. He took very good care of this cow and one day when it was ill, he was very worried. He telephoned the vet.　“What’s the problem?” The vet asked him when he arrived.

　　“My cow's ill,” the farmer said. “I don’t know what's the matter with her. She’s lying down and won’t eat. She's making a strange noise.”

　　The vet looked over the cow. "She's certainly ill," he said, "and she needs to take some very strong medicine."

 He took a bottle out of his box, put two pills into his hand and said, "Give her these. The pills should make her better."

　 “How should I give them to her?” the farmer asked.

　　The vet gave him a tube (管子)and said, "Put this tube in her mouth, then put the pills in the tube and blow. That'll make it."

　　The next day the vet came to the farm again. The farmer was sitting outside his house and looked more worried.

　　“How's your cow?” the vet asked.

　　“No change,” the farmer said, “and I’m feeling very strange myself.”

　　“Oh?” the vet said, "Why?"

　　“I did what you said,” the farmer answered. “I put the tube in the cow's mouth and then put two pills down it.”

　　“And?” the vet asked.

　　“The cow blew first,” the farmer said.

1.In the story, the vet must be _________.

A. the farmer's friend          B. a milk factory

C. a hospital for cows         D. a doctor for animals

2.The farmer asked the vet for help when his cow _______

A. couldn't lie down         B. didn't eat the pills

C. couldn't make any noise    D. was ill

3.What medicine did the vet give the farmer?

A. Bottle of pills.           B. A long tube.

C. Two pills.               D. A small box.

4.The vet taught the farmer how _________.

A. to blow the tube          B. to make the cow take the pills

C. to take the medicine       D. to put the tube in his mouth

5.Which of the following is true?

A. The farmer ate the pills himself.

B. The cow got better after taking the medicine.

C. The vet came to help farmer change the cow the next day.

D. The farmer waited for the vet outside his house the next day.