Christmas was coming and my ten-year-old Alice told her father and me that she wanted a new bike.  Her bike was too   1  , and it needed repairing as well.

As Christmas   2 ,  her dream for a bike seemed to disappear, we thought, for she didn't say it again. We were busy  3  some beautiful story books, a doll house, a holiday dress and toys. Then to our surprise, on December 24, she said she really wanted a bike more than   4 .

Now we didn't know   5  to do. It was just too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing  6  presents, parents' presents, a brother's present and friends' presents till midnight. So there was   7  time to take to buy the "right hike" for our little girl. Thinking we were parents who would make their child unhappy, we felt sorry and   8 .

Suddenly my husband had an idea. "What about making a little bike with clay (黏土) and writing a note that she could trade in (交换) the model bike for a real one?" So he spent the next five hours carefully __9__ with clay to make a small bike.

  10  Christmas morning, we were so excited for Alice to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. She opened and read the   11  loudly. She looked at me and said, "So, does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real  12 _?" Smiling, I said, "Yes!" Alice had tears in her eyes when she replied, "I would  13  trade in this beautiful bike Daddy made me. I __14 _ keep it than get a real bike. This is the best Christmas present   15  I have ever got in my life!"

1.                A．new           B．old            C．beautiful  D．modern

2.                A．came nearer     B．was over        C．went by  D．passed

3.                A．buy            B．bought         C．to buy    D．buying

4.                A．something else   B．anything else     C．else something D．else anything

5.                A．what           B．how           C．why D．where

6.                A．children        B．children's       C．boy  D．girls

7.                A．enough         B．no             C．much D．still a little

8.                A．happy          B．excited         C．sad  D．angry

9.                A．works          B．worked         C．working  D．to work

10.               A．In             B．On            C．At    D．For

11.               A．book          B．story           C．note  D．newspaper

12.               A．one           B．ones           C．some D．any

13.               A．usually         B．certainly        C．never D．of course

14.               A．am going to     B．would like to     C．had better D．would rather

15.               A．who           B．those          C．what  D．that

Don’t read________ the sun, it’s bad________ your eyes.

1. A.
   under; for
2. B.
   in; for
3. C.
   for; in
4. D.
   at; in

A lady once wrote a long story. She sent it to a famous editor. After a few weeks the editor   21  the story to her. The lady was   22  . She wrote back to the editor:

 “Dear Sir.

Yesterday you sent back a story of mine. How do you know that the story is not good? You did not read it.   23   I sent you the story, I pasted together pages 18, 19 and 20. This was a  24   to see whether you would read the story. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were   25   pasted together. Is this the way you read all the stories that are sent to you?”

The editor wrote back:

 “Dear Madam,

At breakfast then I have an egg. I don’t have to eat the whole egg in order to discover(发现) that it is bad.”

1.A. gave           B. came back         C. handed          D. returned

2.A. angry          B. happy             C. satisfied       D. glad

3.A. After          B. until             C. Before          D. Since

4.A .lesson         B. test              C. question        D. thing

5.A. already        B. still             C. even            D. yet

Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning. Others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.

Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines (标题) of the passage.

Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.

Some newspapers are published (出版) once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.

Today newspapers in English have the largest numbers of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century. Also they bring us more and more information with Internet.

1. People read newspapers in order to ________________ .

A．learn the latest news

B．meet their own different needs

C．read the short stories

D．find the morning news

2.From the passage we can see that           when people get newspapers.

A．they read them very carefully

B．they just read the headlines

C．not everyone reads all the pages

D．they have no time to read them

3. Newspapers have so many pages because __________ .

A．more and more people like to read them

B．people enjoy reading something different

C．newspapers become cheaper

D．more pages mean more money

4. Newspapers ______________ are the most popular in the world.

A．in English                             B．in Chinese

C．in other language                       D．with many pages

5.According to the passage, besides newspapers, people also get information from _______.

A．magazines                             B．Advertisements

C．e-mails                               D．Internet