One day Mrs Black went to buy a fish with her daughter. She didn't know how to cook it. So she asked the shopkeeper to write down the way of cooking it on a note. She put the note in her daughter's pocket and then they left the shop happi­ly with the fish.

On their way home, a black cat saw them and followed them. Suddenly the cat jumped at her,  took the fish away from her quickly and ran off at once. Mrs Black ran after the cat, but she couldn't run faster than it At last she stopped, not know­ing what to do. But suddenly she remembered something. She laughed and shouted at the cat, "You don't know how to cook it,  The note is still in my daughter's pocket!"

(    )6. Who told the woman how to cook the fish?

A. The cat.        B. Mr Black.           C. The shopkeeper.   D. The daughter

(    )7.________ took away the fish on the way home.

A. The cat         B. Mrs Black          C. The shopkeeper     D.The daughter

(    )8. But suddenly she remembered something. Here "something" means "______".

A. the fish         B. the shop        C. the note        D. the shopkeeper

(    )9. Which of the following statements is wrong?

A. The cat took the fish away from the shop.

B. The woman couldn't catch up with the cat

C. The cat took the fish away from the woman.

D. Mrs Black bought a fish from a shop.

(    )10. Which of the following statements is right?

A. The cat went home with the two women.  

B. The daughter wrote the note for her mother.

C. Mrs Black was foolish.

D. Mrs Black was clever.

I still remember my first night as a young policeman.
It was a cold and wet night. Over the radio came the message to deal with an accident in one of the side streets of the city. The scene of the accident wasn’t far away and we arrived after 10 minutes. Two cars had crashed. Two women were lying on the street and one driver was still in the car. The driver was quite drunk(喝醉) and kept shouting to us. He didn’t get badly hurt. A young woman died at once when the two cars crashed. I was holding the other woman and tried to stop the bleeding, but at last I had to watch her die in my arms.
Three months later, I saw the driver in court and found him to be a normal person. He was sorry for his actions. In the end, he was put into the prison for several years. A man isn’t a man if he drinks 10 beers in an hour. A man is a man when he knows his limit and takes responsibility(责任). When he can stay away from wine, he can drive more safely.
【小题1】What was the writer asked to do on his first night as a young policeman?

Tomorrow two________teachers and thirty________students will go to the neighbourhood to help the old women．

1. A.
   woman，girl
2. B.
   women，girls
3. C.
   women，girl
4. D.
   woman，girls

Do you have any foreign friends? Do you know their characteristics(特征)?

The Germans are very quiet and they always keep calm. They don’t like to speak more words. They look very serious. They like different kinds of amusements. The Germans are very hard—working. They like tidiness, especially the women, who always keep their home clean.

In some ways, the Englishmen look the same as the Germans. They are very quiet and never talk too much with the strangers. They are really polite, so we often hear they say “Thank you.” Or “Sorry.” The gentlemen are also the Englishmen.

The French’s holidays are very long. They like traveling and usually spend their long time staying in other countries. The Frenchmen are more outgoing than the Germans. It is very easy to make friends with them.

Compared to the Frenchmen, the Americans are more outgoing. And they are even opener than all of the Europeans. They don’t like to depend on others. So it is very common that the students do part-time jobs in their free time. And in Americans’ eyes, success is an important part in their life.

1.According to the passage, ______are very quiet.

2.In the writer’s eyes, the gentlemen are______.

3.What can we learn about the Frenchmen from the passage?

4.Which is the best title of the passage?

根据短文内容，完成文后任务。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right, based on a study published five years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.

The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.

Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.

Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.

The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.

So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

Title: Relationship Between Age and   1.