In the tenth grade, I began volunteering at a vet hospital in order to get experience for what I thought would be my future job. As it turned out, the experience I got at the hospital taught me the opposite: my future was not in vet medicine. However, there is one particular Saturday morning that taught me something maybe more important.

The hospital was in the middle of one of the poorer sections of the city and we often had people come in who could just only pay for the most basic treatments. This Saturday a man and his young son, who was probably about 7 years old, walked in with a small cat in a cardboard box. I remember the cat had an eye infection (感染) but the man could not afford to pay for the cost of the medicine in addition to the exam. When he asked where the nearest the animal shelter（庇护所） was, his son cried and started to argue with his father. Out of the blue, an older woman who was sitting in the waiting room stood up, walked up to the counter, and told the man that she would pay for anything that he could not afford. The man thanked her and the son got to keep a healthy cat.

I had always thought it was the right thing to help out a needy person, but it was only seen on TV or in movies. The woman in the vet’s office taught me that these things do happen in real life, and should happen more often. When I am hesitant (犹豫) to help someone who is in need, I remember that woman, and have the courage to do it. Sometimes other people follow.

1.Why did the writer work at the vet hospital?

A．He thought he would work there in the future.

B．He wanted to get some skills of treating animals.

C．He wanted to get some money for his schooling.

D．He wanted to get some experience for his future work.

2.What is the most important according to the writer?

A．How to be a kind person who helps others.

B．The practical experience of the vet job.

C．How to deal with the owners of pets.

D．The knowledge of vet medicine.

3.What does the underlined phrase “out of the blue”?

A．Out of order.       B．All of a sudden .     C．Now and then.      D．First of all.

4.________ made the writer have the courage to help someone in need.

A．The officer        B．The boy           C．The woman        D．The father

The owner of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly,” said Mrs. Brown, a 56-year-old woman. Mrs. Brown lives by herself in a trailer park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her 7-year-old cat, didn’t come home for dinner more than a month ago. The next morning he didn’t appear for breakfast either. After Clyde missed an extra-special lunch, she called the police.

When the policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was seven years old and completely white. She then told the officer that Clyde was about a foot high.

A bell went off. “Is Clyde your child or your pet?” the officer suspiciously asked. “Well, he’s my cat, of course,” Mrs. Brown replied. “Lady, you’re supposed to report missing PERSONS, not missing CATS,” said the sppeadeotoned policeman. “Well, who can I report this to?” she asked. “You can’t. You have to ask around your neighborhood or put up flyers,” replied the officer.

Mrs. Brown figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 8”x11” piece of paper on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just off the interstate（州际公路） highway. The billboard had a phone number on it. She called that number, and they told her they could blow up a picture of Clyde (from Mrs. Brown’s family album) and put it on the billboard for all to see.

“But how can people see it when they whiz（快速移动） by on the interstate?” she asked. “Oh, don’t worry, ma’am, they only whiz by between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The rest of the day, the interstate is so full of commuters that no one moves.” They told her it would cost only $3,000 a month. So she took most of the money out of her savings account and rented the billboard for a month.

The month has passed, but Clyde has not appeared. Because she has almost no money in savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her rent the billboard for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one has stepped forward.

1.How long has the cat been missing?

A．More than a month                      B．More than two months

C．More than three months                  D．It’s been back.

2.Who did the old lady finally turn to for help?

A．A billboard company                     B．The police

C．The phone company                     D．The interstate telephone line

3.How is the old lady like?

A．Stupid            B．Loving            C．Smart            D．Decisive(有决断力的)

4.The underlined word was mistyped（打错了）. But we can still guess it’s most probable meaning:____________.

A．angry            B．surprised          C．happy            D．excited

5.What’s the best title for this passage?

A．An advertisement                       B．A missing cat

C．A pet’s story                          D．Life without cat

Mr．Jenkins liked all kinds of delicious foods．As an important officer，he was often asked to dinner．The shopkeepers tried their best to fawn on(巴结)him．They knew it was good for their business．Now the officer got fatter and fatter．He could hardly go upstairs at home and had to sleep downstairs． He often felt tired if he walked or did some housework. He was  worried about it and had to go to see a doctor．“Stop eating much fat(脂肪)and sugar，Mr Jenkins，”said  the doctor .Or it will be worse for your health! It was difficult for the officer to do it. He wouldn’t do as the doctor said. Of course． He found something was wrong with his heart a few months later． Now he thought the doctor was fight．And he had to be in hospital．“You must lose weight(减肥)，sir，” said the doctor．“unless you want to die soon!”“Could you tell me a way to lose weight,please?”“You must do an exercise first．”“Which  exercise?”“To move your head from side to side when you’re invited to dinner!”
【小题1】Mr．Jenkins wag often asked to dinner because       ．

We spent a day in the country and picked a lot of flowers. Our car was of flowers inside! the way home we had to stop at traffic lights, and there my wife saw the bookshelf.

  It stood outside a furniture（家具）shop. “Buy it,” she said at once. “We’ll carry it home on the roof-rack（车顶架）. I’ve always wanted like that.”

  What could I do? Ten minutes I was twenty dollars poorer, and the bookshelf was tied on to the roof-rack. It was tall and narrow, quite heavy .

  As it was darker, I drove slowly. Other drivers seemed more polite than usual that evening. The police even stopped traffic to let through. Carrying furniture was a good idea.

  After a time my wife said, “There a long line of cars behind. Why don’t they overtake（超车）?”

  Just at that time a police car did overtake. The two police officers looked at us seriously when they went past. then, with kind smile they asked us to follow their car through the busy . The police car stopped at our village church. One of the officers came to me.

  “Right, sir,” he said. “Do you need any more help now?”

  I didn’t quite understand. “Thanks, officer,” I said. “You’ve very kind. I live just down the road.”

  He was looking at our things: first at the flowers, at the bookshelf. “Well, well,” he said and laughed. “It’s a bookshelf you’ve got there! We thought it was else.”

  My wife began to laugh. Suddenly I understood the police drove here. I smiled at the officer. “Yes, it’s a bookshelf, but thanks again.” I drove home as fast as I could.”

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2.A. InB. AtC. OnD. With

3.A. itB. thatC. oneD. this

4.A. afterB. inC. lateD. later

5.A. too B. alsoC. eitherD. neither

6.A. gettingB. goingC. comingD. driving

7.A. we B. usC. ourD. ours

8.A. beB. beingC. areD. is

9.A. ButB. BecauseC. SoD. Although

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13.A. thanB. thenC. secondD. third

14.A. anythingB. everythingC. somethingD. someone

15.A. whyB. becauseC. whenD. where