It’s November 6th today. Ben and Lisa want to buy a birthday   46 . It’s their   47 birthday.
“What does she   48 ?” Ben asks Lisa. “I don’t know.” Lisa says, “We bought（买）her some hamburgers last time.”
“Yes,” Ben says, “and we ate (吃) some of them! We can’t do that   49 .”
“Let’s buy her a book. She likes   50 .” Lisa says.
“What kind of book would she like?” Ben asks.
“I don’t know.” Lisa says, “Let’s go   51  ask her.”
The children go to the living room. Mrs. Wilson is watching TV.
“We want to buy a book   52  you, Mom.” Lisa says.“What book do you want?”
“  53  money do you have?” Their mother asks them.
“We have twenty-five yuan.” Ben says.
“Good. That’s enough(足够) for the book I want. It is Quick and Easy Cooking.”
The children buy their mother the book for her birthday. They   54  her present this time, but they often eat the nice food because their mother learns a lot   55  the book and cooks for them. They are very happy.
【小题1】A.flower      B. present          C.cards
【小题2】A. mother’s   B. Lisa’s          C.brother
【小题3】A.need         B.can               C.must
【小题4】A.before      B.ago               C.again
【小题5】A.running      B.shopping          C. reading
【小题6】A. but         B.and               C.so
【小题7】A. for         B.on                C.about
【小题8】A.How much     B.How often         C.How many
【小题9】A.not eat     B.eat               C.don’t eat  
【小题10】A.from       B.about              C.with

It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table, staring into space and playing with a piece of bread. He’s not even  16 . Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do because the Internet is down.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling   17 . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other great weekend. But that was  18  he turned on his computer and  19  he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.
Every weekend, Tony will go online to email friends, read the news to
20 what’s happening in the world and play a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to kill time. The perfect weekend-online.
Just as Tony is  21  how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the  22 “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t think about the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no answer but sighs. “Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum  23   .
“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the corner. We can meet and play chess face to face for a  24  . Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad.” Tony  25 , as he walks to the phone. There is life beyond the Internet after all (毕竟).

【小题1】

A．hungry B．tired C．busy D．thirsty

【小题2】

A．excited B．bored C．tired D．surprised

【小题3】

A．after B．before C．until D．when

【小题4】

A．thought B．guessed C．decided D．found

【小题5】

A．write B．draw C．listen D．get

【小题6】

A．improving B．wondering C．checking D．doing

【小题7】

A．bathroom B．bedroom C．kitchen D．study

【小题8】

A．requires B．answeres C．invites D．suggests

【小题9】A. chat                  B. time                  C. lesson               D. change

【小题10】

A．continues B．worries C．smiles D．reports

—Can I help you?
—_. I want to buy some T-shirts for my children.

A．Yes, please

B．No, thanks

C．It doesn't matter

D．Of course I can

       It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted the shopkeeper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.
As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.
He asked her what was wrong and she replied, “I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.”
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地),where she placed the rose on the grave.
The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.
Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.
【小题1】The man went to the shop to        .

A．have a rest	B．help the girl
C．buy some food	D．order some flowers

【小题2】The man’s mother lived        away from him.

A．2 kilometers

B．75 miles

C．200 miles

D．200 kilometers

【小题3】The girl was crying on the road because          .

A．she was hungry	B．she got hurt
C．she couldn't afford a rose	D．she couldn’t find her way home

【小题4】After the man bought the girl a rose, they went to          together.

A．the cemetery	B．his shop
C．the girl’s home	D．his mother’s house

【小题5】 We can learn from the passage that           .

A．the girl loved flowers very much

B．the girl loved her mother very much

C．the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother

D．the man drove to his mother’s house to look after her