If you go to Finland, you’ll be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.
Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high class Benz with a fare (票价) of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then get off without paying your fare. And the driver would not show the least sign of worry.
The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends and dine free of charge.
With so many loopholes (漏洞) in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “pretty advantages”. But the strange things is, all the taxi-passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. As the Finns always act on good faith and always show an attitude of “which is which” and “what is what” in everything they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”. In a society of such high moral practice, what need is there for people to take precautions (预防措施) against others?
【小题1】The word “foolish” probably means _____________.

The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September 1666. In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together. One hundred thousand people became homeless, but only a few lost their lives.

    The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King's baker(面包师)in Pudding Lane, The baker, with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window in the roof. A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery(房)into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into Thames Street. That was the beginning.

    By eight o'clock three hundred houses were on fire. On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames. Tuesday was the worst day. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul's and the Guildhall among them.

    Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire. People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat.

    The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire. With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

    After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect(建筑师), wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone. In fact, the streets are still narrow; but he did build more than fifiy churches, among them new St Paul's.

    The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.

1.The fire began in_______.

A. a hotel.      B. the palace.         C. Pudding Lane.    D. Thames Street.

2.The underlined word "family" in the second paragraph means_______.

A. home.                                                       B. children.

C. wife and husband.                        D. wife and children.

3.It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that ________.

A. some people lost their lives.

B. the birds in the sky were killed by the fire.

C. many famous buildings were destroyed.

D. the King's bakery was burned down.

4.Why did writer cite(引用)Samuel Pepys?

A.Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire.

B. Because Pepys also wrote about the fire.

C. To show that poor people suffered most.

D. To give the reader a clearer picture of the fire.

5.How was the fire put out according to the test?

A.The king and his soldiers came to help.

B. All the wooden houses in the city were destroyed.

C.People managed to get enough water from the river.

D.Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down.

If you go to Finland, you’ll be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.

Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high class Benz with a fare (票价) of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then get off without paying your fare. And the driver would not show the least sign of worry.

The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends and dine free of charge.

With so many loopholes (漏洞) in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “pretty advantages”. But the strange things is, all the taxi-passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. As the Finns always act on good faith and always show an attitude of “which is which” and “what is what” in everything they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”. In a society of such high moral practice, what need is there for people to take precautions (预防措施) against others?

1.The word “foolish” probably means _____________.

2.Why wouldn’t the driver show the least sign of worry? Because _________.

3.The dining rooms in all big hotels ___________.

4.What’s FALSE according to the passage?

5.The sentences “which is which” and “what is what” show that __________.

Mr Black was walking in the forest（森林） He was scared when he heard a terrible noise. But he could not get out of the forest. His friends were waiting for him in a village outside the forest. They would give him a lot of money if he took a tiger to them, or they were going to laugh at him.
Mr Black liked hunting(打猎). He usually killed some birds and animals. But a week ago, after he drank too much, he called himself a brave hunter. So his friends bet(打赌) him twenty thousand dollars if he could kill a tiger.
Suddenly, he heard a little noise. He ran to a big tree,and climbed up it quickly.He didn’t come down until he saw it was a farmer. He went close to him and asked, “Excuse me, sir.Are there any tigers in the forest?”
“Yes,” said the farmer. “I saw a lot of tigers’ tracks（足迹）about a kilometer north near here.”
“Good!”Mr Black said in a hurry. “Which way is to the south,then?”
【小题1】Mr Black was good at________
A drinking   B hunting small animals  C running   D betting
【小题2】Which is NOT true?
A Mr Black was a brave hunter.
B Mr Black was scared of tigers.
C He thought a tiger was close to him, so he climbed up the big tree quickly.
D Mr Black asked the farmer the way to run away.
【小题3】We can guess ________ finally.
A Mr Black got twenty thousand dollars
B his friends would think he was very brave
C Mr Black won the bet
D Mr Black lost the bet