Joe wanted a computer. He asked his 1.  for the money and they said he must get it himself. But how did he get it? He  2. about this when he walked home. Not many people wanted to ask children to work for them. Maybe he could take away snow for the neighbours. But this was not 3. . He had to wait a long time for that. He couldn't cut grass for their gardens  4.he had no tools to do the work with.

Then he saw one of his classmates, Dick, delivering  5. . I could do that, he thought. Maybe I could  6.  get the computer right away I could pay  7. it a little each week. He ran to Dick. Joe  8. him a lot of questions. He learned that it was 9.to get twenty-five dollars each week. He learned that the job took  10. three hours  each night. Dick 11. him the phone number of the newspaper manager

Joe almost flew home. After he had told his mother  12. he thought, she  13. . "I think it

is a  14. idea, " she said, "I'll call the newspaper...."

"What, Mum," Joe said, "I'll call." After that, I'm going to be a businessman now.

Joe's mother smiled  15. .

16.               A．teachers        B．parents         C．classmates D．friends

 

17.               A．said           B．told           C．thought   D．spoke

 

18.               A．spring          B．summer        C．autumn   D．winter

 

19.               A．because        B．when          C．while D．after

 

20.               A．newspapers     B．bikes          C．computers D．cars

 

21.A still         B. even          C. yet               D. never

22.               A．on            B．to             C．of    D．for

 

23.               A．answered       B．asked          C．wrote D．read

 

24.               A．friendly        B．kind           C．possible   D．wrong

 

25.               A．at             B．about          C．before    D．after

 

26.               A．taught         B．gave           C．made D．asked

 

27.               A．that           B．when          C．what  D．where

 

28.               A．smiled         B．shouted        C．cried D．worried

 

29.               A．big            B．large           C．great D．bad

 

30.               A．sadly          B．happily         C．politely    D．angrily

 

 

I’ve always tried to tell Willianms She fell in love with broadcasting She has also attended a Coldplay concert She hopes to become a television anchor(主播) Williams had sent a few broadcasts(广播)she had done.

Williams, 15, is a student at Nation Ford High, South Carolina, 【小题1】________. She is quickly making herself noticed.
Not long ago she got a call from Teen Kids News in New York, which is a weekly show. 【小题2】__________for her school news program to the show. The producer contacted Williams, and asked if she would work for them.
“All I could say was, yes, yes, yes!” Williams said. “I didn’t even hesitate(犹豫).”
Williams said she became interested in broadcast journalism when she was in the sixth grade. One day she heard that forest fires were burning nearby. After P.E., she went out into the forest and reported on the fires. 【小题3】__________. From then on she tried to do it as much as she could.
Williams had to face both good and bad comments from audiences (听众).
“Everyone has a different opinion and 【小题4】__________that you can’t listen to it, ”said Lori Williams, a former Atlanta CNN producer. “If it’s what you love to do, it will be more important than everything else.”
Williams’ advice to other young broadcasters is to look for support from friends and family. “With every negative(消极的)comment, there’s five positive, and that’s how I think about it,” she said.
The first program Williams held was about an artist’s pumpkin patch. In the program she asked teenagers what they thought of the artist’s work.
“I was a little nervous. I was going through my lines thinking, ‘No pressure’,”Williams said.
【小题5】_______and met Kathie Lee Gifford, an American TV host, singer, songwriter and actress. Gifford told Williams to continue doing what she loved because it would lead to big things.
“Getting advice from her was great,” Williams said.

A taxi hit a truck. A policeman spoke to the taxi driver and to the truck driver. He also spoke to Tom. He was a witness . This is what they said.

TRUCK DRIVER: I was driving from the airport to Newton. A car crossed the road, so I slowed down. I did not stop. A taxi hit the back of my truck. Nobody was badly hurt but both cars were damaged.

TAXI DRIVER: I was driving behind a truck a few kilometers from Newton. The truck stopped suddenly. The driver did not give me a warning. I was driving very slowly. I could not pass the truck because there were two cars coming near from Newton. My taxi hit the truck, and some glass cut my left hand.

TOM: I was watching the traffic about a kilometer from the airport. A truck was going to Newton. It was not going very quickly. There was a taxi about two hundred meters behind the truck. It was going fast. When the truck slowed down, the taxi hit it. The taxi driver was not looking at the truck. He was looking out of the window at something. My friend saw the accident, too.

Tom's friend spoke to the policeman and agreed with Tom.

1.How many people are mentioned in the story?

A．Three.            B．Four.             C．Five.             D．Six.

2.The truck was going______.

A．to Newton                             B．to the police station

C．to the airport                          D．home

3.From the story, we know______didn’t tell the truth.

A．the truck driver                        B．Tom

C．the taxi driver                          D．Tom's friend

4.In fact, Tom's friend was also a ______ .

A．witness           B．driver            C．policeman         D．cleaner

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

A．A Taxi Driver                           B．A Traffic Accident

C．A Story of Tom                          D．A Truck Driver