"Tom? Are you in bed yet?" called Mrs White. There was no answer. Mrs White put down her book and went to her 14-year-old son's room. Tom was sitting in front of a bright computer screen on which a colourful dragon jumped and shouted.

     "Oh, Tom! You're still playing on that computer. You must stop now. It's half past eleven. If you don't go to bed soon, you'll be very tired tomorrow," said Mrs White.

     "But I've nearly beaten the dragon," said Tom. Mrs White could see the excitement on her son's face. She sat down beside him.

     "You are always playing on that computer. You spend more time with this machine than with your family," she said with a smile. "What's special about it? Show me what it can do!"

     "I think this is a great computer, Mum!" he said happily. "The hardware (硬件) is good. There's so much memory and it has some wonderful software programs. This game, 'Dragon Player', is my favourite, but I sometimes borrow games from Daniel and other friends. I don't have to worry about any infected（感染） disks because I have a virus（病毒） detector (探测器) which can go over any disk and check it for viruses. Let me show you!" Tom began tapping. The screen changed in answer to his orders.

    "Oh, Tom," laughed Mrs White. "I'm sure it's a wonderful computer, but I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about."

1.When Mrs White was calling Tom, he was ______.

    A. playing computer games in' his bedroom      B. playing with a dragon in his bedroom

    C. playing "Dragon Player" in the study         D. lying in bed reading a book

2. Tom was excited because ______.

    A. the computer has a good memory            B. the hardware is good

    C. he had nearly won the game                 D. his mother came to see him

3. What do we know about Mrs White?

    A. She loves her son too much.

    B. She loves computer games too.

    C. She is very hard on his son.

    D. She is as wonderful as the computer game.

 

Tom went to see his grandparents with his father. In the train Tom often put his head out of the window. His father said, “Tom, don’t put your head out of the window.” But Tom went on putting his head out of the window.

His father took Tom’s hat quietly and hid it behind his back and said to Tom, “You see your hat is gone.” Tom was afraid. His father said, “Well, whistle（吹口哨）once. Maybe your hat will come back.” Tom whistled. His father put his hat on Tom’s head quickly. “Oh! It’s wonderful!” Tom laughed and said. He quickly took his father’s hat and threw it out of the window. “Now it’s your turn to whistle, Dad!” he said happily.

1.Tom went to see his grandparents with his father __________.

A．by bus

B．by train

C．by plane

D．by ship

2.Tom often put ___________ out of the window.

A．his hat	B．his father’s hat
C．his head	D．his father’s head

3.____________ and his hat was on his head.

A．Tom whistled

B．His father whistled

C．Both of them whistled

D．The conductor（售票员）whistled

4.Tom took his father’s hat and ___________.

A．hid behind his back

B．threw it out of the window

C．put in under his seat

D．put it on his own head

5.At last Tom’s father’s hat _____________.

A．Came back

B．lost

C．In his head

D．in Tom's head

 

 Yesterday Tom was late for school        the heavy rain.

A．because          B．because of         C．as               D．including

 

阅读短文,在其后空白处写出各单词的正确形式。单词的第一个字母已经给出。

A disappointing performance

Tom was sick with disappointment. The piano performance was almost a success, however, he f  1.    in his solo(独奏). He couldn’t understand how it could have happened.

He had practiced for weeks that seemed like m   2. . He had given up sports until after the performance because he wanted to make his parents p 3.   of him. He spent all his time with the piano.

His teacher had said he was q  4.   to learn. It was true that he accepted music as another l 5. , another way to talk to people.

His grandparents, aunt, and uncle all came to hear him play, and he was anxious to s  6.   them that he was the best in the whole class.

But, when he stood up to go to the piano, his knees felt w  7. . He looked into the audience and saw his f  8.   smiling back at him.

At this time, he felt n 9.  . His fingers began to tremble (颤抖), shaking as though he had caught a bad cold.

He sat down at the piano. He took a deep breath. He played the first part of his music, then realized with fear that he had forgotten the rest. He s 10.  over, thinking that would help. It didn’t. his bright musical life seemed to end.

 

Tom was three years old. He liked to watch TV with his parents after supper, but his parents never let him stay long. Mother would say, “It’s eight o’clock now. It’s time for you to go to bed, Tom.”
“But why don’t you go to bed, too?” Tom always asked.
“We are adults (大人),” mother would say, “And adults go to bed late.”
One evening Tom asked his mother for an apple.
“But it’s too late,” his mother didn’t want to give him anything to eat at bedtime. “The apples are already asleep.”
“But not all of them, Mom.” Tom said, “The baby apples are perhaps asleep, but their parents are surely awake.”
【小题1】Tom liked to watch TV with_________ after supper.  

A．his father and mother	B．his sister
C．his grandparents	D．his brother

【小题2】His parents _______let him stay long.  

A．never

B．sometimes

C．often

D．usually

【小题3】One evening Tom asked his mother for_________.

A．an egg

B．an apple

C．an orange

D．a pear

【小题4】His mother didn’t want to give anything to him to eat________.

A．in the morning	B．in the afternoon
C．at bedtime	D．at noon

【小题5】 From the story we know__________.

A．Tom was a quiet boy	B．Tom was a bad boy
C．Tom was a lazy boy	D．Tom was a clever boy