Many years ago there lived a young couple in a small town. The husband was out of job for a long time and the wife   36 make a living by sewing for others. They were so poor that there was almost nothing in the house but a jar under a  37 table, in  38 was a little rice  39 from their neighbor for the coming New Year. 40 New Year’s Eve, the wife had already fallen asleep, but the husband was  41  in bed, worrying about the life. Suddenly he heard something. In the darkness he saw a man breaking into the room.

“It  42   be a thief.” He thought, “but it  43   matter, there is nothing that can be 44 .” So he  45  to be asleep and kept watching over the thief.

The thief began to 46 the room. At last he found the rice in the jar.

“But  47 can I take it away?” the thief thought hard. Then he had an idea. He 48 his coat and spread it on the ground between the bed and the table. After that he turned round to take the jar.

Now the husband realized what the thief 49 . He picked up the coat quickly and 50 himself with it while the thief was turning around.

The thief 51 the jar, poured the rice out on the place where he had just spread his coat and squatted (蹲) down to feel it. But to his surprise, his coat had  52  .

“Hey”, he couldn’t help 53  out. The   54  woke up the wife. She asked her husband, “Did you hear any sound? Maybe there is a thief in the room.”

“ Nonsense(胡说)!” replied her husband. “Go back to sleep. There is no thief in the room.”

“No, that’s   55  ,” the thief shouted loudly. “If there isn’t a thief, then, where’s my coat?”

1.                A．was able to      B．wanted to       C．had to    D．would

 

2.                A．good           B．old            C．nice D．broken

 

3.                A．it              B．which          C．where    D．that

 

4.                A．borrowed       B．asked          C．lent  D．taken

 

5.                A．During         B．At             C．In   D．On

 

6.                A．working        B．sewing         C．lying D．thinking

 

7.                A．will            B．must           C．can  D．may

 

8.                A．isn’t          B．wasn’t        C．doesn’t D．didn’t

 

9.                A．lost            B．carried         C．destroyed D．stolen

 

10.               A．pretended      B．tried           C．decided   D．started

 

11.               A．look into        B．search         C．discover   D．examine

 

12.               A．what           B．when          C．why  D．how

 

13.               A．used           B．took off        C．put on D．brought

 

14.               A．had done       B．did            C．would do  D．could do

 

15.               A．hung          B．covered        C．studied    D．dressed

 

16.               A．shook          B．laid            C．lifted D．touched

 

17.               A．lost            B．missed         C．left   D．disappeared

 

18.               A．to cry          B．crying          C．to jump   D．jumping

 

19.               A．sound          B．voice          C．noise D．saying

 

20.               A．right           B．all right         C．nothing   D．impossible

 

 

When a first-time father saw his newborn son, he immediately noticed the baby's ears obviously standing out from his head. He expressed his concern to the nurse that some children might tease his child. A doctor examined the baby and reassured the new dad that his son was healthy- the ears presented only a minor problem with its appearance.

But the nervous father persisted. He wondered if the child might suffer psychological effects of ridicule, or if they should consider plastic surgery. The nurse assured him that it was really no problem, and he should just wait to see if the boy grows into his ears.

The father finally felt more optimistic about his child, but now he worried about his wife's reaction to those large ears. She had been delivered by operation, and had not yet seen the child.

“She doesn't take things as easily as I do,” he said to the nurse.

By this time, the new mother was settled in the recovery room and ready to meet her new baby. The nurse went along with the dad to lend some support in case this inexperienced mother became upset about her baby's large ears.

The baby was in a receiving blanket with his head covered for the short trip through the cold air-conditioned corridor. The baby was placed in his mother's arms, who eased the blanket back so that she could look at her child for the first time.

She took one look at her baby's face and looked to her husband and gasped, “Oh, Honey! Look! He has your ears!”

No problem with Mom. She married those ears...and she loves the man to whom they are attached.

The poet Kahlil Gibran said, “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” It's hard to see the ears when you're looking into the light.

1.When the father first saw his baby, he was worried that________.

A. The baby might not grow up healthily

B. The baby might be laughed at by others.

C. The baby might disappoint its mother

D. the baby might have mental problems.

2.According to the doctor and nurse, the baby’s ears________.

A. could not function well.      B. looked the same as others.

C. only caused a small problem.  D. needed to have plastic surgery.

3. What is true about the baby’s mother?

A. She blamed her husband for the baby’s big ears.

B. She was the first to discover the baby’s large ears.

C. She suggested having an operation on the baby immediately.

D. She found something similar between the baby and its father.

4. What does the underlined word they refer to?

A. The ears.    B. The parents

C. The doctor and nurse.   D. The problems

5. What’s the function of the last paragraph?

A. To advise readers to listen carefully.

B. To draw a conclusion from the story.

C. To criticize the wrong attitude to physical beauty.

D. To stress the importance of doctor-patient relationship.

 

A mouse looked through a crack(缝隙) in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!

Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning everyone, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”

The chicken, with her head high, glared at the mouse and said, “Shut up. Little Ugly. This is a great concern to you, but it has nothing to do with me; I can’t be troubled by it.

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr. Mouse,” said the pig sympathetically, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; you are always in my prayers.”

The mouse turned to the cow, who relied, “ A mouse trap, am I in great danger, huh?”

Now the mouse had to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.

The very night a sound was heard through the house, like that of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a big poisonous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow killed to provide for all of them to eat.

So next time when someone is facing a problem, don’t say that it has nothing to do with you. Remember: when the least of us is threatened, we all might be at risk.

1.We could see from the passage that the mouse was _____.

A．good at cheating others	B．honest
C．kind and warm-hearted	D．foolish

2.Which of the following is False according to the passage?

A．The others help the farmer kill the cow.

B．The mouse trap was very practical

C．The pig is more friendly than the other animals.

D．The farmer’s family was very poor and they had no friends

3.What can we learn from the story?

A．Better safe than sorry

B．Traps can always cause chain reactions

C．To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all

D．What you think impossible to happen to you might come at you unexpectedly

 

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In 1898 an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened America, killing over 30,ooo people in less than four minutes. In the middle of complete damage and disorder, a father rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be,  26  that the building was   2 7.

   After the unforgettably shock, he 28  the promise he had made to his son: “ No matter  29 happens, I’ll always be there for you!” And tears began to 30 his eyes. As he looked at the pile of ruins, it looked hopeless, but he kept remembering his 31  to his son. He rushed there and started 32 the ruins.

  As he was digging, other helpless parents arrived , 33 : “It’s too late ! They are all dead! 34  , face reality; there’s nothing you can do!” To each parent he responded with 35 : “Are you going to help me now? ”No one helped. And then he continued to dig for his son, stone by stone.

  Courageously he went on alone because he needed to know 36 : “Is my boy 37 or he is dead?” He dug for eight hours … 12 hours…36 hours…then , in  38  hour , he pulled back a large stone and heard his son’s 39 . He screamed his son’s name, “ARMAND!” He heard back, “Dad!?! It’s me, Dad! I told other kids not to worry.  I told them that if you were alive, you 40 me and 41 you saved me, they’d be saved. You promised, ‘No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you!’ You did it, Dad!”

  “What’s going on in there? ”the father asked

“There are 14 of  us  42  43  33,Dad. We’re scared, hungry, thirsty and thankful you are here. When the building collapsed, it made  44  , and it saved us.”

“Come out , boy!”

“No, Dad! Let the other kids out first, 45 I know you’ll get me! No matter what happens, I know you’ll always be there for me!”

【小题1】           A. only discovering      B. only to discover 

C. only realizing       D. only to realize.

【小题2】            A. as flat as a pancake                  B. as high as a mountain

C. as strong as an ox                                            D. as weak as a kitten

【小题3】           A. memorized   B. forgot        C. kept             D. remembered

【小题4】           A. what        B. that                      C. which                 D. who

【小题5】           A. fill        B. fill in                      C. come                  D. burst

【小题6】           A. picture     B. promise   C. present                 D. encourage

【小题7】           A. digging     B. digging through   C. digging out   D. digging into

【小题8】           A. to say     B. said   C. and saying   D. saying

【小题9】           A. Come out    B. Come again   C. Come on               D. Come off

【小题10】       A. one word   B. one sound   C.one row                D. one line

【小题11】       A. for himself  B. of himself   C. by himself     D. to himself

【小题12】       A. live         B. living   C. alive           D. lively

【小题13】        A. 38           B. the 38   C. 38^th       D. the 38^th

【小题14】       A. sound       B. voice   C. noise         D. tone

【小题15】       A will save       B. would  save   C. save     D. would have saved

【小题16】       A.if           B. because  C. even if        D. though

【小题17】       A. remained        B. missing  C. left           D. gone

【小题18】       A. for            B. behind   C. out of         D. over

【小题19】       A. a promise        B. space   C. room         D. a triangle

【小题20】       A. because        B. though   C. when      D. even though

 

To me, life without music would not be exciting. I realize that this is not true for everybody. Many people get along quite well without going to the concert, and listening to the record. But music plays an important part in everyone's life, whether he realizes it or not. Try to imagine, for example, what films or TV plays would be like without music. Would the feelings, the moving plot, and the greatest interests, be so exciting or dramatic? I'm not sure about it.

Now, we have been speaking of music in its more common meaning----the kind of music we hear in the concert hall. But if we look at some parts of music more closely, we discover them in our everyday life too----in the rhythm of the sea, the melody of a bird in the woods and so on. So music surely has meaning for everyone, in some way or other. And, of course, it has special meaning for those who have spent all their lives working on playing or writing music.

It is well said, “Through music a child enters into a world of beauty, expresses himself from his heart, feels the joy of doing things alone, learns to take care of others, develops his mind and makes his body strong.”

1.What dose the writer say more about in the text?

A．Life full of music.

B．Life without music.

C．The importance of music.

D．The development of music.

2.From the text, we learn that many people________.

A．don't realize the importance of music

B．get along quite well without music

C．go to the concert instead of enjoying music

D．think music would be less exciting than films

3.What does the underlined word “melody” mean in the text?

A．flying             B．looking           C．singing            D．living

4.From the last paragraph, we learn that music________.

A．is very important, especially for children

B．is very necessary for our everyday life

C．can make our life exciting and dramatic

D．can enter into another beautiful world