When the fans saw Yao Ming, they got            excited           they cried out．

A．so, that          B．such, that          C．very, that          D．too, to

I bought a jasmine plant for my office. When I bought it, I was told it would bloom（开花） and the sweet smell would fill my office. I had the plant for two months, and every day I looked at it, but there weren't any flowers or pleasant smell. I was not happy, so I gave the plant to my friend Linda.

One day, another friend Mary called and invited me to her office. When I walked in, her jasmine flowers surprised me. I reached out to touch the flowers. Mary cut some and gave them to me. I couldn't help smelling them. Surrounded by the sweet smell of only a handful of these flowers, I suddenly understood something.

    Mary bought her plant the same time I did. It took a year for her jasmine to bloom. I was so impatient for mine to bloom; regretfully, I gave it away.

    In a way my life is like the jasmine plant. I need to be patient and let things happen.

    Last Sunday Linda told me that she was going abroad the next week. Before she left, she returned the plant to me. This time I am going to wait. I have learned that when we want something in our life, we have to be patient. I am slowly learning to have that patience to wait for my jasmine to bloom.

1.Before she gave the jasmine away, the writer had it for               .

A. one day                    B. one year        C        . two weeks          D. two months

2.When the writer saw Mary's jasmine, she felt____________ .

A. unhappy                       B. peaceful                       C. hopeful               D. surprised

3.What has the writer learned from her experience?

A. Patience is needed in life.

B. Flowers can make life better.

C. Friendship is necessary for us.

D. Jasmine can be a wonderful plant.

One Saturday afternoon, Sarah went to buy something for her sister and herself. As Sarah was coming out of a   46 , a young lady walked towards her. She said she was Miss Green—a good friend of Sarah’s sister’s. Sarah   47 her. Then she called a taxi to send Sarah home. She told the driver where he should go. Sarah was   48 that it was not in the direction of her home.
“Why?” Sarah asked. The lady smiled.
When they came to a quiet road, a big rough man   49  on the road. He stopped the taxi driver, knocked him down, tied him and threw him out of the taxi. At the same time, Miss Green took out a knife and   50  Sarah. She asked Sarah to keep   51 . The man then started the taxi. “ Oh, God! I’m being kidnapped(绑架),” Sarah said to herself.
She tried to escape, but not succeeded. Suddenly an   52  came to her. She took out a lipstick(口红) from her pocket, wrote “SOS” on the window, and covered the word with her
  53 . A few minutes later, a police car passed and the policemen saw the   54 . When the kidnappers saw the policemen, they stopped the taxi, jumped into the grass, and ran away.
The policemen then picked up Sarah and sent her home. When her parents knew what had happened, they were greatly surprised. But they were also   55  because their daughter had finally come back safely.

Bob was a gardener and he had no work for a few months. One day he went out to look for a job. While he was walking in the street, he saw a poster at the gate of a big restaurant. It said the restaurant needed to hire（雇佣） a man who could grow flowers and trees well. Bob was so pleased that he went straight to answer it. There Bob was told to go back and get his old working clothes to the office. Bob did so.

The boss looked over his working clothes carefully and then decided to let Bob have the job. Bob asked the boss why his working clothes were so important. The boss answered with a smile, "Oh, young man, your working clothes are all with patches(补丁) on the knees. You know, I have dismissed（解雇） two men these days. They had working clothes with patches on the buttocks(臀部). They were too lazy."

1.When the boss saw Bob, he ________.

A．gave him the job at once                  B．liked Bob at once

C．asked Bob to go home to get his working clothes    D．liked Bob's clothes

2.Bob's new job was________.

A．to wash dishes                          B．to clean the restaurant

C．to cook dishes                          D．to grow flowers and trees

3.We may learn that the boss was ________.

A．very clever        B．foolish            C．very kind          D．hardworking

 In a cold winter, a couple had to move out of their big house because of bankruptcy(破产). The husband worked day and night to support the family but with no care of his wife. So she thought, "he doesn't love me anymore, he just thinks about his work".

     One day, she wanted to take a shower, but her husband stopped her at the door, "Let me take it first, OK?" "Why not let me first," she asked. "I was tired, you take it later, OK?" She was very sad.

     On a rainy day, she found nothing to do and turned on his computer. After a few minutes, her eyes were full of tears...it was his diary:

     “Today, I was quite sad, she asked me why I was always taking the shower first, and I said I was tired. She was unhappy. I wasn't as rich as before! We moved to the small house and it was very cold. But I found that if one person took the shower first, the room could get a little warmer. So every time I rushed to the bathroom first. When she took the shower, the room would get warmer, at least 1℃ or 2℃.Now I can't give her comfortable life or buy expensive dresses for her,  but at least, I can give her 1℃love.”

1.The couple moved out of their house                          .

A. on a rainy day                

B. in a cold winter

C. when the husband lost his work 

D. when the wife saw her husband’s diary

2.The woman thought her husband didn’t love her because                          .

A. he didn’t buy her beautiful clothes    

B. he didn’t have enough money

C. he always worked with no care of her 

D. he didn’t look after her parents

3.The woman’s eyes were full of tears because                      .

A. She felt sad by her husband’s words   

B. the rainy day made her sad.

C. her eyes were hurt by the computer   

D. she was moved by her husband’s words

4.The man wanted to take the shower first because                         .

A. he was tired and wanted to sleep earlier

B. he wanted to make the bathroom warmer

C. he wasn’t as strong as before         

D. he couldn’t stand the cold winter

5.From the reading, we know that                        .

A. the man loved his wife very much   

B. the woman didn’t love her husband     

C. the man was poor before          

D. the woman had no job