Alice was a beautiful girl. She liked nothing except dressing ____ and dancing when she was at school. Of course she wasn’t good at her ____. But the boys were ready to help her with her lessons ___ they liked to dance with her. And after she finished middle school, she __ found work in a big shop. The __ had a son and he wanted the girl to marry him. Alice ____ though the young man wasn’t clever enough. But she __ all kinds of clothes and shoes. She lived in the beautiful house with a big garden and she __ did anything at home. She didn’t love her ___ but she lived a city life.

Once Mrs. Evans called Alice. The woman said she bought a few ___ pictures and asked her to appreciate（欣赏）them. She ____ nothing about the art but she was afraid to be laughed at and got there in time. She saw several women there. They were ____the pictures when she went in. She thought for a long time and said, “Look! They’re all ___. Why didn’t you buy the new ones?”

The women looked at each other but they tried not to ___. And when they were appreciating a picture “Tramp（流浪汉）”, she said, “I don’t think the artist could draw! Such a___ man had no money to have a portrait taken（请人画像）!”

1.A. him                           B. himself                     C. her                                    D. herself

2.A. classes                          B. English                     C. maths                          D. language

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

4.A. hardly                           B. easily                                C. no longer                         D. happily

5.A. bookseller          B. shopkeeper               C. gatekeeper                  D. policeman

6.A. agreed                          B. hated                                C. preferred                        D. failed

7.A. sold                               B. was sold                           C. gave                                  D. was given

8.A. always                           B. sometimes                  C. never                                 D. often

9.A. husband                       B. son                                    C. brother                            D. uncle

10.A. cheap                         B. expensive                        C. terrible                   D. strange

11.A. liked                            B. interested                        C. watched                           D. knew

12.A. looking up                  B. looking for                  C. talking about           D. hearing from

13.A. old                           B. clean                                 C. dirty                                  D. thin

14.A. stop                   B. smile                                 C. laugh                                 D. lie

15.A. busy                            B. clever                          C. rich                                     D. poor

At midnight (半夜) Mr. King coughed again. He got up and took some medicine. Before he lay down again, he smoked. And he couldn't go to sleep any longer. He found the medicine book and began to read it. He was afraid he had lung cancer(肺癌). He seemed to see death was waiting for him. Tears (眼泪)ran down his face. He didn’t see his wife was standing by him.

“What’s wrong with you, dear?”asked the woman.

“Nothing,” the old man answered and covered his face with his hands. The old woman opened the book and understood at once. She said, “You must stop smoking right now. ”

“I began to smoke when I was nine, you know. How can I do that?”

“But I think health is more important. ”

Mr. King coughed again and his wife said, “Go to see a doctor tomorrow. He will be able to help you, I think. ”

The doctor told Mr. King to have an X-ray examination（X光检查）of his lungs(肺). And then he looked at the X-ray carefully for a long time.

“Tell me the truth, doctor. ” said Mr. King, “Do you see any shadows (阴影) in my lungs?”

“No, I don’t see anything. ”

“Yes?” the old man said happily. “Really?”

“Yes. Your lungs are turning black. How can I see any shadows?”

根据短文内容，判断下列句子的正（T）误（F）。（5分）

1.Mr. King got up to cough because he smoked too much.

2.Mr. King wasn’t afraid of death.

3.The doctor told Mr. King to have an X-ray examination because he wanted to look more carefully at Mr. King’ s lungs.

4.The doctor found some shadows in Mr. King’s lungs.

5.There was nothing serious with Mr. King.

An old farmer lived with his grandson. Each morning, the   16   got up early and read his Bhagavad Gita(薄迦梵歌).

    One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa! I try to read the book like you   17   I can’t understand it, and I forget it easily. What’s the   18   of reading it?”

   The grandfather said, “Take this coal(煤炭) basket down to the   19   and bring me back a basket of water.”

   The boy did as his grandfather   20   ,but all the water ran   21   he got home. The grandfather laughed, “You’ll have to move faster next time.”

   This time the boy   22   faster, but again the basket was empty. He told his grandfather that is was   23   to carry water in a basket. He wanted to use a bottle instead, but the old man said, “I just want a basket of water. You’re not   24   hard enough.”

   The boy wanted to show his grandfather that the water would surely run. He again put the   25   into the river and ran hard. But there wasn’t anything in it again. He said   26   ,“Look, grandpa, it’s useless!”

   “Watch the basket.” said the grandfather.

   For the first time the boy   27   the basket was different. It had changed from a dirty old coal basket into a   28   one, inside and out.

   “Boy, you might not understand or remember   29   when you read the book, but when you read it, you will be   30   ,inside and out. That’s what you got from it.”

1.A. son            B. father            C. grandfather             D. grandmother

2.A. so             B. but              C. or                     D. and

3.A. time           B. place             C. use                   D. habit

4.A. house          B. beach            C. lake                   D. river

5.A. said           B. saw              C. liked                  D. did

6.A. as             B. after             C. until                  D. before

7.A. ran            B. rode             C. drove                 D. flew

8.A. difficult        B. interesting        C. impossible             D. unimportant

9. A. hitting          B. trying            C. holding               D. studying

10.A. hand           B. bottle            C. basket                 D. coal

11.A. sadly           B. hopefully       C. excitedly                D. happily

12. A. forgot          B. realized        C. believed                 D. remembered

13. A. white           B. clean          C. new                    D. black

14.A. nothing         B. something      C. anything                 D. everything

15.A. different        B. relaxed         C. curious                  D. worried

It was a beautiful spring morning. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and the sun was warm but not too hot. Mr. White saw an old man at the bus stop with a big and black umbrella in his hand.

Mr. White said to him, “Do you think it’s going to rain today?”

“No,” said the old man, “I don’t think so.”

“Then are you carrying the umbrella because the sun is too hot?”

“No, the sun is not very hot in spring.”

Mr. White looked at the big umbrella again, and the man said, “I am old man, and my legs are not very strong. I must have a walking-stick. But people will say, ‘Look, the man is so old, and I don’t like that.’ When I carry an umbrella in fine weather, people only say, ‘look at that stupid man.’”

1.The story happened         .

2.It was a very        day.

3.There was         in the old man’s hand.

4.There was something wrong with the old man’s             .

5.Which is TURE according to（根据）the story?