I used to be very close to my father when I was a child. He gave me almost everything I wanted. Whenever I quarreled with my mother, I would turn to my father for comfort. He was everything to me.

Time flies like a bird. As I got older, I became silent and found it hard to start a conversation with my father. The gap(代沟) between us began to grow. He had done so much for me but I always took it for granted（理所当然）.

Last time our school gave us two days off, and daddy gave me a ride home on his motorbike. I was tired and fell asleep on his back. Later my mother said he was very happy because it had been a long time since we got close last. Suddenly I felt a little shamed. I realized that I had paid no attention to him a lot during the last few years.

The next day I stayed in bed and when daddy tried to wake me up to have breakfast, I pretended(假装) that I couldn’t hear him. At last he brought a bowl of noodles to my bed, and said, “Come on, dear, have your breakfast and then continue your dream.” I got so angry with him for troubling my sleep that I shouted, “__________.”

As I said this, I sat up quickly, and the bowl of noodles broke on the floor. Hearing the noise, mum came in and shouted at me, “What do you think your father is? Who else treats you as well as he does?”

I was shocked and didn’t know what to say. Finally I rushed with tears all over my face. I went to the pool where I used to go fishing with daddy. A few minutes later, I heard the sound of daddy’s motorbike. He was looking for me worriedly, but he didn’t notice me as I was sitting behind a tall brush.

I didn’t return home until 10 a.m.. The moment my parents saw me, they rushed to me. Mum hugged me tightly and daddy looked at me with worry in his eyes. “Are you hungry, dear?” he said at last. Before I could say anything, he had gone off on his motorbike to buy food for me.

1.When the writer grew older, he found it         for him to have a talk with his father.

 A. good        B. pleasant         C. a problem        D. fantastic

2.The sentence in this passage “He was everything to me” means ________.

A. My father gave me everything

B. My father would give me whatever I wanted  

C. When my father was angry, he wouldn’t give me anything    

D. I used to depend on him in everything in my life

3.Which of the following can be put in the blank(空白处) in Paragraph 4?

A. Stay with me.       B. Take me out.     C. Leave me alone.       D. Pick me up.

4.The best title for this passage is _________.

A. The gap between the Father and the Son            B. Father’s Love   

C. How to get on with Father                       D. I Love Father

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe, pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries(樱桃).
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent(弯腰) down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.”
【小题1】Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

A small boy and his father were walking home __1__ when it suddenly(突然) began __2__ hard. They did not have their umbrella with them and __3__ was no place __4__ from the rain. So they were soon wet.

   __5__ when they were walking home through the rain, the boy kept thinking. Then __6__ he turned to his father and said to him, “Why does it rain, father? It isn’t nice, is it?”

 “No, It isn’t very nice, but it is useful, my dear son,” answered his father. “It rains __7__ the vegetables grow __8__ and to make the grass __9__ for cows and sheep.”

 The son thought about it __10__ seconds, and then he asked, “then why does it rain on the road too, father?”

1.A. in the country         B. in country 

C. on the countryside      D. to the country

2. A. rain      B. to rain   C. rains     D. rained

3.A. there     B. it       C. that       D. this

4. A. hides     B. hide    C. to hide    D. hid

5. A. For long time       B. For a long time 

6. A. at last           B. at the moment  

 C. at times         D. at the minute

7.A. to make     B. make    C. makes     D. making

8.A. to me       B. for us    C. on us      D. to ours

9.A. grows      B. to grow   C. grow      D. growing

10. A. for a few   B. for few   C. for a little   D. for little