Royal Mail Special Delivery

At the Post Office you can send letters and parcels(包裹) in different ways. First-class post takes one to two working days. Second-class post takes two or three working days. And Special Delivery is for important things.

When you send something by Special Delivery, 1._______ first you write the person’s address on the front of the parcel and you address on the back. 2._______ Then you take it to the Post Office. Tell the assistant that you want to use Special Delivery. 3._______ Next show her the address, 4.________ and then put the parcel on the scales(称) so she can weigh it. 5.________ Then give the parcel to the assistant, and say how much it is worth. She will check you have put your address on the parcel. Then she will give you a receipt for your parcel. Special Delivery gets there before lunch the next working day.

Last week, the manager of an old jeweler’s shop received a letter marked “personal”. As he was very busy, the letter lay on his desk till teatime. When he opened it, a $10 note fell out onto his desk. With the note was a short letter. This is what it said:

After reading the letter, the manager said, “Well, well, well, life is full of surprise!”

1.The ring that the customer put into his pocket was ____ at that time.

 A. $2                          B. $5                            C. $10                          D. $40

2.The underlined word “unemployment” means “____” in Chinese.

 A. 辞职               B. 就业                           C. 悲伤                       D. 失业

3.How long has the customer’s wife been dead?

 A. A week.         B. A month.             C. A year.  D. Two months.

4.The customer wrote to the manager in order to ________.

A. return the ring                                       B. say thanks to him

C. ask him for some advice                       D. send the money for the ring

5.Which is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The manager opened the letter by himself.

B. The manager thought life was full of surprise.

C. When the customer’s wife knew the fact, she was impatient.

D. The customer always feels sad for not paying for the ring years ago.

An old woman walked into a clothes shop. She asked the salesgirl to let her have a look at a new dress on display, but the girl stood still behind the counter, taking no notice of the request.

The old woman spoke to the girl again, raising her voice a bit, but still received no answer. The old woman looked closely at the girl and nodded to her, "I am too old to see well." I can't even tell a plastic (塑料的) model from a real girl."

On hearing this, the salesgirl shouted at the old woman, " What? Did you call me a plastic model?"

The old woman was greatly surprised. "On, dear me," she said. "The model can speak. Then it must be a robot of a new type."

1.The old woman wanted ______in the clothes shop.

A．to buy something

B．to play a joke on someone

C．to look for someone

D．to talk to the girl

2.The assistant was a ________.

A．woman           B．model            C．robot             D．man

3.The assistant took no notice of the old woman because _______.

A．she was a plastic model

B．she was a robot

C．she was not a good assistant

D．she had bad hearing

The time in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a   1_  bookshop, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I help you?” You   2  buy anything you don’t want. You may try to find out  3   the book you want is. But if you can’t find it, the assistant will lead（带领） you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is   4_  selling books at all. A story tells us about a good bookshop. A young student  _5   a very useful book in the bookshop.  _6   it was too expensive for him. He couldn’t get it from the library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to _ 7  a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn’t find  _8  from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing(示意) to him. To his surprise, the assistant pointed to the book in the desk , “I put it there  _9  I don’t want other people to buy it,” said the assistant. Then he  10   the student go on with his reading.