A well-dressed man entered a famous jewelry shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl for his wife’ s birthday. The price didn’t matter, since business had been very good for him that year. After examining a nice black one that costs $5, 000, he paid for the pearl in cash, shook hands with the jeweler, and left.

A few days later the man returned and said that his wife liked the pearl so much that she wanted another one just like it. It had to be exactly the same size and quality as she wanted a pair of earrings made. "Can you give me any advice on how to get such a pearl?" said the man. The jeweler regretfully replied, "I would say it’s exactly impossible to find one exactly like that pearl."

The rich man insisted that the jeweler advertise in the newspapers, offering $25,000 for the matching pearl. Many people answered the advertisement but nobody had a pearl that was just right.

Just when the jeweler had given up hope, a little old lady came into his store. To his great surprise, she pulled the perfect pearl from her purse." I don’t like to part with it." she said sadly, I got it from my mother, and ,my mother got it from hers. But I really need the money.

The jeweler was quickly to pay her before she changed her mind .Then he called the rich man’s hotel to tell him the good news .The man, however, was nowhere to be found.

1.The man said he wanted to buy a pearl for _____.

A．his wife           B．his mother-in-law    C．his own mother     D．no one

2.Many people answer the advertisement because they wanted______.

A．to see the perfect pearl                  B．to buy some beautiful pearl too

C．to get in touch with the rich man            D．to sell their own pearl at a high price

3.The jeweler couldn’t find the man anywhere because ______.

A．he died suddenly

B．he happened to be out

C．he got $20,000 by cheating and had run away with the money

D．he wouldn’t show up until the jeweler called him a second time

---I really thought that I would win the match.

---Oh, well,____, Henry.

This is the third book that he has written in the past five years, the first of ________ I really enjoyed．

1. A.
   which
2. B.
   that
3. C.
   those
4. D.
   then

I really don’t know how to thank you , but for your help, I ______ my lost necklace．

A．couldn’t have found                    B．mustn’t have found

C．couldn’t find                          D．wouldn’t find

Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “ You should have goals(目标） like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain- climbing that we both enjoyed, we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from the mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience.

Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging(挑战) for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the bird’s singing. But as time passed, I got a pain （痛）in both of my legs. I wanted to give up climbing, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before reaching the top. Only there can you see all of the nice things, which is just like your life.”

At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got to know the meaning of hope in life. I found myself standing at the top of the mountain, and the sky was as clear as crystal.

1.According to the passage, which advantage that the writer got from climbing the mountain with his father isn’t mentioned?

2.The underlined word “crystal” in the passage means _______.

3.Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined words in the second paragraph?

4.We can infer(推断) from the last paragraph that _______.

5.The best title for this passage is ________.