White bridge was a small village and old people came and lived there. Some of them had lots of old furniture, some of which they didn't want to   41   .This was   42   there was no enough place to put it. Every Saturday morning they    43    what they didn't need and other people came and took it away if they wanted to have it.

    Mr. and Mrs. Morton's children had grown up. The old couple moved to this small village     44   the other old people did. The   45   were busy forever. All the old in this small village were   46    to meet their children.

    Every Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Morton put out a very ugly old bear's head at the side of their gate, but   47   wanted it. Last Saturday they wrote "I'm very   48  here." on a piece of paper and put it near the bear's head.

    After a while, they found there was another bear's head put beside  49  ,with another piece of paper. It   50  , “I am lonely, too."

1.A. sell         B. buy       C. lend         D. keep

2.A. if          B. because    C. though       D. that

3.A. put out      B. put away   C. put up       D. put off

4.A. like        B. and        C. as           D. or

5. A. men       B. women      C. young       D. old

6.A. hard       B. easy        C. glad         D. excited

7.A. somebody   B. anybody    C. everybody    D. nobody

8.A. happy      B. sad         C. lonely       D. disappointed

9.A. the door    B. the window   C. theirs       D. others

10.A. wrote      B. said        C. told         D. spoke

One afternoon, in Paris, I took a trip to an art museum .I was looking forward to a quiet view(观赏) of some great paintings of excellent artists.

A young couple looking at the paintings in front of me were talking non-stop. I watched them a moment and found the woman was doing all the talking. In fact, I was surprised at the man for putting up with her long speech. Bored by their noise, I moved on. Each time I heard her voice, I moved away at once.

I was standing at the museum gift shop when the couple walked to the exit(出口).

“He’s a brave man ,” said the shop assistant. “Most of us would give up if we became blind at such a young age. But he and his wife come in whenever there’s a new art show.”

It explained the non-stop talk! A sudden sense of shame (愧疚感) came to my heart for what I was thinking just now. “But shat does he get out of the art?” I asked. The shop assistant answered, “His wife describes each painting so that he can see it in his head. ”

At that moment I realized what patience and love really mean. And I felt their love as I watched them walking away holding each other’s hands.

1.We can learn from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 that the writer ???? .

A.was a person with few words????????

B. was waiting for some artists

C. was looking for some great paintings??

D. wanted to enjoy great paintings quietly

2.How did the writer feel when hearing the woman’s talking at first?

A. Calm.??????? B. Bored.?????? C. Excited.?????? D. Happy.

3.The woman kept talking because ???? .

A. she preferred talking to listening

B. she was too excited to keep silent

C. she had to describe each painting to her husband

D. she liked to show how clever she was in front of others

4.What did the writer think of the woman at last?

A. She was noisy but brave.???????? B. She was patient and loving.

C. She was lonely and patient.?????? D. She was brave but lonely.

5.The passage mainly tells us???? .

A. what patience and love mean???? B. how we should treat a blind person

C. what a good art show is like????? D. how art changes our lives

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 but with no care of his wife. So she thought, “He doesn’t love me any more; 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 take it first?” she asked. “I’m tired, dear. 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. I found that if one person took the shower first, the bathroom could get a little warmer. So I always rushed to the bathroom first. When she took the shower, the bathroom could get warmer, at least 1°C. I can’t give her more, but at least I can give her 1°C 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 had another woman

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 diary

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 any more

C. the man was very poor before

D. the woman had no job

Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple（夫妇）who were also paying for gas.
I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car, I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays wonderful.
Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day, and the battery（电池） was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership - a shop selling cars - was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.
"Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and told them my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck (小货车) to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.
"Thank you" - two powerful words. They’re easy to say and mean so much.
【小题1】 The writer planned to stop at Oklahoma City ______.