I keep a two-dollar bill (纸币) in my wallet． My mother gave it to me when I was six years old．The bill goes with me wherever I go because I believe luck would    1    me everywhere．

Whenever I felt there was a trouble, I would reach my two-dollar bill and put it on the table，I would watch it for several hours and could always come up with    2    ．

When I began to look for my first job, I was thirty years old and very    3   ．The thought of being interviewed for a job was scary but I had to work．Mrs. Martin, the office manager, asked me some questions and the interview was over．As I got    4    her office, I said, "Mrs. Martin, I know that I am not the best applicants (申请者), but please give me a chance．I learn quickly and can be a very able member of your team．"

That evening I received a phone call from Mrs. Martin．"Gina," she said．"You were not the best applicant, but you have so much confidence in yourself that we have    5   to give you a chance．" "Thank you so much, Mrs. Martin!" I said．I was so excited that I forgot to say   36  to Mrs. Martin．

I took out my two-dollar bill．"Thanks, Mom．I am going to    7    it, "I said out loud so my mother could hear me．

At that moment, I remember the time she pulled all of us into the living room and said, "You are all clever in my    8    , but if you fail once, don't give up．You will be successful．" I still think of Mom every day and keep my two-dollar bill in my wallet． At a family reunion (团聚) years later, I found that my brothers and sisters    9    had two-dollar bills in their wallets．We laughed and talked about how    10    this gift from Mom had been to each of us．

1．A．bring                 B．take                 C．follow                    D．find

2．A．an answer          B．a chance          C．an idea                    D．a decision

3．A．sad                   B．lonely              C．weak                   D．shy

4．A．out of                B．into                 C．from                      D．around

5．A．liked                  B．decided            C．offered                D．needed

6．A．hello                  B．sorry               C．goodbye                 D．thanks

7．A．get           B．do                    C．have                       D．make

8．A．head                  B．eye                  C．mind                   D．thought

9．A．each                  B．all                    C．most                   D．both

10．A．special             B．surprised          C．cheap                         D．expensive

Martin is an American. It is the  1  time that Martin has come to Beijing. He doesn't know Beijing a  2  and his Chinese is not good. He wants to go to the church by bus, but he loses his  3 

     Don' t  4  about him. He can speak  5  Chinese. He has a map of Beijing. He can  6  it. It's not very difficult（困难） for him to find his way.

     When he comes out of the station, he  7  left and walks until he reaches the traffic lights. He turns left   8  and he is in Xinhua Street. Martin walks along that street until he comes to the cinema. Just behind the cinema, there is a street  9  the left. That is People's Street. A school is about three   10  metres down the street on the right. The church is beside it. He is happy because he has found the right place.

1．A．one             B．first            C．only            D．last

2．A．much            B．big            C．lot          D．many

3．A．idea             B．way           C．mad           D．place

4．A．worry          B．talk            C．learn          D．know

5．A．little             B．few           C．a few         D．a little

6．A．read             B．look           C．see             D．find

7．A．stops            B．turns        C．keeps          D．comes

8．A．again            B．too            C．also           D．either

9．A．to              B．by            C．on            D．for

10．A．number        B．term          C．math        D．hundred

Ballpoint pens have made life easier for millions of people．At one time 1 did not like their students to  2  with them．Perhaps it was too easy．Pens can leak(漏)and it is  3 to spill(溢出，流出)the ink．But it is hard to write on thin or cheap paper with them．

    Ladislao Biro  4  for a newspaper in Budapest．He spent all day  5  his desk．Day in and day out，he corrected  6  of thin，cheap paper with a pen and ink．He often had to stop to   7  his pen and it did not write  8  on the thin paper．He and his brother George  9  some experiments．They wanted a pen that did not leak，with ink that did not spill．Why not  10  a little ball at the end?

  Two Englishmen，Henry Martin and Fredrick Miles，liked the  11 . It was the  12 in the second World War．The Air Force(空军)  13  a non-leak，non-spill pen for the men to write with in  14 ．Martin and Miles made and  15  many thousands of Biro “writing—sticks” to the Air Force.

1．A．factories                B．schools            C．shops               D．restaurants

2．A．play                      B．write                C．come               D．meet

3．A．easy                      B．hard                 C．free                 D．popular

4．A．1eft                       B．waited              C．looked              D．worked

5．A．on                         B．near                 C．at                    D．in

6．A．mistakes                B．books               C．pages               D．diaries

7．A．mend                    B．fill                    C．brush               D．change

8．A．well                      B．down               C．out                  D．up

9．A．kept                      B．finished            C．began               D．studied

10．A．find                     B．wear                C．grow               D．use

11．A．matter                 B．result               C．meaning           D．idea

12．A．day                     B．time                 C．break               D．year

13．A．bought                 B．took                 C．needed             D．preferred

14．A．planes                  B．ships                C．trains               D．buses

15．A．bought            B．lent                C．moved            D．passed

Dear Tony,

How was your day off? Did you have fun  1 ? I didn't have a very fun day．I visited my cousins．It rained all day．In the morning I  2  in the house and watched TV,  3  computer games and read．In the afternoon, Uncle Martin put some of his old things out,  4  and had a  yard sale．However,  5  come to the sale because the weather was so bad．

1．A．camp                        B．to camp                C．camping

2．A．stop                         B．am staying               C．stayed

3．A．played                       B．play                    C．plays

4．A．in the yard                    B．in the room              C．at school

5．A．who                         B．no one                  C．everyone