Thank you for ______my grandpa when I was away. 

 You’d better work in your hometown and then you can ________ your old father.

Shaquille O'Neal was chosen in 1996 as one of the 5 0 Greatest Players in NBA History．He was __1__ as the 1999-2000 Most Valuable Player by media（媒体）．He was in All-Star ten times．O'Neal is a great basketball player，and he IS also a successful __2__．

Shaquille O'Neal is a big man，more than 7 feet tall and 310 pounds，and a big basketball star．Here are some facts about this __3__ player．He was born on March 6，1972，in Newark，New Jersey．His nickname（绰号），Shaq is taken from his given name，__4__ means “little warrior（勇士）” in Arabic．__5__ a child，he did not want to play basketball or be a rap singer．He wanted to be a break dancer（跳街舞者），__6__ when he was 13，he started playing basketball for an American team in Germany，where he was living __7__ his family．His parents had to __8__ the young basketball player in his daily life because he was too young at that time．In Germany，he met Dale Brown，the trainer of the basketball team of Louisiana State University（LSU）．This connection with Trainer Brown __9__ Shaq to choose LSU __10__ he finished high school．Then at the age of 20，Shaq __11__ the Orlando Magic，an NBA team．Shaq is now Number 34 with the Los Angeles Lakers and has signed（签订）a __12__ contract for $123 million，or “a hundred mil” as Shaquille calls __13__ in his rap song It Was All a Dream．

Shaquille O'Neal is the greatest __14__ of an NBA player who became a rapper．He has made four successful rap albums（专辑）．It Was All a Dream is one of his rap songs．In the song he tells people．how he felt when he became successful．

__15__ amazing（惊奇的）success story he has had．

1．A．reached                   B．caught                 C．held                       D．picked

2．A．dancer                   B．rap（说唱）singer C．trainer                    D．movie star

3．A．rich                   B．famous            C．strange               D．young

4．A．that                    B．which                   C．who                 D．whom

5．A．As                     B．When               C．While                D．since

6．A．so                     B．then               C．but                  D．or

7．A．from                  B．with                    C．by                  D．for

8．A．look at                B．look over            C．look after             D．look up

9．A．had                   B．made              C．let                   D．guided

10．A．after                B．while               C．before               D．since

11．A．played                B．joined                   C．left                   D．took part in

12．A．seven-year          B．seven years         C．one year              D．seven-years

13．A．them                B．it                       C．one                  D．its

14．A．example              B．name               C．story                  D．singer

15．A．How an              B．What a             C．What an              D．How

One day a young man put an ad in most of the newspapers in England．He said that his parents   1   him millions of pounds（英镑）．He graduated from Oxford University．Everyone knows this university is one of   2  universities in the world．So he had got great education there．He’d like a girl to be his  3  ．The girl Must be like the one in the books written by Somerest Maugham（英国小说家及剧作家）， 4  Maugham was his favourite．

This ad was read and known    5   by parents and young girls all over the country．Parents went to shops to   6   the books．They bought those books for their daughters  7  presents．Girls tried to get those books   8  ．They wanted to know what kind of person the writer liked so that they could marry the young man．

All the books written by Maugham   9  in a short time and the writer became famous．

Can you guess who the young man was? It was Somerest Maugham    10   ！What a clever man he was!

1．A．give                B．gave                C．has given           D．will give

2．A．the most famous     B．more famous       C．most famous       D．famous

3．A．friend                 B．classmate          C．wife                    D．teacher

4．A．though              B．so                C．but                D．because

5．A．truly                B．wrongly            C．slowly             D．quickly

6．A．look at               B．look over            C．look for           D．look after

7．A．as                  B．with               C．for              D．like

8．A．to keep               B．to sell              C．to read            D．to show

9．A．are sold out          B．were sold out       C．have sold out       D．sold out

10．A．himself            B．herself             C．itself              D．themselves

Allan was born in the city．His father has several big factories and he’s very  1  ．The young man is now studying in a university．Last week he came to the small town to   2  his grandma．And he began to take his summer  3  here，too．He thought he was  4  than any other person here．And he was supercilious（目空一切的）．He often  5  the villagers and wouldn’t talk to  6  here．At first they were still  7  to him．now no one would say  8  to him．

One day a friend of his grandma’s had a birthday  9  ．The old woman told her grandson to go there with her．He had to do as she said．But he didn’t say a  10   and sat alone．At dinner a beautiful girl just sat  11  him．He hoped to talk with her，but she didn’t even  12  him．Suddenly she found there was a fly in his glass，but she didn’t  13  him about it．Soon he found it，too，and  14  ，“Oh，dear! There’s a fly in my glass!”

“Don’t be  15  ，sir,”the girl said with a smile．“It won’t be able to drink much!”

1．A．poor                         B．rich                        C．good                      D．tired

2．A．see                           B．look after                C．work for                D．telephone

3．A．day                          B．night                       C．holiday                   D．school

4．A．stronger                   B．tidier                       C．better                     D．more clever

5．A．laughed at                 B．helped                     C．watched                 D．looked over

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

7．A．cold                         B．friendly                   C．careful                   D．bad

8．A．sorry．                    B．yes                         C．no                         D．hello

9．A．meeting                    B．party                      C．cake                             D card

10．A．story                      B．passage                   C．word                      D．sentence

11．A．next to                    B．behind                    C．in front of               D．far from

12．A．pull                        B．push                       C．see                        D．look at

13．A．speak                            B．say                         C．tell                         D．talk

14．A．shouted                  B．jumped up               C．danced                   D．sang

15．A．happy                     B．angry                      C．sad                        D．sure