Mrs.. Green sees an ad（广告） in a newspaper for a nice bed in a shop. It costs 100 dollars. Mrs.. Green likes it, so she goes to the shop. The shopkeeper shows one to her. Mrs.. Green has a look at it and says, “There aren’t any beautiful pillows(枕头)on this bed, but there are many on the bed in your ad.”
“Yes, madam, that is an ad,” answers the shopkeeper. “If you want a bed the same as the one in the ad, you need to pay 10 dollars more.”
Mrs. Green isn’t happy. Then she says, “That’s dishonest.”
“Well, madam,” answers the shopkeeper. “Look, there is a girl on a bike in an ad in your newspaper too, but can you buy the bike with the girl?”
【小题1】How does Mrs. Green know about the bed?

A small boy lived with his mother and grandmother in a big house. His father had died.

A bucket（桶）of water fell on the small boy’s left foot, and it began hurting a hot. His mother said, “I’m going to put something very hot on your foot tonight. That’s always very good. Tomorrow your foot won’t hurt any longer.”

In the evening, the small boy’s mother came to his bedroom. She had a hot poultice（膏药）in a bowl. The small boy looked at it and said, “I don’t want that. I had one a month ago. Poultices hurt.”

His mother sat down on his bed and said, “You’re going to have this poultice on.” She pulled his sheets（床单）and blankets（毯子）away, and put the poultice near his foot, but the boy pulled it away quickly, and poultice fell on the bed.

His mother was angry. She went down stairs and came back with his grandmother and a stick. She said to her son, “Your grandmother’s going to put the poultice on your foot, and I’m going to hold this stick. Now don’t be a stupid boy.”

She held the stick over the boy, and the grandmother took his foot and put the poultice near it. The boy said. “Stop, you…” but his mother brought the stick nearer, and he did not say anything else.

The grandmother brought the poultice near the foot again, and the boy stopped her again, but his mother was angry now and said, “I’m going to hit you.” The boy did not finish his words, and his grandmother put the poultice on his foot. He let it there for a few minutes and then took it off again.

The boy’s mother and grandmother put the sheets and blankets over him again and he said, “My left foot hurts, but you put the poultice on my right foot. I stopped you twice, but you didn’t listen to me.”

1. The small boy’s foot hurt because ____.

2. In the evening ___ first came to the small boy’s room.

3. The small boy ____ his mother.

4. The small boy took the poultice off because ____.

5.The best title for this passage is ____.

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While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground. “That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to (指着) a little boy in a red sweater.

“He’s a fine looking boy,” the man said. “That’s my daughter on the bike in the white dress.” Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter: “We have to leave for home now, Melissa.”

“Just five more minutes, Dad,” Melissa said. “Please? Just five more minutes.”

The man nodded (点头) and Melissa went on riding her bike happily. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter, “Time to go now?”

“Five more minutes, Dad,” Melissa said again. “Just five more minutes.”

The man smiled and said: “OK.”

“Oh, you really are a patient father,” said the woman.

The man smiled and then said: “Her older brother Tommy died (死) in a traffic accident last year while he was riding his bike near here,” the man said. “I never spent much time with Tommy and now I’d give anything for just five more minutes with him. I’ve vowed (发誓) not to make the same mistake with Melissa. She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get five more minutes to watch her play.”

1.The man’s daughter and her brother were playing at the park.

2.The man felt sorry that he didn’t give more of his time to his older son.

3.Melissa wanted to stay longer when her father asked her to go the first time.

4.Melissa agreed to go home when her father called her the second time.

5.The man learned a lot from Tommy’s death.

Mary often gets to school          .

A．ride her bike                           B．by the bike

C．by a bike                              D．on her bike

One day something went wrong with a man’s bicycle chain(链条). The man could not repair it,
so he looked    16   for help. The only house nearby belonged to a woman who had
   17   there a few months earlier. The man knocked at the door, but the woman did not
answer. The door had clear glass in it, and the man    18   see that the woman was home. He
decided to knock again. Finally the woman came to the door. The man immediately explained his
   19  . “I can fix the chain,” the woman said. Later when the bike was    20   to go,
the man said, ‘Thanks. I hope I can help you some day.”“I never need help,” the woman said.
The following week the man was riding his bike    21  he noticed the woman walking
down the street. A strong wind suddenly lifted(拾起) her hat and sent it into the branches(枝) of
an old tree. The woman tried to get her hat with a stick, but she failed. She seemed    22   
because she clearly was not dressed for tree-climbing. The man hurried over, quickly climbed up
to the hat and    23   it into the woman’s waiting hands. When she put on her hat, she
   24   the man as he climbed back on his bike. ‘I think I told you I never need help,” the
woman said, “I’m glad you didn’t    25   me. Thanks.” Then they both smiled.