Once there lived a very clever man whose name was Aesop (伊索). One day as he was
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Once there lived a very clever man whose name was Aesop (伊索). One day as he was taking a walk, he came across a traveler. The traveler stopped him and asked, “Excuse me,, can you tell me how
soon I’ll get to town?”
“Go.” Aesop answered.
“I know I must go.” said the traveler, “but I want to know how soon I’ll get to town.”
“Go!~ ”Aesop said again angrily.
“This man must be mad(疯的),” the traveler thought and went on.
After the traveler had gone some distance(一段距离), Aesop shouted after him, “You’ll get to town in two hours.”
The traveler was greatly surprised. He turned back and asked, “Why didn’t you tell me that before?”
“How could I tell you that before?” Aesop answered, “I didn’t know how fast you could walk.”
小题1:One day Aesop ____________ a traveler while he was walking.| A．stopped | B．found | C．met | D．saved |
小题2:The traveler asked Aesop______________.| A．to show him the way to town | | B．how long it would take him to get to town | | C．to give him some money | | D．to tell him where the town was: |
小题3:Why didn’t Aesop give the traveler the answer at first? Because he__________.| A．thought the traveler a was rude man | | B．didn’t know the distance | | C．wanted to tell him later | | D．didn’t know how fast the man could walk |
小题4:When did Aesop give the traveler the answer?| A．After the traveler got to town | | B．After the traveler had walked some distance. | | C．when he wasn’t angry. | | D．When the traveler asked him a third time. |
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答案
小题1:C 小题2:B 小题3:D 小题4:B |
解析
小题1: come across是“碰到”的意思，相当于meet。故选C。
小题2:根据“can you tell me how soon I’ll get to town?”可知，问的是多久才能到达镇上。故选B。
小题3:根据最后一句可知，Aesop是想通过那个人的步行速度来判断用时。故选D。
小题4:根据“After the traveler had gone some distance”可知，当路人走了一段距离后，Aesop告诉了他所用的时间。故选B。 |
举一反三
Mr. Smith is my new friend. He 1 from Paris, France. He is a French 2 of a middle school. His students all like 3 very much. He can speak some Chinese, 4 not much. He wants to learn more, so he goes to 5 classes every week. He likes living and working 6 China very much. He 7 the Chinese people are very friendly(友好的). He has two 8 , Maria and Tom. They are students, but they go to different(不同的) 9 . They have some pen pals and they often write 10 the pen pals. They also have many Chinese friends at school and they play games after class.
小题1:A. comes B. goes C. has
小题2:A. friend B. student C. teacher
小题3:A. me B. her C. him
小题4:A. or B. but C. and
小题5:A. Chinese B. French C. English
小题6:A. at B. from C. in
小题7:A. thinks B. speaks C. likes
小题8:A. sons B. kids C. daughters
小题9:A. families B. schools C. cities
小题10:A. for B. with C. to |
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
Hello, everyone(每个人)! My name is Bob. I live in Toronto, Canada. It’s a very beautiful city. My parents are from France. They speak French. And I can speak English and French.
I am 13 years old and my birthday is in November. I’m a middle school student. There are thirteen girls and fifteen boys in my class. They are from five countries. They all come to learn English. There are eight Chinese students in my class and six of them are my good friends. I like China very much because it is a great country. I want to learn Chinese. And I want to go to China.
小题1:Where is Bob from?
A. France. B. Canada. C. China.
小题2:How many students are there in Bob’s class?
A. Thirteen. B. Fifteen. C. Twenty-eight.
小题3:What does Bob want to do?
A. He wants to go to China. B. He wants to learn English. C. He wants to go to France.
小题4:What languages can Bob speak?
A. English and Chinese. B. English and French. C. Chinese and English.
小题5:How many Chinese friends does Bob have?
A. Five. B. Six. C. Eight. |
J.K. Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, which is now one of the bestsellers in the world.
J.K. Rowling was born in Bristol on July 31st, 1965. She has one sister who is two years younger than her. Both girls loved listening to their father reading bedtime stories to them. They especially loved stories about magical worlds. Rowling wrote her first story, called Rabbit, at the age of six.
After she graduated from the university, Rowling worked as a translator (翻译者) in London. During this time, on a long train trip in the summer of 1990, the idea came to her of a boy who has magic but doesn’t know it. In 1992 Rowling began to teach English. She lived with her baby daughter, Jessica, and spent much time finishing the first Harry Potter book for young readers. It appeared in June 1997. To her surprise, the book was greatly successful. The film came out in November 2001. Now Harry Potter series (系列) is popular with people of all ages and about 60 million books were sold in 200 countries.
Why has the series been so successful? There are a few things. Many other magical stories take place in faraway lands or in past or future times. But Harry lives in modern (现代的) England. He’s also a very normal (平常的) boy: polite, friendly, brave and clever. So when other children read about Harry, they can imagine being like him.
J.K. Rowling is very happy with the success, and she is now busy finishing the whole series of seven books. She’s writing full time and she’s really enjoying life. She says she will go on living a normal life with her daughter and writing children’s books.
小题1:From the passage, we know ___________.| A．J.K. Rowling met a boy named Harry on a long train trip | | B．J.K. Rowling loved listening to stories when she was very young | | C．J.K. Rowling is two years younger than her sister | | D．Harry Potter is J.K. Rowling’s first story |
小题2:The Harry Potter series is __________.| A．written for young people | | B．only enjoyed by children | | C．only sold in England | | D．about a young inspector |
小题3:J.K. Rowling has been successful, and she ___________.| A．likes to travel all over the world with her daughter | | B．is too busy to enjoy her life | | C．is excited about her success every day | | D．is still writing stories for children |
小题4:How is Harry Potter series different from other magical stories?| A．There are magical things. | | B．The stories happened in the modern world. | | C．It has seven books. | | D．It took much time to finish. |
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Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ’You are completely crazy,’" Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
小题1:The turning point in Saunders’ life came when ________.| A．he started to play ball games | | B．he got a mountain bike at age 15 | | C．he ran his first marathon at age 18 | | D．he started to receive Ridgway’s training |
小题2:We can learn from the text that Ridgway ________.| A．dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy | | B．built up his body together with Saunders | | C．hired Saunders for his cold-water experience | | D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic |
小题3:What do we know about Saunders?| A．He once worked at a school in Scotland. | | B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole. | | C．He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid. | | D．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole. |
小题4:The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means ________.| A．Excited | B．Convinced | C．Delighted | D．Fascinated |
小题5:It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ________.| A．was accompanied by his old playmates | | B．set a record in the North Pole expedition | | C．was supported by other Arctic explorers | | D．made him well-known in the 1960s |
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One day, my English teacher asked me to help her save back-up（备份） copies of her work in the computer. I then realized I was able to know the grades of all of her students. I 1 her how to copy files（文件） from one disk to another and she thanked me.
A few days later, she asked me to help her again, because she 2 how to do it. When I showed it to her, some students in my class 3 and began to talk among themselves 4 .Later that day, at lunch time, several of them came up to me.
“Hey, could you help us change our grades? We’ll 5 for it.”
I could not believe what I heard. I could get paid for something very 6 . “All right. I’ll do it.” The next day, my English teacher 7 me to help him out again. When he was not paying 8 , I changed their grades from Fs to As.
I soon became very 9 among my friends. They began to treat me like God who could do 10 . Word spread quickly and I became very rich.
Everything was going fine 11 I was called into the headmaster’s office. When I got there, both of my teacher and the headmaster were very angry. “ I don’t want to 12 what your teacher said, but I have to. She has too much evidence(证据),’’ the headmaster said. “Do you have anything to say for yourself?”
“No,” I said finally. I didn’t realize how 13 my behavior had been. I had disappointed my teacher and the headmaster. And there was no way 14 . I had to leave my school. That was a good 15 for me.
| 小题1: | | A．said | B．urged | C．knew | D．showed |
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| 小题2: | | A．lost | B．remembered | C．reminded | D．forgot |
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| 小题3: | | A．listened | B．noticed | C．played | D．checked |
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| 小题4: | | A．quietly | B．luckily | C．sincerely | D．angrily |
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| 小题5: | | A．pay | B．praise | C．follow | D．explain |
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| 小题6: | | A．familiar | B．easy | C．interesting | D．pleasant |
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| 小题7: | | A．challenged | B．allowed | C．taught | D．asked |
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| 小题8: | | A．money | B．work | C．attention | D．interest |
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| 小题9: | | A．common | B．popular | C．modest | D．dishonest |
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| 小题10: | | A．something | B．anything | C．nothing | D．some things |
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| 小题11: | | A．until | B．since | C．because | D．after |
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| 小题12: | | A．believe | B．reply | C．hate | D．influence |
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| 小题13: | | A．hard | B．interesting | C．serious | D．important |
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| 小题15: | | A．skill | B．lesson | C．story | D．example |
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