Many people have to work 1 . Some people do not mind. Other people think it"s terrible. One man thinks that working at the weekends can be 2 . He is George Smith. Mr Smith works in an office, in Brighton, England. On Saturday, May 24, 1986, he went to the office to do some work. After he 3 the lift, it stopped between floors. Mr Smith could not get out of the lift. He began to shout, but 4 heard him. Then Mr Smith remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one was going to come to work 5 Tuesday. There was 6 for Mr Smith to do. He had to wait until one of his workmates came to work and found him. With nothing to 7 , Mr Smith was very hungry and had to sleep most of the time. Early on Tuesday morning, one of his workmates came into work and found the lift 8 . When the lift was opened, Mr Smith came out cold, weak, and tired. He had been in the lift for 9 hours! Now Mr Smith says, "I only use lifts if they have 10 in them." |
( )1. A. from Monday to Friday ( )2. A. dangerous ( )3. A. got off ( )4. A. someone ( )5. A. on ( )6. A. nothing ( )7. A. read or write ( )8. A. was not there ( )9. A. nearly 24 ( )10. A. pans | B. at the weekends B. happy B. got into B. everyone B. to B. something B. eat or drink B. was not closed B. about 40 B. beds | C. on weekdays C. angry C. got out of C. no one C. from C. anything C. cook C. was not working C. more than 60 C. exits | D. from morning till nigh D. free D. got to D. either D. until D. everything D. know the time D. was working D. over 94 D. telephones |
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阅读理解。 | John sent his mother expensive presents on his mother"s birthday every year. He liked to show her how rich he was. "I must find something wonderful for her, and it must be the only one in the whole world." John thought. He advertised (登广告) in the newspapers." Wanted-the best present for the woman who has everything." For many days his telephone did not stop ringing. People phoned him from all over the world. They wanted to sell him"the best present". But they did not have anything that was the only one in the whole world. Then less than a week before his mother"s birthday, a man came to his office. He was carrying a cage, and in the cage there was a large bird. "This bird," the man said, "can speak ten languages and sing any pop song. There is no other bird like it in the world." "I will listen to it," John said. "If what you said is true, I will buy the bird from you." The man spoke to the bird. "Talk to me in French," he said. The bird spoke to him in French. "Tell me a joke in Japanese," he said. The bird told him a joke in Japanese."Sing a famous pop song," he said. The bird sang a famous pop song. "I"ll buy it,"John said. "How much do you want?" "One hundred thousand dollars," the man said. This was a lot of money but John paid him. Then he sent the bird to his mother with a birthday card. The day after his mother"s birthday he phoned her. "Well, mother," he said, "Is the bird wonderful?" "Oh, it was delicious, dear," she said. | 1. Why did John send her mother expensive presents for her birthday every year? | A. Because he loved his mother very much. B. Because his mother needed these presents. C. Because he wanted to show he had a lot of money. D. Because he was the richest man in the world. | 2. How did people know John wanted the best present in the world? | A. They rang John up. B. They knew it from the newspapers. C. John phoned them one by one. D. They knew it on TV. | 3. When did the man with a bird come to visit John? | A. Two weeks before John"s mother"s birthday. B. On John"s mother"s birthday. C. About five days before John"s mother"s birthday. D. Less than a week after John"s mother"s birthday. | 4. Why did John pay the man a lot of money for the bird? | A. Because it was such a beautiful bird. B. Because he wanted to help the poor man with the bird. C. Because the bird could look after his mother. D. Because John thought the bird could make his mother happy. | 5. What does the sentence "It was delicious," really mean in the story? | A. His mother ate the bird. B. His mother let the bird fly away. C. His mother began to learn languages from the bird. D. His mother thought it was the most expensive present in the world. | 完形填空。 | One Friday night, a poor young man stood at the train station. He played his violin and many people put 1 into the hat in front of him. The next day, the young man came to the station 2 . But this time he took out a large piece of paper 3 some words on it. It said"Last night a lady 4 Mrs Sang put an important thing into my hat 5 . Please come for it." After about an hour, a middle-aged woman ran to the young man in a hurry and said, "You do come here. I know that you"re a(n) 6 man and will certainly come here." They had a talk and the young man made sure she was the owner. Then he took out a lottery ticket and 7 it to the woman. Her husband bought a lottery ticket every day. Yesterday when she knew the lottery ticket he bought won, she was very 8 . The prize of the lottery ticket was $ 500,000. When she walked past the young man, she took out $50 and put it in the hat. 9 , the lottery ticket was also thrown in. Later, someone asked the young man, "You play the violin every day to make money. Why didn"t you just take the prize of the lottery ticket for yourself?" the young man said, "Although I don"t have much money, I live happily. But if I 10 honesty, I won"t be happy forever." | ( )1. A. money ( )2. A. instead ( )3. A. for ( )4. A. introduced ( )5. A. by mistake ( )6. A. crazy ( )7. A. gave ( )8. A. surprising ( )9. A. But ( )10. A. have
| B. tickets B. differently B. with B. spelled B. for mistake B. cool B. lent B. happy B. However B. win
| C. paper C. again C. over C. named C. on mistake C. honest C. offered C. exciting C. Therefore C. lose
| 用所给动词的正确形式完成短文,并将答案依次填在短文后面相应的横线上。 | Once upon a time, there was a rich man. Each morning, the rich man found a poor man 1_____(sit) on a bench in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day, the rich man 2_____(get) out of his car and said to the poor man,"Excuse me. I want 3_____(know) why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning." "Sir," said the poor man,"I am a failure. I 4_____(have) no money, no family and no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I will sleep in that hotel." The rich man said," Tonight your dream 5_____(come) true. I"ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month." A few days later, the rich man went into the poor man"s room to ask him how he 6_____(feel) in it. To his surprise, he found that the man 7_____(move) out of the hotel back to his bench. When the rich man asked why, he said,"You see, while I 8_____(sleep) on my bench, I dream I am there in the big hotel. It"s a wonderful dream. But while I 9_____(be) there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I 10_____(can not) get any sleep at all." | 阅读理解。 | A doctor was once teaching a class of medical students at a famous hospital in Edinburge. An injured man was brought in, and the doctor turned to one of his students and asked him, "What"s wrong with this man?" "I don"t know, sir," the student answered. "Shall I examine him and find out?" "There"s no need to examine him," said the doctor."You should know without asking questions. He has hurt his right knee. Didn"t you notice the way he walked? He hurt it by burning it in the fire. You see his trousers leg is burnt away at the knee. This is Monday morning. Yesterday was fine, but on Saturday the roads were wet and muddy. The man"s trousers are muddy all over. The man fell down on Saturday night." The doctor then turned to the man and said, "You had your pay on Saturday and went to a public house and drank too much. You got muddy and wet on the way home. Because you had drunk too much, you fell on the fire and burnt your knee. Is that right? "Yes, sir," said the man. | 1. The medical students were having a lesson ______. | A. at the library B. in a classroom C. at a well-known hospital D. in a medical school | 2. The man hurt his knee ______. | A. on Monday B. on Sunday night C. on Saturday night D. yesterday | 3. How did the doctor know that the man burnt his knee? | A. From the way he walked. B. By seeing his trousers leg is burnt away at the knee. C. By seeing the man"s trousers are muddy all over. D. Both A and B | 4. Which is the right order according to the passage? ① He burnt his knee. ② He got drunk. ③ He fell down and got muddy. ④ He had his pay. | A. ①②③④ B. ④③②① C. ③④①② D. ④②③① | 5. From the passage we know that _____ is very important for medical students. | A. watching and thinking B. taking good care of others C. learning from others D. teaching | 阅读下面短文,根据短文内容及首字母提示补全文中所缺的单词,答案写在题后的横线上。 | "Sorry" is a word that people in Britain often say in their daily life. One day while I was (1)w_____ on the street, a young man ran by hurriedly, brushing (轻擦) against my handbag. He continued his way, but turned (2)b_____ and said "sorry" to me. Even in a rush, he didn"t (3)f_____ to say "sorry". One day, after I bought some bananas, the shopkeeper was passing me the change, but I wasn"t ready for it and a coin dropped onto the ground. "Sorry, Madam," he said (4)w_____ bending to pick it up. I was (5)s_____ why he said "sorry" to me. Another time, I stepped on a man"s (6)f_____ at the entrance to a cinema. At the same time, we (7)b_____ said "sorry". Slowly, I got to know that when something unpleasant happens in daily life, the British don"t (8)c_____ much about who is wrong. If someone is in trouble, a "sorry" is always (9)n_____ . Perhaps that is (10)w_____ I seldom see people quarrel on the buses or streets in Britain. |
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