根据短文内容,完成下列句子,每空一词。 When Abe Lincoln was just a boy, he had to help his fath
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When Abe Lincoln was just a boy, he had to help his father Tom to look after their farm. It was hard work and there wasn"t much fun for him. Abe Lincoln wanted to go to school, but there was no school there. Abe was sad most of the time. Mrs Lincoln loved the boy very much. She tried her best to make Abe happy. One morning she got up early and said to Tom Lincoln, "I"m going to town. "Tom was surprised. "That"s a long way. And the snow is heavy. What are you going to do in the town?" "I"ll let you know when I come back," She said and then went out of the house. It took Mrs Lincoln a long time to get to town. She bought something there and started back. And it was late in the evening when she got home. The next morning Mrs Lincoln said to Abe, "Today is your birthday. We are going to have a party!" She put some food on the table,then brought out a present. "A book!" Abe cried. It was an old book, but he liked it. A smile came to his face. He looked up at Mrs Lincoln and said, "Thank you!" 1. When he was a child, Abe Lincoln wanted to be a school _____, but there weren"t any schools nearby. So he ______ go to school. 2. Mrs Lincoln loved her ______ and tried her best to make him happy. One morning, she wanted to go out to do some ______. 3. It took Mrs Lincoln a lot of ______ to ______ town. 4. Mrs Lincoln ______ Abe a present. The present for Abe was a ______. 5. Abe was very ______ to have the present. He ______ it very much. |
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1. boy/student, couldn"t 2. son, shopping 3. time, reach 4. bought, book 5. happy, liked |
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A small man with a fat stomach got on the train at the last station before the frontier (边境). He carried a paper bag. And four feet of ducks (鸭子) could be seen under the cover. The man found an empty seat, put the bag in the middle of the floor, took out a newspaper and began to read. Then a policeman came in. Of course he saw the bag with the ducks" feet at once and said, "Whose is that bag?" Nobody answered. The policeman repeated the question, and said, "I shall have to take it away from the owner. Food mustn"t be taken out of country." "Well, then," said the small man with a fat stomach. "Hurry up and take it away. We want to go home." The policeman took the bag and went on to the next carriage (车厢). At the next station, when they were safely across the frontier, the small man got up, smiled at other passengers and said, "I hope that they"ll enjoy the ducks" feet. The rest of the bag had nothing but rubbish in it." Then he opened his coat and pointed to another bag he was carrying under it. It was tied over the stomach, which was not really fat. "I have the rest of the two ducks here," he said. With these words, he got off the train. But while he was happily walking to the exit with the bag in his hand, a policeman came up to him, saying, "Hey, man! Foreign food mustn"t be brought in." |
1. The small man put the bag in the middle of the floor _______. |
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A. because the other passengers didn"t like it B. so that the policeman could find it easily C. so that he could make more room for himself D. because there was not an empty seat in the carriage |
2. Why did the first policeman take the paper bag away? Because _____. |
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A. he wanted to find the owner of the bag B. he enjoyed the ducks" feet in the bag C. the bag was put in a wrong place in the carriage D. food can"t be taken abroad |
3. The bag the policeman took away had nothing in it except _______. |
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A. two ducks B. rubbish C. the ducks" feet and rubbish D. the ducks" feet |
4. How many ducks are there in the passage? |
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A. 2. B. 4. C. 6. D. We don"t know. |
5. What happened in the end? The small man _______. |
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A. failed to take his food home B. crossed the frontier with two paper bags C. took the ducks safely home D. hid his ducks under his coat again |
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Helen Beckman, an old woman of fifty, always thought herself right. Sometimes she made a mistake, but she tried her best to deny (否认) it. One day, she was walking along the street when she met with another woman. She remembered it seemed like one of her friends. So she looked at her very carefully. Then she said, "Sandy Smith, my old friend! Well, well, well I haven"t seen you for ten years." She looked at the woman up and down. But the woman was puzzled (迷惹不解的) and couldn"t know what to say. "But you"ve changed, Sandy," she went on. "You used to be fat but now you"re thin." She smiled at the woman again. "But, oh, you have changed," she said. "I"ve never known anyone change so much. You used to have thick hair but now it"s very thin. You didn"t use to wear glasses but now you"re wearing really thick ones." She smiled at the woman again. "But you"re still the same Sandy Smith I used to have coffee with every week. We had some good times, didn"t we, Sandy?" "Excuse me, madam," the woman said, "but my name isn"t Sandy Smith." Helen thought for a minute, and then she said, "So you"ve changed your name as well, haven"t you?" |
1. Helen Beckman never thought _______. |
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A. she was too old. B. she was free at home. C. she did something wrong. D. she was bad to her friends. |
2. _______, so she looked at her up and down. |
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A. Helen Beckman didn"t know the woman B. Helen Beckman was not sure if the woman was her friend C. Helen Beckman hoped to talk with the woman D. The woman forgot to say hello to Helen Beckman |
3. The man was puzzled because _______. |
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A. she didn"t know Helen Beckman all B. she forgot Helen Beckman was her friend C. Helen Beckman changed greatly D. Helen Beckman talked too much |
4. _______, so she remembered her well. |
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A. Sandy Smith often wrote to Helen Beckman B. Sandy Smith often went to see Helen Beckman C. Sandy Smith was one of Helen Beckman"s neighbours D. Sandy Smith often had coffee with Helen Beckman |
5. Which of the following is true? |
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A. Sandy Smith changed her name. B. Helen Beckman made a mistake again. C. Sandy Smith was much fatter than before. D. Sandy Smith forgot her old friend. |
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A professor (教授) told his students to go into the city slums (贫民窟) to study the life of 200 boys. He asked them to 1 reports about each boy"s life and future. One of the students wrote, "They don"t have any hope." Twenty-five years 2 , another professor read about the earlier study. He told his students to 3 what had happened to the boys. They tried very hard and found that 176 of the boys had become successful 4 doctors, teachers and scientists. The professor was very 5 and decided to study it further. Luckily, all of them were living near the place and he was able to ask each one, "What made you 6 ?" Each one answered, "It was a teacher." The teacher was 7 living there, so the professor found her and asked the old woman 8 she had done to pull those boys out of the slums, and change them 9 successful people. The teacher"s 10 began to shine and said with a sweet smile, "It"s really very easy. I love those boys." |
( ) 1. A. read ( ) 2. A. later ( ) 3. A. search ( ) 4. A. for ( ) 5. A. glad ( ) 6. A. wonderful ( ) 7. A. already ( ) 8. A. what ( ) 9. A. on ( ) 10. A. face | B. study B. after B. find out B. with B. angry B. successful B. too B. who B. of B. eyes | C. write C. ago C. look after C. as C. surprised C. rich C. even C. which C. from C. hair | D. take D. before D. see D. like D. worried D. popular D. still D. when D. into D. mouth | 阅读理解。 | When Mencius (孟子) was a little boy, his father died. Mencius and his mother were quite poor. One day Mencius returned home from school and found his mother making some cloth. It was very beautiful and expensive. "How much of the book have you read today?" Mencius" mother asked him. "I haven"t read any of it yet." Mencius replied, "I played with some friends of mine in the fields." When his mother heard this, she picked up a pair of scissors and cut the cloth. "Why have you cut your cloth?" Mencius asked, "It was so beautiful but now you"ve wasted (浪费) it." "You have wasted your time," his mother said, "now I have wasted mine. Look at the terrible things we have done." Mencius learnt a lot from this lesson. After that, he always studied hard. | 1. When did this story happen? | [ ] | A. Not long before liberation (解放). B. More than 2000 years ago. C. About 400 years ago. D. In the 18th century. | 2. What was Mencius doing while his mother was cutting the cloth? | [ ] | A. He was reading his book. B. He was playing in the fields. C. He was trying to help her. D. He was watching strangely. | 3. The mother cut the cloth because _______. | [ ] | A. she thought making cloth was wasting time B. she wanted to give her son a lesson C. she wanted to use more beautiful and expensive cloth D. she wanted her son to do his lessons at once | 4. Mencius and his mother were quite poor because ___________________. 5. When the mother knew Mencius had not read any books, she felt s__________________. | 阅读理解。 | One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying, "You don"t say! You don"t say!" I was puzzled (困惑的), and I thought, "Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about." So I said to him, "Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?" "Certainly. When I"m back home, everyone will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful!" "Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it." As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, "You don"t say!" I couldn"t help asking, "Why do you ask me not to talk about it?" "Well, I didn"t ask you to do so." he answered, greatly surprised. "Didn"t you say "You don"t say!"?" I asked again. Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, " "You don"t say!" means "Really?" Perhaps you know little about English idioms (习惯用语)." Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms. 根据短文内容,判断正(T)误(F)。 ( ) 1. The foreigner didn"t want to listen to the writer to talk about how he was studying English. ( ) 2. The writer was puzzled because the foreigner knew the Great Wall very well. ( ) 3. The foreigner thought the Great Wall was wonderful. ( ) 4. Perhaps the story happened in China. ( ) 5. When the foreigner used the idiom "You don"t say!", he meant "Stop talking!" |
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