阅读短文，选择正确答案。 Once Effendi had a joke with the Prime Minister (宰相). He said t

题型：期末题难度：来源：

阅读短文，选择正确答案。     Once Effendi had a joke with the Prime Minister (宰相). He said that the Minister would die the next day.
The next day, the Minister fell to the ground from the horse and really died. When the king learned this, he got
angry and sent his men to catch Effendi at once.
     When Effendi was brought to him, the king shouted angrily, "Effendi, since (既然) you knew when my
Minister would die, you must know the date of your own death. Say it out, or you"ll die today."
     Effendi looked at the king for a while. Then he answered, "But how can I know? I"ll die two days earlier than
you." The king was afraid that if he killed Effendi, he himself would die after that. He thought he must keep
Effendi alive as long as possible, so he let Effendi go. 1. This story tells us ________. [     ]
A. how Effendi fooled the king
B. when the king would die
C. why the Minister died
D. Effendi knew the dates of everyone"s death 2. The prime Minister died because ________. [     ]
A. Effendi killed him
B. Effendi said he would die
C. he was badly ill
D. he fell off the horse 3. Why did the king ask Effendi to tell him the date of Effendi"s own death? [     ]
A. Because the king wanted to know when he himself would die.
B. Because he wanted to find an excuse to kill Effendi.
C. Because he himself had known the date of Effendi"s death.
D. Because he wanted to know when Effendi would die. 4. The king let Effendi go because _______. [     ]
A. he hoped to live a long life
B. he was afraid of Effendi
C. he didn"t believe Effendi"s words
D. he knew he would die two days later 5. Which of the following is NOT true? [     ]
A. Effendi played a joke on the Minister.
B. The king was afraid of death.
C. Effendi didn"t know when the king would die.
D. If the king killed Effendi, he himself would die two days later.

答案

1-5: ADBAD

举一反三

阅读短文，从每题所给出的(A、B、C、D)四个选项中选出最佳选项。      Many people have to work on the weekend. Some people do not mind. Other people think it is terrible.
     One man thinks that working on the weekend can be dangerous. He is Graham Coates. Mr. Coates worked
in an office in Brighton, England.
     On Saturday, May 24, 1986, he went to the office to do some work. When he got in the elevator to go home,
it stopped between floors. Mr. Coates could not get out of the elevator. He was trapped (困住了)! He started to
shout, but no one heard him. Then Mr. Coates remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one was going
to come to work until Tuesday!
     There was nothing for Mr. Coates to do. He had to wait until one his coworkers came to work and found
him. With nothing to eat or drink, Mr. Coates ended up sleeping for most of the time. Early on Tuesday morning,
the vice president of the company came into work and found the elevator was not working. When the elevator
was opened, Mr. Coates came out cold, weak, and tired. He had been in the elevator for sixty-two hours!
     Now Mr. Coates says, "I only uses elevators if they have telephones in them." 1. Mr. Coates could not get out of the elevator because ______. [     ]
A. it was broken
B. it was a weekend
C. it was a holiday
D. it stopped on a wrong floor 2. How long did he stay in the elevator? [     ]
A. Twenty-four hours.
B. From Saturday to Monday.
C. More than sixty hours.
D. From Tuesday to Saturday. 3. What did he do in the elevator most of the time? [     ]
A. Shouted and screamed.
B. Slept and waited.
C. Telephoned his boss.
D. Ate and drank. 4. How did he make his way out in the end? [     ]
A. The vice-president found him.
B. Some one opened the elevator.
C. The elevator began to work on Tuesday.
D. He found a door in the elevator. 5. What is the best title for this story? [     ]
A. An Interesting Elevator
B. A Busy Weekend
C. Elevator Safety
D. Trapped in an Elevator

题型：期末题难度：| 查看答案

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 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.

题型：期末题难度：| 查看答案

阅读短文，选择正确答案。     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 _______. [     ]
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 _____. [     ]
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 _______.[     ]
A. two ducks
B. rubbish
C. the ducks" feet and rubbish
D. the ducks" feet 4. How many ducks are there in the passage? [     ]
A. 2.
B. 4.
C. 6.
D. We don"t know. 5. What happened in the end? The small man _______. [     ]
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

题型：同步题难度：| 查看答案

阅读短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。       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 _______. [     ]
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. [     ]
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 _______. [     ]
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. [     ]
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? [     ]
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.

题型：月考题难度：| 查看答案

完形填空。     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."

题型：同步题难度：| 查看答案