A woman came out of her house and saw three old men sitting in her front yard. She said, "I don"t think
I 1 you, but you must be hungry. Please 2 and have something to eat."
"Is the man of the house 3 ?" they asked. "No," she replied, "He"s out," "Then we cannot come in," they
replied. In the evening when her 4 came home, she told him what had happened. "Go and tell them I am
home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in."We do not go into a house 5 ," they
replied. "Why is that?" she asked.
One of the old men explained:"His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, "and he is Success,
and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and 6 your husband which one of us you want in your home."
The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was 7 . "How nice!" he said. "Since
that is the case. Let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!" His wife 8 , "My dear, why
don"t we invite Success?" Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in
with her own 9 . "Wouldn"t it be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love." "Let us take our
daughter-in-law"s advice," said the husband to his wife. "Go out and invite 10 to be our guest." The woman went
out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our 11 ."
Love got up and started walking towards the house.
The other two also got up and 12 him. 13 , the lady asked Wealth and Success:"I only invited Love. Why
are you coming in?"
The old men replied together:"If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed
out, but 14 you invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him. 15 there is Love, there is also Wealth and
Success!" |
( )1. A. like
( )2. A. go out
( )3. A. home
( )4. A. friend
( )5. A. one by one
( )6. A. argue with
( )7. A. overjoyed
( )8. A. agreed
( )9. A. suggestion
( )10. A. Success
( )11. A. friend
( )12. A. followed
( )13. A. Pleased
( )14. A. when
( )15. A. Wherever | B. know
B. get away
B. room
B. father
B. one after another
B. discuss with
B. surprised
B. enjoyed
B. plan
B. Wealth
B. relative
B. stopped
B. Surprised
B. while
B. However | C. recognize
C. get up
C. family
C. brother
C. altogether
C. fight with
C. puzzled
C. nodded
C. solution
C. Love
C. son-in-law
C. honored
C. Delighted
C. if
C. Whenever | D. need
D. come in
D. office
D. husband
D. together
D. quarrel with
D. worried
D. disagreed
D. explanation
D. them
D. guest
D. pleased
D. Disappointed
D. since
D. Whatever | | 阅读理解。 | Joe and Helen Mills had two small children. One was six and the other four. They always resisted (拒绝)
going to bed, and Helen was always complaining (抱怨) about this and asking Joe for help. But as he did not
come home until after they had gone to bed during the week, he was unable to help except at weekends.
Joe considered hint: self a good singer, but really his voice was not at all musical. However, he decided that
if he sang to the children when they went to bed, it would help them to relax, and they would soon go to sleep.
He did this every Saturday and Sunday night until he heard his small son whisper to his younger sister, "If
you pretend that you"re asleep, he stops." | | 1. The children always resisted going to bed, which _____. | A. made Helen happy
B. satisfied their mother
C. Helen was not satisfied with
D. pleased their father | | 2. The husband couldn"t help the wife to look after the children _____. | A. because he came back from work early
B. since his voice sounded like a singer"s
C. except on Saturday and Sunday
D. for he did not come home at weekends | | 3. Joe worked _____. | A. all the week including Saturday and Sunday
B. during the week including the weekends
C. every day but Saturday and Sunday
D. every week except on Sunday | | 4. What can we learn from the above story? | A. Joe"s song helped the children to relax.
B. With Joe"s help, the children went to sleep.
C. The wife must be thankful to her husband for the great help.
D. The children were so tired of their father"s voice that they pretended to be asleep. | | 5. This joke tells about _____. | A. Joe and Helen
B. Helen"s trouble
C. Joe"s silly action
D. the bright idea of Joe | | 请从所给出的12个单词中选出10个填入下面短文的空白处，使短文通顺。每空一词，不得重复。 | put became advice see lying difficult for seldom healthy at balanced junk | | 完形填空。 | A good friend of mine, Gabriel, had a tiny farm in a small town. He only had a cow and dreamed about
having a(n) 1 farm. He looked at the horizon (地平线) every sunset and once he told his father, "I"d like
to have that 2 over there?" His father 3 him to go and talk to the landowner to see 4 they could obtain
the land. Gabriel replied, "But we don"t have the 5 ." His father said, "Don"t worry, go and talk to him."
Several years have passed and now Gabriel not only 6 the land but a theme park that 7 several hundred
cows, a small zoo, horse ride cabalgatas (马队), four-wheel motors and much more fun of the whole family
8 .
A year ago, when the park was already 9 a huge number of tourists, Gabriel"s wife Sarah had a dream.
"I want to build the 10 cow in the world," she said.
They called a friend, Manuel Hernandez, for this 11 . In three days he had plans for the whole project. Then
they asked,"How much will it 12 ?" Manuel mentioned a big sum of money.
" 13 will loan (借贷) us that quantity of money to build a cow," they thought, but the manager of the bank
14 them and their dreams.
Last October, La Manuela, the biggest cow in the world was 15 to the public. It is 9 meters tall and 16
meters long. The cow 16 eats you...and you travel inside the cow learning how grass is changed into 17 .
Moral of the story. If you can dream about it and you put all your 18 and foremost desire to make it happen,
it will become a(n) 19 despite how difficult or 20 it may sound. | ( )1. A. tiny
( )2. A. cow
( )3. A. encouraged
( )4. A. why
( )5. A. message
( )6. A. plants
( )7. A. includes
( )8. A. education
( )9. A. requiring
( )10. A. strongest
( )11. A. experiment
( )12. A. cost
( )13. A. Everybody
( )14. A. employed
( )15. A. led
( )16. A. actually
( )17. A. tree
( )18. A. equipment
( )19. A. imagination
( )20. A. expensive | B. remote
B. land
B. allowed
B. what
B. chance
B. discovers
B. buys
B. enjoyment
B. organizing
B. cleverest
B. task
B. save
B. Anybody
B. interviewed
B. opened
B. nearly
B. milk
B. nutrition
B. effect
B. comfortable | C. old
C. factory
C. demanded
C. how
C. time
C. owns
C. feeds
C. work
C. attracting
C. bravest
C. risk
C. spare
C. Nobody
C. lent
C. delivered
C. especially
C. food
C. energy
C. result
C. foolish | D. large
D. family
D. reminded
D. when
D. money
D. rents
D. saves
D. rest
D. sending
D. biggest
D. test
D. pay
D. Somebody
D. trusted
D. passed
D. eventually
D. wood
D. information
D. reality
D. practical | | 阅读理解。 | A father of 20 has been reunited with 11 of his estranged (分开的) children thanks to a photographer
he met after saving a Blaina stab (刺) victim"s life.
Mr. Holpin was enjoying a night out at Blaina Fair when he witnessed a young girl attacked by a man
with a knife. He bravely removed the weapon from the attacker, and saved the girl.
Betina Skovbro was sent to photograph Mr. Holpin for a newspaper covering the story, and they had
a pleasant conversation. Miss Skoybro said, "He mentioned he was a father to 20 children, 11 of whom
he had no contact with, and he showed me the tatto (纹身) on his back of a huge family tree covered with
all his children"s names, which I thought was amazing."
Betina was moved by his story and decided to help him, so they began looking for his missing children
and documented the process with photographs.
"It was strange at first being photographed, but I got used to it. We ended up spending a year together,
and Betina became like a member of the family-she even spent Christmas Day with us." With Benita"s help,
they searched for the missing children from four previous relationships.
One of the last photographs Belina took was published in National Geographic magazine. It was about
Mr. Holpin cradling (抱) his youngest child, while the baby"s name was added to the family tree on his back.
He said, "Each time I met one of my children, I had no idea what to say. I told them that the reason I
have my tattoo is because even though I had no way of getting in contact I was always thinking about them."
Mr Holpin"s children were just as shocked as he was to meet with their father-one daughter had even been
told that he was dead. A lot of his kids had been told bad things about him. He said, "I have had my troubles
in the past, but hopefully the story about the stabbing and Miss Skovbro"s photographs have helped prove that
I am not a bad guy after all, and I really love all my children."
Now, he is really close to his kids and they"re close to him. He expressed that he wouldn"t lose touch with
them again. | | 1. Betina met Mr. Holpin for the first time to _____. | A. take a photo for him for a newspaper
B. help him find his missing children
C. document the process with photographs
D. spend the Christmas Day with his family | | 2. Mr Holpin thought that he kept the tattoo on his back _____. | A. not to lose contact with his family
B. to search for the missing children
C. be reported by a newspaper
D. not to forget all his children all the time | | 3. What might most of Mr. Holpin"s missing children think of him? | |
A. He had died.
B. He was a bad father.
C. He must have some troubles.
D. He loved them very much. | | 4. Which would be the best title of the passage? | A. Father of 20 Finds Children
B. A Father and His 20 Children
C. A Father Saved a Girl Bravely
D. A Father and His Story | 最新试题
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