Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the 1 had been working
hard for some time, reviewing their lessons for the exams. If they didn"t 2 , they would have to retake
them in September. There were usually a few who 3 , but Jane didn"t want to be one of them. She had
worked hard all year, 4 just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister Barbara was 5
about her. She went to bed too 6 . The night before the first exam, Barbara 7 that she have an early
night and take a 8 pill. She promised to wake 9 up in the morning.
As she was falling asleep, Jane was afraid that she might oversleep. Her 10 kept jumping from subject
to subject. At last, with the help of 11 , she went to sleep. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination
hall, looking at the examination 12 , but she couldn"t answer any of the questions. 13 around her was
writing pages and gages. 14 she thought hard, she couldn"t find anything to write 15 . She kept looking
at her 16 . Time was running out. There was only an hour to go. She started one question, wrote two
sentences, 17 and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this
time she was so worried that she started 18 . Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she 19 up.
She was still in bed and it had all been a 20 dream. A minute later, Barbara called her name. |
( )1. A. teachers
( )2. A. prepare
( )3. A. succeeded
( )4. A. but
( )5. A. excited
( )6. A. early
( )7. A. insisted
( )8. A. sleeping
( )9. A. him
( )10. A. hand
( )11. A. her sister
( )12. A. result
( )13. A. The teacher
( )14. A.If
( )15. A. with
( )16. A. watch
( )17. A. gave up
( )18. A. examining
( )19. A. raised
( )20. A. nice | B. students
B. miss
B. failed
B. so
B. frightened
B. late
B. hoped
B. resting
B. her
B. eye
B. her parents
B. marks
B. The students
B. Though
B. about
B. textbook
B. put off
B. leaving
B. woke
B. wonderful | C. classmates
C. join
C. ended
C. and
C. worried
C. heavily
C. ordered
C. exciting
C. them
C. mind
C. the lessons
C. desk
C. No one
C. So
C. on
C. sister
C. look around
C. copying
C. stood
C. terrible | D. schools
D. pass
D. called
D. because
D. pleased
D. eagerly
D. wished
D. breathing
D. herself
D. body
D. the medicine
D. paper
D. Everyone
D. How
D. to
D. subject
D. think over
D. crying
D. cheered
D. special | | 阅读理解。 | How to Become Cleverer
Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer, because his mother always called him
"foolish boy".
"That"s easy," answered the fisherman. "I know one way to make you become cleverer."
"Really?"
"Of course. It is said a fish head is good for brain. If you eat one, you"ll become cleverer indeed. Pay
only three pounds for one fish head." The boy paid him three pounds and the fisherman cut off a fish head
and handed it to him.
A raw fish head is not good-not even for a hungry boy to eat but the boy ate it up in two gulps.
"Do you feel anything?" asked the fisherman.
"Not in my head," said the boy.
The boy lay on the ground and thought. "One whole fish costs only two pounds. I had paid him three
pounds for the fish head. Why couldn"t I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left
over?" He jumped up and shouted at the fisherman. "You thief! You are fooling me!" The fisherman laughed,
saying, "The fish head works now, you see." | | 1. The boy ate up the raw fish head only in two gulps, because he _____. | | [ ] | A. enjoy it
B. wanted to taste it
C. took it as a good medicine
D. was a foolish boy | | 2. The boy came to the fisherman in order to _____. | | [ ] | A. buy a fish head
B. ask the fisherman a question
C. buy a whole fish
D. A and C | | 3. The boy paid three pounds. He should have had _____. | | [ ] | A. a whole fish
B. a fish head and one pound back
C. a whole fish and one pound back
D. a whole fish, a fish head and one pound back | | 4. _____ helped the boy become cleverer. | | [ ] | A. A good meal
B. The raw fish head
C. Nothing
D. What had happened | | 完形填空。 | Dick was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work 1 his spare time and during his
holidays to 2 his education. 3 this, he 4 get to the university, but it was 5 expensive to study there
that during the holiday he found 6 necessary to get two jobs 7 the same time 8 make enough
money 9 his studies.
One summer he managed to 10 a job in a butcher"s shop (肉店) during 11 , and another in a hospital
12 . In the shop, he learnt to cut meat quite nicely, so the butcher often 13 him doing all the serving 14
he went to the back room to do the accounts (账目). In the hospital, 15 , he was, of course, allowed to do
the simplest jobs, 16 helping to lift people and to 17 them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at
the butcher"s shop and at the hospital, Dick had to 18 white clothes.
One evening at the hospital, Dick had to help a woman from her bed to the place 19 she was to have
an operation. The woman was already feeling frightened at the 20 of the operation before he came to get her,
but when she saw Dick, she fainted away (晕过去). | ( )1. A. on
( )2. A. pay for
( )3. A. Instead
( )4. A. tried to
( )5. A. too
( )6. A. it"s
( )7. A. at
( )8. A. in order that
( )9. A. with
( )10. A. look for
( )11. A. day time
( )12. A. at night
( )13. A. let
( )14. A. while
( )15. A. on other hand
( )16. A. like
( )17. A. want
( )18. A. on
( )19. A. that
( )20. A. thought | B. in
B. pay off
B. Instead of
B. hope to
B. very
B. this
B. on
B. as to
B. for
B. find
B. the night
B. at noon
B. left
B. as soon as
B. on another hand
B. for
B. fetch
B. wear
B. which
B. time | C. at
C. pay to
C. In spite of
C. wanted to
C. so
C. that
C. by
C. as so to
C. to
C. reach
C. the night time
C. in the morning
C. made
C. after
C. on the second hand
C. as
C. carry
C. be on
C. where
C. end | D. with
D. pay back
D. In need of
D. was anxious to
D. much
D. it
D. for
D. so as to
D. because of
D. take
D. the daytime
D. in the daytime
D. had
D. until
D. on the other hand
D. from
D. raise
D. dress on
D. there
D. beginning | | 阅读理解。 | This is a talk by a London taxi (出租车) driver.
"I"ve been a taxi driver for nearly ten years. Most London taxi drivers have their own taxis."
"It"s a nice job most of time. You meet a lot of people. I always work at night, because there is too much
traffic during the day. I live twenty miles (英里) outside London and I go to work at 5:30 in the afternoon."
"I usually go home between 2 and 3 in the morning."
"Some very strange things happened late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a
party. She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house, she found that she had lost her key. So I
waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in through the windows."
"I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied
the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came.
They thought I was a thief (小偷).
Luckily the woman came downstairs (下楼). She must have gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the
dog! | | 1. The driver always worked at night because it was easier to _____. | | [ ] | A. drive
B. make money
C. climb in through the window
D. meet a lot of people | | 2. The woman climbed in through the window because _____. | | [ ] | A. she wanted to have a sleep
B. her husband didn"t open the door for her
C. she didn"t want to pay the driver
D. she couldn"t find her key | | 3. The story happened _____. | | [ ] | A. in the afternoon
B. late at night
C. 20 miles outside London
D. near the police station | | 4. Which of the following is wrong? | | [ ] | A. The driver worked until between 2 and 3 in the morning.
B. The police made a mistake.
C. The woman had no money to pay the driver.
D. The woman had forgotten about the driver and the dog. | | 5. The driver climbed in through the window to _____. | | [ ] | A. get money from the woman
B. return the dog to the woman
C. see what was happening in the house
D. phone the police | 最新试题
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