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Three rich ladies met every day by the river. They sat there and talked the whole day. One day the three ladies quarreled( 争 吵 ). One of them said, “Look, how white and beautiful my hands are!” Another one said, “My hands are more beautiful.” The third one said, “Mine are the most beautiful ones.” An old beggar(乞丐) woman came up to them. “Beautiful ladies,” she said, “I’m hungry. Please give me something to
eat.” But the three ladies gave her nothing. They only asked, “Tell me, old woman, which one of us has the most beautiful hands”
A female farmer was also sitting by the river. She was poor and her hands were rough because of hard work. The old woman came up to her and said, “I’m hungry. Please give me something to eat.” The farmer took out the only cake she had and gave her a half.
The old woman ate it and drank some water. Then she took the farmer by the hand, brought her before the rich ladies and said, “Now I shall tell you whose hands are the most beautiful. The hands of the poor farmer are rough because of work, but they give us food. They are far more beautiful than your hands which have never done anything.”
1.Why did the three ladies quarrel on that day?
A.Because they argued about who should go to buy a cake.
B.Because they argued about who should give food to the beggar.
C.Because everyone wanted to show that she was the richest.
D.Because everyone wanted to show that her hands were the most beautiful.
2.The underlined word “she” in Paragraph 2 refers to .
A.the beggar woman B.the female farmer
C.the first lady D.the second lady
3.In what order did the following take place in the story?
a.Three ladies quarreled with each other.
b.The beggar ate the food and drank some water.
c.A beggar woman came to ask for something to eat.
d.The beggar showed the farmer’s hands to the other ladies.
e.A farmer gave the beggar woman half a cake.
A.a, c, e , b, d B.a, e, b, c, d
C.c, e, a, d, b D.c, d, c, a, d
4.The old woman said that the farmer’s hands were more beautiful because .
A.she liked dark hands better than white hands
B.the female woman gave her half a cake
C.her hands had worked hard to provide food for people
D.the three ladies didn’t give her anything to eat.
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Every day I pass by a homeless old man on the street. He usually sat near where I go to school. Whenever I pass by, he says “hello” in a cheerful manner, and I always say it back. I give him any extra (多余的) change I have.
The old man always wears an old watch. It is not an expensive watch by any means, but it serves its purpose. One day I noticed he wasn’t wearing it any more. I asked him why and he looked down and told me that the battery (电池) had died so he threw it away. I knew he couldn’t buy a new battery and he had no enough money to buy a new watch.
He stayed on my mind all day, and I knew what I had to do. I went out to a shop and bought him a watch. It was not an expensive one, but one that was very similar to the one he had.
When I saw him the next day, he was smiling and cheerful as ever. When I bent down to put some change in his cup, I also dropped the watch in. I didn’t say anything about it. I just smiled at him and kept on walking. He didn’t even notice it until I left. I looked back and watched as he pulled the watch from the cup. He looked to me and I just smiled and nodded. He put the watch on with a big smile on his face and I walked happily on my way.
1.The old man always greeted the writer when she passed because _______.
A. she was a student B. she usually gave him some money
C. she had a lot of money D. she was always cheerful
2.Why did the old man throw the watch away?
A. The writer said she would give him one. B. He wanted to get a new one.
C. The battery had no power. D. The watch didn’t serve its purpose.
3.From the passage we can learn that _______.
A. the old man knew the writer had brought him a new watch
B. the old man didn’t see it when the writer put the watch in the cup
C. the writer dropped nothing but a watch in the cup
D. the watch must have cost the writer a lot of money
4.What do we know about the new watch?
A. It was a little expensive. B. It was cheaper than the one the old man had.
C. It was more beautiful. D. It looked like the one the old man had.
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. How to Help Others B. Don’t Throw Old Things Away
C. An Expensive Gift D. A Homeless Old Man
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One sunny day, Alice sat ______a river with her sister.
A. by B. on C. at D. To
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－Why are there a lot of dead fish in the river?
－Because they were ______ by the polluted water.
A. caught B. poisoned C. burned D. protected
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Every morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench (长凳). The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel that the rich man lived in. One day the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir”, said the poor man, “I am a failure (失败者). I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I can sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “Tonight your dream will come true. I'll pay for the best room in that hotel for you for a whole month.”
A few days later, the rich man went to the poor man's room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, “You see, when I am sleeping here on my bench. I dream I can go there, in that big hotel. It's a nice dream. But when I lived there, I dreamed I was back to this cold and hard bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn't get any sleep at all.”
1.The poor man lived in ________ before he met the rich man.
A. the hotel B. his home C. the park D. the car
2.Every morning, the poor man sat on the bench and __________.
A. waited for the rich man B. looked at the rich man's hotel
C. looked at the rich man's car D. enjoyed the clean air
3.At first, every night the poor man dreamed of(梦想) _____________.
A. sleeping in that hotel B. becoming rich
C. having that hotel D. being the rich man's friend
4.The poor man moved out of the hotel because __________.
A. he didn't want to live in such a fine room
B. he didn't like the rich man
C. he couldn't pay for the room
D. he couldn't sleep well there
5.________ is the poor man’s favorite.
A. Money B. Family C. Park bench D. Good sleep
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I like ___(1)___．Every Sunday I get up early and go to a river by bike three kilometers away from my home. Last Sunday，my wife __(2)__to go with me. We went by car first and then walked to the river. We began to fish. After two hours I caught ___(3)___．
“Why don' t you let me try?" my wife asked.
“___(4)___.” I said . To my surprise, she __(5)__ six big fish in half an hour.
“I am going home first and I’m going to ___(6)___ them for lunch. You can___(7)___the bus home，”she said.
I stayed by the river and went on fishing but caught ___(8)___ an old shoe. I felt a little ___(9)__ with myself．Who is the fish man in the family? My wife __(10)__I?
1.A. fish B. fishing C. fished D. for fish
2.A. wants B. wanted C. hated D. likes
3.A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
4.A. All right B. No, I can do it
C. Thank you D. Don’t worry
5.A. took B. caught C. buy D. have
6.A.cook B. making C. do D. cooker
7.A. on B. take C. get D. took
8.A. no B. until C. only D. still
9.A. angry B. happy C. great D. well
10.A. and B. with C. or D. but
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We may pass by empty phone booths(电话亭）on the streets every day.But they have been something out of date because of cell phones. Old phone booths in Shanghai is trying to bring new life.
Shanghai will make changes to 263 phone booths in Xuhui district.There will be six new kinds of booths in Shanghai.Tee Library Booth is one of the six new kinds,It gives 60 books for people to borrow and read.Another kind will let users to listen to audio books(有声书）and even record their own voices.
Shanghai is not the only one trying to help phone booths stay useful.The UK Company British Telccom lets people use booths.Since 2009,people have changed more than 1,500 phone booths into flower shops,mini-cafes and even shower rooms.The British love their red phone booths and they have been a part of the country’s identity(标识)since the 1930s.
Maybe in the future phone booths will become a new identity again,but in a different way.
1.How many books will each library booth in Shanghai offer？
A. 6. B. 60. C. 263. D. 1,500.
2.What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. People in the UK don’t use booths.
B. British Telecom is the best company in the UK.
C. The British love their phone booths so much.
D. The British are making new use of phone booths again.
3.What can we know from the story?
A. No one wants to use telephone booths now.
B. people will use phone booths in a new way.
C. Britain’s red phone booths are losing their identity.
D. Phone booths around the world are not popular.
4.In the passage,the writer wants to tell the readers about .
A. the fun of phone booths B. the history of phone booths
C. the new life of phone booths. D. the difference of phone booths
5.We can read the passage probably from .
A. a newspaper B. a picture book C. a comedy D. a storybook
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One day a rich man met Sam. The rich man asked, “I hear you’re very clever and nothing is difficult to you. 1. ”
Sam answered with a smile,“I am not clever. Instead you are too foolish(笨的).” 2.
Sam said, “Please don’t be angry. If you don’t believe me. 3.If you put one group of sheep and another group of sheep together, how many groups of sheep do you have?”
“Why! That’s an easy question. 4. I have two groups of sheep.”
Sam laughed and said, “ 5. Two groups of sheep put together still one group. That’s the easiest question in the world.”
A．You are wrong.
B． Now let me ask you a question.
C．The rich man because very angry.
D．Can you tell me why you are so clever?
E．One and one is two, anybody knows that.
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One day a rich（有钱的）man met Sam. The rich man asked, “I hear you are very clever and nothing is difficult to you. Can you tell me why you are so clever?”
Sam answered with a smile, “ Oh, I am not clever. Instead you are too foolish（愚蠢的）.” The rich man became very angry.
1.One day____ met Sam.
A. a rich man B. a poor man C. a young man D. an old man
2.The rich man became angry because_______.
A. Sam said he was clever B. Sam said he was foolish.
C. Sam was foolish. D. Sam wasn’t clever
3.Sam thinks he asked the rich man ________question.
A. an easy B. a difficult C. an interesting D. a good
4.Two groups of sheep put together is________.
A. one group B. two groups C. Many groups D. Many sheep
5.Sam is ________.
A. foolish B. rich C. clever D. Not rich
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That year I went to the college. On the first day of the term, I was so s 1. that an old lady sat next to me. She was very old, but she looked very a 2. .
“Why are you in college at such an a 3., Rose?” I asked her. “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have several children and t 4. ,” she answered jokingly. I was interested in what has made her take on this challenge (挑战) at her age. “In fact, I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting o 5. .” she told me. Later, we became friends.
At the end of the term, she gave a talk to our class. I’ll never forget what she said. She cleared her throat (嗓子) and b 6. , “We do not stop w 7. because we are young; we grow old because we stop. Do you hope to stay young, be happy, and become s8. ? Do you have a dream? I had a dream of going to college. It almost took me all my lifetime, but h 9. I am. Never lose your dreams and never give up.” We were all moved by Rose’s words. And I still remember her words in all my life, so I continue my dreams and try my best to a 10. them.
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