Linda enjoyed listening to the gossip (閑話) at the water fountain (飲水處), and then passed it to others. Sometimes people got a little hurt, Patty decided that Linda should be taught a lesson.

　　After the second class, Patty was at the water fountain. As she took a drink, Abel passed by. “What's up?” he asked her. Patty said, “Nothing much, the usual. Today is sure an interesting day. But it's not good for Linda. ”

“What do you mean? What happened?” Abel asked. Patty said sadly, “I heard that Linda got below an A on her history exam. You know her parents want her to get straight As. I think they'll keep her at home for a whole week to study. ” Before he could ask anything else, Patty walked on.

　　Abel caught up with Emily. “Did you hear,” He asked, not waiting for her to answer, “Linda failed on a history exam and her parents will keep her at home for a whole month?” Emily looked at him in surprise, “But Linda is a straight-A student. This is terrible. Don't tell anybody, and I won't either. ”

　　At lunch, the gossip was flying fast. Tim asked Bob, “Did you hear about poor Linda? She failed in history, and her parents are going to get her a tutor (家庭教師) . ”

　　By three o'clock, everybody knew it. All day, Linda had had a strange feeling. People were looking at her. She asked Dana what was going on. He said, “I don't know who found out, but we're really sorry. ”

　　 “Sorry about what?” Linda asked. “Everybody knows you failed in all your subjects and your parents are taking you out of school. ” Linda stared (盯著) at him, mouth opened. “How did this gossip start? It's not sure! ” Linda began to shout. In a moment, most of her friends were around her. They asked if there was anything they could do. “Look, ” she said, “I got an A on my history exam. Who would start a gossip like this? ” Nobody seemed to know, but they did know that it began at the water fountain.

1．Which of the following (下列句子) is TRUE?

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A．Nobody liked Linda.

B．Linda failed in all her subjects.

C．Linda failed on her history exam.

D．Almost all the students were sorry for Linda.

2．What's the result of the gossip?

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A．Linda got a little hurt.

B．Everybody came to help Linda.

C．Linda's parents took her out of school.

D．Linda got an A on her history exam.

3．What's the main (主要的) idea of the story?

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A．Linda enjoyed listening to and passing gossips.

B．Patty started a gossip about Linda.

C．Linda was taught a lesson about gossip.

D．The gossip began at the water.

　　There would be a school party on Friday evening. The girls were talking about what they were going to wear.

“I'm going to wear a black dress, so everybody will notice (注 意) me, ” said Emily. “How about you, Linda?”

“I'm not sure. Maybe jeans (牛仔褲) , an old skirt, and a hat. People will notice me more than you! ” Linda said .

　　“What are we going to do about the boys?” asked Jane. “Do you remember the last school party last year? They just stood there, and we girls had to dance by ourselves! ”

　　“I heard that some of the boys learned how to dance this summer. Maybe it'll be better this time, ” said Mary.

　　The party was held on Friday evening. Groups of students arrived. The music began. The girls stood in a line on one side, and the boys on another side. Mr. Green, their teacher, tried to get them together, but failed. After a while Tim said, “I don't want to stand here the whole time. The party is only for two hours. It'll be over soon. ” He started to dance. All the others watched him. Then David asked Emily if she wanted to dance. Then Jack and Linda. Then, all began to dance. Soon there were more dancers than watchers.

1．On Friday evening there would be ________ .

[　　]

2．The girls were talking about ________ .

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A．what the boys were going to wear at the party

B．what they were going to wear at the party

C．how to teach the boys to dance

D．how to dance

3．What happened when the music began?

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A．David asked Emily to dance.

B．Groups of students arrived.

C．The boys and the girls began to dance.

D．The girls stood on one side, and the boys on another side.

4．Who was the first one to dance?

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　　The class teacher thought that hobbies (嗜好) were very important for every child. She hoped that all her pupils would have one, and sometimes she arranged (安排) for their parents to come and see the work they had done as a result.

　　One Friday morning the teacher told the class that those who had a hobby could have a holiday that afternoon to get the things they had made as parts of their hobbies ready for their parents to see the following afternoon.

　　So on Friday afternoon, while those of the pupils who had nothing to show did their usual lessons, the lucky ones who had made something were agreed to go home, but they had to return before five o'clock to bring what they were going to show, and to arrange it.

　　When the afternoon lessons began, the teacher was surprised to see that Tommy was not there. She found it difficult to believe (相信) that he had a hobby. However (可是), at a quarter to five, Tommy arrived with a beautiful collection (收集) of butterflies (蝴蝶) in glass boxes. After his teacher had helped him to arrange them on a table in the classroom, she was surprised to see Tommy pick them up again and began to leave.

　　“What are you doing, Tommy?”she asked, “Those things must be here until tomorrow afternoon. That's when the parents are coming to see them.”

　　“I know they are coming then,” answered Tommy, “and will bring them back tomorrow, but my big brother does not want them to be out of the house at night because they might be stolen (偷).”

　　“But what has it got to do with your big brother?”asked the teacher. “Aren't the butterflies yours?”

　　“No,” answered Tommy. “They are his.”

　　“But Tommy, you are asked to show your own hobby here, not somebody else!”said the teacher.

　　“I know that,”answered Tommy, “My hobby is watching my brother collecting butterflies.”

1．One Friday morning the teacher told the class that those who had a hobby ______.

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A．could do the things they like

B．could go home and play

C．could be free from school that afternoon to get things they had made

D．could ask their parent, to come to the school

2．The teacher was surprised to see that Tommy was not at afternoon lessons, for ______.

[　　]

A．Tommy was not a clever boy

B．she could hardly believe that Tommy had a hobby

C．Tommy didn't say he would go home

D．she had no idea whether Tommy was ill

3．“Aren't the butterflies yours?”implies (暗示) ______.

[　　]

A．she began to have a feeling that Tommy was not showing his own hobby

B．she knew for sure whom the butterflies belonged to (屬于)

C．nothing but great surprise

D．she only couldn't believe Tommy's words

閱讀理解

　　Mr. Hunt was living in a village and he wanted to go to an office one day. He got into his car and drove to the city. He went there without any trouble and stopped in front of the door. He locked his car and started to go into the office, but then he turned around and went back to his car. “I've left my keys in it!” he said to himself. He called his wife and said,“Excuse me, but I've locked my keys in my car, please bring your keys to me.”

　　Mrs. Hunt got into their second car and drove thirty kilometres to her husband. But while he was waiting, Mr. Hunt walked around his car and tried the other door. It was not Locked. He locked it quickly before his wife arrived.

1．Mr. Hunt went to the city ______.

[　　]

2．It was ______ for Mr. Hunt to drive to the office.

[　　]

3．Mr. Hunt found ______ while he was waiting for his wife.

[　　]

A．he could get his keys without his wife's help

B．his keys in his pocket

C．he got to a wrong office

D．he didn't lock both of the doors of the car

4．When Mrs. Hunt arrived, she would find Mr. Hunt ______.

[　　]

A．needed her help very much

B．had already got his keys

C．had already gone into the office

D．had already sat in the car

閱讀理解

　　Last week the manager of a jewelry shop (珠寶店) received a letter. As he was very busy then, the letter lay on his desk till tea-time. He opened it and a 10 pound note fell out onto his desk. With the note was a letter which said:

Dear sir,

　　In 1935 I got engaged (訂婚). But unfortunately I lost my job. At that time a lot of people were out of work. Six months later I got a job again, but of course I was very short of money.

　　I .came to your shop to buy a wedding-ring. The assistant took out some rings for me to look at, but she was called away for a moment, and I put one of the rings in my pocket. When she came back, I said I didn't know the size of my girl friend's finger. So I left the shop without buying a ring.

　　My wife died a short while ago and the fact that I never paid for the ring has been heavy in my heart all these years. At that time the ring cost 2 pounds so I think that is 10 pounds at today's price (價(jià)格) and I'm sending 10 pounds.

Yours Truly

A customer (顧客)

　　“Well, well,”said the manager, “Life is always full of surprises!”

1．The customer didn't write the letter until ______.

[　　]

2．What happened in 1935?

[　　]

A．The jewelry shop lost some rings.

B．The customer married a girl.

C．The customer stole (偷) a ring for his girl friend.

D．The shop owner got 10 pounds from the customer.

3．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．The customer was poor at that time.

B．The ring was bigger for his girl friend.

C．The shop assistant was careless.

D．The price has gone up a lot since 1935.

4．The customer sent 10 pounds to the jewelry shop because ______.

[　　]

A．he has a lot of money

B．his wife has died

C．he has been sorry for what he did in the past

D．he doesn't know that he was wrong until now

閱讀理解

　　Most of the time, magicians (魔術(shù)師) give good shows, but every magician has given a show that was terrible or has tried to do a trick (戲法) that didn't go right. Howard Thurston, a famous (著名的) magician, made some interesting mistakes on the stage (舞臺(tái)).

　　Thurston did a famous Indian trick with a girl. The girl climbed into a box. Then the box was pulled up above the stage. Thurston shouted, “l(fā)asia, garawallah, go!”The box opened and the girl was gone. “Wonderful!”“Wonderful!”O(jiān)ne night, after the show, a man asked the magician, “Please tell me where you learned your magic (有魔力的) words?”

　　Thurston answered. “I've travelled in India and often heard ‘garawallah’ in the streets there. I thought it was a good word for an Indian trick.”The man smiled and said, “I'm from India. That word means ‘Hey, bus’!”

　　Another mistake stayed in Thurston's show. In one trick, he cut off the heads of two chickens and two ducks and put their bodies inside a magic box. Then he opened the box and found four living birds with heads on them. This is the way the trick was done. The birds' heads were tied under their wings (翅膀). Then false (錯(cuò)的,假的) heads were tied on the birds before they were brought on the stage. Thurston cut off these false heads and put the birds in the box. His helper was also in the box. He could put new false heads on the birds faster than he could untie the true heads. So after. Thurston put the birds inside the box, his helper tied on false heads.

　　One night, the helper made a mistake. He tied the chicken heads on the ducks and then tied the duck heads on the chickens. The birds came out of the box, and the people laughed and laughed.

1．“Garawallah” means ________.

[　　]

A．a(chǎn)fter Thurston shouted the words, the girl was gone

B．the people in India ask for the traffic

C．the birds came out of the box and made the people laugh

D．it was a good word for an Indian trick

2．Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A．The tricks of magicians never go wrong.

B．The Indian man wasn't interested in the magic words at all.

C．The birds' heads should be tied under the ducks' wings.

D．The people enjoyed watching magic tricks very much.

3．In fact, the second trick was a wonderful show. Could you guess what excuse the magician would say?

[　　]

A．Sorry, my helper has made a mistake.

B．Oh, dear! What's the matter with the birds?

C．Look! How magic my birds are

D．Oh, I really don't know what has happened.

4．The best title of the story could be ________.

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A．A Careless(粗心的) Helper

B．A Magician's Mistakes

C．Good Shows

D．Terrible Tricks

閱讀理解

　　A Frenchman was once visiting in New York City, He wished to take a walk to see the city. but he was afraid that he might get lost because he did not know a word for English. So after he left his hotel (旅館), he stopped at the first corner and carefully copied in his notebook the name of the street on which his hotel was located (指出位置). Then he walked on. At last, however, he got lost. Some hours later he found a police station. There was much confused (混亂了的) conversation (對(duì)話), but at last an interpreter (翻譯) arrived. The Frenchman explained to the interpreter that he did not know the name of the hotel, but he knew the name of the street on which it was located. He then showed the interpreter what he had copied in his notebook, The words which he had so carefully copied were “ONE-WAY-STREET”.

1．“One-Way-Street”________.

[　　]

A．shows the name of the street

B．is a street map

C．says that it is the middle of the city

D．says that the cars and the buses can be passed only one direction (方向)

2．The interpreter in this story can speak ________.

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3．At the first corner of the street, he in fact copied ________.

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閱讀理解

　　Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in town, I wanted to have a rest before catching the train. So I bought a newspaper and some chocolate and went into the station coffee shop with a long table to sit at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, put the newspaper and chocolate on the table to keep a place, and went to get a cup of coffee.

　　When I came back with the coffee, there was someone sifting next to me. It was one of those strange-looking young men, with dark glasses, torn (破的) clothes and long hair. But I wasn't surprised at such a young man. What surprised me most was that he had started to eat my chocolate!

　　I was quite uneasy about him, but I didn't want to get into trouble. I just looked down at the front page of the newspaper and took a bit of chocolate. The boy looked at me. Then he took a second piece of chocolate. Still I didn't say anything. When he took a third piece, I fell more angry than uneasy. I thought, “Well, I shall have the last piece,” and I got it.

　　The boy gave me a strange look, then stood up. As he left, he shouted out, “This woman is crazy (瘋狂的)!” Everyone looked at me. That was embarrassing (令人難堪的) enough. But it was worse when I finished my coffee and got ready to leave. My face went red when I found I had made a mistake.

　　It wasn't my chocolate I had eaten a moment before. Mine was just under my newspaper.

1．The woman went to town ________.

[　　]

A．to do some shopping for her family

B．to buy some chocolate and coffee

C．to have a rest

D．to catch the train

2．When she came back with the coffee, the woman was surprised because ________.

[　　]

A．a(chǎn) strange-looking young man was sitting next to her

B．the young man had dark glasses and torn clothes on

C．he was eating the chocolate

D．he was going to eat her chocolate

3．The woman was unhappy because ________.

[　　]

A．the chocolate was hers

B．it was not polite to eat chocolate

C．she was afraid of such a young man

D．she thought the chocolate was hers

4．The woman found her mistake ________.

[　　]

A．a(chǎn)fter she left the coffee shop

B．when the young man was leaving

C．a(chǎn)fter she finished reading the newspaper

D．just before she left the coffee shop

閱讀理解

　　Swimming is very popular in summer. People like swimming in summer because water makes people feel cool. If you like swimming and swim in a wrong place, it may not be safe. These years, more than ten people died while they were enjoying themselves in the water, and most of them were students. But some people are still not careful in swimming. They often think they swim so well that nothing can happen to them in water. Summer is here again. If you go swimming in summer, don't forget that some better swimmers have died in water. They died because they were not careful, not because they could not swim. So don't get into water when you are alone. If there is a “No Swimming” sign, don't get into water, either. If you remember these, swimming will be safer.

1．Swimming is popular in summer because ________.

[　　]

A．people can enjoy the cool in water

B．the water isn't cold

C．few people like swimming

D．a(chǎn)ll the students like swimming

2．Some good swimmers died in water because ________.

[　　]

A．they were too young

B．they were not careful

C．they didn't swim well enough

D．they were very interested in swimming

3．Some people are still not careful in swimming because ________.

[　　]

A．they are not sure where is safe

B．they think they are good at swimming

C．the water is not deep (深)

D．there is not a “No Swimming” sign

4．In this passage the writer wants us to remember “________”.

[　　]

A．Swimming is always dangerous

B．Swimming is a good sport

C．Swimming will be safer

D．Be safe in swimming

閱讀理解

　　It is interesting to visit another country, but there are sometimes problems when we don't know the language very well. It may be difficult to talk to the people there. We may not know how to use the telephone in the country that we are visiting. We may not know how to buy things we need. In a foreign country, we may not know where to eat and what to order in a restaurant (飯館). It is not easy to decide how much to pay for the waiters or taxi drivers. When we need help, we might not know how to ask for help. It is not pleased to meet with such problems.

　　After a short time, however, we learn what to do and what to say. We learn to enjoy the life in another country, and then we may be sorry to leave.

1．To visit another country is interesting but if you do not know the language there ________.

[　　]

A．you may feel it easy to stay there

B．you may meet with some problems

C．you may learn the language well

D．you may talk to the people there easily

2．In a foreign country, ________.

[　　]

A．it may be difficult to talk to the people there

B．it may be difficult to use the telephone there

C．it may be difficult to buy something we need

D．a(chǎn)ll of the above

3．You may be sorry to leave the country when you enjoy the life there a little. Here “sorry” means ________.

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