Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old. Once he goes to a cinema. It is the first time for him
to do that. He buys a ticket and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes out, and buys the second
ticket and goes in again. After a few minutes he comes out again and buys the third ticket. Two or three
minutes after that he comes out and asks for another ticket. But a girl asks him, "Why do you buy so many
tickets? How many friends do you meet?" "No, I have no friends here, but a big woman always stops me at
the door and cuts up my ticket." 
1. How old is Tom?
___________________________________.
2. Is it the first time for him to go to the cinema?
___________________________________.
3. How many tickets does Tom buy before the girl asks him?
___________________________________.
4. Does Tom meet a few good friends of his that day?
___________________________________.
5. Is the big woman right (正確的)?
___________________________________.

     Mr. Johnson had a factory. He once saw on TV that animals could be taught    1    (do) some work for
people if they    2    (give) to eat. He loved the idea. He thought it would be good to have a dog look after
his house and an elephant do some heavy jobs in his factory. He bought a dog and an elephant in the market
and    3    (decide) to teach them to do some work for him. Of course, he also bought a lot of food for them.
Several months later, the dog and the elephant    4    (become) fatter and fatter, but they couldn't do any
work for him. At last, Mr. Johnson had to    5    (give) up.
1.______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______

      John is traveling by train. He is very hungry. The train stops at a small station. He wants to buy one
cake to eat very much., but it's raining hard. He wants someone to help him. A little boy is coming over
to him. John asks him to buy cakes for him. He gives the little boy one yuan and says, "Go and buy two
cakes with the money. One cake is for me, the other is for you. Can you help me?"
      The little boy is very happy and runs over to buy cakes in the rain. A few minutes later the boy comes
back and says to John," I'm sorry. I'm eating the last cake. It's delicious. Thank you very much. Here is
your fifty fen."

1. John is traveling _______.

A. by plane
B. by train
C. by bus

2. John wants to eat _______.

A. one cake
B. two cakes
C. two more cakes

3. _______ helps John to buy cakes.

A. A little boy
B. A little girl
C. A man

4. The little boy can't buy two cakes because _______.

A. there is only one cake left.
B. he doesn't like to buy two
C. John wants him to buy one

5. John is very _______.

A. happy
B. hungry
C. angry

      Peter wanted very much to be a soldier when he was a child. So he joined the army (軍隊(duì)) when
he was eighteen, and for several months he was taught how to be a good soldier. He did quite well in
everything except shooting. One day he and his friends were practicing their shooting (射擊), and all
of them were doing quite well except Peter. After he had shot at the target (靶) nine times and hadn't
hit it once, the officer who was trying to teach the young soldiers to shoot said, "You are quite hopeless,
Peter. I don't waste your last bullet! Go behind that wall and shoot yourself with it!"
       Peter felt ashamed (難為情). He went behind the wall and a few seconds later, the officer and the
other soldiers heard the sound of a shot.
       "Oh, dear!" the officer said. "Has that silly man really shot himself?" He ran behind the wall as quickly
as he could, but Peter was all right."I'm sorry, sir," he said, "but I missed again."

1. Peter joined the army in order to ______?

A. be a soldier
B. be good at shooting
C. make friends
D. get a good job

2. The officer thought Peter was hopeless because ______.

A. he didn't know how to use a gun.
B. he didn't get along well with other soldier.
C. he was poor at shooting.
D. he couldn't do anything well.

3. What the officer said at the end of the first paragraph(段落) shows that ______.

A. the officer really wanted Peter to die
B. the officer was very angry with Peter
C. the officer was not a kind-hearted man
D. the officer was afraid that Peter would shoot himself

4. The officer felt ______ when he heard the sound of a shot.

A. ashamed
B. frightened
C. excited
D. disappointed (失望)

5. What happened at the end of the story?

A. Peter became a good soldier.
B. Peter killed himself behind the wall.
C. The officer was pleased with Peter in the end.
D. Peter missed the target for the tenth time.

      Mark Twain is a   1    American writer. One day, he wanted to go to Dijon by train. He was very tired,
so when he was on the train, he asked the conductor to w 2   him up when they arrived in Dijon. He told
him that he was a very h 3   sleeper, and if he couldn't wake him up, just to keep on trying. Then Mark
Twain went to sleep. When Mark Twain woke up, he was a  4    in Paris. He was very angry. The conductor
had made a mistake and put another American i 5   of Mark Twain off the train in Dijon.