Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, "I'm going to fly to New York next week because I've got some work there." "Where are you going to stay there?" his wife asked. "I don't know yet." Dick answered. "Please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报)," his wife said. "All right," Dick answered.
He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.
In the evening he didn't have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and said, "Now I'm going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner."
He found a taxi (出租车) and the driver said, "Where do you want to go?" But Dick didn't remember the name and address of his hotel.
"Which hotel are my things in?" he said, "And what am I going to do tonight?" But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, "Please send me my address at this post office."
Choose the right answerDick flew to New York because ___.
| A．he went there for a holiday |
| B．he had work there |
| C．he went there for sightseeing (观光) |
| D．his home was there |
Why did his wife want a telegram from him?
| A．Because she didn't know his address yet |
| B．Because she wanted to go to New York, too |
| C．Because she might send him another telegram |
| D．Because she couldn't leave her husband by himself in New York |
Where did Dick stay in New York?
| A．In the center of the city. |
| B．In a hotel. |
| C．In a restaurant. |
| D．At his friend's house. |
Who would send him the name and address of his hotel?
| A．The manager (经理) of his hotel. |
| B．The police office. |
| C．The taxi driver. |
| D．His wife. |
Which of the following is not true?
| A．Dick stayed at a nice hotel in the center of the city. |
| B．Dick didn't work on the first night of his arrival. |
| C．Dick forgot to send his wife a telegram. |
| D．Dick wanted to go back to his hotel in a taxi. |
A man lives in a very tall building. He has a lot of money and he has a parrot at home. It’s a clever bird.
Every morning, after the man gets up, the bird says “hello”. When the man comes back from his work, the bird says, “Is that you? Come here. I can see you.” One evening, when the man is sleeping, a thief comes into his building by climbing up the window. When he finds some money and begins to leave the house by climbing down through the window again, he hears a voice in the dark.
“Hello! Is that you? Come here. I can see you.” The thief is so frightened that he falls down from the window.. A parrot is kind of ________
| A．thing | B．bird | C．man | D．machine |
When does the parrot say “Hello!” to the man?
| A．After it gets up. | B．After the man gets up. |
| C．After the man goes to bed | D．After the man has breakfast. |
. When does the thief come?
| A．In the afternoon | B．In the morning |
| C．The man isn’t at home. | D．The man is asleep. |
The parrot is the man’s ________.
| A．neighbor | B．enemy | C．pet | D．servant |
What do you think of the thief at last?
| A．He leaves safely. | B．He climbs down the building. |
| C．He climbs down the ladder. | D．He died. |
An old engineer went suddenly blind. She promised a doctor a lot of money if he could make her see again. “If you fail,” she said, “you’ll get nothing.” The doctor agreed.
The doctor soon discovered what was wrong with her, but he decided not to cure her right away. Instead each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things. When he had taken away everything, he wanted to cure her blindness and asked for the money.
Now the old woman could see again, she noticed that all her things had gone and she refused to pay the money. So the doctor took her before a judge.
“What the doctor said is true,” she said to the judge. “But I say I was not well cured, because I still can’t see any of the things in my house.”
The old woman won the case and the doctor went away unhappily without getting his pay. What did the engineer promise the doctor if he failed to make her see again?
| A．A lot of money | B．Half of the money | C．No money | D．A little money |
The underlined word “discovered” in paragraph 2 means _______.
| A．found | B．caught | C．heard | D．covered |
What can you infer from the story?
| A．The old engineer lived alone |
| B．The old engineer lived with a servant. |
| C．The old engineer lived with her children. |
| D．The old engineer lived with a judge. |
What’s the result of the case?
| A．The engineer failed |
| B．The doctor failed to get the pay. |
| C．The doctor returned the things |
| D．The old engineer forgot her promise. |
. What kind of person was the old engineer?
| A．She was foolish. | B．She was kind. | C．She was clever | D．She was polite. |
Is there something strange high up in the world’s tallest mountains? If so, is it a big bear? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man?
No one knows this mystery（谜）has puzzled the world for years.
In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints（脚印）in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk without shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. When he watched, it ran very quickly.
Fifteen years later, newspaper had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “Snowman” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.
From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly that the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey? Could it be an ape man? The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Somebody we may find out just what it is that makes the large footprints.The passage is about _________.
| A．some mountain climbers | B．some strange animals |
| C．some large footprints | D．the mystery of the Snowman |
Why were people interested in the footprints?
| A．They were footprints of a large bear. |
| B．They looked like the footprints of a large man. |
| C．People found them in the snow. |
| D．People found them in the world’s tallest mountains. |
A mountain climber took the pictures of large footprints in_______.
| A．1887 | B．1906 | C．1921 | D．1951 |
Why did the mystery grow when a mountain climber brought back pictures of large footprints?
| A．They were footprints of an ape man. |
| B．They were footprints of a Snowman. |
| C．The pictures showed clearly how the Snowman walked. |
| D．The pictures showed clearly how an ape man walked on two legs. |
Since a mountain climber first found the large footprints in the snow, the mystery of the Snowman has puzzled the world for over _______years.
| A．one hundred and ten | B．ninety-five | C．eighty | D．fifty |
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A Trip to the Forest
One day Bob took two of his friends into the mountains. They put up their tents and then rode off to a forest to see how the trees were growing.
In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometres from their camp（营地）, it started to snow. More and more snow fell. Soon Bob could hardly see his hands before his face. He could not find the road. Bob knew there were two roads. One road went to the camp, and the other went to his house. But all was white snow. Everything was the same. How could he take his friends back to the camp?
Bob had an idea. The horses! Let the horses take them back! But what would happen if the horses took the road to his house? That would be a trip of thirty-five kilometres in such cold weather!
It was getting late. They rode on and on. At last the horses stopped. Where were they?
None of them could tell. John looked around. What was that under the tree? It was one of their tents! John and his two friends went to the forest to ________.
| A．build their camp |
| B．find their way home |
| C．enjoy the mountains in the snow |
| D．watch the trees in the forest |
They could not find their way back because ________.
| A．there was only one road to their camp |
| B．they couldn’t decide which of the two roads led to their tents |
| C．there were no roads in the mountains at all |
| D．everything was covered by the white snow |
It is clear that they wanted the horses to take them to _______.
| A．John’s house |
| B．the camp |
| C．the forest |
| D．the mountains |
The horses stopped because _______.
| A．it was getting late |
| B．they were tired after running for a long way |
| C．they knew that they had got to the camp |
| D．they had seen John’s house |
The story happened _______.
| A．on a cold winter day |
| B．on a dark snowy evening |
| C．in a cold camp far from villages |
| D．at night when nothing could be seen |
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Quick Work
Ted Robinson has been worried all the week.Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.In the letter he was asked to call at the station.Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police,but he went to the station yesterday and he is not worried at more.
At the station,he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found.Five days ago,the policeman told him,the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.It is now being sent to his home by train.
Ted was most surprised when he heard the news.He was amused (感到有趣），too,because he never expected (指望）the bicycle to be found.It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen.
Answer the questions:What happened last Tuesday?
What was he told at the station?
What are the police doing with the bicycle?
Why was he surprised and amused?
How old was Ted when his bicycle was stolen?