In a small city in England, there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he a pound of butter to his neighbour, who was a baker, One day the baker decided to the butter to see if he was getting a pound. After he weighed it, he found that he wasn't. The baker then took farmer to the judge (法官).
The judge asked the farmer if he had any way to weigh the butter. The farmer replied. "I am so that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it, I do have a kind of scale(天平). " The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?" The farmer replied, "Before the baker started buying butter from , I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I bring home the bread from the baker, I put it on the scale and give him the butter of the same weight,"
We what we give to others in life. Whenever you take actions, ask yourself this , "Am I honest?"
Honesty or dishonesty can become a . Some dishonest people can lie(说谎) without a red face. Others lie so much that they do not even what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? As a matter of fact, those who lie will hurt themselves by their own dishonest behavior.
A．gave B．fed C．sold D．threw
A．weigh B．watch C．cut D．use
A．/ B．a C．an D．the
A．rich B．poor C．honest D．quiet
A．and B．so C．but D．or
A．I B．my C．me D．mine
A．get back B．look back C．give back D．turn back
A．answer B．question C．help D．idea
A．difference B．habit C．mistake D．difficulty
A．study B．mean C．imagine D．know
完形填空,通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods ________ she realized that she was lost.
Sitting on a rock and ________ what to do, she began crying. After a while，she ________ to walk along a path with tall trees and thick bushes. When it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and ________ entered. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out of the door and back to the ________ . Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a stream（小溪）.
The girl’s parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy sensed that his mistress（女主人）was in danger. He jumped ________ a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn’t find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a ________ scent (气味) as he lowered his head. He ________ the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking ________ into the air, the dog ________through the woods until he found the ________ . But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his delight, he saw his mistress’ blue shirt in the distance. He ________ over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was ________ .
When she opened her eyes and ________ her dog standing beside her, the girl said, “you________ me, Laddy,” and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents were happy. That night Laddy had a hero’s supper: a huge meal of pork.
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完型填空
根据上下文内容，从所给的四个选项中选择一个合适的选项。
Charlie is twenty-three now. He ________ a university(大学) and found work in a factory last year. It’s ________and there are no more than fifty workers in it. And only he________in a university. So he looks down upon (瞧不起) his ________ . He always thinks he’s right and never agrees with ________. He likes to say, “I’ve never made a mistake!”
But once the young man couldn’t ________ a foreign instructions (说明书). An old worker studied it for two days and ________ Mr. White, the boss of the factory, ________it meant. The boss asked Charlie why. He made a few excuses to say for________ . And he didn’t agree with the old man. The boss became angry and asked, “ Is it ________ that you’ve never made a mistake?”
The young man wouldn’t make Mr. White ________and had to say, “No, it isn’t, sir.”
Having _______ this, the workers were happy. One of them asked, “ It means that you also make some mistakes!”
Charlie ________his mind at once and said, “ I made only one mistake in my ________ !”
“When?” the boss asked in surprise.
“ Just now, sir.” Answered the young man. “When Mr. White ________ me acknowledge (承认)I was wrong!”
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完形填空通读全文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A,B,C,三个选项中选择正确答案。
A student passed all the entrance examinations before he went to a college where he wrote his __________down for a course in geography, but after the first lecture(讲座), he did not________ any more.
The teacher noticed the student’s absence, and thought that he had changed to _________course. However, he was very surprised at the boy’s name on the list of students who needed to take the examination at the end of the term.
The teacher had prepared a ___________ examination paper, and he wanted to see how this student would answer the questions .He expected bad answers, but it is true that he could find only one small_________.He looked over his paper _________, but he got the same result. So he sent for the student.
_________the student came into the office, the teacher said, “I know that you only attended my first class and after that you have been absent .I’d like to know ___________you got nearly everything right.
“ Oh, I am very sorry about that mistake, sir,” answered the student.__________the examination ,I realized what I had written. But I would not make the mistake if I wasn’t _________ by your first lecture.”A.numberB. name C. address
A.turn onB. turn upC. turn off
A.otherB. anotherC. the others
A.difficultB. long C. simple
A.mistakeB. paper C. name
A.alsoB. too C. again
A.WhileB. When C. before
A.howB. what C. whether
A.BeforeB. aboutC. After
A.carefulB. asked C. puzzled
完形填空
On Timmy’s thirteenth birthday, he got many presents. Timmy’s uncle gave him a special present. It was a trap (捕捉器) for catching birds.
One day, Timmy wanted to catch a bird. He put his _ _ in the garden, stood by and hoped that some birds flew down. However, the birds were of him and would not come near the trap. Then, Timmy left. After dinner, he went to the again and saw a little bird in the trap. Timmy put the bird in a cage. He ___ __ it with food and water and cleaned the cage. A few days later, Timmy forgot to_ the cage door after he changed the water. The bird came out and flew the room toward the window. Timmy tried to make it fly back into the cage. Unluckily, he hurt the bird . Timmy felt very_ , so he looked after it carefully in his free time. One day when Timmy went to bed, the bird died. Timmy could not well at night for a long time because of the loss of the bird. He always thought of the dying bird _ __ he closed his eyes. After that Timmy didn’t catch birds any more.
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完型填空
从A、B、C、D中选出最佳答案，并用2B铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
A few days ago I took a taxi to a hotel. When we were ________ for the traffic light to turn green, I saw a poor ________. He took out a piece of bread from his pocket and took a bite.
As he was about to take his next bite, a lost dog wagged(摇摆) his tail looking at him. Without hesitation（犹豫）, he sat down and put the _______ on the road for the dog to eat. The dog sniffed the bread and walked away. The boy waited ________ he was sure the dog was gone. Then he ________ the bread and ate it!
My heart cried and wanted to walk up to the boy, but before I could open the door the light turned ________ and our car drove away. I kept thinking of walking up to the boy but I didn’t. I could have ________ the car and walked up to him but again I didn’t.
All I did was “ ________ ”, and this poor little boy who had only one piece of bread shared it with the dog without any hesitation, though he himself seemed to be very ________ .I learned one of the biggest lessons in my life that the boy taught me _______ a conversation. He taught me to share with love and happiness. I am so grateful to have learned this beautiful lesson from my little unknown teacher.A. looking B. working C. waiting
A. boy B. dog C. girl
A. appleB. bread C. money
A. whileB. untilC. because
A. turned onB. picked upC. handed in
A. greenB. red C. yellow
A. drivenB. madeC. stopped
A. thinkB. do C. walk
A. angryB. hungry C. tired
A. offB. in C. without