Just as I came back home. I heard a sound coming from the bedroom upstairs—it was from my favourite violin.
“Thief （小偷）!”
I rushed upstairs and saw a boy in dirty clothes pulling my violin down. At first sight, I found a new pair of shoes missing. It seemed he was surely a thief.
However, when I saw his eyes full of fear, my anger disappeared. I smiled and asked, “Are you Mr. Ram’s student Rubens? I’m his butler（男管家）. I’ve heard Mr. Ram say his student will come. It must be you.”
“Has my teacher gone out ?” the boy said, “I think I’d better visit him again in a while/”
I nodded and asked him, “Do you like playing the violin?”
“Yes, but I’m too poor to afford one.” the boy replied.
“Then, I’ll give you this violin.” The boy looked at me surprisingly, but he picked up the violin. While going out of the room, he suddenly saw a huge photo of me playing the violin at the Grand Theatre of Sydney on the wall. His face turned pale. He stood there for a moment and ran out. He must have understood what had happened because no master（主人）would put up the butler’s photo on the wall of his living room.
A few years later, at a music competition in Melbourne, I was invited to be the judge （评委）. Finally, a violin player called Merritt won the first prize.
After the prize-giving, Merritt ran to me holding a violin box, his face red, and asked, “Mr. Brian, do you still know me? You gave me the violin, which I have treasured ever since! Today, I want to say sorry and give back this violin to you without regret…”
He was just the “Mr. Ram’s student”!
The writer felt ______ when he saw the boy pulling his violin down.
| A．afraid | B．angry | C．sad | D．disappointed |
In fact, the boy was ________.
| A．Mr. Ram’s student |
| B．a visitor to the Ram family |
| C．the butler’s friend |
| D．a thief to the writer’s home |
The boy’s face turned pale probably because he realized______.
| A．the butler was a great musician |
| B．he would be found as a thief soon |
| C．the master had come back home |
| D．the butler was just the master |
The passage mainly wants to tell us that _______.
| A．It’s never late to say sorry |
| B．the future is what we make it |
| C．kindness can bring one power |
| D．success depends on trust and support |
This is a true story in Guyuna. One day, a child took some silver（银的）paper from a cigarette box. He rolled it into a tiny（极小的）ball and pushed it up his nose. He couldn’t get it out again. He ran crying to his mother. His mother couldn’t get the paper out, either. A week later the paper was still in his nose. His nose began to have a bad smell.
So his mother took her child to the hospital. The doctor looked up his nose. She put a tiny steel rod（钢棒）into his nose and felt the paper. She said she would have to cut his nose to get the paper out.
The child’s mother came home looking sad. She didn’t want her child to have his nose cut. He was a handsome boy and the cut would make him ugly.
Next day, the child’s mother took him to her friend Sidney. Sidney lived in a house with an old woman called May. She asked to see the child, so the child let her look up his nose. He closed his eyes.
“Yes, I can see it,” May said, “It will be out soon!”
As she spoke, she shook black pepper（胡椒粉） on the child’s nose. He gave a mightly（有力的）sneeze and the paper flew out. His mother was surprised. May told her to take the boy to the sea for a swim. She said the salt water would go up his nose and stop the bad smell.
So the child didn’t have to go to the hospital and gave his nose out. How did the silver ball go into the boy’s nose?
| A．His mother put it into his nose. |
| B．The boy himself pushed the ball up his nose. |
| C．The silver ball rolled into his nose itself. |
| D．The passage didn’t tell us. |
. Why did the boy’s nose have a bad smell?
| A．The ball stayed in his nose for too long. |
| B．The boy didn’t like to wash his nose. |
| C．His nose is cut and gave a bad smell. |
| D．Because he had a running nose. |
. What can help to stop the bad smell?
| A．Some medicine | B．Some black pepper |
| C．Fresh air | D．The salt water |
. Who helped to take the silver ball out?
| A．The boy himself | B．The doctor |
| C．Sidney | D．May |
. What is the best title of the story?
| A．Old medicine | B．Some good doctors |
| C．A poor boy | D．A silver ball |
Wang Nan is a world-famous ping-pong player. She has won (已获得) many gold medals(金牌) in international(国际的) table tennis games. She was born in Liaoning Province in October 1978. She is 1.62 meters tall and weighs (重) 54 kilograms. In her spare (空余的) time, she likes making friends, surfing the Internet and chatting with her friends on line.
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Mary did not understand such sentences as “She is in blue today.” “You are yellow.” “ He has a green thumb.（大拇指）” “He has told a white lie.” and so on. . And she went to her teacher for help.
Mary: Mrs Smith, there is a color in each of these sentences. What do they mean?
Mrs Smith: In everyday English, Mary , blue sometimes means sad. Yellow means afraid. A person with a green thumb grows plants well. And a white lie is not a bad one.
Mary: Would you give me an example for a white lie?
Mrs Smith: Certainly. Now I give you some cake. In fact you don’t like it, but you won’t say it. Instead, you say, “No, thanks, I’m hungry.” That’s a white lie.
Mary: Oh, I see. Thank you very much..Blue sometimes means sad and is ________ English.”
| A．good | B．spoken |
| C．poor | D．useful |
I don’t have a green thumb , so all my plants _________.
| A．die off | B．grow well |
| C．look nice | D．are good |
Tom is _______ to climb the tree. He’s yellow.
| A．happy | B．clever |
| C．sad | D．afraid |
He didn’t like me to know ________ of the accident . he told me a white lie.
| A．the reason | B．the meaning |
| C．the answer | D．the true story |
He is ________ today . His father is ill.
| A．blue | B．yellow |
| C．green | D．white |
One day , an old man was selling a big elephant . A young man came up to the elephant and began to look at it slowly . The old man went up to him and said in his ear .”Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it . Then I will give you some meat . “”All right .”said the young man . After the old man sold the elephant , he gave the young man some meat and said :”Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the elephant ?””I didn’t find the bad ears .”said the young man .”Then why do you look at it slowly ?”asked the old man . The young man said :”I never see an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like. “_________________ the elephant.
| A．The young man bought | B．The old man sold |
| C．The two men sold | D．The young man sold |
The young man looked at the elephant . He wanted to find _____.
| A．its bad ears | B．some meat |
| C．a good elephant | D．what it looks like |
The young man ________________________.
| A．knew the elephant wasn’t good |
| B．found the bad ears but didn’t tell it . |
| C．looked after the elephant |
| D．got some meat |
We know that ________.
| A．the two men were not honest | B．the young man wasn't a bad man |
| C．the old man was a good man | D．the elephant was a very good one |
The young man looked at the elephant slowly because he _______.
| A．liked elephant | B．wanted to buy it |
| C．didn’t see any elephant before | D．wanted to help the old man |
Do you often talk with your parents? Here is some advice on how to talk with them.
Try to start your talk with something fun. This will make talking easier. For example,, ask them questions about their day. How’s the work? They love this.
Make it clear what you want to tell your parents. If they have an opinion, let them finish it and don't stop their talking. Ask them to do the same for you.
Show them respect（尊敬）by listening to them carefully. Look them in the eye.
Be honest. Honesty builds trust . Life is good when your parents trust you.
If your parents don't understand you , that's OK. It doesn't mean they don't love you. Sometimes you have to explain the things to them again.
When you finish the talk, thank them for listening. Say something like, " thanks, that helped". It will let them know this is important to you, and makethem want to do it more often.
| A．fun | B．dishonest | C．sad | D．unhappy |
| A．dislike | B．understand | C．respect | D．agree with |
| A．ask them to stop | B．argue with them |
| C．look them in the eye | D．explain your idea to them |
| A．say goodbye to | B．thank |
| C．say sorry to | D．ask |
| A．We should respect our parents. |
| B．It's important to trust our parents. |
| C．We should love our parents. |
| D．There are some ways to communicate with our parents. |