Once there is a boy in London. His name is Jimmy. He starts painting when he is three years old, and when he is five years old, he is already very good at it. He paints many beautiful and interesting pictures, and a lot of people buy his pictures. They say, “This boy is going to be famous when he’s a little older, and then we’re going to sell these pictures for a lot of money.”
Jimmy’s pictures are different from others’ because he never paints on the whole of the paper. He only paints on half of it, and the other half is always empty.
“That’s very clever,” people say. “No other painters have ever done that!”
One day someone asks Jimmy, “Please tell me, Jimmy, why do you only paint on the bottom (底) half of the paper, but not on the top half?”
“Because I’m small,” Jimmy says, “and my brushes can’t reach very high.”How are Jimmy’s pictures?
| A．Beautiful. |
| B．Interesting. |
| C．Bad |
| D．Beautiful and interesting. |
Which part of paper did Jimmy paint?
| A．The whole of the paper |
| B．The top half. |
| C．The bottom half |
| D．The middle part. |
Jimmy only paints half of the paper because ____________.
| A．he was very clever. | B．he was very short. |
| C．he was very tall. | D．he was very big. |
For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different.
His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry's parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack.
Harry, who is now back at school, described what happened to him.
“When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn't do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either.”
After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong.
“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”
Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.Harry's hiccups lasted ____.
| A．a week | B．fourteen days |
| C．twenty-eight days | D．one month |
His hiccups started after he ____.
| A．drank a glass of water | B．went to hospital |
| C．ate an Indian meal | D．finished his homework |
His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____.
| A．hiccupped for four seconds |
| B．held his breath |
| C．hiccupped at night |
| D．couldn't stop hiccupping |
His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____.
| A．gave him some medicine |
| B．took an X-ray of his chest |
| C．gave him a shock |
| D．let him drink cold drinks |
What does “shock” in this passage mean？
| A．震惊 | B．休克 | C．喷嚏 | D．哈欠 |
Early to bed, early to rise（起）, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
This is an old English saying. Have you heard it before? It means that we must go to bed early in the evening and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich (wealthy) and clever (wise).
Is this true? Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children need ten hours’ sleep every night. If you do not go to bed early, you cannot have enough sleep. Then you cannot think properly（适当地）and you cannot do your work properly. You will not be wise and you may not become wealthy!
Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We must sleep at night when it is dark. The dark helps us to sleep properly, When the daylight comes, we must get up. This is the time for exercise. Exercise means doing things with the body. Walking, running, jumping, swimming, and playing games are all exercise. If the body is not used, it becomes weak. Exercise keeps it strong. Exercise helps the blood(血液) to move around inside the body. This is very important. The brains(大脑)in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and take exercise, we can think better.
Our bodies also need air to breathe. Without air we die. We must have a lot of clean, fresh air to breathe if we want to be healthy．We will be healthy if we______．
| A．work at night | B．eat well |
| C．go to bed early and get up early | D．get up late |
Children need______．
| A．ten hours’ sleep | B．two hours’ exercise |
| C．three hours’ homework | D．four hours’ game |
The best time to sleep is_______．
| A．when it is dark | B．when you are tired |
| C．after supper | D．after watch TV |
Exercise makes the body________．
| A．weak | B．strong | C．clever | D．tired |
Exercise______．
| A．makes more blood |
| B．helps the blood move |
| C．makes food for the blood |
| D．makes us breathe better |
Mr. Smith was old ,so it was often difficult for him to remember things. However (然而) ,he still liked traveling very much, so he and his wife went to Spain（西班牙） every year. One summer when they were there ,they went to visit their friends, the Turners .They had two young daughters.
One afternoon Mr. Smith was talking to one of the girls in the garden after lunch. “You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year, weren’t you?” he said to her. “Yes, we were .” answered the girl. “We were very ill.” The old man said nothing for a moment ,because he was thinking .Then at last he said ,” Oh , yes, I remember now! one of you died. Which one of you was it, you or your sister?” The girl answered ,“It was me.” “Oh ? I’m very sorry to hear it”, said the old man.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子的正（T）误（F）。The old man had a good memory.
What the old man said was true.
The girl was very ill and died.
The girl didn’t die last year.
The girl and her sister were both very ill.”
Mr. Grey was the manager（经理）of a small office in London. He lived in the country, and came to work by train. He liked walking from the station to his office if it was not raining, because it gave him some exercises. One morning he was walking along the street when a stranger（陌生人） stopped him and said to him, “ You may not remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came to London without any money in my pocket（口袋）. I stopped you in this street and asked you to lend(借) me some money, and you lent me five pounds（英镑）, because you said that you were happy to take a chance（机会）to give a man a start on the road to success.” Mr. Grey thought for a few moments and then said, “ Yes, I remember you. Go on（继续with your story.” “ Well,” answered the stranger,” are you still willing to take a chance?”Mr. Grey walked to his office only when the weather was ________.
| A．well | B．fine | C．bad | D．raining |
Mr. Grey walked because _______.
| A．he was poor |
| B．it was not raining |
| C．it helped him in good health |
| D．he had a lot of homework |
Mr. Grey ______ the stranger some years ago.
| A．had stopped | B．had met |
| C．had said to | D．had helped |
The stranger _________ since then.
| A．had been successful | B．had still been poor |
| C．had been rich | D．had had much money |
Now the stranger wanted to _________________________ .
| A．ask for some money again |
| B．give Mr. Grey his money back |
| C．help Mr. Grey |
| D．lend Mr. Grey some money |
Mr. Green and his wife had a dog. When they went out, they always left the dog inside the house. One evening they wanted to go to the cinema, so they left the dog in the house and locked the door and their garden gate. They went off in their car.
When the film was finished, they went home. They opened the gate and put the car away. When they came to the front door, they found that the glass in the door was broken. The door was not locked and it was open. A robber(强盗)! They went in and quickly looked in all the rooms to see if the robber had taken their things. However, everything was in the right place and nothing at all was missing.
The dog was sleeping in the sitting-room. The wife was angry with the dog. “Why didn’t you guard(保卫)the house?” she said. The dog was pleased to see Mr. and Mrs. Green. It began to wag(摇)its tail and then it went to a comer of the room and picked up something in its mouth. It went to the wife and dropped the thing at her feet. When she went to pick it up, she was very surprised. Can you guess what the dog’s present was? It was a man’s finger!
The end of the story is this. Mr. Green telephoned the police and told them everything. Three days later the police caught the robber. They found him easily.That evening Mr. Green and his wife __________.
| A．took their dog to see a film |
| B．left the dog alone at home |
| C．went home before the film was finished |
| D．locked the door and could not open it |
The robber stole(偷)__________.
| A．everything from the house |
| B．something expensive from the house |
| C．nothing from the house |
| D．a car from the house |
.Why was the woman angry with the dog? _________
| A．Because she thought it had made the room dirty. |
| B．Because she thought it had broken the glass. |
| C．Because it wouldn’t go to the cinema with her. |
| D．Because she thought it hadn’t guarded the house. |
The robber was caught easily because __________.
| A．the police knew him |
| B．the police happened to meet him |
| C．Mr. Green know where he lived |
| D．he had one of his fingers |
Mr. Green and his wife would _________.
| A．like their dog more than before |
| B．drive the dog away from their home |
| C．let the dog bring home more presents |
| D．ask the police to take the dog away |