--What do you think of the program?

--       interesting. It was just a waste of time!

A．Nothing              B．Anything               C．Something          D．Everything

--Need I have the information stored?

--Yes, I’m afraid you      , so that you can use it later.

A．can                 B．may                 C．must               D．would

Though I failed in the exam last term, my teacher gave me an important    . That was a beautiful smile

A．gift                  B．book                C．note                D．letter

I can’t hear the radio clearly. Would you please      ?

A．turn it on            B．turn it down           C．turn it up            D．turn it off

     will the foreign students be back from Qufu?

A．How far             B．How long              C．How soon              D．How often

--Your father isn’t an English teacher, is he?

--        . But he was 2 years ago.

A．Of course          B．Yes, he is             C．No, never            D．No, he isn’t

Have you ever been to the new book shop       is just opened?

A．＼       B．who               C．that             D．what

---Lillan, do you know Susan?

---Sure. We     for nearly two years.

A．have joined the club                        B．have been classmates

C．have become friends                           D．have had the MP3

At last, the mid-term exams are over. You’ve done the hard work, but you can’t  1  . You have to prepare for the next exams. Do you hate exams? If you do, you’re not  2  .Student in other countries also hate them.

       3   for them, British student have fewer exams than Chinese students.  4  they only have them once a year. Every summer they take a  5   in each subject. Each test lasts about an hour.

      6  the results come out, they are then placed in an end-of-year report. The report is  7  to the child’s parents.

This report is private（私密的），so only the teacher, the student and his or her parents see it. This means that the students don’t know  8   other students scored（得分）in the tests. Some students choose to tell each other, but others keep it   9  .

Parents’ meetings are held  10   a year: at the end of the winter term and then at the end of the summer term. Children go along with their parents to meet their teachers privately and discuss their performance（表現(xiàn)） at school.

1．A．study                B．win                 C．relax                D．leave

2．A．kind                  B．a(chǎn)lone               C．right                D．busy

3．A．Finally        B．Hopefully         C．Luckily            D．Really

4．A．So                    B．Or                   C．But                  D．And

5．A．walk                 B．rest                 C．look                D．test

6．A．When                B．Before             C．Because           D．Though

7．A．sent                  B．lent                  C．held                 D．passed

8．A．if                      B．how                C．why                D．when

9．A．a(chǎn)way                 B．open                C．secret                                D．behind

10．A．once                B．twice               C．3 times            D．4times

Lon long ago, there was a king who liked to write stories. He thought the stories he wrote were very good. He showed them to some people. Although the people didn’t like the stories, they were afraid to say it to the king. So they said his storied were good.

One day he showed his stories to a well-known critic. The critic said that they were bad. The king got very angry and sent the critic to prison（監(jiān)獄）.

After some time the king sent his men to the critic to tell him that he was free. When the critic returned from the prison, the king invited him to his palace to dinner. Again he showed him some of his storied and again asked him what he thought of them.

The critic said nothing but turned to the soldiers, who were standing behind him, and said, “Take me back to prison.”

1．People said the king’s stories were good because they     .

       A．enjoyed reading them                    B．hoped to get a lot of money

       C．wanted to make the king happy      D．knew nothing about story-writing

2．The critic said the king’s storied were bad because he       .

       A．didn’t like the king at all                 B．wrote good stories

       C．couldn’t understand them                            D．was an honest an and brave person

3．After the critic was free, the king invited him to dinner an      .

       A．said sorry for what he had done to him

       B．hoped the critic would like his stories.

       C．wanted to hear his advice on story-writing.

       D．showed the critic the stories he had rewritten.

4．The last sentence “Take me back to prison” implies （暗示）     .

       A．the critic liked the life in prison

       B．the king’s stories were very bad

       C．the critic wouldn’t stay in the palace

       D．the king would send him to prison again

5．Which is the best title （題目） for the passage?

       A．A King and a Critic                        B．How to Write Stories

       C．A King Who Liked Stories              D．How to be a Good Critic