Which of the following can NOT be used as subject?

It’s not my blouse. It may be _______________.

What does Mr. Liu usually ___________when he is at school?

I am afraid there’s ____________with the computer. Can you come and have a look?

A: How many students can you see in the reading room?  

B: _______________.

Alice was a beautiful girl. She liked nothing except dressing __1__ and dancing when she was at school. Of course she wasn’t good at her __2__. But the boys were ready to help her with her lessons __3__ they liked to dance with her. And after she finished middle school, she __4__ found work in a big shop. The __5__ had a son and he wanted the girl to marry him. Alice __6__ though the young man wasn’t clever enough. And she __7__ all kinds of clothes and shoes. She lived in the beautiful house with a big garden and she __8__ did anything at home. She didn’t love her __9__ but she lived a city life.

Once Mrs. Evans called Alice. The woman said she bought a few __10__ pictures and asked her to appreciate（欣賞）them. She __11__ nothing about the art but she was afraid to be laughed at and got there in time. She saw several women there. They were __12__the pictures when she went in. She thought for a long time and said, “Look! They’re all __13__. Why didn’t you buy the new ones?”

The women looked at each other but they tried not to __14__. And when they were appreciating a picture “Tramp（游浪漢）”, she said, “I don’t think the artist could draw! Such a__15__ man had no money to have a portrait taken（請(qǐng)人畫像）!”

A driver stopped his car on a street side to have a rest. As he lay down in the seat and closed his eyes, a man came up and knocked at the window to ask the time. The driver opened his eyes and looked at his watch. “It’s 8 a.m.,” he said. Then he went to sleep again.

But soon he woke up because a second person was knocking at the window. “Sir, do you have the time?” he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 8:30 a.m..

At this rate (照此下去), he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short note and put it up on the window for all to see. It said, “I don’t have the time.”

Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a third person came along and began knocking at the window. “Hey, sir,” he said, “it’s a quarter to nine.”

1.The driver stopped his car because he ___________.

2.He was woken up again by the second person ___________.

3.The driver ___________ after he put up the note on the window.

4.The third person came to knock at the window to ___________.

5.According to this passage, we know that ___________.

Mary didn’t understand such sentences as “She is blue today”, “You are yellow”, “He has a green thumb”, “He has told a white lie” and so on. And she went to the teacher Mrs. James for help.

Mary:    Mrs. James, there is a colour in each of the sentences. What do they mean?

Mrs. James: In everyday English, Mary, blue sometimes means sad, yellow afraid. A person with a green thumb grows plants well and a white lie is not a bad one.”

Mary:     I’m afraid I don’t understand them all. Would you give me an example for “a white

lie”?

Mrs. James: Certainly. Now I just give you some cakes. In fact you don’t like it, but you don’t want to let me know it. Instead you say, “No, thanks. I’m not hungry.” That’s a white lie.

Mary:      It sounds very interesting. Thanks very much.

Mrs. James: You are welcome. Colours are meaningful. I think you will meet more sentences like these in the future. Please come to me if you have any questions.

1.Blue sometimes means sad in _______________ English.

2.I don’t have a green thumb, so all my plants ________________.

3.David is yellow and he is ___________ to climb the tall tree!

4.He didn’t like me to know ___________ of the accident. He told me a white lie at last.

5.He is ______________today. He is told that his father is seriously ill.

In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice. Today, it is possible to get advice from radio show, TV programmer and telephone hot lines, too. Most telephone hot lines are completely anonymous-callers, they do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are usual free（免費(fèi)的）too, even if the calls are long distance（距離）.Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are professional with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot lines. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems.

1.Today when people have problems, ____________________.

2.The word “anonymous” probably means _____________________.

3.Callers _____________ the hot line for the advice or the phone calls.

4.The advisers working at the hot line _______________.

5.How do the hot line advisers work?

My friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed (移民入境檢查) at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria (自助餐廳) in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.

“Start out at the end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end he’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”

“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend. “Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”

1.Where do you think the old man came from?

2.From the passage, we know if you want to get success in America, you should ___________.

3.Which of the following is TRUE?

4.What does the word “it” in the third paragraph (段落) refer to?

5.Which is the best title for the passage?