Dear Miss Wise,
      I'm sorry that I can't go to school today. I had an accident and my 1_____  arm is hurt. This morning
I got up at 2_____   past six. While I was putting on my. 3_____, I found it was 4_____  outside. After I had
breakfast, I rode to school. At the crossing near the 5_____  before I turned 6_____, I looked 7_____  and
found there was 8_____  traffic behind me. But just then a 9_____. was running very fast towards me. I tried
to stop but there was water on the street. So I 10_____  on the road and hurt my arm. The man on the other
bike sent me to the hospital nearby. The doctor told me to rest for a month. So I have to ask for a month's
leave. Thanks.
                                                                                                                                   Yours sincerely,
                                                                                                                                    Mike

     One day, Allan and his friend Henry went swimming in a river. It was very hot. How happy they were in
the river! After they got out of the water, they played games in the sun for a while. 　　
     On their way back, Henry saw some flowers. He liked flowers very much and ran into the green field to
look at them. Now Allan was walking by himself. 　　
     Then he heard Henry calling out, "A snake (蛇)! Help!..." 　　
     "What's wrong with you?" asked Allan. 　　
      "A snake bit (咬) me in the leg. Come here!" 　　
      Allan ran over and saw a small red wound (傷口) on Henry' s leg. 　　
      "The snake was in the grass. I didn't see it." 　
      "Sit down quickly"! Allan told Henry. 　　
      Allan put his mouth at the little red wound and began to suck (吸) at it. In this way he saved (挽救)
Henry's life. "Oh, Allan, it's very kind of you to help me." 　　
      "That's all right. We are friends and we must always help each other."

1. It was _______ when-Allan and Henry went out. 　　

A. hot
B. cold
C. raining
D. wet

2. After swimming, they played in the sun ________. 　　

A. the whole morning
B. for 2 hours 　　
C. long
D. for a while

3. On their way home, ________ got something wrong with his 　　

A. Allan; leg
B. Allan; head 　　
C. Henry; leg
D. Henry; head

4. Henry and Allan are ________. 　　

A. workers
B. good friends 　　
C. brothers
D. farmers

5. Which of the following (下面的) is true? 　　

A. Henry went to look at the flowers with Allan. 　　
B. Allan saved Henry' s life. 　　
C. Allan saw the snake. 　　
D. They ran to the hospital at once.

     There was a man who had a little son. He loved him very much. Every day after work the man would
come home and play with the little boy.
     When the man came home from work one night, he found that he had some extra work to do. And he
wasn't able to play with his little son, He wanted to give the boy something to keep him busy. So, looking
around his study, he saw a magazine with a large map of the world on the cover. He got an idea He patiently
tore the map up into pieces. Then he led his son into the dining room and spread the pieces on the table. He
explained to the boy that it was a map of the world. He told the boy to put it back together and they could
play together when he finished. Surely this could keep the child busy for hours, he thought.
     After about thirty minutes, the boy came to the man and said," "Okay, it's finished, Dad. Can we play
now?"     
     The man was surprised, saying,"That's amazing! How did you do that?" The boy said, "It was easy. On
the back of the page was a picture of a man. When I put the man together, the whole world appeared
completely."

1. Why couldn't the man play with his son that night?

A. He had to read a magazine.
B. He had some extra work to do.
C. He had to learn something about a map.
D. He had to stay at his office for extra work.

2. What did the man ask his son to do?

A. To read the magazine to find the map.
B. To tear the map of the world up into pieces.
C. To put the pieces of the map of the world back together.
D. To clean the dining room first, and then read the map of the world.

3. How long did it take the boy to finish the work?

A. A few hours.
B. About an hour.
C. About half an hour.
D. The whole night.

4. Which of the following is TRUE about the passage?

A. It's a report about a father's extra work.
B. It's a story between a father and his clever son.
C. It's an advertisement for the map of the world.
D. It's a poster about how to deal with parents' problems.

     Once upon a time, there was a rich man. Each morning, the rich man found a poor man 1_____(sit) on
a bench in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived.
One day, the rich man  2_____(get) out of his car and said to the poor man,"Excuse me. I want 3_____(know) why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning." "Sir," said the poor man,"I am a failure. I 4_____(have)
no money, no family and no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I will sleep in
that hotel." The rich man said," Tonight your dream 5_____(come) true. I'll pay for the best room in that hotel
for you a whole month."　　
     A few days later, the rich man went into the poor man's room to ask him how he 6_____(feel) in it. To his
surprise, he found that the man 7_____(move) out of the hotel back to his bench. When the rich man asked
why, he said,"You see, while I 8_____(sleep) on my bench, I dream I am there in the big hotel. It's a wonderful
dream. But while I 9_____(be) there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I
10_____(can not) get any sleep at all."　　

     A doctor was once teaching a class of medical students at a famous hospital in Edinburge. An injured
man was brought in, and the doctor turned to one of his students and asked him, "What's wrong with this
man?"
     "I don't know, sir," the student answered. "Shall I examine him and find out?"
     "There's no need to examine him," said the doctor."You should know without asking questions. He has
hurt his right knee. Didn't you notice the way he walked? He hurt it by burning it in the fire. You see his
trousers leg is burnt away at the knee. This is Monday morning. Yesterday was fine, but on Saturday the
roads were wet and muddy. The man's trousers are muddy all over. The man fell down on Saturday night."
     The doctor then turned to the man and said, "You had your pay on Saturday and went to a public house
and drank too much. You got muddy and wet on the way home. Because you had drunk too much, you fell
on the fire and burnt your knee. Is that right?
      "Yes, sir," said the man.

1. The medical students were having a lesson ______.

A. at the library
B. in a classroom
C. at a well-known hospital
D. in a medical school

2. The man hurt his knee ______.

A. on Monday
B. on Sunday night
C. on Saturday night
D. yesterday

3. How did the doctor know that the man burnt his knee?

A. From the way he walked.
B. By seeing his trousers leg is burnt away at the knee.
C. By seeing the man's trousers are muddy all over.
D. Both A and B

4. Which is the right order according to the passage?
① He burnt his knee.
② He got drunk.
③ He fell down and got muddy.
④ He had his pay.

A. ①②③④
B. ④③②①
C. ③④①②
D. ④②③①

5. From the passage we know that _____ is very important for medical students.

A. watching and thinking
B. taking good care of others
C. learning from others
D. teaching

     Dick was a twenty-year-old man. His father was a teacher and taught chemistry in a middle school and
his mother worked in a shop. They lived a happy life until his parents died one night when there was an
earthquake (地震). Luckily his sister had taken him to see their aunt in the city and they were not at home.
Everything was destroyed in the earthquake and the two children got into trouble. Thanks to their aunt, who
was not rich, they grew up but they lived a hard life. Dick's sister was so sad that she became a nun (修女).
After Dick finished middle school, he found a job in a hotel and began to work there.
     One day the young man fell to the ground while he was cleaning a window on the second floor. He was
sent to the hospital and the doctor looked him over. One of his legs was broken and he had to stay in hospital.
He said to the nurse, "I'm a poor man, madam. Arrange a third-class ward for me, please."
     "Can't any body help you?" she asked. 
     "No, madam," answered Dick. "I have only a sister. She's a nun and she's poor, too."
     "I don't think so," the nurse said angrily. "Nuns usually marry God. And God is the richest person in the
world, you know!"
     "Well, then," Dick said with a smile, "Please arrange a first-class ward for me and send the bill to my
brother-in-law (姐夫)."

1. Dick and his sister lived a happy life until ______.
2. Their aunt was not rich, so they grew up but ______.
3. After Dick finished middle school, ______.
4. Dick asked the nurse to arrange a third-class ward for him because ______.
5. "Ward" means ______ in Chinese.