"Ring…Ring…" the telephone suddenly rang. Sam got up to 1 the call. It was his aunt.

    "Sam,   2 are you still at home? " she asked in surprise. Sam looked at the clock. It was already 7:30 a.m.

    "Oh, my goodness! There's an important   3   today;" Sam shouted out.

    He hurried to wash his face and get dressed. When he was going to leave the house, he  4   that he had not put away his books. He ran quickly to the desk and put them into the bag.

    He then went to the bus stop to go to school as   5   as he could. When he got into the classroom, his classmates were busy writing.

   "Why are you so   6   ?" asked the teacher.

   "I'm sorry, sir," Sam answered, afraid of looking up. "It was my clock… It   7  to wake me up this morning and…"

   "Don't say anything   8   it!" his teacher stopped him. "Try not to come late next time!"

   Sam said yes and walked to his   9   quickly. But when he tried to do the paper, he could not think in a right way. He put his head on the desk and said, "What a   10   day it has been for me!"

1. A. find              B. give                C. put                 D. answer

2. A. why              B. how                     C. when              D. where

3. A talk                 B. party             C. exam              D. meeting

4. A forgot             B. remembered       C. understood         D. thought

5. A carefully            B. quietly            C. early             D. quickly

6. A late                 B. lonely               C. worried           D. ill

7. A happened            B. stopped             C. failed              D. began

8. A to                 B. about               C. in                D. with

9. A. room              B. book             C. seat              D. teacher

10. A. short            B. bad                C. happy            D. usual

I live on the twelfth floor of a building. One afternoon I was coming home from a friend's house. It was just after four o'clock. I got quickly into the lift and pressed Button (按鈕) 12.

The lift started to go up, but very slowly. And then, halfway up, it suddenly stopped between two floors. I couldn't understand it. I pressed all the buttons from 1 to 14. I called for help very loudly. But nobody answered.

Then suddenly the lights went out, and I was alone in the dark. I started to cry and beat the walls of the lift. I cried and cried until I had no voice left. Then, I felt hopeless, and pressed all the buttons with my open hands. And all at the same time, there was a bell far away. It rang and rang. It was the fire alarm (火災(zāi)警報(bào)). I thought the whole building was on fire. I said to God quietly, "Just get me out of here. I'll never be bad again."

Just then, I realized the lift was moving very slowly. On the ground floor it stopped, and the doors opened. A man was standing there. "How long have you been in the lift? It is good that you pressed the alarm bell. But haven't you learned to read at your school?" He pointed at a small piece of paper on the wall beside the lift. It said:

"Attention: This lift will be stopped for repairs between 4pm and 5 pm on Thursday March 13."

1.What happened to the lift?

A．It had a fire accident.

B．It stopped halfway.

C．It was turned off by the writer.

D．It moved fast up to the top floor

2.As the situation went on, the writer became _________.

A．more and more scared                   B．calmer and calmer

C．more and more bored                    D．clearer and clearer

3.Why did a bell ring from far away?

A．The lift was to start again.

B．The repair worker rang the fire alarm.

C．The building was on fire.

D．The writer pressed the fire alarm bell.

4.Who most probably made the lift move again and go down to the ground floor?

A．The writer.                            B．The writer's friend.

C．The man.                              D．The writer's father.

5.After reading the paper, the writer realized that he/she had _________.

A．escaped a fire accident                   B．made a silly mistake

C．visited a dishonest friend                 D．pressed a wrong button

 

A student was going to spend his holiday in a cool mountain village. That evening he stayed at an inn (小旅館) near the railway station (火車站). Before going to bed, he went to the boss of the inn and said, "Excuse me, sir. Will you please wake me up at a quarter to five tomorrow morning? I'll take the five o'clock train."

"Oh, sorry, sir," the boss said in a hurry, "I'm afraid I can't. I won't be able to get up so early."

The student was disappointed (失望). When he began to return to his room, be stopped and asked, "Have you got an alarm-clock (鬧鐘)? Maybe it can help me."

"Wait a minute, then." The boss said and brought out an alarm-clock. "Here you are, sir."

"Thank you very much." The student said happily. But he found it was rusty (銹的) when he had a look at it. And it sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. He asked, "Will it ring in time?"

"I don't know, either." said the boss, "But it doesn't matter. You just give it a good shake at a quarter to five. And it will ring on time."

1.   The student stayed at the inn because ____.

A. it was in the cool mountain village he was going to     

B. the boss of the inn was kind to him                 

C. the boss could wake him up at the right time

D. it was near the railway station 

2. The student asked the boss to wake him up the next morning because ____.

A. the boss had the habit (習(xí)慣) of getting up early   

B. the boss had promised (答應(yīng)) to help him in every possible way (千方百計(jì)地)

C. he was afraid he would not wake up in time to catch the train

D. it would take him a long time to walk to the railway station

3.  The train the student was going to take would start at ____ the next morning.

A. five o'clock             B. a quarter to five   

C. half past four               D. a quarter to six

4.  The student was disappointed because ____.

A. he had to buy an alarm-clock

B. the boss refused to wake him up             

C. he would take another train                 

D. he had to go to the village on foot

5.   From the story we know the ____.

A. clock would wake the student up in time     

B. student certainly missed his train the next morning

C. alarm-clock was no use for the student          

D. student had the alarm-clock repaired (修理)

 

Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at school. When I made my first visit to the United States, I was sure I could have a nice and easy holiday without any language problem. But how wrong I was!

    At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to tell my friend Danny that I had arrived. An American asked if he could help me. "Yes," I said, '1 want to give my friend a ring."

"Well, that's nice. Are you getting married?" he asked. "No," I replied, "I just want to tell him I have arrived." "Oh," he said, "there is a phone downstairs on the first floor." "But we're on the first floor now," I said.

    "Well, I don't know what you are talking about Maybe you aren't feeling too well after your journey," he said. "Just go and wash up, and you will feel a lot better." And he went off, leaving me wondering where on earth I was: At home we wash up after a meal to get the cups and plates clean. How can I wash up at an airport?

    At last we did meet. Danny explained the misunderstanding: Americans say "to give someone a call", but we English say "to give somebody a ring". When we say "to wash your hands", they say "to wash up". And Englishmen start numbering from the ground floor so the first floor is the second for Americans.

1.The writer went to America by ______.

A. plane             B. ship               C. bus                 D. train

2.The writer went to America for______  .

A. education       B. business         C. holiday           D. friendship

3.The American thought "a ring" should be a________ .

A. phone call       B. present         C. person                 D. letter

4.Englishmen usually wash up________    .

    A. after dinner         B. after a journey

    C. when they are tired  D. before they telephone someone

5.The third floor in England is the ______floor in America.

    A. first              B. second        C. third                 D. Fourth

 

完型填空

從A,B,C,D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選擇能填入空白處的正確答案，并將其字母代號(hào)填入答題卷相應(yīng)空格內(nèi)。

Many parents want their children to be famous one day. But do children have the same  1  ?

A new   2  —Hi, Ke'ai is on at Beijing Children's Art Theatre. It tells the story of a boy called Ke'ai. His parents would like him to become a painter or a   3  one day. They teach him to   4  and to play the violin, but Ke'ai doesn't enjoy these activities. Then one day Ke'ai's parents see Liu Xiang win a gold   5  at the Athens Olympic Games, and they want him to be a sportsman.

"   6  do they want me to be someone else?" Ke'ai asks and says, "I only want to be

   7  ."

The play shows us that it is good for parents to learn to   8  their children. It helps parents to think about what kids want to do.

Young audiences(觀眾)enjoy the story, and also the   9  in the play. There are two songs in the play. One of them, "Ke'ai's Song" is very   10  to learn, so the audiences can sing the song on their way home after the play!

1.                A．jobs           B．dreams         C．habits    D．hobbies

 

2.                A．song           B．film            C．play D．opera

 

3.                A．writer          B．teacher         C．sportsman D．musician

 

4.                A．paint           B．write           C．run  D．drive

 

5.                A．match          B．ring            C．medal    D．race

 

6.                A．How           B．Why           C．When    D．Where

 

7.                A．myself         B．different        C．a(chǎn)lone D．great

 

8.                A．encourage      B．understand      C．criticize   D．inspire

 

9.                A．light           B．clothes         C．skill  D．music

 

10.               A．easy           B．difficult         C．important  D．necessary