Since the villagers’ houses have been damaged in the earthquake, the soldiers are helping them ______ tents （帳篷）.

A. put on               B. put off                     C. put up               D. put down

—This wine tastes a little bit strange.

—It is. It’s made ______ apples.

A. of                     B. from                 C. by                    D. in

More and more kids become unhappy ______ they have too many activities to do.

A. but                   B. or                     C. because             D. so

—How much time do you ______ surfing the Internet every week?

—Less than an hour.

A. cost                  B. pay                   C. take                  D. spend

—Would you please help me with the questions?

—Sorry. You ______ go and ask Mary. She ______ know the answer.

A. must; can          B. can; may           C. need; can          D. must; may

Loud noise may cause hearing ______ for a short time or even for ever.

A. results               B. questions           C. accidents           D. problems

—Look, it’s raining ______.

—That’s great. It’s too hot these days.

A. greatly                     B. heavily              C. quickly              D. hardly

—How was your weekend, Mary?

—I had a busy ______. I did a lot of things.

A. it                      B. this                   C. one                   D. that

I have only seen my father cry once. It was at the Alton train station, back when the trains still ran. I was on my way to Philadelphia to   1   the train that would take me to Boston and college. I was eager （熱切的） to go. College, with its   2   and the promise of the better future had become more interesting. It   3   me to see tears in my father’s eyes as he shook my hand and said goodbye.

For eighteen years, we had never had a（n）   4   to say goodbye like this. He was taller than me,   5   I was not short. I was going somewhere, and he was seeing me off. He   6   me, but he had not needed to say before, and now his tears were   7   it.

The tears in my father’s eyes told me that we would have less and less to do with each other. I had taken my   8   from his, and now I was learning it. The train   9   and I boarded （登上） it. My father looked smaller from the train. We   10   goodbye to each other through the window. I was wearing the heavy winter coat that my father had bought for me to keep me from catching a cold in New England.

1. A. return                   B. catch                C. design               D. watch

2. A. habits                   B. license               C. courses             D. advertisements

3. A. shocked               B. supposed           C. helped               D. encouraged

4. A. time                            B. luck                  C. chance                     D. interest

5. A. because                B. though                     C. so                     D. and

6. A. taught                  B. beat                  C. forgot               D. loved

7. A. saying                  B. knowing            C. creating             D. describing

8. A. money                  B. time                  C. present              D. life

9. A. continued             B. broke                C. arrived                     D. left

10. A. reached                     B. waved               C. talked                D. cheered

A friend’s grandfather went to America from Eastern countries. After he was processed （移民入境檢查） at Ellis Island, he went into cafeteria （自助餐廳） in lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for a waiter to take his order.

Of course no waiter came at all. At last, a woman held a plate full of food and sat down opposite him. When she saw the old man without any food, she told him how a cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay. After you pay for the food, you can bring it here and eat it.”

“I soon knew how everything works in America,” the grandfather told a 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 to you. You have to get up and get it by yourself.”

1. Maybe the old man came from ________.

A. Poland              B. India                 C. Canada              D. Egypt （埃及）

2. Who came when he sat down at an empty table?

A. A waiter.           B. A man.              C. A woman.         D. No person.

3. From the text, we know if you want to get success in America, you should ________.

A. get help from your friends               B. know how a cafeteria works          

C. get up again if you fail              D. try to get it by yourself

4. At last, the grandfather________.

       A. got the food himself               B. was very angry with the waiter

       C. ate the woman’s food              D. had nothing to eat

5. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. From Eastern countries to America  B. Life is Like a Cafeteria in America

C. How to Eat in a Cafeteria                D. Eating in America