Last week, the manager of an old jeweler’s shop received a letter marked “personal”. As he was very busy, the letter lay on his desk till teatime. When he opened it, a $10 note fell out onto his desk. With the note was a short letter. This is what it said:
Dear sir,
I got engaged (订婚的) forty years ago. Unfortunately at that time there was a lot of unemployment and I lost my job. I was out of work for about six months before I got another one. Of course I was very short of money.
I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring one day. The assistant brought some rings for me to have a look, later she was called away, and then I put one of the rings into my pocket. When she came back, I said I did not know the size of my girlfriend’s finger. So I left the shop without paying for the ring. My wife died a month ago, and the fact that I never paid for her ring has been on my conscience (让我良心不安) all these years. I always feel guilty about that. At that time the ring cost $2, and I think that is about five times -- $10 at today’s price.
Now I am sending you that amount.
Yours truly,
A customer
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After reading the letter, the manager said, “Well, well, well, life is full of surprise!”
小题1:The ring that the customer put into his pocket was ____ at that time.小题2:The underlined word “unemployment” means “____” in Chinese.小题3:How long has the customer’s wife been dead?| A．A week. | B．A month. | C．A year. | D．Two months. |
小题4:The customer wrote to the manager in order to ________.| A．return the ring | B．say thanks to him | | C．ask him for some advice | D．send the money for the ring |
小题5:Which is NOT true according to the passage?| A．The manager opened the letter by himself. | | B．The manager thought life was full of surprise. | | C．When the customer’s wife knew the fact, she was impatient. | | D．The customer always feels sad for not paying for the ring years ago. |
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小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:C |
试题解析:本文大意：上周一个老珠宝店的经理收到了一封标有“个人”的信，因为忙，他把信放在的桌子上直到喝茶的时候才打开，一张10美元掉到了桌子上。还附有一封短信，写道：我四十年前订婚，不幸的是那时失业六个月后才找到另一份工作，当时很缺钱，一天来到贵店买结婚戒指，店员拿几个给我看，后来被叫走了，我拿了一个放进口袋，她回来时，我说没有适合我女朋友的，所以没付钱就离开了。我的妻子一个月前去世了，我没付钱的事实多年来一直让我良心不安，那时戒指价值2美元，我想今天是五倍的价钱--10美元。
小题1:细节理解题。根据At that time the ring cost $2,那时戒指价值2美元 ，可知答案选D.
小题2:推理判断题。根据I lost my job我失业了，可知答案选D.
小题3:细节理解题。根据 My wife died a month ago我的妻子一个月前去世了，可知答案选B.
小题4:细节理解题。根据Now I am sending you that amount.现在我寄给你戒指的钱数，可知答案选A.
小题5:细节理解题。根据My wife died a month ago, and the fact that I never paid for her ring has been on my conscience all these years. 我的妻子一个月前去世了，我没付钱的事实多年来一直让我良心不安，可知答案选C. |
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You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you today wasn’t made until the Qin Dynasty. They spent most of the important work on dictionaries. They spent nearly all their lives trying to words for their dictionaries. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary（牛津字典）. The for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor（编者）of its new dictionary. Murray had never been to . At the age of fourteen, he left his villageschool in Scotland and taught himself while working in bank. he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job. Murray had a small house in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years but after five year, he was adding（增加）words for the letter “A”! He worked on the dictionary he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.
| 小题2: | | A．easy | B．boring | C．early | D．dangerous |
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| 小题3: | | A．spell | B．invent | C．collect | D．make |
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| 小题5: | | A．school | B．cinema | C．village | D．collage |
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| 小题6: | | A．Later | B．Longer before | C．So far | D．Ever since |
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| 小题7: | | A．sold | B．built | C．broken | D．drawn |
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| 小题8: | | A．read | B．wrote | C．worked | D．thought |
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| 小题9: | | A．already | B．still | C．usually | D．always |
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| 小题10: | | A．if | B．because | C．until | D．since |
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My name Ted Pike. I am in a big store. I work in the morning. I only work at night. Every morning I come home . I breakfast at seven. After breakfast I . I at about two thirty. I have lunch and supper at twenty to eight. Then I at a quarter past eight. I start work at nine. I look after the store every night. I like my work ______.
| 小题2: | | A．a student | B．a teacher | C．a nurse | D．a worker |
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| 小题3: | | A．am not | B．don’t | C．doesn’t | D．aren’t |
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| 小题4: | | A．at half six | B．at half past six | C．at six half | D．at six past half |
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| 小题6: | | A．go bed | B．go to the bed | C．go to bed | D．go to my bed |
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| 小题7: | | A．get | B．stand up | C．get up | D．get down |
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| 小题8: | | A．at a quarter three | B．at three quarter | | C．at a quarter to three | D．at three to quarter |
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| 小题9: | | A．go work | B．go the store | C．go to work | D．to go work |
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| 小题10: | | A．a lot of | B．lot of | C．lots of | D．a lot |
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Tony and Anna are brother and sister. They are Americans. Tony likes sports very much. He can play soccer, basketball and volleyball. Anna likes music very much. She can’t play ball games. But they both like playing on computers. They like eggs, bread and milk for breakfast. For lunch, Anna likes eating vegetables and fruit, but Tony likes chicken and fish. They both like hamburgers. But they don’t like ice cream or dessert.
小题1:Anna is Tony’s _____ and they are _____.| A．sister; Chinese | B．sister; Americans | | C．friend; Americans | D．cousin, Americans |
小题2:Tony likes ______ and he can play ______.| A．sports; tennis | B．music; basketball | | C．sports; volleyball | D．music, soccer |
小题3:Tony and Anna both like _____. | A．vegetables | B．soccer | C．fish | D．playing on computers |
小题4:For breakfast, they like _____.| A．vegetables and fruit | B．eggs, bread and milk | | C．chicken and fish | D．hamburgers |
小题5:They don’t like _____ or _____. | A．ice cream，vegetables | B．ice cream dessert | | C．hamburgers，dessert | D．ice cream, bread |
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Mike gets up at half past seven. He has an egg and some milk for breakfast. Then he goes to school. When he is on his way to school, he is thinking, “ I tell my teacher that my mother is ill on Mon---day. I tell him my bike doesn’t work on my way to school on Tuesday. What should I say to--day? Mike thinks it over, but he doesn’t have a good idea.
“May I come in?” says Mike at the door.
“Oh, my boy,” says Mr. Brown. “Please look at the clock on the wall. What time is it now?” “It’s eight ten,” says Mike. Mr. Brown is not happy and says, “You are late for class three times this
week. If all the students are like you, the clock is no use, I think.”
“ You are wrong, Mr. Brown,” says Mike. “If I don’t have the clock how do I know I am late for school?”
小题1:What does Mike do? | A． A student | B． A teacher | C．A worker | D． A cook |
小题2:What day is it today? | A．Monday | B．Tuesday | C．Wednesday | D．Thursday |
小题3:What time does Mike get to his classroom today? | A．At 7:30 | B．At 8:10 | C．At 8:20 | D．At 8:30 |
小题4:The Chinese meaning of the word “use” is “__________”.小题5:How many times is Mike late for class this week? | A．Once | B．Twice | C．Three | D．Four times |
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At 7: 40 when Mrs. Fang is at breakfast, there comes a call. Twenty minutes later, she is with Ann, because she cannot stop her baby crying （哭）. There, Mrs Fang helps Ann to wash her three-day-old baby. It is her first child and she is learning what to do. After that, Mrs Fang goes on to see Mr Johnson. His arm was broken(坏) and cannot wash or put on his clothes himself. He must be looked after（照看） every day.
Then Mrs Fang gets her second call that day. She goes to the home for the old. There she works with the old people till（直到）2: 00 p. m. One by one, she answers their questions and helps them take their medicine（吃药）.
This is her life. She is busy all day and sometimes she can get calls even late at night when someone needs help. She is busy, but she likes her job and enjoys helping others.
小题1:When is Mrs. Fang with Ann?| A．at 7:40 | B．at 8:00 | C．at 8:20 | D．at 8:40 |
小题2:Why does Mrs. Fang look after Mr Johnson?| A．He needs people to talk to him. | | B．He is unhappy. | | C．He likes Mrs Fang. | | D．His arm was broken and cannot wash or put on his clothes himself. |
小题3:What does Mrs. Fang do for the old people?
A. She answers their questions.
B. She tells stories to them.
C. She helps them take their medicine.
D. Both A and C.
小题4:How many calls does Mrs. Fang get that day?| A．three calls | B．two calls | C．only one call | D．We don’t know. |
小题5:Why does Mrs. Fang like her job?| A．She can get much money from it. | | B．She likes helping people when they need her. | | C．She likes keeping busy. | | D．She can make friends by having the job. |
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