Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal (偷) the bell on his neighbor’s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of (抓住) the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home.
Then he sat down to think, “I must do something about the noise,” he said. He thought and thought. At last he had an idea. “Ah, I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won’t be able to hear the noise.” The next day he went to the door of his neighbor, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbor came running out. “Steal my bell? I’ll teach you a lesson (教训),”the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose.
The foolish thief did not know how the neighbor found out he was stealing the bell. “Why did he come out just then?” he wondered (感到疑惑).
小题1:The thief was trying to get .| A．his neighbor | B．his neighbor’s doorbell | | C．some cotton | D．a door with a bell on it |
小题2:The thief put some cotton in his ears. He thought it would be for him to steal the doorbell.| A．safe | B．difficult | C．dangerous | D．easy |
小题3: The neighbor ran out probably (很可能) because_________.| A．he knew his doorbell was being stolen | | B．he thought someone was eager (渴望的) to visit him | | C．He realized (意识到) something strange happened | | D．Both B and C |
小题4: The neighbor hit the thief to ________.| A．give him lessons | B．punish (惩罚) him for stealing | | C．help him with the bell | D．be his teacher |
小题5: Which of the following is TRUE?| A．The thief understood why he was hit on the nose. | | B．The thief knew why the neighbor came out. | | C．The thief thought the neighbor could not hear the bell. | | D．The thief didn’t want to know why the neighbor ran out just at the time he stole the doorbell. |
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小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:C |
小题1:根据When he wanted to steal (偷) the bell on his neighbor’s door可知他想头邻居的门铃，故选B.
小题2:四个选项分别表示安全的，困难的，危险地和简单的，这是掩耳盗铃的故事，这个贼自以为安全了，故选A.
小题3:根据常识，B选项邻居可能认为有人拜访，C选项意识到发生了什么怪事都有可能，故选D。
小题4:一般人对贼是没有什么好感的，打他大多是处于惩罚，故选B,因为偷东西惩罚他。
小题1:根据短文最后一句话，那个时候他为什么出来了，说明这个贼仍认为邻居听不到铃声，故选C。 |
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Mr. Smith gave his wife money every Friday evening. His wife always spent it all the next Wednesday, so that for the next three days she had no money to spend at all. One day Mr. Smith asked her, “But how did you spend all that money?” She answered, “I don’t know.” So one Friday evening, Mr. Smith gave her money together with an exercise book and a pencil. He said to his wife, “Please write down how you spend the money.” Next Tuesday, his wife had no money again. Mr. Smith took the exercise book to see how she had spent it. “I have done what you told me,” she said gladly. She had written “Friday, I got 18 pounds from Mr. Smith.” on the first page, and on the second page, she wrote, “Tuesday, I have spent it all.”
小题1: Mrs. Smith always spent all the money .| A．the next day | B．in four days | C．in a week | D．on next Wednesday |
小题2: Mr. Smith gave his wife an exercise book and a pencil and asked her | A．to do homework | B．to have a look | | C．to write down how she spent the money | D．to draw a picture on it |
小题3:Mrs. Smith was to do what Mr. Smith asked her to.| A．happy | B．sad | C．sorry | D．excited |
小题4: Mr. Smith gave his wife money a week.| A．once | B．twice | C．three times | D．four times |
小题5: The story tells us that Mrs. Smith was not very .| A．glad | B．tall | C．careful | D．good |
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Dick had a toothache. His mother 36 him to the dentist. Before they saw the dentist, they 37 wait. “Please come in!” said a nurse in a 38 dress. Dick looked afraid 39 he came into the dentist’s room. “Now tell me. What’s wrong 40 you?” the dentist asked. “I feel terrible. I think I’ve a 41 tooth.” said the boy. “Well, let me have a 42 ”, said the dentist kindly. Dick 43 his mouth 44 the dentist began to examine（检查）his 45 .
| 小题1: | | A．took | B．wanted | C．brought | D．saw |
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| 小题3: | | A．white | B．black | C．red | D．green |
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| 小题7: | | A．see | B．look at | C．rest | D．look |
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| 小题8: | | A．closed | B．opened | C．saw | D．held |
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Mrs. Black lives in a small village. Her husband is dead. Her son, Jack, lived with her. He worked in a shop in the village, but then he found a job in town named Green Sea. He went to live there. Mrs. Black was very angry. She got on a train and went to see her son. Then she said to him, "Jack, why do you never telephone me?"
Jack laughed, "But, mother, you haven’t got a telephone. "No." She answered, "I haven’t, but you have got one. "
（ ）1. The old Black ______.
A. is dead B. lives with his wife
C. went to a small village D. worked in a shop
（ ）2. Jack lived with his mother ______he worked in the village.
A. before B. when C. after D. so
（ ）3. Green Sea is _________.
A. a big city B. a small village C. a town D. a man’s name
（ ）4. Jack didn’t phone his mother because ______.
A. he had no phone B. he was very busy
C. his mother had no phone D. he went home every day
（ ）5. Jack’s mother was very angry because ______.
A. Jack didn’t want to ring her up
B. Jack had a telephone but she hadn’t
C. she didn’t know how to make a telephone
D. she didn’t know she couldn’t be called |
One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man  comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “ Don’t say anything about the elephant befor e I sell it. Then I will give you twenty dollars.”“All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “ Now, can you tell me how you found the elephant’s bad ears?”“ I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “ Then why are you looking at the elephant slowly?” asks the old man. The young man answers, “Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”
( )1. ______ the elephant.
A. The young man sells B. The old man sells
C. The two men sell D. The old man buys
( )2. The young man is looking at the elephant slowly. He wants to find out _______.
A. which foot of the elephant is bad B. how heavy it is
C. which ear of the elephant is bad D. what it looks like
( )3. The young man _______.
A. knows the elephant has bad ears B. wants to buy the elephant
C. looks after the elephant D. gets some money from the old man
( )4. The young man _______.
A. is not interested in elephants B. knows what an elephant looks like
C. has seen some elephants before
D. has never seen an elephant before
( )5. Hearing what the young man said, the old man will probably(可能) be ______
A. angry B. happy C. dangerous D.  hungry |
With a hat by his feet, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He held up a sign which said, “I’m blind, please help.”
Only a few people put 36 in the hat. A man was walking by. He 37 some coins into the hat. He then turned the sign 38 , wrote some words, put the sign back and left.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people 39 to give money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man came to see 40 things were. The boy recognized his footsteps （认出他的脚步声）and asked, “Were you the one who 41 my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a 42 way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, 43 I cannot see it.”
Both the 44 told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply 45 people to help by throwing some money into the 46 . The second one, however, told people that they were able to enjoy the 47 of the day, but the boy couldn’t 48 he was blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn 49 this story. First, be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help them if you can. 50 , be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way!
| 小题1: | | A．eggs | B．coins | C．toys | D．pencils |
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| 小题2: | | A．got | B．lost | C．took | D．dropped |
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| 小题4: | | A．asked | B．began | C．hoped | D．continued |
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| 小题5: | | A．how | B．what | C．whose | D．which |
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| 小题6: | | A．put | B．found | C．changed | D．cleaned |
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| 小题7: | | A．usual | B．simple | C．different | D．dangerous |
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| 小题9: | | A．signs | B．men | C．boys | D．lessons |
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| 小题10: | | A．told | B．took | C．helped | D．ordered |
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| 小题11: | | A．bag | B．hat | C．pocket | D．basket |
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| 小题12: | | A．food | B．songs | C．beauty | D．pictures |
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| 小题13: | | A．because | B．unless | C．before | D．though |
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| 小题14: | | A．about | B．with | C．from | D．except |
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| 小题15: | | A．First | B．Second | C．Third | D．Fourth |
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