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Jenny was my grandmother’s sister and she was an amazing woman. She was born in 1901 and  小题1:  in 2000. It was a pity that she didn’t live to celebrate(庆祝)her 100th birthday,  小题2:  she had a good,long life.
She had already been a professional   小题3:  before many women had jobs.She taught in Africa for many years. Then she moved to Malaysia and taught English there for a few years. At that time,people didn’t tralvel  小题4:  a plane, so she had to travel there by ship. It took her three months  小题5:  from England to Malaysia in those days. In 1947,she traveled by plane for the first time. This made traveling  小题6: easier and quicker. She continued to teach around the world until she was 75 years old.
Jenny really loved teaching and she was also good at telling stories. I always loved to hear her   小题7:  her stories. They were  小题8:  interesting that I would like to listen to her when I was free. It was  小题9:  that she could remember everything even though she was so old. I think it was because she never stopped  小题10: .My grandmother’s sister was really an amazing woman.
小题11:A.death             B.die                 C.died
小题12:A.but               B.and                 C.or
小题13:A.singer            B.teacher             C.manager
小题14:A.on                B.at                  C.by
小题15:A.to sail            B.sailing              C.to fly
小题16:A.too               B.much               C.more
小题17:A.talk to            B.talk with            C.talk about
小题18:A.so                B.such                C.very
小题19:A.boring            B.relaxing             C.amazing
小题20:A.work and think     B.working and thinking   C.to work and think
答案
小题1:C小题2:A小题3:B小题4:A小题5:A 小题6:B小题7:C小题8:A小题9:C小题10:B
解析

小题1:and连接两个动作,时态要保持一致。故用died。故选C。
小题2:根据句意“遗憾的是,她没等到过100岁生日。但她的一声也算是比较长的了。”,这里表示转折,故用but。故选A。
小题3:根据下一句“She taught in Africa for many years.”可知,外婆的姐姐是教师。故选B。
小题4:by表示“乘坐”时,不用冠词,故不用by;介词可以与a/an连用,“在飞机上”用on,故选A。
小题5:根据“by ship”可知,用sail;固定句型“it takes sb. +时间 to do sth.”,故选A。
小题6:too修饰形容词和副词的原级,much可修饰比较级。故选B。
小题7:talk to/with sb.“与某人谈话”;talk about sth.“谈论某事”,故选C。
小题8:考查固定句型。so... That ...“如此......以至于......”,故选A。
小题9:boring“令人厌烦的”;relaxing“令人放松的”;amazing“令人惊讶的”。外婆姐姐,年龄很大的时候还能记得很多事情,说明她有惊人的记忆力。且文章第一句提到amazing一词。故选C。
小题10:stop doing“停止做某事”;stop to do“停下来去做另一件事”。这里说的是外婆的姐姐从未停止过工作和思考。故选B。
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A man came home from work late, tired, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.
“Daddy,how much money do you make an hour?”
“If you must know, I make $20 an hour.”
“Oh,”the little boy replied,with his head down. He thought for a moment, looked up and said,“Daddy,could you lend me $10?”
The father was furious,“If you asked for the money to buy a toy or some other rubbish,then go straight to your room and think about why you are being so selfish(自私的)!”
The little boy quietly went to his roomand shut the door. After about an hour, the father calmed down, and started to think,“Maybe he really needs to buy something and he didn’t really ask for money very often.”So he went to the little boy’s room.
“Sorry! Maybe I was too hard on you just now.” said the man,“Here’s $10.”
“Oh, thank you, Daddy!”he said happily. Then,the boy took out some coins. When the father found that the boy alread had money,he got angry again.
“Why do you want more money since you already have some?”the father shouted angrily.
“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do.”The little boy replied,“Daddy,I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I小题1:How much does the boy’s father make an hour?  ______
A.$10             B.$20              C.$30
小题2:In this passage,the underlined word “furious”means_____
A.very angry          B.quite happy          C.too excited
小题3:At firs,the father refused to lend the boy any money because____.
A.he thought the boy wanted to keep the money for himself
B.he thought the boy would buy somethingof no use
C.the boy always borrowed money from him
小题4:The boy wanted to buy______with twenty dollars.
A.a new book for himself       B.a nice present for his father
C.an hour of his father’s time
小题5:From the passage, we can infer(推断)that the boy’s father____.
A.often played with his son     B.spent little time with his son
C.often came back home early
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A man went to a farm.While he was there,he saw a pig with a wooden leg.This surprised him so much.He decided to ask the farmer about it.
“This isn’t a common pig and l am very lucky to have him.”said the farmer.“Only two days ago there was a fire in chicken shed(鸡舍)when 1 was away from the farm.The pig noticed this and immediately let all the chickens out into the yard.He then phoned the firemen(消防员)and asked them for help.”
“AIso.a few weeks ago,when I was driving my truck down a steep hill,the truck hit a tree and 1 was badly hurt.The pig rushed to the truck and pulled me out of just before the truck caught fire.”
When the farmer was just about to tell another story,the man said,“Yes, yes,but what about the wooden leg?”
“Well.”said the farmer,“when you’ve got a pig as good as that,you don’t eat it all at once”
小题1:The pig lost a leg while he was trying to save the farmer’s chickens.
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The sun went down when an old man came to a small mountain village with a heavy bag. He found an inn(小旅馆) and wanted to stay there for the night.
After he had gone to his room, the owner of the inn said to his wife, “Look at his heavy bag, dear! I’m sure there’re a lot of valuable(贵重的) things. I want to steal it when he’s asleep tonight.” “No, no,” said his wife. “He must look for his bag tomorrow morning. Then he’ll take you to the police station.”
They thought hard and at last the woman had an idea. “We have forgetful grass,” said the woman. “Why not put some into his food? If he has the food, he’ll forget to take his bag away tomorrow morning.” “How clever you are!” said the owner, “don’t forget it when you cook supper for him.”
The old man had the food with forgetful grass and went to bed. The next morning, when the owner got up, he found the door was open and the old man had left. He looked for the bag for a long time, but he didn’t find it. He hurried to wake his wife up and said angrily, “What a fool! Your forgetful grass isn’t useful at all!”
“No, no,” said the woman. “I don’t think so. He must forget something.”
“Oh, I’ve remembered!” the owner called out suddenly, “He forgot to pay us the bill!”
1. The old man carried __________ when he got into the inn.
A. a large camera                   B. a heavy bag
C. an umbrella                    D. a heavy basket
2. What did the owner want to do?  _________________
A. He wanted to call the police.        
B. He wanted to kill the old man.
C. He wanted to steal the old man’s bag.
D. He wanted to invite the old man to dinner.
3. The old woman put _____________ into the old man’s food.
A. some sleeping pills           B. some pepper
C. some beef                 D. forgetful grass
4. The next morning the owner found ____________.
A. the old man left his bag in the inn   B. the bag was still there
C. the old man had died         D. the old man had gone with his bag
5. The old man forgot to __________________.
A. pay the owner the bill                B. take his bag
C. look at the time                   D. say goodbye to the owner
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One day, Mr Read and his son Robert were going out for a walk. He put on a pair of shoes together with a pair of different socks, one white and one yellow. As he came out of his house, his son noticed the colors of his father’s socks and said, “You’ve put on two different socks, Dad.” When he heard this, he looked at his socks and found that his son was right. He was happy and said to himself, “What a clever son I have got!” Then he asked his son to go back to the house to get another pair of socks for him. When the son went back to his house, all he could find was one white sock and one yellow sock. Robert then took the socks to his father and said, “It’s no use changing. These socks at home are also different, one yellow and one white.” Mr Read agreed with his son and they went out for a walk.
根据短文内容,判断句子正(T)误(F).
1. Mr Read put on a pair of different shoes before he went out for a walk.
2. The socks were yellow and white.
3. Robert found a pair of socks for his father.
4. They went back home to change socks.
Mr. Read was a smart man.
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A boy who was cleaning shoes in the street said to a young man, “Let me clean your shoes.” The young man said, “No, thank you.” “You may pay(支付) me only one dollar for them.” Said the boy. But the young man refused(拒绝) again.
And then the boy told the young man that he would clean his shoes for nothing. The young man            agreed to his, and soon one of his shoes became as clean as a new one. The man gave the other shoe to the boy, but the boy refused to clean it because he wanted the man to pay two dollars for his work. The young man refused to pay anything and went away.
But the dirty shoe looked so bad that he couldn’t walk away. He had to turn back and gave the boy two dollars. In a very short time the other shoe became clean.
小题1:At first the young man refused to let the boy clean his shoes, because        
A.he was very busyB.he didn’t want to pay
C.he didn’t have enough moneyD.he had cleaned his shoes
小题2:The young man agreed to let the boy clean his shoes, because the boy said he would ask for         
A.one dollarB.two dollarsC.four dollarsD.nothing
小题3:The boy refused to clean the other shoe because         
A.it was very dirtyB.it was difficult to clean
C.the young man paid only one dollarD.he wanted the young man to pay him
小题4:According to the passage, we know the boy        .
He is very foolish.  B. He is very selfish.   C. He is very clever.   D. He is very sad.
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