for theneighbors. But it was summer now, and there was no snow.
(2) Joe wanted to buy a bike. He had asked his parents for the money and they said he must earn it
himself.
(3) Just then Joe saw one of his classmates, Dick, delivering newspapers. "I could do that ," he thou
ght, "Maybe I could even get the bike right away. I could pay for it a little each week."
(4) When Joe arrived home, he told his mother all about it. His mother smiled and said, "I think it"s a
great idea."
(5) He ran to Dick, and asked a lot of questions about getting a paper route. He learned that the job
took about three hours each morning. Dick gave him the phone number of the newspaper manger.
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When I was at university, I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did
just enough to pass the exams. Others didn"t do quite enough. Fred Baines was such a student. He spent
more time drinking in the Tea House than working in the library.
Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in Chinese. The test had 100 questions.
Beside each question we had to write "True" or "False". While I was studying in my room the night before
the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he
looked very easy. Then he told me of his idea."
It"s very simple. There are 100 questions and I have to get 50 right to pass the test. I"ll take a coin into
the room. I haven"t studied a Chinese book for months, so I"ll toss (掷,扔) the coin. In that way, I"m sure
I"ll get half of the questions right."
The next day, Fred came happily into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour,
he wrote down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, Fred met his Chinese teacher at the school gate. "Oh, good, "he said. "Have you got the
results of the test?" The teacher looked at him and smiled, "Ah, it"s you, Baines. Just a minute." Then the
teacher reached his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught in his hand and looked at
it. "I"m sorry, Baines, you failed!".
( )1. Fred Baines was a hard-working student.
( )2. They had to take a Chinese test.
( )3. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test.
( )4. Fred thought hard and wrote down his answers.
( )5. Fred passed the test at last
begin at an earlier age, but Robby said that it had always been his 1 dream to hear him play the piano.
2 I took him on as a student.
Although Robby tried very hard, he didn"t have a talent for 3 . However, he didn"t 4 and at the end
of each weekly lesson he"d always say:" My mom is going to 5 me play some day. " But it seemed 6 .
One day Robby stopped coming to our lessons. He told me that his mom had been 7 and unable to
take him to piano lessons, but he was 8 practicing. He asked if he could take part in my concert and I
agreed.
The night of the concert came. The high school gym was filled 9 parents, friends and relatives. The
concert was going well. Then, Robby 10 up on stage. He announced that he had chosen Mozart"s
Concerto No 21 in C Major. I didn"t get ready for what I heard next. His fingers danced on the
keys (琴键)….
He played so 11 that everyone clapped (鼓掌) excitedly. In tears, I ran up on stage. "Oh, Robby!
12 did you do it?"
"Well, Miss Hondorf... did you 13 I told you my mom was sick? Well, 14 she had cancer and
passed away this morning. And well... she was born deaf so tonight was the 15 time she heard me play.
I wanted to make it special."
( ) 1. A. father"s ( ) 2. A. And ( ) 3. A. act ( ) 4. A. gave away ( ) 5. A. hear ( ) 6. A. interesting ( ) 7. A. angry ( ) 8. A. even ( ) 9. A. by ( ) 10. A. stayed ( ) 11. A. well ( ) 12. A. What ( ) 13. A. know ( ) 14. A. in fact ( ) 15. A. first | B. mother"s B. But B. music B. gave back B. make B. easy B. sick B. still B. for B. grew B. badly B. When B. say B. after all B. second | C. brother? C. So C. math C. gave out C. watch C. terrible C. happy C. just C. between C. showed C. quickly C. Where C. remember C. in general C. third | D. child"s D. Or D. langge D. gavep D. let D. impoible D. poor D. also D. with D. cheed D. slow D. How D. hear D. so far D. last | ||||||||||||||||||||
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When I was a teenager growing up in France, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could 1 this was to work in the local paper factory in my town, or get married. I was very nervous, then I told my 2 I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, “ 3 You are going to college(大学).” I was very 4 when he said, “OK. Let"s go to the paper factory.” Two days later, 5 took me to the factory. I imagined everyone to be friends 6 together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I 7 I had watched too many movies as a teenager. When we 8 the factory gate, my father spoke to the guard (门卫) and one minute later we were 9 . I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was 10 . I ran back to my father and said, “I want to go home.”He asked me, “What do you think of the 11 ?” “Too bad,” I answered. “And marriage is even 12 ! ” he said. I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard 13 I could get into a good college. I 14 studying English so I decided to major in (主修)languages at college. Thanks to my father and our 15 to the paper factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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