Mrs. Brown lives in a small village. Her husband is dead. She has a son but no daughters. His
name is John and he is twenty-five. After John finishes collage (大学), he gets work in a big city,
New York, and he lives there. It"s quite a long way from his mother"s home, and she is not happy
about it. But John says, "There is no good work for me in this small village, Mother, and I can get
a lot of money in New York. Then I can give much to you."
One day Mrs. Brown is very angry. She takes a train to her son"s house in New York. Then she
says to him. "John, why do you never call me?"
"But mother," John laughs (笑) and says, "You don"t have a telephone with you."
"No," she says, "I haven"t, but you have one."
B. In a big city
C. In New York
D. In a town
B. 21
C. 25
D. 13
A. On foot
B. By bus
C. By bike
D. By train
B. John has no telephone
C. His mother has no telephone
D. His mother doesn"t want to answer
B. John works in a big city and his mother likes it
C. In the village there is no good work for John
D. John never gives money to his mother.
compete on Smart Aleck-a game show which my best friend Carla and I both love. Carla has a
good imagination, and I know a lot of history, so we thought we’d be good 1 for the team.
A few days later, Mr. Gaudi held a meeting with everyone interested in the 2 . He told us
that Smart Aleck uses a five member team. He also said that three more people would be needed
as backup(替补). Unluckily four times that many students were at the meeting. So Mr. Gaudi
said we would have a 3 and the top eight scorers would become the team and the backup.
Everybody agreed that this was a 4 way to decide.
Yesterday, all of the hopefuls went to the dining hall after school. We would have to decide the
starting line-up(阵容).Mr. Gaudi acted as the host. After a couple of hours, all the 5 on the
team were set except one. Carla and I 6 for that last position.We had to hold a one-on-one
competition between the two of us.The winner would be on the team and the loser would be the
backup.
Midway through our two-person competition,I was starting to pull ahead. 7 I saw the look
on Carla"s face.I waited for a second and knew what I had to do.As much as I wanted to be on
Smart Aleck,Carla wanted 8 even more.So,starting with my next question,I held back and let
Carla 9 , just by a little bit.Her expression as she 10 she would be on the show made up
for my not being on the team. And since I will go as backup, I"ll still have the fun of seeing the
show up close.
Was I 11 by not trying as hard as I could?I don"t think so.No one noticed,and Carla and
I didn"t 12 it.It won"t hurt the team because Carla will be a very good competitor on the real
show.I think that making my best friend happy was the right thing to do.
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Today is 1 . I got up very early (早) in the morning. I went to school at 2 six. 3 _ school was 4 clean (干净的). 5 were bright (明亮的). The sky was blue. Birds were singing all the 6 . All the boys were 7 white shirts. 8 were in nice skirts. We sang 9 danced, ran and jumped. We 10 little birds. How happy we were! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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