Miss White was going to give a lecture on Friday afternoon, but on
Thursday night she was told that she had to go to an important meeting the
next day at the same time. " No one can be in two places at the same time.
What shall I do?" She thought. But soon , she had an idea.
At five to three on Friday afternoon Miss White went to the lecture
room. There were twenty students waiting there for her. "I’m sorry. "" She
told them, "I won’t be able to give my lecture today. " The students looked
surprised. Miss White explained that she had an important meeting."
However, "she went on. "though I can"t be with you myself, my voice can. "
Then she put a small tape recorder on the desk, "you see,I"ve recorded my
lecture and you can listen to it without me."
Miss White turned on the recorder and left. The meeting ended a little
earlier. Miss White decided to go back to her students. She stood for a
moment outside the lecture room, listening to her own voice. Then quickly,
she opened the door. To her surprise, the room was empty. As she looked
around,she saw a number of small recorders-all " listen " to her lecture!
" Well," she thought, " if I can be in two places at the same time, why
can"t they?"
A. give a lecture
B. attend a meeting
C. both A and B
D. think of an idea
2. The students ____ to know Miss White
wouldn"t give the lecture.
A. were so excited
B. were surprised
C. left the lecture room quickly
D. were disappointed
3. Miss White recorded her lecture so that ____
while she was away.
A. the students could do the same
B. the students could teach themselves
C. her voice could be with her
D. the students could listen to it
4. When she returned from the meeting, Miss White
found ____ her lecture.
A. no one in the lecture room listening to
B. every student recording
C. only few students listening to
D. all her students listening to
5. Miss White thought it was _____ .
A. all right for her students to do the same as she did
B. wrong for her students to be absent(缺席) from the lecture.
C. clever of her students to record her lecture
D. kind of her students to leave so many recorders
at the front row of shoes, and he felt sorry for himself. He really wanted to have a new pair for his
birthday.
He sadly walked away and thought of what to tell his mother. He knew she would give him anything
if she could. But he also knew she had little money. He decided not to go home at once, because he
looked worried and he didn"t want his mother to worry about him. So he went to the park and he sat
on the grass. Then he saw a girl in a wheel chair. He found that the girl moved the wheels with her
hands. Bill looked at her carefully and was surprised to see that the girl had no feet. He looked down
at his own feet. "It was much better to be without shoes than without feet," he thought. It was not right
for him to feel so sorry and sad. He went away and smiled, thinking he was luckier in life.
B. he couldn"t get a new pair of shoes
C. the shoes in the shop were too large
D. he had to work every day
B. Bill"s mother didn"t love him.
C. Bill"s mother had much money.
D. Bill"s mother often bought presents for him.
B. Because he was tired and wanted to have a rest.
C. Because he didn"t want to give his mother any trouble.
D. Because his mother was at work.
B. without feet
C. walking sadly
D. sitting on the grass
B. left the park sadly
C. didn"t know what to do with his old shoes
D. thought he was luckier than the girl
Then two days before the concert, Helen had a cold. She stayed in bed and took medicine, but it got worse and worse. On the evening before the concert, she had a fever. Helen’s mother called Jenny. " Helen is too s 4 to go to the concert, " she said. " You can find someone else to go with. "
The next day, Helen was feeling unhappy at home. Then she heard someone knocking at the door. A v 5 came. It was her friend Jenny! She came with a big bag of fruit and lots of their favorite CDs.
"I gave the tickets to Nancy and Tina in the end, and they went to the concert i 6 of us,"she said. "We" ll go to a 7 concert when you’re well. It wouldn"t be much fun without you. ”
"Wake up,Bob!" said Carlos,"What"s the matter with you?"
Bob opened one eye. "Well, I watched TV last night. It was very late,but it was very good film. It was about spies. I like it very much."
"Come on!"Carlos said,"Now we are late for school. "Carlos pushed open the door and they went to school.
"Hey,look at that!"said Carlos.
Bob turned and looked."Oh,wow!"said Bob.
A wounded(受伤的)man was coming to them. Bob and Carlos saw some blood(血)on that man"s coat and trousers. The man stopped when he saw the boys.
"Help!"he said,"Help me!"
Carlos took Bob"s arm. "We had better get out of here. That man looks like trouble!"
The boys wanted to run away. But the wounded man ran to the boys when a black car was coming.
B. workers
C. teachers
D. students
B. didn"t get up all the time
C. didn"t get up until three minutes later
D. went to bed again
B. spies
C. a wounded man
D. policemen
B. he needs some help
C. he may be a bad man
D. he wants to help us
B. found some blood on the man"s coat and trousers
C. ran to the boys
D. was running after the man
For many people the subject(主题)of hiccups is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fif-teen-year-old
schoolboy from Birmingham , it was something quite different.
His hiccups began one Sunday lunchtime and continued(继续)day and night for two weeks. After the first week , Harry"s parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure(治愈)his attack(发作).
Harry described(描述)what happened to him.
"When I began to hiccup,I drank a glass of water. but that didn"t do any good. That evening I had
hiccups every four seconds(秒). We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me, a shock but that didn"t work , either. "
After a week of sleepless(无眠的)nights,he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray(射线)of
his chest but they couldn"t find anything wrong.
"They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down,but it was another week before the me
dicine worked completely(完全地)and my hiccups stopped. "
Harry was very lucky, The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Smith , who
hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.
B. fourteen days
C. twenty-eight days
D. one month
B. drank a glass of water
C. finished his homework
D. ate an Indian meal
B. hiccupped at night
C. held his breath
D. hiccupped for four seconds
B. gave him a shock
C. took an X-ray of -his chest
D. gave him some medicine
B. 休克
C. 喷嚏
D. 震惊
the hotel,so she asked a policeman standing at the station gate. She spoke slowly and clearly. But to her
surprise, he didn"t understand her at all. She asked the same question again and again and then the
policeman understood at last. He answered her,but she didn"t know what he was saying, Her teacher
never spoke English like that " I"m a Japanese. I"m new here. "the girl said. The policeman spoke more
slowly than before,and she listened very carefully. but still she couldn"t understand him. They looked at
each other and smiled. Then he said something she understood. "You"11 soon learn English !" Then she
knew that the English she had learned was quite different from the English people speak !
B. For two years
C. For a halt year.
D. For two years and a half.
B. By ship.
C. by plane.
D. By car.
B . Because she wanted to know the way to the hotel.
C. Because she lost her things.
D. Because she was afraid in a new place.
B. She couldn"t speak English freely.
C. The policeman under-stood her at last.
D. She asked the same question again and again.
B. The policeman didn"t know the way to the hotel.
C. The girl"s English was not good enough.
D. "There are no good teachers in Japan.
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