阅读理解。     Vince has a good friend Hector. Last Friday was Hector"s birthday. It was five o"clock in the afternoon.
Hector"s brother said, "The birthday party is beginning." At that time, Vince appeared (出现). He wore (穿着)
a big T-shirt, On it were the words "My best friend, Hector: Happy Birthday!" Hector was very excited.
     On the day, besides (除了……还有) Vince, Hector"s other two classmates Alice and Lily joined in the
party. Hector"s parents cooked delicious food for them in their house. Hector got a lot of presents: a soccer
ball from his brother, a bicycle from his parents, a CD from Alice, a cartoon book from Lily and a dictionary
from Vince. They danced and sang till 9 o"clock in the evening. They were very happy.

	Birthday party
For whom	1._______________
Time	2._______________
Place	3._______________
Guests (客人)	4._______________
Mom and Dad"s presents	5._______________
1. Hector 2. Last Friday (Five o"clock in the afternoon.) 3. Hector"s house / In their house 4. Vince Alice and Lily 5. A bicycle (答案不唯一)
阅读理解。
Mr. and Mrs. Long had one daughter. Her name was Lena.She was eighteen years old. Lena lived with her parents and worked in an office. She had some friends, but she didn"t like any of the boys very much.      One day she met a very nice man. He was young.His name was Watts and he worked in a post office. They became friends and he came to Lena"s parents house twice.Last week Lena said to her father, "I"m going to marry (嫁给) Watts, Daddy. He was here yesterday."      "Oh, yes." her father answered."He"s a nice boy,but does he have much money?"      "Oh, no, both of you are the same," the daughter answered angrily. I met Watts on the first day of June and the next day he asked me, "Does your father have much money?"
1. Mr. and Mrs. Long had a _________.
A. son B. grandson C. daughter D. granddaughter
2. Lena worked _________.
A. in a school B. in an Office C. in a factory D. in a hospital
3. Lena had a few friends before she came to know Watts, but she _________.
A. liked no one very much B. like all of them C. didn"t know their names D. didn"t talk to them about their work
4. Last week Lena asked her father _________.
A. to help her find a good husband B. to let her be Watt"s wife C. to give her some money to buy a house D. to let her work in a big city
5. Lena got angry because _________.
A. her father didn"t like her boyfriend, Watts B. her father asked her to make friends with money C. her father, like Watts, only thought of money D. her parents asked Watts to give them too much money
阅读理解。
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 neighbour"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 neighbour, 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 neighbour 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 neighbour found out he was stealing the bell. "Why did he come out just then?" he wondered (感到疑惑).
1. The thief was trying to get _____.
A. his neighbour B. his neighbour"s doorbell C. some cotton D. a door with a bell on it
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
3. The neighbour 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
4. The neighbour 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
5. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The thief understood why he was hit on the nose. B. The thief knew why the neighbour came out. C.The thief thought the neighbour could not hear the bell. D. The thief didn"t want to know why the neighbour ran out just at the time he stole the doorbell.
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Once there was a rich man who lived with his wife and child. He loved the child so much that he sent him to Oxford University for two or three years. At the end of the first year at the university, his son came home. He wanted a change. And he also wanted to tell his parents about Oxford University.      It happened one night that the father, the mother and their son were having supper. They had in front of them only two chickens. Just as they were about to eat, the father said, "My boy, I have spent a lot of money on you to send you to Oxford University. Now I want to know what you have learnt." The son smiled and said, "Father, I have studied a science which can make prove that these two chickens on the plate are really three chickens."      "Well," said the father, "this is something I would like very much to know."      "There are two chickens on the plate," said the son, he took one of the chickens in this hand and said, "Here is one more, and one and two makes three. So there are three chickens." Then the father took one of the chickens to himself, gave the other to his wife, and said, "I will have one of the chickens myself, your mother shall have another, and you can have the third for your supper and nothing else." The father kept his words and so his son went without his supper.
1. How did the father do to love his son very much?     _________________________________________________ 2. When did the story happen?     _________________________________________________ 3. Why did the father ask his son to do that?     _________________________________________________ 4. Did the son change the two chickens on the plate into three?     _________________________________________________ 5. There"s no ending in the article, can you guess what the boy did in the end?     _________________________________________________
阅读理解。
Is the servant clever or foolish?      This is an old story. It was first told long ago. A rich man wanted to make a journey to another town. He was a businessman. He wanted to take things to sell. He also wanted to take some gold to buy some things with. He decided to take ten servants with him. They would carry the things to sell and the food to eat on the journey.      He was a kind man. He said to one of his servants, "You are the smallest, the thinnest and the weakest of all my servants. You cannot carry a heavy load. You may choose the lightest load to carry."      The servant thanked his master. He pointed to the biggest load. This was bread for them to eat on the journey.      "You are foolish," said his master. "That is the biggest and heaviest load." But the servant lifted up the load cheerfully and the journey began. They walked for four hours. Then they stopped for a rest. They all ate some of the bread. Then there was less bread for the servant to carry. The servant"s load grew smaller and lighter every day. At the end of the journey, the smallest servant had nothing to carry.
1. The rich man wanted to sell things and _____.
A. buy some gold B. buy some gold with the money C. buy some things with the gold D. sell some gold
2. Before the journey began, the rich man said something to _____.
A. a businessman B. one of his servants C. the servants D. some servants
3. The weakest servant _____.
A. asked for his master"s advice B. followed the master"s advice C. refused to accept the master"s advice D. took the advice another servant gave him
4. It took them _____.
A. less than four hours to finish the journey B. some days to finish the journey C. no more than four hours to finish the journey D. only four hours to finish the journey
5. The smallest servant was very _____.
A. clever B. foolish C. honest D. kind
阅读理解。
A young man worked very hard at his lessons. He was too busy to have a rest. At last, he became ill, so he couldn"t go to sleep. Every night, when he went to bed, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. But he always stayed awake and couldn"t fall asleep.      After some days, he decided to see a doctor. "I just can"t go to sleep at night. What should I do? Could you please help me?"      "I have a suggestion (建议)," said the doctor."Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you"ll be asleep. I"m sure of it."      The next day the man returned to the doctor"s office. "Well," said the doctor, "how are you today? Did you try my suggestion?"      The man still looked tired. "Yes," he said, "I tried counting one, two, three-up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some tea so that I could go on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn"t fall asleep."
1. The young man couldn"t go to sleep because _____.
A. he was worried about his homework B. he worked too hard and became ill C. he didn"t finish doing his lessons D. there was a lot of noise there and he couldn"t have a rest
2. The doctor asked the young man _____.
A. to put all numbers from I to 1000 together B. to take some medicine and go to bed earlier C. to count numbers while he was lying in bed D. to count numbers before he went to bed
3. The young man returned to the doctor"s office the next day because _____.
A. he wanted to ask the doctor how to count the numbers B. he wanted to thank the doctor C. he was better and wanted some more medicine D. he still couldn"t go to sleep at night
4. The young man _____.
A. counted from 569 to 1000 B. counted from 1 to 1000 and fell asleep C. counted from 1 to 569 and got up to drink some tea D. counted from 1 to 569 and fell asleep
5. The young man _____ in fact.
A. didn"t understand the doctor"s suggestion B. wasn"t ill at all C. was not able to count numbers D. didn"t try the doctor"s suggestion