is bigger than your dad"s." and "My mum is smarter than yours."
There were three little boys, Harry, Ted and Gavin. They were always boasting (自吹自擂). Gavin
was the worst. Everything in his home was always the best or the biggest or the most expensive.
One day when they were walking to school, Harry said, "My father has a bath twice a week." Ted
spoke next, "That"s nothing. Having a bath twice a week means your father is dirty. My father has a bath
every day, sometimes twice a day."
Ted looked at Gavin. Now it was his turn. But what could he say? He couldn"t say that his father had
a bath three times a day. He walked in silence. Ted smiled to Harry, and Harry smiled back. They were
sure that for once they had won.
They reached the school gate. Still Gavin said nothing.
One day had gone. On their way home, Ted said to Harry, "We"ve won." But he spoke too early,
because Gavin said suddenly, "My father"s so clean that he doesn"t have to have a bath at all."
B. Gavin was a bad student
C. Gavin knew how to boast best
D. Gavin never boasted
B. every day
C. twice a day
D. three times a day
B. More often than
C. as often as
D. as long as
B. in class
C. during lunchtime
D. after school
B. Ted and Harry were not sure they could win this time.
C. Gavin"s father never had a bath.
D. Gavin won again this time.
The first man said, "I think the pyramids are the greatest. Though they were b 2 thousands of years
ago, they are still standing. And just think: people at that time didn"t have our modern m 3 . How could
they build them so long ago?" "I a 4 that the pyramids are wonderful," the second man said. "But I think
computers are more wonderful. Everyone knows computers have c 5 the world a lot since they were
invented."
Then the t 6 man said, "I agree with neither of you. I think the m 7 wonderful thing is the
thermos (热水瓶)."
The other two men were very s 8 . "A thermos!" they said. "Why? It"s a simple thing."
"Oh, no," the man said. "In w 9 you put in hot water and it stays hot. In summer you put in a cold
drink, it stays cold. How does the thermos know whether (是否) it is winter o 10 summer?"
1._____ 2._____ 3._____ 4._____ 5._____
6._____ 7._____ 8._____9._____ 10._____
was Sun. It is spelt S-U-N, just the same as the English word "sun", the sun in the sky.
England is a country with bad weather. It is often cloudy or misty and it rains now and again, so the
people don"t get much sunshine in the year.
When the Chinese student arrived at London Airport, a tall English policeman with a long face checked
his passport. The policeman was interested to find the Chinese name "Sun" in the passport. He thought it
was pronounced just like the English word "sun", so he said to the Chinese student, "I see your name is
Sun. You are wanted here."
What a surprise to hear that! Everybody knows if you are wanted by the police, you must have
broken the law. So he asked the policeman: "Is there anything wrong with my passport? Do I have to go
back to China right now?" "Go back?" shouted the policeman, "Now you are here, we"ll never let you go
away." "What"s happened? What have I done?" asked the Chinese student in surprise. He thought he was
going to be arrested.
It was only then that the policeman began to smile.
He said, "You don"t know what you have done, Mr. Sun? You"ve brought sunshine to England. So
we don"t want you to go away."
B. At an airport.
C. In a school.
D. At a police station.
B. there was something wrong with his passport
C. the police man was not happy
D. the police man asked him to come to him
B. the Chinese students aren"t popular in England
C. the policeman was interested in Chinese name
D. Mr. Sun doesn"t learn English well
B. 休息
C. 介绍
D. 通知
B. Mr. Sun was taken to the police station.
C. The police man said good-bye to Mr. Sun with a smile.
D. Mr. Sun and policeman will understand each other better.
Two strangers were sitting together in a plane. They were on a long journey. One of the man was a
teacher, the other was a farmer.
They sat without talking for a while, then the farmer said, "Let"s do something to pass the time." "What
do you want to do?" the teacher asked. "We can ask each other riddles," the farmer said. "You start." " Let"s
make the rules first," the teacher said. "And to make the game more interesting, let"s play it for money. If
we don"t know the answer to a riddle, we have to pay a dollar." The farmer thought about this for a while,
then he said, "That"s not fair(公平). You are a teacher, an educated man. You know more things than I
do. I am just a farmer." "That"s true," the teacher said. "What do you think we should do?" the farmer
said, "If you don"t know the answer to a riddle, you pay me 100 dollars. If I don"t know the answer to
a riddle, I"ll pay you 50 dollars." The teacher thought for a while, then he said, "OK. That"s fair. Who"ll
go first?" "I will," the farmer said. "Here is my riddle. What has three legs when it walks, but only two
legs when it flies?" The teacher thought and thought, "What has three legs when it walks, but only two
when it flies?" Then he said, "That is a good one. I don"t know the answer." He gave the farmer 100
dollars and said, "Tell me the answer. What is it?"
" I don"t know, either." The farmer said, and gave him 50 dollars.
B. the teacher didn"t like the farmer
C. the farmer like to tell jokes
D. they didn"t know each other
B. see if the teacher was lucky
C. know if the teacher was clever
D. make friends with the teacher
B. knew more than he
C. could answer any riddles
D. would win the game
B. an educated man is not always clever
C. both of the two men could know the answer
D. neither of the two men was clever
B. A rich Teacher
C. A Way of Getting Money
D. A Clever Farmer
my office. His face was pale (苍白) and he looked at his own feet.
David lost his father when he was two years old and lived with his mother and grandfather ever since.
But the year before he turned 13, his grandfather died and his mother was killed in a car accident. His
teacher told me that he refused to talk to others from then on.
How could I help him?
David didn"t say a word. As he was leaving. I put my hand on his shoulder.
"Come back next week if you like," I said.
He came and I suggested we played a game of chess. He agreed. After that we played chess every
Wednesday afternoon-in complete silence. Usually, he arrived earlier than he agreed. It seemed as if he
liked to be with me. But why didn"t he ever look at me?
"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought.
Months later, when I was looking at his head, he suddenly looked up at me. "It"s your turn," he said.
After that day, David started talking. He finally had friends in school and he even joined a bicycle club.
He wrote to me a few times. Now he had really started to live his life.
Maybe I gave David something. But I learned a lot from him. I learned how time makes it possible to
get over what seems to be painful. David showed me how to help people like him. All they need is a
shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch and an ear that listens.
B. he seemed happy
C. he looked at his own feet
D. he smiled at the writer
B. 2
C. 5
D. 6
B. told stories to him
C. wrote letters to him
D. played soccer with him
B. An art club
C. An English club
D. A bicycle club
B. After his father died, David refused to talk to others.
C. David didn"t say anything to the writer at first.
D. At last the writer learned a lot from David.
Mr. Evans lived in a city. He was a math 1. ______ three years ago. He taught well and his students
liked him. So he decided to work in the middle school all his life. But a terrible accident 2. ______ his life.
One spring he took his class to visit a place of interest. The children saw a lot of 3. ______ things and
had a good time there. But on their way to school, their 4. ______ was hit by a truck because the young
driver was drunk. Five students 5. ______ and more than half the children were 6. ______ in the accident.
He didn"t know how it had happened and was very 7. ______ it and after he came out of hospital, he left
the school and became a 8. _____. He tried his best to stop the drivers from breaking the traffic regulations.
He worked hard and was strict with the drivers. So they were afraid of him.
One afternoon it was very hot. Mr. Evans was 9. ______. He was standing at the crossing and
watching the traffic. Suddenly he saw a 10. ______ rushing the crossing. It ran so fast that it almost hit
a man 11. ______ a bike. He stopped it at once and saw a girl in it.
"12. ______ your license to me, madam," said Mr. Evans. The girl handed her bag to him and said,
"Please look for it in the bag yourself. I can"t see anything without glasses."