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The next day, the Minister fell to the ground from the horse and really died. When the king learned this, he got
angry and sent his men to catch Effendi at once.
When Effendi was brought to him, the king shouted angrily, "Effendi, since (既然) you knew when my
Minister would die, you must know the date of your own death. Say it out, or you"ll die today."
Effendi looked at the king for a while. Then he answered, "But how can I know? I"ll die two days earlier than
you." The king was afraid that if he killed Effendi, he himself would die after that. He thought he must keep
Effendi alive as long as possible, so he let Effendi go.
B. when the king would die
C. why the Minister died
D. Effendi knew the dates of everyone"s death
B. Effendi said he would die
C. he was badly ill
D. he fell off the horse
B. Because he wanted to find an excuse to kill Effendi.
C. Because he himself had known the date of Effendi"s death.
D. Because he wanted to know when Effendi would die.
B. he was afraid of Effendi
C. he didn"t believe Effendi"s words
D. he knew he would die two days later
B. The king was afraid of death.
C. Effendi didn"t know when the king would die.
D. If the king killed Effendi, he himself would die two days later.
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One man thinks that working on the weekend can be dangerous. He is Graham Coates. Mr. Coates worked
in an office in Brighton, England.
On Saturday, May 24, 1986, he went to the office to do some work. When he got in the elevator to go home,
it stopped between floors. Mr. Coates could not get out of the elevator. He was trapped (困住了)! He started to
shout, but no one heard him. Then Mr. Coates remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one was going
to come to work until Tuesday!
There was nothing for Mr. Coates to do. He had to wait until one his coworkers came to work and found
him. With nothing to eat or drink, Mr. Coates ended up sleeping for most of the time. Early on Tuesday morning,
the vice president of the company came into work and found the elevator was not working. When the elevator
was opened, Mr. Coates came out cold, weak, and tired. He had been in the elevator for sixty-two hours!
Now Mr. Coates says, "I only uses elevators if they have telephones in them."
B. it was a weekend
C. it was a holiday
D. it stopped on a wrong floor
B. From Saturday to Monday.
C. More than sixty hours.
D. From Tuesday to Saturday.
B. Slept and waited.
C. Telephoned his boss.
D. Ate and drank.
B. Some one opened the elevator.
C. The elevator began to work on Tuesday.
D. He found a door in the elevator.
B. A Busy Weekend
C. Elevator Safety
D. Trapped in an Elevator
and there wasn"t much fun for him. Abe Lincoln wanted to go to school, but there was no school there. Abe was
sad most of the time.
Mrs Lincoln loved the boy very much. She tried her best to make Abe happy. One morning she got up early
and said to Tom Lincoln, "I"m going to town. "Tom was surprised. "That"s a long way. And the snow is heavy.
What are you going to do in the town?"
"I"ll let you know when I come back," She said and then went out of the house. It took Mrs Lincoln a long
time to get to town. She bought something there and started back. And it was late in the evening when she got
home.
The next morning Mrs Lincoln said to Abe, "Today is your birthday. We are going to have a party!" She put
some food on the table,then brought out a present.
"A book!" Abe cried. It was an old book, but he liked it. A smile came to his face. He looked up at Mrs
Lincoln and said, "Thank you!"
1. When he was a child, Abe Lincoln wanted to be a school _____, but there weren"t any schools nearby. So he
______ go to school.
2. Mrs Lincoln loved her ______ and tried her best to make him happy. One morning, she wanted to go out to
do some ______.
3. It took Mrs Lincoln a lot of ______ to ______ town.
4. Mrs Lincoln ______ Abe a present. The present for Abe was a ______.
5. Abe was very ______ to have the present. He ______ it very much.
paper bag. And four feet of ducks (鸭子) could be seen under the cover. The man found an empty seat, put the
bag in the middle of the floor, took out a newspaper and began to read.
Then a policeman came in. Of course he saw the bag with the ducks" feet at once and said, "Whose is that
bag?"
Nobody answered. The policeman repeated the question, and said, "I shall have to take it away from the
owner. Food mustn"t be taken out of country."
"Well, then," said the small man with a fat stomach. "Hurry up and take it away. We want to go home." The
policeman took the bag and went on to the next carriage (车厢).
At the next station, when they were safely across the frontier, the small man got up, smiled at other
passengers and said, "I hope that they"ll enjoy the ducks" feet. The rest of the bag had nothing but rubbish in it."
Then he opened his coat and pointed to another bag he was carrying under it. It was tied over the stomach,
which was not really fat. "I have the rest of the two ducks here," he said. With these words, he got off the train.
But while he was happily walking to the exit with the bag in his hand, a policeman came up to him, saying,
"Hey, man! Foreign food mustn"t be brought in."
B. so that the policeman could find it easily
C. so that he could make more room for himself
D. because there was not an empty seat in the carriage
B. he enjoyed the ducks" feet in the bag
C. the bag was put in a wrong place in the carriage
D. food can"t be taken abroad
B. rubbish
C. the ducks" feet and rubbish
D. the ducks" feet
B. 4.
C. 6.
D. We don"t know.
B. crossed the frontier with two paper bags
C. took the ducks safely home
D. hid his ducks under his coat again
she tried her best to deny (否认) it.
One day, she was walking along the street when she met with another woman. She remembered it seemed
like one of her friends. So she looked at her very carefully.
Then she said, "Sandy Smith, my old friend! Well, well, well I haven"t seen you for ten years."
She looked at the woman up and down. But the woman was puzzled (迷惹不解的) and couldn"t know what
to say.
"But you"ve changed, Sandy," she went on. "You used to be fat but now you"re thin." She smiled at the
woman again. "But, oh, you have changed," she said. "I"ve never known anyone change so much. You used to
have thick hair but now it"s very thin. You didn"t use to wear glasses but now you"re wearing really thick ones."
She smiled at the woman again.
"But you"re still the same Sandy Smith I used to have coffee with every week. We had some good times,
didn"t we, Sandy?"
"Excuse me, madam," the woman said, "but my name isn"t Sandy Smith."
Helen thought for a minute, and then she said, "So you"ve changed your name as well, haven"t you?"
B. she was free at home.
C. she did something wrong.
D. she was bad to her friends.
B. Helen Beckman was not sure if the woman was her friend
C. Helen Beckman hoped to talk with the woman
D. The woman forgot to say hello to Helen Beckman
B. she forgot Helen Beckman was her friend
C. Helen Beckman changed greatly
D. Helen Beckman talked too much
B. Sandy Smith often went to see Helen Beckman
C. Sandy Smith was one of Helen Beckman"s neighbours
D. Sandy Smith often had coffee with Helen Beckman
B. Helen Beckman made a mistake again.
C. Sandy Smith was much fatter than before.
D. Sandy Smith forgot her old friend.
asked them to 1 reports about each boy"s life and future. One of the students wrote, "They don"t have any
hope."
Twenty-five years 2 , another professor read about the earlier study. He told his students to 3 what had
happened to the boys. They tried very hard and found that 176 of the boys had become successful 4 doctors,
teachers and scientists.
The professor was very 5 and decided to study it further. Luckily, all of them were living near the place
and he was able to ask each one, "What made you 6 ?" Each one answered, "It was a teacher."
The teacher was 7 living there, so the professor found her and asked the old woman 8 she had done to
pull those boys out of the slums, and change them 9 successful people.
The teacher"s 10 began to shine and said with a sweet smile, "It"s really very easy. I love those boys."