to the British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC) to make an important speech to the nation.
An hour before the time of this speech, he stopped a taxi in the street and asked the driver to take him to
the BBC, but the taxi driver, who did not recognize him, said he could not take him anywhere just then,
because he wanted to go back to his home at the other end of London to hear Churchill make a speech on the
radio. Churchill was so pleased when he heard this . Churchill answered that he gave the man a pound, which
was worth quite a lot in those days.
"All right, get in," said the driver happily, opening the door of the taxi. "I"ll take you, and to hell with
(让…见鬼去) Churchilland his speech!"
B. American Prime Minister
C. Chinese Prime Minister
D. French Prime Minister
to take him to the _______.
Walking in the street, Richard didn"t know where to go. His hometown was about 400 miles away.
He used to have little food. So he came to this city. But nobody would use a man who could neither read
nor write. It began to snow and soon the ground turned white. He felt a little warm when he was passing
a restaurant. He stood at the gate, but a policeman saw him and made him leave.
The young man was hungry and cold . He was afraid of dying in such bad weather.He went in a
supermarket. It was quite warm in it. He knew he would soon be driven out. He thought for a while and
had an idea. He looked around. The salesgirl was busy serving (为…服务) a rich man. He put on a coat
quickly and hurried off. Bad luck! Another salesgirl found it. Of course, he was caught and sent to a police
station. He understood the prison (监狱) was waiting for him.
"Were you thinking of anything while you were stealing the coat, young man?" asked an officer.
"Yes, sir" answered Richard," I would have a warm coat unless (除非) I was caught; In case (万一)
I would able to live in a warm room!"
B. find a job
C. find a warm place
D. steal a coat
know and do that. One day he again fell asleep 2 . When he woke up, one of the 3 , Tom, asked
him, "Why did you fall asleep in class just now, dear sir?"
Mr. Brown"s face turned 4 . "I…I…The Sungod (太阳) asked me to visit him in my dream." he
said.
Tom wanted to say something, 5 he said nothing. The next day, Tom also 6 in class.
When the teacher saw him, he 7 Tom up and asked him, "Why did you fall asleep in class and
not 8 me, Tom?"
Tom answered with a smile on his 9 , "The Sungod asked me to visit him, too." The teacher
became 10 when he heard this and asked, "What did he say to you, then?"
He told me he didn"t see you yesterday.
put out his tongue, and the doctor looked at it quickly.
"OK. You can put your tongue back now," the doctor said. "It"s clear what"s wrong with you. You
need more exercise."
"But, doctor," the man said, "I don"t think…"
"Don"t tell me what you think," the doctor said. "I am the doctor, not you. I know what you need.
I see hundreds of people like you. None of them get any exercise. They sit in offices all day and in front
of the TV in the evening. What you need is to walk quickly for at least 20 minutes a day."
"Doctor, you don"t understand," the patient said. "I…"
"I don"t want to hear any excuses," the doctor said. "You must find time for exercise. If you don"t,
you will get fat and have health problems when you are older."
"But I walk every day," the patient said.
"Oh, yes, and I know what kind of walking that is. You walk a few feet to the train station from
your house, a few more feet from the station to your office, and a few more feet from your office to a
restaurant for lunch and back. That is not real walking. I"m talking about a walk in the park for twenty
minutes every day."
"Will you listen to me, doctor!" the patient shouted, getting angry with his doctor who thought he
knew everything. "I"m a mailman," the patient went on, "and I walk for seven hours every day!" For a
moment the doctor was silent, then he said quietly, "Put your tongue out again, will you?"
B. to exercise
C. to show his tongue
D. to see hundreds of other patients
Mrs. Green was seventy, but she had a small car, and she always drove to the shops in it on Saturday
and bought her food.
She did not drive fast, because she was old, but she drove well and never hit anything. Sometimes her
grandchildren said to her, "Please don"t drive your car, Grandmother. We can take you to the shops." But she
always said, "No, I like driving. I"ve driven for fifty years, and I"m not going to stop now."
Last Saturday she stopped her car at some traffic-lights because they were red, and then it did not start
again. The lights were green, then yellow, then green again, but her car did not start.
"What am I going to do now?" she said.
But then a policeman came and said to her kindly, "Good morning. Don"t you like any of our colours
today?"
B. old
C. busy
D. clever
morning he got up early and began 2 on a difficult problem. It was time to have breakfast, but he
was thinking 3 the problem. Her servant, Mary brought a pan of water and egg to his room. She
was going to boil (煮) the egg for him. But Newton wanted to do by 4 . He said to Mary, "Please
put the egg on the table. I"ll boil 5 ."
Mary put the egg beside Newton"s watch on the table and 6 , "Boil the egg for only four minutes
and it"ll be 7 . "Then quickly she walked out of the room. Mary was afraid Newton would 8 to
boil the egg. She went to his room again half an hour later. What did she 9 ? Newton was standing by
the pan, having the 10 in his hand. He had put the watch in the pan and was boiling it .
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