Ted ________ a piece of litter, and put it into the rubbish bag.

A. picked up                B. threw away     C. looked for             D. handed in

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Ted worked in a factory, but he was not very good, He 1               (lose) his job. One

day, while he was sitting on the sofa and watching TV, his wife came in with a newspaper in her hand and said," One of the banks wants a guard. "

   " I′m going there tomorrow," Ted said ," and I2        (ask) for that job. It's quite an easy one and I am quite strong. "

   The next morning he went to the bank at half past nine and said," I would like 3       (have) the job here. The guard's job. "

   A man gave him a piece of paper. There were a lot of questions on it. "Please 4         (write) your answers under the questions," the man said to Ted.

   One of the questions was," Have you ever been in prison (监狱) ?"   

Ted smiled happily and wrote" No" under this question.

Then he looked at the next question. It was "Why?"

He 5     "(think) for a long time and then he wrote," Because the police have never caught me.

It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table, staring into space and playing with a piece of bread. He’s not even  16  . Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do because the Internet is down.

When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling   17  . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other great weekend. But that was  18  he turned on his computer and  19  he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.

Every weekend, Tony will go online to email friends, read the news to

20  what’s happening in the world and play a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to kill time. The perfect weekend-online.

Just as Tony is  21  how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the  22  “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t think about the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no answer but sighs. “Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum  23   .

“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the corner. We can meet and play chess face to face for a  24  . Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad.” Tony  25  , as he walks to the phone. There is life beyond the Internet after all (毕竟).

1. A. hungry                B. tired                     C. busy                  D. thirsty

2.A. excited                B. bored                C. tired           D. surprised

3.A. after           B. before                   C. until                       D. when

4.A. thought               B. guessed             C. decided                  D. found

5.A. write                   B. draw             C. listen          D. get

6.A. improving            B. wondering         C. checking           D. doing

7.A. bathroom            B. bedroom              C. kitchen              D. study

8.A. requires              B. answeres             C. invites              D. suggests

9.A. chat                    B. time                    C. lesson                D. change

10.A. continues         B. worries                C. smiles               D. reports