"Here is a shopping list, so you won't forget anything," she said.

　　 "OK, Mum"said Lucy. When she got to the shop, she picked up all the things on the list.

　　 "I haven't forgotten anything , "she said to herself. But then it was time to pay for them.

　　 "Oh, sorry!" she said to the shopkeeper. "I've forgotten my money! Well, I'll keep the things on this shelf for you," said the shopkeeper.

　　 Lucy ran home at once. Her mother saw her when she arrived.

　　 "That was quick! "she said. "Have you finished yet?"

　　 "No, Mum, "said Lucy. "I forgot the money!"

　　 "Well, you should take the shopping basket with you, too! "said Mother.

　　 In the shop, Lucy got all the things on her shopping list, and took them home. When she reached home, her mother asked:

　　 "Have you got everything?"

　　 "Yes, Mom, "said Lucy. "I haven't forgotten anything. "

　　 She quickly put the basket on the table. She was taking things out of the basket when she dropped a bag of sweets. The bag fell on the floor and broke open. The sweets went every- where! "Oh, my dear !"she said.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

　　  "Bad luck ! "said Mother. "It doesn't matter !"

　　  They both started to pick them up.

　　  "How much did you pay for all these things? "asked her mother.

"Not too much," said Lucy. "I didn't spend all the money. I brought some back. "

"Where is it?" asked the mother.

"Here it is, Mum! That's one thing I haven't forgotten today!"

1   What did Mrs. King give Lucy before she went shopping?

2   Why did the girl have to run home?

3   What her mother tell her to take?

4   Did Lucy get everything at last?

5   What happened when she was taking the things out of the basket?

6   Do you often forget anything? Do you have any good ideas to improve your memory?

The American expression “shoo-in” means someone or something that seems sure to win a race or competition.
Before a big football game, supporters of each are certain to argue about which side will win.
Sometimes, however, one team appears so much stronger than the others that everyone agrees it will win.. The stronger team is a shoo-in. There is no way that it can lose.
The expression “shoo-in” comes from horse racing. It comes from the world “shoo”. That is not the shoe we wear on our feet. It’s another word, S-H-O-O. To shoo is an expression hundreds of years old that means to force an animal to move in a desired direction.
Many years ago dishonest riders sometimes agreed secretly to control their horses so that one chosen horse would win the race. but one of the riders would hold back their horses. The chosen rider would shoo his horse ahead of the others, and win the race.
The other riders would secretly bet large amounts of money that the chosen horse would win. The public soon learned about such about such race. They began to call the winners of such a race a “shoo-in”
These days, people use shoo into describe any athlete or competition that seems certain to win, even without cheating.
American runner Edewin Moses won more than hundred races before he ran the hurdle race in the 1984 Olympic Games. Everyone said Moses was a shoo-in, and that he could not lost. And they were right. He won the gold medal.
阅读上面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案
【小题1】One of the dishonest riders was sure to win the race because_______.

A judge was working in his room one day when a neighbour ran in and said, “If one man's cow kills another's, is the owner of the first cow responsible?”

“It depends,” answered the judge.

“Well,” said the man, your cow has killed mine.

“Oh,” answered the judge. “Everyone knows that a cow cannot think like a man, so a cow is not responsible, and that means that its owner is not responsible either.”

“I am sorry, Judge,” said the man. “I made a mistake. I meant that my cow killed yours.”

The judge thought for a few seconds and then said,“ When I think about it more carefully, this case is not as easy as I thought at first. ”And then he turned to his clerk and said, “Please bring me that big black book from the shelf behind you.”

1.The neighbour asked the judge_______.

A．whether the first cow was responsible

B．whether the owner of the first cow was responsible

C．whether both cows were responsible

D．whether both the owners were responsible

2.When the neighbour reported that the judge's cow had killed his, the judge answered that______.

A．a cow was responsible

B．its owner was not responsible

C．neither a cow nor its owner was responsible

D．his cow was responsible

3.When the neighbour heard this, he told the judge that_______.

A．there was nothing happened

B．his cow had been killed

C．it was his cow that had killed the judge's

D．both cows had been killed

4.When the judge heard that his cow had died, he________.

A．got angry

B．said nothing

C．put his neighbor into prison

D．changed what he had said at first

5.In this story the judge was______.

A．a clever judge      B．a humorist         C．unfair            D．foolish