I’m Very Sorry to Hear It

Mr Smith was old, so it was often difficult for him to remember(记) things.However(可是), he still liked travelling very much, so he and his wife(妻子) went to Spain(西班牙)every year. One summer when they were there, they went to visit their friends, the Tarners.They had two young daughters.

One afternoon Mr Smith was talking to one of the girls in the garden after lunch. “You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year, weren’t you?” he said to her.

“Yes, we were,” answered the girl. “We were very ill.”

The old man said nothing for a moment, because he was thinking.Then at last he said, “Oh, I remember now! One of you died(死了).Which (哪一个)one of you was it, you or your sister?”

The girl answered, “ It was me.”

“Oh?I’m very sorry to hear it,” said the old man.

阅读以上短文,判断正(T)误(F)

1.The old man had a good memory(记忆力)

2.What the old man said was true.

3.The girl was very ill and died.

4.The girl didn’t die last year.

5.The girl and her sister were both very ill last year.

For many years, Yang Shanzhou was the local party secretary in a remote, mountainous village in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Though he could live a better life in the city, he still decided to move even further into the mountains, and devoted himself to greening the land. He passed away in 2010, but his story lives on.

A blanket of green - And it all started with a surprising decision made by Yang Shanzhou back in 1988.

The 62 year old decided to return to his hometown in Daliang Mountain, to bring green back to the barren hills. Along with fifteen other people, Yang settled down deep in the mountains and began to work on his plan.

It was a life that was harder than most people could ever imagine.

Su Jiaxiang, Yang Shanzhou’s secretary, said, “I went to visit him several times. He didn’t even have decent shoes and it was very cold at night. But you know he was almost seventy!”

In 2010, Yang Shanzhou passed away. He was buried in Daliang Mountain, according to his will. More than twenty years has passed since he first began his planting in the mountains.The hills are now covered with kinds of trees. By planting trees, Yang Shanzhou also planted hope. This hidden hero left his local government with a priceless legacy.

1.Yang Shanzhou lived in __________.

A. Jiangsu           B. Guizhou        C. Yunnan       D. Guangxi

2.Which of the following sentences is NOT true?

A. Mr Yang has been dead for three years.

B. Yang Shanzhou didn’t want to be buried in the mountain.

C. Yang Shanzhou gave up the better life in the city.

D. Yang Shanzhou will be remembered for ever.

3.The 62 year old decided to return to his hometown in Daliang Mountain, to bring green back to the barren hills. “barren” means ________.

    A. 荒芜的         B. 葱郁的        C. 长满树木的      D. 美丽的

4.From the passage we can know Mr Yang Shanzhou passed away at the age of _______.

     A. 74              B. 62            C. 84                  D. 94

5.Mr. Yang brought many things except_________.

     A. green hills         B. hope         C. priceless legacy     D. hard life

Victor’s hobby was collecting stamps. He had stamps from many countries，like England，Canada and China. Can you guess what people gave him as gifts? That’s right—stamps. Victor’s favorite stamps came from France.    1.    .He only needed one. That was a 1974 special edition(版). It was very hard to find.

He looked for it everywhere. He asked his friends and relatives to help him.

      2.     . It made Victor very sad.

“Don’t worry,” his father said to him. “If you have enough patience, you’ll find it one day.”

“I hope so,” Victor said.

Victor also liked wring. He had a pen friend in France.    3.   .Victor’s pen friend, Phillip, usually used new stamps to send letters. Sometimes, his mother gave him stamps to use. Once Phillip’s mother gave him a big， green stamp. It looked old. When Victor received the letter， he was very surprised. On the envelope， he looked carefully at the stamp.      4.    .Victor was so happy. He told his sister，his mother and his father.

“You see,” his father said. “You did find you stamp. So，it’s good to have to things in life.” “ What are they?” Victor asked.

“Friends and patience.” He answered.

A. They wrote to each other every month

B. But nobody could find the stamp

C. It was the 1974 special edition stamp

D. His mother helped him to collect stamps.

E. He had almost every  stamp from 1954 to 2004

A young man was getting ready to finish school. For a long time he had looked forward to getting a beautiful sports car. He knew his father could well afford it, so he told him that was all he wanted.

Then on the morning of his graduation (毕业), his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. Surprised, the young man opened the box and found a lovely Bible (圣经), with his name on it. Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" He then rushed out of the house, leaving the Bible.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, but realizing his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make arrangements (安排), he received a phone telling him his father had passed away. He had to come home immediately and take care of the things that his father left him.

When he began to search through his father's important papers, he saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. He opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key with a tag (标牌) dropped from the back of the Bible. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words ... "PAID IN FULL". Sadness and regret filled his heart.

1.The underlined word "that" in Paragraph 1 means         

A．a car             B．a box             C．a Bible            D．a phone

2.The young man was angry on the morning of his graduation because         

A．his father couldn't afford a car

B．he had to stay in his study

C．he thought he only got a Bible

D．his father spent all the money

3.Which of the following isn't mentioned in the third paragraph?

A．The young man succeeded in his business.

B．The young man lived with his father all the time.

C．The young man decided to see his father.

D．The young man set up his own family.

4.It can be seen from the passage that the young man         

A．came to know the truth at last

B．had to pay for the car himself

C．became interested in the Bible

D．got angry with his father again

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The mobile phone is a useful thing, but maybe I don’t know h  1   to use it. Sometimes it makes things difficult for me.

One day I wanted to see my friend nearby. I could a  2  at his house in five minutes, but I looked at my mobile phone and thought i  3   would be better to ring him up. I r  4  him for the first time, but the line was busy. Five minutes later, there was an answer, but it was the wrong number. Then I tried a 5  and this time I got an answer from him.

I asked him if he was at home in the afternoon. And he said--at 1  6  I thought he said--he would be at home all afternoon. So I went to his house, but then I found n  7 in. I called him for the fourth time. This time I got so angry that I s  8  , “You are not at home? But you just told me over the telephone that you would be at home all afternoon!”

Here w  9  his answer, “No, I said: ‘I will NOT be at home all afternoon.’”

I went back to my room, sat down in front of the mobile phone and looked at it. What e  10  could I do? Nothing!