With a hat by his feet，a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He held up a sign which said，" I ' m blind, please help. "

Only a few people put    1   in the hat. A man was walking by. He    2   some coins into the hat. He then turned the sign    3  . wrote some words, put the sign back and left.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people   4   to give money to the blind boy.　　That afternoon the man came to see    5  things were. The boy recognized his footsteps (脚步声) and asked, "Were you the one who    6  my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a   7 way. "What he had written was," Today is a beautiful day,   8  I cannot see it. "

Both the   9  told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply 　10　people to help by throwing some money into the   11  . The second one, however, told people that they were able to enjoy the  12  of the day, but the boy couldn't    13   he was blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn   14  this story. First, be thankful for what

you have. Someone else has less. Help them if you can.  15  , be creative. Think differently.

　There is always a better way !

1.                A．eggs           B．coins           C．toys D．pencils

 

2.                A．got            B．lost            C．took D．dropped

 

3.                A．on            B．off             C．back D．around

 

4.                A．asked          B．began          C．hoped    D．continued

 

5.                A．how           B．what           C．whose    D．which

 

6.                A．put            B．found          C．changed  D．cleaned

 

7.                A．usual          B．simple          C．different  D．dangerous

 

8.                A．as             B．so             C．for  D．but

 

9.                A．signs           B．men           C．boys D．lessons

 

10.               A．told           B．took           C．helped    D．ordered

 

11.               A．bag            B．hat            C．pocket    D．basket

 

12.               A．food           B．songs          C．beauty    D．pictures

 

13.               A．because        B．unless          C．before    D．though

 

14.               A．about          B．with           C．from  D．except

 

15.               A．First           B．Second         C．Third D．Fourth

 

 

　　Mr Smith had a week holidays, so he said, “I'm going to see the sea by train.” He put on his best clothes, took a small bag, went to the railway station and got into the train He had a beautiful hat, and he often put his head out of the window during the trip and looked at the beautiful scenery. But the wind pulled his hat off.

　　Mr Smith quickly took his old bag and threw it out of the window, too. The other people in the train laughed, “Is your bag going to bring back your beautiful hat?” they asked. “No,” Mr Smith answered, “but there is no name arid no address in my hat, and there's a name and an address on the bag. If someone finds both of them, he or she will send me the bag and hat.”

(1) Mr Smith went to have his holidays of ________.

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(2) Mr Smith put his head out of the window to ________.

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A．see the beautiful scenery

B．say goodbye to his friends

C．throw his hat out of the window

D．say hello to the people outside

(3) Mr Smith is going to ________ during his holidays.

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A．visit his friends

B．see his parents

C．enjoy himself in the train

D．see the sea

(4) Why did Mr Smith throw his old bag out of the window? Because ________.

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A．he hoped someone would find his bag

B．he hoped someone would send back his bag and hat.

C．he hoped his bag would bring back his hat

D．he hoped the people in the train would laugh

(5) From the passage we can see that Mr Smith was a ________.

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