Henry was a boy of nine. He was born in a   41   family. His father was often ill and couldn’t go to work.  42   his mother worked in a factory. She worked hard and hoped to give her four children and husband   43   food and clothes. But she failed. Her family was sometimes   44  . Of course, she couldn’t send Henry to school. She was   45   it but she didn’t know what to do. The boy was very clever and taught himself to read and write and   46   at home in the evening. And in the daytime he was polishing（擦）shoes in the street, so he could make some   47   for his family.

One afternoon the boy saw a young man’s shoes were   48  , so he said to him, “ Let me polish your shoes.”

“No, thank you,” the young man said and walked   49  .

“You may pay me only one dollar, sir,” the boy shouted   50   him. But the young man said no again. Then the boy   51   for a while and told him that he would polish his shoes for nothing. The young man   52   to this, and soon one of his shoes was shining brightly. The man   53   the other shoe to the boy, but the boy said no to polish it if he wasn’t paid two dollars for his work. The young man refused（拒绝）to   54   anything on it and went away.

But his shoes were so different that he had to   55  . He turned back and gave the boy two dollars. In a very short time the shoe was as bright as the other one.

(    ) 41. A. happy         B. lucky          C. rich            D. poor

(    ) 42. A. Only          B. Except         C. Or             D. Because

(    ) 43. A. much          B. little            C. enough         D. no

(    ) 44. A. full            B. hungry          C. happy           D. pleased

(    ) 45. A. afraid of       B. sorry for        C. useful to        D. friendly to

(    ) 46. A. play          B. swim           C. count           D. sleep

(    ) 47. A. books       B. clothes          C. shoes           D. money

(    ) 48. A. dirty          B. clean            C. old             D. new

(    ) 49. A. over                B. away           C. out            D. in

(    ) 50. A. under               B. above           C. in front of      D. behind

(    ) 51. A. thought      B. read            C. wrote          D. saw

(    ) 52. A. liked          B. agreed          C. worried        D. surprised

(    ) 53. A. threw               B. passed          C. kicked           D. showed

(    ) 54. A. pay         B. cost            C. spend          D. give

(    ) 55. A. stop                B. run             C. hurry off       D. fly away

If you come from a poor family and couldn’t go to a good school, could one book change your life? It did for Srinivasa, a bright young Indian boy. When he was 15 years old, he found a book about math. It was a book with 6,000 very difficult problems. While his friends played football on the road in front of his house, he worked out the answers to these problems. He answered them all by himself – without any help from anyone else. Then he thought of new problems and answered them too. Soon he was better at math than all of his teachers. A year later, Srinivasa was invited to study at university, even though he was really too young. However, he failed most of his exams. Why? Because he was only interested in math and didn’t care enough about his other subjects. He wrote about his ideas and sent his work to magazines. A British mathematician read his work and started writing letters to him. Later, he invited Srinivasa to go to England to study and work. In England, people didn’t care whether he was good at other subjects or not. By the time he was 30. Srinivasa, a poor boy who liked math better than playing football, had become one of the world’s most famous mathematicians.

1．Srinivasa was from __________

A．a large family                                             B．a rich family

C．a poor family                                             D．a small family

2．According to the passage, what changed his life?

A．A nice film.                                                B．A book about math. 

C．A football match.                                        D．An interesting magazine.

3．Who helped Srinivasa do the 6,000 math problems when he was 15?

A．His classmates                                           B．Nobody

C．His parents                                                D．His teachers.

4．When he was a university student in India, he failed most of his exams because _____.

A．he was not good at math                             B．he was not bright enough

C．the exam were too difficult                          D．he was only interested in math

5．The passage is mainly about _______

A．Srinivasa’s poor life

B．a helpful British mathematician

C．how Srinivasa became a famous mathematician

D．a useful math book

    There lived a young man in a village. He was born in a  1   family. His parents had a lot of farms and got much money . He was in school for only four years, but he thought he knew all. 

  2   the villagers called him Mr. Know-All. And he told his servants not to tell him the results（结果） directly (直接地). The servants . were afraid of  him and had to listen to him.

    One day Mr. Know-All went to  3  his friend who lived in a town. He stayed there for nearly a week. Suddenly one of his servants came and called out, “  4  , sir!”

“What happened?”

“Your cat has died!”

“What’s there to be surprised at （吃惊）?” said the young man. “Throw it to the river. By the way, of what illness did it die?”

“It  5  much meat of the horse and died.”

“What? Has my horse died, too? And what illness did it die of, then?”

“It pulled(拉) the carried (马车) to the hospital,” said the servant. “ We made it  6  as fast as possible. When we reached the hospital, it was so tired that  it couldn’t  7  up any longer and died.”

“Wait a minute,” said Mr Know-All. “What did you go to the hospital for?”

“To  8  your mother there.”

“What’s the matter with my mother?”

“She  9  down stairs and hurt her head. We sent her to the hospital, but it was too late. The doctors operated on（动手术）her at once, they tried their best to save her, but they dialed!”

Mr Know-All became angry and shouted, “Why didn’t you tell me about a  10  ?”

“You never let us tell you the results directly, sir.”

(  )1. A. worker’s        B. teacher’s         C. farmer’s         D. soldier’s

(  )2. A. But            B. Then            C. Or              D. So

(  )3. A. look after       B. hurt             C. look for         D. visit

(  ) 4A. Good news     B. Bad news     C. Good morning   D. Good afternoon

(  )5. A. ate            B. saw              C. touched         D. cut

(  )6.A. run           B. walk             C. jump            D. fly

(  )7.A. sit            B. lie               C. sleep           D. stand

(  )8.A. post           B. bring             C. take           D. put

(  )9.A. went          B. lived             C. stayed          D. fell

(  )10.A. early          B. earlier            C. earliest         D. the earliest