Mrs. Brown, a rich woman, lived with Benny. She liked Benny very much. She made little coats for him and gave him the ___1____ food. Benny grew fatter every day. Mrs. Brown didn’t want to take him out for long walks because she ___2____ long walks herself, for she was also very fat.

    One day Benny became ill. He lay on the floor and would not eat anything. Mrs. Brown was very afraid, so she ___3____ him to the doctor. As soon as the doctor saw Benny, he knew what had happened. “Will you leave your ___4____ behind with me for two days?”he asked Mrs. Brown. “I am sure I will make him eat.”She ____5____. When the woman had left, the doctor told his man to put Benny in a little room and give him only cold water.

    Mrs. Brown came to the doctor’s house two days later. The doctor brought Benny to her. He looked like a ____6____ dog. He jumped into Mrs. Brown’s arms.“Does he eat now?”the ____7____ asked. Then the doctor gave some bread to Benny, “Bread!”cried Mrs. Brown.“Benny ____8____ eats bread!”But before she finished speaking, Benny had eaten up the bread!

    Mrs. Brown ____9____ the doctor. She paid some money to him, “What ___10____ did you use?”“Water only!”the doctor smiled.

  1. A. best                         B. least                  C. worse                      D. bad

  2. A. liked                        B. took                  C. preferred                  D. hated

  3. A. caught                         B. gave                  C. took                         D. sent

  4. A. son                          B. dog                   C. daughter                   D. husband

  5. A. thought                    B. spoke                C. said                         D. agreed

  6. A. different                   B. same                 C. fat                           D. bad

  7. A. girl                          B. boy                   C. woman                    D. man

  8. A. always                         B. never                C. often                        D. usually

  9. A. saved                       B. laughed at          C. caught                            D. thanked

  10. A. food                      B. fruit                  C. medicine                  D. way

　　A businessman had worked too much. He found that he couldn't sleep at night, but often fell asleep during the day. He became very worried, so he went to see his doctor.“Can you help me, doctor?” he asked.“ I sleep so well, but now I sleep less than two hours at night.”

　　But the businessman grew worse instead of better. He slept even less than before at night and was still falling asleep in his office. He visited the doctor again and again and it took the doctor a long time to find out the reason:the businessman's wife was giving him the sleeping medicine in the morning and the ones to keep him awake at night.

A．he was seriously ill

B．he worked too much and he was too tired to fall asleep

C．he was worried about his business

A．slept less than two hours at night

B．slept more than two hours at night

C．worked at night and slept during the day

A．told the man not to work at night and do some exercise in the morning

B．told the man he wasn't seriously ill and would soon be well

C．looked over the man carefully but didn't give him any medicine

A．he wanted some more medicine

B．he felt better and went to thank the doctor

C．he still couldn't sleep at night

A．he didn't take any medicine at all

B．the doctor gave him the wrong medicine

C．his wife gave him the wrong medicine