One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe, pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries(樱桃).
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent(弯腰) down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.”
【小题1】Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

A．The son.

B．The father.

C．Both the father and the son.

D．Neither the father nor the son.

【小题2】The farmer bought ______ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.

A．some bread	B．some water
C．some cherries	D．some pennies

【小题3】The father dropped the cherries one by one, because ______.

A．he wanted to teach his son a lesson

B．he wanted his son to do more exercise

C．he wanted his son to eat them all

D．he wanted to laugh at his son

【小题4】From the story, we can learn that ______.

A．cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them

B．a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money

C．if we want to eat cherries, we must pick up a horseshoe

D．if we don’t worry about the little things we cannot do the great things

单词拼写：根据句意和首字母拼写单词，或者用括号中给的单词的正确形式填空

1. At the e_______ of the fairy tale, the prince and princess lived happily ever after.

2. The advertisement says we’d better take our o________ shopping bag to the supermarket, for it is good for our environment.

3. ---“It seems Tom never gets tired.”

---“Yes, he’s always full of e________.”

4. At the Spring Festival, Chinese people often visit their r_________ and have a get-together.

5. On the Internet, there were plenty of _________(报道) about how the cruel man _______(杀) cats for fun.

6. As the sun was shining b_________, the driver had to wear his sunglasses.

7. He has such a bad temper(脾气) that f_______ people are willing to make friends with him.

8. The little boy tried to _________ (捉住) the butterfly, but failed.

9. A_________ is a country famous for its pleasant environment and special animals, like the kangaroo and the koala bear.

10. Before sleep, the housekeeper(管家) would make sure the door was shut and _________(吹) out the candle.

 

选词填空：用方框中所给词适当形式填空，使短文正确、通顺、连贯。

heavy,  have,  stop,  dark,  fish,  with,  take,  both,  shine,  not listen

       Mr Brown and his son, John Brown like fish very much. Last Sunday morning, it was a fine day. The sun was     【小题1】   . Mr Brown and John went  【小题2】 . Mrs Brown     【小题3】   them and said it was going to rain. She wanted them     【小题4】   their rain coats with them. But they   【小题5】  to her. When they got to the river, it was getting     【小题6】  . Soon it began to rain   【小题7】  . So they 【小题8】  to go home【小题9】 fishing. When they hurried home,   【小题10】  of them caught bad colds.

选词填空：用方框中所给词适当形式填空，使短文正确、通顺、连贯。

heavy,  have,  stop,  dark,  fish,  with,  take,  both,  shine,  not listen

       Mr Brown and his son, John Brown like fish very much. Last Sunday morning, it was a fine day. The sun

 was     1.    . Mr Brown and John went   2.  . Mrs Brown     3.    them and said it was going to rain. She wanted them     4.    their rain coats with them. But they    5.   to her. When they got to the river, it was getting     6.   . Soon it began to rain   7.   . So they  8.   to go home9.  fishing. When they hurried home,    10.   of them caught bad colds.

 

 

Chi Li is one of the best known Chinese writers in the West. She was born in the west. She was born in the 1950s'.     46    19, Chi entered a medical college in 1976. After she graduated, she     47     as a doctor at a hospital in Wuhan. As she loved  _ 48   much more, she went to Wuhan University to study Chinese language and literature in 1983. She chose   49   as her profession(专业)。
During the 1980s, Chi wrote many works full of love. In the 1990s, her works, such as Apart From Love and The Sun Was Born, were 50  lives of young people and everyday problems. Since 2003, Chi has 51  a higher level in her works. And many of her novels have received a  52  honor. Life Show is one of her representative (代表) works and  53   has been translated into many languages. The   54   shows the real life of a common woman in Wuhan.
Chi says, "Writers don't need to be anyone,   55   they should be able to understand everyone." So she often travels alone to get a feel of how the world is and tries to understand people from all social strata (阶层).
【小题1】 A. At the age of      B. At the moment        C. In the beginning
【小题2】A. became          B. worked           C. enjoyed
【小题3】 A. medicine           B. travelling           C. literature
【小题4】 A. teaching           B. writing          C. nursing
【小题5】 A. over               B. under                C. about
【小题6】 A. reached            B. arrived          C. went
【小题7】A. great               B. nice                 C. bad
【小题8】A. she                 B. they                 C. it
【小题9】 A. picture                B. story                C. newspaper
【小题10】A. or              B. till                 C. but