Martin is an American boy. He is eight years old. His parents       five years ago and he is now living with his grandmother in New York.

  One morning, Jimmy, one of his classmates, came to his home with an exercises book in his hand. Jimmy lives in a house not far from Martin's. They often go to school together. 

"Would you help me with this maths problem?" Jimmy said as soon as he came into the room. "It's too hard for me and I can't work it out."

"Let me try, " Martin said. "I          it isn't too hard for me. " Martin tried his best but he couldn’t work it out,         . 

"If we had a small computer,  all the problems would be         for us to do. " Jimmy said.

"A small computer. . . , " Martin thought for a minute,  then he said, "I've got an idea. We can         one in a shop. "

"A computer is very          , and we don’t have enough money. "

"That's OK," said Martin. "We can ask the new president         some money. He said he would help anyone in trouble. I' m sure he will help us. He is very rich, you know."

So they decided to write a letter to the new president. Soon the letter was finished and they hurried to the post office. In front of the post office stood a small box. They         the letter into the box carefully and went home happily. 

The next morning ,they         he post office on their way to school. They found,__­­­­­______,  the box was not a post box but trash-box(果皮箱).

1.A. have died           B. had died           C. died               D. have been death

2.A. sure                B. think              C. hope               D. wish

3.A. neither               B. either              C. too                 D. also

4.A. easy enough                        B. enough easy

C. difficult enough                    D. enough difficult

5.A. borrow              B. lend               C. bring               D. buy 

6.A. expensive         B. cheap                 C. important          D. useful

7.A. to                    B. for                C. about               D. on

8.A. place                B. take                C. dropped             D. bring

9.A. passed             B. past                 C. pasted              D. passing

10.A. with their surprise                  B. in their surprise 

C. to their surprise                      D. of their surprise

    Recently, many people have begun to try a new way of doing shopping through the Internet. They are very interested in it. Why is it becoming more and more popular now? There are some reasons. First, more and more people have their own computers and their computers can be joined with the Internet. So it is possible for many of them to do shopping through the Internet. Second, shopping through the Internet can save them some money and a lot of time. Third, they don't need to go to the shop themselves.  Because of these good facts, few people refuse it.

On the other hand, some people don't like this new way of shopping. They are worried about the safety of shopping online. Customers(顾客)can only see the pictures of a product on the Internet. And they can't enjoy the pleasure of buying things in a large supermarket or a wonderful shopping center. These are the reasons why they do not like it.

But I think more and more people will like this new kind of shopping in the future.

1.Many people are interested in ______ online.

A. watching TV B reading C. studying D. shopping

2.From the first paragraph，we know ______.

    A. no one likes buying things online

    B. more and more people don't like shopping through the Internet

    C. shopping on the Internet is more and more popular

    D. There are no advantages about shopping on the Internet

3.People like doing shopping on the Internet because it can ______.

   A. save their money and time

B. help them make a lot of money

   C. be very easy

D. help them save time

4.Some people don't like shopping online because they______.

A. have to pay more money

   B. must send their money first online

   C. don't have enough time

   D. are worried about the safety of shopping online

5.What's the best title(题目)of this passage?

   A. Why don't people like going shopping?

   B. Shopping through the Internet is very popular.

   C. How do people shop with little money?

   D. Chinese people don't like shopping on the Internet.

---- I’m sorry .I _____ your printer for such a long time.

---- Never mind.

A. have borrowed     B. have lent          C. have kept          D. have bought

-How nice your bike is! How long _________ you ______________ it?

-For two weeks.

　 A. have; bought　　 B. have; had　　 C. did; buy