An old woman went suddenly blind. She promised a doctor a lot of money if he could make her see again. “If you fail”, she said, “ you will get nothing,” The doctor agreed with her.The doctor soon discovered what was wrong with her, but he decided not to cure her right away. Instead, each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things. When he had taken everything that he wanted, he cured her blindness and sent her a large bill. Now when the old woman could see again she noticed that all her things had gone and she refused to pay the bill. So the doctor took her before a judge.

“What the doctor says is true.” she said to the judge. “But I say I’m not cured, because I still

can’t see any of the things in my house.”

The old woman won her case and the doctor went away unhappily without getting his pay.

1.The doctor didn’t cure the old woman right away because __________.

A. He didn’t know how to cure her           B. He wanted to get a lot of money

C. He wanted to take the woman’s things   D The woman refused to pay him

2. The woman was _______ .

3.The doctor was ________.

4.The word “case” in the last paragraph means ______.

5.Which sentence is right according to the passage?

Americans love sports – they love to play them, to watch them on television and to talk about them. But this hobby sometimes has serious results – at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow and in this way they develop “tennis elbow”. Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game. These injures happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt.
A few months ago, Kathleen Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation or she might not be able to play again. She felt very sad and didn’t know what to do.
Then Simmons learned about “video operation”. With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injures and get people back on the playing field and back to their jobs much faster. Simmons found a hospital that was using this new science and went to see the doctor there. The doctors told her the operation could help.
For this operation, her doctor didn’t have to open her knee. Instead he put a very small camera lens(镜头) inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeared on a television screen. As he worked, he could see the inside of her knee on the TV. With the help of the large pictures on the screen, the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs.
Simmons started walking five days after her operation. “My knee hurt a lot the first few days,” she said. “But I felt better very quickly.” Now, six months after her operation, Simmons can do everything she did before her injury. “It feels like a new knee,” she said. “I can even play volleyball again.”
41. “Tennis elbow” means ______.
A. tennis players are easy to hurt their elbow when they play tennis
B. the elbow is suitable for playing tennis
C. all the players should use elbow to play tennis
D. don’t hurt your elbows
42. “Video operation” is ________.
A. a kind of new science in medicine      B. a kind of new TV program
C. a kind of new radio      D. a kind of new lens
43. Although people love sports, many players suffer from ______.
A. injures      B. operations   C. results D. illness
44. A patient ______________________.
A. could make an operation himself with the help of screen
B. could see the inside of his knee on the TV
C. could put a very small camera lens inside his knee
D. would become better soon after the “video operation”

It was a quiet morning during the war. In a small valley, there was a little wooden building, which was an orphanage (孤儿院) that__16__ many young children who had lost their ___17__ in the war. Suddenly, a shell (炮弹) __18__ on the top of the orphanage’s building. Many children were ___19__. One little girl was badly hurt and bleeding. A runner was at once sent to  __20__medical help.

When the doctor arrived, he_21_ that the girl’s greatest need at the moment was blood. He immediately checked the records in the__22__ to find someone who had the same blood type as the girl’s. A nurse soon __23__the children that had the same blood type together and asked who would be __24__ to donate blood to the girl. The children looked shocked, and no one said a word. Again with __25____ eyes, the doctor pleaded (恳求). __26__ a boy slowly raised his hand.

When the doctor injected the needle, the boy began to cry. The doctor tried to _27__ him, but in vain. Even when the needle was _28__ , the little boy was still crying. After the blood was given to the wounded girl, her___29__ got better. Then the doctor came to the boy, "Does it hurt?" "No, but I was afraid of dying." The doctor was __30_! "Why did you think you would die? "With __31_ in his eyes the boy replied, "Because I thought you would take all of my __32__ to save her! "The doctor didn’t know what to say! Then he asked, "__33_you thought you were going to die, why did you__34__to give her your blood?" With tears streaming down, he said in a___35__ voice, "Because she is my friend and I love her." There is no greater love in the world!

1.                A．stored         B．hid            C．gained   D．housed

2.                A．neighbors       B．friends         C．parents   D．teachers

3.                A．fell            B．appeared       C．jumped   D．flew

4.                A．ruined         B．wounded       C．harmed   D．lost

5.                A．operate on      B．take over       C．get around    D．ask for

6.                A．introduced      B．realized         C．predicted D．promised

7.                A．orphanage      B．hospital         C．school    D．store

8.                A．recognized      B．turned         C．gathered  D．assumed

9.                A．valuable        B．willing          C．regrettable    D．useful

10.               A．anxious        B．curious         C．delightful  D．surprising

11.               A．immediately     B．happily         C．finally D．probably

12.               A．stop           B．comfort        C．interrupt  D．support

13.               A．disappeared     B．Pulled          C．Removed  D．finished

14.               A．function        B．occasion        C．position   D．condition

15.               A．shocked        B．frightened      C．pleased   D．worried

16.               A．smiles          B．puzzle          C．hope D．tears

17.               A．energy         B．health          C．money    D．blood

18.               A．If             B．Since          C．Though    D．Unless

19.               A．expect         B．wish           C．agree D．permit

20.               A．soft           B．strange         C．tired  D．embarrassed

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer than most of the adults in our community.
　　When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a forest.
　　The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them so that each successive tree generation would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out(淘汰) the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.
　　So he never watered his trees. He planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and robust since they have deep roots now. However, the trees in my garden trembled in a cold wind although I had watered them for several years.
It seems that adversity(逆境) and suffering benefit these trees in ways comfort and ease never could. I stood there deep in thought.
　　Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy. But I think it’s time to change my prayer(祷词) because now I know my children are going to encounter hardship..
【小题1】According to Dr. Gibbs’ theories, trees will become weaker if they______

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer than most of the adults in our community.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them so that each successive tree generation would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out(淘汰) the weaker trees early on. He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.
So he never watered his trees. He planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and robust since they have deep roots now. However, the trees in my garden trembled in a cold wind although I had watered them for several years.
It seems that adversity(逆境) and suffering benefit these trees in ways comfort and ease never could. I stood there deep in thought.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy. But I think that it’s time to change my prayer(祷词) because now I know my children are going to encounter hardship.
【小题1】According to Dr. Gibbs’ theories, trees will become weaker if they _________.