Two Englishmen were in Boston for a visit. One morning, they went out to
look for a famous church, but they didn’t know how to get there. They stopped a
man and asked.  
　　"Excuse me, can you tell us the way to the North Church?"
　　"Go three blocks (街区)and turn to your left. he said,"you can't miss it."
        So the Englishmen walked three blocks and turned to their left. But they
didn't see any church. They then asked a second man. 
        "Excuse me , but we're trying to find the North Church." 
         This one said, "Go three blocks and turn to your left."But again they
couldn't find the church. In the end they asked a third man,"Excuse me, please,
could you tell us how to get to the North Church?"
         "Go three blocks and turn to your left, you can't miss it." 
         They walked three blocks and turned to their left for a third time. This time
they found the church.
         "Is everything in Boston three blocks and a left turn?" they asked
themselves.
         Just then a man walked over to them."Excuse me."the man said,"Where is
the East Park? can you tell me?"
        "Go three blocks and turn to your left,"one of the Englishmen said,
　　"you can't miss it."

1. Where were the two Englishmen going?
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2. Did they know the way?
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3. What did the first man tell them?
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4. How many people did they ask the way?
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5. Do you think the two Englishmen know the way to the East park?
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　　A man was sitting in the park watching the ducks on the pond, when a
woman went to him. She had a white dog. She sat down on a bench, took out a
magazine and began to read. The dog was sitting between her and the man. After
it had been sitting quietly for about ten minutes, the dog turned and looked up at
the man.
　　"Excuse me,"the dog said, "but you look like a kind man. Please buy me
from this terrible woman."
　　The man could hardly believe his ears. A dog spoke to him in English!
　　"She is so mean to me, " the dog continued, "She never pets me or plays
with me. She doesn't feed me properly and she often beats me when she's in a
bad mood, which is most of the time.”
　　The man was amazed to hear the dog say all this. He was even more
surprised when the dog added, "And I'm really a very good dog. I'm quite
famous, too. I won a medal in the last war and was twice wounded in action. I've
saved three children- two from drowning and one from a fire."
　　The man decided that he would try to buy the dog from the woman. He
would pay a lot of money if necessary. The dog would soon earn tens of
thousands of dollars on television. It could be the world’s first talking dog.
　　Excuse me,"he said to the woman, "but I love your little dog. Will you sell
him to me? "
　　I'll be glad to sell him," the woman said. "You can have him for ten
dollars."
　　"Ten dollars!” the man said. "Only ten dollars? Why so little?" "Because, "
the woman said, "he always tells lies."

1. The dog explained that it had _____.

A. stopped a fireman from saving three children  
B. never been in the war
C. acted bravely in dangerous situations        
D. refused a medal in the last war

2.The man would like to pay _____ to buy the dog.

A. ten dollars            
B. only a little        
C. a lot of money    
D. nothing

3.The woman was _____.

A. happy to sell her dog                      
B. happy to feed her dog
C. hoping her dog would earn much money      
D. hoping her dog would help the man

　　Once there were two brothers who were twins. They looked the same. They both had the same dark
brown hair, blue eyes and beautiful teeth. They were both 5 feet 10 inches tall and both weighed 150
pouds.
　　They not only looked alike but also sounded alike on the telephone. Not even their family could tell
the difference. They dressed alike, listened to the same music, and read the asme books.
　　When they were twenty-tree, they both got married and a year later both had sons. The years went
by and as they began to grow old, they both wore glasses and they both became. bald.
　　Then one day, one of the brothers got sick and died. A few days later a man stopped the other twin
on the street.
　　"Excuse me for asking," he said, "but was it you or your brother who died?"

1. It was not easy to tell the two men from each other because _____.

A. they were brothers    
B. they were handsome
C. they were the same age
D. they were twins

2. The twin brothers _____.

A. had different coloured hair    
B. were not so tall as each other
C. looked very much alike      
D. wore different clothes

3. "They both became bald" means _____.

A. they became old            
B. they had sons
C. they had little hair          
D. they got sick

4. The only difference between the twins was _____.

A. one got sick and died first  
B. one was shorter than the other
C. one got married and had a son  
D. one was bald and the other wasn't

5. The man stopped the other twin on the street because _____.

A. he wanted to talk with him  
B. he didn't know which of them died
C. he wanted to make friends with him  
D. he was surprised to see him on the street.