When I was at university, I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students’ Union than working in the library.

　 Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. In my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven’t studied a chemistry book for months, so I’ll just toss (扔，抛) the coin. That way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.”

　The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.

　The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor （过道 ，走廊）.  “Oh, good,” he said, “Have you got the result of the test ? ” The professor looked at him and smiled, “Ah, it’s you, Baines. Just a minute.” Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

　“I’m terribly sorry, Baines,” he said, “You failed!”

81. This story mainly wants to tell us ________.

 A. chemistry is really hard to learn

B. there were too many questions for students to prepare for

C. good exam results needs hard study   D. tossing a coin can not always decide the result

82. Fred Baines was one of those who ________.

A. did just enough to pass the exam          B. didn’t work hard enough for their studies

C. had too much other work for the Students’ Union  D. were quite good at passing exams

83. Fred came happily into the exam room because ________.

A. he had got ready for the exam            B. he knew the answers already

C. the other students would be behind him    D. he had his way to finish the exam

84. The chemistry exam in fact ________.

A. was not very hard                    B. took the other students an hour to finish

C. had more than one hundred questions     D. needed to be done by tossing a coin

85. The professor tossed the coin to tell Baines that ________.

A. he was satisfied with his way for the exam    B. he wanted to make friends with him

C. his way for the exam would never work      D. the exam result depended on the coin

A very old lady won a million dollars in a lottery(彩票). Her son and her husband heard the news on the radio.

“How are we going to tell your mother?” the man asked. “The news might kill her!”

“That’s true,” the son said. “Perhaps we’d better speak to her doctor about it. He’ll know how to bring her the news gently.”

They told the old lady’s doctor about this.

“I’m glad you told me, ” he said “A shock(震惊), even a happy one, could give her a heart attack, leave it to me. I’ll find a way of bringing the news to her.”

The doctor thought about the problem for several days, then decided what he would say.

He called on the old lady and sat by her. He took her hand in his.

“Let’s play a game, my dear,” he said. “‘Let’s pretend(假装)’ game.”

“Oh, yes, ” the old lady said. “I love ‘Let’s pretend’ game.”

“Good, I’ll ask you a question first, ” the doctor said, “Then you can ask me one.”

He pretended to think for a few minutes. Then he said, “Tell me, what would you do if you won a million dollars in the lottery?”

“Oh, that’s an easy one,” the old lady said, “I’d give most of it to you, doctor, because you have been so good to me all these years, doctor!” But the doctor was now lying on the floor. He had died of shock.

1.Who won a million dollars in a lottery?

A. The man.        B. The son.       C. The old lady.   D. The doctor.

2.What does “heart attack” mean in Chinese?

A. 攻击心脏.       B. 惊喜.          C. 心情.           D. 心脏病.

3.Why did the doctor play ‘Let’s pretend’ game with the lady?

A. Because he wanted to get the money.                

B. Because he wanted to bring her the news gently.

C. Because he didn’t want to tell her the news.      

D. Because he wasn’t honest.

4.Who had died of shock?

A. The man.        B. The son.       C. The old lady.       D. The doctor.

5.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. A Sad Shock                      B. A wonderful Shock

C. An Interesting Shock             D. A Lucky Shock