短文填空 (共10分，每空1分)

come, fall, sit, look, be, walk, jump, sell, hear, drop

　　根据短文内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文完整、正确。(每个词只能用一次)(共10分，每小题1分)
　　Early in the morning, Mr. Black was carrying a big basket of cabbages to the market. She hoped 【小题1】___them to the people from town.
　　The mountain road was narrow(狭窄的)and the old woman 【小题2】___carefully. Suddenly she 【小题3】___a loud bell. It passed her and very fast down the hill. The old woman had to 【小题4】__to one side of the road so quickly that the basket of cabbages nearly 【小题5】___into the valley.
　　She saw a young boy 【小题6】.___on the bicycle without even 【小题7】___round to see if the old woman was all right.
　　The old woman shouted, 【小题8】___back.”
　　“What 【小题9】___it?” the boy asked impolitely, pushing his bike towards the old woman.
　　“What did I drop?”
　　“Little boy, you 【小题10】___your manner.” The old woman answered.

A young father was visiting an old neighbor. They were standing in the old man’s garden, and talking about children. The young man said,“How strict should parents be with their children?”
　  The old man pointed to（指着）a string (细绳) between a big strong tree and a thin young one.
　 “Please untie (解开) that string.” said the old man. “But first pull the string tight so that（以便于）the young tree is straight again.” The young man did so. He untied the string and only found that the young tree bent（弯）over to one side.
　 Then the old man said,“There, it is the same with children. You must be strict with them. But sometimes you must untie the string to see how they are getting on. If they are not yet able to stand alone，you must tie the string tight again. But when you find that they are ready to stand alone，you can take the string away.”
【小题1】The story is about ____________.
　　    A. how to take care of young trees　   
B. how strict parents should be with their children
C. how the young father should get on with his old neighbor
【小题2】 The young man untied the string ________________.
　　    A. in order to throw it away  　　
B. so that both of the trees wouldn’t grow straight
　　    C. and found that the young tree bent over to one side
【小题3】When could the string be taken away?
　　    A. When the old man left.　  　　
B. When the young man untied it next time.
　   　C. When the young tree grew strong enough.
【小题4】 At last the old man told the young man ________________.
　　    A. that he should be strict with his children if they could not 
stand alone
　　    B. that he should always be strict with his children
　　   C. that he should be hard on his children
【小题5】We learn that the big strong tree and the thin young one are like _________.
A. the young father and the old neighbor   　　
B. parents and their children
　　     C. the old neighbor and the children of young father

One day an old man is selling (卖) a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don't say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I will give you twenty dollars.” “All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you found the elephant's bad ears?” “I didn't find the bad ears,” says the young man. “Then why are you looking at the elephant slowly?” asked the old man. The young man answers, “Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”

根据短文选择正确的答案

(　 )11. ________  the elephant.

　　　 A. The young man sells     B. The old man sells

　　　 C. The two men sell        D. The old man buys

(　 )12. The young man is looking at the elephant slowly.

He wants to find out ___________.

　　　 A. which foot of the elephant is bad B. how heavy it is

　　　 C. which ear of the elephant is bad D. what it looks like

(　 )13. The young man   ______________.

　　　 A. knows the elephant has bad ears B. wants to buy the elephant

　　　 C. looks after the elephant D. gets some money from the old man

(　 )14. The young man  ______________.

　　　 A. is not interested in elephants B. knows what an elephant looks like

　　　 C. has seen some elephants before D. has never seen an elephant before

(　 )15. Hearing what the young man said, the old man will probably(很可能)be ____________.

　　　 A. angry （生气）      B. happy     C. dangerous      D. hungry

 

We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe (欧洲) did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it.

　There is a story about an English sailor (水手) who went to countries in the east, the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a "tea party". When her friends came to the "tea party", the old woman gave them brown tea-leaves. The old woman's friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves.

　At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, "Mother，what did you do with the tea?"

　"I boiled it，as you said."

　"And what did you do with the water?"

　"I threw it away(扔掉)，of course." answered the old woman.

　"Now you may throw away the leaves，too，" said her son.

1.Most of the people in Europe ___300 years ago.

A．drank tea every day	B．knew everything about tea
C．knew nothing about tea	D．liked to eat the tea-leaves

2.One day the English sailor brought his mother some tea from ___.

A．countries in the west	B．countries in the south
C．India or China	D．a tea shop in England

3.The sailor's mother asked her friends to her house, because ___.

A. the sailor told her to.       

B she liked to show off (炫耀)

C. she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea

D. she wanted to taste the tea together with her friends

4.At the "tea party",___.

A．all the woman's friends spoke highly of (高度评价)the tea.

B．nobody knew what to do with the tea

C．the woman didn’t eat the tea-leaves

D．the woman gave her friends each a glass of tea water

5.What mistake（错误） did the old woman make? She ___.

A．boiled the tea	B．did as the sailor said
C．threw away the water	D．didn't throw away the tea-leaves

 

短文填空 (共10分，每空1分)

come, fall, sit, look, be, walk, jump, sell, hear, drop

　　根据短文内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文完整、正确。(每个词只能用一次)(共10分，每小题1分)

　　Early in the morning, Mr. Black was carrying a big basket of cabbages to the market. She hoped 1.___them to the people from town.

　　The mountain road was narrow(狭窄的)and the old woman 2.___carefully. Suddenly she 3.___a loud bell. It passed her and very fast down the hill. The old woman had to 4.__to one side of the road so quickly that the basket of cabbages nearly 5.___into the valley.

　　She saw a young boy 6..___on the bicycle without even 7.___round to see if the old woman was all right.

　　The old woman shouted, 8.___back.”

　　“What 9.___it?” the boy asked impolitely, pushing his bike towards the old woman.

　　“What did I drop?”

　　“Little boy, you 10.___your manner.” The old woman answered.