----What do you think of your new friend Chen Dan?　　　　　　　　 　

----He always thinks _______ anyone else. He is very careful.

　 A. more carefully than　　　　　　　　　　　 B. more careful than

　 C. much carefully than　　　　　　　　　　　 D. much careful than

I’m not good at English, my friend isn’t, ____.

A. as well   B. too   C. either   D. also

Mark Twain was famous in his days as a public speaker. In his public speeches he always liked to tell funny stories. He also liked to listen to funny stories and play jokes on his friends.

One day one of his friends lost his wallet and asked Mark Twain to pay his train fare （车费）for him.

“But I don’t have enough money to pay both your fare and mine, ”Mark Twain said. The friend didn’t know what to do.

“We can do this, ”said Mark Twain. “We can get on the train and when the conductor(列车员) comes to check the tickets，you can hide(藏) under my seat. ”

Later, however, when the conductor came to check the tickets, Mark Twain gave him two tickets－one for his friend and one for himself . Then he explained in a loud voice. “My friend here is a strange man. When he travels on a train, he doesn’t like to sit on the seat. He prefers （宁愿）to lie on the floor under the seat. ”Of course everybody in the train looked at the poor friend and laughed at him loudly.

1.Mark Twain told him he couldn’t buy him a ticket because ______.

2.When the conductor came to check the tickets, the friend was ________. 

3.Mark Twain spoke in a loud voice because ______.

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My friend is a taxi driver. He has been a taxi driver for ten years. It’s a nice job m 1. of the time. He can meet a lot of people. He always works at night because there is too much t  2.  during the day. He usually goes home between two o’clock in the morning. There are some very s3.  things, which often happen at night.

One day my friend was t4.  a woman back home from a party at three o’clock in the morning. She has her little dog with here. When they got to her house, she found she had lost her key. So my friend waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in t 5.  the window. My friend waited and waited. After half an hour of honking（鸣汽车喇叭）he d 6.  to find out what was going on. He t7.  the dog to a tree and started to climb in.At that moment some policemen came. They thought my friend was a t 8. . L 9. , the woman came downstairs. She must have gone to sleep and f 10.  about my friend and the dog.

Maybe everyone likes dogs, and almost everyone likes to read stories about dogs.
　　I have a friend. He has a large police dog named Jack. Police dogs are very clever. Every Sunday afternoon my friend takes Jack for a long walk in the park. Jack likes these long walks very much.
　　One Sunday afternoon a young man came to visit my friend. He stayed a long time. He talked and talked. Soon it was time for my friend to take Jack for his walk. But the visitor still stayed. Jack became very worried. He walked around the room several times and then sat down in front of the visitor and looked at him. But the visitor paid no attention to Jack. He went on talking. At last Jack got angry. He went out of the room and came back a few minutes later. He sat down again in front of the visitor, but this time he took the visitor’s hat in his mouth. The visitor saw it and was surprised. He laughed and left.
【小题1】--The young visitor stayed a long time, didn’t he?
　　--_____.