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　　A potato farmer was sent to prison just at the time when he should have been digging the ground for planting potatoes. He knew that his wife would not be strong enough to do the digging by herself, but she could manage to plant, and he also knew he didn't have any friends to do the digging for him. So he wrote a letter to his wife. “Please don't dig the potato field, I hid the money there.”

　　Ten days later he got a letter from his wife. “I think somebody read your letter, some policemen arrived here and dug up the whole potato field two days ago. What shall I do now?”

　　The farmer wrote back at once, “Plant the potatoes, of course.”

根据短文内容选择正确地答案

1．The best title for this passage is ________.

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A．Helping Hands

B．Farmer Prisoner

C．A Letter to the Wife

D．The Policeman and Prison

2．The potato farmer was sent to prison ________.

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A．after digging the potato ground

B．before planting potatoes

C．when he was planting potatoes

D．when he was digging the land

3．The farmer knew that ________.

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A．his wife was not able to do the digging

B．his wife was not able to do the planting

C．his friend was able to do the digging

D．the policemen were able to do the planting

4．Why did the farmer write the letter to his wife?

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A．To make the policemen dig the ground for him.

B．To tell his wife how to plant potatoes.

C．To tell his wife the money.

D．To tell the policemen to plant potatoes.

5．The potato farmer is ________.

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阅读下面短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，完成所给句子。

John drove a taxi（出租车）through the busy street of Boston every day. One day a young man jumped in his taxi, “To the station. Hurry up!” he shouted. John did his best, but at every corner there was a light. “Be quick! I don't want to miss my train.” The young man shouted, John shouted back, “ I don't want to die here.” He turned back and noticed the man's face was familiar（熟悉的）, “Oh, he is the thief wanted by the police, and he has killed a woman. ” he thought.“ His picture was in the newspaper.” Then John had an idea. He drove through the red light. Soon John found a police car following him. “Stop the car!” the young man shouted and jumped out. John caught hold of him and cried,“ Give me the money!” Two policemen came up. “He is the thief.” John said to them. They caught the young man at once.

1. John was ______ .

[　　]

A. busy driving his taxi every day

B. caught by the police

C. a policeman

D. a driver

2. The young man looked worried because ______ .

[　　]

A. he was afraid to miss the train

B. he was afraid of being caught by the police

C. John didn't drive well

D. there were too many lights.

3. John drove through the lights because he wanted ______ .

[　　]

A. to help the young man to run away

B. to catch the train

C. to follow the police car

D. to be caught by the police

4. The policemen were thankful to John because he ______ .

[　　]

A. had done a good deed

B. killed the thief C. gave them his taxi

D. didn't get in his way

5. The best title（标题）for the story is ______ .

[　　]

A. Hurrying to the Station

B. The Police and the Thief

C. Clever Driver

D. the Red Light

Sam woke up suddenly. Someone was moving around in the next room. “Maybe it’s his grandmother, getting a glass of water,” he told himself. But the next room was the living room. It wasn’t near the kitchen. Sam’s parents were away, and there was only his grandmother in the house with him. He looked at his watch. It was three thirty! Too early for his grandmother to get up!

He got out of bed and opened the door very quietly. The window was open. A man was standing near it and looking in the dark drawers. His grandmother kept her money there! He thought quickly. Yes, the radio! He turned it on and a man’s voice filled the room. The thief felt scared and jumped onto the window. Then he jumped down two floors to the ground. He gave a shout.

His grandmother was awake and she called the police right away. The thief couldn’t get up, because his leg was badly hurt. When the policemen came, they were very happy. “Great, Sam,” said a policeman. “This man is a famous thief.”

根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。

1.The living room was next to Sam’s bedroom. It was near the kitchen.

2.Only Sam and his grandmother were sleeping in the house that night.

3..Sam shouted, so the thief was scared and jumped out of the house.

4.The thief wasn’t hurt at all after he jumped out of the house.

5.The policemen were very happy because they caught the famous thief.

One day Trudy saw an advertisement in a magazine. It offered a packet of 100 mixed stamps for $10. Trudy wanted to start a stamp collection so she ordered the packet. One hundred mixed stamps seemed a good way to begin a collection. She sent a postal order to the stamp company with her order, and waited excitedly for the stamps arrived. Trudy checked the mail every day for four weeks but the stamps didn’t arrive. So Trudy decided to write to the company. “Dear Sir/Madam,” she wrote, “a month ago I sent you a postal order for $10 as payment for 100 mixed stamps. They haven’t arrived. Please send them by return of mail.” another month passed. The stamps still didn’t arrive and she didn’t receive any replay to her letter. She asked her father for advice. Her father said, “You must write a stronger letter. Make the stamp company worry that you will report them to the authorities.” “Dear Sir/Madam,” she wrote in her second letter. “I am writing to complain about your poor service. Two months ago I sent you a postal order for $10 as payment for 100 mixed stamps. I didn’t receive the stamps. A month ago I wrote to inform you of this. I still haven’t received the stamps, and you haven’t replied to my letter. If I do not receive the stamps within seven days. I shall report this matter to the authorities.” Two days later Trudy received the stamps in the mail.

1.Trudy ordered the stamps because _______.

A．it seemed a good way to start a stamp collection

B．she wanted to give them to her father

C．she need them to mail some letters

D．she thought they were cheap

2.Trudy paid for the stamps with ________.

A．cash             B．a check           C．the credit card     D．a postal order

3.Trudy checked the mail every day for ______.

A．4 months          B．a week            C．a month           D．for 3 weeks

4.In her second letter Trudy complained about how _______.

A．expensive the stamps were

B．boring the stamps were

C．poor the company’s service was

D．slow the postal service was

5.Trudy received the stamps ______ after she sent the second letter.

A．a week           B．a month           C．two months        D．two days