阅读下列短文，从文后各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

Hundreds of years ago in a small town, a moneylender lent a lot of money to a poor man. The moneylender , who was old and ugly, _____ the poor man’s beautiful daughter. So he came up with an idea. He said the poor man didn’t need to return the money to him _____ he could marry his daughter. Both the man and his daughter were________.

        The moneylender then told them that he would put a small _______ stone and a small white stone into an empty bag. The girl would have to ______ one. If she took the black stone , she would become the moneylender’s _______ and her father’s debt would be let go. If she picked the white stone, she didn’t need to marry him and her father’s debt would______ be let go. Her father would be put into prison if she refused to pick a stone.

        As they talked, the moneylender picked up two stones. As he did that, the girl______that he had put two black stones in the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her stone from the bag.

        The girl thought for a while and then had an idea. She put her hand into the bag and took out a stone. ______ looking at it, she let it fall onto the path where it ______ became lost among all the other stones. “ Oh how______ I was！” She said, “But never ______. If  you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to _______ which stone I picked.” This ______ tells: Sometimes we can think about things in a _______way. Most difficult problems do have an solution.

1.A. pleased       B. attracted                     C. loved               D. saw

2.A. if               B. unless                        C. so                   D. but

3.A. bored          B. frightened                  C. relaxed              D. excited

4.A. pink             B. red                          C. black                 D. yellow

5.A. show           B. damage                     C. check      D. choose

6.A. daughter      B. cousin                   C. wife         D. friend

7.A. again           B. still                C. never                 D. hardly

8.A. said            B. feared                      C. thought              D. noticed

9.A. On   .           B. About                       C. For                  D. Without

10.A. usually         B. surprisingly       C. immediately        D. slowly

11.A. worried      B. clever                       C. careless             D. lucky

12.A. laugh        B. mind                         C. cry          D. complain

13.A. tell          B. explain                      C. ask           D. arrange

14.A. saying         B. story                         C. news                 D. man

15.A. careful                 B. funny                         C. different           D. normal

 

Once a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete(不完整的)，it could only roll(滚) very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with insects(昆虫). It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted perfectly, it put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole, with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to insects. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left the piece it found by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.

Sometimes, we are perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better.

We couldn’t be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us.

1.The circle rolled very slowly because it __________.

     A. spent much time talking with insects

B. wanted to enjoy the sunshine

     C. was looking for its missing piece

D. lost a piece of its own

2.After it was whole again and rolled fast, the circle__________.

     A. felt unhappy

B. could see more beautiful flowers

     C. was too proud to talk with any insect

D. would go anywhere

3.why did the circle stop when it rolled quickly?

A. Because it found a different world   

B. Because it wanted to look for a better piece

C. Because it wanted to enjoy the world as before

D. Because it felt tired.

4.If a man owns everything, he’ll __________.

     A. be perfect in every way

B. have other trouble

     C. share happiness with others

D. have enough love around him

5.The story mainly tells us that__________.

A. nobody loves us if we give nothing

B. a man who has everything is the happiest

C. losing something may not be a bad thing sometimes

D. we are not whole when we lose something

 

Mr. Green worked in an office in London, but he lived in the country and came to work by train every day. The station was not very far from his office, and he always went on foot from the station to his office and back from his office to the station. Every evening he walked past a poor man near a bridge. The man sat at the road and sold matches, and there was a dog near him. There was a piece of wood round the dog’s neck, and the words “I AM BLIND” were on the piece of wood.
Mr.Green was a kind man. He always stopped and gave a penny to the man, but he did not take any of his matches. One day, Mr.Green had a lot of work in his office and left the office very late. He came to the man and his dog, but he did not stop. The poor man stood up quickly, ran after him and said, “You’re always very kind to me. Give me a penny today. I’m a poor man.” Mr.Green stopped and he was surprised. Then he said, “You’re a blind man. How did you see me?” The poor man said, “No, I’m not blind. My dog is.”
【小题1】Mr.Green lived in __________.

A．London

B．the city near London

C．the country near London

D．the country not far from his office

【小题2】Mr.Green went to his office __________.

A．by train

B．first by train and then on foot

C．on foot

D．first on foot and then by train

【小题3】Every evening Mr.Green passed a poor man near a bridge__________.

A．on his way to work

B．on the way to his office

C．on his way home by train

D．on his way to the station

【小题4】One day Mr.Green did not stop and give the poor man a penny because__________.

A．he did not like the man

B．he was afraid of the dog

C．he worked too late

D．he hurried to catch the train

【小题5】-- What is the Chinese for “blind”?
-- ___________________.

A．看见的

B．聋的

C．瞎的

D．哑的

A Gold Cup for an Orange
There is a poor man. He has an orange tree. On the tree, there are many fine oranges. One of them is very, very big. It is as big as a football. Nobody sees so big an orange. The poor man is very happy. He takes it to the king(国王). The King is so pleased（高兴）that he gives the man a lot of money for it.
When a rich man hears of it, he says to himself, "It's only an orange. Why does the king give so much money for it? I'll take my gold cup to the king. He'll give me more money".
The next day when the king receives (收到) the gold cup, he says to the rich man, "what a beautiful cup! I'll show you something wonderful, please take this great orange away.
【小题1】How many people are there in the story?

A．Four

B．Two

C．Three

D．Five

【小题2】The orange is__________

A．fine and big

B．fine and beautiful

C．good and fine

D．small

【小题3】The rich man takes his gold cup to the king for_______________

A．the orange

B．the orange tree

C．a football

D．money

【小题4】The orange is____________

A．a football	B．like a gold cup
C．like a football	D．like an egg

【小题5】The king receives the orange and the gold cup ___________

A．on the same day	B．the next day
C．every day	D．on different days

One day a dentist was starting his morning work. Suddenly a man ran in. His face was red and he could only say “Quick! Quick!” The dentist thought he must be very ill. His assistant helped to make the poor man sit in a chair. The dentist gave the man some medicine to make him sleep. Then, he looked into the man’s mouth and pulled out all the bad teeth. As soon as the man woke up, he said in a low voice, “Quick, doctor, quick.”

“It’s all right now,” the dentist told him. “It’s over.”

“You don’t understand,” said the man, “I came to tell you your house is on fire.”

根据短文内容,判断下列句子正（T）误（F）。

(    )1.The story took place (发生) in the afternoon.

(    )2.When the man ran in, the dentist thought he must be ill.

(    )3.The man went to sleep after he took some medicine.

(    )4.The dentist pulled all the teeth out of the man’s mouth.

(    )5.The man ran in to tell the dentist that his house was on fire.