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　　Mr King had a bookshop in a town. He liked skating but there was no stadium(体育场) there. On Sundays he often went skating on a large lake which was near a village.

　　One winter Sunday it was very cold. Mr King was happy and got up early that morning. After a quick breakfast he started at a quarter to eight. He drove his car but the roads were covered with thick snow and it took him an hour to get to the small station which was only seven kilometers away from the town. The snow on the road turned thicker and thicker and it was difficult for him to go on driving. He had to park his car at the station and took a slow train. There was much snow on the railway too, and the train went very slowly. It stopped at every station. About two hours later it didn't reach the village. Soon it stopped at another small station again. He had a look at his watch and found it was half to twelve. It seemed that he had little time left to skate when he got to the lake. He couldn't bear(忍受) it any longer and jumped off the train. “How slow the train is!” Mr King said to the conductor. “Can't you go a little faster?”“Yes, we can, sir,” answered the conductor. “But we can't leave the train!”

1．The word“park” in the story means ________.

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A．mend (cars, etc)

B．put (cars, etc) for a time

C．change some parts

D．show (cars, etc) to others

2．Mr King had to take a train because ________.

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A．he couldn't drive his car

B．it went much faster than his car did

C．it was much safer than driving a car

D．be wanted to have a good rest

3．The train went slowly because ________.

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A．it was a slow train

B．there was much snow on the railway

C．there were a lot of people in it

D．it had enough time to do so

4．Mr King decided ________, so he jumped off the train.

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A．to walk to the lake

B．to push it

C．to return to the town

D．to wait for another train

1．It was rainy yesterday．（就划线部分提问）

_________ _________ _________ _________ yesterday?

2．He bought me a very nice picture．（就划线部分提问）

_________ _________ he _________ _________ you?

3．It usually takes me half an hour to get to school by bus everyday．（就划线部分提问）

________ _______ _______ it usually _______ _______ to get to school by bus everyday?

4．He rides to work everyday．（不失原意改写）

He _________ _________ _________ _________ _________．

5．It took him two hours to do his homework last night．（不失原意改写）

_________ _________ hours _________ his homework last night．

6．He did his best to help the poor．（改为一般疑问句）

_________ he _________ his best to help the poor?

7．Jack lives five miles from his office．（就划线部分提问）

_________ _________ _________ jack _________ from his office?

8．You mustn't run in the hallways（不失原意改写）

_________ _________ in the hallways

9．Mike goes back home to see his parents twice a month．（就划线部分提问）

_________ _________ _________ Mike_________ back to see his parents?

10．_________ _________ _________ _________ last week? （根据答语写出问句）

I visited flail old friend of mine．

Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.

     Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.

     Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.

     "I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."

1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?

A. The Statue of Liberty.

B. Superman.

C. His serf-portrait.

D. A Greenwich Village modal.

2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?

A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.

B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.

C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.

D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.

3.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Nathan's work.                 B. Nathan's exhibition.

C. Nathan's art.                   D. Nathan's self-portrait

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The Brick Artist                B. The Brick Exhibition

C. Toy Bricks for Adults           D. The Artist's Childhood