通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各小题所给四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案
Mr. Brown lives in a village. He has got a big family and a strong  1 . His farm is small and he is often   2  in winter. So he goes to the city and finds work there.
Once he stayed there for about two months. When New Year was coming, he   3  home to see his wife and children. On his way home, something was wrong with his eyes. When he was knocking at the door, his dog came out and bit（咬） him. His wife hurried to drive  4  away. The next morning he went to see  5 . The doctor looked over his eyes carefully and gave him some medicine. Before he   6  , he told the doctor about his dog. When he heard this, the doctor began to   7  and said, “Maybe something is wrong with  8  eyes, too, I think.”
When he got home, he told his wife about it. The woman said, “I  9  it’s true. If a thief comes into our house, it won’t see him and he’ll steal something here.”
Mr. Brown thought his wife was  10  . He had to make his dog take his medicine instead.

1通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各小题所给四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案

Mr. Brown lives in a village. He has got a big family and a strong  1  . His farm is small and he is often   2   in winter. So he goes to the city and finds work there.

Once he stayed there for about two months. When New Year was coming, he   3   home to see his wife and children. On his way home, something was wrong with his eyes. When he was knocking at the door, his dog came out and bit（咬） him. His wife hurried to drive  4   away. The next morning he went to see  5  . The doctor looked over his eyes carefully and gave him some medicine. Before he   6   , he told the doctor about his dog. When he heard this, the doctor began to   7   and said, “Maybe something is wrong with  8   eyes, too, I think.”

When he got home, he told his wife about it. The woman said, “I  9   it’s true. If a thief comes into our house, it won’t see him and he’ll steal something here.”

Mr. Brown thought his wife was   10   . He had to make his dog take his medicine instead.

1.A. child          B. dog          C. wife           D. son

2.A. free          B. busy         C. safe            D. worried

3.A. reached       B. comes        C. goes           D. returned

4.A. her husband    B. the dog       C. the thief        D. their children

5.A. his dog        B. his wife       C. a doctor       D. his friend

6.A. got home      B. left           C. went          D. came

7.A. cry           B. write         C. laugh          D. work

8.A. your dog’s     B. your       C. your wife’s     D. your children’s

9.A. am afraid      B. am sorry      C. don’t think      D. agree

10.A. ill            B. wrong        C. unhappy        D. right

A very young boy, Tom, lives a long way from the city. One day he goes to the city to visit his friend, Jack. Jack asks Tom to have lunch together. They go into the restaurant and sit down at a table. Tom looks around and he sees some old people put eye glasses on before reading their books, so after lunch he goes to a shop to buy some glasses, too. He walks along the road, and soon finds a shop. The man in the shop makes him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom always says, “No, I can’t read with these.”
The man in the shop becomes more and more puzzled (困惑的). At last he says, “Excuse me, but can’t you read at all?”
“No, I can’t.” Tom says, “If I can read, do you think I come here to buy glasses?”
【小题1】Tom meets some old people ____________ .