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　　The weather was very cold. Snow was falling. The roads were covered with ice and a strong wind was blowing. It was not a good night to be outside.

　　Thomas, however, had to walk home from work. He had to walk along a country road. As he walked the cold wind beat against his chest.

　　“I'll be warmer,” he thought, “If I wear my coat backwards (向后地).”

　　He stopped walking for a moment, took off his coat, and put it back on backwards.

　　“That's much better,” he thought, and walked on through the thickly falling snow.

　　A few minutes later a car hit him. The driver of the car had not seen him soon enough. When he tried to stop, the car skidded (滑行) on the ice.

　　The driver got out of his car and ran to help Thomas. Soon a police car arrived. The policeman ran to look at Thomas who was lying on the ground.

　　“I'm afraid he's dead,” he told the driver.

　　The driver could not believe this. “He can't be dead.” he cried,“I hardly touched him. Look at my car. There's not a mark on it.”

　　“He's dead.” the policeman said. “There is no doubt (疑问).”

　　“I don't understand it,” the driver of the car said. “As soon as I hit him, I ran to help him. He was lying in the road, but he was breathing and there was no blood (血).”

　　“Did you touch him?” the policeman asked.

　　“Yes,” the driver of the car said. “but only to turn his head around the right way.”

1．Why was Thomas walking in such bad weather?

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2．How did Thomas make himself warmer?

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3．What happened to Thomas?

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4．Who killed Thomas?

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5．The best title (题目) of the story would be ________.

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用反身代词填空

He said to ________, “Why hasn't she come yet?”

The story behind the shopping cart

Characters

Sylvan Goldman – owner of a grocery shop

Fred Young – Sylvan’s friend, a mechanic(机械师)

One night in 1936, in an American city. Inside Fred’s workshop, Sylvan sits next to Fred, who is making adjustments(调试) to their new i? 1. – a shopping cart.

Sylvan:????????????? My customers don’t like our shopping cart.

Fred:????????????? Really? So they p? 2. shopping with those heavy baskets?

Sylvan:????????????? (nods) I’ve got a huge crowd of customers every day, b 3. none of them wants to use the cart.

Fred:????????????? I don’t understand. We invented the cart so that people don’t need to carry a basket around the shop.

Sylvan:????????????? (laughs) And so that they will buy more groceries!

Fred:????????????? So why don’t they like the shopping cart?

Sylvan:????????????? Young men think that pushing a cart around makes them look w 4. and slow, and young women think it’s unfashionable.

Fred:????????????? Of course it isn’t fashionable right now. It’s only just been invented! But I’m sure older people will appreciate it.

Sylvan:????????????? Um…

Fred:????????????? What? They don’t like the cart e? 5.? ?

Sylvan:????????????? Well, they think pushing it makes them look helpless!

Fred:????????????? Oh no. We need to do something, Fred. We can’t just g? 6. up on this invention!

Sylvan:????????????? We won’t. (He gets up and walks around the room. Suddenly, he stops.) Aha! I’ve got an idea.

Fred:????????????? What is it?

Sylvan:????????????? I’ll hire(雇佣) some good-looking guys and girls to push the carts around and pretend they’re shopping.

Fred:????????????? Oh! So the real shoppers will see these attractive people using the carts and think, “Hey, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me!”

Sylvan:????????????? E 7. .

Fred:????????????? Hey! Maybe you could get one of the girls to greet your customers and encourage them to use the cart.

Sylvan:????????????? Great idea!

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next to ours was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there and whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing (缝纫) and reading.

After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, “Why doesn’t that woman clean her window? It really looks terrible.”

One bright morning I decided to clean my apartment, including cleaning the window.

Late in the afternoon I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly seen. Her window was clean!

Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.

That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings (缺点) ?

From then on, whenever I want to judge (判断) someone, I ask myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window? ” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I can see others’ world more clearly.

1. The writer couldn’t see anything clearly through the window because ________  .

   A. the woman’s window was dirty     B. the writer’s window was dirty

   C. the woman lived far away         D. the writer was near-sighted

2. After the writer finished the cleaning, he was surprised to find that ________  .

   A. the woman was sitting by her window      B. the woman’s window was still terrible

   C. the woman was cleaning her window       D. the woman’s window was clean

3. The underlined part “it dawned on me ” probably means “________ ”.

A. I began to understand it                 B. it cheered me up

C. I could see myself through the window     D. it began to get light

4. From the passage we know that ________ .

A. both the woman and the writer lived in a small town  B. the writer often cleaned his window   

C. both the woman and the writer worked as cleaners    D. the writer never met the woman

5.From the passage we can learn that ________ .

A. one shouldn’t criticize others very often 

B. one should often keep his windows clean

C. one should judge himself before he judges others

D. one should look at others through his dirty window

Wang Tao is a little boy. He often goes for a walk with his father. He likes water very much and he wants to swim like a fish in the water.

    One Sunday morning, Wang Tao went to a park with his father. There is a big swimming pool in the park. Wang Tao asked his father to take him to the pool. “Why do you want to go there?” asked his father. “I want to learn swimming,” said Wang Tao. “And you can teach me.”

    “Oh, sorry. I can’t swim,” said his father.

    “You can’t swim? Li Qiang’s father swims very well. Why can’t you swim?”

    “His father likes eating fish, so he can swim like a fish,” said the father. “Oh, I see,” said Wang Tao. “But you like eating chicken very much. Can you lay eggs (下蛋)?”

请根据短文内容从所给选项中选出最佳选项。

1.Wang Tao and his father often _____.

A. go for a walk  

B. go to swim  

C. go to eat fish   

D. visit their friends

2.Wang Tao wants to _____ in the water.

A. live          B. swim         C. play          D. fly

3.Who can swim like a fish?

A. Wang Tao. 

B. Wang Tao’s father. 

C. Li Qiang.   

D. Li Qiang’s father.

4.From the passage , we learn that there is a(an) _____ in the park.

A. ball game                      B. English corner

C. swimming pool               D. zoo

5.下面哪项说法正确？

A. Wang Tao can swim very well.

B. Wang Tao’s father can lay eggs.

C. Wang Tao is a naughty (调皮的) boy.

D. Wang Tao’s father can teach Wang Tao to swim.